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Golf psychology deals with enhancing performance by managing emotions and minimizing psychological effects of poor performance and injury.
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Positive Learning Environment
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Goal Setting for golf shot performance
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Confidence for challenging shot
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2. Positive environment - deals with all necessary environment factors that can accelerate golf learning and
improvement.
3. Goal setting - involving specific, measurable, achievable, reasonable and time targeted objectives. It includes
setting of vision, mission and strategy for golf aspiration.
4. Motivation - involving intrinsic and extrinsic reasons to participate and succeed in golf aspiration.
5. Confidence - a golfer's attribute of possessing the belief, ability and judgment to perform a successful task,
external factors can also have a major effect to your confidence.
6. Visualization - creating image that involves mentally picturing golf shot performance as vividly as possible with
the intention of duplicating this process into reality.
7. Self-talk - a method of verbalizing or silently affirming to oneself before or during a task performance. Players use it
to evoke feeling of empowerment and confidence.
8. Using rituals - deals with elicitation of a routine for a success performance. This is termed as pre-shot routine in
golf terminology.
9. Composure - deals with the quality of calmness possessed by players who can arrange their thoughts and
behaviour even when there are changes in circumstances during the game.
10. Concentration - the ability to manage and engage attention mentally and physically. It includes broad-external,
broad-internal, narrow-external and narrow-internal concentration.
11. Relaxation - the ability to have total emotion control during golf swing and game performances. It includes a
golfer psych up, psych-down and arousal control.
12. Feedback - the consequences of our behaviour become known to us through what is called ‘feedback’.
13. Anxiety - deals with any form of worries that affects emotional and cognitive reaction during game performance.
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Visualization golf shot performance
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Pre-shot routine
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Concentration and focus
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Your profound golf psychology skills coupled with sport science knowledge are key ingredients to becoming an elite golfer.
Philip Ang
Asian Golf Centre
Certified & Licensed USGTF Master Golf Teaching Professional - USA
Certified Professional Teacher and Trainer - University of Cambridge, UK
Singapore Sport Council - NCAP Level 1, 2 & 3
Singapore WDA-WSQ ACTA Certified Trainer & Assessor
Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP™) Practitioner - USA
Certified Professional Clubmaker by GCA (USA)
GCA Winner International Clubmaker of the Year - USA
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