Mind Caddie - Improve Your Mental Golf Game (Karl Morris)

Developing your own ‘CHOKE’ shot

Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by a special guest in the shape of two time PGA Tour winner Rick Fehr

Rick played on the US Walker Cup team at Hoylake in 1983 with the likes of Brad Faxon and Willie Wood. As an amateur he played in both the US Open and the Masters.

We got the chance to discuss how he developed his game in the early days by spending so much time ON the GOLF COURSE with an absence of too much ‘conventional’ coaching.

Rick is now one of the top coaches in the USA bringing his wealth of playing knowledge with an incredible breadth of coaching experience.

So much of golf is about getting the best out of what you have TODAY be that your B or C game. Rick has a really refreshing take on how to do that. Being able to find a way to get the job DONE.

• How he developed his golfing SKILLS
• The correlation of cause and effect
• Developing TRUST in the feels in his swing
• Falling in love with the challenge of golf
• The vulnerability of tour players and how easy it is to fall into the trap of taking on too much advice
• Changing a pattern that works
• The dangers in the game today of producing ‘laboratory golfers’
• The need to develop a ‘choke’ shot. The ability to FIND the golf course when you are feeling much less than your best
• Why you should have the courage to ‘shape’ your shots in your training.
• How SIMPLICITY is so under valued.
• When are you going to be DONE with your golf swing?
• The limitations of on course analytics and how we need to factor in the ‘human effect’
• Why do we make putting SO complicated and what to do about it

A really great session with a very experienced player and coach. His thoughts will have a BIG impact on your game

To find out more about Rick and his coaching go to

http://fehrgolf.com

To get a copy of the new ‘Neuro Putting’ program with Dr Izzy Justice and Karl Morris go to

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 It is great to welcome back onto the podcast my good friend Randy Joyner.

Randy is one of the top coaches in the US and works with a host of great players including PGA Tour winner Derek Ernst

We have spent many hours in the past discussing how his coaching shares so much similarity with the concepts of the Mind Factor.

Download Mind Caddie for hundreds of short audio lessons and exercises produced by Karl and start improving your mental game the same way as six major champions: https://urlgeni.us/mindcaddie

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Randy has been kind enough to say how much the Mind Factor certification has helped his own evolution as a coach

In his development into being a top coach Randy spent many hours immersed with the philosophies of the ‘Golf Machine’. The legendary book written by Homer Kelley in the late 1960’s which has influenced so many of today’s top coaches.

On first impression the Golf Machine would seem to be totally at odds with many of the ideas we have discussed over the past few years on the Brain Booster.

Yet with this conversation with Randy he gave me real clarity as to why it became such an important book and how with a clearer understanding it is actually much more simple in its practical application to the golfer.

Also more importantly for Brain Booster listeners it becomes apparent listening to Randy how you can apply the principles of

• INTENTION
• ATTENTION and
• ATTITUDE within the framework of the Golf Machine

We discussed :

• The THREE key principles of the Golf Machine
• The role of the RIGHT arm
• The benefit of RIGHT ARM only swings
• How to use ‘pressure’ in the golf swing
• How you can link ATTENTION to right finger pressure throughout the swing
• How the SHOT links back to Golf Machine principles
• What is THE ultimate simplification?

A wonderful communication demystifying the mystique that often surrounds the GOLF MACHINE

To find out more about Randy Joyner and his coaching go to

https://www.tourtechniques.com/

To get a copy of the new ‘Lost Art of Putting’ video program go to www.themindfactor.com

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To join us in Manchester in November and become a CERTIFIED MIND FACTOR coach go to 

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Happy New Year to everyone and welcome back to a new season of the Brain Booster.

We get the new year of to a great start by welcoming back a good friend of the show and top coach Adam Young

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Adam has produced some wonderful material over the past few years including his wonderful book ‘The Practice Manual’

He has a tremendous ability to simplify what we need to pay attention to as golfers and how to get the absolute maximum from our practice time.

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How can we REALLY simplify the game to make significant progress?

We explore in great detail THE BIG THREE of impact and why they are so vital to your improvement

Virtually EVERY single shot you have hit in the past that you don’t like will have been affected by one of these three factors

• Club Face Orientation
• Strike Location
• Ground Contact

Yet so often we then focus on almost everything else to try to find a solution.

Yet if you can stay with the BIG THREE you will be dealing with actual evidence from the scene of the crime IMPACT

Why are we trying to master the swing when it can NEVER be mastered?

Yet we can move in the direction of mastery with the BIG THREE

We can aim to have so much more fun in practice as we EXPLORE our capabilities around these areas.

• Can you present the face slightly open?
• Slightly closed?
• Off the toe?
• Off the heel?
• Now you can find the middle
• Now you can find SQUARE

We got to explore so many interesting avenues in this conversation and I believe it perfectly ties in with the Mental game Big Three of Intention, Attention and Attitude

To find out more about Adam Young go to

https://www.adamyounggolf.com/

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In today’s unpredictable and chaotic world the mental skill of resilience is one to be really prized and developed.

In the game of golf being resilient to the inevitable setbacks the game throws at you is a major asset and one the very best players have in abundance.

On today’s Brain Booster we are joined by Matt Caldaroni a Performance Coach specializing in RESILIENCE

Matt Caldaroni, was faced with adversity at the age of twelve. A coach tried to rip away his lifelong dream of becoming a professional soccer goalkeeper, telling him the sport just wasn’t for him.

At that moment, Molliteum was born. Matt had realized that in order to get to where he wanted to be, he needed to be in charge. Nothing in life was going to be given but needed to be taken.

Matt weaponized the adversity he experienced and became the best version of himself. Earning himself a scholarship at the age of seventeen, he made the jump to the professional ranks of soccer, in Italy, at the age of nineteen. It was here that Matt realized there was an unseen advantage that lay beneath the surface within us all:

resilience saved his career.

Most of the time in sport and in life we are faced with setbacks and disappointment.

We don’t hit the shot we want

We don’t make the birdie we expected

We finish down the field in a tournament

Our handicap doesn’t come down

Setbacks are part of the game of life

How we DEAL with those setbacks is the very heart of the resilient mind

With Matt - We discuss:

• The four cornerstones to building resilience
• How you build your IDENTITY as a resilient person
• The key steps to resilience

Building a resilient mind and body

To find out more about Matt go to

https://www.molliteum.com/ourstory

To become a CERTIFIED MIND FACTOR COACH go to

Make a BIG difference with your coaching

www.themindfactor.com

To find out more about the golfers health screen with Pall Mall

Pall Mall’s health screen packages assess your blood profile, highlight any markers for certain cancers, check your heart health, stroke risk, other major organ health and much more. You can even have an MRI scan – with no waiting list– to check on any golfing ailments or dodgy joints. Let’s face it, we all have some aches and pains and we all need to be aware of our health.

Whilst we talk a lot about the mental side of the game on the Brain Booster, if you’ve something holding you back physically, that can have just as detrimental an impact on your game.

Golfer health screens at Pall Mall start from £249 for the “well man” or “well woman” check-up for anyone 40+. There are additional packages with more extensive scans and tests, including one where you can have help with your mental performance from yours truly.

To find out more about the golfers health screen with Pall Mall

Pall Mall’s health screen packages assess your blood profile, highlight any markers for certain cancers, check your heart health, stroke risk, other major organ health and much more. You can even have an MRI scan – with no waiting list– to check on any golfing ailments or dodgy joints. Let’s face it, we all have some aches and pains and we all need to be aware of our health.

Whilst we talk a lot about the mental side of the game on the Brain Booster, if you’ve something holding you back physically, that can have just as detrimental an impact on your game.

Golfer health screens at Pall Mall start from £249 for the “well man” or “well woman” check-up for anyone 40+. There are additional packages with more extensive scans and tests, including one where you can have help with your mental performance from yours truly.

Learn more about Pall Mall’s Golfer Health Screens by:

isiting the latest news section at https://www.pallmallmedical.co.uk/ scroll to the footer of their home page)

Give them a call 

Or by clicking on the link in our Brain Booster Podcast description :http://www.pallmallmedical.co.uk/ppc/medical/golf-health-screen/

How many times have we been told to ‘swing it slow’?

We will have read that you can’t take the club away too slowly.

Get the takeaway just right and everything else will fall into place!

How well has that gone for most of us

Possibly these clichés are some of the most damaging myths in the game

Also when we TRY to swing slow we give ourselves the opportunity to become really tied in knots with swing technique and trying to ‘place’ the club in certain positions.

Well on today’s show many of those myths and misconceptions will be challenged by our guest John Novosel from Tour Tempo

John will share with us some amazing insights that he and his father have gathered over the past 20 years or so

It would seem that many of us should actually be allowing ourselves to swing the club much more freely and in effect more quickly.

Being aware of the swing as opposed to trying to influence the swing.

It will be music to many Brain Booster listener’s ears.

From Tour Tempo research there is a specific 3 to 1 ration that ALL great players use in terms of their tempo

This is a REALLY fascinating session with someone who is absolutely passionate about game improvement.

You will think TOTALLY differently about TEMPO and how it applies to your game.

John Novosel Jr. is the Co-Creator of Tour Tempo. Tour Tempo is the best selling book published by Doubleday and is a 5 star app for iOS. In addition to TT, he has patented or co-patented 4 swing training aids. He recently authored Tour Tempo Force, which hit #1 on Apple books for all sports.

He has given thousands of ’speed lesson’s to golfers of all abilities from Major Champions thru beginners. He also walks the walk, at 52 years old he produces swing speeds over 130 mph and has competed in long drive events, his longest drive in competition is 402 yards.

John has presented his concepts on Tempo, Speed and Power around the globe including seminars with PGA Sweden, PGA Holland, PGA Germany, PGA of America, the World Golf Fitness Summit and many others.

He has certifications with TPI, SSC Golf, and has his own certification program for Tour Tempo Speed Instructors.

To find out more about Tour Tempo go to https://www.tourtempospeed.com

To purchase YOUR copy of the brand new groundbreaking program ‘Neuro Putting’ go to

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by a fascinating guest Tim Tucker the former caddie of the unique Bryson De Chambeau.

As a partnership they won a number of PGA Tour titles including the US Open

It was a great insight into a very different golfer and the way he formed such an effective partnership with his caddie

How he was prepared to always do things his own way but also very open to taking on board good quality information from Tim

• How they worked out how to beat the golf course
• Bryson’s incredible body transformation and how he set about accomplishing it
• The way he deals with poor shots on the course
• His obsession with the Driver and how many balls he will hit in a day
• Why his putting is so underrated
• How they actually brought home the US Open trophy when the heat turned up on Sunday afternoon

Bryson’s ability to leave no stone unturned. To sift through information and find out what is USEFUL for him

A very unique and fascinating character.

Also we discuss Tim’s own journey in golf from a background in the military to caddying at Bandon Dunes, learning Aim Point and then the partnership with Bryson.

After the relationship with Bryson concluded Tim has gone on to invent and create the True Aim Marker

A fascinating way to read greens that eliminates guesswork

We go into some good detail on how it works

Tim firmly believes that most golfers don’t need to spend more time on improving their stroke but they DO need to get better at reading greens.

A lot of poor putting strokes are a result of VERY poor green reading.

The True Aim Marker has the potential to massively improve your green reading

Well worth taking a look

To find out more about Tim Tucker and the ‘True Aim Marker’ go to

https://trueaimmarker.com

To get a copy of the new ‘Neuro Putting’ program with Dr Izzy Justice and Karl Morris go to

https://themindfactor.net/shop-new/

To book your Mind Factor workshop get in touch with us at www.themindfactor.com

How you can LEARN to LEARN like Tiger Woods – Peter Arnott

Today we welcome back onto the Brain Booster Peter Arnott.

Peter has been a previous guest on the show and in this session we get to discuss his fantastic new book called ‘Swing it like Tiger’ which he wrote in partnership with Ian Renshaw who is an expert on skill acquisition

As Peter informs us the title of the book is deliberately misleading to some people who do actually want to swing the club like Tiger Woods.

When in fact Tiger has had multiple swings and indeed on every shot he plays he will adapt his swing in that particular moment to the very task he has before him.

The book is very much about how you can LEARN to LEARN like Tiger

• How to TRAIN more effectively like Tiger
• We look in detail at how Tiger learned how to develop his game
• How the environment he and Earl created together was so rich in learning opportunity
• Steve Williams who was Tiger’s caddie for many years talked about how Tiger practiced differently from all of the other players he had worked with including Greg Norman and Raymond Floyd
• He challenged himself constantly with the QUALITY of his practice
• The challenges, the games
• Human beings are not designed to replicate movement precisely
• We are far better at ADAPTING to the challenge presented to us in any given moment
• We talk about the need for variability in your training environment
• How trying to go with ‘one shape’ can actually be very detrimental and what to do to bring your game back into balance
• How you can create your own PAR to suit your game instead of making poor decisions based on existing ‘par’
• How elite golfers can make their own course more difficult to make their training more effective
• Seeing the golf course as an opportunity to be creative
• How to make your training come alive in a RICH environment
• Find out what you REALLY want from the game and then tailor your training more effectively
• How our environment will ALWAYS effect the way you move and what you need to do about it
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A great session with a really well researched and well informed coach

Enjoy

Peter is a performance and practice golf coach based at Swanston Golf Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has a masters degree in skill acquisition and motor learning interviewing 7 top European Tour Players (+£15 Million won on Tour) on their development towards excellence.

To find out more about Peter’s work and the book go to 

https://www.swingliketiger.com

To get a copy of the new ‘Neuro Putting’ program with Dr Izzy Justice and Karl Morris go to

https://themindfactor.net/shop-new/

To book your Mind Factor workshop get in touch with us at www.themindfactor.com

Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by former PGA Tour winner Richard Zokol the pioneer of what is called Mind Trak golf

Richard won on the PGA Tour wearing headphones and we discuss how this eventually led to his discoveries around the mental game

Richard Zokol’s PGA Tour career spanned over 20-years, winning twice on the PGA Tour (both wins in 1992) while competing in 412 PGA Tour events and winning once in 53 starts on the Web.com Tour (in 2001).

Recognized as a professional golfer with a distinct perspective, Richard is one of the most dedicated and determined professionals in Canadian golf. Richard “walked-on” the BYU Golf Team as a freshman then by his senior year at BYU, he captained the team to the 1981 NCAA Championship—that team was inducted into the Brigham Young University Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.

Richard was also inducted into the British Columbia Golf Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 2011. Zokol’s passion capital served him well in PGA Tour competition and then as he transitioned into business.

We discuss how you can get the very best from your game on the course with the TWO critical markers

• The ability to assess the shot
• The ability to EXECUTE the shot
• To get out of reactive thinking
• To reduce the excessive attention on RESULTS
• To REALLY tune in to the GOLF COURSE
• To be present to your assessment of the shot
• How to reduce emotional interference
• How to build a process on each shot you can then record

A great session with a deep thinker of the game

Enjoy

To find out more about Mind Trak go to www.mindtrakgolf.com

To book your Mind Factor workshop get in touch with us at www.themindfactor.com

Today we welcome on to the show an extraordinary guest in the shape of Ward Jarvis.

Ward has become a really well know performance coach on the PGA Tour with his work the likes of Brendan Todd and Lucas Glover.

In their time together Brendan Todd went from 2045^th in the world to as high as 39^th.

Ward has an extraordinary life story.

From dealing with and overcoming stuttering and how he then utilised this knowledge by bringing it to the performance arena in golf.

To then becoming a fire fighter and what that did for his perspective on life.

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This Episode of The Brainbooster:

• The role of memory and how big an influence it has on your performance
• The effect of your environment and how it CUES your behaviour
• Seeing the mental game as ‘movement’
• Exposure theory and how you can LEARN to become comfortable in uncomfortable situations.
• Recreating uncomfortable situations in practice
• Is your practice REALLY taking into account the way you FEEL on the golf course?
• How to access your best performance in PRESSURE situations
• How Ward helped Brendon Todd create some order in what is a chaotic game
• Expanding on the idea of what is GOOD enough to play effective competitive golf
• Why our brain craves CERTAINTY and how we can utilise this quality on the golf course.
• The OUTCOME feedback and how you can best use it

A really interesting session with Ward Jarvis, a man who has dealt admirably with so many challenges life has thrown at him but come through the other side with a great body of knowledge that he is now passing on to other people.

Enjoy the session

Why trying to ‘block out thoughts’ can be counterproductive

To find out more about Ward Jarvis and the work he does go to

https://www.wardjarvis.com/about

To find out more about becoming a CERTIFIED Mind Factor coach go to

www.themindfactor.com

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Today on the Brain Booster we welcome back a wonderful guest in Dicken Bettinger.

Dicken completely changed his approach to psychology after meeting Syd Banks and understanding the ‘Three Principles’

He then spent over twenty years studying with Syd and is now acknowledged as one of the world’s leading teachers of the principles.

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During a very wide ranging conversation we discussed the ideas of Mind, Consciousness and Thought

• How we spend so much time trying to ‘control’ things with the intellect
• Trying harder
• Thinking more
• Being so involved with our thoughts
• Trying to ‘change’ our experience
• Why the intellect alone cannot solve our problems and issues
• Understanding what WISDOM is and how we can learn to trust it more
• A deeper intelligence when we are fully PRESENT
• A quiet mind that is FULLY PRESENT
• A KNOWING that cannot be explained
• How to access true WISDOM
• How the intellect creates tension and upset
• The limitations of trying to ‘think’ positive
• No human being can ‘think’ their way to contentment
• The ‘NO THOUGHT’ state
• What is it?
• How is it accessed

A really wonderful conversation with Dicken to get you to consider just how much our intellect is trying to run the show.

