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11.02.2022 We were looking for exceptional kids and what we found were exceptional conditions. - Benjamin Bloom Text Source: Retrospective Interviews in the Study of Ex...pertise and Expert Performance 288,289, Part IV, 16., Lauren A. Sosniak from The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (2006). See more

28.01.2022 The golf swing change process is a change management exercise and not an exercise in wishful/hopeful thinking or even guessing. Changing or modifying a techniqu...e whether simple or complex, requires a periodised approach of planning for the change, tracking the progress, and providing feedback along the way. Because there are many variables involved, a coach/teacher/instructor ideally will have a way of managing the stroke change process. That is, they will have a process that takes into account the stages of learning, the scheduled lesson hours, the agreed upon practice effort by the student, and of course the likely financial impact for making the change before it is undertaken.

25.01.2022 Classic. Powerful. Elegant. Ben Hogan won 5 times at Colonial. His timeless swing was the key to victory.

24.01.2022 Parents that have not experienced competition simply never developed the mental skills sets required of an athlete. They may be experiencing athletic competition for the first time through the prism of their child; which can be a very slippery slope. - Matt Russ

24.01.2022 WHATS A WINNING CULTURE? In todays class with our Momentum Program students at the National Training Centre in Jakarta, I discussed what a winning culture loo...ks like. I mentioned some sports with long term winning cultures like Indonesian Badminton and The All Blacks Rugby organisation, plus some others. I think that building a winning culture begins with an exploration of what winning is all about because it is different things to different people. This is the beginning of our exploration of it. It is a work in progress.

24.01.2022 Im in the middle of pulling together content to write a series of articles that I hope will become a book. Why Do Really Good Golfers Struggle? Ive been loo...king at the ongoing problem of the struggling elite golfer for a long time. Over the years I have compiled pages and pages of notes based on questions Ive been asking myself about this rarely acknowledged problem. Why are so many really good golfers failing to achieve their competitive goals? Why do they reach a plateau or performance standard from where many eventually walk away from competition and also the game. Theres no easy answers to this I know. On the pad you can see some of the questions Im asking myself. Sometimes You Can Be Too Close to the Fire The challenge of writing content that is somewhat different to the current narrative being pushed really helps me to think deeply and differently. I have found it helpful to look at the problem from 10 thousand feet because from this position you start to see where a lot of the problems that golfers face are arising from. It is a work in progress.

24.01.2022 Is Tiger describing the metaphysical nature of golf. Attaining another level... Where?... How?... Why?

24.01.2022 GOLFERS, ADAPT OR DIE... One of the training factors Im always mindful of when working with students is making sure that Im inducing adaptation in the golf tr...aining process. When you think about it, what do you have if you have a golf student who is not adapting? You have no growth and no improvement. I have seen this on many occasions over the years golfers where ambitious junior and mature golfers spend many hours on the practice ground under the mistaken belief that practicing a lot guarantees more improvement than less. Too often what golfers get really good at when they practice a lot is they get good at practicing a lot. What they dont get good at is improving their techniques or lowering their scores. Picture source: Theory and Methodology of Golf Training (5th Ed 2009) by Tudor O. Bompa and G. Gregory Haff.

