On the final hole of the BMW PGA Championship, Manuel Elvira was tied for the lead with J.J. Spaun when he opted to send his second shot short of a creek crossing the fairway. But Elvira pulled the ball into a fairway bunker, made double bogey and fell out of contention. How did Elvira miss such a meaningless shot? Probably because it was meaningless. Research around “quiet eye” visualization says we benefit from locking in on a specific target because vague targets lead to imprecise motor patterns. In other words, the less direction our brains give our bodies, the sloppier the result.