There is another way and Dicken explains beautifully what it is

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by former European Open Champion and supporter of the podcast Andrew Murray to discuss the ‘state of the game’ and what that means for you and YOUR game.

The session was recorded a few weeks ago just after the 150^th Open at St Andrews but the content of our conversation is very relevant to your game today.

We talk about Open champion Cameron Smith and his wonderful approach on the greens

The difference between working on HOW to get the ball to the hole as opposed to WHERE you want the ball to go

The absolute heart of the ‘Lost Art of Putting’

How Rory has freed up his short game with the help of Brad Faxon

Tiger Woods and his legacy to the game

What impact has he REALLY had?

How we can truly grow the game of golf

We seem to be at the moment in something of ‘crisis mode’ with the game as we hear so much about the detrimental effect that LIV is having on our game.

But could there be some positives?

Could we look to see how the game and the experience of the game can be improved?

How could YOU get involved in growing the game at the grassroots level?

Stay in the game

What you can do to make sure you KEEP playing golf

As ever with Andrew the conversation was wide ranging and informative.

To find out more about Andrew Murray go to

https://andrewmurraygolf.com

To become a Certified Mind Factor coach go to

www.themindfactor.com

To find out more about the golfer’s health screen with Pall Mall

Pall Mall’s health screen packages assess your blood profile, highlight any markers for certain cancers, check your heart health, stroke risk, other major organ health and much more. You can even have an MRI scan – with no waiting list– to check on any golfing ailments or dodgy joints. Let’s face it, we all have some aches and pains and we all need to be aware of our health.

Whilst we talk a lot about the mental side of the game on the Brain Booster, if you’ve something holding you back physically, that can have just as detrimental an impact on your game.

Golfer health screens at Pall Mall start from £249 for the “well man” or “well woman” check-up for anyone 40+. There are additional packages with more extensive scans and tests, including one where you can have help with your mental performance from yours truly.

Learn more about Pall Mall’s Golfer Health Screens by:

visiting the latest news section at https://www.pallmallmedical.co.uk/ scroll to the footer of their home page)

Give them a call 

Or by clicking on the link in our Brain Booster Podcast description :http://www.pallmallmedical.co.uk/ppc/medical/golf-health-screen/

It was very sad to hear of the passing of Brian Sparks a few months ago. Brian was a guest on the show a few years ago and we had a wonderful conversation about his book ‘Positive Impact Golf’ and the video he became famous for called ‘The Easiest Swing in Golf’.

Today we get chance to listen to his brother Philip Sparks who is carrying on his marvellous legacy and has created a wonderful online community called ‘The Easiest Swing Club’

The video Brian produced a number of years ago called ‘The Easiest Swing in Golf’ was a real one off.

No instruction, no fancy camera work just Brian doing his thing and swinging the club in a totally effortless and relaxed way.

The video has had hundreds of thousands of views.

People got in touch with Brian from all over the world.

The video had a lasting impact.

Showing the possibility of swinging the club in an effortless manner with the absence of technical information but an emphasis on relaxation.

With Philip we go into detail about the concepts behind the Easiest Swing in Golf and what it could potentially do for your game.

How you don’t have to conform

How you can let your body move in a flowing and graceful way

What is the ‘La Danse du Golf’?

The 3 Deadly Don’ts

The value of really great questions

The remarkable story of a stroke survivor and how Brian’s concepts helped his recovery

A really heart warming and life affirming conversation about a man dedicated to coaching the game to help people ENJOY the special experience that is golf.

To find out more about the Easiest Swing Club go to

www.easiestswing.com

or www.easiestswing.club

The discount code for Brain Booster listeners is KMESC25 with the first 100 subscriptions getting a lifetime 25% discount off membership (full price $299 pa or $36 pcm).  25% Discount to the first payment thereafter using the same code applicable to either monthly or annual subscriptions before 31.12.22.

To become a Certified Mind Factor coach go to

www.themindfactor.com

To find out more about the golfer’s health screen with Pall Mall

Pall Mall’s health screen packages assess your blood profile, highlight any markers for certain cancers, check your heart health, stroke risk, other major organ health and much more. You can even have an MRI scan – with no waiting list– to check on any golfing ailments or dodgy joints. Let’s face it, we all have some aches and pains and we all need to be aware of our health.

Whilst we talk a lot about the mental side of the game on the Brain Booster, if you’ve something holding you back physically, that can have just as detrimental an impact on your game.

Golfer health screens at Pall Mall start from £249 for the “well man” or “well woman” check-up for anyone 40+. There are additional packages with more extensive scans and tests, including one where you can have help with your mental performance from yours truly.

Learn more about Pall Mall’s Golfer Health Screens by:

visiting the latest news section at https://www.pallmallmedical.co.uk/ scroll to the footer of their home page)

Give them a call 

Or by clicking on the link in our Brain Booster Podcast description :http://www.pallmallmedical.co.uk/ppc/medical/golf-health-screen/

How to realise a long term golfing dream

Being clear on what we TRULY can control

Join us in Manchester in November LAST FEW PLACES  and become a CERTIFIED MIND FACTOR COACH – or simply come to improve your own game, go to : https://themindfactor.net/the-certification-course/

Download Mind Caddie for hundreds of short audio lessons and exercises produced by Karl and start improving your mental game the same way as six major champions: https://urlgeni.us/mindcaddie

Today on the Brain Booster we have a really interesting guest in the shape of former attorney and now Performance Coach L.D. Simmons

He now runs Simmons Performance working with top amateur junior and college players as well as aspiring Tour Professionals

He got in touch after qualifying for a USGA event after 48 Years of trying

Achieving a sporting dream at the age of 64

We had a fascinating conversation about his quest as a player and his development as a coach

Especially about how he has applied key Mind Factor principles over an extended period of time

We looked into:

• Being absolutely clear on what you CAN control
• How the brain is so averse to uncertainty
• The importance of ‘pre programming’ behaviour
• The fleeting nature of performance
• What a really good warm up should look like
• Creating comfort in an unfamiliar environment
• Putting a score together with less than your ‘A’ game
• What is GOOD target selection?
• How to let the golf course ‘come to you’
• How Tiger Woods beat everyone with GOOD decisions
• Adjusting your tendencies from life to your golf

Great to hear this inspiring story from a golfer who kept GOING for many years with a dream to play in a USGA event

A strong message for us all and what could be POSSIBLE

What is POSSIBLE for you?

L. D. Simmons is a mental performance coach in the United States based in Charlotte, North Carolina.  He practiced law for 35 years before beginning a second career as a coach.

L. D. works with several touring professionals as well as high-level juniors, college players, mid-ams and seniors.  He focuses on the mental game as well as on course management skills.  L. D. also is the assistant coach of the Davidson College men’s golf team. 

You may find L. D. at www.simmonsperformance.com and at lsimmonsii@gmail.com.

Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by performance consultant Dr Greg Cartin who has worked with so many top level players.

He is based in Boston USA

‘What we are thinking DOESN’T matter’!!

Wow!

Join us in Manchester in November and become a CERTIFIED MIND FACTOR COACH – or simply come to improve your own game, go to : https://themindfactor.net/the-certification-course/

Download Mind Caddie for hundreds of short audio lessons and exercises produced by Karl and start improving your mental game the same way as six major champions: https://urlgeni.us/mindcaddie

For many people this is counter intuitive to what they have been led to believe.

We have spent so long in the futile attempt to try to control our thinking.

Yet as Greg explains today it is actually the RESISTANCE to what we are feeling and thinking that causes so many problems. It is this resistance that causes tension and it is the tension which affects our ability to access the SKILLS we have.

As he says:

‘You can think ANYTHING you want until you think it is WRONG’

 It is so important to begin to change the RELATIONSHIP we have with our thoughts and feelings.

To become an observer of them.

As an observer we are able to create some DISTANCE without becoming FUSED with our thinking.

• We challenge many existing ‘norms’ in mental game coaching
• Routines could be making you WORSE!
• The staple of so much mental game coaching could actually be detrimental

Why a rigid pre shot routine will NOT protect you from negative thoughts and emotions and may seriously hamper your CREATIVITY

• Why it is so important to connect with what you ENJOY about the game of golf
• The best way of developing your skills and then more importantly how to ACCESS those skills
• Why trying to supress your emotions can harm your game

• Why META COGNITION is so important
• The need to OBSERVE your discomfort as opposed to trying to get comfortable with being uncomfortable
• Trying less and caring less: Could this be a way out of the mental mire

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Today we are joined again on the Brain Booster by Dr Rick Sessinghaus, longtime coach to double major winner Collin Morikawa and a host of other top players and the originator of the ‘Flow Code’ coaching program.

Rick is a certified Mind Factor coach.

He is the expert on the mindset principles that make or break performance on and off the course. His coaching has helped top junior, collegiate, and professional golfers reach new levels of performance. Rick has also provided seminars and consulting to business teams and leaders improving their bottom line.

He is an Instructional Editor for Golf Tips magazine and can be seen on Fox Sports Network as a mental game contributor. Rick’s book Golf: The Ultimate Mind Game has been featured in national golf magazines and used by leading golf instructors across the country as the “best resource to improve your mental game.” Rick uses the proven DISC assessment to develop high performance teams and having one understand how personality affects behavior.

We got the chance to discuss Rick’s work with Collin Morikawa who he has coached from a young boy until the present day.

The challenges that come with becoming a Major winner

How to reset your goals after success?

The downside of expectations.

The ability to reflect more effectively. What are the underlying patterns that lead to your success?

How do we access a high performance state? What can you do to get there more often

How we can use quality questions to improve your swing instead of just trying to ‘fix’ mechanics.

The vital importance of understanding cause and effect

The role of the hands in controlling the clubface

Why self awareness is so important to develop your game

Is EXTERNAL focus always the best way to go? Why you need to understand what will work for YOU as a unique individual.

The best way to develop an effective post shot routine. Understanding how this can transform your RELATIONSHIP to the game.

A wonderful session with a great coach who has had such incredible success at all levels of the game

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Today we welcome back onto the podcast top coach and researcher Dr Ian Peek.

Ian has just completed his PhD after doing extensive research on the key elements that seem to determine if a pro makes it on tour or not.

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• What do the top players do?
• How the very best are so skilled at ADAPTING relative to the field they are playing against.
• The Four ‘Acts’ of a top player
• The Rookie Act – Discovering who you are
• Moving ‘Upstage’- Finding the right team
• The Limelight Stage – Staying with a winning team
• The challenge of making changes WHEN and HOW
• The importance of the people around you
• Do the people around you give you energy or take energy away from you?
• The sometimes difficult decisions you have to make about people around you
• How the best players ask good questions of others.
• What makes a really good PLAYER/COACH relationship?
• The determining factor of GOOD PARENTS
• How kids NEVER forget bullying parents
• Creating a ‘safe place’ for a young player to develop

The instances of depression with former players and what to do to make the most of the final phase of your career

A whole host of great insights taken from Ian’s research

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Dr Ian Peek is a transition & performance coach, helping his clients achieve their goals whether transitioning to a new level of achievement or maintaining their position at the top of their sport or industry. Ian holds a Master’s degree in Sports Coaching and a PhD in the social- psychology of high performing athletes. His PhD research focused on the lived experiences of 16 PGA European Tour professionals during and after their careers. He is a PGA Master Professional - the highest educational level in The PGA - which recognises PGA Members who make a significant effort to improve themselves as golf professionals and maintain the highest degree of excellence for themselves and their operations.

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Today we welcome back onto the show Scott Fawcett from Decade golf.

He is someone who has made a significant contribution into how we think about the game.

His system DECADE golf helps you make informed decisions based on reality as opposed to how we ‘perceive’ reality.

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We had another brilliant and fascinating conversation

We discussed:

• Why it is so important to go with ONE shape of the tee
• The absolute need to avoid the ‘double cross’
• Why you can’t ‘eliminate’ one side of the golf course 

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• Good players equally miss the fairway both left and right
• Why meditation can make such a difference
• How to reduce the emotion with decision making
• The ‘Tiger 5’ and what you can learn from perhaps the greatest of all golf minds
• Why simplifying the game is so necessary

A great session

Your game cannot help but gain some benefit from Scott’s knowledge and wisdom

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Today we have a slight change in focus with our guest but one that nevertheless you will find fascinating and a great inspiration Mike Moir.

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Mike is the CEO of the highly renowned clothing brand FENIX

I met Mike recently at the PGA Conference in Thailand

He was one of the main speakers and what he had to say had the whole audience in the palm of his hand.

He gave a very emotional description as you will hear today about how he managed to build his business despite tremendous personal and social challenges.

Issues with his own health and then a global pandemic that tragically took the life of one of his extremely valuable team members.

• Mike’s story is one of resilience and determination
• He was a very promising young player in the north of Scotland
• Went to America on a scholarship but struggled to make the progress he wanted
• Eventually turned his attention to business and began a journey of self discovery
• The journey to South east Asia
• We talked about what it takes on a day to day basis to ‘stay on the path’
• The importance of valuing other people
• Building a great team ethos around you
• Having clarity of PURPOSE

Listening to Mike you will be inspired to get clarity on your own purpose and what it takes to succeed in the tough world of business

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Today I am joined on the show by my good friend and colleague Andrew Knott.

Andrew is the head professional at the All Thailand Golf Centre in Bangkok which in amazing location dedicated to providing one of the best environments for learning and development in South East Asia.

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I met up with Andrew recently when I was asked to speak at the PGA International Conference in Thailand.

We have known each other for many years and as well as golf we share a passion for the game of cricket.

Andrew was heavily influenced in his development by the legendary England wicket keeper Alan Knott.

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He has always had an intense passion for learning and development and has built a very impressive reputation in Asia for being one of the most forward thinking professionals.

We had a wonderful conversation about the game but not least about the effect of our environment on our game.

Often an area that gets overlooked as we seek out more and more information about technique

• Who are you spending most of your golf time with?
• What effect are they having on you?
• Is the role of the coach being overstated?
• What do you actually DO with the information you receive?
• What does a great training environment look like?
• 150 Tour winners used or trained at Andrews facility
• What tough environments can do to enhance CREATIVITY
• What are you trying to achieve and how can your environment do to support that?
• How can you utilise your own golf course to set some new challenges?
• The long term benefits of DELIBERATE MISS
• Make your games relative to what you want to achieve
• Make sure you PERSONALISE your drills
• Does your practice session fully ENGAGE you?
• The balance between working on your strengths and weaknesses

A great conversation with a very deep thinker on the game.

Enjoy

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andrew@allthailandgolfcenter.com

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In the modern world do we all fall into the trap of trying to make things too easy for ourselves?

Instead of searching out ways to solve a problem by using our creative mind we often default to the press of a button and get ‘Dr Google’ do the job.

The issue is we are short circuiting perhaps our most powerful learning weapon, the brain and its innate genius in solving problems.

Give our brain a clear puzzle to solve with some correct concepts and the amazing capacity our brain has will go to work.

We have been slowly but surely getting further and further away from this in the all too easy digital world.

However on today’s show we get the chance to listen to an outstanding young coach in the shape of Jamie McConnell.

Jamie is based in Dubai and is the lead coach for the Saudi national team.

I have done a good bit of work over the years with Jamie and the success he has had is no surprise to me. His enthusiasm for coaching is infectious.

He is a wonderful problem solver and he brings to his own coaching the courage to set his own students some specific problems to solve in their own game so they actually then OWN the improvement themselves.

Getting better at problem solving COULD be a great direction for you to send your game in the next 12 months.

Today We discuss:

• How Jamie was an early pioneer of the effective use of Trackman in Ireland
• How he learnt his craft by seeing so many different coaches ACTUALLY teach
• Why the human brain is a problem solving machine
• How technology should and shouldn’t be used to solve problems
• Solving swing problems with shot solutions
• Problem solving ON the golf course

A great session with a really inspiring coach

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Today on the show we are joined by former European Tour player and coach Paul Affleck
Paul played for a number of years on the main tour after winning the Challenge Tour to secure his playing rights.

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We had a wonderful conversation about his development as a player from the early years as an assistant at Heswall Golf Club under the tutelage of Alan Thompson 
Playing in the Open whilst still working in the Pro Shop

Life as a tour player and how using an ‘Inner Game’ technique gave him access to his best skills 

How searching for better ‘technique’ with a well known coach took his game completely off track 

The development of a really great short game and how this was SHOT lead 

Paul is a really deep thinker about the game and has been heavily influenced by the time he has spent with multiple time Mind Caddie guest Kendal McWade 

The courage to do things differently 

Why you might consider a 10 finger Baseball Grip 

Exploring different ways to apply the club to the ball
Hovering the club above the ball and the freedom this creates 

The joy Paul has now on the golf course being creative 
Exploring shots not just swings 

Enjoy listening to a top player and a top coach

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Today we welcome back a great friend of the podcast Kendal McWade

Founder of Instinctive Golf

A great coach who has had such a huge impact on so many players and coaches

Looking at the game in a different way

A man with a true passion for his craft

We discuss:

• The learning state
• What is it and how can we get there more often
• The limitation of formula and how it can holed you back
• No freedom in formula
• How we fall into the trap of ‘doing it right’
• Finding the authentic Kendal McWade
• Why is it that SO many right handed golfers swing left?
• The visual illusion created at set up
• Why we need to create the CLARITY of the task
• How we can then fit the way we hold the club and address the ball based on that clarity
• Why good ‘basics’ doesn’t mean we will play good golf
• Developing skills through awareness, slower swings, shorter swings

As usual with Kendal a really thought provoking and engaging conversation

Enjoy

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https://instinctivegolfcoaching.co.uk/who-we-are/

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Whilst we talk a lot about the mental side of the game on the Brain Booster, if you’ve something holding you back physically, that can have just as detrimental an impact on your game.

