Our special guest,
Dr.Bob Phillips "Golf
Psychologist" will be here exclusively every
month to reveal to you techniques used by top
level professional golfers to mentally prepare,
maintain focus, bring about their peak
performance and to help you improve your score!
THIS MONTH TIPS
Why Mental Training Should Begin
on the First Day
Most parents want their children
to enjoy and be successful in sports. They spend
time and money in helping their child have the
best chance of becoming a good golfer.
Unfortunately they also spend a lot of time
either trying to be the child’s coach or
acting like the "practice police".
Parents can become very active and supportive in
the mental side of training.
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PREVIOUS MONTH TIPS:
The Pre-Shot Routine: The Mental
Side
Most
golfers know the importance of having a pre-shot
routine. The process is simple and straight
forward. The goal is to decrease any disturbing
thoughts, emotions, tension or distractions while
you increase focus, utilize past success and
fully use the natural ability of the mind and
body to work together.
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Focus for Putting
Focus has
to do with paying attention to not only what is
important, but also paying attention in the
correct order. Focus itself has three primary
dimensions. The first is board verses narrow. The
broad in this meaning has to do with scope or how
much is taken in or paid attention to. The more
broad the more you take in. The more narrow, the
less you pay attention to or take in.
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Cheer Yourself On
Some
golfers become absorbed in their game in ways
that are more destructive than productive. Some
golfers hover over themselves like a worried
mother hovers over her toddler. They fret more
than plan. They see every trap and tree as a
lethal enemy and they worry more than Hilary
Clinton does on Girl Scout day at the White
House.
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You get what you ask for
In golf,
as in most of life, you get what you ask for.
Specifically, I am thinking of how you aim for
your target. If you use a general target like,
somewhere out there, or along the left side of
the fairway, then you will get a general response
from your mind and body.
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Focus
There is a
lot of talk about focus in golf. You hear a
golfer say, "What a lousy day, I really lost
my focus." You will hear a coach yell
"Focus on what you’re doing". So
what is focus?
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Plan to Sink Each Putt
Planning
is important. When planning is combined with
expectation you have a very powerful combination.
When you think of putting from eight feet out, do
you expect to drop the putt, or do you just hope
you will make it, or at least get close. There is
a world of difference between the two.
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Gremlins
Did you
know that you are the target of gremlins?
"What are gremlins?" you ask. Gremlins
are those nasty creatures that follow you around
the course and remind you of negative things, or
suggest that you might want to take up bowling
instead of embarrassing yourself on the golf
course. In other words gremlins are the voices
inside of your head.
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Controlling your state of mind
One of the
most important concepts in the mental game of
golf is the concept of mental states. This
concept tells us that we have several dozen
mental states that we can be in during each day,
but when it comes to golf only a few are good
mental states for playing at our best.
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Calling Time Out
You
bring the putter back and suddenly you feel like
your hands have turned to stone. You have
addressed the ball and begin to take two deep
breaths (step-breathing) but your mind continues
to think about the tree on the left side of the
fairway. You’re bringing the sand wedge back
but you still do not feel like your feet are well
planted. All of these are times to call a time
out.
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Become a Putting Engineer
Did
you know that the single biggest difference
between people who are creative and people who
are not creative is that the people who are
creative believe that they are creative, while
the noncreative people think that they are not
creative. Remember the Henry Ford quote, "If
you think you can or if you think you can not,
you are probably right."
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Be Your Child's Biggest
Fan...
But Not the Coach
Most
parents want their children to enjoy and be
successful in sports. They spend time and money
in helping their child have the best chance of
becoming a good golfer. Unfortunately, many also
spend a lot of time either trying to be the
child's coach or acting like the "practice
police". Parents can become very active and
supportive in the mental side of training.
Click here
for article.
The Short Course in
Mental Training
for Young Golfers
Golfers
who are beginning to find that they really do
have what it takes to play competitive golf. This
training should be part of their training from
the very beginning. Of course the physical game
should be the main concern at the beginning but
the mental side is important even at the
beginning.
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Building Confidence in
Junior Golfers
Confidence
is one the most important elements in golf. This
is true for golfers of all ages, but it is
especially true for younger golfers. Confidence
can be divided up into two general areas.
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Step your Mind into Focus
"Step-breathing"
provides you a solid, focused mental and physical
place from which to hit your shots or make even
the longer putts, time to find the best level of
mental arousal, and more control over your
playing tempo.
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Practice the Pressure
In law school there is an old
saying, "If you're drunk when you study, you
better be drunk when you take the test". In
golf we might say, "If you practice without
pressure, you better play without pressure".
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Boxing Out the Next Shot
A major problem with even
professional golfers is it's so easy to let our
minds take a wide sweeping view of what the next
shot means .... "If I sink this putt it'll
put me one up on Harry!" or "My dad's
watching, I really want to do well". If
you're doing this, you're not "boxing
out" the shot.
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Slump Busting
A
real challenge for every serious golfer is the
problem of being in a slump. Slumps are periods
of time when both your physical and mental skills
are at a level considerably lower than your
average performance. What to do? Read on.
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To Grind or Not to Grind
Do you grind out each round? Do you
try to keep your head deeply focused on golf
throughout the entire round? Or have you
developed a way of snapping back into focus for
each shot?
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Boy, Did I Just Blow That
Shot!
While
most golfers use a pre-shot routine, many neglect
to use a routine after they have hit a bad shot.
This leaves them open to several problems that
can damage their overall play.
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Bob Phillips, Ph.D., has
been helping athletes, sales people and managers
perform at their best for over fifteen years. As
a leading performance psychologist and coach, he
has developed several methods of evaluating and
maximizing performance.
In this series of articles
Dr. Phillips gives golfers the information and
techniques used by top level athletes in all
sports -- especially golf -- to mentally
prepare, maintain focus and bring about their
peak performance. A number of articles will focus
on Junior Golf.
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