Download or read book Golfing from the Right Side of the Brain written by Bob Burton and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golfers can improve their game after being introduced to this practicing neurologist's firm belief that the brain is grossly underrated as to its importance and relevance in the game.
Download or read book Golf written by Gerry E. Crumbley and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever asked yourself these questions: Why is it so hard for me to play golf? Why does my brain seem to go blank at the top of my backswing? Why can't I feel as though I KNOW where the ball is going? I've taken the lessons and read the books, what's missing? I understand what they're saying, so why can't I seem to improve? Why can't I seem to do what the instructors are teaching me? Why? Can you play softball or baseball pretty good? How about tennis, or hockey? Then why can't you be just as good playing golf? It doesn't make sense, does it? This book explores a whole new approach to the PURPOSE of the golf swing. It does not teach swing mechanics, but rather focuses on helping to change your perception of actually what happens during the golf swing. There is no cure-all for the golf swing; there never will be. It's all in our heads. If we let our brain take over, we will be amazed at what we can do! Keeping our minds focused on what it is that we're trying to do and not on how to do it, allows our brain to make the necessary changes to accomplish that task, automatically. I'm not a pro, and never will be. This book is not perfect, not complete, and not the answer. But golf is beginning to be a lot more fun!
Download or read book The Golfing Brain written by James H. Grubbs and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Golfers are aware that they use their brain to swing a club, plot strategy, and estimate outcomes. But most golfers know very little about how distinct brain functions promote or inhibit a satisfying round of golf. They operate under the false assumption that the physical and mental aspects of golf are separate elements of the game. Without an adequate understanding of the interplay of the brain and the rest of the body, golfers can spend thousands of hours on the practice tee and still have disappointing rounds. The book draws from the most current research in neuroscience to explain basic principles of brain function in clear, accessible terms. At the heart of the book is a description of these two modes: fast-brain functions and slow-brain functions. Fast-brain functions are quick, energy efficient, and automatic. Most of our daily thinking and behaviour is the result of fast-brain operations. Slow-brain functions are slower, more deliberate, and are time and energy consuming. We use slow-brain function to solve problems. After exploring these key functions, the author leads readers through ways that fast-brain and slow-brain modes apply to movement, attention, decision making, and learning in golf. He explains how to access either the fast-brain or slow-brain mode when it's needed in various situations during a round of golf or when acquiring new skills. The author also debunks the maxim that golf is a thinking person's game by explaining how some forms of thinking, under certain circumstances, sabotage a golfer's game. Finally, the author offers several techniques and exercises for accessing these modes on the practice tee and on the course. He asserts that mastery of these techniques improves physical skills, attention, decision making, and learning--and, most importantly, it increases a golfer's enjoyment of the game." -- Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Mental Side of Golf written by Kenneth R. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good Golf Using Your Natural Ability written by Greg Luckett and published by Greg Luckett. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you look at good golfers and wish you had their natural ability? We are all programmed for natural ability and movement Our bodies are programmed to instinctively perform athletic movements with balance and co-ordination, like walking, riding a bicycle, roller skating, swimming, and many more. So you do have the natural ability for a good golf swing, and to play good golf. Learn how to build your best golf swing using the natural ability that you are programmed with! Without any awareness of how the body and mind work for you, many people never learn to feel the natural movement and allow the body to develop it’s own natural swing style. Without understanding this and allowing it to happen, you may never reach your potential and will always struggle for consistency. Most elite players on tour started swinging a golf club when they were small children, their mind and body naturally developed this ability without them being aware they were doing so. Children at a young age have little awareness of conscious focus when learning or performing a physical movement, as they are usually only focused on the result of what they are trying to do, in the case of golf, this is hitting the ball. There is a lot that the average golfer can learn from this! Many average golfers learn to try and use the swing technique that great players have written about over the years, and a lot of what can be found on instructional videos online or taught by swing coaches, is based on the techniques of these great players. What many people don’t take into consideration when trying to learn from the teachings of great players, like Hogan and Nicklaus, is that their swing technique developed over time as a result of specific tendencies with their ball striking and shot shape. For example, in his early career, Ben Hogan struggled with a strong hook as the main shot miss in his game. Many regard Hogan as the greatest ball striker of all time, but he developed his famous swing style and technique over the years as he worked hard to get the hook misses out of his game. Learn to understand you own technique and style Once you learn how to allow your mind and body perform your own natural swing, you will find it much easier to work on the specific techniques taught by great players or your coach, as you will have a greater connection to your subconscious and a feel for the swing and your body movements. The more you can allow your conscious mind to stay out of the way, and allow your subconscious to take control, the quicker you can improve and the more consistent you will play. This book covers my story, what I learnt in my journey to better golf, and the puts together in one place all the information to help you do the same and find your natural golf swing.
