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Golf Psychology Newsletter - SOMETHING IN THE AIR
Welcome again to Train Your Golf Brain newsletter.
I had the opportunity this week to be with a great golf coach and good friend, Kendal McWade from ‘Instinctive Golf’
who invited me to his club, Bonnyton, near Glasgow to do a workshop for the members.
It is always fascinating to see the reaction to the workshop of people of all ages and abilities and to see who buys into the information and invests their energy into changing their game.
Some people are curious, many are sceptical, some just sit on the fence. But, it is always fascinating to hear people say ‘It can’t be THAT simple!’
What have we done to this game that we find it SO difficult to embrace simplicity?
The intellect has such a hard time in understanding the wisdom of the body.
However, more and more coaches such as Kendal McWade are looking at the game through a different lens with an understanding that learning a skill such as golf has to embrace natural learning and allowing people to develop trust in their own capabilities, cashing in on what is truly possible.
Take a look at what Kendal has to say at www.instinctivegolf.com
PUTTING PRACTICE….EFFECTIVE???
Have you ever stopped to think why you practice like you do?
Why you do what you do?
Why do you stand there rolling ball after ball along a putting track or why you stand on the green just before going out to play with three or four balls ‘trying’ to hole a bunch of putts?
I’ll tell you why you do that!
You do it because you have been conditioned to do it! Because OTHERS do it! You do it because that is the way that you are SUPPOSED to do it.
But, ask yourself these questions:
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Has your putting got significantly better the way that you currently go about practicing?
- Are you better now than you were when you were sixteen?
- Have you improved your skills on the greens as much as your ability say on a computer or your ability to drive a car or your level of fitness?
The answer for most of you I suspect is NO. As a broad generalisation, most golfers ability on the greens DIMINISHES the longer they play the game. Not always, but in a lot of cases, the majority of you holed putts more easily at sixteen than you do now.
It then rests with you to continue to do what you have always done, hoping for a different result or you finally say "STOP! this has gone on long enough, it s time to take a different approach to the way I go about my practice and preparation on the greens and finally start to roll in enough putts to make significant difference to my scoring".
For more on how to REALLY improve your PUTTING go to www.golf-brain for information on the ‘Train Your Putting Brain’ cd programme.
RESEARCH
DID YOU SPOT THE GORILLA?
 Harvard Psychologist, Daniel Simons
conducted an experiment with a film that contained six basketball players – three of them wearing white T-shirts and three of them wearing black T- shirts.
The people in white T-shirts have a basketball and, during the film, pass it between one another. Halfway through the film, a man dressed as a gorilla, slowly walks on. Saunters through the players, beats his chest at the camera and then walks off!
Volunteers are asked to watch the film and count the number of times the people in white shirts pass the ball to one another. At the end of the film, everyone is asked whether they saw anything unusual.
AMAZINGLY, VERY FEW SPOT THE GORILLA!!
This is an example of how the mind is PRIMED to see what it is expected to see and in doing so MISSES so much of what is actually going on.
Find out more about this in Richard Wiseman’s fantastic book ‘Did you spot the Gorilla’
KEY LEARNING
What Gorilla’s are you missing with regards to your playing, your coaching and your life?
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