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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...
Golfers Are Dehydrated and here are 8 Reasons Why
When we first started offering wellness assessments to our struggling Tour players we were shocked. An unusually large percentage of their results were coming back with mild to serious levels of dehydration! Dehydration can wreck even the best of games without the...
Your Left Brain is a Lousy Golfer…
You may know about left brain vs right brain theory. Have you ever thought of the ramifications for your golf of trying to play with your Left Brain in control? The theory says that your Left Brain is better at doing some things and your Right Brain is better at doing...
Junior Golfer: Girl golf scholarships are going unclaimed
Too many NCAA golf scholarships for women go unclaimed Golf is so important as a junior because it promotes ideas of consistency in your game and in your life. Claiming girls golf scholarship can be time consuming and in fact many scholarships offered to girls go...
Develop Confidence In Your Golf Game
Champion golfers seldom let themselves slip into over-analyzing their games by thinking too much about trouble, various ways to hit the shot, mechanics, etc. In order to develop confidence in your golf game the first step is knowing more about yourself, specifically...
Conditioning Your Mind For Golf
Conditioning your body for golf means doing the things physically that the many experts recommend enhancing your strength, flexibility, and stamina. By doing so you should find that you hit it further, have more energy through the round and suffer fewer injuries. This...
Mental Skills for Golf – Creating the Right Attitude for Competition
In every profession and sport, there are attitudes that distinguish the great from the rest. Summarized in this newsletter are many of the attitudes we have found common to the great in golf today. Some are progressive and reflect the growing demands of maintaining...
Dustin Johnson Exhibits Champion Levels of Self Assurance
The interview with Dustin Johnson in Golf World online Monday made some excellent points. Dustin described one of the most graphic examples of Thinking Like A Champion. When you have Champion levels of Self Assurance, one of the Champion Traits we discovered through...
December Golf Mental Game School Recap
Our recent December 2017 Level I Mental Game Builder School had the usual assortment of competitive players. It included a Pro from the Web.com Tour, a Sophomore college player, and a Junior High School player. They were all talented players and the High School player...
Improve Mental Focus During Competitive Play
The ability to block outside distractions, especially those found in competitive play, is one of the most important mental skills in golf. In order to improve mental focus, knowing more about yourself is the first step in making adjustments. Whether you're...
Tapatio Springs Clubhouse Burns to Ground
November 4, 2017 the main clubhouse at Tapatio Springs Hill Country Resort, where we live, burned to the ground. The fire started just before dusk and wasn't discovered right away. It had spread throughout the attic spaces by the time it was found. All evacuated...
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Dr. Deborah Graham
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Golf Instructor
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