What do you feel is the most critical factor to insure striking the ball solidly?

What do you do to train to try to "stay in the zone?"  We all have good days every once in awhile but how do you make sure you are mentally ready to have more good days than bad?  

Also, what did you do to turn the switch from a good amateur to a great professional?  Practice?  Mental prep? Older and wiser? More short game training?

how do you block out the distractions?  whether it's the crowd, the tv people, or maybe even a difficult pairing ?

When was the last time you hit off of a mat at the practice range, and in what way does that make your preparation for a round easier or more difficult.

I would ask what do you do to stay in the moment? Not get ahead of yourself after a hot start? Any other mental game tips?

How do you get through rounds when you're game is off, sick, hurt, couldn't sleep, etc.  How do you put up low numbers when nothing is going right?

I'm a very lucky guy because my golf teacher for the past 5 years is Jenny Park-Choi, former LPGA player. For example,She's clued me into things like how they practice. 

Care to share some of her thoughts...instructions...

• What would you recommend to amateurs who occasionally hit the "Big Ball" before the "little ball"?
• How do you recover from playing and practice so you can do it again the next day?
• What are you working on with your game?

One of the things she helped me implement was to choose one area and practice only that until I mastered that area. For example, I had been using mostly my arms and not my lower body. She said I was wasting the strength in my legs that I have because my main sport is running. Then she gave me some drills to emphasize the legs and told me to hit balls and swing a weighted club and not care about where the ball went. It was very tough not to care at the range, ha ha, as I was digging into the turf or worse, a rubber mat with dismal results. My wife and I are seeing her on the 30th to work on our chipping. I think golf teachers are akin to barbers, it's really personal and one size definitely does not fit all. My personal opinion is that someone who has played the LPGA can offer amateur men is that neither (with the exception of MW) can hit a 300 yard drive and can teach a player how to score without hitting huge drives. 

I would ask them when did you know,you wanted to play golf for a living.Who was responsible for getting you interested in golf.  and did you ever think you might not make it.How do you deal with the demands of constant travel and being away from friends and family,and if you could give a amateur golfer some solid advice about how to better there game what would it be.How did you go about hiring your caddie,and what impacted your decision on  hiring your caddie..How do you want to be remembered by your fan;s and  fellow plays and the golf world or the whole world in general.Last but not least do you see yourself as a role model for young golfers?and when growing up who was your favorite golfer.

How do you guys go about adapting to different conditions and courses every week?  Predicting stuff like elevation, dry, wet, green speed, sand type etc... seems to kill me.  If I've played a course more than once, I almost always beat my inaugural round.  What would you do if you didn't get a practice round?