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Author: David MacKenzie

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Does Your Course Strategy Fit Your Golf Game?

Does your course strategy fit your golf game?

  • September 4, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
  • Course Strategy
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What if there was a way to knock shots off your game without touching your swing at all? What if you could shoot consistently better scores and have a game plan for competitions which fills you with confidence for golf?…

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“Look And React” To Putt Better Under Pressure

“Look and React” to Putt Better Under Pressure

  • September 3, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
  • Putting
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Do you ever stand over a must-make 5 ft putt and get totally overwhelmed by the situation? Do you lose confidence and make a jerky, stab at the ball instead of your normal free-flowing stroke? Physically speaking, a 5 footer…

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The Fix To The #1 Mental Problem In Golf

The Fix To The #1 Mental Problem in Golf

  • August 28, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
  • Mindset
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Over the past ten years I’ve taught a lot of golfers how to improve their golf game through a better mental approach. During their initial assessment, I determine what their goals and current struggles are. Then we work on “picking…

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The Mental Game Techniques That Helped Jason Day Win The PGA Championship

The Mental Game Techniques That Helped Jason Day Win The PGA Championship

  • August 18, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
  • PGA Tour
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THE MAKING OF A MAJOR CHAMPION “A lot of people would be saying that I couldn’t finish. You get to a breaking point in your golf game where it can go either way. You go, ‘OK, I’ve had enough and…

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Your 10 Minute Confidence Boosting Putting Warm-up

Your 10 Minute Confidence Boosting Putting Warm-up

  • August 11, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
  • Putting
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A consistent putting warm-up Golf is a game of confidence. How you approach each round mentally and physically can make a big difference in how confident you feel. One of the things to make consistent is your warm up. The…

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The Key To More Distance And Accuracy With The Driver

The key to more distance and accuracy with the driver

  • August 2, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
  • Swing Thoughts
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While watching the PGA Tour players at the Quicken Loans National yesterday, I noted several things that help them hit more fairways with the driver, but here’s what I believe to be the most significant. More distance with the driver…

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More Accurate Wedges And Your Optimal Mental State For Golf

More accurate wedges and your optimal mental state for golf

  • July 23, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
  • Short Game Tips
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What an amazing Open Championship that was! It had everything. Delays from severe wind and rain, 3 amateurs tied 12th or better, the drama of Jordan being a shot or two away from 3 majors in a row, the legend…

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Focus On The Journey And You’ll Get To Your Destination

Focus On The Journey and You’ll Get To Your Destination

  • June 25, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
  • Mindset
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As a society we become results focused early on in our lives. Scores and results become our measure of success. At school we’re measured by our grades, in our careers it's typically the amount of money we make. In golf,…

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The Keys To Winning The US Open At Chambers Bay

The Keys To Winning the US Open at Chambers Bay

  • June 18, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
  • Mental Game Tips, PGA Tour
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This year’s US Open is no doubt going to be an entertaining one! The course at Chamber’s Bay, WA is a true and beautiful links style course - dry fescue grass, rolling fairways, undulated greens, and at a whopping 7695…

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4 Reasons Your Scores Aren’t Getting Better (it’s Time To Change It)

4 Reasons Your Scores Aren’t Getting Better (it’s time to change it)

  • June 4, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
  • Mental Game Tips
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Reason 1: Process Focus vs Outcome Focus From when we were kids we’ve been taught that results are all that count. Get good grades and you’ll get into a good college, get into a good college and you’ll get a…

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