Golf Technique

Mental Golf Tidbit: The road to meltdowns is usually filled with mental “demons,” and the road to hard-fought success is usually filled with the battles of conquering these demons. It was great to see Phil pull through and win the Northern Trust Open at Riviera over the weekend. More than one report pointed out that [...]

While I continually practice using mental golf techniques and other Positive Golf ideas in all aspects of my game, I also pick one area for particular focus as my Positive Golf Improvement Project for the year. This practice gives structure and focus to my improvement efforts and helps to keep me from getting overwhelmed and [...]

Two things that are key to successfully building a strong mental game and realizing consistent golf improvement are organization and persistence. Organization refers to an organized approach in setting your positive goals and the positive plans to achieve those goals (see blog post from April 4, 2009 for more on positive goals and plans) as [...]

In my work with Positive Golf, I get a lot of questions about the hows and whys and the nuts and bolts of using positive mental techniques for golf improvement. It’s great to receive these questions because it tells me that a person is taking an extra step to get insight and guidance into techniques [...]

At first, a mantra doesn’t sound like something that could be helpful to your golf game, but the more I study and practice mental golf the more I realize the value of tools like this. In its basic form, a mantra is a sentence or phrase that is repeated verbally or mentally to help focus [...]

When mental golf practices don’t seem to be helping your game, the tendency is to stop using them and chalk it up to mental golf not being right for you or mental golf not working at all. Before you throw in the towel and decide to stop developing and applying these skills, however, ask yourself [...]

As a follow-up to my previous post on 4 Questions to Improve Your Mental Game, I am inspired to add another question to that list. The thing that inspired me were some remarks made by Tiger Woods regarding his putting at The Barclays. In his remarks, he wanted to make it very clear that it [...]

With Tiger’s win of the FedEx Cup title, there has been a lot of talk this past week about the value of consistency in playing the game. It’s important to remember that at the heart of playing consistently is a consistent mental game, which includes the consistent use of positive mental practices. This is a [...]

As the unseasonably warm weather turns cold and snowy in the Northeast, I leave the course for a little while and reflect back on this past season and the Positive Golf Improvement Project for the year. My Positive Golf Improvement Project for 2009 – achieving better balance (see original posting on April 4, 2009) – [...]

Traditionally, this is the time of year when people develop resolutions for making changes and improvements in various areas of their life, including golf. The idea of resolutions is a good one, but as we know, all too often we loose steam after a month or so and the desired results don’t come to pass. [...]