Category: Mental Coaching

Golf is a great game and people play it for many reasons. When you watch players on the course you can see people having fun, working hard on their game, experiencing great joy, getting very frustrated, having temper tantrums, cheating, lying, stealing, helping others, laughing, crying; what a drama! What drives this vast difference in… Continue reading Motivation: What Is Driving Your Game?

Create an Action Plan for Golf and Just Make it Happen! There is a paradigm that surrounds this game that accepts and perpetuates the notion that it’s OK to complain and dwell on how poorly we play.  Listen to the discussions around the typical 19th hole at any golf course in the area.  Frequently, golfers… Continue reading Create An Action Plan For Golf

Powerful Pre-Event Routines Help You Perform to Your Potential Athletes, sales people, teachers, public speakers, media people and anyone else who “officially performs” successfully uses pre-performance routines or rituals. Even if you don`t view what you do as a performance, you can use routines to help you relax, focus and prepare mentally and physically for… Continue reading Performance Rituals

Remain Motivated to Play Your Best Golf   Ever notice no matter how many lessons you take or how much practice you put in, you still aren’t progressing as quickly as that other person at the club?  That person at the fitness center seems to be getting stronger more quickly, and/or your regular weekend golf… Continue reading Remain Motivated To Play Your Best Golf

“Golf is a terrible game. I’m glad I don’t have to play again until tomorrow. “ – Anonymous Ask any great putter what’s the most important thing to great putting, they will say without hesitation—it’s confidence. Confidence means making putts. Too many players don’t give themselves a chance to putt well because doubt destroys confidence.… Continue reading Replacing Doubt With Confidence For Better Putting

Are You a Scientist or a Judge When it Comes to Evaluating Your Golf Performance?   One of the biggest variables that effect your development as a player can be the way you evaluate your practice and play.  Remembering this tip to react as a scientist rather than a judge can go a long way… Continue reading Are You A Scientist Or A Judge?

During this time of the year as our schedules get more and more hectic we have a tendency to overeat and drink, skip work outs and become more sedentary. In addition traveling to visit family can mean long hours in the car or sitting in uncomfortable ergonomically incorrect airplane seats. Combine all of these factors… Continue reading Six Stress Busters

4 Easy Ways to Take your Golf Practice to the Course   One of the most often-mentioned concerns by golfers is “how come I can hit the ball so well on the range but have a difficult time replicating this on the golf course”?  When left on their own to try to figure this question… Continue reading 4 Easy Ways To Take Your Practice Rounds To The Course

This is one of my favorite stories to tell. The story was based on the struggles of an actual PGA Tour player I worked with. I once knew a putter named Soft Hands. Soft Hands was a great putter, who brimmed with confidence when the ball found bottom of the cup. He had touch, confidence,… Continue reading The Tale Of Two Putters