22.01.2022 LAUNCHING A NEW GOLF PERFORMANCE PROGRAM FOR ELITE GOLFERS... In 2014 David Milne and I launched the Elite Golfer Improvement System known as E.G.I.S. 1.0 It wa...s a program I desiged along with David’s help to assist advanced golfers to be able to use a simple assessment tool to plan and execute their golf practice more effectively. Over the past 6 years E.G.I.S. 1.0 has sold in 20 countries and continues to sell every month since the day it was launched. With COVID-19 disrupting my plans (like so many others), and not being able to safely go back to Indonesia, I took the opportunity to start working on E.G.I.S 2.0 amongst some other projectssomething I’ve wanted to do for the past couple of years but I never really had the available time to focus on it. One of the great things about feedback is that it helps you to understand (at least a little) student experience. Feedback is an essential factor in any change process and through feedback you can make improvements to help you deliver a better program. With the feedback from the E.G.I.S. and my ongoing experience working with elite golf talent, including loads of study, training courses, and a certification, my plan is to launch E.G.I.S. 2.0 in January 2021. I’m sharing the E.G.I.S. 2.0 brochure (which is 97% complete) to give you a snapshot into some of the new program based on what I’ve identified as ongoing challenges elite golfers face in trying to achieve their performance outcomes whether it is... ...Lowering their handicap or score average ...Becoming a more competitive back nine or multiple rounds player ...Getting through a tour school ...Or being good enough to stay on a professional golf tour by making enough cuts and income over a season. The consistent challenge all serious elite golfers (whether amateur or professional) face, is to find ways to continue to improve. With that said, I cannot tell you how many really good golfers I have seen over the past few years who had stellar amateur careers but fell by the wayside when they turned professional. In the past 10 years whilst working with David at Pro Tour Golf College both in Perth and Indonesia, I’ve had the opportunity to look closely at current popular sports training methods and systems, various golf training devices, the latest diagnostic technology, piles of research papers, plus I talked with many amateurs and professionals about their challenges to become better players. This new program is the result. For your interest, I used the following helpful formula as my guide along the way to help me stay on track. Y = f(X) + e I have shared this formula from the Six Sigma program many times before, and it allowed me to keep my focus pretty much in the right place. Y is the golfers outcome(s) or result(s) desired or needed. X represents the input factors or elements necessary to create the outcome(s). (I have identified several Xs.) f is the functionthat is the process by which the factors are transformed into the desired outcome. e is the presence of error, or the uncertainty surrounding how effectively the Xs can be transformed to create the golfers outcome. I’d like to make it clear that it is by no means complete as there will always be unknown elements in the performance equation. I have merely attempted to focus on a small number of core elements I have experienced first-hand many times in more than 25 years working at the coal face with elite golf talent. The program does not delve into golf swing improvement, as there is no shortage of quality advice available in this area. I have maintained a focus around the other performance elements involved in elite player development. I’d like to take this opportunity to personally thank those who I reached out to for their feedback as I was putting this part of the program together. The advice has been very helpful. Thank you. My plan is to launch this program as a complete online improvement program like our original program, with another version that includes coaching suppor. Later in 2021 I will deliver an E.G.I.S certification program for golf coaches interested in delivering E.G.I.S. 2.0 for the serious golf students they work with. If you have any questions feel free to message me. Many thanks and I hope you gain some value from the information. **For more on the Six Sigma formula, here’s an article. https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/yfx-six-sigma-formula

21.01.2022 I’m so happy to present to you my online golf training and performance program E.G.I.S 2.0 for 2021. Thanks for all the helpful input at the 97% mark. Sending ...it out and getting feedback from friends and colleagues made a big difference. Thanks Andrew McCombe who gave me some lengthy feedback that sent me back into the office for a couple of weeks. I’m glad I followed through on your advice. Also, thank you to all the people who have expressed an interest for more information on E.G.I.S 2.0 programboth amateurs and professionals. I’m just getting the testimonials sorted out, and the pricing structure is almost done and I’ll send the information out. I’m really looking forward to 2021 with some really exciting projects on the board. And I’m also very happy to announce that Suzy and I will be moving back to our apartment in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in the first half of 2021. After 10 years in Perth we have decided that this is the best move to make for the next stage in our life. And the best part of that is we live opposite a great surf break... WooHoo