Golfer health screens at Pall Mall start from £249 for the “well man” or “well woman” check-up for anyone 40+. There are additional packages with more extensive scans and tests, including one where you can have help with your mental performance from yours truly.

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Today on the show we are joined by top coach Hugh Marr.

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Hugh has an incredible depth of knowledge and experience having coached at all levels of the game but most notably with some of the best players in the world on the European Tour.

As well as his full time role as a coach Hugh is now involved in his passion which is mentoring young aspiring coaches to be the very best version of themselves.

We got the chance to discuss Hugh’s view of the current state of coaching.

• How many coaches respond to trends.
• The dangers of too much YouTube ‘information’
• How we KNOW too much but UNDERSTAND too little.
• What does a good lesson REALLY look and feel like?
• How we can only influence ONE thing as coaches
• Why you should NEVER have to get worse to get better
• Why more practice is not the simple answer
• How the ‘team’ of a player needs to evolve
• Why it is important to prioritise WHO you are taking information from and WHEN
• How to make your practice more RELEVANT
• The vital importance of hitting ONE more green per round and holing ONE more putt from 6ft
• Why your CARRY distance is so important with your irons than total distance
• Why it is VITAL to know your golf course and the most RELEVANT shots you will hit
• The challenges of being a TOUR COACH
• The highs and the lows
• The challenge of not attaching personal emotion to players results
• Developing as a coach
• The importance of UNDERSTANDING as opposed to just knowledge
• The need to keep asking ‘WHY’
• Effective critical thinking
• Why ‘quick fixes’ need to be part of a good coaches armoury
• To find out more about Hugh go to

www.hughmarr.com

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by Andy Mathews from Neuropeak Pro

The Lost Art of Golf 2 day school at Archerfield Links with Karl Morris and Gary Nicol 

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It is a fascinating story.

Andy is a tournament player himself and relates how understanding HOW to breathe more efficiently made such a difference to his game

Since joining Neuropeak Pro he has become the breathing coach to many of the worlds very best players including Viktor Hovland and Jordan Speith

• We discussed the mechanics of effective breathing and what it does for your game
• Why most people are breathing incorrectly
• Why the rate you breathe is so important
• How your breathing is like a metronome for your brain either giving signals to avoid or pursue 
• Controlling the STRESS response
• Why your physiology will determine how well you can co ordinate your movements
• How effective breathing can help the response to poor shots
• How to train your breathing in a systematic way with just 10 minutes a day
• Make SIXTY good breaths a day and you will totally reset your system
• Understanding the importance of Heart Rate Variability 
• The difference between trying to control your breathing as opposed to trying to control our breathing 
• How breathing is the link between conscious and unconscious processes
• How better breathing can transform our sleep
• The application of effective breathing in other sports and how it can influence RECOVERY
• The THREE foundations of effective breathing

A really insightful conversation with so many practical applications to your game

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Is your game being hijacked by overwhelming anxiety?

Have you suffered from the yips?

What role are EMOTIONS playing in holding you back?

Today we have an amazing guest in Dawson Church to discuss the potential benefits to your game of E.F.T. (emotional freedom technique)

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• Tapping meridian points on your body.
• Also the profound benefits of what Dawson calls ‘Eco Meditation’
• Based on ancient Chinese medicine wisdom, EFT is founded on the principle of the flow of energy in our body and how by tapping  ‘meridian points’ the energy balance can be restored
• Why in many ways our brain is ‘out of date’ in terms of how it perceives threat
• Why ‘talking’ to the emotional part of your brain can have limited effect
• Understanding how the BODY can be the secret to releasing so many emotional problems
• The fascinating work of Dr John Sarno and the link to pain and emotion
• Why we need to ‘listen’ to the body more. Be more connected to what it is trying to tell you
• Creating an ‘upward spiral’ of positive emotions
• Gratitude, appreciation and Joy
• Reducing stress inducing ‘beta’ waves and increasing ‘alpha’ wave frequency to be able to ACCESS your skills
• The ‘Flow’ state and how to access it more often
• The need to challenge yourself at just the RIGHT level
• Why we need to be aware of how much our consciousness is being ‘hijacked’
• The importance of the FIRST HOUR of the day
•  

A really incredible session with Dawson Church and all of his incredible research around human potential and performance.

Dawson Church is an award-winning science writer and researcher. Throughout his career, he has made significant contributions to the fields of health, psychology, and spirituality. His first best-selling book, The Genie in Your Genes, was the first to trace the links between consciousness, emotions, and gene expression. It was named “Best Health Book” by USA BookNews. It has been updated in several editions and translated into 18 languages.

To find out more about Dawson Church go to

https://dawsonchurch.com/eft-tapping/ 

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How we can play golf in THIS moment 

Today we welcome back on the show my good friend Susie Meyers to discuss more concepts around ‘Point A’

Susie is one of the very best coaches in the USA and wrote the highly acclaimed book ‘Golf from Point A’ which I believe is required reading for every golfer interested in maximising their golfing experience.

Susie is on the list of the 100 Top Coaches in the USA

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She coaches at all levels of the game from start-up players to tour winners like Michael Thompson so her experience is extensive.

Every time I get the chance to speak to Susan the conversation just flows and her passion and enthusiasm for the game of golf just oozes out of her

• On today’s show we discussed:
• What is POINT A golf and WHY is it so important?
• How we fall into the trap of trying to ‘fix’ our previous shot
• The dangers of linking one shot to another when every shot is a UNIQUE moment in time
• The ‘Thinker’ and the ‘Doer’ and why we need to understand the difference
• The BURDEN of the PAST
• The myth of ‘problem solving’
• Can you control your golf swing?
• Can you control where the ball goes?
• The myth of control and how this creates so much instability
• With Point A there is NO PAST, NO FUTURE just this unique moment in time
• Why we need to be absorbed in the PICTURE of the shot and how these pictures influence our movements.
• How our PICTURES inform our body how to move
• Every shot has a different FORMULA
• How Point A can give you a different perspective on the golf course. The course is then no longer a THREAT
• Point A in everyday life

 A brilliant session with a wonderful coach

To find out more about Susie and her brilliant work go to

https://susiemeyersgolf.com/

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This episode: Calming the mind through SIMPLICITY

It is a wonderful pleasure to welcome back onto the Brain Booster long term Mind Factor client and DP World Tour star Ryan Fox.

Ryan has had a truly outstanding season finishing 2^nd to Rory Mcillroy in the Order of Merit, securing two wins including The Dunhill Links championship at St Andrews as well as 8 other top 10 finishes

He has gone from being outside the top 200 in the world rankings to now being inside the Top 30 and eligible for all of next year’s Major Championships.

Ryan has worked systematically on his mental game for the past four years. We speak every week to stay on track.

In today’s session we talk about those key strategies that have unlocked Ryan’s ability to ACCESS his true skills.

• Why simplicity is the gateway to a CALM state of mind
• How the calm state of mind allows the brain to communicate better to the body
• The joy of CREATING shots
• Being immersed in the GOLF COURSE and why that is so important
• The ability to DEAL with and ACCEPT any outcome on the course
• Understanding the true nature of the game and why it is so important to develop a perspective that allows you to deal with the chaos the game throws at you
• The need to work with coaches that keep you on track with understanding your tendencies
• Why trying to copy ‘the greats’ may not be the best strategy

Ryan also discussed how he felt the late, great Shane Warne was actually ‘with him’ walking the fairways of St Andrews on his way to winning the Dunhill Links championship

A really great insight into the mind of a top player and proven tour winner

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It is great to welcome onto the show mental skills and golf coach Trevor Jones to explore a different way of dealing with the thoughts and sensations that can hold such sway over us.

 He has a fascinating story to tell as both a player and a coach at a very high level.

We discussed how many of the existing models of trying to ‘control’ thoughts and just use visualisation techniques proved so ineffective.

 How many time have you hit bad shots when you feel GOOD and conversely we have all hit good shots when we are feeling BAD

 The psychological flexibility model

 Acceptance and Commitment Training

Instead of trying to control thoughts and feelings understand how YOU are NOT your thoughts

• Why it is a myth to think you have to ‘feel good’ to play good
• The way our brain just ‘pumps’ out thought
•  Why we should give our brain a name!!
•  How you can ‘diffuse’ from your thinking
•  The way out of the matrix
•  The importance of VALUES based behaviour
•  How we can move towards what we REALLY value

 OPEN

 AWARE

 ENGAGED

‘Trevor won the Welsh National Championship in 2008, and played full time professional golf for the next 3 years, yet he struggled when applying traditional sport psychology to himself. After discovering ACT (Acceptance and commitment training) in 2012, Trevor immersed himself in the theory and practice, his research being guided by some of the best in the field. A decade later, Trevor now works for the US based Aware Performance Group, helping college golfers improve their Psychological Flexibility. Trevor also mentors two Sport Psychologists, works privately with up and coming junior golfers, and runs a golf coaching business as a PGA professional. His book ‘Get out of your mind and into your game – how to build Psychological Flexibility on the fairways and beyond’ is due for release later this year.’  

Social media for Trevor is @mind_your_golf 

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined once more by my good friend Sam Jarman to talk about his new book ‘Getting out of your own way’

It really is a terrific read. It is a challenging book and a very informative book that will really get you thinking in a very different way about your game. More importantly it will challenge some of your existing concepts about how the mind works.

Fundamental to this is the notion that we can actually control what we are thinking at any given moment when in reality, everyone of us if we look to our experience realises that this is a myth. Who knows what we are going to think next?

The beauty of Sam‘s book and his work is to explain this in a way that allows us to be okay with the chaos that the mind throws up at times to be able to deal with it and move on and then more importantly to get down to the real job of thoroughly, enjoying and immersing yourself in the game of golf.

We look at

• The myths about how your mind actually works
• The conversation in our heads and what it really means
• The awareness of your thinking and what we truly are
  How to have a different relationship to your thinking
• You relationship to mistakes and then what you DO next
  Understanding the role of awareness in learning
  Being clear on who you truly are
  Seeing golf as an opportunity to EXPRESS yourself 

A really great conversation with a superb coach who is really making a difference to his clients.

To find out more about Sam and his work go to

www.samjarmangolf.com

 The book is called Get Out of Your Own Way. It’s available as an eBook at Amazon, iBooks, Kobo and Smashwords.

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Today we welcome onto the Brain Booster a wonderful guest in the shape of Dr Ed Coughlan

Ed is one of the leading experts in the world on Skill Acquisition who works with a number of top DP World and PGA Tour players.

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We had a wonderful conversation about the very BEST way to get the most from your practice time

How to be able to TRANSFER your practice to the environment called Golf Course.

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• We talked about the need to understand CONTEXT when we go to practice
• How to create a really productive environment to TRAIN
• Why we need to practice in a way that helps us train our BEHAVIOUR
• Scoring yourself as opposed to just the task
• Being OK with ANY outcome and why that is so important
• How behaviour is the TRUE source of consistency
• The freedom of ADAPTABILITY and letting go of the myth of CONSISTENCY
• Stop trying to block thoughts and emotions
• Planning your training relative to the tournaments you play
• The importance of practicing the RHYTM of the game
• How to Mind your THOUGHTS and your WORDS
• The need to understand the difference between Careful, Carefree and Careless
• Being very careful with the people you surround yourself with
• The vital need for effective reflection

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How we learn to move – The new revolution in the way we practice sports skills – Rob Gray

How you can TRAIN better to MOVE better.

Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by a brilliant guest Rob Gray PhD

He is a professor at Arizona State University who has been conducting research on and teaching courses related to perceptual motor skill learning for over 25 years. He has served as an expert consultant with Nissan Motor Corp, the US Air Force as well as many sports teams and organisations.

In wonderfully insightful conversation we got the chance to discuss:

• Challenging the idea of an ‘ideal model’ as a way to learn sports skills
• Why repetition is not all it is made up to be
• How a Russian physiologist called Nicolai Bernstein changed the way we look at skill development
• Instead of trying to create one ideal solution understand the value of giving yourself PROBLEMS to solve and then allowing the body to figure it out
• Why ‘Drills’ are a very poor way of learning skills and even more importantly why drills do not transform to the playing environment
• The myth of ‘automaticity’ and why humans will never be robots
• Why it is so important to calibrate to what you have TODAY
• How VARIABILITY can transform your ability to acquire the skills you desire
• Exploring solutions to solve problems
• Why your body is not ‘listening’ when you are telling it what to do
• How the idea of having a ‘central command’ from brain to body is flawed
• The likelihood of injury of you keep trying to perform the ‘ideal’ movement
• What is ‘differential learning’ and how you could employ it to improve
• Why kids in Brazil tend to become better footballers
• Creating and designing great learning environments

A really thought provoking session on how we can look at the way we train in a much more efficient way that is grounded in solid scientific research and not just old anecdotes and stories handed down over the years.

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www.perceptionaction.com

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Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by the biggest influence in my coaching career Fred Shoemaker.

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I first went out to Fred’s school in Carmel Valley, California over 25 years ago.

The experience had a deep and lasting impression on me and opened up a whole new world of enquiry and thought about the coaching process.

Fred has continued to influence many coaches and players with his ability to look at the game in a way that really gets you to think about what the game truly MEANS to you

What is your PURPOSE for playing the game?

What is really important to you about the experience?

In today’s show amongst many topics we managed to really drill down into the FOUR types of coaching.

The ‘DO’ instruction. The model for 90% of todays golf coaching whereby a teacher ‘tells’ you what to do in your swing based on his or her belief about how the golf swing SHOULD function

The ‘awareness’ instruction which is much more of a coaching based approach where a coach simply asks you to pay attention to what is ACTUALLY happening in your experience of swinging a club. This leads to a much stronger learning experience.

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The BE instruction

This is where the coach helps you explore the PERSON you are when you swing the golf club. Are you going to play as a courageous golfer perhaps? At the heart of this instruction is your own COMMITMENT

The fourth type of instruction is to challenge HOW the world ‘occurs’ to you.

If the golf course occurs to you as a place of threat then no amount of the first two types of instruction will have much effect.

To understand how the world is occurring to you and the CHOICE you have in creating that narrative

This session is not for the faint hearted.

It is challenging

It will really make you consider your approach to the game

It is a wonderful conversation with a very special coach

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Make the Winter Count – Adam Young

Don’t waste another winter!!

What are you going to DO for your golf game this winter?

Are you going to make the most of the opportunity or just let the time drift by?

Some old actions lead to the same old results.

Today on the Brain Booster we welcome back one of our most popular guests from the past in the shape of Adam Young.

Adam is a highly regarded coach and author of the best selling book ‘The Practice Manual’.

He has produced so many great programs over the years such as ‘The Strike Plan’ and ‘The Accuracy Plan’. He also co hosts a wonderful podcast called ‘The Sweet Spot’ with Jon Sherman

In our session we looked in detail at what you can do for your game during the winter months.

A time you can either let drift by or a time you could make a genuine transformation in your game IF you apply yourself in the right way.

What is the right way to go about GENUINE winter improvement?

How can you best make use of your precious time?

How you can easily be led into working on the wrong things just to make your swing LOOK GOOD.

The mistake of FORM over FUNCTION

What DO you need to be working on to improve?

What are the BIG THREE?

This is such a VALUABLE insight.

The really critical areas to look at to make lasting progress with your golf skills

How to become aware of YOUR own unique patterns

What have your patterns been through the season?

What is ACTUALLY happening on the course

Keeping track of statistics that are actually RELEVANT to your score

Being able to develop SHOTS that are functional on the golf course

How to work on your game indoors

Great putting games you can do ANYTIME

A really great session with such a well informed and thoughtful coach. If you commit to working on what Adam talks about in this podcast you WILL make genuine progress with your game this winter.

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How images make our body move

Today on the Brain Booster we welcome back a great friend of the show Susie Meyers. Susie is one of the very top coaches in the USA and always brings some wonderful insights.

Today was no exception. We had a great conversation about how to release your very best golf and how the latest neuroscience is pointing us towards the need to play from a quiet place in the mind.

There are SO many GEMS in this conversation that really WILL make a difference to your game.

Why an over attachment to outcomes and results is so counterproductive to freeing us up to play our best golf.

• The need to find balance both in the body and the mind.
• Why we are so wound up in our lives and what it is doing to our brain.
• The need to get back to a child like ‘alpha’ state
• The quiet and calm place where great golf can emerge
• Reducing the ‘noise’ on the golf course
• How closing your eyes can have such a dramatic effect on how much stimulus we receive 
• Why is there so much fear in the game?
• SO HOW we can play the game with less fear?
• Playing from Point A
• This shot in this unique moment.
• The Magic of the P Words

1. PLAN
2. PROCESS
3. PICTURE
4. POSITIVE

• Living with the A Words

1. AWARE
2. ACCEPT
3. ALLOWING

• Why we need to be aware of how talking about our ‘tendencies’ can get in the way of our progress
• How you can create powerful images that your body can RESPOND to
• The difference between ‘Backward Thinking and Forward Thinking’
• What are the ‘Universal Truths’ about the golf swing?
• WHO are you going to be on the golf course today?

