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How To Manage Your Emotions To Improve Your Golf #BITESIZE

How To Manage Your Emotions To Improve Your Golf #BITESIZE

Karl Morris is not a Sports Psychologist but a PGA Golf Professional specialising in Performance Coaching. Widely regarded as one of Europe’s leading performance coaches. Karl delivers cutting edge methods of peak performance and goal achievement to a range of clients across sports and business. From the world of professional golf, Karl has worked with multiple winners including 6 major winners Louis Oosthuizen, Graeme McDowell, Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood. He has also supported top class amateur golfers, including numerous Walker Cup and Curtis Cup players. As an author Karl has written several books including The Lost Art of Putting and The Lost Art of Playing Golf.

Karl Morris’ Books: Attention: The Secret To You Playing Great Golf, The Lost Art Of Playing Golf, The Lost Art Of Putting, Golf In The Zone

In today’s episode of Demystifying Mental Toughness we dip back into the archives and take a short bite from episode 13 where leading performance coach Karl Morris and I chat about emotional control an essential ingredient of Mental Toughness. Karl goes on to share a very simple and effective strategy for those people who find it hard to let go of mistakes, stay calm and level headed. Or the golfer or athlete who gets too excited and finds they can think too far ahead when they’re performing well. It’s a strategy for golfers however if you get creative this concept can be applied to any sport or setting. Enjoy Tuning in!

Key Learning Points

Play a round of golf and look to observe your behaviour.
Make a note of your reactions to shots or how you you spend time between shots.
Why not use a mental scorecard to engage your competitive side by scoring your reactions on the course? Tick if you remained present or cross if you could have handled things better.
If you train yourself to react well and you go on to swing it well, you start getting very close to playing to your full potential.
Good players get ahead of themselves, everyone does. However good players are quick at noticing when their mind is stuck in the past or when they get caught trying to predict the future. They are then quick to move on after recognising it.

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To Listen to Relevant Podcast Episodes to Help You Lower Your Scores

Ep013: Karl Morris – How to stay present like a major champion

Ep099: Trevor Jones – How to Deal with Overthinking on the Golf Course

Ep160: Brian Hemmings – Golf Psychology: What You Can Expect and Why It Can Help You

Blogs To Improve Your Golf

How to Play Great Golf Under Pressure

5 Tips to Help You Perform Fearlessly When You Compete

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For More Resources so You Can Shoot Lower Scores on The Golf Course

Golfers Mental Scorecard

Golf Psychology FAQs

Psychology of Golf Library

Podcasts to Help You Manage Your Emotions Better

Ep092: Dr James Hegarty – ACT in Sport, Improving Performance through Mindfulness

Ep124: Dr Keagan Hadley – Long Term Injuries: How to Confront Difficult Thoughts and Emotions

EP136: Charlotte Potts – Overcoming Tough Times in Professional Women’s Football and Bouncing Back Stronger

Blogs to Help You Master Your Mind

Guided Mindfulness Meditation Practices with Jon Kabat-Zinn

Using ACT and Mindfulness to Improve Your Sporting Performances

Why You Should Meditate To Improve Your Sport Performance?

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David Charlton

Global Sports Psychologist who is located near Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK and willing to travel Internationally. David also uses online video conferencing software (Zoom, Facetime, WhatsApp) on a regular basis and has clients who he has supported in USA, Canada, South America, UAE, Australian and New Zealand.

Managing Director – Inspiring Sporting Excellence and Founder of The Sports Psychology Hub. With over 10 years experience supporting athletes, coaches, parents and teams to achieve their goals, quickly.

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How To Help Athletes and Coaches Reflect On Their Performances

by David Charlton

How To Help Athletes and Coaches Reflect On Their Performances

Mark Bennett MBE has spent the last 30 years developing robust and scalable strategies and tools to help organisations, teams and individuals maximise the performance potential of themselves and the people they are influencing.