Download or read book Mistake Free Golf written by Robert K. Winters, PhD and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mistake-Free Golf is the first and only book that directly applies to golfers of all levels on how to specifically correct their mental errors. Unlike any other book that is currently on the golf psychology market, Mistake-Free Golf is unique in that the approach that the author takes is not on emphasizing the positives in the mental game, but identifies the mental mistakes that golfers make on a consistent basis and then teaches the reader step-by-step how to correct these mental issues. By using interviews with over 50 established golf stars such as Nick Price, Michelle Wie, Charles Howell III, Raymond Floyd, Greg Norman, Suzanne Petersen, and 2013 U.S. Open champion, Justin Rose, and coupled with rising tour and amateur players, Dr. Winters helps golfers understand that players of all levels make the same mental mistakes and helps them to learn from these mental infractions and turn their shortcomings into new-found confidence. Easy to read with entertaining stories, anecdotes, and specific intervention strategies designed to make an immediate impact on the reader, Mistake-Free Golf can be read cover-to-cover or can be read by going to the chapter that is specifically handicapping the frustrated golfer. Mistake-Free Golf can be used as a reference book for the mentally frustrated golfer. Many players will use this book as an emergency read, and it has even been called: First Aid for the Golfing Brain!"--
Download or read book How to Play Better Golf Without Practicing written by Alan Riley and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing better golf without practicing, isn't that every golfers dream? Does that sound too good to be true? It is not! What people fail to realize is that golf is played as much with the mind as it is with the body. Having more fun and being better at playing golf, in large part, requires an improvement in how a person uses thier brain and chooses to think while playing golf. Unfortunately golfers have, for the most part, ignored use of their brain as a way to improve their games and to increase their enjoyment of golf. For most golfers, improvement means purchasing the latest, greatest golf club or trying out a tip they read in a golf magazine or watched on television. Despite using technologically advanced golf clubs and balls and improving their swing technique, many golfers do not seem to be lowering their scores. The concepts explained in this book are simple, extremely effective, easy to apply, and are the same ones that the best players in the world are using. Professional golfers have come to realize that at the PGA Tour level everyone has terrific physical skills. The difference between the players and the good players are the mental skills. Most golfers do not have the physical talent to be able to hit the ball like Tiger Woods or Annika Sorenstam, but everyone, absolutely, positively has the mental capacity to learn how to think like them! Every golfer can benefit by learning more about how to think properly while playing golf. I believe that golfers have a huge untapped potential that is just waiting to be unlocked. Apply the simply, common sense techniques explained in this book and you too can have more fun and play better golf!
Download or read book The Brain and Golf written by Charles William Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Master Teacher s Secrets to Accelerated Golf Performance written by Joe Thiel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joe Thiel is the consummate teacher. His ideas are cutting edge and will help you find what your game has been missing. I believe in his teaching. This book is awesome!" David Cook, PhD Voted Top 10 Mental-Side Experts by Golf Digest Author of Golf's Sacred Journey Finally, learn what took us forever to learn through these amazing short game foundational principles first. "Incredible" Incredible and Smart! Bill Rogers (British Open Champion) In the past ten years under Joe's teaching method's I have won at the local, state, and national levels, with 2008 being my banner season winning four National tournaments and being named USA Rolex Junior Player of the Year. I know if others following Joe's methods are willing to work hard they can also achieve great things. Cameron Peck United States Junior Amateur Champion United States Rolex player of the Year 2008 "Revolutionary and a marvelous resource for both the teacher and the student." Wally Armstrong PGA Tour player -- teacher -- writer Joe knows that if you have a solid foundation you will always be able to go back and count on those foundations to correct your game. This book should be used as a road map to your golf game. If you start from the first page and apply the lessons in order to the end of the book, you will understand the great game of golf like you never had before. Michael Putnam PGA Tour member I strongly encourage you to read this great work that is set before you that will not only astonishingly quickly impact your game but also impact your life in a very positive way. Paul Callaway, PT, PhD The PGA Tour's First PT At the completion of my college career at the University of Washington I was the Golfweek #1 ranked amateur. Joe Thiel has a clear guide to establish the foundation to get the most out of your natural ability and also a great vision on how to use that to play at the highest level. Paige MacKenzie LPGA Tour
Download or read book Add Gas to Your Golf Game written by Howard E. Shaw and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Golf Mind written by Gary Wiren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1985-11-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychological approach to Golf.
Download or read book The Psychology of Golf written by Leslie Schon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1923 Leslie Schon's The psychology of golf was aimed at improving the readers mental game in golf. Though written many years ago now, few books have equaled this volume in explaining how the mind one of the most important areas in the game of golf and how psychological control and techniques can improve your game as much, and perhaps more, than improved physical techniques. Golf pro Leslie Schon shows, in fascinating detail, just how control of the brain game can do wonders for your golf game.
