On the Sweet Spot: Effortless Action in Golf and Life

Like most moments of spiritual revelation, this one took place on a landfill in New Jersey.

A young man is standing at an unprepossessing driving range, hitting balls toward a distant fence, when something unusual takes place. As he begins his swing, he has the sensation that his club is drawing itself back on its own; when it is ready, it starts downward, makes perfect contact, and the ball soars off in the right-to-left arc he'd imagined, hitting the exact fencepost he'd been aiming at fro...