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Resources For Competitive Golfers
Nutrition and Hydration for Golf
As golf becomes increasingly more competitive at every level, good nutrition and hydration for golf are more important than ever. Little is more important to your well-being and your ability to perform your best than the effort you put into maintaining your health. To...
PGA Tour Expert Coaching for Major Tour Players
Congratulations! Being a PGA Tour or other major tour professional is aspired to by many thousands, but achieved by an elite few. It took you years of dedication, hard work, sacrifice and perseverance to get here, but, as many of you veteran tour players know, no...
Wellness for Golf
What is wellness for golf? Let's answer that question with another question. If this were one of our personality quizzes and you were asked to fill in the blank, what answer would you choose? "A well tuned car" is to "long distance road rally" as " ____________" is to...
Keeping Track of Pro Golf Tours (Updated 2018)
Keeping track of the world's Professional Golf Tours is a big challenge as it seems new ones come and go each year. But if you take a count of the various professional tours that are providing playing opportunities for competitive men and women golfers at any given...
PGA Tour Drug Testing, Can You Handle It?
The PGA Tour Drug Testing policy is in effect. How do you feel about it? Is it irritating or dis-respectful to you? No longer will the world's major tours rely on the centuries old honor system of allowing you to call penalties on yourselves when it comes to the use...
Golf Mini-Tour and Developmental Players Tips
If you are like most golf Mini-Tour and Developmental Tour players, you know there are a ton of things to learn to get yourself ready for "prime time" on the major tours. And these tours provide a great place to do it. Many exciting challenges and opportunities lay...
Junior Golf: Why Golf is the Best Sport for Kids to Play
Parents often wonder which sports are the best for their kids to start playing. Sports are a great way to make friends, teach valuable life lessons, help them get rid of excess energy, and offer a lot more to the development of a child. Whether you are a parent...
How We Learn Golf, Part Two
Neuroscientists Discover How We Learn Golf "Teaching without an awareness of how the brain learns is like designing a glove with no sense of what a hand looks like-it's shape or how it moves." Leslie Hart, Human Brain and Human Learning Brain Based Learning As you...
How We Learn Golf, Part One
For the Instructor's understanding: Neuroscientists Discover New Aspects of Learning Golf New discoveries about brain functioning have Big implications for you and your students. Old Dog, New Tricks? Research in neuroscience is now showing that whether you are 8 or...
Four Steps for Conquering Golf Yips Fast
Updated: November 9, 2020 If you have any kind of golf yips, you will probably be able to relate to something Gene Littler said to me years ago when he was a client, and on the Champions Tour. “It’s the darnedest thing I’ve ever seen”, referring to his short chips...
Tips for Golf Coaches and Golf Instructors
Performance Training Tips for Golf Coaches The world's greatest golf instructors and golf coaches are always learning, always searching for tips to enhance their skills as top performance trainers. Whether you're a novice instructor or an expert, it's best practice to...
Eight Personality Traits of Great Golfers
We found eight personality traits that separated the great golfers on Tour from the other Tour players after testing and working with members of the LPGA, PGA, and CHAMPIONS Tours in 1980-81 and from 1989 to 1992. We have confirmed these traits of great golfers in our...
Do You Know the Eight Basic Mental Skills of Golf?
You're Better If You Are Serious About Playing Your Best! The basics of your physical game—grip, stance, ball position, etc., are not unlike the basics of your mental skills of golf. Both require frequent checking and tweaking to keep them strong. And both can...
Resources for College Golfers
Congratulations College Golfers! Whether you are playing golf for a Division I, Division II, Division III, NAIA school, or for a Community College, you have placed yourself in an elite group. And you have provided yourself a wonderful opportunity to build your golf...
Champions Tour: Tips, Lessons and Coaching for Competitive Senior Golfers
Hello and welcome to the Champions Tour Golfer Guide. First of all, congratulations for giving yourself the opportunity to compete in this great game post-50. During my years of traveling with the Champions Tour I was often asked somewhat skeptically by reporters if...
Being Present in Golf: Key Tip for Amazing Improvement
Do you know this feeling? You are able to start to play an important round of golf while feeling super calm, confident, peaceful, and in control. It's magical and your ball striking can be really good, but it can come on one of those poor-ball-striking days too....
Train Your Body for Golf: Balanced Body Chemistry Means Better Golf
Your body and it's chemistry is an incredibly complex system that strives to balance itself for maximum health. Examples of this include the release of histamines to clear the your nasal passages of pollen, or the way your body naturally comes to the rescue to heal...
Learning From Adversity
It was the only time I saw him try too hard," said Tiger's caddie, Steve Williams. Seldom could it be said in the prime of his career that Tiger lost a major because of pressing or trying too hard, but this time it cost him a very personal victory. It might not have...
Best Golf Practice Tips for Powerful Play
These golf practice tips for powerful play come directly from our work with hundreds and hundreds of competitive golfers over the past several decades. Early into our work, we could not help but notice that there were particular things about practice that did more to...
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