Golf - Drive your mind

Golf Mind Coaching

Maximum Mind Power offer Programmes tailored to individual that can include:

• Personalised routine and rituals
• Targeting and visualisation
• Trusting your swing
• Associating – positive emotion
• Disassociation – negative emotion

Does your mind drive you or do you drive your mind?

Do you consciously know what you want to do but somehow the opposite occurs? 

Have you noticed the harder you try the worse the outcome? 

Golf as you know is a mind game; you play against the course and against yourself.

What’s the key to successful mind golf, and playing in your peak performance zone?

There are a number of mental components to achieving a great mental game, and playing to your optimum performance.

Routine

Physical and mental

A set routine that you perform unconsciously each and every time you play a shot helps you with not only the mental side of you game but also your consistency as a player. It also helps to swing more freely and deal with any apprehension about the shot.

Ritual

A ritual is a thought and action that produces a physical and mental reaction. You perform your rituals as part of your routine.

Using your senses

Vision, sound and kinaesthetic senses are critical to the mental game.

Visualisation

Pre game visualisation, informing your mind of your realistic desired outcome, helps your mind to help you. The more specific information you give your mind to work with the better the result. When you visualize, you imagine, and when you imagine, that imagery seeps into place your unconscious mind. Your unconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between what’s real and what’s imagined.

Sound

Hearing whist visualising is advantageous as it helps the mind accept what you are imaging as reality. Hearing the ball coming off the club face, landing on a green, falling into the hole all adds to your successful outcome.

Kinesthetic

Feeling the physical and mental reactions is also key component to your personal performance zone.

Associating with a good outcome

This is where you use your routine, ritual to ensure you anchor that positive state. By doing this you can recall this state at any time during play.

Disassociating from a poor outcome

As with association, this uses your routine and ritual, but in this case you learn how to let go of the negative feeling.

Understanding your golfing personality

Working with your personality traits helps you to focus and play in a way for you that suit your personality. For example, if you are a fairly laid back character, who trusts their instinct, doesn’t over analyse, then playing in a relaxed state, both mentally and physically would work for you. Your programme routine and rituals would reflect those aspects of personality. However, if on the other hand you are someone who is energetic, fast moving, quick thinking and emotional, then a mix of relaxed thinking and harnessing that energy and emotion in a positive way would probably work best for you.

If the mental side of your golf is preventing you from being the best golfer you can be then phone now on 07968 183145 or email: