David MacKenzie · Are you an Ego or Mastery Golfer? Let's find out From my experience there are 2 types of golfer - the ego golfer and the mastery golfer. These golfers represent 2 different mindsets and approaches to practice…
Developing a winning mindset for golf should be a fundamental part of your game improvement plan. In fact, identifying a student's current “Mindset” is the first area we cover in my mental coaching program for a very good reason -…
In this article, I'd like to show you a couple of easy ways to increase confidence before and during your rounds to maximize your chances of great performance. Many of the students I work with, benefit from "acting as if"…
In an ideal world, you wouldn’t know what your score was during a round until after the last putt was rolled in on the 18th green. I’m sure you’d agree with me on that. Most golfers would play much better…
Whether it’s Brian, Justin, Tommy, Patrick or Rickie (or any of those names we see up there on the leader-board) who will lift the US Open trophy this evening, all these guys have one particular skill in abundance. Mental Toughness…
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…
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,…
Hi, It’s Karl Morris here and it is great to be working with you courtesy of David MacKenzie at Golf State of Mind. It is really clear to me the need to understand HOW to get the best from your…
In golf there are 7 Round Killers. These are 7 mental mistakes that will kill your ability to play to your potential. If you make any of these errors, the round will get away from you and you won't be…
1. Forget about Score and Get In The Zone Write your score down for each hole, but decide that it's not going to matter today. All you're going to focus on is each shot individually and see what they total…