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  • Visualise Your Golf Shots And Mental Golf Practice In 3d For Better Golf Hypnosis
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Effective visualisation is one of the key golf psychology tools for improving your golf score and your enjoyment of the game. It's also one of the secrets of hypnotic golf. However, for most people, including me until recently, that visualisation tends to be two dimensional, a bit like looking through the viewfinder of a camera or at a picture on a television screen. Yes, I know that I could imagine some depth perspective, but what if I couldn't actually see the bottom of the pin over that high ...
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  • Trust Your Unconscious Golf Mind To Align Your Club For A Better Pre-shot Routine
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - How much is the accuracy of your golf shot influenced by club alignment at address and how much is down to your instinctive or unconscious golf ability? Now I'm not talking here about the complexity of aligning the various parts of your body when you address the ball. That's a subject for your golf pro, not your golf psychologist. All I'm interested in here is the alignment of your club face at address.

    I've been writing a lot recently about the importance, in golf psychology terms, ...

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  • Speed Up Your Pre-shot Routine Transition For Better Golf Psychology
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Golf instructors often talk about the transition in the golf swing as that pause between completing the backswing and starting the downswing. They often suggest that slowing down the transition is one of the most important keys to hitting a good shot.

    Well, I'm not qualified to comment on the technicalities of the golf swing. However, I am qualified to comment on what for me is an even more important transition in golf psychology. It's the transition from the conscious analytical p ...

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  • The Golf Psychology Of Going On A Pre-shot Routine Journey With Your Right And Left Brain
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - As a golf psychologist, I am especially interested in the importance of separating the conscious and unconscious elements of the pre-shot routine and the actual striking of the ball. In an ideal world, we should use our conscious rational mind, sometimes referred to as our Left Brain, for planning our shots and our unconscious instinctive mind, or Right Brain to manage the execution of each shot. Yes, I know that there's lots of controversy in psychology circles about where these functions actua ...
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  • Mental Foursomes Practice With Golf Hypnosis For Better Golf In Your Mind's Eye
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Practicing golf in your mind, mental golf if you like, is just as effective as playing golf and physical practice on the range, if you want to play better golf. As I've written many times before, it also works a lot better when accompanied by golf hypnosis and other golf psychology techniques.

    But there's a problem. How do you imagine hitting shots from difficult lies if you're playing an imaginary round? Surely you'd have to hit bad imaginary shots in order to get into the difficu ...

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  • See Yourself Putting Better And Enjoying Golf More With Golf Psychology
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - There were some amazing golf and putting psychology lessons on show with Phil Mickelson's stunning win at the Tour Championship at East Lake this weekend. Yes I know Tiger won the FedEx Cup and the $10 million with an amazingly consistent series of results. But given Phil's year, both on and especially off the course, his victory on Sunday was a simply joyous and breathtaking turnaround. Phil had looked out of sorts in recent weeks and after his quadruple bogey 8 on the 14th hole in the first ro ...
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  • Play Better Golf Psychology In The Now And One Shot At A Time
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - One of the key success factors of better golf psychology is learning to unconsciously play one shot at a time - in the moment, in the zone or "in the now." And this applies equally to every shot you play on the practice ground, in a friendly game and in the most important round of your golfing life. Playing in the now means that you're protected from any poor, indifferent shots and ill-judged shots that went before. It also means that you're protected from future uncertainties and expe ...
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  • The Golf Psychology Of Letting Everyone Else Complain While You Win
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - How often do you hear your playing partners and other people at the golf course complaining about things beyond their control? Maybe you do it a bit yourself. I know I have from time to time, especially in the past. You know the sort of thing I mean. More importantly, have you ever thought about the golf psychology impact that this has on their game?

    Now I'm talking here about a whole range of complaints. You'll hear some people whingeing about the conditions. Maybe it's too hot or ...