COMMITTED

CALM

COURAGEOUS

CLEAR

CONFIDENT

Being comes before DOING

What happens to you is not so PERSONAL

A really wonderful thought provoking and life enhancing conversation.

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www.susiemeyersgolf.com

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Today we welcome back onto the Brain Booster my good friend Jim Waldron.

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Jim has had a BIG input on players who listen to the show and I wanted to get him back to talk at more length about a subject that is unfortunately very relevant to a LOT of golfers the YIPS.

We had another wonderful conversation about how to dig yourself out of the doldrums if you are being affected by the yips in certain parts of the game.

• We discussed why the yips are becoming more and more prominent these days.
• Why an overload of technical input can be so damaging to your game
• How poor chipping concepts are often the cause of the yips to start
• Why we tend to fall into the trap of extremes
• Being able to find the ‘middle way’
• How your unconscious mind is trying to PROTECT you from outcomes
• Separating your sense of self from golfing outcomes
• How golf can be a vehicle for psychological transformation
• Letting go of the sense of ‘I am not good enough’
• Peer group approval  and why it is hard wired into us
• The journey of golfing evolution
• The process of self contemplation

A wonderful conversation with a truly great coach who has made such a difference to golfers and their experience of the game

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https://balancepointgolf.com/

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How Tiger Woods learned to embrace the CHAOS

It is good to be back with you again on the Brain Booster and today we have a special guest in the company of Claude Harmon.

Claude has coached some of the game’s greatest players including Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepke.

He provides us today with some wonderful insights from both a coaching and playing perspective.

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A great perspective on LEARNING

Claude vividly describes his unique coaching apprenticeship. By his own admission he never played the game to any great level but had perhaps the ultimate coaching environment in which to learn. To be able to watch his father Butch Harmon coach day in and day out must have been something else.

Watching Butch coach the likes of Steve Elkington and Greg Norman in the early days which then led to his association with Tiger Woods and then on to players like Phil Mickelson and Ricky Fowler.

Claude describes how he was actually there when Butch gave the very first lesson to a young Woods.

He provides some real nuggets on how to keep a difficult game simple.

We discuss:

• Solving the coaching puzzle
• Looking for the ONE thing that will have the most impact
• How we can easily become overloaded with technical data
• Being smart enough to keep it simple
• Why many coaches invest in making the game DIFFICULT
• Not falling into the ‘aesthetic trap’
• The perfect position MYTH
• When to leave a golf swing alone
• The difference between ‘technique’ and ‘execution’
• Learning from the Tiger
• Tiger Woods incredible honesty about his game
• His desire to LEARN, how he loved the RANDOM nature of the game.
• His overall philosophy for the game and how he LOVED the chaos

A great session with a coach at the top of his game.

Claude has a wonderful podcast himself called ‘Son of a Butch’ find it here: https://podfollow.com/1561803455

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https://butchharmonfloridian.com/claude-harmon-bio

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Today on the Brain Booster we welcome a wonderful guest in the shape of Jon Sherman the owner of Practical Golf a website totally dedicated to golfers trying to improve their game.

He is the author of a great new book called ‘The Four Foundations of Golf’ and the website Pratical Golf has so many high quality articles and information.

He is also the co host of the popular podcast ‘The Sweet Spot’ with Adam Young, a previous guest on the Brain Booster.

Jon is somewhat unique in the fact that he is a very accomplished +2 amateur golfer as well as a performance coach. He is always walking his talk as he tests his game in Mid Amateur tournaments across the New York state.

He has worked diligently at his own game for over 20 years and as he describes the book this is his ‘life’s work’.

During the session we go into the Four Foundations of Golf which are:

Managing Expectations

Strategy

Practice

The Mental Game

So many wonderful nuggets of valuable information 

How managing expectation greatly assists your psychology

Being able to develop more ESSENTIAL golf skills

The how and why centred strikes are so very important

Being clear on what TASK you are trying to achieve

Working back to IMPACT to create SHOTS

How to better control the clubface

How less is more when it comes to your shots can be transformative

The myth of ‘eliminating one side of the course’

The benefits of developing one shot shape

How you can balance your swing with opposites

The incredible value of gratitude and appreciation

The need for most amateur players to focus more on the ENJOYMENT element of the game

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Whilst we talk a lot about the mental side of the game on the Brain Booster, if you’ve something holding you back physically, that can have just as detrimental an impact on your game.

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Pall Mall’s health screen packages assess your blood profile, highlight any markers for certain cancers, check your heart health, stroke risk, other major organ health and much more. You can even have an MRI scan – with no waiting list– to check on any golfing ailments or dodgy joints. Let’s face it, we all have some aches and pains and we all need to be aware of our health.

Whilst we talk a lot about the mental side of the game on the Brain Booster, if you’ve something holding you back physically, that can have just as detrimental an impact on your game.

Golfer health screens at Pall Mall start from £249 for the “well man” or “well woman” check-up for anyone 40+. There are additional packages with more extensive scans and tests, including one where you can have help with your mental performance from yours truly.

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Today on the Brain Booster we have a very special guest, Dr Joe Parent the author of the immensely successful book ‘Zen Golf’ which has sold to golfers all over the world for the past 20 years

Dr. Parent is a renowned expert in Performance Psychology and has coached the mental game in golf, business, and life for over 40 years. He has worked with major champions, many other top golf professionals, and amateurs at every level. He has the singular distinction of coaching both a man (Vijay Singh) and a woman (Cristie Kerr) to #1 in the World Golf Ranking. Golf Digest magazine honored Dr. Parent in their list of “Top Mental Game Experts” in the world.

We got the chance in our time together to look at the power of PERSPECTIVE

How a slight shift in perspective can have a BIG effect on your game

Joe described the humbling experience recently of hosting mindfulness sessions for people actually living in the Ukraine and the way they are manging to handle their lives in the most horrendous of conditions.

• How much do we take for granted in our own lives?
• In what way does this cross over to our golf?
• The dramatic impact of self talk
• Changing the definition of a ‘good shot’
• Why the perception of what makes a ‘good day’ can make us so unhappy
• What perspective do we have on poor shots?
• How do we view the opportunity to play?
• What about the golf course itself?

Do we view the course as an invitation to experience the possibility of expressing our skills or do we see the course as being something of a ‘war zone’ where are own sense of self is brought into question?

• How does the golf course want to RECEIVE your shots?
• The ‘don’t know’ mindset
• Be CURIOIUS instead of afraid
• The Zen of better putting
• How you can make EVERY putt
• Why it is so important to ‘begin with the end in mind’
• The ultimate ATTITUDE to bring to your putting
• ‘Hit it where the putter is pointing’Love the way the ball leaves the putter
• LEARNING from every putt
• A really tremendous conversation with a legendary performance coach. You will want to listen to this over and over again

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Your ENVIRONMENT and how it shapes your development – Dr Luke Benoit, Plus Internal Focus – External Focus – what is the real truth about what is best for you?

 Today we welcome onto the show one of the best young coaches in the US. Dr Luke Benoit

Luke is a great student of the game and brings to the conversation some wonderful research around effective learning environments.

Research that challenges SOME of the existing theories around attentional focus

•  Should you be focused solely on EXTERNAL cues?
•  Is there a time and place for INTERNAL focus?
•  If you did want to change your swing what is the best way to go about it?
•  The ladder of improvement
•  Just how much does our environment affect our development?
•  How to shift your mind set from a training to a PLAYING attitude
•  Training for DISTANCE
•  The Rypstick and how you COULD hit the ball so much further
•  Creating a training environment to TEST your skills
•  Creating a very effective MENTAL SCORECARD

Dr. Luke Benoit Ph.D. is a PGA golf coach with a diverse background of experience and skills. He has worked as a college coach, university professor and researcher, professional golfer, and Director of Instruction. In 2015, Luke began work as the Director of Instruction at Interlachen Country Club in Edina, MN (one of the top-ranked courses in Minnesota). In his position, Luke oversees instructional programs and teaches members. Luke boasts an impressive clientele of beginner, novice, and expert golfers. Through the success of Luke's players, Luke has been recognized as one of the region's top golf coaches and instructors. He also started a company called Ryp Golf that offers technology and training to help golfers hit the ball farther and straighter. In a very short period of time, Ryp Golf has evolved into one of the biggest swing speed companies on the planet, which has led golfers from all around the planet to travel to work with Luke.

To find out more about Luke go to

https://www.lukebenoitgolf.com

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 Who are we really?

 What is our TRUE nature?

Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by Performance Coach Andy Morrison who works with a host of professional players on numerous tours sharing with them the ‘Inside Out’ understanding of experience.

Andy was heavily influenced in his coaching by some of our previous guests on the podcast such as Garret Kramer, Dicken Bettinger and Sam Jarman who have all built on the work of Sydney Banks exploring the ideas of the Three Principles

A lot of what Andy says may well challenge a lot of our existing beliefs especially about our constant need to try to FIX our thinking or to try to get into a perfect mental state to play golf

• Why trying to ‘fix’ the mind often just stirs it up more
• Knowing WHERE your experience actually comes from
• How to get back to the TASK at hand
• When your thinking settles down INSIGHTS appear

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by a rising star on the Tour coaching stage Liam James.

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Already at a relatively young age Liam has coached numerous winners on tour such as Matt Wallace and Vincent Norrman. He also coached tour legend Lee Westwood for over two years.

We had chance to discuss his evolution and development as a coach working with great mentors such as Mac O’Grady, Robert Rock and Matt Belsham.

From an early age he has been fascinated by the art and science of both playing and coaching.

Often in his early days he would be playing tournaments with other young pros who he was actually coaching and we go into a great story how he transformed the fortunes of one young player during a 36 hole tournament they played together.

With his association with Robert Rock he gained an opportunity to coach top players and has never looked back since.

We discuss life on tour and both the opportunity and challenges of working at the highest level.

The conversation though doesn’t just apply to good players.

Whatever your standard of play you will gain something from this podcast.

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We look into:

• Really understanding your game and your tendencies
• Effective preparation
• How to identify and devlop your stock shot
• Looking at the whole player not just the swing
• The importance of presenting a player FACTS
• The development of key SKILLS
• Drills YOU can do to improve your PACE control on the greens
• Dealing with the ups and downs of results as a coach

A really insightful session with a coach who is making a big difference at the highest level but who is also still heavily involved in coaching golf at ALL levels

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https://liamjames.golf/

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Today on the show we welcome back a great guest in Jayne Storey who has just published a new book called ‘The athlete’s ascent’.

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We had again a wonderful conversation about her work on what it can mean for you and your game.

Jayne has a wealth of knowledge and experience of martial arts spanning many years. Her work is taken from her own DIRECT experience. Experience gained from DAILY application.

She has created so many wonderful programs and written numerous books.

One of her previous books Breath Golf is an absolute must read.

It is so practical and applicable to the game of golf

Jayne’s new book explores key principles to get the absolute most from the mind body connection in ALL sports.

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In particular we discussed the need for a DAILY PRACTICE

• How a meditation practice done on a daily basis can make such a difference to the quality of your mind
• How to play the game from a quiet mind
• Why in a world of quick tips and fixes a daily practice is more important than ever
• How the intellect has been given too much prominence in skill development
• What to learn and understand from the great masters of martial arts
• Why the best players in the game are able to let movement emerge

As always a fascinating conversation with a really experienced coach who has worked with players at all levels of the game.

To find out more about Jayne Storey go to

https://www.chi-performance.com/

Today on the brain booster we are joined by coaching legend Michael Hebron.

Michael has just written a wonderful book with Stephen Yazulla titled ‘It Depends’

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The book is all about learning and what is required to get the best out of your lessons or your training.

It is an amazing piece of work with some great insights, many of which are counterintuitive.

It also reinforces what we have said on the Brain Booster many times about the need to honour your individuality.

The book is called:

‘It Depends’

As we discussed during our time together:

• The need for ‘unintended outcomes’
• The brain doesn’t learn without reference points
• Swing too fast, swing too slow so you can FIND what is the ideal timing
• Why you need to understand the rules of the CLUB
• The need to understand RHYTHM and TIMING
• The rhythm of ONE
• Understand how the swinging of the club creates motion not the other way around
• Take away the word better. The brain doesn’t learn from better, it learns much more from DIFFERENT
• The need to be OBJECTIVE about outcomes as opposed to emotional evaluation
• The need to be able to ADJUST to what is going on
• The difference between TEACHING environments and LEARNING environments
• The swing model is the GOLF COURSE

A truly wonderful conversation with one of the most influential coaches of the past 100 years.

A man who has dedicated his life to helping students and coaches alike how to LEARN better

To find out more about Michael and his work go to

https://www.michaelhebron.com/#home

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The silent epidemic why we should be concerned

Today on the Brain Booster we welcome back my good friend Dr Izzy Justice to discuss golf and mental health.

You wouldn’t ordinarily connect the two subjects together but as we discuss in today’s show there is currently an epidemic of mental health issues especially amongst young players.

So many people have a brain that is totally overstimulated.

The baseline EEG is way too high.

Then we come to try to play a game like golf where we are REQUIRED to have low brain wave frequency in order to perform.

We are consuming so much information and stumuli as a result of the amount of time we spend on our devices.

• Social media is saturating our brain with mostly useless stimuli
• What can we do about this problem?
• Is there a way out of the woods to better mental health and also better golf?
• Izzy has some wonderful suggestions:
• What does a GOOD day look like for our brain?
• The importance of a NEURO DIET
• Doing more things that help quieten your brain
• Simple DAILY strategies to help you reduce all of the NOISE
• Doing more of what you LIKE and less of what you don’t
• The importance of SLEEP
• The chronic problem of sleep deprivation
• Why our current baseline is contributing to sleep issues
• Why sleep gadgets can only do so much
• The GREAT SLEEP hack the FOUR, ONE, ONE
• How to get closure on the day
• This is a nugget of GOLD
• The key message of the podcast is to get your BASELINE down BEFORE you play golf
• The role of GRATITUDE in lowering brain frequency

A really great thought provoking session

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by top coach Ryan Mouque who has built a really outstanding career online as a Skillest coach

He had a background playing Rugby League in New Zealand

We talked about the difference in other sports regarding specific training

How we need to be much more specific about our training plans

Being aware of what would ACTUALLY make a difference to our scoring

Developing a tremendous online business

How Ryan took adversity in terms of a job situation and turned it around into a fantastic online business

• The plus factor in online coaching
• How communication can be so much stronger
• Creating better accountability
• Understanding what drills are ACTUALLY effective
• How to train your own SKILL
• Knowing what SHOTS you have on a given day
• Work with opposites to balance your game
• How to make practice more challenging and engaging
• What are the best ways to speed up your swing changes
• Taking swing changes to the golf course

A great session with a really forward thinking coach

To find out more about Ryan Mouque go to

https://ryanmouquegolf.com.au/

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Today on the show we have a very special guest in the shape of Martin Chuck one of the VERY best and most highly regarded golf coaches in the world.

 If you want to take a lesson with him he is booked up literally months in advance

Martin has an incredible story of how he developed both as a player and then to become a top coach. He spent a LOT of time with two absolute legends of the game Moe Norman and George Knudson.

Martin shared those early experiences of spending time watching Moe practice and listening to his philosophy of how to play the game.

• Listening to the awesome quality of his ball striking.
• The way he just flushed shot after shot dead out of the middle of the club.
• Can you imagine how rich an experience that must have been?
• Spending time watching George Knudson teach.
• Soaking up the way he helped students and developed their game.
• The value of spending time with truly great people.
•  From a coaching philosophy Martin has some wonderfully simple and effective concepts.
• Most of them designed to help you hit the ball more often flush out of the middle of the club

As he says, ‘Isn’t that what most golfers REALLY get a buzz from?’

• Hitting the ball FLUSH out of the centre of the clubface.
•  He shares with us one AMAZING drill that will literally make you so much more aware of what is ACTUALLY going on in your swing
•  As Martin says he ‘can’t be embarrassed’
• What a wonderful quality but as we discuss it is very much about changing your relationship with outcomes so the game doesn’t hurt you so much
•  How you can WIN on EVERY shot

 Golf is right here and right NOW!! To hell with everything else

A fantastic session full of great wisdom from someone who has developed a wonderful PRACTICAL coaching philosophy

Martin Chuck

Martin has a knack to be able to communicate to the masses. While he has coached some of the best players in the World, he prefers to work with the average, developing golfer. The "puzzle" of providing the right information at the right time is a thrill for Martin... The homebase for his wildly popular golf school is at The Raven in Phoenix, Arizona and during the Summer months he takes his show on the round to escape a little of the Phoenix heat.

To find out more about Martin and his coaching go to

www.tourstriker.com

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After the first session I did with Jim Waldron a couple of weeks ago we had such an outstanding response I had to get him back for part two.

And what a session it was.

The conversation just flowed as it tends to do with Jim and we explored even deeper levels of the Mind Body connection.

