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By the time you are reading this article, you will have watched the completion of another great Masters tournament. You will most certainly have witnessed great golf shots being executed by some of the world’s greatest players. The course conditions will put these players to a test both physically and mentally.
Yes, they are playing at a...
Posted on Tuesday April 13, 2010 in Mindful Learning , Tour News | Make a Comment
I believe that learning occurs through both physical and mental practice.
Golf lessons are structured as physical practice as is playing on the golf course and hitting balls on the range. But the one area many of us do not practice is the mental part of learning how to play the game.
Sports psychology plays a big role in the mental side of any...
Posted on Wednesday March 24, 2010 in Mindful Learning | Make a Comment
I wrote recently about distractions and what they can do to your golf game. We just witnessed at a professional level how a distraction can and did affect the outcome of a tournament on the PGA Tour.
Tiger Woods and Padrig Harrington were the last group on the golf course standing on #16 when a rules official told them they were out of position and needed to speed up.
Padrig is known to be slow, but they were the last group and the rest of the field was no where near...
Posted on Monday August 10, 2009 in Mindful Learning | Make a Comment
This is such a great topic as we all get distracted by something or someone when we go to play golf. Some distractions are necessary and in our control while other are totally out of our control.
I was listening to Peter Kessler interview Dr. Bob Rotella on XM Sirius Radio and thought this was a perfect topic to discuss with all of you. Dr. Bob says that the one thing in your control on the golf course that will help keep you focused on the game itself is to leave the...
Posted on Friday July 31, 2009 in Mindful Learning | Make a Comment (1)
When I give a golf lesson I try and give my students one swing thought that is going to help them with our goal for that lesson. But what I forget is that they already have swing thoughts of their own and when I add what I think they should be doing, their mind is full.
I heard a great analogy about learning the other day and wish to share it with you. It came from Hank Johnson and it is in regards to the learning process of a student.
He refers to learning and...
Posted on Thursday July 16, 2009 in Mindful Learning | Make a Comment