18.01.2022 Way back in March of 1992 I was appointed the Golf Professional for the Rothmans Foundation. I was the third and last golf professional ever to have this positi...on which I took over from the late Ross Herbert who was instrumental in helping me to get the job after he moved into the newly created role of head coach for golf at the Australian Institute of Sport which was based at Sandringham Golf Range in Melbourne. I spent many hours working side-by-side with Ross at junior camps from 1985, and it was a great introduction to what Ive now been doing for most of my adult life. Working at the Rothmans Foundation was one of those life changing experiences for me in many waysbut mainly because it helped me to gain a real sense of my purpose, where I was going with my career, and why. This full time role had me travelling for many weeks out of the year coordinating with state and regional golf associations to run golf camps for their junior golfers. Over the course of a year I flew a lot, drove a lot, and coached many hundreds of juniors. When I wasnt on the road, I was planning, promoting, coordinating and conducting the golf camps which I did in every state and territorysometimes with as few as 20 juniors, and other times with well over 100. I also ran programs promoting golf through regional high schools and would recruit and pay local golf teachers to help me run all these camps. We would coach from early morning to late in the afternoon for 1 to 5 days. The Rothmans Company is a multi-national corporation and at the time the national sport division sponsored many sports with their programs giving children access to a high standard of coaching across Australia. Those old enough would remember when they were major sponsors of motor racing. I was very fortunate to be able to work on their coaching team with coaches who like were coaching athletes from grassroots to international level in their respective sports. Most of the coaches were a lot older than me which was a blessing because I was able to work with coaches who were at the top of their gameeither at National or even Olympic level. When I first started working at the foundation, and when we were all back in the office in Sydney, coaches meetings were always scheduled so we could discuss relevant coaching issues and best practice. This was the first time in my career that I was exposed to coaching information that I was totally unfamiliar with. These coaches were working in athletics, rugby union, rugby league and cricket to name a few, and they were all very confident and knowledgeable about the art and science of high performance coaching. When we would sit around the large table in the conference room, at any time there could be 10 or more coaches present. When it was my turn to be grilled, they would ask me all kinds of questions about my coaching, my programs and my program goals. Most of the time-at least early on, I struggled to answer them because up to that point of time my golf teaching was narrow and technically focused, and miles away from where they were with their broad based, long-term approach to athlete development. When they asked me questions about performance factors outside of golf swing technique, I knew very little. I realised that they thought about performance very differently to me. It made me reflect often on my time as a professional player and how different it might have been had I been exposed to coaches like them. At the time, I was of the belief that if I could get someone swinging the golf club better and hitting their shots better, then I had improved them. They were coming from an entirely different paradigm, and they would ask me questions that appeared on the surface to be relatively benign, but turned out to be anything but... What do you do after youve got their technique to the level youre aiming for? In other words... what do you do then?... Can you show me one of your golfers periodisation models for the next 6 months? How do you determine when to stop working on technique? What is your typical preparation lead time into a main tournament? And they went on and on. I didnt really have much of an answer because none of the golf books I read, covered anything really beyond improving the full swing or short game. Even the books about the mental game were quite basic and aimed at the average amateur playernot the elite player. The books and videos didnt really delve too deeply into how to get someone who could really play, to continue improving. These coaches were in a different school to me when it came to coaching because I was working mostly with average amateur golfersclub golfers, and some lower handicap golfers, whereas they were working with elite national level athletes and they were expected to deliver the highest level of results at the highest level. This is where my real golf education really began. They encouraged me to read sports science books and papers regularly. I distinctly remember reading Anders Ericssons landmark paper on Deliberate Practice in 1993. The papers would be in all the coaches in-trays as soon as they were made available. I was encouraged to attend coaching conferences at the Australian Institute of Sport where I mixed with high performance coaches from many different sports. Id been to golf coaching conferences in Australia, the U.S. and in Europe, but was never exposed to the topics the Rothmans Foundation coaches encouraged me to study. The golf conferences I attended at the time were only just starting to explore golf and fitness (this was well before T.P.I.), and biomechanics topics, but mostly the presenters mainly shared their golf swing instruction theory, model and practice. Studying sports science topics such as; coaching science, biomechanics, motor-learning theory, anatomy and physiology, periodisation, psychology and many others turned out to be incredibly helpful, and Im very grateful to this day that they took me under their wing and encouraged me to look way beyond the golf swing. What I didnt realise is they were helping to prepare me for the time when I would start to coach elite golfers. As I was to learn, theres a vast difference between coaching average players and coaching elite players, and they wanted me to be prepared with the knowledge, strategies and tools to help me to optimise the potential of the top tier golfers I would work with. As it turned out, this was a blessing in disguise because not too long after going down this path I started to work with a great many elite golfers at state and national level when I was appointed as a state coach in New South Wales, and not long after, I also took on the role as National Womens Coach. But thats a story for another time.

18.01.2022 The overall purse at Torrey Pines was $7.5 million.

18.01.2022 That spell in 1990 when I won 11 tournaments in a rowincluding all those boys titleswas done over eight weeks. Not 52. I was portrayed as this unbelievable superstar, but it was really just eight weeks of unbelievable play.

17.01.2022 Ribka Vania is a student in our Destiny Program at the National Training Centre, and shes also a member of Team Indonesia . I always like sharing the notes she takes in our theory classes to give you an idea of the type of information our students in the program are exposed to.

17.01.2022 Bryson practices like a scientist so he can play like an artist. Here's what he learned from his hero, Moe Norman: "Why was he able to hit it straight every time? It wasn’t that he was thinking about everything. More like he was thinking about nothing."... A great share from Amrie Noor. This is an insightful article on Bryson DeChambeau’s approach to his personal and professional development. Worth the time to read this onewhether you play golf or not.

17.01.2022 I hope you find this to be as helpful as I have. A Framework of Mental Toughness in the Worlds Best Performers Graham Jones, Lane 4 Management Group, Sheldon ...Hanton and Declan Connaughton, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. http://tpc.uk.net//Mental-Toughness-in-the-Worlds-Best-Ath The Sport Psychologist, 2007, 21, 243-264 2007 Human Kinetics, Inc.

17.01.2022 Some wise words shared in this short but well written article. Heres a little to wet your appetite... After that comes forward leaning shaft and compressin...g the ball, then swing left, late set, early set, use the big muscles, use the hands, restrict the hips, turn the hips, shift your weight, no weight shift, get your hands high, one plane swing and now the latest is using the ground. Then there is also the use of anatomy vocabulary such as ulnar deviation and thoracic spine to show off an instructors knowledge of the golf swing.

