The American soldier, Colonel George Hall, was held prisoner in Vietnam for a number of years. He was kept in difficult physical conditions where it was hard to stay fit and certainly impossible to play his favourite game, golf. In order to occupy his mind and keep his sanity he played a round of golf over his favourite course back home, inside his head, at least once a day over the five-and-a-half year period he was held captive. This was in spite of being kept in solitary confinement most of the time in a cell 8½ feet x 8½ feet.
On departing for Vietnam he had played off a four handicap. Five-and-a-half years later, on his return, he was asked to play a round with some friends. To their amazement, and in spite of his weakened physical condition, he immediately played to his original handicap. When they expressed their amazement and said that he had not played for five-and-a-half years he told them that, on the contrary, he had played mentally every day over that period and knew every blade of grass, every bunker and every shot he had ever played.
Source: The Psychology of Winning Tape
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