Mental Golf
Mental golf skills covers a wide range including confidence, course management skills, and competitive strategy amongst others. In this blog I will be discussing different techniques and programs. Reviewing books, CDs, DVDs and give up to date hints and tips from the foremost golf psychologists in the game.
You would be forgiven for thinking that knowledge of mental golf techniques is a modern phenomenon with the number of tour professionals employing mind gurus but this quote by Bobby Jones, “Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course, the space between your ears.”, shows that understanding the role of the golf mind has been around a long time.
Mental golf awareness is a skill that becomes more important as a golfer becomes more proficient in the physical aspects of golf technique and their scores become better as they improve their mental golf.
It is an oft quoted cliche that 90% of golf is in the mind, attributed to almost any famous golfer you care to mention but without doubt taking time to understand and learn from mental golf experts will help golfers enjoy their game more and lower their scores.
A number a years ago I dabbled with one of those self hypnosis self development tapes that was supposed to subliminally reinforce optimal performance. I must confess I was hopeful but sceptical about the whole thing. One of the suggestions was “Success & Excellence are my keywords for a conditioned resonse”! 
Anyway, to cut a long story short I was playing golf one particular day and had a very tricky sidehill 30 foot putt on a treacherously fast green. As I lined up the putt I was chanting to myself the “Success & Excellence” mantra and was absolutely astonished but delighted when I the ball tracked the exact line I had imagined and dived into the hole for a birdie.
From that day on I was convinced that there was something in this mental golf malarkey and decided to investigate it further.