15.01.2022 SUPER COACHES FROM OTHER SPORTS. WHAT WE CAN LEARN TO IMPROVE OUR APPROACH TO DEVELOPING OUR GOLF STUDENTS For many of my elite golf coaching friends, you may n...ot of heard of Dr. Anatoliy Bondarchuk but Id encourage you to do some research on him and his methods of transferring skill from the training ground to the competition ground. WHO IS HE? Anatoliy Pavlovych Bondarchuk (Ukrainian: , born 31 May 1940) is a retired Soviet hammer thrower, who is regarded as the most accomplished hammer throw coach of all time. He is also a noted as the author of the two-volume book Transfer of Training, which was translated from Russian to English by Michael Yessis. As an athlete, Bondarchuk accumulated numerous international awards and honors throughout a long career. Beginning the hammer throw at a late age of 24, he won his first international title at the 1969 European Championships. Near the end of the season, Bondarchuk set two world records in the event. Bondarchuk remained among the world's elite for several years and won the gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics while setting an Olympic Record of 75.50 meters. Four years later, he earned the bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. For his Olympic achievements Bondarchuk was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour in 1972 and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1976. Despite his athletic success, Bondarchuk is better known as a coach. He began coaching while competing himself, and has since worked with medal-winning athletes at five Olympic Games. His most famous trainee is two-time Olympic champion and current hammer world record holder Yuri Sedykh. Bondarchuck is currently living and coaching in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, where he guided Canadian shot put record holder Dylan Armstrong to a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. His trainees in hammer throw include Canadian record holder Sultana Frizell, former Canadian record holders Jennifer Joyce and Crystal Smith, Megann Rodhe, U.S. champion Kibwe Johnson, Caymanian record holder Michael Letterlough, Swiss champion Martin Bingisser and 2012 Canadian Olympian Justin Rodhe. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoliy_Bondarchuk I have gained a great deal of useful information from studying his methodology and approach to training, and it has definitely made a big difference in the way I go about designing training programs and facilitating the change process in our students. Find out more about his approach here. https://www.8weeksout.com//bondarchuk-principles-periodiz/ And here. https://www.scottishathletics.org.uk//bondarchuk-by-Martin

15.01.2022 Why Are There So Many Bad Golfers? Hi coach, I have a question for you. Ok, Tim, fire away.... Coach, why are there so many bad golfers? Well, Tim, do you mean bad golfers as in golfers who play off high handicaps and who struggle to play to them, or, do you mean any golfer who plays badly compared to their expectations? I think the second one is more common coach. Ok, I’ll give you my perspective on it Tim. Firstly, bad golfers exist because of the dualistic nature of the way we look at things here in the west. You see Tim, dualism describes how we notice the difference in things like subject and object, cause and effect, body and mind, good and evil, black and white, bad shot and good shot, good golfers and bad golfers and so on... Now, bad shots and good shots are treated differently in different places and different cultures, and in western civilisation we have evolved primarily with a problem-solution construct that does its best to describe the principle of causality which has developed over 2000 or so years and really packaged into a methodology in the past 500 years . This problem-solution approach has at its heart two elements that influence it, determinism, and a mechanistic approach. So let’s unpack this a little bit to understand how it supports your question. Determinism is a belief that all events, including our actions, are ultimately determined by causes that reside outside of our will. So Tim, good and bad stuff on the golf course happens to us despite our best efforts. Some philosophers also believe that determinism implies that we human beings have no free will what-so-ever and are totally at the mercy of randomness and uncertainty. Now, that’s a slippery slope and not for this conversation. So based on this deterministic view, bad shots just happendespite our best intentions Tim, and bad golfers exists because, well... because they do. And now Tim, that brings me to the next part. You see a lot of really smart people a long time ago had a hard time believing that things just exist ‘as is’ and that you couldn’t control them. They wanted to find a way to prove it wrong. A mechanistic approach evolved as a mental construct or world view that principally supports that all living things can be treated as complicated machinesignoring the fact that humans are emotional beings, and that the universe operates like a gigantic clock composed of parts that lack any inherent relationship to each other but that can be precisely explained. Tim, look up Sir Issac Newton for more on this. So mechanistic theory and the laws of force and motion were developed to manage this determinismor randomness and uncertainty that governs our reality. This theory implies that humans swinging golf clubs can be explained about as precisely as mechanical processes operating within a machine and physiological processes operating within the body. This understanding is now accepted as reality by golf culture the world over, and golfers, teachers and the golf media are so embedded into this construct or world view that they believe it is the only reality that exists. So Tim, in a deterministic and mechanistic universe bad golfers have problems because they can’t control the world around them and flaws or problemsoften described as bad swings and bad shots manifest as a result. And because golfers have bad swings and hit bad shots, these bad swings and shots can be analysed, explained and repaired or fixed. Basically what is broken can be fixed, and in a capitalist driven society you can find someone to fix your problem for a fee. Now, these ‘bad golfers’ come to believe they have particular ‘problems’ that are stopping them from being good golfers. Now you should realise by now that these ‘problems’ are retrospectiveor backdated, meaning that they exist in a golfers past. And that should be the end of the story by virtue of the fact that they do not exist in the now, therefore they are nothing more than an illusion. You see, they only exist because of this world view Tim. This problemsolution process plays out continually from one golfer to the next, reinforcing the mechanistic and deterministic constructs I’ve described. This means that bad golfers with retrospective problems attempt to solve the problems now with tools and techniques that have been developed as part of this problemsolution construct. The irony Tim is that problems of the past are an illusion as are problems of the future, and only exist because we choose to believe it. What would happen if we played golf and never worried about a bad shot... But try telling bad golfers that their problem is an illusion and you will quickly learn just how much they are embedded into this dualistic, deterministic and mechanistic world view. This reminds me of a quote by the famous physicist Albert Einstein; we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. And this Tim may be the reason there are so many bad golfers.