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  • Golf Tip: How To Use Psychology To Improve
    By: Max Johnson | - Many amateurs do not fully utilize a golf psychology tip to help them shoot lower scores. Professionals are much better at monitoring their bodies and emotions. Of course, they also have caddies, coaches and other parts of their entourage keeping an eye on them to make sure that they are using the correct golf psychology tip. The regular folk like us do not have this luxury however, there are some things that we can monitor and do to help us relax if we get tense on the golf course:


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  • Use Golf Psychology To Overcome Bad Luck And Play Well Despite It
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - What impact does luck have on your game of golf? By that I mean do you treat good luck and bad luck as two sides of the same coin? Statistically, our golfing luck is going to even out over the long term. If you keep tossing a coin, you may get long runs of heads or tails, but I'm sure that deep down we all know that every time there's an equal chance of one or the other. Luck's been a part of golf for a long time and the earliest golfer's defined good luck and bad luck as "Rub of the Green. ...
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  • Finger Breathing For Self Hypnosis And Better Golf Psychology
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I wouldn't be at all surprised if by now you've noticed that self-hypnosis is a key part of my overall approach to golf mind improvement. In fact, many of the golf psychology techniques that I talk about in my articles start off with the words "If you're familiar with a quick technique for taking yourself into self-hypnosis, then use it now."

    So today, I'm going to describe a simple technique for taking yourself into a safe, light and relaxing trance. Using it will help yo ...

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  • The Golf Psychology Of Self Hypnosis And Imagination For Winning Happiness
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I felt so sad watching Sergio Garcia looking so miserable and failing to close out a much needed win in the Wyndham Championship at Greensboro on Sunday. It reminds me of how important our internal state is to good golf psychology and how we can use self-hypnosis to manage and control our state of mind.

    One of the fundamentals of modern psychology is the idea that whatever we consciously think about our unconscious mind does its best to deliver. This manifests itself in many ways an ...

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  • Putting Psychology And Golf Hypnosis Into Perspective At Pga Championship
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Putting was clearly very difficult for all the players at Hazeltine in the 2009 PGA Championship, especially in terms of putting psychology. Now we all saw Tiger Woods missing a lot of mid-range putts that we'd normally expect him to see and I've already written about how those were the result of his uneasiness about the swirling wind. I'm more concerned here with a number of really crucial putts missed by Lee Westwood and the massive number of short putts missed by Vijay Singh.

    In ...

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  • Windy Golfers And Windy Golf Psychology Blown Away At The Pga Championship
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - So, were you blown away by the golf at the 91st PGA Championship at Hazeltine this weekend? With 8 hours of TV coverage on Saturday and again on Sunday, I was just riveted to the screen and amazed by both the spectacle and the windy golf conditions. The TV commentators also contributed to the windy feeling with all their hot air and false hopes for a certain golfer named Tiger Woods. Didn't they just love Y.E. Yang's quote about how the odds against him beating Tiger must be 70 to 1, based on Ti ...
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  • Anchor Your Good Golf Shots With A Post Shot Routine Using Nlp And Golf Hypnosis
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I've been writing a lot lately about the negative and positive golf psychology of fear on the golf course. While I've been thinking all about golf fear consciously, it seems that my unconscious mind has been quietly working away on the question of how we actual do this "fear" thing in our golf minds. Using a post-shot routine was the answer - to the problem, not the question.

    Now in NLP and golf hypnosis, we have many ways of managing a person's fears. If it's a full blown ...

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  • Channel Your First Tee Nerves Into Unconscious Golf Resources For Better Golf
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - There's a danger we treat fear completely as a bad thing in golf psychology. Now I know this goes against a lot of what I've been saying, but I'm talking here about the thin end of fear - nervousness. For many people, nervousness is the buzz of competition, whether we're competing with other people, ourselves or the golf course we happen to be playing.

    For many people the buzz is part of the enjoyment. Perhaps that's what Mark Twain was referring to when he wrote that "Golf is ...

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  • Utilise The Fear In Your Golf Mind To Hit More Greens And Fairways
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - How can golf psychology help you in overcoming the fear you have about hitting a bad shot on the golf course? Many people interpret this as classic fear of someone suffering from the putting yips who's about to putt or the person suffering form the shanks and about to hit a short iron. But you can get the same type of fear when faced with a shot that you "always" hit badly or a hole that you always play badly. Perhaps your ball seems inexorably drawn to those trees on the right or that ...
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  • Handle Fear On The Golf Course With Golf Psychology, Self Hypnosis And Nlp
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Fear on the golf course can come in many shapes and sizes and it can result in a multitude of problems ranging from lack of enjoyment, through poor scoring and frustration to outright anger. Most golfers will have experienced fear on the golf course, either personally or from watching a playing partner.

    As an amateur golfer, although my golf is very important to me, my livelihood does not depend directly on my ability to score well. However, I can think of many times, especially in ...

