golf

Mental Moment-core values and other stuff through sports

Written by on April 30, 2013

kids golf

Sports has so many positive impacts on a child’s life  sports helps develop movement, emotions, socialization, intelligence, coping skills and the list goes on. I am particularly interested in supporting girls in sport. I feel that inherently boys are more apt to be involved in sports and its still acceptable for them to participate. Although access can still be challenging for both sexes. Part of my support for girls in sports comes from being in the board of The Playing for Power Project. There are board members are all across the USA. We hold teleconferencing board meetings once a quarter. Part … Continued

Negative internal chatter is rampant in tennis & golf

Written by on October 10, 2011

negative thinking

One of the top challenges for golfers and tennis players that has a HUGE negative impact on performance is negative self talk. Negative self talk is a form of internal distraction and includes should have, what if, over analyzing body mechanics and choking. Negative self talk is critical and self defeating. It is counterproductive and produces anxiety. When a person experiences something they perceive as more demanding than what their capabilities can manage, they are said to have state (situational) anxiety (negative self talk is the cognitive part of anxiety). This anxiety leads to negative thoughts that lead to stress typically … Continued

In golf, practice makes perfect, physically & mentally

Written by on October 7, 2011

Sanity

Physical practice is an easy one right? Hit a few large buckets at the driving range and 100 short shots on the practice green four days a week and play a round or two. Throw in a lesson, continue hitting a few large buckets at the driving range and 100 short shots on the practice green but increase to five days a week and play three or four rounds. You are not at two lessons, continue hitting a few large buckets at the driving range and 100 short shots on the practice green but increase to seven days a week and play a … Continued

What one mental technique will help with several mental barriers in golf?

Written by on October 5, 2011

Focus

I am gonna tell in just a minute what will alleviate all of these barriers to your golf game but first, before you can develop the plan you need to develop good awareness around what happens mentally in your golf game. When are you negatively effected? What things negatively effects you? How do you generally respond? How long does that response stick with you; how long are you effected by the mental or emotional obstacle? After the initial awareness you must go deeper Once you have a good initial sense of what gets you negatively tangled up the second thing you … Continued

Practice the ‘process’ of golf!

Written by on October 3, 2011

broken chain

In my work with golfers I find that they are very outcome oriented. I think in my last blog I made a statement something like ‘golfers are all or nothing people’. In my experience with golfers they feel that they either suck are they are playing great (for many of them the latter is fewer than the former). There is  not a lot of middle ground. It seems that this  holds true in another form: golfers are very outcome driven. When they play golf they either want a great score or why bother playing. Outcome versus process This all or nothing … Continued

How do you approach golf?

Written by on September 30, 2011

Approaching golf

One of my golf clients is also a manager for a large company. Being a manager he works at the macro level. He doesn’t deal with a lot of minutia, he’s very good at what he’s done so he’s been successful and he is not emotionally attached to his work at all. During our conversation this past week we realized that he’s been attacking his personal life and his golf like he does his work. Do you and if so what challenges do you see in that? What are some of the differences There are distinct differences between how one operates at … Continued

Golf challenges all of the mental & emotional things

Written by on September 28, 2011

golfer

Golf is intense and seems to attract an intensity does it? If you take an average, normal person (whatever that means) and you teach them to play golf. It’ll bring out seemingly all of the mental & emotional challenges that one has or that one has left to deal with. There is something inherent about golf that attracts a certain personality and challenges them to their deepest core. When golf starts to spiral down Although there are a variety of ‘situations’ many golfers tend to be very extreme. They are either playing really well or not playing well at all. There is … Continued