Download or read book If I Could Only Putt written by F. Rawn Torrington and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, you miss the sound of the golf ball rattling in the bottom of the cup. Well, this book will help you discover how to become a great putter. Sound too simple to believe? Many may indeed dismiss this manual as being just that, however, there are reasons why this simple putting process has been hidden away from us for so long. This step by step guide will begin by examining your strengths and weaknesses of the game, and trace the foot prints that lead to putting excellence. If I Could Only Putt is a reliable, descriptive handbook that focuses primarily on golf's most demanding effort. It is a chronicle that defines the powers and strengths possessed by all golfing enthusiasts and spells out the process that matches these traits to the act of putting the golf ball. This book also tackles the most feared and dreaded affliction to the game of golf-the putting yips. Finally, the remedy to the putting yips will be revealed. The Author, Rawn Torrington, relays a simple yet effective and understandable process that will allow golfers to make the putts that have eluded them for so long. Putting is an art. Possessing the ability to putt at the summit is what distinguishes good golfers from great golfers. If I Could Only Putt will surely elevate all golfers to be great putters....
Download or read book The Mental Side of Golf written by Charles Bonasera and published by TRIAD Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How about simple step by step techniques that can quickly turn an average golfer into a competitor, practically overnight. What if you could start today with your very own Zone Coach like the one's that the pro golfers use to improve their game. The Mental Side of Golf techniques will find the zone that's right for you and suddenly your golf game will become your own unique game. As football is described as a game of inches,"golf might be depicted as a "game of millimeters." The "fine tuning" that a golfer must develop in order to execute plays has as much to do with the use of the mind as it does with any technical training. Being able to identify successful play and recapture that same feeling in order to repeat it is a mental process that requires specialized training and practice. The Mental Side of Golf provides that training for golfers who can master its technique with practice. This program truly will become the most important and trusted "club" in your bag.
Download or read book The Golfing Brain written by James H. Grubbs and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting a Grip on the Yips is the third book in The Golfing Brain series by James H. Grubbs. There is no dearth of books, articles, online posts, and podcasts about the affliction known as “the yips.” You’d think that by now we’d know their cause. But no. Theories abound, but a definitive explanation has, up to now, been lacking. The author, a psychiatrist and lifelong competitive golfer, has been personally acquainted with the yips several times. He’s known many other golfers plagued by the yips, including one of the most famous yippers, professional golf instructor Hank Haney. Over the years, Dr. Grubbs has read extensively on the subject, talked to countless fellow golfers and several golf gurus about the yips, and has even helped golfers overcome them. Yet, after all that, a clear understanding of the cause of the yips eluded him and the entire golfing world. Determined to discover the cause of the yips, Dr. Grubbs reviewed existing theories about the malady and the evidence supporting them. He examined myths and misconceptions about the yips. He also delved into current neurological research about how the brain plans and executes movement. This book is the result of his quest. In it, he defines the yips and describes a definitive cause of them, not only as they appear in golf but also in any activity that depends on repetitive movement, such as baseball, darts, cricket, and playing musical instruments. He explains why some remedies for the yips have been at least partially effective and suggests new (and more effective) ways of curing the yips. He even confirms his theory by causing the yips in a few brave subjects.
Download or read book The Golfing Brain Emotions Luck and the Myth of Momentum written by James H. Grubbs and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Emotions, Luck, and the Myth of Momentum, the second volume in his The Golfing Brain series, psychiatrist and golfer James H. Grubbs once again draws from the latest brain science to offer new insights on what works (and what doesn't work) in the quest for successful golf. If it's common knowledge that our unconscious mind "runs the show," asks the author, why would a golfer use conscious techniques to overcome unconscious obstacles to good golf? He explains why techniques such as previsualizing good shots, "faking it till you make it," or trying to suppress fear and anxiety can undermine performance in golf rather than promote it. This book also explores: - confidence versus certainty - the influence of luck - the interplay of emotions during competition - the myth of momentum in golf
Download or read book Why Alligators Make Good Golfers written by Mark Frazier and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamentals are a golfer's most important skills. They are the building blocks of success. While many books address the fundamentals of the physical side of golf, the one-of-a-kind Why Alligators Make Good Golfers: A Guide to Thick Skin and Mental Toughness identifies and gives instruction on the fundamentals of the mental side. On the golf course, mental skills are just as vital as physical skills, yet most players spend all of their time working on the physical side of their game, focusing exclusively on grip, stance, takeaway, and downswing. Their physical skills may be up to par, but their mental skills are often in the rough. In this thoroughly useful guide, Dr. Mark Frazier identifies and gives instruction on the mental fundamentals of golf: Playing with confidence Concentrating completely Managing nervousness Overcoming frustration The pre-shot routine Thinking straight In addition, strategies that have been course-tested and proven effective by the world's most successful players assist you in mastering each of the fundamentals. If you're interested in improving the quality and consistency of your game, it's time to develop your mental skills. Why Alligators Make Good Golfers will show you how