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  • Winning With Golf Hypnosis Like The Pakistan Cricket Team
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I know it's not cricket golf to talk about golf cricket in a golf hypnosis article, even if cricket and golf hypnosis are in essence the same thing. I'm also aware that many of my readers will have no idea what cricket is all about anyway. However, this story has as much to say about sports psychology and golf hypnotism as it does about cricket. In addition, it shouldn't be as long-winded as some cricketing stories as I'm talking about a quick form of cricket called the Twenty20 World Cup. Now w ...
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  • How To Improve Your Mental Golf Approach Between Shots With Golf Psychology
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - If I were to ask you what you do between shots during a round of golf, you'd probably think I was missing the point. After all, golf psychology and teaching should be all about helping you to hit better shots and putts during a round of golf or in practice, shouldn't it? This applies whether you're working with a teaching pro helping you with your golf swing or with a golf psychologist helping to improve your mental approach to golf.

    So what do you actually do in the time between as ...

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  • Grind Out A Winning Score Using Golf Psychology And Golf Hypnosis
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Have you noticed how good some of the leading professionals are at grinding out a good score, even if they are swinging the club below their best or downright badly. It's interesting to note that the real greats like Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus always seem to be able to do this, however they're playing, and whatever the "rub of the green" throws at them when they get to the last nine holes of a championship.

    If I look back to my early years in golf, before I had any thou ...

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  • Focus Your Golf Mind On Your Target Not The Hazard For Better Golf Scores
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - One thing I've learned from golf psychology is how my unconscious mind automatically follows where my conscious mind leads. Have you ever noticed that if one of your playing partners warns you about a particularly difficult bunker or some hidden golf hazard on a hole, your ball seems to be mysteriously drawn to that hazard? And it doesn't matter whether they were trying to help you or to put you off. So if youre standing over the ball thinking or saying to yourself, "Don't hit it in ...
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  • Better Putting In Your Golf Mind
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I hear that Darren Clarke's looking for putting improvement through golf psychology and working again with Bob Rotella. I know that Darren has worked in the past with Golf Psychologist Dr Karl Morris - after all, I've read Golf - The Mind Factor, the book they published together back in 2005. However, for some reason I didn't know that he'd worked with Bob Rotella.

    I can't say how delighted I am to see Darren's back competing in the 2009 US Open at Bethpage Black after qualifying as ...

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  • Play Your Best With Golf Psychology Before Changing Your Unconscious Golf Swing
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - If you have hit good golf shots at some time in your golfing life, you already have the unconscious golfing ability to repeat those shots and score well. So, how well could you score if you played to the best of your existing golfing ability? Well, you can if you get the very most out of that ability before you decide to change your golf swing again.

    One way to find out how well you can score with your existing unconscious golf swing is to add up the lowest number of shots you've ev ...

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  • Golf Psychology Focus On Why You Play Not How You Swing For Golf Enjoyment
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Improving your golf enjoyment has more to do with the golf psychology of addressing the reasons why you play golf at all than with addressing all the things you're trying to fix in your golf swing.

    One theme that comes up a lot in my thoughts and in my writing is the idea that one of the main reasons for most people playing golf is the pursuit of enjoyment, both for ourselves and the people we play with. As a golf psychologist, this is also my primary motivation in my working life a ...

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  • Balance Your Golf Mind And Body For Better Golf - Focus On Your Hara
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Moving from the balance of my life to the balance of the golf swing, I was intrigued to read recently about how many people view this as a key element of a successful golf swing. Now you know that I never comment on the mechanics of the swing as I'm neither a golf professional nor a swing coach. However, I do believe that balance is a key component of golf psychology and that psychological balance contributes significantly to balance in the golf mind and the golf swing. It also works wonders for ...
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  • The Fast Track To Better Golf In Your Unconscious - Slow Play Kills Your Golf Mind
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - How long did your game of golf take this weekend? Maybe 3 hours or less if you played on a traditional Scottish championship course, 5 hours if you played a fourball around a more modern country club or even more if you played in a serious open amateur event. I remember playing in a two-ball at Royal Troon, as the guest of a 70 year old friend, and getting round in 2 hours and 20 minutes and we were chased around by the Club Captain playing in a foursome. I can also remember playing in top amate ...
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  • Use Your Golf Confidence And Play Golf To Win Like Jack Nicklaus
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Do you play golf to win? What about when you're having a great round, playing confident golf and you only need a few pars to play under your handicap? Some of my best rounds came when I started scoring badly and just persevered. The further I got into the round, the better I found myself scoring. What's more, I got into the habit of playing better and better. Sometimes, the improvement grew over the space of several rounds.