You will find some really valuable insights in this show

 We had the chance to discuss:

•  The Mind – Body connection and how to ACTUALLY change your swing
•  Honouring the goal of making movement without conscious thought
•  How to expand awareness
•  More feel based less thought based
•  Why you should do Tai Chi
•  The 3 Primary sensory channels and how you need to know YOUR preference
•  The myth of ‘swing thoughts’ and why they ‘seem’ to work
•  The focal point system
•  The holy grail of the ‘one point’
•  The need for BALANCE awareness

So many nuggets of pure gold from a legendary coach

Jim Waldron is a nationally acclaimed golf teaching professional, mental game coach, author, and lecturer best known for his pioneering research on the mind/body connection approach to learning and teaching golf. His holistic approach to golf improvement blends swing and short game mechanics, mental focus skills, physical fitness and emotional state control into a revolutionary golf instruction paradigm. He is recognized as one of the game's best golf swing instructors and swing theorists.

To find out more about Jim Waldron and his coaching go to

https://balancepointgolf.com/

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Today on the Brain Booster we welcome onto the show long term Mind Factor client Bronte Law. Fresh from her recent victory on the Ladies European Tour with a stunning final round in Morocco of nine under par.

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We took a wonderful trip down memory lane to Bronte’s early days as a junior player in Cheshire

How she has stayed with the same coach Richard Green all through her career from the age of 7 until the present time.

• Why it has been so important to work with someone who REALLY understands her game
• To have a coach who keeps pushing her forward to develop her skills
• But also to have the confidence as a coach to keep it SIMPLE
• How a simple text message can keep a player on track

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• Looking at all aspects of the game even from a very early age.
• The desire to be a professional golfer and pursue a dream
• Spending time with a legend of the game and former Masters Champion Ian Woosnam in Barbados
• The effect of being in the company of excellence
• Observing a true shotmaker and artist of the game
• Being clear on what a good day looks like in terms of training and application
• Accumulating GOOD DAYS
• The benefits of starting the day REALLY well
• Playing competitive golf ON THE GOLF COURSE
• The role of crucial decisions to influence the path of your life

A great conversation with a top player who has battled back from some adversity and some poor form to challenge again at the very highest levels of the game.

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Today we welcome back onto the show Jon Sherman author of the brilliant ‘Four Foundations of Golf’ and his latest book ‘The Foundations of Winning Golf’

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We had a wonderful conversation all about competing in tournaments. What we discussed is so relevant to anyone wanting to get the best out of their game when it really matters.

The great thing about John is that he shares so much of his own personal experiences and challenges playing at a very high level of amateur golf

His first book has had a major impact on golfers all over the world and his website Practical Golf is a veritable mine of great information.

He also has a wonderful podcast which I have been invited onto a couple of times called ‘The Sweet Spot’ with Adam Young

Why Mindfulness is so important for the health of athletes

 Today we are joined on the Brain Booster with Luke Doherty who has been doing some amazing work in sport applying the principles of Mindfulness

 Luke Doherty trained as an elite rugby player and was capped for England under-18's. He earned a degree and Postgrad diploma in Law as well as advanced-level mindfulness training qualifications from Breathworks and the Oxford University Mindfulness Centre. He's since been dedicated to devising and delivering bespoke mindfulness programmes for some of the UK's leading athletes and forward thinking executives, working with Premiership rugby and football players, Olympians and Team GB athletes. His innovative approaches using mindfulness have received national media coverage and he's part of a consortium which advises the Dept. of Health and Social Care.

 Luke has lived an extraordinarily varied life part of which was when he spent six years in a Buddhist Mindfulness Centre

 We had a very important conversation about mental health in competitive sport and how Mindfulness can be such a valuable tool to stay connected to what is truly important to you

•  There is so much pressure these days on athletes to perform
•  Luke talked about some harrowing examples of players he knew in rugby who had committed suicide as a result of the anxiety created in the quest to win
•  We looked deeply into how mindfulness can be applied in high pressure situations in sport to allow the athlete to stay connected to their true values
•  How to deal with the game ‘after the game’
•  What do you do to settle the experience you have just had in your mind to allow you to keep going forwards to experience pleasure in the game
•  How the ‘body’ can let you know if you are off track with your life and your purpose
•  The mind body connection and how your body ‘keeps the score’
•  The amazing way that Luke has combined boxing and mindfulness to help young people in the community
•  The huge value in spending time mindfully in nature
•  The incredible value of a morning routine that really resonates with you at a deep level

 A really wide ranging and fascinating conversation around mindfulness and how it can be applied on a very practical level to get the most from your game

 To find out more about Luke and his work go to

https://www.mindfulpeakperformance.com/about

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Using the GOLF COURSE to TRAIN

 Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by a really outstanding coach from the USA Tim Sheredy

Tim has had outstanding success with his clients, especially junior players

He has had a big influence on the careers of players like Jessica and Nelly Korda, CT Pan, Peter Uhlein and Ben An

 We had a wonderful conversation about developing the game of golf and the most effective ways to train.

Especially the importance of getting out on to the GOLF COURSE to train.

To put yourself in LOTS of game situation to help you to develop the flexibility required to get the best from you game.

Amongst many things we discussed:

• How do we build a really positive golfing experience?
• How can we be better golfing parents?
• How can we ask better questions to support our junior players?
• The FOUR GOLFING SKILLS
• Control the ball
• Emotional skill
• Mental skills
• Effective Training Skills

Effective Training

3 phases

• Technique
• Shot Creation
• Pressure training

Spending time out on the golf course TRAINING

3 shots from one location

• Draw
• Straight
• Fade

• 3 clubs from one location
• Developing imagination and creativity out on the course
• The importance of CLEAR INTENTION on EVERY shot
• How to build SHOTS not just swings

To find out more about Tim go to

https://tsgigolf.com/

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 Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by Marcus Bell from GRF Golf formerly Zen Golf

I have known Marcus for many years and we have done a number of seminars together.

It has been wonderful to recently see how much his coaching career has taken off as a result of his You Tube channel where he shares the content of his actual lessons as opposed to just giving out ‘technique tips’

It is a real ‘fly on the wall’ experience watching a top coach in action

Marcus and his coaching is very different from so much of the information out there at the moment.

He helps people tap into their own natural way of moving

Exploring possibility

We had had the chance to discuss:

• Why golfers have lost their true IDENTITY
• The endless search for information creates so much noise in the system
• Why being dependent on other people and their opinions can be so detrimental
• How you can learn to connect back to more of your AUTHENTIC golfing self
• Why movement doesn’t need language
• How we can stop interfering with the system and learn how to REACT better
• Pushing your boundaries and exploring movement in space
• How you can explore draws and fades
• Creating an environment of discovery

This session will really encourage you to explore YOUR movements and what your body can ACTUALLY do as opposed to what you have been told to do

To find out more about Marcus go to

GRF Golf on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook

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Today on the Brain Booster we have a live recording of a webinar I conducted with Raymond Prior.

The event was over subscribed with people trying to get into the Zoom call after it was full.

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Raymond and I collaborated on what we believe to be a ground breaking project called ‘Building Stable Confidence’

It is a program that has had wonderful reviews and could be a wonderful assistance this year to help you get the best from your game.

During the webinar we discussed the key concept of

‘Separating SELF from CRAFT’

How can we develop the capability to create some space between our capability as a golfer and our self image as a human being

How being ‘concerned’ about our value as a human is tied to our evolutionary development

The early messages we receive as youngsters from important people around us and how this can weave into our identity

• The need to develop a ‘SAFE PLACE’ to play from
• How our performance can become a THREAT to our identity
• How this leads to unstable confidence
• Why your relationship to the game can become so toxic

The necessity to ask yourself the question ‘Why do I play golf?’ Not to take your initial answer but to look deeper to what is REALLY important to you

• What are your INTRINSIC and SELF DIRECTED values to play the game?
• Challenging your core BELIEFS to see if they REALLY work for you
• The fragility of EXTRINSIC values and why you can never ‘get enough’
• The need to JOURNAL your experiences and why that is so important
• What am I committed to TODAY?
• Think about WHY you play golf WHEN you play golf
• Being INTENTIONAL and on purpose

This is a wonderful session with Raymond and Karl as they go into some real detail as to how to get the very best from your game

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How to develop a better RELATIONSHIP to YOUR game of golf

We are joined on the Brain Booster with top mental game coach from Canada Kent Osborne.

A previous guest who has written a wonderful book called ‘Scratch Attitude’ç

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Kent is very prolific on twitter and puts out really great thoughts on a regular basis.

He is primarily focused on club players as opposed to professionals and how the average player can get so much more from his or her experience of the game.

He has a very practical no nonsense view of the game underpinned by a deep understanding of psychology from his previous career developing leaders in business.

We had a wonderful conversation looking at the impact of EMOTION on our game and how it is almost impossible to ‘out think’ your emotions.

• Does mental game coaching ACTUALLY work?
• When it doesn’t WHY doesn’t it work
• We looked at the importance of RITUALS as opposed to routines
• How you can STACK emotions in your favour before you play
• Why GRATITUDE is such a beneficial concept
• The importance of FEELING gratitude as opposed to just an intellectual understanding
• Kent had some really strong views on JOURNALLING
• The importance of actually ENJOYING and recording your successes
• Being totally absorbed in the PROCESS of your practice
• When golf becomes a SPIRITUAL endeavour
• The sheer joy and beauty of EVENING golf

 A wonderful conversation with a great coach and very deep thinker about the game of golf

To spend time in the company of Kent just makes you feel better about the game of golf and indeed the game of life

To find out more about Kent and his work go to

https://scratchattitude.com/

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Today we welcome back onto the Brain Booster our really good friend and colleague from the USA, Randy Joyner.

Randy has been establishing himself over the past few years as one of the very best coaches in the States.

He has had outstanding results at ALL levels applying many of the ‘Lost Art of Golf’ principles. One of his long time students is Derek Ernst who has been a winner on the PGA Tour.

We got the chance to discuss with Randy how he works with Derek and in particular what he learned from a recent experience where he caddied for Derek in the John Deere Classic.

There are some absolute gems of information within this conversation.

On this particular week Derek was struggling to make the cut and Randy describes just how they manged to get the job done and play at the weekend.

We often hear about winners on Tour but the real pressure for many players is to get over the cut line and have employment for the weekend

We get totally inside the ropes here with the player/caddie relationship

We discussed :

How a top player would prepare for a PGA Tour event

The pitfalls of doing the WRONG type of practice

Falling into the ‘seriousness’ trap

How you need to ‘live life’ outside the confines of the four rounds

The importance of the ‘in between’ time. The 90% of golf that is NOT golf

Trying to make the cut, feeling uncomfortable but getting the job done anyway

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It is wonderful to welcome back onto the Brain Booster my very good friend Gary Nicol, co-author of the best-selling ‘Lost Art of Golf’ series.

We had as usual a wonderful conversation particularly about our Lost Art schools at Archerfield

 We discussed the concept of our RELATIONSHIP to the game of golf

 What do we really want from the game?

 How we can become a little more SELF LESS and a less SELFISH

 Why becoming a great playing partner may actually unlock your own performance.

 Why the outcome of a golf shot should never determine your self worth

 The biggest myths around consistency

How the Trackman numbers tell us what does and doesn’t change much in a swing

What we should be aiming to influence and WHERE we need to place our ATTENTION

We have lots of what I call ‘surface conversations’ about golf such as how can I hit it further, score lower, get handicaps down but what about going to a bit deeper level and finding out what REALLY matters to you when you play.

How can you get the very most out of this fleeting opportunity called LIFE

Is that a conversation REALLY worth having ?

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Today we welcome back onto the Brain Booster my good friend and legendary coach Jim Waldron.

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Jim has been on the show a number of times and there has always been a wonderful response to his words of wisdom.

He has an incredible background in his coaching development over many years looking into all areas of the Mind Body connection

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We discussed in great detail perhaps the most overlooked opportunity to improve your game.

The 90% of golf that isn’t golf!!

We spend so much of our golfing time NOT playing golf and yet how many golfers really look into what is happening during this time and HOW they can maximise their experience?

I have long contended that the quality of what you do in the 90% will have a DIRECT influence on what you do when it comes to play your shots.

We discussed:

• The value of being EXTERNAL in between shots
• Making a conscious decision to connect with the beauty of the golf course
• Connecting and coming to your SENSES
• The connection with the ‘Power of NOW’
• Losing your absorption in your own SELF
• Connecting with other people and how this can cross over into your life
• Your behaviour in between shots and how this becomes totally unconscious
• The pace of you walk and the ‘Mind Body’ connection
• The danger of focusing too much on OUTCOMES

How tuning into your external world helps you LISTEN to the golf course. Being attuned to your ENVIRONMENT and then being able to RESPOND to that environment

• The value of good conversation and being WIDE with your focus
• The feeling of ‘lightness’ and how that can help you get into the shot
• Moe Norman and ‘positive indifference’
• Random reinforcement syndrome – what is it and why do we fall into its trap

It is such a pleasure to speak to Jim

He has such a wonderful INTENTION to help golfers

You can only benefit from is wonderful wisdom.

To find out more about Jim Waldron go to

https://balancepointgolf.com/

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Today on the show we welcome back our good friend Kelvin Kelley

Kelvin is a certified Mind factor coach and Master Mind Factor coach

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He is a great coach who has a strong desire to SIMPLIFY the game to allow his students to PERFORM better

He has a wonderful thirst for knowledge and a desire to improve as a coach

He has been heavily influenced by great Australian coach Gary Edwin

We had a GREAT conversation

We talk about the importance of understanding your tendencies and how to MATCH up your swing

Starting with a clear INTENTION of the shot you want to play

• The vital importance of correct CONCEPTS
• Getting the set up right – The critical importance of SET UP
• Being READY to move and the more you get right the less conscious involvement in the swing
• Mirror your impact position
• Simplifying your swing to free your mind
• Kelvin also talks about his belief in JOURNALLING and how it has been a GAME CHANGER for his golf and his life
• How can a student benefit from understanding ATTENTION
• The difference between ‘having thoughts’ and ‘deliberate thinking’
• The multiple levels of ACCEPTANCE
• The importance of developing your own PHILOSOPHY
• Playing a ‘game within the game’ and how this can set you free

Kelvin is a really outstanding coach who has been prepared to study both technical and mental aspects to become the very best version of himself

A great conversation to really challenge your perspective on the game

To find out more about Kelvin Kelley go to

https://www.kelleygolf.com/ 

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Today we welcome back onto the Brain Booster long standing friend and colleague Kendal McWade.

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Kendal has been on the show numerous times and I have invited him back because we always have a wonderful conversation.

We managed to dive deep into the whole area of building SKILLS. How ATTENTION is so crucial to your development.

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We talked about what you could ACTUALLY do this winter to work on your game in a more effective way

• The skill of bringing your attention to crucial key areas to develop true skill
• Why we fail to apply basic learning principles
• The importance to see golf as ‘problem solving’
• Why we don’t understand the learning process

 Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by an extraordinarily special guest Dr Ellen Langer

Dr Langer has been one of the most influential people in the world of psychology over the past 40 years

She was the first female tenured professor in psychology at Harvard

Has written numerous books

She has conducted so many incredible experiments, most notably the ‘counterclockwise’ experiment where she had older men go into a ‘pod’ that took them back to their younger selves.

The results as we find out today were extraordinary

She has been studying Mindfulness for the past 35 years and makes clear that mindfulness is NOT meditation

Mindfulness is being aware of what is ACTUALLY happening as opposed to what we think is happening based on our auto pilot responses

• Why we need to realise that we DON’T know
• How our assumptions keep constantly tricking us
• How research only gives us PROBABILITIES not absolutes
• The ‘counterclockwise’ study and the amazing possibilities that open up
• Is ageing a direct consequence of our beliefs surrounding what we believe SHOULD be happening?
• Can we think ourselves WELL?
• Can we think ourselves SICK?
• What living a mindful life looks like

To get a copy of Ellen Langer’s new book The Mindful Body go to

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Today on the podcast we are joined by author and executive coach Becky Hall who has written a wonderful book called ‘The Art of Enough’

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During a very wide ranging conversation we to a deep dive into the concept of ENOUGH

What is enough?

In a world where we it is constantly being reinforced that we are not enough and we need more of just about everything it was so refreshing to chat with Becky and to look through a different lens.

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• We are often overloaded with demands on time
• How can we get better at focusing our attention on the RIGHT things?
• The current epidemic of burnout
• Self doubt and how even the very best can experience this on a regular basis
• What is REALLY driving the feeling of not being ‘good enough’?
• Coming from a position of SCARCITY and LACK
• Needing external validation for what we do
• Quietening the inner critic and allowing yourself to seek excellence
• Following a path that really matters to you
• Mastering and exploring your craft
• Why ‘Enough’ isn’t just sitting back and doing nothing
• The need to REST and RESTORE

How to avoid the trap of ‘working harder’ in terms of your training as opposed to training efficiently

Within the theme we have of looking at the game differently Becky provides a refreshingly alternative perspective.

Nothing in the conversation suggests we shouldn’t aim to maximise our skills but it does mean coming at it from a position of ‘enough’ as opposed to a position of lack.

Becky Hall is an experienced EMCC executive coach, leadership consultant and facilitator. She has worked one to one with senior leaders and executive teams across all sectors for over twenty years.

Her new book is called ‘The Art of Enough’

Contact Becky at

https://presence.uk.net/

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Today on the show we are joined by Performance Coach Tim O’Connor.

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We had a wonderful conversation about his life and evolution as a performance coach.

Tim has a fascinating background as a writer, golfer and now coach.

He wrote a wonderful book about the great Moe Norman called ‘The Feeling of Greatness’

We talked about the time Tim spent with Moe, playing golf and a fascinating insight to Moe’s connection to the target when he played.

