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5 Tips To Remove Your Golf Fears And Blocks

5 Tips to Remove Your Golf Fears and Blocks

  • April 29, 2013
  • Loren Fogelman
  • Mental Game Tips, Performance Anxiety Management
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Fears and blocks raise your golf score. It’s similar to what your golf pro teaches, that when you focus on avoiding the hazard then that’s where your balls going to drop. It’s all part of the mental game of golf.…

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Breathing, Awareness And How To Handle Pressure In Golf.

Breathing, Awareness and How to Handle Pressure in Golf.

  • November 15, 2012
  • Jordan Caron
  • Performance Anxiety Management
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Breathing in golf and being aware of what’s going on are the only things you can do when dealing with pressure. For the purpose of this post I will refer to adversity a lot but it means the same as…

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Entering The Zone And Staying In The NOW

Entering the Zone and Staying in the NOW

  • November 12, 2012
  • David MacKenzie
  • Performance Anxiety Management
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Learning techniques for staying present in golf will do wonders for your scores. Being able to improve your concentration and focus will no doubt help your golf, but it will also provide you with a personal development skill that will…

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One Of The Most Costly Mental Mistakes In Golf

One of the Most Costly Mental Mistakes in Golf

  • November 11, 2011
  • David MacKenzie
  • Performance Anxiety Management
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Do you feel pressure and nerves on the golf course? From my experience working with players of all levels, this is the most common reason given for not breaking into new scoring levels and consistently improving. But what you have…

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Effects Of Self-doubt On Performance

Effects of Self-doubt on Performance

  • April 6, 2011
  • Dr. Tony Piparo
  • Performance Anxiety Management
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How would you like to get to the first tee knowing you’re going to play well that day, every time you step on to the course? Of course we all would. Unfortunately that’s not what most of us experience. Even…

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How To Turn Nerves From A Negative Into A Positive And Reach New Scoring Levels

How to turn Nerves from a Negative into a Positive and Reach New Scoring Levels

  • January 12, 2011
  • David MacKenzie
  • Performance Anxiety Management
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I was recently asked by a student: "How do I get rid of nerves on the golf course?" This is a common reason why golfers think they do not perform to their true potential. Golfers tend to think that if…

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What’s The Best Golf Tip You’ve Ever Received? Here’s Greg Norman’s…

What’s The Best Golf Tip You’ve Ever Received? Here’s Greg Norman’s…

  • December 12, 2010
  • David MacKenzie
  • Performance Anxiety Management
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Greg Norman said that it came in 1986 just before he won the first of his 2 Open Championships. The night before the final round, Norman was eating in the same restaurant as Jack Nicklaus, whom he asked if he…

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“Light is Right” When You Feel Under Pressure

  • August 27, 2009
  • David MacKenzie
  • Performance Anxiety Management
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When we feel pressure on the golf course, it is the natural reaction to tense the muscles. This is the natural response of all animals when they feel threatened or feel fear. The first place that is affected is the…

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Play Golf Under Pressure: How To Cope In Pressure Situations?

Play golf under pressure: How to cope in pressure situations?

  • August 13, 2009
  • David MacKenzie
  • Performance Anxiety Management
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At 7674 yds, Hazeltine National Golf Club is the longest course in major championship history, but the winner of this week's 91st PGA Championship will have won the mental game just as much as the physical. But how do we…

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Performance Anxiety Management
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