How to Refocus on the Golf Course
Dear Golfer,
Dear Golfer,
If you ever feel discouraged or hassled on the golf
course, consider using a secret weapon to help you
re-focus and nail your next shot.
The weapon?
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Music.
Music is one of the quickest and easiest ways to alter
your mood.
Disco Dick' (pro golfer Richard Zokol) was one
of the first pros to use music to calm his nerves.
Disco Dick started using a Walkman on the PGA tour way
back in 1982, when mental toughness training was
a pretty new concept.
According to Dick, using a Walkman on the course back
then "was like showing up on the tee with a shaved head,
body piercing and tattoosit was pretty radical."
Radical, but effective.
Dick says that, "Sam Snead taught me to smell the
roses between shots and so, after every shot, I'd put
the headphones on.
It was soothing and blocked out the pressure.
Next thing I know, I'm seven under and leading
the tournament."1
Sylvie Bernier, who won Olympic gold in diving,
used the same technique.
Sylvie was driven to try mental toughness training
after years of disappointment and failure.
She was one of the top ten divers in the world,
but would frequently choke and end up 7, 8, or 9th in
world-class competitions.
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Sylvie was especially stressed out about the scoreboard.
Whenever she would finish a dive, she would
look at the scoreboard and her heart would go crazy.
Sylvie knew the only way she would be able
to control her reaction the scoreboard would be
with music.
At the Olympics, she had her trusty Walkman with
her at all times:
"Between dives my coach says Good' or what was wrong
with my dive. I go back, I listen to my Walkman
I always listened to the same thing on my Walkman
Take your passion, make it happen' from the
movie Flashdance.
I don't know why this song. Maybe because my
best friend gave it to me just before I left. She
said, Listen to this song and make it happen
for real.'
I carried my Walkman on my last two dives right
up to the ladder and left it on the table."
Then Sylvie nailed her last dive to win the Olympic gold medal.2
Using music is a simple yet powerful way to immediately
lower your score now.
I suggest you try it during your warm up swings,
then again when you need to re-focus on the course.
Your friend,
Lisa B.
How to Refocus on the Golf Course
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