Why and how Moe was so misunderstood

Onto Tim’s coaching career

Tim’s observation of the rampant narcissism in the golfing world today and how we can all become lost in the story of ‘I will be happy WHEN’

How we are constantly being fed the story that we are ‘BROKEN’

How we could access our own innate talent

How our Ego can hijack the coaching process

What Tim learned about coaching from Lou Reed

Tim O’Connor is a golf coach, award-winning writer, and podcaster living in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Tim came into coaching following a career as a music critic and then a golf writer during which he covered the major tours and wrote four books including The Feeling of Greatness: The Moe Norman Story, the biography of the mysterious Canadian regarded as the best ball-striker who ever lived. Tim is in the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame as a writer.

After being involved for 20 years in men’s work with the ManKind Project, Tim moved into coaching golfers, including the University of Guelph men’s and women’s golf team.

A self-described deep golf nerd, Tim is fascinated by the psychological and spiritual aspects of golf, which he brings together in his writing on the Substack platform, talks, and his Swing Thoughts podcast with Howard Glassman. Tim is completing his latest book, Quiet Mind Golf.

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How to develop STABLE confidence – Dr Raymond Prior

• Why is your confidence so unstable?
• Why do you have it TODAY and it is gone TOMORROW?
• What would it be like to have a STABLE confidence that doesn’t come and go?

Today we welcome back onto the podcast one of the most popular guests over the past 12 months Dr Raymond Prior. Raymond is one of the most sought after mental performance coaches in the USA and he has recently published a wonderful new book called ‘Golf – Beneath the Surface’ which is a tremendous in depth study of what is REALLY happening in our brain when we are attempting to perform our best in sport.

As the title says it is not about the ‘surface level’ techniques often dished out to players but a study into what has been found by science to be truly beneficial in helping someone deal with the challenges of the game.

So much of what we have been taught about mental coaching turns out to be nothing more that myths and misconceptions.

In our conversation today we drill down and look at a number of those myths to get to the heart of what will REALLY make a difference.

 We look into:

• The true nature of STABLE confidence. What it is and why it is so important to have it
•  Why we suffer so much with insecurity in our game
•  Unstable confidence: Why so many of us are looking for confidence in all the wrong places
•  Why ACCEPTANCE is such a critical skill to understand
•  What acceptance definitely is NOT
•  How the yips ACTUALLY manifest in our mind and why just working on technique will NEVER solve the problem

Raymond’s new book is called:

‘Golf beneath the surface’ and is available on Amazon

 A really tremendous session with a great Performance Coach

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Today on the show we are joined by Jon Sherman the author of the brilliant best selling book ‘The Four Foundations of Golf’, host of the ‘Sweet Spot’ podcast and the host of ‘Practical Golf’ website.

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Jon is a top amateur player in his own right and recently achieved a lifetime golfing ambition by qualifying for the US Mid Am

We opened up our conversation with some fascinating insights about his experience in qualifying and all of the challenges he encountered by stepping out of his comfort zone and competing at a much higher level.

How Jon has learned to have a different relationship with the game and his ability to deal better with the inevitable chaos golf often throws at us

It is this relationship to unpredictable outcomes which for me is the heart of an effective mental game strategy

We had a really wide ranging conversation covering multiple topics such as:

• Self learning and what it actually looks and feels like
• How to develop more clubface awareness
• Why giving yourself permission to fail in practice is so important
• Expectation management and why it has such a big impact on your mental game
• Matching skill level with practical expectation
• The ability to reframe outcomes to stay more level mentally
• The TWO THIRDS rule and how it can change your perception of the game
• How to genuinely enjoy the game more

A really great conversation with a deep thinker about the game and someone who is having a BIG impact on how people golfers approach getting better at the game.

To find out more about Jon Sherman go to

https://practical-golf.com/ 

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Today a slightly different show with a solo effort from myself. I have had a few people ask me recently to clarify some of the key ideas from the Mind factor trainings so here we go.

What path are you ACTUALLY on?

Could you embark on a ‘path to mastery’ as opposed to being on a path of fear, anxiety and avoidance?

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• What game are you ACTUALLY playing?
• How is the game of golf occurring for you?
• Are you allowing golf to be a judgement on your VALUE as a person?
• Does the golf course appear as a threat or an opportunity?
• How can you change your ‘story’? A story that is holding you back
• What do you want to really experience with your game?
• Understanding what TRUE GRATITUDE actually is
• Why gratitude is a PERFORMANCE state

In this short session we explore some really important territory and ask some question that are not ordinarily asked of golfers.

Yet if we don’t ask these questions we will NEVER get to the real source of performance and perhaps more importantly what is holding that performance back.

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Welcome back to the Brain Booster for another week.

Thank you for supporting the show, it really is appreciated.

From time to time people question me about my seemingly indifferent approach to ‘working’ on the golf swing. And that all I want people to do is ‘just play’

This couldn’t be further from the truth as I have always believed that the key to great golf is a blend of swing efficiency coupled with a great mindset.

I do not believe in endlessly dissecting your swing and obsessing over positions but I do believe in having a good understanding of what creates your SHOTS.

It was with that in mind I wanted to welcome back a great coach from the USA and a big supporter of the podcast Kelvin Kelley to discuss how best to make your swing more efficient.

We discuss:

How the set up is the very best place to start making your swing more efficient.

Why you can set up in a way to help you create a powerful impact position

Feeling a dynamic impact position with an impact bag

Hitting angles at address

How to turn the switch to performance on the golf course

Becoming a ‘shot detective’ out on the golf course

Letting the shot create the swing

How your physiology affects your performance

How your lifestyle dramatically affects your performance

Some really solid and interesting concepts from a top coach

Kelvin is a Class A PGA golf professional in San Francisco, California. He has taught at some of the top golf clubs in the Bay Area, which include The Olympic Club and Sonoma Golf Club. Kelvin was recently voted a “Top Instructor To Watch” by golf.com and has written several articles for golf.com and GolfWRX.

Kelvin works with his students to develop an efficient golf swing. He welcomes golfers of all skill levels however is geared towards the more committed golfer. Besides swing and short game instruction, Kelvin is an expert in on and off the course coaching. This includes mental preparation, developing practice routines and course strategizing.

More information can be found at 

www.kelleygolf.com

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Whilst we talk a lot about the mental side of the game on the Brain Booster, if you’ve something holding you back physically, that can have just as detrimental an impact on your game.

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Today on the show we are joined by top coach Nick Bradley to discuss a fascinating topic. MISTAKES and more importantly your relationship to those mistakes.

 Nick sets the scene with a great story about challenging some of the best coaches in the world at the PGA show in Orlando about what they COULD have learned from their biggest mistakes.

• The question was largely ignored.
• An opportunity for everyone to learn was missed.
•  Why do we have such a poor relationship to our mistakes and more importantly what can we do about it?
•  How we stigmatise mistakes and the consequence of this limits our learning
•  How mistakes are so essential in our evolution as a player
•  Why we need to look at the journey of a player as opposed to just looking at perfect ‘swing positions’
•  Nick also gives us some great insights into working with top players
•  How a great relationship CAN turn sour and go in the wrong direction
•  The need for CLARTY on the financial side
•  How to keep challenging players effectively
•  How to become a better STUDENT
•  Why Butch Harmon is such a great coach
•  Why ‘method coaching’ can be an ego trip and intellectual snobbery
•  On the business side why it is important to consider ‘staying in your lane’

Nick Bradley is best known for his work with English golfer Justin Rose from 2006 to 2009, who he coached from rank 125 in the world all the way to 5th. Rose went on to win the European Order of Merit in 2007, the 2008 Ryder Cup, and his first and only US Open major championship.

Over twenty-five years, Nick has trained over 400 professional golfers, including Sir Nick Faldo, Captain Paul McGinley, and Seamus Power.

He’s coached his clients to multiple PGA Tour wins, a top-three placement at the US Open, eight amateur titles, two junior national titles, a world #1 rank, a European #1 rank, and two World #5 placements.

To find out more about Nick Bradley and his work go to

www.bradleygolf.com

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A coach and his journey to excellence 

Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by top coach Anthony McCarthy the author of a wonderful book called ‘The Golf Coach’ which is all about the business of golf coaching and the multi dimensional approach a great modern day coach must embrace to be the very best version of themselves.

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We had a great conversation about the influences that have driven Anthony especially the legendary footballer Johan Cruyyf the pioneer of TOTAL football

The mystique of how he coached

One of his quotes:

‘There is no higher praise than being acclaimed for your style’

• It is not ONLY about the result but the WAY the result is achieved 
• Understanding how important it is to EXPRESS your capabilities
• The variability of outcomes and why we shouldn’t attach everything to them
• What the vast majority of golfers REALLY want to achieve
• Why it is SO important to really understand a player’s UNIQUE desire
• Why we should hold back our ASSUMPTIONS
• How your coaching philosophy should EVOLVE
• Beginning with the SHOT and working from there
• Becoming obsessed with the BALL FLIGHT
• When to dive into technique and when NOT
• Is your intervention actually improving IMPACT?
• John Jacobs ‘Golf is what the BALL does’
• Spending more time observing players ON the COURSE
• Why you shouldn’t have to ‘get worse to get better”

A great session with an extremely knowledgeable coach who has immersed himself in the development of his craft

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Knowing who you TRULY are on the golf course – Garret Kramer

How you can learn to fully EXPRESS yourself 

Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by coach Garret Kramer 

We had a fascinating discussion around identity and who we truly are

How we often get drawn down blind alleys as a result of our attachment to a separate self or ego

Garret provided a refreshing if alternative view of what it is to be a golfer in the modern world and how we often FORGET our true identity

We discussed:

• The myths and misconceptions around the ‘mental game’
• Why a lot of psychology can be doomed to fail
• How we can actually play with a CLEAR HEAD
• Why trying to FIX your thinking can just create more problems than it solves
• How the desire to EXPRESS yourself can actually be grounded in a stable place in your mind
•  

Garret has a different way of looking at performance and the seeking of fulfilment

I am sure you will find his ideas challenge a lot of your current beliefs but you will nevertheless find them fascinating

Garret Kramer is the founder of Inner Sports. For over 25 years, he has provided consulting services for athletes, coaches, actors, and business leaders. And he has conducted workshops, day-long symposiums, and retreats for teams, organizations, universities, and schools. Credited with bringing the “Direct Path of Self-Exploration” to the high performance and sport communities, Garret is now sharing with global audiences his unique take on self-exploration and non-duality, as well as their implications for a more harmonious world.

Garret has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, and Forbes; and he has appeared on ESPN, FOX, NPR, WFAN, NBC, and The Golf Channel. He is the author of two books, Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life, and The Path of No Resistance: Why Overcoming is Simpler than You Think. His third book is, Who. We. Are.: Silencing Ego, Returning to Source, Knowing Ourselves

To find out more about Garret go to www.garretkramer.com

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Why IDENTITY is so important to your development as a golfer

Facing up to your FEARS and shattering the illusions of what the game means to us

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Today we have a wonderful conversation with Jay Carter who is the National Coach of the New Zealand golf team.

Why does New Zealand punch above its weight in terms of producing great sports men and women?

The influence of the ALL BLACKS

It was a very open conversation about his own struggles as a player and some of the deep thinking he has done about what actually makes a difference to players who want to make the very best out of their development

Why context is so important and how the brain responds differently depending on the environment you are in

• The limitations of data taken out of context
• The need for curiosity and exploration
• Why your IDENTITY as a golfer is so important and will influence everything you do
• Being clear WHO you are
• What have been your influences?
• What about your ancestry?
• Your culture?
• Can you see golf as an opportunity to explore?
• Can you be creative with what you do in your TRAINING?
• Could you get out onto the golf course with more purpose and engagement?
• Why do people make such good progress in Martial Arts and yet often stay the same in golf?
• Separating SKILL from technique
• Ryan Fox and the influence of the conversations around the All Blacks

A really interesting conversation with a top coach who is passionately involved in trying to help golfers get better.

Take a listen to Jay on his podcast ‘Talking Performance’

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The opportunity for the coach of the future

What is technology going to do to the future of coaching?

More importantly what can we DO to be ready and to offer great EXPERIENCES to our students

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Today on the Brain Booster we welcome back coach Will Robins who has been working closely with the PGA of America over the past number of years coaching professionals on how to deliver more EFFECTIVE coaching

We had a great conversation looking at how technology will impact the future of the game

What will AI do to the coaching model?

Yet there is still a wonderful opportunity to help players on the GOLF COURSE

Finding out what is TRULY happening on course as opposed to what we think is happening

Getting the very best from your CURRENT level of skills

We looked at:

• The Art of scoring
• The Art of Playing more freely
• Better thinking
• Better strategy
• Dealing with your tendencies
• Finding ways to engage more with the golf course and not just playing golf swing

Will is a real free spirit with a very creative mind and an ability to see future opportunities when others only see problems

If you are a coach or a player you will gain so much by questioning HOW and WHAT you deliver in your lessons

To find out more about Will Robins go to

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by iconic teacher from the USA Kiran Kanwar who has a VERY different view of how we COULD swing the golf club.

It is a view that has at its very heart SIMPLICITY and efficiency of movement with an emphasis on injury prevention.

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What Kiran has to say may well be different and oppose what you currently believe about the golf swing but surely it is important to QUESTION what we believe and ask ‘Could there be a different way to do this?’

Kiran has been studying movement and how the body works for over 30 years and has produced numerous studies

• During our discussion we looked into what Kiran calls the Minimalist Golf Swing
• How so much of the golf swing is dictated by your address position
• The futility of thinking about body parts on the downswing
• The role of arm swing and movement
• How the downswing should happen automatically
• What ACTUALLY happens with ground reaction forces
• Why simplicity frees us up to just PLAY golf
• A swing to help reduce injury

A thought provoking and challenging session. You may agree with some of what Kiran says or disagree with all of it but at least it will get you to think and challenge your model of the world

To find out more about Kiran Kanwar go to

https://kirankanwargolf.wordpress.com/about/

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Equanimity – What is it? 

And why is it SO important for your game – Jon Adler

Today we are joined on the Brain Booster with Performance Coach Jon Adler who has worked at all levels of the game from club players to European Tour winners.

Jon is also an accomplished golfer himself and he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our show today.

More importantly he brings a wonderful disarming honestly to our exchange in terms of what CAN and CAN”T be achieved working on the mental aspects of the game.

His own story is extraordinary in particular how he had a game changing experience on a TEN day SILENT MEDITATION retreat

His journey began in 2001 as a coach to business owners and professionals. When he stopped playing football and started to play more golf.

Jon was heavily influenced by Timothy Gallwey’s book The Inner Game of Golf.

So I wondered if I could combine what I had learned in coaching business people with this new understanding of the Inner Game of Golf.  I began to coach a friend at my local golf club. I am not a swing coach. My interest is in how we can develop the mind for better performance.

He also spent time with the late golf psychologist  Jos Vanstiphout on the European Tour.

As Jon says:

“The understanding of your mind is available to anybody. You do not need to be a certain standard of golfer to understand your mind, play better golf and improve your focus and concentration. The same universal principles apply to us all.”

In today’s show we discuss:

The principles of equanimity

Being able to accept golf and life as it IS not as we would want it to be

Beginners mind – How to look through a very clear lens

True principles of acceptance – what it is and more importantly what it isn’t

Craving and aversion

Wanting a result too much or being fearful of an outcome

The experience of the YIPS – what is actually going on

The pathway to a yips recovery

To find out more about Jon go to

www.golfisamindgame.com

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To find out more about the golfer’s health screen with Pall Mall

Pall Mall’s health screen packages assess your blood profile, highlight any markers for certain cancers, check your heart health, stroke risk, other major organ health and much more. You can even have an MRI scan – with no waiting list– to check on any golfing ailments or dodgy joints. Let’s face it, we all have some aches and pains and we all need to be aware of our health.

Whilst we talk a lot about the mental side of the game on the Brain Booster, if you’ve something holding you back physically, that can have just as detrimental an impact on your game.

Golfer health screens at Pall Mall start from £249 for the “well man” or “well woman” check-up for anyone 40+. There are additional packages with more extensive scans and tests, including one where you can have help with your mental performance from yours truly.

Learn more about Pall Mall’s Golfer Health Screens by:

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On today’s show we have with us a good friend of the Brain Booster in the shape of Mike Malone from Trackman to discuss technology in general and how it can potentially be either a FRIEND or a FOE to your game.

 Over the past 10 to 15 years launch monitors such as Trackman have become a staple part of the coaching diet.

Most people who go for lessons now expect they will be assisted by a coach using a launch monitor but what are the potential pitfalls to what can be an overwhelming array of information?

 In the early days many people fell into the trap of drowning in the numbers. Thinking that more information would be better for their game.

Yet as Mike explains, the really great coaches had an instinctive ability to limit the numbers to just a few key performance indicators.

 We had a really great conversation about the very best ways of using technology and how there are many myths and misconceptions of what actually DOES change in your swing from shot to shot.

• What is CONSISTENT in your swing?
• There may be some surprises here
•  How you can improve the BIG THREE
• Ground contact
• Strike Location
• Face Orientation
•  Creating more effective CONSEQUENCE in your practice
•  How you can use technology to tune much more into the SHOTS you are trying to play
•  Using technology as an individual
• Many people now have some form of launch monitor for their own game
• How can you best use the technology in your own practice
•  Why you should STOP trying to dissect every poor shot
•  How you can actually manage your poor shots better

 How using indoor simulators to play on golf courses can be so beneficial to your training

Why it is important to feel what you are doing with a shot THEN use technology to back up your estimate as opposed to just relying on the monitor to supply all of the information

What could the future of technology be from a golf perspective?

