Developing Mental Toughness in Golf In “Sessions with Doc,” Dr. Patrick Cohn answers your sports psychology and mental training questions about having stable confidence in sports. Visit Peaksports.com and click on contact us to submit your question for Dr. Cohn to answer in his mental game videocast or podcast. Here’s the question Dr. Cohn answers this week about how to … Putting Yips Article>>
Discovering if You Have The Yips How do you know you have the yips or if you have a stroke problem? When you have the yips, you: When the stroke is causing the misses: The yips are caused by fear of missing or yipping again and how that will affect your score or what others might think about your game. … Putting Yips Article>>
Who Will Have the Yips? Effective January 1, 2016, the PGA Tour will officially ban the anchored putter for tour golfers. The long putter or anchored putting has been allowed for several decades as an alternative to the sometimes-problematic traditional length putter. This controversial decision may present problems for many successful golfers. Some golfers have chosen to switch to the … Putting Yips Article>>
Over-Controlling Your Putts Golf can test your nerves and composure… Do you fear missing easy putts or three-putting a hole when playing under pressure? Thoughts about outcome and missing can cause muscle tension leading some golfers to hold the putter with a death grip… In the yips cycle, fear leads to over control. Over control leads to tension, which causes … Putting Yips Article>>
Playing Intuitive Golf To play intuitive golf, a concept I teach in “Breaking The Yips Cycle” DVD program, you want to trust your athletic mind when you play golf… One golfer who took my golf yips survey asked: “When I aim the putter on line it feels wrong. Is this why I have problems with the yips?” My short answer … Putting Yips Article>>
Do You Tense Up on The Greens? Many golfers share a similar putting problem: They putt with ease on the practice green but find it difficult to putt effortlessly during rounds. Confident putting is essential to your overall golf game especially since approximately 40% of your total number of strokes happen on the putting green. Having no confidence in your … Putting Yips Article>>