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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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