David MacKenzie · The Power of Journaling For Your Golf Game "I take the mental work very seriously. It’s the key to my consistency. What I find very meditational and very therapeutic for myself is journaling. When I’m writing I…
“I never learned anything from a match that I won.” – Bobby Jones Golf is an inconsistent game by nature and scores will always fluctuate, but what’s guaranteed is that every round is a learning opportunity for long-term improvement. Too…
Whenever I talk to my students after a round, there are 3 questions that I ask them. The answers to these questions, tell me how good a round it was (it also tells me a player’s “Mental Game Score”). What…
The simple post-round review process Whenever I ask a golfer how they played (not including students of mine), unless they played exceptionally well, the typical response would be a negative one, something like: “not great”, “my driving was awful” or “I…
One of the reasons that I find a lot of golfers don’t dedicate more time to the pursuit of a better mental game of golf is that it’s hard to measure your progress. You can’t see or touch the mental…
Deep down, I’m sure you’re aware that your mental performance has a big impact on your score i.e. where you put your focus influences how well you play. Most of us tend to equate poor performance with poor mechanics, but…
Post-round review questions In golf, we need to celebrate success but use failure to get better. After a round, the big questions we need to ask ourselves are: “What did I do well and what do I attribute to that…
What? Me Successful? Sure! Too many of us forget that we’ve done successful things because we tend to remember the “UN” successful things, don’t we? You hit a good shot and complain that you hit the ball off center or…