Recovering From A Disastrous Start

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 04 Sep 2008

It is hard to imagine how one can recover from the start of a round riddled with bogeys or double bogeys or worse, depending on what your level is, but it can be done. The expectations for one’s round of golf can vary from care factor zero to sheep stations, and all that lies in between. The players who generally have high expectations of their ability to play and shoot a decent score for their level of play are commonly the w...
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Golf Psychology

Golf Psychology

Norman: In Two Minds at British Open

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 05 Aug 2008

There are many opinions being thrown around about the performance of Greg Norman at the 2008 British Open. Despite being in two minds about what actually occurred between his ears
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Playing Lessons: Get Your Pro On Course

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 24 Jun 2008

It is important to learn to play the game in its entirety. As mentioned multiple times before, the game of golf is not solely about perfecting swings or creating “Greek
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Avoid paralysis via analysis

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 06 Jun 2008

Golf is a truly strategic sport that requires the effective use of tactics and analysis to excel. However, it is possible to become too analytical during play and I have
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Chatter counts

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 04 Apr 2008

The time spent out on the course is plagued by doing a lot of not much to do with technical skill execution. Let’s face it there is a huge amount
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Play to Compete to Win

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 25 Feb 2008

How often have you heard “She is a much better player that how she played today” or “He has such talent and should be playing much better golf than he
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Watch and Learn From The Best

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 20 Jan 2008

The international players rolled in and graced us with their presence for what is considered to be Asia’s major. Names such as Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Nick O’Hern, Angel Cabrera,
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Mental Skills Audit

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 22 Nov 2007

What mental skills do you currently have an awareness and understanding of, and how many of these are you implementing? The theory is easy, it makes sense, but I am
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Breathing to Manage the Meltdown

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 01 Oct 2007

Skills for improving your mental performance on the course must be trained. Time needs to be allocated to ensure that you are giving these skills time and effort to develop
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Manage the moment to avoid the choke

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 20 Aug 2007

A focus on process has been, and will continue to be, the primary message for satisfying and successful golf. What about when you are so close to doing something special
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Maximise Your Success On Course

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 29 Jun 2007

“Stick to the process and the result will come”, “Focus on the present and the future will look after itself”, or in money terms, “Look after your cents and the
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Developing Your Course Mental Plan

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 10 Jun 2007

We see systems in the business world and they are successful. Think McDonalds, think Subway, think Walmart, think IKEA – all of these companies have systems that they have developed
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How To Control Stress Over the Ball

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 20 May 2007

“Here we go, just put it over there, just like in practise, keep it away from that water and those trees. I hope it goes there.” “It doesn’t feel like
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Train your A Game - Replicate Your Good Days

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 31 Mar 2007

"When I play well, it's easy; I don't think about anything, it all just happens." This is almost always the descriptions that players give me when I ask what happens
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Prepare Your Mind with Practice

in Golf Psychology | by Andrea Furst | comments | 19 Feb 2007

Imagine this - You have made extra time to practice your game, you have had a few extra lessons than normal, you have even been spending some time at home
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Comprehension: An Untapped Area for Golfers

in Golf Psychology | by Carey Mumford | comments | 17 Jan 2006

We need comprehension for our golf. That goes a little deeper than just "understanding," since it embraces things like context, positioning, comprehensiveness, interrelationship with all parts of the whole game,
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Rid Your Game of Mind Bumps

in Golf Psychology | by Carey Mumford | comments | 11 Oct 2005

There are many reasons to stop, look and listen to ourselves as we lament the "bad hole" that rips off a good round. Often, that is followed by another bad
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Practice, Practice, Practice

in Golf Psychology | by Carey Mumford | comments | 26 Jul 2005

When that word shows up in golfers' conversations, or on the tube, or the net, we are often reminded of some old World War II humour: "What makes more noise
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Getting Real on Mental Toughness

in Golf Psychology | by Carey Mumford | comments | 31 May 2005

If this generation of golfers actually needs something called "mental toughness" - there must be a reason for that - and since it gets various forms of traffic in the
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Your Golf Brain: Mystery or Mastery?

in Golf Psychology | by Carey Mumford | comments | 13 Apr 2005

Identifying the most appropriate order for developing themes concerning the Mental Game can add to the mysterious character surrounding portions of the subject. Having been exposed to virtually every golf
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The Mental Game - An Introduction

in Golf Psychology | by Carey Mumford | comments | 23 Feb 2005

Of the millions of people playing the game of golf, there may be some who have never given a conscious thought to the mental part of the game, but it
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The Non-Mechanical Side of Golf

in Golf Psychology | by Carey Mumford | comments | 22 Feb 2005

We've come to speak of it as "The Mental Game." The reality is that it really is not a "game", it is one part of the game. Funny how the
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