How do I stop the noise?
Golf Performance Coach Tim O’Connor helps us deal with the clutter and jumble of negative thoughts using mindfulness and on-course meditation.
Instruction
Lighten the load
The Rules of Golf allow you up to 14 clubs but you don’t have to use them all. Using less than a full complement of clubs is a terrific way to improve all aspects of your game and have some fun too.
Move up! Move up! Nothing to see back here
Golf is hard enough without beating ourselves even further by playing the wrong tees. Time to move forward, play faster, improve your score and have some fun.
Make your course strategy decisions based on science, not hope
The voice in my left ear is calling me Aunt Edna and screaming at me to go for the pin. “We didn’t come here to lay up”, it says. “Just go for it!”
Our golf culture is preventing us from getting better … and having fun
If we fall into the trap of thinking we have to do this or that, we have to swing this way, I just don’t see how that’s a recipe for freedom or good golf.
Overcoming disaster and putting it behind you
Tiger Woods made a quad on the 12th hole in the final round of the 2020 Masters. Then he birdied five out of the next six holes. How did he do that?
Evidence suggests golf can provide significant health benefits to older participants
The R&A backed research study has found that muscle strength and balance exercises form an important part of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended guidelines to tackle physical inactivity in older people.
The Mental Side of your Golf Swing
High levels of arousal, which primarily result in performance anxiety, can prove to be a negative and evidently a destructive state if left neglected and uncontrolled.
Psychologically speaking, here’s the reason we’re drawn to this frustrating, exhilarating sport
In its simplest translation, the reinforcement pattern that blooms into addiction must entail high levels of reward and amusement without the predictability factors which can trigger boredom.
