Before You Write 'Missed Right' on the Card: Aim With Your Address, Not Your Eyes

Note: This article was translated from Japanese using AI.

Core takeaway

Your target isn’t something you “track with your eyes” mid-swing—it’s set before the shot, at address. Complaining after the round that you “went right” or “hooked it” without a clear aim is meaningless.

Who this is for

Golfers stuck around 100 or 90 who can’t stabilize their score
Anyone who vaguely blames “my tee shots went right today”
Players who try to steer the face or path when the ball curves

Where we are now

No sense of direction: Weak players often don’t know where they’re aimed.
Teaching gap: Pros know “set up well and you’ll hit it,” so they teach path—but rarely how to aim on the course.
Scoring without intent: People log outcomes with no record of what they were trying to do.

Building the logic

On the course, only three things matter for targeting:

Pick the right target: Not just pin or fairway center—the best target for the situation.
Know your dispersion: How wide is your miss pattern to that target?
Finish the address: Aim correctly at the chosen target, then swing through—no steering.

Self-check (on the tee)

Did I pick a specific target—not “somewhere in the fairway”?
Am I aiming with address, not craning my eyes/face at the target?
When the ball curves, am I tempted to fix swing instead of aim or ball position?

Common traps → what to do

Trap: When the ball starts moving, you manipulate the face or steer mid-swing to “make it straight.”
- Fix: The swing is “swing through.” Accept the shot pattern, then change aim—not the motion.

From the developer

What does “aim at a target” even mean in golf?

Players who shoot 100 or 90 share one thing: they don’t know where they’re aimed.

Break it down and it gets darkly funny. Because they don’t know where the ball will go, they quietly give up: “Where I aim won’t change much anyway.” Then they think, “If I learn a ‘correct’ swing from a pro, the ball will go where I want.” That’s wishful thinking.

Pros know the truth: set up right, strike it right, it goes. So many don’t hammer “aim” for amateurs—because if you aim wrong, you’ll turn your head at the target and wreck the swing.

Here’s a line worth remembering:
Bad players look at the target with their eyes. Good players see the target in their address.

How do you “see” the target? At address. Nothing more, nothing less.

I used to do long-drive contests. The baseline is swing all out. From that, you learn your dispersion—“today I’m pushing a bit,” “I’m drawing it.” You don’t fix the swing; you change address (alignment, ball position).

Swing full out and the ball lands in a cluster. Adjust direction, not motion. Separating swing vs. address changes the whole game.

Here’s what I care about most.
After the round, people write “made 4,” “two putts,” and dutifully add “tee shot went right,” “pulled it left.”

Wait. What were you actually aiming at?
You only get to say “right” or “left” relative to a target. No target, no address—then “went right” means nothing.

We’ll start with where to set the goal. That’s the spine of ANSR and the target log concept we’ve filed for patent.

The era of logging only results on a scorecard is over. With ANSR you can record what you aimed for and what happened—your thinking process. Next time we’ll talk about the brutal reality of dispersion.

Summary

Many amateurs don’t know where they’re aimed, so they’re effectively guessing.
Targeting happens at address, not with the eyes mid-swing; curve is managed with aim, not swing tweaks.
Logging “went right” without a clear target is pointless. With ANSR, clarity on aim is where everything starts.