Why do most golfers not score as well as they would want, despite having lessons?
It’s a well-kept secret that average golf scores are not getting lower, despite massive advances in equipment and teaching technology.
The reason is there’s a big gap between the 2 traditional ways to improve.
Technical teaching on the range is not enough to fix your score on the course and “going to sports psychology to solve the rest” has been too inaccessible, complex or forbidding for most.
Consider the Mcllroy Meltdown “brain-dead” round: Later it was reported “Rory decides not to see a shrink.” “It’s nothing mental, “he said,” I’ll sort it out for myself.”
The meltdown was clearly not technical, but he doesn’t want to think he needs to go to a psychologist. He needs something in between, which he can do for himself.
That’s what New Golf Thinking provides; techniques for how you best think to yourself, and for yourself.
These techniques should not be considered “sports psychology” nor “the mental game”. Because these labels for many do not invite exploration, and invite rejection.
They are in-the-gap between “Technical” and “Psychology”
People use them to get good performance from good self-management outside of golf, and they can be applied to golf.
Just as you practice the 7 technical techniques of Driving, Iron Play, Pitching, etc– so you save shots by getting expert at the 7 Thinking Techniques: BOUNCE-BACK, RISE-TO-OCCASION, CAN-DO, RESULTS-DRIVEN, SELF-START, FRESHEN-UP and CLEAR-HEADED.
How to get expert in them also needs a breakthrough: technical skills have been taught well through pictures and diagrams; non-technical skills, up to now, have only had long books, full of words only, which have been difficult for most to put into practice.
But now, for the first time, NEW GOLF THINKING provides non-technical skills via pictures, charts and graphics, to swipe scan and then focus, on a tablet or smart phone.
teaching on the range is not enough to fix your score on the course and “going to sports psychology to solve the rest” has been too inaccessible, complex or forbidding for most.