    When I think about this kind of phenomena, a couple of my e ...

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  • Technically Perfect Golf Does Not Always Win Over Good Mental Golf
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Have you noticed that the winners on the professional golf tours around the world aren't always technically or statistically the best players. They often don't even look like the best player over the four rounds the week they win. Now, I know that's a contradiction, because if they win the event, then they must be the best in that event.

    Going back a few weeks to the 2009 Masters, no one would suggest that Kenny Perry, Angel Cabrera and Chad Campbell were the best players in the fi ...

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  • Golf Hypnosis Leads To Success Over The Inner Game Of Golf
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I'm just re-reading Timothy Gallwey's The Inner Game of Golf again after almost 25 years! It's fascinating and given my training in Hypnosis and NLP, I now see why it didn't work for me when I first worked with it. That insight may also help to explain that despite the plethora of tennis coaches teaching Inner Game techniques, there seem to be very few PGA Professionals claiming to teach. I know that's asking for a big bag of emails from the ones who do - I'd like to know who they are.

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  • Golf Psychology Homework To Improve Golf Hypnosis
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Giving my clients homework tasks to improve their golf and get the most effective results from golf hypnosis sessions is one of the keys to my success. Its also something that I use to good effect with my clinical hypnotherapy clients as well. Homework can also be used very effectively with golf hypnosis recordings and with self-assigned tasks for self-hypnosis as well.

    So what do I mean by Golf Hypnosis Homework

    Well dont worry; its not like goi ...

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  • The Mind Golf Secrets The Golf Equipment Industry Does Not Want You To Hear
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - When people write about the top professionals, they tend to talk about the externally visible aspect of their game their swing technique. Those same writers rarely tell you about the golf mind secrets of those professionals.

    So what about Jack Nicklaus and 90% of golf in the mind?

    When I started out in golf in the late 60s I recall hearing Jack Nicklaus talk on TV about golf being 90% in the mind. However, when I eagerly read his first book, The Greatest Game o ...

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  • Shark Bitten At Sunningdale Without Golf Psychology And Self Hypnosis
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - So who made it to Sunningdale to watch the Senior Open Championship last weekend? I know that one of the latest subscribers to my newsletter did and he tells me that he and his wife really enjoyed it? For me it was well worth the visit, especially as it's only 10 miles down the road from me the Old Course at Sunningdale is one of my favourite courses in the world - not that the New Course isn't just as good.

    There's absolutely no doubt that this weekend and so many times before in m ...

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  • Eft For Better Golf: Part 3 - Tapping It All Together
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - So did you try the tapping with EFT for better golf after reading Part 2? Hopefully you did it in private or at least told any onlookers what you were up to. If you didn't, don't blame me!

    Moving on quickly, let's continue with the other parts of the EFT Sequence and quickly fill out the rest of the Basic Recipe. Then we can start putting EFT to use help you to improve your golf.

    The Setup

    Step 1 of the Basic Recipe is The Setup. That's where we identify th ...

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  • Eft For Better Golf: Part 2 - Let's Get Tapping
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - EFT, the Emotional Freedom Technique in its traditional form is used by therapists with their clients and by individuals to reduce or eliminate all types of negative emotions including anger, fear, grief, trauma, anxiety and stress. It's also often used to treat physical and physiological issues that may have an often unidentified, emotional component.

    At this point, I'm obliged to stress that EFT is not a substitute for conventional medicine. You are advised to consult with your d ...

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  • Eft For Better Golf: Part 1 - So What Is Eft
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Ive been reading a lot on the web recently about people getting success using Emotional Freedom Techniques - EFT to improve their golf and overcome and overcome their golf psychology problems. So, I decided that this week Ill write a few posts about what EFT actually is, how you use it and how to use it for better golf.

    So, why am I telling you about EFT when Im a golf hypnotist? Well there are four main reasons:
    To quote Gary Craig who invented EFT, ...