How entertainment technology is helping more golfers get into the game

 A fantastic conversation about how YOU can get the very best out of technology without getting lost in all of the information

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On today’s Brain Booster we have one of the world’s leading experts on hypnosis, Dr David Spiegel.

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David Spiegel is one of the United States’ most respected experts in the clinical uses of hypnosis. He is Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and directs the Stanford Center on Stress and Health and Center for Integrative Medicine. David has over 40 years of clinical and research experience studying psycho-oncology, stress and health, pain control, sleep, hypnosis, and psychotherapy for cancer patients.

We had a fantastic conversation with David about what hypnosis is and perhaps more importantly what it ISN’T

The origins of modern hypnosis

• Why hypnosis can work when other modes of therapy may not
• Hypnosis is a state of highly focused attention
• Cognitive flexibility – trying out being a ‘different person’to solve the problem
• How Tiger Woods developed his mental game with hypnosis
• How could you utilise hypnosis for your game?
• How you can begin to trust your BODY more instead of always interfering
• How you can devlop a program of self hypnosis
• The benefits in making changes with hypnosis
• A wonderful conversation with a leader in his field
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• Good players equally miss the fairway both left and right
• Why meditation can make such a difference
• How to reduce the emotion with decision making
• The ‘Tiger 5’ and what you can learn from perhaps the greatest of all golf minds
• Why simplifying the game is so necessary

So it was wonderful to welcome Raymond back onto the show to discuss more around this fascinating topic.

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Amongst other things we discussed:

• Why playing in poor weather can actually help you build resilience
• How learning the game in ‘perfect’ conditions could actually be detrimental
• How entitlement can be such a dangerous mindset to developing golfers
• The entertainment industry and how certain performers are able to ‘access’ their true skills
• Performance anxiety in the acting world
• How social media drives an over attachment to results relative to your peers
• How you can be BOTH grateful AND competitive
• What anxiety REALLY is and more importantly how to sill perform in its presence
• Why STABLE CONFIDENCE is so important to be able to access your skills
• What are the ingredients of stable confidence?

This is such an important episode with so many valuable nuggets to work with.

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It is the perfect time of year to work on these ideas.

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Today on the Brain Booster we welcome the authors of a fascinating new book ‘In the Zone Secrets’

Here's the link mentioned:  https://inthezonesecrets.com/thebrainbooster 

Bo Watson and Shannon Shuskey have been very successful with their program with clients of all levels and abilities

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It is a really interesting story about how they got together and began working on their program.

Bo Watson had actually given up the game and quit coaching

He had gotten to a point where he felt so frustrated with his own game and also the progress of his students.

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He had a conversation with Shannon over dinner that changed everything.

Shannon had been incredibly successful Speed Skating coach with numerous students who had become World Champions

He had been using neuromuscular training using primarily the power of mental imagery

Bo then went away and worked on his game without doing any actual physical practice

He then came back to golf and played some of the very best golf of his life.

We discussed:

• How to play ‘Caveman Golf’
• How to create a ‘Custom Trigger’
• Engaging the right side of your brain
• Painting vivid images of your intended outcomes
• How mental rehearsal has been used by the greats in many other sports such as Michael Jordan and Muhammed Ali
• How the great coach Alex Morrison in the 1940’s had such a profound effect on coaching
• How mental rehearsal can speed up swing changes

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Today on the podcast we are joined by Dr Laura Carey and Caesar Bayliss from Perception Sport

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Laura has conducted some amazing research around putting over the past number of years in particular around gaze control and also brain activity prior to actually hitting the putt.

What she has uncovered has the potential to transform the way putting is both learned and performed.

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The conversation will REALLY get you thinking about the way you approach your game on the greens.

In our time together we looked at:

• The difference in brain activity just before the stroke is made between successful and unsuccessful putters.
• Why doubt over the ball is so detrimental to performance
• How this increases brain activity which then compromises your stroke
• Why a line on the ball may not be the most effective strategy
• Why practicing with putting aids and gadgets can be of limited value
• The role of the eyes in supplying information for your putt
• The value of ‘quiet eye’
• Busy eyes make for a bust brain
• How to train to then perform
• Why you shouldn’t just keep hitting putt after putt when you are training

This is a really refreshing and far reaching conversation that could potentially apply to the whole of your game

A lot of what Laura and Caesar had to say resonated with many of the ideas presented by Gary Nicol and myself in the Lost Art of Putting

Caesar Bayliss has been a PGA professional for over 20 years and specializes in putting. He coaches at The Wisley and other venues across the UK  Dr Laura Carey is a Lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland and a HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist. She has worked as an applied sport psychologist for over 15 years, offering support to a range of athletes, coaches and teams. Laura’s PhD was in golf putting, titled "Investigating Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise, Visual Gaze, and Neural Activity in Golf Putting".

The website: https://www.perceptionsport.co.uk/

The Conversation: https://bit.ly/3SeWdA2

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by world renowned coach Andrew Rice who amongst many other achievements created the ‘Wedge Project’

The passion for coaching resonates in every word that Andrew speaks

He has developed into a highly sought after coach as a result of a rich background in his coaching development.

He worked for a number of years with David Leadbetter

During our time together we took a deep dive in to all elements of the process of becoming a great communicator and great coach

Why ‘themes’ and ‘concepts’ are the driving force behind genuine improvement.

We looked in particular at Andrew’s great passion:

Wedge play

The ‘Cone of Contention’ becoming REALLY good from 20yds to 100yds

How Andrews ideas emerged as a result of extensive research using actual numbers from Trackman not just anecdotal theory.

Building your wedge TEMPLATE

Should you hit draws or fades with your wedges?

Establishing your pitching ‘zones’ with each of your wedges

The importance of CLEAN clubs

He shared some absolute nuggets of gold about how to go about developing this vital area of your game.

Andrew is the Director of Instruction at The Club at Savannah Harbor, located at the Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort and Spa. In 2019, Andrew was named one of Golf Digest's 50 Top Teachers in America and #1 in Georgia.  

Andrew is a Golf Pass Staff Instructor, a TrackMan Master and one of nine TrackMan University Partners in the world, He is also a Swing Catalyst and Arccos Ambassador.

To find out more about Andrew and his work go to

www.andrewricegolf.com

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Today we have the opportunity to spend some more time with coach Kent Osborne.

He is the author of the book ‘Scratch Attitude’

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Here is a great quote from his website

"You see … before I  became a golfer I was a pioneer in the executive coaching field, My experience working with professional athletes and corporate leaders revealed this truth: Feelings precede thoughts. Or, to put it differently, you can’t think positive when you feel negative." 

Kent is a good golfer in his own right and he charts his own personal experiences of the game with a big following of players.

The first time we spoke it was clear that Kent and I shared many similar trains of thought.

In particular the importance of JOURNALING

We had a truly memorable conversation discussing the numerous benefits of being a regular journal taker.

It is something we have spoken about on this show and promoted heavily in the Mind Caddie app

We discussed

• The difference between THINKING about gratitude and actually FEELING it
• The ability to be playful when you are hitting your shots
• Why journaling can help us to balance out the overload of information that is coming at us in the modern world
• Why evolution got us to focus on the negative and our mistakes
• How our thinking patterns become so habitual and how journaling can help shift this
• Why BALANCE is so important from an evolutionary perspective
• Why journaling can help us to still get something out of a bad outcome day on the course
• The ability to develop spontaneous acceptance and to be able to be NEUTRAL to the variety of outcomes.
• The importance of acknowledging the GOOD shots and the good experiences
• If this was your LAST round of golf how would you want to experience it?

So much of what Kent says is based in real world experience and makes for that most elusive of qualities common sense. When you listen to him you realise just how precious this NEXT opportunity is to play the game.

Take the plunge and embark on a year of journaling and just see what it can do for your game.

To find out more about Kent go to his website

https://scratchattitude.com/

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How ‘Socratic’ questioning could help transform your game

Today we have on the show internationally renowned coach Nick Bradley who has written a fantastic new book called ‘The 50 secrets to GREAT GOLF you don’t know about YET!’

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One of the secrets really stood out to me

Socratic questioning and how being prepared to ‘go into’ the problem you have with your game could actually help find a solution

What would you ‘need’ to do to slice the ball?

Can you actually experience what you would need to do to deliberately create the ‘mistake’?

This area of enquiry was just one of the fascinating topics that we managed to cover in a really wide ranging conversation:

• Why trying to get rid of the ‘ego’ is the ultimate ego trip
• Playing to your strengths as a coach
• The uses and misuses of technology
• Becoming more of a SHOT coach
• Giving our shots a ‘name’
• The problem with ‘Method Coaching’ and why this is perhaps the least effective coaching model
• The dangers of relying on our memory

Nick has had a very long and distinguished coaching career, studying with some of the world’s best coaches like David Leadbetter and then going on to coach top players such as Justin Rose

He is a deep thinker about the game and is refreshingly honest and forthright in his opinions of what we need to do to get the best from our game

To find out more about Nick go to

https://www.bradleygolf.com/

Get a copy of his latest book ‘The 50 Secrets to Great Golf you don’t know about YET’

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Today on the show we welcome Mike Carroll one of the top golf trainers in the world who has had tremendous success with players at all levels but more recently his app ‘Fit for Golf’ has had phenomenal worldwide success.

We discuss Mike Carroll’s essential message:

• Make fitness and training part of your IDENTITY
• Otherwise nothing will stick
• How you can utilise your existing habits to enhance the habit of training
• The importance of DOING something every day for your physical fitness
• Once that basic is in place you can then BUILD and build to gain some fitness momentum
• How we can navigate our way through the excess of information out there
• The BASICS of health and fitness REMAIN the same
• The two Keys of Muscle Strength and VO2 Max
• One day of RESISTANCE training
• One day of cardio vascular training
• How strength training can DIRECTLY improve your scoring potential
• How you can improve your flexibility through strength training
• The importance of stressing your muscles appropriately
• How you can accumulate ‘good days’ from a strength and fitness  perspective
• What gains can you STILL make at 50, 60 or even 70 years of age?
• How fitness can be such a positive benefit for your mental game
• The sense of DAILY achievement
• Building momentum on a consistent basis

A really great session with a top coach who is having a major influence on so many players all across the world with his Fit for Golf app

To find out more about Mike Carroll go to

https://fitforgolf.blog/

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Today on the Brain Booster we welcome back for the third time my good friend Jim Waldron.

The two previous sessions with Jim were outstanding and prompted some wonderful feedback from listeners.

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Jim has an amazing knowledge of coaching and in particular the ‘Mind Body’ connection.

 He has met and worked with some of the finest players in the history of the game

This particular conversation had some amazing gems of information in particular about the legendary Ben Hogan

Just went into some fascinating detail about HOW Ben Hogan went about changing his golf.

The fascinating details of how he took swing concepts and turned them into actual prominent movement patterns

• How he did a lot of swing work in a mirror in SLOW MOTION
• Closed loop training
• Balance and tempo
• Shot Shaping
• Swinging with his eyes closed asking his body ‘how does this FEEL?’
• Quarter speed
• Half speed
• Full speed
• How Hogan then took swing changes to the golf course
• The importance of TARGET PICTURE

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How to CENTRE Mind and Body to free up your performance 

Today we welcome back onto the Brain Booster a good friend of the show Jayne Storey

Jayne has been a pioneer in the field of bringing ancient martial arts wisdom into the modern world of performance sport

She is someone who actually embodies and practices herself all of the concepts she teaches

We get to talk about some of the origins of martial arts as they emerged from India and the practice of Kalari

The relationship between INTENTION and ACTION and how conscious intervention can be so damaging for our touch and feel on the greens

How the analytical mind does NOT play good golf

How the mind is being force fed with SO much technical information which stops us holing putts on the golf course

How the Martial arts can provide some balance with this issue

The fundamentals of ACTUAL movement

Why a ‘busy’ mind shouldn’t be overloaded with more ‘mental game’ tools

Did the great Jack Nicklaus have a TOUGH mind or a QUIET mind?

How the line and pace will REVEAL itself from a mind that is quiet

The importance of a DAILY practice

How ‘self observation’ can be so transformative and allows you to understand the repetitive nature of the mind

The FOUR FUNDAMENTAL ACTIONS

How movement emerges from the ground

Rooted in the feet, moves through the waist and expressed with the hands. The essential nature of BALANCE

Why you shouldn’t try to putt from the shoulders

How movement emerges from the ‘dantien’

Jayne Storey, Movement and Performance Coach is the founder of Chi Performance.

Her background includes 35 years training and teaching in the Eastern arts, including formal Buddhist meditation and the Taoist arts of chi kung and tai chi which she has streamlined into a PERFORMANCE PRACTICE helping those who love sport and the arts, to perform under pressure.

Jayne is the author of several books including Breathe Golf; The Missing Link to a Winning Performance and The Practice of High-Performance; 10 Essential Keys to Mastering Pressure.

She has been featured on BBC Television and Radio, The Sunday Times and in a number of golf and other publications including Women’s Golf Journal, Golf International, Atlantic Golf and Lifestyle, Kingdom, Sports Coach, Cosmopolitan and Zest.

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by Scott Dixon a top coach from Dalmahoy in Edinburgh.

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We had a wonderful conversation about his journey as a golf professional.

How in the early days he had no instruction, developed a great love of the game.

Then turned professional and began to take LOTS of lessons and receive so much information about what he was doing WRONG.

Over a period of time his game got worse and worse and eventually he developed the full swing yips.

Things changed for Scott when he met Kendal McWade who has been on the podcast many times.

They started to explore a more instinctive way of playing the game

The looked at ATTENTION and where to place your attention to hit SHOTS

Why we need to keep coming back to attention and its vital role in skill development

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•  Technique but technique born out of the TASK
•  The transformation of his own game and his own experience
•  Exploring his own ACTUAL experience
•  Developing SHOTS
•  What is really going on when you hit a good shot
•  The JOY of hitting different shots and giving himself the FREEDOM to explore
• The experience with the golfing MONK
• Learning and then teaching meditation
• Playing golf from a QUIET place 
• His evolution as a coach
• The challenges of changing his approach
• The absolute JOY of creating shots

A really fascinating conversation with a coach who has been brave enough to challenge his own beliefs and go directly to his own EXPERIENCE

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https://www.scottdixongolf.com/

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Today we are joined on the Brain Booster again with my good friend and fellow author from the ‘Lost Art’ series, Gary Nicol.

Gary has a huge wealth of coaching experience at all levels of the game from Ryder Cup stars to club players.

He is based at the wonderful Archerfield Links on the East Coast of Scotland.

Together with Gary over the past four years we have written 3 books ‘The Lost Art of Putting’, ‘The Lost Art of Playing Golf’ and ‘The Lost Art of the Short Game’

The response to the books has been nothing short of incredible. So many players have got in touch with us to say the books have given them a new lease of golfing life.

In today’s wonderful conversation we go in to detail about how we can become better at coaching others and perhaps more importantly OURSELVES.

• Why much of the current coaching methods are ineffective
• Why we need to get better at asking good QUESTIONS instead of pretending to have all the answers
• The crucial role of INTENTION, ATTENTION and ATTITUDE and how you can build your whole season around these 3 words
• The value of problem solving
• The best way to use technology
• The difference between hitting ‘balls’ and playing ‘shots’
• The great Peter Thompson’s formula for success and how it could help you win YOUR major championship
• How we can become so much more in tune with the GOLF COURSE and the questions it is asking you
• How to play the ACCUMULATION game instead of the AVOIDANCE game and what a difference it can make to your mental game approach
• How would you be if TODAY was your last round of golf? What approach would you have?
• The myth of ‘owning a score’ whilst you are out on the course

A re confirmation of the value of GRATITUDE

A really wonderful conversation with a VERY experienced and knowledgeable coach who is smart enough to keep the game SIMPLE

To find out more about Gary and his coaching go to

https://tpegs.com

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 How to find out what is RIGHT for you!!

The Lost Art of Golf 2 day school at Archerfield Links with Karl Morris and Gary Nicol 

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 The need to adapt coaching depending on the level of the student

 The need to be flexible in your approach

 Today we are joined on the show with a true great of coaching, Jim McClean.

 We had a wonderful conversation

Over his illustrious career he has sought out and worked with some of the best coaches of all time

Coaches such as Jimmy Ballard, Ken Venturi, Bob Toski, John Jacobs

He has also taught himself some of the greatest players in the game.

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We discussed in this episode:

• How Jim’s coaching has evolved
• The use and misuse of technology
• Video, Trackman, Force Plates the benefits and drawbacks of using technology
• What are the common factors with great players?
• The 25% Theory – Which is the most important for you and WHEN?
• Ball Striking
• Short Game
• Mental Game
• Management Game
• How can you better manage BOTH your game and your life?
• The genius of Bruce Lietzke and how a great PERSPECTIVE can give you access to your skills
• The benefits of understanding YOUR shot shape 
• The need to develop YOUR philosophy 

Jim has taught and influenced some of the very best players in the world

Jim McLean has taught US Open Champion and LPGA Champion Cristie Kerr, US Open Champion Gary Woodland, Curtis Strange and Greg Norman, PGA Champion Keegan Bradley, US Junior champion and ANA Champion Lexi Thompson. Cristie and Lexi both attained the #1 rank in junior golf and women’s amateur golf as teenagers. 

