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How to peak performance on the golf course
Find Peak Performance: 8 Personality Traits of Champion Golfers Our first study was of the LPGA players in 1981 discovered that there are 8 personality traits out of 32 where the frequent winners on Tour measure differently from the other Tour Pros. Follow up studies...
Golf Slumps: Prevention and Recovery
One of the most perplexing problems for both junior golfers and tour pros is facing golf slumps. It is a challenge every serious player will likely face at some time. What are they, how do we get into them, and most importantly, how do we recover from...
Maximize Your Golf Potential
Assess Your Efforts to Be Your Best!
Looking to get the most out of your game? All great players, not just those who are trying to be, remain in perpetual pursuit of maximizing all aspects of their game and self so that the whole of their game can be at its best.
We have organized the contributors to top performance into four key areas. This will allow you to make a quick check of the quality of your current efforts. Keep in mind that when you are tweaking your game, the approach, balance and amount of time you put into these areas is ever-changing. They will be as individual to you as your personality, athletic ability, learning style, physical and mental condition, stage of development and goals. It is our hope that in reviewing the following areas and descriptions, this newsletter will give you a simple start toward organizing, refining or confirming your own steps toward peak performance.
Even if you do not aspire to be the world’s greatest golfer, there are steps you can take to maximize your game, meet your own goals and be the best golfer you can be. Take a few moments to assess the quality of your own efforts toward playing your best golf.
Practice Advice for Playing Your Best Golf
Great competitive golf is all about great practice! And great practice is about more than fundamentals, drills and training aids! If you want to play your best golf, you will need to get the very most from all these valuable tools, as well as from your expert...
Practical vs. Imaginative: Knowledge on the left and right brain
One of the most important steps you can take to strengthen your mental game is to learn the effective use of both your Practical Thinking (Left Brain) and Imaginative Thinking (Right Brain) for competition. Champions use their creativity Skilled golfers, like skilled...
Your Learning Style Affects How You Play
As a golf instructor, I am continually challenged to recognize the physical, psychological, and social differences that each player of the game brings to the lesson tee. Every individual is unique and requires a different style of teaching golf. Among the many...
Golf Fitness and Personal Balance
Beyond your physical and mental skills on the golf course, a lot more goes into creating the ideal golf game. Having golf fitness and maintaining personal balance in your life are additional factors that play a large role in your success on the course. If you're...
Golf Mental Game Training
You know that your Mental Game is really important to your ability to play golf. But how do you develop it? Most players have no clue. Neither do most coaches and swing gurus. Before we begin, if you're looking for specific tips for improving your game, check out this...
Regulating Your Natural Level of Arousal
The golfer who has difficulty making and committing to decisions on the course will not achieve a Champions status, regardless of how well their physical skills have been developed. Staying relaxed yet fiercely competitive is tough to balance. 8 Personality Traits of...
Committing To Your Decisions On The Course
The golfer who has difficulty making and committing to decisions on the course will not achieve a Champions status, regardless of how well the physical skills have been developed. Decision making in golf is one of the most important aspects of the game. 8 Personality...
Golf Fitness and Sleep
You Cannot have Golf Fitness without Good Sleep! The ability to perform on the golf course, your golf fitness, is directly impacted by the quality of your sleep. Too little or poor quality sleep prevents your golf fitness from increasing as fast as possible. You need...
Another Successful Mental Game Golf School
We had another great group of students in February. Our schools always see a good mix of juniors, college players, aspiring professionals and even some avid amateurs. All of these golfers are facing the same challenges; learning to play your best when it counts the...
Stay Competitive on the Golf Course, Even Under Pressure
Taking steps to manage your level of assertiveness will help you regulate your level of dominance on the course so that it helps rather than hurts your performance and helps you stay competitive under pressure. Being too dominant can hurt your decision making and lead...
Quick Fix for Focus in Golf
Champion focus for golf is the ability to narrow your attention over the ball, effectively eliminating all distractions as you athletically execute each shot and putt. This includes external distractions, such as out-of-bounds, water hazards, sand traps,...
Recognizing Champion Golf Personality Traits
I recently read an article by Shane Ryan at Golf World, "Selfishness is a key to success for a tour pro … until it goes too far". What Shane has recognized is one of the Champion Personality Traits that we discovered with our studies on the Tour Players in 1980 and...
PGA Tour Legend Says Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy will Quickly Overcome Putting Issues
Dave Stockton is considered one of the best putters ever. He is also one of our long time clients and friends. His recent article in Golf World about Spieth and McIllroy putting poorly is insightful and right on. He notes that when Rory struggles with his putting he...
Quick Fixes for Over-Thinking on the Golf Course
You may already know that the ability to manage your thoughts, is one of the 8 Champion Traits of Professional Golfers! And if you have read our book, "The 8 Traits of Champion Golfers" or your GolfPsych Mental Skills Report you know that you can lose strokes both by...
Jon Stabler Interviewed on 18Strong Podcast
In this podcast with Jeff Pelizzaro, I covered the 8 Champion Traits for Golf that we discovered with our studies of the top Tour players, players on the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour and Champions Tour. It includes explanation, examples and some techniques you can use. This is...
Control Your Emotions on the Golf Course
Champion golfers are generally very stable emotionally and they handle the frustrations of golf readily. Often it is difficult to tell by their mannerisms whether they are playing well or poorly. This is not to say they are unaffected, but that they generally will not...
What Made Tiger Woods Great?
I recently read a great article by Jaime Diaz in Golf World, "What made Tiger Woods great?". It Could be called “What Made Nick Faldo, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Gary Player and Johnny Miller Great?" They each talk about Tiger and about what they personally did that...
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Dr. Deborah Graham
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