15.01.2022 I found this useful when I first came across it. For those not familiar with Sir Dave Brailsford and British cycling, it’s a great story of how much very small ...changes can lead to big improvement. Put simply. how small improvements in a number of different aspects of what we do can have a huge impact to the overall performance of the team. Sir Dave Brailsford Here’s a good article to read if you wish to know more. https://hbr.org//how-1-performance-improvements-led-to-oly

14.01.2022 How good is this! Arguably the greatest male golfer ever sharing some extremely valuable information.

13.01.2022 A fantastic reflection and advice Jordan Spieth would give to his younger self.....

12.01.2022 Thanks for the great share Christoph Prasthofer. This is really interesting article that for me confirms that Sir Dave Brailsford’s marginal gains theory is a useful model for golf improvement as long as the golfer possesses exceptional drive, commitment to their short to long-term goals, a dedicated and focused work ethic, coupled with a team of specialists who can provide necessary and ongoing feedback accurately.

12.01.2022 Tiger on Bryson.

12.01.2022 Its been a while since I penned an article and over the past few days I found the inspiration to write this one on something rarely if ever discussed in golf in...struction. I hope you enjoy and gain some value from it. LEARN THE RIGHT MENTAL INSTRUCTION CODE SO YOU CAN REDUCE MISTAKES AND HIT MORE GOLF SHOTS THE WAY YOU WANT, WHEN YOU WANT, UNDER ANY TYPE OF PRESSURE

11.01.2022 In our weekly Performance Improvement theory class at the National Training Centre in Jakarta I introduced Sir Dave Brailsfords Aggregation of Marginal Gains m...odel to the students and told them the back story of his work with English Cycling. The aggregation of marginal gains model is useful for understanding the importance of small progressive (1%) steps when youre already an accomplished golfer. This model was applied to our existing Block Periodisation model and the students could see that most of the time you cant see improvementparticularly as an elite golfer, but you have to believe it is there. The key to the progressive realisation of a worthy goal is having a good plan and working on it constantly, adjusting it as needed. Oftentimes, the challenges you face in generating improvement will come from less-than-obvious things that I call the performance limiting factors.

11.01.2022 Golf is hard. Especially at Riviera's 10th hole.

10.01.2022 WHY A GOLF TRAINING APPROACH VERSES A GOLF TEACHING APPROACH MIGHT BE A GOOD DECISION FOR YOU. A long-term golf training approach to performance improvement in ...my experience is a relatively unique concept for developing golf talent when compared to the more traditional and widespread golf lesson model for developing golf talent. Basically, in simple terms, the golf training model relies on long-term planning, whereas the traditional lesson model typically tends to be a short term approach to improvement. A golf training approach to improvement means that you action a plan for improvement based on actively using development cycles of various duration, volume, frequency and intensity, rather than leaving improvement up to hard work, lots of golf lessons, luck and/or hope. For example; lets say that you are already an advanced or elite golfer whos taking regular lessons (traditional model) at the driving range and you have desires of playing top level amateur or professional golf. A key question worth asking yourself is how is doing what you currently do on the range going to improve your performances on the golf courseespecially when it matters? How specifically does improving a golf stroke technique equate to improved golf scores in tournaments, particularly if you have little to no way of benchmarking improvement? Diagnostic tools like Trackman and FlightScope (to name two) are certainly useful from this point of view, however the key question becomes how you use tools like these (and others) over the long-term to drive skill performance up, and golf scores down. This question is worth pondering. In our performance model presented below notice how I have inserted a projected average for 12 months based on the goal of a student in our program, and it also shows their actual stroke average over the same period. You can see that the projected line moves in a linear fashion across the page, but the score actual line moves as one would expect like an unpredictable rolling wave. Knowing that golf performance (whether shot-making or score making) moves more like this fairly unpredictable and inconsistent wave thats rolls through up and down cycles, (as opposed to a straight and consistent line), the trick then is to employ meso cycles that target specific skill-sets that have a high probability of causing error when competing. I have found in our program that employing 21 and 28 day meso development cycles gives us ample time (in most cases) to upgrade skills enough to keep the score actual line close to the projected average line. In my experience using a periodised training approach like this rather than a traditional lesson-by-lesson approach to golf improvement, has been a key factor in the performance improvement of our students in tournaments nationally and internationally over the long-term. #elitegolfcoaching #elitegolfperformance #mindonthegame #protourgolfcollege #riseupindonesiagolf #eliteperformancecoaching