To find out more about Jim McClean go to

www.jimmclean.com

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Great show for you to listen to today about the role of EMOTIONS and how they can have such an impact on your game

• What are emotions?
• What do they actually mean?
• How long do they last?
• More importantly what can we do about them?

How many rounds have you played where emotions have triggered a cascade of poor shots and another score ruined?

Can you look back on your golfing life and even begin to consider how much better you would have performed IF you had more ability to deal with and release your emotions.

When emotions are running the show we can make some really STUPID decisions

The show today will give you some GREAT answers

Become an expert on yourself and how you actually trigger your emotions.

Gain insights to YOU and how you ACTUALLY work on the golf course as opposed to how you think you work

• Understanding your emotions leads to INSIGHT
• Emotional regulation technique
• The 5 step PROCESS
• Location – where is the emotion located in your body?
• Contain the emotion – give it a shape
• Colour – Give the emotion a colour
• Name it – Give the emotion a NAME
• Do something with it – Allow the emotion to RELEASE
• Emotions only last for 7 seconds from a neuro chemical perspective, to hang on to them for longer than this is a CHOICE

Why trying to contain your emotions can be so counter productive

How anger can turn into DEPRESSION

How golfing failure can create a traumatic event in the brain

How you can use techniques to let go of the trauma. The use of EMDR

A fascinating session with a top class coach

Alison is a PGA Master Professional in Instruction and a LPGA Master Professional. Being one of 9 women to achieve the highest PGA credential earned by an instructor and only 1 of 2 women to be a dual master professional in both organizations
Alison completed her Doctorate of Psychology in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Sport Psychology and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy. She is a practicing psychotherapist in the state of California and currently works with adolescents, couples, families, and individuals in her private practice Curdt Performance Therapy, in Woodland Hills, CA. Alison strives to develop and coach golfers in all areas of their lives. 

To find out more about Alison and her work go to

www.alisoncurdtgolf.com

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The Skill of ACCEPTANCE and why it is SO important to develop – Karl Morris

Why you will always fall short of your true capability without this skill

Thanks for joining me on today’s Brain Booster which is a solo run from me. I wanted to take the opportunity to bring together some of the key concepts from the previous months and some of the recent guests.

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At the heart of so much of what we have been discussing is the SKILL of acceptance.

If we are not willing to be ok with the variability of potential outcomes the game can throw at us then we will always be at less than our best.

Acceptance is NOT resignation. We are not trying to pretend to be happy after a bad shot or a missed putt but we ARE willing to deal with the reality and move on

So many people are sold the idea that this swing fix or this ‘secret’ will PROTECT them from a poor outcome yet in reality NOTHING will ever protect us from the need to develop a robust relationship to undesired outcomes

• Acceptance is an ongoing set of skills that requires a diligent and consistent approach
• Today I will share with you the building blocks of acceptance
• Skills that have helped many players at all levels to ACCESS their current skills
• Why the skill acceptance begins well before the round starts
• Why ‘contamination’ of your shots is such an issue
• The value of journaling
• Why making a commitment to develop acceptance is so important
• What acceptance does to your physiology
• Why the expression of your technical skill is dependent on your acceptance skills
• An opportunity for you to really bring together and clarify some of the key Brain Booster concepts of the previous few months
• HOW you can actually take action and release more of your capabilities ....Enjoy!

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We welcome back onto the Brain Booster Andy Morrison for a further chat about his coaching experiences

We delve further into the nature of experience and how it is all generated by your thinking

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Andy is very prolific on Twitter/X

His main message is that he offers the opportunity to develop your game without using lots of mental game strategies and techniques

• Why we fall into the trap of focusing too much on the CONTENT of our thinking
• This often actually creates the opposite effect of actually making the mind even busier
• What could we put our faith in that will have some longevity?
• What is the true nature of thought?
• What is actually creating our experience BEFORE the content of our thinking?

The difference between having a clear INTENTION about the shot as opposed to falling into the trap of thinking ‘what does this shot say about me?’

• How we hang on to our ‘personal thinking’
• Changing our relationship to what the game actually means
• The ability to ‘stay in the game’
• Why trying to ‘fix’ our thinking can be so detrimental
• A really interesting session with a coach working with players at all levels of the game

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Today on the Brain Booster we welcome back my good friend and colleague Dr Izzy Justice. We have recently collaborated on what we believe to be a revolutionary new putting program called

‘Neuro Putting’

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so on today’s show with Dr Izzy we look into detail about some of the most prevalent putting myths which will be holding back your game.

Myths that not only affect your ability on the greens but can also contaminate your whole game.

The game is mired in clichés such as ‘I choked’ and ‘My nerves got the better of me’

Yet what do any of these statements ACTUALLY mean?

With Dr Izzy we are able to create a new language and terminology which simplifies the game and gives you a process with which to move forward.

We need to look at missed putts from a BRAIN perspective.

What is actually happening in your brain to cause you to miss the putt?

It is almost like our brain is working directly against us so much of the time.

Yet the answers are disarmingly simple.

Many missed putts can simply be attributed to INCREASED brain activity and often this increased brain activity is driven by clinging to outdated myths and misconceptions.

In today’s show we look at:

• Why our overstimulated brains are causing us so many problems.
• The high incidence of mental health issues with young people in sport.
• The myth of the ROUTINE and why trying to have the same routine could be really holding you back
• The myth of ‘one type of putter’ and how this can severely limit your creativity
• The myth of having just ONE kind of target on your putts and why a ‘basket’ of targets can be the answer. How the time BEFORE you putt may be the most misused time in golf.
• The myths around REPETITION in putting.

Just a wonderful session with Dr Izzy that will REALLY get you thinking about putting in a completely different way.

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How Emotions will dictate the quality of your game

Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by performance coach from Canada Kent Osborne and we got the chance to discuss the role of EMOTION in the way you perform on the golf course or in any endeavour for that matter.

In his business life Kent has been a pioneer in the executive coaching field, and his experience helping professional athletes and corporate leaders improve their inner game revealed this truth: When it comes to personal performance, feelings are as powerful as thoughts. Or, to put it differently, you can’t think positive when you feel negative. 

Applying insights from his coaching experience to golf — insights culled from the relatively new discipline of emotional intelligence that worked so well Kent was inspired to write a book so other golfers could benefit.  

The Golfer Who Developed A Scratch Attitude is a fiction about an avid golfer who habitually lets frustration diminish his ability and derail his most promising rounds. In the story, he finds a mentor who teaches him how to 

— feel good after a good shot  

— feel great after a great shot  

— feel calm after a bad swing or a bad break 

Your best golf requires an artful combination of  physical, mental, and emotional skill. Kent does not suggest that grounding your game in positive feelings will magically fix the flaws in your swing or automatically enable you to make decisions like a Tour caddy. He simply says what every golfer knows from personal experience  — golf’s a hard game, and it becomes even harder when you’re restricted by negative emotion. 

To find out more about Kent and his book go to

https://scratchattitude.com

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Whilst we talk a lot about the mental side of the game on the Brain Booster, if you’ve something holding you back physically, that can have just as detrimental an impact on your game.

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In this thoughtful conversation, host Karl Morris welcomes Garrett Kramer to discuss recent developments in Garrett's life, including personal projects and the release of his latest book. 

The dialogue delves deep into the philosophical and practical aspects of self-awareness, the search for fixes in sports and life, and the pursuit of excellence. Garrett elaborates on the role of coaching, the illusion of seeking external validation, and the true nature of human consciousness. 

The discussion highlights the importance of expressing one's true self, the misinterpretation of insecurity, and the holistic connection between mind, body, and nature. 

Through engaging anecdotes and profound insights, Garrett emphasises the difference between seeking external success and finding inner peace and fulfillment.

00:00 Welcome Back, Garrett!
00:19 Life Updates and Exciting Projects
01:08 Golf Memories and Family Moments
02:47 The Endless Search for the Next Fix
06:58 The Role of Coaching and Pursuit of Excellence
09:10 Understanding True Self and Inner Peace
10:12 The Coach as a Guide and Mentor
11:37 The Illusion of Fulfillment in Achievements
16:26 Exploring the Nature of Self
29:24 Expressing True Self Through Sport
35:17 Superman's Realization and Insecurity in Sports
35:52 Federer, Nadal, and the Spirit of Competition
36:34 Golf as a Cooperative Challenge
37:39 Embracing Adversity on the Golf Course
38:51 Personal Golf Anecdotes and Lessons
41:16 Expressing Self vs. Seeking in Golf
44:49 The Illusion of the Outside World
47:01 Strategies and the Purpose Behind Them
59:04 Knowing Thyself: The Ultimate Goal
01:03:00 Conclusion and Book Information

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Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by one of the legends of US coaching Jim Waldron for a fascinating discussion about the Mind Body connection

Jim has spent most of his working life absorbed in the workings of consciousness and how it can apply to the game of golf

In his early years he spent time with some masters of martial arts and applied key principles to his coaching

He studied with some of the great meditation teachers such as Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Suziki Roshi

He has become very well known for his work with the yips in golf and also in numerous other sports such as baseball, basketball, darts and bowls

We discussed:

• The two types of yips and why one type is very
• The origination of yips and what makes things worse
• What are the ‘fuels’ for the yips?
• The wrong use of the conscious mind
• The effects of negative emotion and the manifestation of FEAR
• Why people don’t yip on a practice swing
• The principle of Radical Acceptance
• How ‘observation’ can change everything
• Are you the ‘Hero’ or the ‘Victim’ of your story?
• The value of a mindfulness practice
• Understand your ‘focal point’ in the swing

So many wonderful ideas and concepts to consider

Jim Waldron is a nationally acclaimed golf teaching professional, mental game coach, author, and lecturer best known for his pioneering research on the mind/body connection approach to learning and teaching golf. His holistic approach to golf improvement blends swing and short game mechanics, mental focus skills, physical fitness and emotional state control into a revolutionary golf instruction paradigm. He is recognized as one of the game's best golf swing instructors and swing theorists.

To find out more about Jim Waldron and his coaching go to

https://balancepointgolf.com/

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The evolution of a coach from Technical overload to effective Simplicity

Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by one of the top young coaches in Asia Justin Tang.

Justin’s journey as a coach is incredibly inspiring.

He is a perfect example of someone who has a passionate desire to become the very best version of himself as a coach

He has a background in the ‘Golfing Machine’ but he has looked very deeply into the nature of learning and how it is vitally important to ‘personalise’ the information you receive.

He came to realise that the glue that holds all of the game together is the BRAIN

• Learning must be Brain Compatible
• The ONLY non negotiable in the swing
• The one fundamental that every player should consider
• Landing the club after the ball – such a simple principle but highly efficient in terms of BETTER golf shots
• Task based learning and how the body will organise motion

We discuss the Performance Pentagon

Made up of

• Technique
• Skill
• Emotion
• Fitness
• Strategic Planning

What kind of learner are you?

How you can use ‘differential learning’ to trap the correct feeling in your swing

How pinning all of the blame on the golf swing is a LAZY way to coach

The danger of changing swings without understanding the whole picture

How the mental game in golf is different from other sports and what to do about it

Why the idea of ‘grinding’ can be so damaging for your game

The ability to see poor shots from a different perspective

Why you need to be aware of ‘time travel’ in your mind when you are playing golf

Every golf shot is a ‘Problem seeking a Solution’

Divorcing yourself from the OUTCOME of a shot with probabilistic thinking

The need to question our existing beliefs and ‘stories’

Celebrating individuality

A really great session with a very forward thinking and effective coach

To find out more about Justin Tang go to

Instagram  @elitegolfswing

e-mail Justin@elitegolfswing.com

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Welcome again to the Brain Booster podcast.

I just had to get him back on the show after the feedback from our first conversation.

Dr Izzy Justice the neuroscientist who has worked with some of the worlds very best players and is the creator of the ‘Brain Trackman’ and author of the wonderful book GYRA Golf

This podcast could make a HUGE difference to your game

On today’s show we go deep into the neuroscience of great PUTTING

What is actually happening in the brain when we putt well and perhaps more importantly what is happening in our brains when we get in our own way and putt poorly?

Why is putting so mental?

What happens in your brain when it realises the FINALITY of a putt?

Why your brain wave frequency is so crucial to you holing more putts

How a decrease in brain wave frequency can actually change your putting stroke

How your focus of ATTENTION is so crucial to good putting

Why a wandering brain will cause you to miss so many putts

Why a short missed putt is THE most expensive shot in golf

How the ‘language of putting’ is so misleading

What putting actually means to your brain

The TRUE definition

Why many putting gadgets will actually make you worse

Why it is SO important for your to HOLD the target

What and how to practice to improve your game

This is a SUPERB session that will make a TREMENDOUS difference to your game

Join us for our FREE webinar with Dr Izzy Justice on Friday August 12th at 5pm UK

‘The Neuroscience of GREAT GOLF’

To get your Zoom invitation e-mail us at info@themindfactor.com

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To find out more about the golfers health screen with Pall Mall

Pall Mall’s health screen packages assess your blood profile, highlight any markers for certain cancers, check your heart health, stroke risk, other major organ health and much more. You can even have an MRI scan – with no waiting list– to check on any golfing ailments or dodgy joints. Let’s face it, we all have some aches and pains and we all need to be aware of our health.

Whilst we talk a lot about the mental side of the game on the Brain Booster, if you’ve something holding you back physically, that can have just as detrimental an impact on your game.

Golfer health screens at Pall Mall start from £249 for the “well man” or “well woman” check-up for anyone 40+. There are additional packages with more extensive scans and tests, including one where you can have help with your mental performance from yours truly.

Learn more about Pall Mall’s Golfer Health Screens by:

isiting the latest news section at https://www.pallmallmedical.co.uk/ scroll to the footer of their home page)

Give them a call 

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Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by a special guest in the shape of top coach Grant Waite.

Grant played for many successful years on the PGA Tour and had the opportunity to observe and learn from the true greats of the game such as Jack Nicklaus to Tiger Woods.

He became at one point on the PGA Tour statistically the best ball striker in the world.

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Grant spent a lot of time with legendary coach Mac O’Grady both working on his own game and then developing his own philosophy.

Contrary to popular belief about his methodology Mac really helped Grant to understand so much more about swings and how we need to ‘match up’

Easy to understand a swing like Adam Scott but how do swings like Lee Trevino and Jim Furyk match up?

The experience of going head to head with Tiger Woods in attempting to win the Canadian Open in 2000

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On today’s show we have former BBC sports presenter Simon Mundie who has recently released a tremendous book called ‘How to find success without losing yourself’

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Simon has spent many years interviewing and being around some of the greatest names in sport.

People who have achieved what others may think as being the ‘ultimate’ experience

Yet often he detected there was an underlying dissatisfaction

Champion Thinking is a counter to the ‘success evangelism’ that is so prevalent.

Typically, we think we’ll be happy when X happens (the job, house, relationship, World Cup win, Olympic gold medal). However, frequently people reach the top of their success Everest and feel underwhelmed or even empty.

But the experience of flow is inherently enjoyable. Why is that? Because as thoughts about past and future drop away, so does our identity and sense of self. And we love it when that happens! The trophy is just a symbol of that moment. That’s why we love losing ourselves – in sport, music, conversation, books, dance – the portals are vast.

While we think we want to become a ‘somebody’, we are happiest when we experience being ‘nobody’. On that level, we are always at peace, whole and fulfilled. The trick then is to embody this recognition, even when we are not 'in flow', and this book can show you how.

This is a great conversation exploring some of the deeper topics around our experience.

• What is ‘non duality’?
• How can we incorporate this in our everyday life?
• What is the difference between our ‘thinking mind’ and our ‘observing mind’?
• How to create some separation from our thoughts so we don’t get so caught up in the content of our thinking
• What are the best way to set goals?
• What does make us truly happy?
• A really thought provoking session from someone who has been able to see through the illusion of ‘I will be happy when”

To find out more about Simon and his book and podcast:

https://www.simonmundie.com/book

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C Champion Thinking is a counter to the ‘success evangelism’ that is so prevalent.

Typically, we think we’ll be happy when X happens (the job, house, relationship, World Cup win, Olympic gold medal). However, frequently people reach the top of their success Everest and feel underwhelmed or even empty. 

But the experience of flow is inherently enjoyable. Why is that? Because as thoughts about past and future drop away, so does our identity and sense of self. And we love it when that happens! The trophy is just a symbol of that moment. That’s why we love losing ourselves – in sport, music, conversation, books, dance – the portals are vast.

While we think we want to become a ‘somebody’, we are happiest when we experience being ‘nobody’. On that level, we are always at peace, whole and fulfilled. The trick then is to embody this recognition, even when we are not 'in flow', and this book cg is a counter to the ‘success evangelism’ that is so prevalent.

Typically, we think we’ll be happy when X happens (the job, house, relationship, World Cup win, Olympic gold medal). However, frequently people reach the top of their success Everest and feel underwhelmed or even empty. 

But the experience of flow is inherently enjoyable. Why is that? Because as thoughts about past and future drop away, so does our identity and sense of self. And we love it when that happens! The trophy is just a symbol of that moment. That’s why we love losing ourselves – in sport, music, conversation, books, dance – the portals are vast.

While we think we want to become a ‘somebody’, we are happiest when we experience being ‘nobody’. On that level, we are always at peace, whole and fulfilled. The trick then is to embody this recognition, even when we are not 'in flow', and this book can show you how.