This is what I try to do. Not allways manage though.
1) Grab your driver bellow the head with left hand, pull the head cover by right hand.
- Essential to do this properly, since it triggers the get into play mode after bird watching.
2) Tee it up behind a divot, or flower - what ever, lining the ball with sth and the target (Skip this if through the green)
3) Step back, take front hand grip holding the club by your back hand half way down from the shaft, club head pointing 45 - 60 degrees up clubhead square, then grip aft hand.
- figure the target line and aiming point right after taking your grip,
4) make one or two loose practice swings into final position to dynamically check the line of play
5) Make a firm decision to hit it with eyes open and decisevely to my target
= = = from think-box > Decicion line < to play-box = = =
6) Step forward to the ball and find that alignment you just checked with those practise swings,
- Keep the club firmly and bend down to the ball clubhead behind the ball checking your distance from the ball feet close togetter,
7) Check hip and shoulder orientation,
8) Step front foot about half a foot forward - flare it,
9) Step back foot backward along parallel to target line,
- sometimes the stance width is varying into too wide, then I check the width by turning my belt buckle towards target not having to shift weight from the back foot by sliding forward
10) Read your mantra: "Eyes open, front hand straight, straight back and turn through, Let the shot go!"
And hope for the best.
Two hardest things I think are beeing determined to execute what you just decided and just letting the shot go. Too often some bad thoughts enter your mind just when it should be totally empty and your body about ready to let the ball just go.
Also tempo is a key to me. All the actoins listed above shuld take about the same time to one another. It happens every so often that the swing tempo is totally different (rushed) from the other actions and then hell is loose and the ball - well - DEEP, DEEP in the forest.
As one of my fellow players last week told. If you deed a fade, fuss a little. ;D
While putting after lining the putt make few practice strokes like a metronome and find out the feel of straight movement on the clubhead squared with the target line, not towards the cup itself.
Then in the same tempo stare at the aiming popint, the ball, the aiming point and then tik - tak, let the putt go eyes open club face ssquare. Specially consentrate on keeping the club face square.
If you hit it of the center it only makes a difference in speed off the putter and soforth distance only bending a bit early or late, but the result is OK to OK- and may even drop.