10.01.2022 Playing the game. Golf is a game of score and the competitive advantage of the great golfers throughout history is their ability to maintain their low scoring standard in all types of conditions, anytime, anywhere.

08.01.2022 We are a golf score improvement school. In other words, our primary focus in our curriculum is to help our students to score lower in tournaments. One of the ke...y performance indicators (K.P.I) that we value highly is for our students to be able to score low when their tee-to-green game is worse than average. We call this K.P.I the Bad SwingGood Score K.P.I, which is a performance measure that helps us to evaluate the success of our students when they compete in a tournament. An example of this is recently one of our 16 year old juniors scored 70 (-2) in a tournament hitting just 7 greens in regulation. We believe that junior golfers need to develop this master scrambling ability as early as possible. In the table below Phil Mickelson in the 3rd round of the AT&T Pro Am at Pebble Beach scored a 5 under par 67 hitting just 9 greens in regulation. When you look at his stats, you can see a true magician around the greens doing what he does well. When you see the These Guys Are Good PGA Tour advert you really start to understand why. Image Source: pgatour/stats.com

07.01.2022 Always fascinating to hear what Ben Hogan had to say about golf.

07.01.2022 THIS JUNIOR GOLFER WAS ON A LEVEL FAR FROM NORMAL This is two years into his mental toughness training with his father. I’ve watched this short video a bunch of times over the past few years and I’ve listened carefully, and taken good notes and I can’t help but think that in all my years working with junior golfers, I never heard any of them talk with the level of maturity and insight into the mental game and competing that young Tiger possessed. It seems like he was just so... far ahead on the develop-mental curve. I know that in reading his dad’s book ‘Training a Tiger’ he mentions that very early in their training mental toughness training (he was 12) was essential while he was in his early teens. Here’s the quote from the book. Son, this fall I will put you through Woods Finishing School. He said, Good. Little did he know what he was in for. My plan was to put Tiger through some rigorous training in mental toughness. But before we began, I thought it was necessary to establish some ground rules. They were as follows: If at any time he wanted to end, he would just mention a code word that we had, and the training would be over; second, there were no other ruleseverything goes, and he could say nothing in response. Thanks for sharing the video Sandy Kurceba #mentaltoughnesstrainingforjuniorgolfers #mindonthegame #juniorgolfertoughnesstraining

07.01.2022 The weekend at the National Training Centre is when most of the juniors come out to our facility at Emeralda Golf Course to train. Heavy rain this morning call...ed for a theory class for the juniors in the MOMENTUM Program which we do on a regular basis as it is one of the most important training factors in our program. Today we discussed 4 levels of learning that are experienced when youre making changes/adjustments to golf stroke techniques. We focused on 2 models Ive been teaching for many years. The first shows the relationship between competency and awareness, and the second one shows the relationship between change components and complexity. The basic rules I shared with the students are: 1...The more conscious you are of your technique, the less competent you are. 2...The more change components within a learning process (at the same time), the more complex the change process becomes, and the longer it takes to reach the level of unconscious competence.

