Fear of Failure With Putting Yips
Dr. Patrick Cohn discusses the putting yips, the chipping yips, and the full-swing yips for golfers.
In this video, Dr. Cohn talks about:
The top sources of fear for golfers with the putting yips.
Fear of failure is often at the root of the yips.
Learn the top two types of fear for golfers…
Do you feel you work so hard on your game and worry that you won’t get the payoff with low scores?
Or do you worry about the fear of embarrassment and how other might think if you miss a two-footer?
Why would your stroke feel free in practice, but tight and stab-like on the course?
Fear gets in the way.
Overthinking gets in the way of being athletic on the course.
Watch the video now:
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What about the fear of success? (i.e. scoring much better than one’s handicap and being viewed as a sandbagger?)
Robin: Good point. Fear of success operates much differently that fear of failure with the yips. It’s much more rare to have fear of success. I’ll write about this topic soon.