Tag: sport psychology for golf
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MG Step 7, 9 Drills for Concentration and Focus
Concentration Exercises for Training the Mind Developing your concentration skills is like training anything else in your life. If you are trying to get in shape and lose weight, how many times do you go the gym per week, how many hours per day? If you want to be mentally tough, the choice is yours.…
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Welcome to Mental Game Plan
STAY PATIENT! Stay on top of all emails and articles. Not all of the “tools” will excite you, my goal is for you to find at least one “tool” that you will click with and use in your daily golf development. Congratulations on taking the first step (and probably the biggest step) to improving your…
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Mental Tool 6: Golf Confidence
What is Golf Confidence? This past week Ohio State competed at the Big 10 Championship at Victory National Golf Club. This was a serious test of golf that exposed the player that was not 100% confident in their game. Through 3 rounds Ohio State was in second place, trailing only the University of Illinois, which…
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Practice Golf Controllables
In life there are many things we can control and others we cannot. This is the same with golf. Often times we like to blame others, the golf course, and/or mother nature when things do not go the way we intended on the golf course. It is important with golf to focus primarily on the…
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Mental Golf Performance Cues
Is it important to have a mental golf performance cue? What is a mental golf performance cue? For most people, having a performance cue in their golf routine is very important. A performance cue can also be called a “swing thought”. It is a trigger word that gets you to narrow your focus in order…
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Fake it Till You Make It!
Mental Toughness and Sport Psychology for Golf In sport psychology for golf we are looking for ways to retrain our brain to think in a positive and confident manner. Recently I was working with one of our Ohio state golfers when I stumbled upon the phrase “fake it till you make it”. Let me explain.…
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Youth Golf Lessons
Youth Golf Lessons – Enjoyable or Competitive? My latest reading in Sport Psychology for Peak Performance was focused on youth and motivation in sports. This reading was of great interest because it brought me back to my days as a golf instructor in Houston, TX only a few years ago. I was teaching some of the…