Competing Mentally

  Golf is a sport that has many different elements. Obviously there’s the swing and making sure your body is in perfect rhythm and harmony when you swing. Then there’s the fitness element–you need to make sure that all your muscles are healthy and operating at their peak. That means that your conditioning needs to… Continue reading Competing Mentally

Emotionalize Your Golf Game

The Golf Mental Game Guy Wade Pearse spoke with us about setting and emotionalizing your goals. As with anything dealing with improvement it’s a process–a journey–that is the result from a series of minor victories. The key to achieving your goals–both the BIG ones and the smaller ones that build up to the larger ones–you… Continue reading Emotionalize Your Golf Game

Hanging Out With Wade Pearse

In this episode of Fitness For Golf Hangouts, we talked with Wade Pearse from Whole Mind Golf. Wade described a training technique called visualization–the process for visualizing every shot on every hole the night or day before you actually play. This allows for the body to be comfortable and confident when you actually go to… Continue reading Hanging Out With Wade Pearse

Winning

As the Fedex Cup ended we got to watch the greatest players in the world battle it out for supremacy and oh, that little side pot of a measly $10,000,000! But at that level the money becomes secondary. Certainly it’s more money than most of us will see in a lfietime or two but when… Continue reading Winning

Preshot Visualization Routine

A Preshot Visualization Routineis an absolutely essential component to making a good swing. Not integrating a visualization process into your preshot routine leaves your mind unfocused and open to many lapses of attention. Not what you want before making your swing. What do you do while you prepare to shoot? Does your preshot routine include… Continue reading Preshot Visualization Routine

Performance Anxiety in Golf

A typical day on the golf course…. A few beads of sweat rolled off his brow as he lined up his 6 footer for par on the first hole. With a half committed putt, the result equaled the quality of his stroke: weak and short. “Geez, I’m shakin’ inside. I’m frickin’ nervous” he says to… Continue reading Performance Anxiety in Golf