Mark hasn’t just developed the ‘how to’ tools and strategies to increase engagement, learning and performance; he has designed powerful interventions that support the change required to embed the behaviours and cultures that maximise performance.

He has named this holistic approach the Performance Development Systems (PDS). PDS focusses on two key elements:

Making people better influencers
Supporting the transition of change required to live by the principles & behaviours needed to be a great influencer

For more information on Marks services & a host of free resources check out his website PDScoach.com

Many athletes and coaches understand that one measure of Mental Toughness, COMMITMENT, showing maximum effort, making promises and keeping them, setting goals and not getting to side-tracked is vitally important. What this can also mean is a lot of athletes and coaches get carried away with simply being busy and trying to improve. This often results in performance plateaus.

Why is that? A trap that many people fall into is a failure to learn from mistakes and performances. This challenge is the motivation for creating this episode with leading performance coach, Mark Bennett MBE, where we discuss live decision making from an athlete and coaches’ perspective. We also chat about individual sports and team sports, the differences, working with multi-disciplinary teams, hot and cold review processes and a lot more. Enjoy tuning in!

Key Learning Points:

Coaches are a huge influence on how athletes go on to make decisions and reflect on those decisions when they’re playing their sport in the moment.
Helpful processes in decision making link to ensuring emotions are managed, environmental factors are controlled, being able to reflect live whilst understanding how choices in the execution of skills go on to influence the outcome.
Helpful questions to ask yourself, start with – Am I in an effective state?
Recognising if your ego gets in the way of your performance is essential for both coaches and athletes.
Outcomes and too much though on technique can confuse a lot of golfers and impact their performance negatively.

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To Listen to Related Podcast Episodes

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Ep121 – Doug Strycharczyk and Dr John Perry What Is New? Developments in Mental Toughness Research and Practice

Ep140: Chris Cook – How to Improve Your Mental Strength: Secrets from an Olympian

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Golf Psychology: What You Can Expect and Why It Can Help You

by David Charlton

Golf Psychology: What You Can Expect and Why It Can Help You

Brian has 30 years of experience in sport psychology consultancy. Working full-time in private practice since 2006, he is also currently a part-time Senior Lecturer at the University of Winchester, UK. Author of five books, 15 book chapters, and over 50 research papers, Brian has presented widely in Europe and across Asia.

Having a world profile in golf psychology, he was the lead psychologist to the England golf team for 17 years delivering high performance strategies with European and World Championship winning teams and individuals. Brian also has a wealth of experience in numerous other sports, for example with championship winning individuals and teams in professional cricket, 12 medallists in Olympic and Commonwealth Games boxing, and podium winners in motorsport including Formula 1 and LeMans.

Brian gained his PhD in sport psychology from the University of Southampton in 1998; and has trained and supervised over 30 sport psychology trainees over the last 25 years. In 2010 he was awarded a Fellowship by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences in recognition of ‘esteemed personal achievement, skills, knowledge and service to BASES and the sport and exercise science community’.

– Golf Psychology is only for top, elite professionals such as Rory McIlroy or Jon Rahm.

– Only work with a Golf Psychologist if you have a problem.

– A Golf Psychologist will fix you in one session.

– Working with a Golf Psychologist will take place on a “couch.”

These statements are all myths that some golfers believe are true yet couldn’t be farther from the truth. The role of a Sport Psychologist who supports golfers is varied. It includes sitting down strategizing and going “deep” at times with the use of psychological skills training. However, it also includes considering more helpful ways to practice and how to manage your time on and off the golf course. Sessions can take place in a club houses, in confidential spaces, on putting greens, chipping greens, driving ranges and on golf courses.

In today’s episode of the Demystifying Mental Toughness Podcast, Dr Brian Hemmings joins me where we discuss his work as a Sports Psychologist in golf, the importance of the relationship between the practitioner, the coach and client, as well as frequent challenges faced by golfers, quiet eye training and a lot more. Enjoy Tuning in!

