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Resources For Competitive Golfers
Can a pro golfer make a hole-in-one in 500 shots?
Anyone who plays or watches golf knows how unlikely a hole-in-one is. Even with a perfect understanding of current conditions, the ideal swing, and experience on the course, it's still nearly impossible. Still, the rare shot is a major goal for golfers both...
Dehydration Shrinks Your Brain
The brain is often associated with the mental game of golf, but it obviously it the central force behind both your mental game and your physical game. Taking care of your brain is as important as anything to great golf. We have detailed in the past the fact that many...
How Jordan’s Unplayable Shot Won the Open
The Unplayable Shot that Won the Open! If He Had Not Missed That Tee Shot So Badly, His Struggles Probably Would Have Continued. How awesome it would have been to be able to read his mind. We can make some pretty strong assumptions about what he was thinking and...
How to Find Your Optimum Pre-shot Routine
“A consistent pre-shot routine will make you more consistent.” Only if it is mentally consistent and mentally effective!!!! What is your pre-shot routine supposed to be accomplishing? What is the purpose of your routine? Answer: To help you make an effective and...
Golf Psychology, The Key to Your Consistency and Performance
Golf Psychology Determines Your Consistency and Performance! The Golf Industry promotes the ideas that you will be more consistent with better clubs, a perfect swing, muscle memory, lots of range practice, greater golf fitness and consistent pre-shot routines. They...
There are 8 Champion Personality Traits for Golf!
The Golf Personality Traits You Don't Have Could Be Wrecking Your Game! Did you know that golf might naturally be more difficult for you than it is for others? We do not mean physically more difficult. We mean mentally more difficult. Learning the 8 key Mental Skills...
How to Get a Scholarship for Golf: 5 Tips
If you dream of getting a golf scholarship or want to help a junior golfer achieve a scholarship, we can help. We've put together 5+ tips to help put you on the right track. Tip # 1: Start Early! If you are an avid junior golfer and you dream of playing golf on a...
The Arousal Problem And Your Golf Performance
Optimum Arousal for Performance is one of the Sport Psychologists favorite concepts. It was developed through work with athletes in other sports. It is incredibly important for your golf performance. One of the most subtle and destructive game ruiners is over-arousal....
Junior Golfers: Tips for Parents of Struggling Junior Golfers
Help! What's Wrong with My Kid? "Ty was playing great until his Junior year. It seems like as soon as we started talking about colleges and coaches his scores went up an average of 5 strokes a round." This is but one of hundreds of scenarios that play out...
Junior Golfer: How To Make the Most of Your Window of Opportunity
Let's be Clear, Your Window of Opportunity is Very Small. As you know, pursuing the college golf dream is expensive and time consuming. You can spend lots of money which can be replaced. But you cannot afford to waste time performing poorly. Once the...
Matching The 8 Champion Personality Traits Doesn’t Guarantee Success
But Not Matching Them When You Compete Will Guarantee Failure According to our studies of the frequent winners on Tour, they measure the same on 8 of 32 personality traits. Within the frequent winners group, nobody had all of the 8 measures perfectly. Typically they...
Failing in Competition is Not Your Fault!
Failing to perform in competition is not your fault because our golf culture and industry is constantly giving you bad advice. They mean well. They certainly want you to play better and enjoy the game more. But somehow when the chips are down, you usually struggle. If...
Jordan Spieth DID NOT Meltdown at the Masters
The golf media have loudly and universally declared "MeltDown" and "Collapse", about Jordan Spieth's poor play for three holes on Sunday at the Masters in 2016. Never mind that he reached a five shot lead after four consecutive birdies to finish the front nine. They...
Junior Golfer: Parents are from Pluto
Parents are from Pluto, Teenagers are from Titan At least it feels that far apart to Parents and Teenagers from their different perspectives at times. Pluto is out beyond Uranus and no longer considered a planet and Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and larger than...
One Great Golf Super Food
Did you know that there is one golf Super Food that can help reduce those aches and pains, manage those emotional outbursts, and improve your focus? And that is only a little of what it can do for you. While a number of foods can help you perform well in golf, there...
How Many Junior Golf Tournaments are Too Many?
Junior Golf Tournaments are everywhere and year round. In Texas and other southern states, Junior Golfers can play year round, with several Junior Golf Tournaments to choose from every week. This could add up to 100 or more competitive rounds a year! Is this good for...
Golf Mental Game
How many times have you heard various well-known tour pros say: "golf is 90% mental"? Many great tour pros over the years have declared that the golf mental game rules. But, many teaching pros have countered, "what good is the mental game if you do not have the...
Quick Fixes for Managing Your Emotions on the Golf Course
So here is a question for you. Do you manage your emotions when you play competitive golf? Or do your emotions manage you? Not sure? You probably need only to look back as far as your last round to find the answer.
If you hit of any of your shots or putts angry, frustrated, fearful, impatient, desperately wanting to hit a good shot or putt– or even super excited about a preceding great shot or putt—your emotions probably managed you! And you likely lost a stroke or two or ten because of it.
Take Control of Your Thoughts or Suffer Average Golf
If you are like most players, your thoughts will tend to raise your tension and trigger emotions. You probably think about outcome and score and other things you cannot control like slow play or the weather. These thoughts will have you reacting emotionally to poor...
Symptoms of a Weak Mental Game
We've discussed many times how to spot a strong mental game, but what constitutes a weak mental game? If you suffer from multiple of the symptoms below, your mental game might be holding you back: Do You Have Any of These Symptoms? Inconsistency - Note that some level...
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