Set the order of your students’ priorities for more effective golf instruction (Part 2)

Continued from blog entry – “The Six-Spoke Approach, Set the order of your students’ priorities for more effective golf instruction (Part 1)”

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Spoke No. 2:  The mind and the athlete’s thought process.

Many people today consider this a fad. When you talk to a player about sports psychology they may look
at you with a grimace. Yet, many of the greatest players in the world employ the services of a sports psychologist to work on their mental skills with drills much the same way they would putting or chip­ping.
They practice these to improve things like focus, concentration and visualization, words that to the average player are nothing more than catch phrases, yet if applied, could contribute significant improvement in their game.