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  • Golf Psychology Lessons From The Open Championship At Turnberry - Part 3
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - In parts one and two, I talked about the golf psychology lessons from the performance of veteran Tom Watson and young Ross Fisher at this year's Open Championship at Turnberry. As a 59 year old myself, I was overwhelmed by Tom's amazing performance and mental strength around one of the toughest links courses. It almost seems unnecessary to mention his age and recent hip replacement operation. As a golf psychologist helping clients to play the best golf they possibly can, whatever happens, I coul ...
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  • Golf Psychology Lessons From The Open Championship At Turnberry - Part 2
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - In part one, I talked about the golf psychology lessons from Tom Watson's amazing performance both on and off the course at this year's Open Championship at Turnberry. So what other golf psychology lessons can we learn from some of the other contenders?

    Now I know the valiant and expectant Ross Fisher's challenge effectively died in the thick rough at the 5th hole on Sunday. But he went on to succeed magnificently in a way that world number one, Tiger Woods, miserably failed to do t ...

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  • Golf Psychology Lessons From The Open Championship At Turnberry - Part 1
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - So what golf psychology lessons can we learn from this year's Open Championship at Turnberry? I'm sure that many of you watching the last day unfold on the course shared my excitement at the ever changing scoreboard, the phenomenal shot making from all the players and the breathtaking and emotional finish to the 72 holes. Let's not spoil things by thinking about the play-off!

    We also saw what makes golf in general and links golf in particular so special. I'm talking here about the ...

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  • Practice In Your Mind With Hypnosis For Better Golf
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Now I'm confused about golf practice and just how much leads to better golf. More importantly, just how much is good for golf improvement? I'm confused because I keep getting contradictory advice from the books I'm reading, TV programs I'm viewing and the stuff I'm browsing on the web.

    As a low handicap golfer for over 40 years, I've done a fair bit of work on the practice ground and had lots of golf lessons from lots of good coaches - some of the best in the world in their day. H ...

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  • Better Golf Is Unconscious Golf
    By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Now I'm really looking forward to some unconscious golf at Doral over the weekend, but I'm not sure what sort of spectacle it's going to be with players like Mike Weir allegedly 'going unconscious' ' doesn't sound like a lot of action there.

    To be fair, the article I've just read from Lorne Rubenstein at Globe and Mail talks about the advice that Bob Rotella is giving Mike Weir in preparation for this weekend's World Golf Championships. And any advice from Bob is usually good advi ...

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  • Why Traditional Golf Psychology Is Useless And What To Do Instead
    By: coach stephen | - Hundreds of thousands of golfers have tried the traditional golf psychology (positive thinking) methods to improve their golf scores. Some of them have had some success - some of the time.

    But from speaking with thousands of golfers, it seems that for most of you it has been an exercise in frustration and a waste of time.

    I'll let you in on a little secret - the traditional approach to positive thinking can indeed be frustrating and often is a complete waste of time ...

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  • Golf Schools Go Mental With Golf Psychology
    By: Phoenix Delray | - Golf schools across the country are embracing an old theory and developing it into a new concept: golf psychology. Like any other sport, there is a degree of mental preparation that must be undertaken to really succeed as a golfer, and golf schools are the way to go to learn how to prepare with the best.

    Golf schools that are top notch dont stop the instruction with the players swing. Once a player has mastered his swing, golf schools will help him learn how to control the thoug ...

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  • Mastering Your Mental Golf Game With A Secret Method The Pros Do Not Want You To Know
    By: Mike Geary | - Introducing Tap-In-Golf: The Ultimate Mental Game Mastery System. This cutting-edge technique combines centuries-old wisdom and quantum physics to allow you to drop your handicap like a bad habit...in minutes!

    There is a brand new mental golf game technique out there that most of the top players would rather keep a secret. It's called Tap-In-Golf. Perhaps you have already heard about the buzz it's creating in the golf world. Currently, golfers from over 33 different countries are ...

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  • Intro To The Mental Game Of Golf - Part 1
    By: Craig Sigl | - Copyright 2006 Craig Sigl

    In this article, we are going to begin the process of learning how we can use our mind better for our game. You shouldn't need to be convinced of the paybacks we can get in this area for cutting your score right?

    Developing your mental game is definitely using the Pareto Principle (80/20 rule) as we can spend so little time and energy here and gain big efficiencies toward reducing our score. And especially getting everything we can out of o ...

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