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The PGTAA congratulates Mark Immelman, a long time PGTAA member, on his appointment by CBS to his expanded role for the network.
Mark has worked partial schedules for the network in recent years on top of his duties at Sirius/XM radio and as Director of Golf at Columbus State University.
Mark’s younger brother, Trevor, a former Master’s champion and a personal friend, will join the CBS team as an analyst on PGA Tour events as well as the Masters and PGA Championship, both CBS properties.
Increase your skills and revenue by becoming a U.S. Kids Golf Certified Coach.
The PGTAA in conjunction with the U.S. Kids Golf Coaches Institute, invites PGTAA members to increase their teaching skills, specifically for teaching kids. PGTAA members receive a discount on the course cost by contacting the PGTAA via phone or email..
Participating in a U.S. Kids Golf Certified Coach Seminar enhances the coach’s knowledge of all aspects of youth golf coaching while providing tools to enable professionals to grow their programs. Link: http://uskidsgolfcoach.com/player-pathway-about
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As a golfer, nothing better than waking up early on a beautiful, sunny morning and heading to the golf course for a round of golf.
In contrast, nothing worse than playing with the yips, incapable of sinking a three-foot putt on that beautiful, sunny morning and thinking your can't score up to your capability.
This is the dichotomy a golfer faces when experiencing yips. Do you love the game more than you hate the yips?
The yips place you on an emotional roller coaster, one minute your game is on point and you are playing at ease. The next minute it feels like the ball has a mind of its own and you want to take every club out of your bag and smash them against the ground.
In our golf survey, many golfers seem desperate for help, such as this golfer who is searching for help to overcome the yips:
“I'm curious if there is anything like self-hypnosis or anything related that might help me overcome the yips. I'm getting close to quitting after having played for 50 years. I'm missing 3-foot putts consistently and the fun is pretty much gone. I was a single-digit handicap player at one time and still could score if I could putt even at a half-decent level.”
Based on our survey on the yips, golfers have tried many strategies to remedy the problem:
Walking up to the shot and telling myself it doesn’t matter.
Slowing down. I tend to rush.
Speeding up tempo so I don’t think so much.
Taking a few deep breaths.
Working on mechanics.
Different putters. Different grips.
Changing a preshot routine.
Practicing more often.
Stop playing the game; hope it goes away.
Many of these solutions are temporary or fall short of their intended goal.
Frustration seems to be your predominant emotion while golfing instead of the excitement of the challenge each hole presents.
Why do you still have the yips after attempting so many strategies? The answer is that you keep thinking and focusing on the yips.
Unfortunately, worrying about the yips is often the last thing you think about before hitting the ball. After telling yourself it doesn’t matter, you are left alone with your thoughts and hoping you won’t flinch at the ball.
Despite slowing down in hopes of calming yourself, your mind still fills up with thoughts about pushing the ball wide of the cup.
Working your mechanics, practicing more often, switching grips or changing are only temporary fixes that don't address the underlying issue.
If you are not clearing your mind or refocusing, negative thoughts will slowly eat away at your trust in skills.
Occupying your mind or purposefully directing your attention will put you in control of your focus instead of allowing yip thoughts to dominate your mind.
Managing the Yips
First, you have to free up the stroke. However, in order to do this, you have to overcome fear and outcome thinking...
I categorize outcome thinking into two areas: (1) Results and (2) Aftermath. Missing a short putt is not awful. What makes it awful for most golfers is the aftermath.
You have to let go of the what-ifs... What if I miss a two-footer? Will I look silly?
Next, you have to focus on the process and not the outcome or missing.
One way of keeping your mind into the process is the “Look, Set, Go” strategy.
Use the steps in your routine to help you focus on the process. Remember, the fear of missing and the aftermath is what leads you to over control the stroke and then yip.
Are you frustrated with your putting, chipping or pitching and have considered giving up the game you once loved to play? Discover how to break the yips cycle and putt and chip freely again!
By PGTAA member Dr. Patrick Cohn
www.peaksports.com/breaking-the-yips-cycle-dvd/
“Mistakes happen.” “Mistakes are a fact of life.” “We all make mistakes.”
Most people generally accept these common sayings as true… except if you’re a golfer!
How many times has your play spiraled downward during a golf game after you made a mistake?
Why does your golf game suffer after a mistake when you know: “Mistakes happen,” “Mistakes are a fact of life,” and “We all make mistakes”?
How to recover from making a bogey or two is a common question that pops up on our golf surveys.
One golfer, who wants help with this issue, wrote about how one mistake can completely ruin his round of golf.