07.01.2022 EFFECTIVENESS & EFFICIENCY IN GOLF: WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IF YOU WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR GOLF PERFORMANCES I can always get better. - Tiger Woods T...iger Woods and many other successful professional golfers seem to be able to find ways to get better at performing at golf. And that’s quite something because I believe that for the most part, getting better at golf is not only a challenging process, but also a mysterious one. If ‘getting better at golf’ was a recipe, and you were the cook, what would you stew together to achieve your version of getting better at golf? Seems to me the challenge is made more difficult because it is different-cooks-different-ingredients-different-methods... right? Let me ask you some questions about getting better at golf if you don’t mind. Is your game moving towards getting better or getting worse right now? Are your scores trending upwards, or downwards? Are your shots going straight most of the time, or not going straight most of the time? Do you think you need technique lessons, mental lessons, or a strong drink? Will you play better if you go to the gym? Or eat different foods? Or eat less food? Or eat more food? Or drink more water? Or pray before you play?... There seems to be many factors at play when your goal is to get better at golf. There are many cooks, and there are many ways. Fundamentally, that’s why understanding the difference between the two words effectiveness and efficiency is helpful in this regard. A good cook knows how to blend different ingredients together to achieve an outcome in a relatively consistent way. They have efficient processes that lead to achieving effective outcomes consistently. The Soup de jour doesn’t come out looking like Filet Mignon. So, let’s look at the definitions of these two words I found on Dictionary.com which may help us to understand the difference between them. Effective (adj.) Adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result. Efficient (adj.) Performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort. These two words are commonly misused and misinterpreted in golf in my experience. Clearly this definition describes effectiveness as not being the same as efficiency. Yes, they are relatives, but they are not from the same family. Being effective relates to achieving the performance goals that move you towards your outcome goals. So, establishing performance benchmarks or targets can lead you towards outcome goals you would like to havelike winning a tournament, or placing high in the field at an important event. Efficiency on-the-other-hand is the process of working at your game in a well organised or structured and competent manner to increase the potential for improvement by employing the most efficient use of your time, effort and money. So, it will be helpful to think of effectiveness as the benefits you obtain from your investment of time, effort and moneyor the cost of getting better at golf. The scholar and organisational consultant Warren Bennis sums up the effectiveness-efficiency relationship perfectly with this quote; doing the right things right. When I read this quote years ago in one of his books, it struck a chord with me. Doing the right things right has helped to ensure that when I work with elite golfers I continually remind myself of this important relationship. In writing and producing my new golf improvement program E.G.I.S 2.0, I am continually thinking about doing the right things right, and I use some simple tools to help my students to understand the relationship and how it relates to continuous improvement. Check out my E.G.I.S 2.0 Golf Efficiency and Effectiveness Matrix (below) and you will see that there is always a cost to benefits ratio to be considered when you aim to improve your game. There are goals, and there is a way to get to them. You need to know how to do this without generating excessive costs in terms of time, effort, and money. I’ve been looking outside the domain of golf for many years for answers to my questions because frankly, I couldn’t find them inside the game. In helping my students to achieve their goals, I came across the following equation Y = f(x) + e that Motorola and other corporations have used to guide their manufacturing process to achieve peak efficiency. The equation helped me to understand the very real difference between being effective and being efficient. I think that knowing the difference reduces the mysterious nature of golf improvementat-least a little bit. You see, as I mentioned at the beginning of this article, I believe that golf improvement is not only a challenging process, it’s also a mysterious one. The Dictionary.com definition of mysterious encapsulates it nicely: Mysterious, inscrutable, mystical, obscure refer to that which is not easily comprehended or explained. That which is mysterious, by being unknown or puzzling, excites curiosity, amazement, or awe... I remind my students that effectiveness is far more workable than efficiency because the most successful golfers prove time-and-time-again that they achieve their outcomes by not necessarily being super efficient with their processes, but what they all do skilfully is blend their performance ingredients together to produce effective outcomes. This is what I call the magic within the mystery because when golfers do this well, it looks so easyand effortless. As you well-know, rare is it that a golfer hits their best shots to win golf tournaments. Often, it is a solitary long putt that is holed across a bumpy green at the end of a long day that seals the deal by one stroke. I often think that golfers get caught up striving to be efficient when they should be aiming to be effective. Yes, by-all-means be as efficient as you can be with your techniques, however, the level of efficiency is never going to be even close to 100 percent. It will rise and fall like the tidesthough never as predictably. With an effectiveness mind-set leading the way, you can manage the randomness and uncertainty that governs the game of golf. With an efficiency mind-set you might be spending too much of you time, effort and money standing on a rubber mat attempting to make perfect golf swings and perfect golf shots. With an effectiveness mind-set leading the way, you are more in charge of your thoughts and emotions when aiming for improvement, whereas an efficiency mind-set could be setting you up for lots of disappointment and anxiety because the randomness and uncertainty that rules the game will erode the sand from under the foundations you built your game upon. The two words effectiveness and efficiency are not inter-changeable. Making them so is diluting their power and making it harder for you to get better at golf and in the process building a rock-solid game that leads you to becoming the golfer you wish to become. Lawrie Montague MindOnTheGame.com

