Most golfers don’t REALLY want to lower their golf score. What? How can I say that when golfers everywhere spend billions of dollars on this game chasing the lure of the great feelings of achievement ...
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Category Archives: Mental/Emotional
Golf Mistakes and how you handle them
LEARNING FROM YOUR MISTEAK PATTERNS Part 1 I GUARANTEE that if you reduce your playing mistakes by just twenty percent you can lower you typical scores by at least five shots per round. Skeptical? Good! Read on. Without changing a single thing with your swing, you can significantly improve your scoring. ...
Golf Transference
From Practice to Playing Golf How to get your golf practice game from the range to the course How did I swing so fluidly on the range 10 minutes ago, but now, on the first hole, I chop at the ball like a lumberjack? This is one of the greatest ...
Stop the golf anxiety in it’s tracks
Controlling Your Emotions - Part 4 Ok, Ok, I know 4 parts is a bit much, but it's soooo important in managing our game for lower scores that I felt I had to fill in some blanks from what is not on the CD's. I'll make this the last one for now but ...
Stop before you throw your golf club
Controlling Your Emotions on the Golf Course Part 3 Last time, I gave you my confession for a time I threw a golf club (my putter after missing an easy 4 foot birdie putt). Yes, I was and am ashamed to say it, but, give me some credit though as I did take my ...
Don’t let frustration ruin your golf game
Controlling Your Emotions on the Golf Course - Part 2 This is the kind of scenery us golfers get to recreate in. It could be the picturesque contrast of the desert against a bright green grass, or fairways lined with majestic pine trees, or wetlands with wildlife and plants that you rarely would get to see otherwise. Most ...
Golf Anger Management – control emotions part 1
"Championship golf is not about who hits the best shots, it's about who does the best job of controlling his emotions" Tom Weiskopf Most of us golfers have seen the golf comedy movies like Caddyshack, Tin Cup, and Happy Gilmore. If you haven't, I encourage you to do so. In fact, I encourage ...
Commit to your golf shot
Commit to your shot on the golf course Last time, we talked about commitment. As a helpful review, we discussed how using our own genetically programmed instructions for propelling us to golf improvement can be very powerful. The second part about the word "commitment" and how it applies to golf is what happens ...
Golf Improvement Tips
Commit to your golf score improvement with these tips In the next 2 lessons I want to talk about the word commitment. Yeah, I know, you've already committed to wanting to get better at golf right? You might have even taken the time to write down your golf goal as I have been ...
How much of golf is Mental vs. Physical?
Is Golf Really 90% Mental as they say? Nick Bayley, The golf pro whose opinion I most trust, and I recently discussed some golf theory with regard to a Tibetan Lama (spiritual monk) who loves to golf. It seems that this guy has taken lessons but still can't normally break 100 and his best score is ...