“How do I stop myself from unraveling after a mistake or a bad hole? Somehow, it always seems to happen. I’m playing a great round then one bad bounce, one bad shot, one bad hole on the back nine and it ruins the rest of the round. I want to learn how to get back on track after a bad hole.”
Getting off the bogey train has nothing to with technique, a mistake or the bad shot itself.
It's your thoughts about what happened and your expectations of what is going to happen after the mistake!
Statements such as “unraveling after a bad hole always seem to happen... it ruins the rest of the round” are a self-fulfilling prophecy. It gives you no other way to respond. You already believe you are going to unravel.
Your beliefs or assumptions affect emotions and produce a physiological stress response within your body.
As your thoughts spiral out of control, your emotions run wild, and your physiology is altered, it’s no wonder that your performance suffers and unravels.
Being in command of his thoughts was Nick Taylor’s key to victory at the 2020 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AM.
Taylor started the final round with a one-stroke lead and faced some challenges during the final round. For one, Taylor was paired with Phil Mickelson, winner of five Major Championships. Even though the wind picked up, Taylor kept his mind clear to win the tournament by 4-strokes.
There were definitely challenges to be met and distractions to overcome as
Taylor stated after the third round.
TAYLOR: “I’ve just got to do my own thing and try to block all that out.”
Taylor admitted that winning wasn’t easy but he was in charge of his thoughts rather than letting his thoughts control him.
TAYLOR: “Yeah, it was really, really difficult. The wind picked up kind of the end of that front nine, and I was hanging on there, and a few poor drives that I didn't think were too bad but ended up in bad spots and just tried to manage my way from there. And 14's such a difficult hole, once I made double there I had to settle myself down and know that I still had a two-shot lead. And then obviously, chip-in the next hole and get one shot back was massive.”
If unraveling after a mistake is initiated by your thoughts, you can also direct your thoughts to enhance your golf game. The key is to stop buying into the false assumptions and false generalizations that pop up in your mind.
Getting Off the Bogey Train Mindset
Conscious Debate – You can alter the message in your mind by quickly challenging your expectations about how you are playing or scoring.
For example, “Is it always true that one bogey will turn into several?" No, unless you buy into this self-fulfilling prophecy.
One bogey doesn't have to turn into another bogey--unless you make it so. You have to control yourself (emotions) before you can control your golf game!
By PGTAA member Dr. Patrick Cohn
BECOME A CLASS A CERTIFIED GOLF INSTRUCTOR WITH THE PGTAA
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Next to the PGA, the PGTAA certification and credentialization is the most highly sought after teaching designation in the golf industry. In recognition of the industry’s growth, and in response to the demand for qualified teaching professionals, the PGTAA was established to provide extensive training to individuals as well as recognized golf teachers with years of experience behind them.
Not only will we teach you how to teach correctly, but also how to psychologically and philosophically motivate your students to become better golfers.
Becoming a PGTAA professional is probably one of the most important steps you will take during your professional golfing career. Becoming associated and certified by the PGTAA not only enhances your credibility but also enhances your teaching skills for the benefit of your future students and, naturally, your earning capacity.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Please don’t be fooled by imitators of the Professional Golf Teachers Association of America. It has come to our attention that several other organizations are attempting to hijack our reputation, our certification designations, mimic our unique programs, especially our Home Study module, and in some cases, leverage even our name as their own. The name “Professional Golf Teachers Association of the United States”, formerly operated by National Golf Schools has ceased to exist after a settlement was reached between the parties.
The Professional Golf Teachers Association of America is and always will be the foremost 100% professional golf teaching certification institute in the world.
While these other programs and teaching organizations direct their marketing materials and resources to the targeting of all applicants (to cover their extensive advertising and marketing costs), whether qualified or not, the PGTAA’s philosophy and target market is that individual/golfer who desires to be a teaching professional in the field and not just an enthusiast. Since 1997 our mandatory personal telephone interview helps the PGTAA maintain their high level of members appreciated by all in the golf industry .
We do not offer various levels of certifications designed to separate you from your money and whose “membership/certification/levels of instructor” cards are useless and of zero value in the golf industry.
When comparing the PGTAA to ANY other teaching institution, whether PGA, LPGA or USGTF, our cost to become a fully certified golf teaching professional is $995.00 via the Home Study module or $2495.00 via the On-Site module. Going through the certification programs of the aforementioned organizations, specifically the PGA and LPGA, could cost you in excess of $5,000.00!
Most importantly, the PGTAA is 100% all about teaching.
The PGTAA has over 50 Tour players including Master’s, PGA and US Open Champions, who avail themselves of our members teaching expertise.
There is only one Professional Golf Teachers Association of America, and you can always find us at www.PGTAA.com.
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