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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...
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...
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Dr. Deborah Graham
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