As for golf, my routine uses that approach pretty much now. I stand back from the ball or marker while others get up on the green or make the longer putts and I look at the spot like I would a drive before approaching the ball. I look at how hard I think I need to putt to get the ball that distance and practice that back and forth amount of swing and repeat it to form a quick muscle memory of how hard I want to putt. At the same time, I'm looking for that line to the edges of the cup. I don't really look at a big bucket hole, but both edges and usually the read jumps out to me there as which side is "safe" and which miss-hit could run away from the hole. Then when I get up to the ball it's a matter of imagining that point and line I picked and visualizing it again from over the ball and sometimes I see something that changes it dramatically and I change the line but usually it's just a matter of repeating that strength of putt, and squaring the elbows with the shoulder and hands in a pentagon shape and hitting the line I selected.
Then I go up and tap in for the double bogey.
But yes, visualization certainly is a part of the [sober] golf game.