Mental Game
Relentless
When searching for motivation to do difficult things, I often rely on pithy sayings and words of inspiration. One word in particular that lights me up is ‘relentless’. As defined by Merriam-Webster.com, relentless is “the showing or promising no abatement of severity, intensity, strength, or pace : determined, dogged, grim, implacable, unappeasable, unflinching, unrelenting, unyielding.” U...
The Importance of Being Earnest
Congratulations to Stewart Earnest Cink for his win this past weekend. Given that the average age of players that win on the PGA Tour is 31, posting a victory at 47 is pretty remarkable. It’s not surprising that Cink won a tournament. Afterall, this was his second win of the year and eighth career win. He has one major under his belt winning at the Open Championship in 2009 in a playoff against ...
The Mental Game Paradox
How important is the mental game to your success as a golfer? If I asked you to rate your answer on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being “very important”, what number would you pick? Over the years, I have asked many golfers that very question, and thanks to a recent survey of Junior Golf Hub members, I was able to increase the sample size even more. Here’s what Hub members reported: Of the Hub ...
Hope Springs Eternal
There are few things that inspire the rebirth of optimism in the New England golfer more than the Masters when hope springs eternal. With their commercials in early March, CBS starts to hypnotically puff the sweet, soft, and salubrious sounds of the Masters theme song in our ears. Dormant golf balls begin to sprout in living rooms, rusty wedges bounce off thawing lawns and new found ambition ignit...
Why we resist the very thing that could make us great
In my years of coaching, I frequently ask golfers, on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being “very important”, how important they think the mental game is to their success in the game of golf (By the way, what number would you pick?). On average the answer is usually 9 or above. I then ask a follow up question that goes something like, “I’m glad you value you the mental game so highly, and I agree,...
