Start with the target
This blog is to provide you with increased awareness of the role of the target and how that awareness can improve your game significantly without you having to try changing your swing, which is enormously difficult.
Tim O'Connor
Tim O'Connor is a golf coach, an award-winning writer, and speaker. Tim takes a holistic approach, coaching golfers in the physical and mental aspects of golf. He co-hosts the Swing Thoughts podcast, and is the author of The Feeling of Greatness: The Moe Norman Story and Getting Unstuck: Seven Transformational Practices for Golf Nerds. He plays bass in CID — a Guelph punk band!
The Quiet Eye approach to putting
“When your vision moves around, you pick up feedback that makes its way into the hands and brain, and you overwhelm yourself with information.”
Are you doubling down on fixes that fail?
What if we stopped trying to fix whatever is going on? What if we just let it be? What if we surrendered and gave up trying to control it?
How could a book about eating help with your golf game?
Golfers are like dieters who see themselves as less than ideal, too weak to overcome their cravings, not strong willed enough to maintain a certain way of eating, and failures because they regain weight.
Make it your intention to have an intention
It was more of a compulsion. I felt out of control, in chaos, desperate. I wanted out of my misery. In seeking salvation in golf mechanics, I was like an alcoholic under stress reaching for a drink.
“I slightly don’t care”
Guelph Gryphon’s coach Tim O’Connor borrowed something from world champion snowboarder Shaun White to get his rookie squad ready for the Canadian University / College Championships.
Club Championship Confessional
Mental performance coach Tim O’Connor learned a few things about himself and his own game as he competed in his annual club championship.
“Really?” DJ hangs tough to win first major. Finally
Mental performance coach Tim O’Connor says Dustin Johnson did the only thing he could to win, which was to stay focused on the things he could control.
Stop trying so hard and play better
Instead of trying harder, Performance Coach Tim O’Connor advises clients to “try softer” or let go of expectations and judgments to focus on the process.
