| Improving your golf enjoyment has more to do with | | | | features high on their list of priorities as a |
| the golf psychology of addressing the reasons why | | | | professional. The top 50 players in the world are |
| you play golf at all than with addressing all the things | | | | probably sufficiently well off that money is not their |
| you're trying to fix in your golf swing. | | | | only motivator. Just remember the look on Phil |
| One theme that comes up a lot in my thoughts and | | | | Mickelson's face after that duel with Tiger Woods at |
| in my writing is the idea that one of the main reasons | | | | the 2009 Masters. The fact that he didn't win didn't |
| for most people playing golf is the pursuit of | | | | seem to outweigh his euphoric enjoyment responding |
| enjoyment, both for ourselves and the people we | | | | to the challenge. It's a shame that we don't so often |
| play with. As a golf psychologist, this is also my | | | | see that clear enjoyment coming from certain other |
| primary motivation in my working life and it's | | | | golfers when they aren't playing their best. I've talked |
| reflected in my mission, as a hypnotherapist and NLP | | | | about these failings from Colin Montgomerie in my |
| Master Practitioner, of helping people to do things | | | | recent article entitled "Unlike Colin Montgomerie Do |
| better and get more enjoyment out of the things | | | | You Enjoy Your Golf and Share That Enjoyment", |
| they do in life and in golf. | | | | from Tiger Woods in "Tiger Woods Balances Golf |
| What about the professional golfer pursuing fame | | | | Hypnosis and Temper to Hit Good Shots and Release |
| and money from golf success? Well, I suspect that | | | | Bad Ones" and from Sergio Garcia in "Rub of the |
| the pursuit of enjoyment played an important part | | | | Green and Anger Management at the Masters. |
| for them when they started out and it probably still | | | | |