07.01.2022 THE PROBABILITY OF ACHIEVING SUCCESS ON A PROFESSIONAL GOLF TOUR Probability theory asks this simple question... How likely is something going to happen?... Some things in life that you perform at are more likely to happen than not. . For example, if you are an elite golfer, you are more likely to hole a putt from 3 feet than not. If you keep statistics of your performances on the golf course, you might be able to say that you have an 80 percent chance of making a putt from 3 feet (on all slopes and surfaces over a season) and a 20 percent chance of not. . But remember, theres no guarantee that the putt you face confidently, will go in. There are many (most) events that can't be predicted with total certainty. For example, we cant be certain that a young and ambitious elite golfer will become successful on tour. We can say that they have a chance, but how likely they can A ) qualify through a tour school and B ) then make more cuts than they miss, and C ) generate more income than they spend (our definition) over a season, is based on some known factors, but many unknowns. In our experience, this is what we know currently... If you are an elite amateur or professional golfer taking golf swing improvement lessons after the age of 20, than you are (in our experience) less likely to be a successful tour player. Why? Well, think about it. . If youre making a swing change and then you intend competing at a tour school, how long will your swing change take to get to the condition of automaticity, or unconscious competence? When will you be confident enough to compete with a level of scoring ability where you can produce more than 50 rounds out of 100 where you break 70? What is the probability of your success at doing this currently? Likely? - Unlikely? Unless you can consistently produce rounds in tournaments where you break 70 more than 50 percent of the time with a high score average of 74 or better, our advice is to keep developing your scoring ability because based on probability theory, you are less likely to be successful playing golf professionally.

05.01.2022 A useful coaching model that does an excellent job of describing the relationship between arousal and performance is the one developed by well known sports psyc...hologist Dr. Yuri Hanin and his Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning (IZOF) model. The IZOF model highlights individual differences in the way athletes/golfers react to performance anxiety. All golfers find their state anxiety level (emotional sweet spot) in different places along a spectrum from low to high. Some golfers will tend to perform optimally when their anxiety levels are lower, and others can perform optimally when their anxiety levels are higher. I have found the IZOF model to be very helpful in my coaching practice because it enables me to help my students to learn how to become emotionally self-awarein other words, they learn to increase their emotional intelligence capability when performing. Not only that, they also learn to understand where psychological readiness occurs for them which increases their potential for performing more effectively when it matters.

05.01.2022 Some of us would argue that the same can be said of 21st century golf. Many golfers (young and older) want to to hit the ball as straight and far as possible, a...nd who can blame them? They are influenced by the idea that all the long hitters on the big tours make the most income and/or are the most successful. Its true, those that score the lowest also tend to be amongst the longest off the tee. But not everyone whos playing great golf is bombing it over 300 metres all-day-long. What I will say is that golf as a creative process leading to lower scores (when performing strokes other than with a driver) requires constant skill development too. There are many golf shots that have to be mastered from many challenging locations around the golf course. Golf many times is played from places other than the middle of the fairway. To play top level golf, all the long hitters are also highly skilled when their big drives go into the forest. So if kicking and punching relates to long straight driving, then as the old master laments, (and I paraphrase) this is not golf, this is bombing and gouging.

05.01.2022 Some useful information I found on golf injuries for golf coaches, teachers, instructors and parents of junior golfers. Source: Routledge Handbook of Strength and Conditioning 2018. Edited by Anthony Turner.

05.01.2022 How a Relatively Young, Naive, Arrogant, Ignorant and Inexperienced Golf Teacher Became a Golf Coach (Part 6) . . Working in Indonesia with the NDP program has given me a chance over the last 5 years to look closely at what I could do better and differently in my coaching to improve athletic potential. .... . Through the reading of different papers and articles on periodisation I came across Vladimir Issurins name quite often, and I started to study his approach to periodising performance in elite athletes. . . In reading his work, I realised that some of the limitations I was experiencing in the planning process based on my current understanding of periodisation needed to change. . . Things like peaking for events, general and specific preparation phases needed to be upgraded. . . Here was a coach challenging my convention, and it was somewhat of a revelation to me, but it has helped me enormously to improve how I develop our students performance plans. . . His text book is hard to get, but has been worth it for me to add to my library as it has really made a difference over the past year in terms of how I manage our students development process. . . So, Ill be forever grateful to those old and seasoned coaches who put me on a different track to improve golfers performances from the well trodden way Id probably still be on. . . Yesterday, when I was a relatively young, naive, arrogant, ignorant and inexperienced golf teacher. . . #eliteperformancecoach #mindonthegame #highperformancecoaching #protourgolfcollege #riseupindonesiangolf #persatuangolfindonesia #indonesiangolfassociation #elitegolf @ Pro Tour Golf College See more

01.01.2022 "I just want him to enjoy." Tiger Woods talks playing with his son, Charlie, ahead of the PNC Championship this weekend.