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By PGTAA member Dr. Patrick Cohn![]()
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Do you trust your abilities to play your best golf under the stress and pressure of competitive rounds?![]()
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Do you trust your abilities to hit a successful recovery shot when needed or sink a long putt to save par?![]()
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Trust is an essential mental skill for golfers to play peak golf on a consistent basis.![]()
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Trust is not believing you should hit every shot perfectly. That is both perfectionist and unrealistic and will produce inconsistent and unpredictable results from shot to shot.![]()
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Trust is relying on your abilities and practice to perform successfully on the golf course.![]()
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In our Golf Mental Game Survey, a golfer asked the following question:![]()
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"When I'm with my swing coach I swing particularly well. When I get out and play with the guys, I get nervous and do not play well. How can I overcome that?"![]()
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This is a common scenario for golfers. You play better in practice rounds than competitive rounds. When you can't seem to transfer your practice game to competitive rounds, frustration results.![]()
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You question your abilities, "What is wrong with me? I play great practice rounds the past few weeks and now I can't even sink easy putts!" ![]()
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Here's the problem: You are focused on the results. You worry about your inability to swing the club freely. When you hit a bad shot, you expect similar results on the next hole. Your mind oscillates between past failures and fear of hitting bad shots in the future.![]()
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In contrast, when you are working with your swing coach, you are focused on hitting shots and not the result of the shot. You may have one swing thought in your mind, but you are not overthinking just before or during your swing. ![]()
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If a shot veers off course, you are not overly concerned. You know there is another shot and know the next one will be a better one. You just move on and focus on the best play for the present shot.![]()
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This mindset is the essence of trust.![]()
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To bring the concept of trust into focus, look at the renewed mindset of PGA golfer Jordan Spieth. Spieth captured his first win in four years at the 2021 Valero Texas Open despite some shaky play at times.![]()
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Spieth commented on his mindset for the tournament and how he was able to maintain trust in his game.![]()
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SPIETH: "I really didn't have great control of the ball this weekend at all. [In the past] I would have maybe started to freak out and change swing feels. Instead, I stuck to my guns and said 'what I'm doing is the right thing, let's just try and figure out what we've got.' Do we have a shot that we can play? How are we going to step into this next one confidently?"![]()
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Building trust starts with repetition in practice and ingraining your mechanics through massive repetition.![]()
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The second part of trust is the ability to flip on your autopilot switch during competitive rounds. Autopilot is when you play golf without judging each swing and making changes mid-round.![]()
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You gain trust in your swing by focusing in the moment, keeping it simple on the golf course, and resisting overthinking and over-analyzing.![]()
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How to Trust in Your Golf Game:![]()
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Remind yourself that you don't need to play perfect golf shots to shoot a good score. Your swing does not have to feel and look perfect to score well.![]()
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Your mindset for each shot should be "what's my plan for this shot?" instead of what is at stake if I miss this shot.![]()
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Resist over controlling or steering your shots around the course to try to avoid mistakes or bogies--especially when you miss a couple shots and start searching and fixing.![]()
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TPT EXPANDS RED RANGE FAIRWAY WOOD SHAFT LINEUP WITH 20 SERIES, 21 SERIES![]()
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RENENS, SWITZERLAND — TPT is expanding its all-new Red Range Fairway Wood Shaft lineup with the 20 Series and 21 Series. Developed specifically for fairway wood club heads, the Red Range 20 Series and 21 Series Fairway Woods Shafts allow golfers with slower swing speeds to achieve a high and stable ball flight so they can take full advantage of today’s lower-launching, lower-spinning fairway wood club heads.![]()
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“The most common thing we hear from golfers that are fitted for a Red Range Driver Shaft is, ‘Can I play this in my fairway wood?’ said TPT Chairman François Mordasini. “We wanted to offer these golfers a lineup of shafts developed specifically for their fairway woods so they can optimize their fairway wood play and also perfectly match the feel of their driver shaft.”![]()
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With the 20 Series and 21 Series Fairway Wood Shafts, TPT now has a perfect match for its four most popular driver shaft ranges — the 16 Series, 17, Series, 18 Series, and 19 Series — as well as its 20 Series and 21 Series Driver Shafts developed for slower-swing-speed golfers.![]()
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The 20 Series and 21 Series Fairway Wood Shafts are currently available in TPT’s Hi profile. Like all TPT Red Range shafts, the 20 Hi Fairway Wood Shafts and 21 Hi Fairway Wood Shafts are created with Continuous Fiber, TPT’s automated manufacturing process developed to eliminate the imperfections present in all conventional graphite shafts.![]()
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The TPT Red Range Fairway Wood Shafts are made with Thin-Ply 2.0, the prepreg material TPT developed exclusively for use in its golf shaft division. This ultra-premium material employs the highest quality carbon fiber and a newly developed resin formulation that creates an unmatched level of durability.![]()
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The Red Range Fairway Wood Shafts ($600 MSRP) are available exclusively at more than 180 TPT Authorized Fitters located around the world.![]()
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About TPT![]()
Since 2017, TPT shafts have been used to win more than two dozen tournaments on 13 leading tours, including the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, European Tour, and Champions Tour. TPT shafts have also been used to win an LPGA Major Championship and a World Golf Championship (WGC)![]()
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TPT is the golf division of North Thin Ply Technology (NTPT), a Switzerland-based technology and composites company with a track record of delivering innovative solutions for high-performance industries.![]()
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The company’s portfolio of advancements includes developing a process for producing America’s Cup yacht sails, as well as lightweight bodywork of F1 race cars, skis, and snowboards. It has also created the materials technology found in satellites and Richard Mille luxury composite watches. The record-breaking, solar-powered aircraft “Solar Impulse” also relied on NTPT-produced materials for its epic journey.![]()
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For more information on TPT Golf™, visit tptgolf.com.
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