5 Elements Blog
Your daily dose of the 5 Elements of Success to strengthen
your golf game and enrich your life!
Soft Skills
In golf, there are many skills needed to successfully navigate your way through the golf course. Some are hard skills like landing a 5 yard chip shot to a certain landing spot, others are soft skills like reading a flyer lie from the rough or adjusting for wind. Similar to a contractor building a house, he has to know how to drill a screw and hammer a nail but he also needs to be able to determine...
Exercise Relentlessly!
Each year we come up with a mantra for the academy year and this year it is Relentless. With our Achieve Seniors graduating tomorrow, it got me thinking! Isn’t life all about being Relentless in everything you do? “Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more.” once said by Tim Grove...
The Gift Of Failure
In order to develop to elite levels of performance, your relationship to failure has to be one of inspiration. In fact, how a person deals with failure is one of the most critical determinants of their potential. Those who see failure as an opportunity to learn, will thrive while those who see failure as a time to languish, will decay or stagnate. American psychologist and Stanford University prof...
A Dream
Hope + 5 Elements of Success + Consistency = Dream What is the first thing you think about when imagining climbing Mount Everest? I know what I just thought about, TRAINING! Can you imagine climbing or thinking about climbing Mount Everest without training? Where do you begin? It sounds so impossible from where you may sit today. However, if I asked you to climb a mountain in Carmel, NY t...
The Team Approach
Athletes who perform at the highest level of competition have a team of coaches around them. Look at a Major League Baseball team, they have hitting coaches, pitching coaches, trainers, physical therapists, equipment managers and everything in between. If you look on the PGA Tour you will see the same, one player will have a team of coaches they work with. Here at GPC, we know that performan...