Key Learning Points:

There is less of a stigma of working with a psychologist in golf than a lot of sports.
The golf environment is a lovely place to work for a golf psychologist.
Many golfers lose confidence so quickly when playing competitively.
The relationship you form with the golfer is critical.
Experiential knowledge of working with players on putting greens and seeing them behave differently in practice has helped me in my work.
Expectations that people place on themselves can mean they make golf a lot more difficult than it needs to be.
Quiet eye training is very helpful for improving short putting.
Many golfers find transitions very challenging, from the step up to national squads to, turning professional to moving up to the DP World Tour.

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To Listen to Other Useful Podcast Episodes

Ep017: Gio Valiante – How to Play Fearless Golf

Ep068: Andrew Nicholson – How Hard Is It To Become A Tour Professional Golfer?

Ep089: Will Shaw – How to Transfer Your Golfing Skills to the Course

Ep099: Trevor Jones – How to Deal with Overthinking on the Golf Course

Ep101: Compilation – 25 Mental Game Secrets to Improve Your Golf

Ep118: Dr Bob Winters – How to Help Golfers Overcome their Mental Game Challenges

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10 Mental Game Tips from Leading Experts to Improve Your Golf

Do you try too hard on the golf course?

Golfers Mental Scorecard

Golf Psychology FAQs

Psychology of Golf Library

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How Do You Help a Young Athlete Get Better Organised?

by David Charlton

How Do You Help a Young Athlete Get Better Organised?

By working with David Charlton, you and your organisation will be better equipped to rise to modern day challenges and better informed to thrive on and off the pitch, course or court. Where he inspires individuals and teams to:

Cope with pressure and challenges more effectively
Maintain positive mental health
Compete with confidence more often
Manage your emotions better
Improve your commitments levels

David is a Mental Toughness Practitioner, as well as a Health Care and Professions Council (HCPC) Registered Sport and Exercise Psychologist. He has successfully supported athletes, teams and organisations for over 10 years in order to ensure that they perform at their maximum more often.

He has a comprehensive knowledge around the development of Mental Toughness, a plastic personality trait, which determines or limits people to deal effectively with change, challenges and stressors. In today’s climate, during the Coronavirus pandemic this quality is becoming more and more valuable to individuals, teams and organisations.

Avoiding procrastination and becoming better organised as a young athlete is the topic of today’s short solo episode. In Mental Toughness term’s we’re talking about commitment and sticking to promises as well as life control and having a “can do” attitude. These are much needed skills that many youngsters struggle with, which often means their sporting performance is harmed as well as their self-worth. In this episode, I share 3 ideas to help parents and coaches support children to overcome these challenges.

Key Learnings

Ask children to write a checklist. Perhaps starting with “3 Things To Do Before training” or “3 things you do in your pre shot routine.” By referring to lists on a regular basis your child’s ability to strategise tasks and organise time will improve.

Consider a child-friendly planner. Purchasing their own planner will help them see that you consider their time valuable, and that being organised is important.
Establish training and practice routines. Help your child put to one side an extra half hour, scheduling in at an appropriate time for “extras” on a regular basis. Encourage your child to stick to the schedule even when they don’t feel like it or if the weather is poor.

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Relevant Podcast Episodes

Ep154: David Charlton – How Do I Go About Controlling The Controllables To Help My Sport Performance?

Ep145: David Charlton – How Can I Help My Children Who Suffer With Nerves Before They Compete?

Ep141: David Charlton – How to Help a Child Who Wants to Quit Sport

Ep122: Camilla Knight – Helping Your Children Get The Most From Their Sporting Experiences

Ep082: David Charlton – Supporting Children in Sport with Positive Feedback

Relevant Blogs

Blog: Helping a Critical Child When You’re a Parent

Blog: How to Help Children Overcome Fear of Failure