Golf psychology articles to improve your mental game for tournament golfers, golf instructors, and parents. Learn mental strategies to improve performance.
How to Fight Off the Yips The yips can break a golfer mentally, which leads to giving up golf altogether. Imagine, for a couple of months you are playing some of your best golf of your life and it all unraveled a few weeks later. An effortless swing turns into a mechanical forced stroke. What was once easy now seems … Golf Psychology Article>>
How Expectations Hurt Play When you enter a golf tournament, do you EXPECT to win, place in the Top-10 or shoot your best score? After all, if you are going to win, don’t you need to expect to win? Expectations are a hard thing. If you go into a tournament expecting to lose, you probably will lose. Although the opposite … Golf Psychology Article>>
Learning to Overcome Motivation Challenges Why is it that so many golfers are just not motivated to improve their game, even when they have the time to do so? If practice leads to improvement, why do so many golfers lack the motivation to practice? Motivation is the cornerstone of athletic excellence. Every golfer will, at some point, go through bouts … Golf Psychology Article>>
Learning to Refocus on the Course Do you become distracted during a round of golf and does it happen while standing over the ball? What are the specific distractions that affect you most as you go through your preshot routine? Distractions are everywhere on the golf course. Some distractions you may be aware of such as anger after hitting the … Golf Psychology Article>>
How to Keep Perspective During Closures What are your concerns regarding the 2020 pandemic and the state of your golf game? The pandemic is a difficult situation for everyone to wrap their heads around and it can really affect anxiety levels. In your personal life, you have many thoughts to process: Golfers are faced with even more questions: One common … Golf Psychology Article>>
Hyo Joo Kim Improves Her Game From Home What were your goals for this season? Were you looking to make adjustments to improve your ranking or lower your handicap? Did you want to improve consistency or score less double bogeys over the course of 18 holes? Were you looking to break 80 or 70 for the first time? You may … Golf Psychology Article>>