The Mental Golf Show
By Josh Nichols
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Episodes: 196
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Host Josh Nichols shares from his own 20 years of competitive and golf psychology coaching experiences, along with years of learning psychology, as well as interviews with players, coaches, and experts in the golf industry, all with the goal of helping you think better on and off the golf course.
*This podcast is not meant to apply to every individuals’ mental health. And not all opinions expressed by guests reflect Josh’s opinions and experiences.
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Golf Thought Thursday: The Easiest (and Hardest) Way to Play Better Golf
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: The Psychology of Handling Annoying Playing Partners
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: Expect Bad Golf to Get Good Golf
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Letting Scratch Happen w/ Mike & Eli of Chasing Scratch
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Get Clarity in Your Golf Game w/ Evan Singer of The Par Train
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Lean Into Your Golf Personality w/ John Weir (creator of Mental Golf Type)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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The 4-Step Process for Setting and Achieving Your Golf Goals in 2024
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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The 5 Steps of a Swing Change w/ Jayson Nickol (Part 2)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Change Your Game for the Better w/ Jayson Nickol (Part 1)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: How to Take Your Range Game to the Course
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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How Strokes Gained Helps Your Mental Game w/ Mark Broadie (Part 2)
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: Which Comes First- Confidence or Good Golf?
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The Easiest Way to Save Strokes w/ Mark Broadie (Part 1)
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Ugly Golf Shoots the Lowest Scores w/ Ryan Mouque (Part 2)
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: How to Finish Off a Good Round
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Golf Swing Cause and Effect w/ Ryan Mouque (Part 1)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: Does Positive Self-Talk Work?
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Why You Should Embrace Discomfort w/ Kiel Alderink (Part 2)
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: A Mentally Effective Pre-Round Warmup
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Understand What Pressure Does To You w/ Kiel Alderink (Part 1)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: The Most Important Thing to Help You Play Your Best
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Make Golf As Simple As Possible w/ Michael Leonard (Part 2)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: Should You Know Your Score While You Play?
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Expect Bad Things To Happen w/ Michael Leonard (Wicked Smart Golf) - Part 1
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: How to Make it to the Finals of a USGA Championship
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Take a Hard Look at Your Mental Habits w/ Raymond Prior (Re-release part 2)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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How to Turn Down the Mental Noise on the Course (Re-release)
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Your Comfort Zone is Irrelevant w/ Raymond Prior (Re-release episode)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: How to Play a Course Blind
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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How to Simplify Golf w/ Jon Sherman @practicalgolf (Part 2)
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Accept Your Game As It Is w/ Jon Sherman (Part 1)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: How to Stop Beating Yourself Up
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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How to Pre-Round Warmup Like a Pro w/ Will Knauth (Part 3)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: How to Dig Out of a Slump
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Welcome to the PGA Tour w/ Will Knauth (Part 2)
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: Do Waggles Help Your Golf Game?
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Micro Details Make for Macro Improvement w/ Will Knauth (Part 1)
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: Plan Your Practice the Right Way
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Philosphy for Training in Golf and Life w/ Mike Carroll - Fit For Golf (Part 2)
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: How to Have CONFIDENCE in your Golf Game
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Know Yourself to Play Better Golf w/ Mike Carroll - Fit for Golf (Part 1)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: Thoughts Don’t Hit Shots
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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How To Get the Most Out of Your Practice w/ Will Shaw, PhD (Part 2)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Golf Thought Thursday: How to Not CHOKE
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Why Your Practice Isn’t Working w/ Will Shaw, PhD (Part 1)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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How to Get Rid of the Yips
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Fix the Dents in Your Confidence w/ Henry Shimp
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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The Psychological Benefits of Taking Stats
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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How to Handle Pressure w/ Dr. Jason Novetsky
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May 30, 2023 |
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The Purpose of Meditation for Golf
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May 23, 2023 |
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How Data Drives Your Golf Improvement w/ Sasho MacKenzie
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May 16, 2023 |
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The New Science of Golf Psychology w/ Raymond Prior
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May 02, 2023 |
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Your Motivation Controls Your Golf Game w/ Dr. Mike Grevlos
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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2023 Masters Recap & You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know w/ Patrick Grimes
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Dispelling Common Golf Psychology Myths w/ Raymond Prior - Part 2
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Dispelling Common Golf Psychology Myths w/ Raymond Prior - Part 1
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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I Can’t Wait To Be Patient w/ Dr. Rob Bell
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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How to be Process-Focused w/ Nicole Erickson, CMPC
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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THE PRACTICE EPISODE w/ Paul Mindel
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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How To Effectively Quiet Your Mind
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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How to Mindfully Set Goals for 2023 (and for golf)
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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How to Fix Your Bad Golf Habits
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Work On Mental from the Beginning w/ GolfPsych Co-Founder Jon Stabler
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Use Your Mind to Handle Golf Stress
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Neutralizing Negative Emotions w/ Kai Laird, CMPC
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Normalizing Mental Game Improvement w/ Dr. Dane Anderson
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May 30, 2022 |
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How to Handle Competitive Anxiety w/ Dora Kurimay
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May 16, 2022 |
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Be A Researcher of Yourself w/ Sarah Taylor, M.S.
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Finding Appropriate Expectations w/ Mental Coach Drew Morgan
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Collin Morikawa’s Mental Superpower w/ Dr. Rick Sessinghaus
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Wake Up In the Present w/ Dr. Joseph Parent
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Golf Beneath the Surface w/ Dr. Raymond Prior
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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How to Rewrite Your Mental Script w/ Dr. Patrick Cohn
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Keep Your Swing Off the Course
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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How to be a Major Winner w/ Texas Head Coach John Fields
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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How to Be Clutch
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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#2 Ranked Amateur in the World Pierceson Coody on How to Handle Nerves
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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How to Set Goals for 2022
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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How To Break Through Scoring Barriers
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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How a Good Pre-Shot Routine can Help You Handle Anything
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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What to Do If You KNOW You’re Going to Play Bad
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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What to Do to Improve During the Off-Season
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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US Mid Am Recap/How to Get the Most Out of Your Golf Game
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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How To Simulate Pressure in Practice
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Where is Your Focus During a Round of Golf?
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Why Self-Forgiveness is So Important
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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What to Think If You’re Shanking it On the Range
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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How Josh is Preparing for the US Mid-Am
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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The Best Mental Game Round Josh Has Ever Had
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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What You can Learn from Phil Mickelson at the 2021 PGA Championship
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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What to Think if You Haven’t Practiced in Weeks | Golf Thoughts Ep 5
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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How to Keep It Simple (Stupid) w/ pro golfer Beth Wu
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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What to Think if You Need a New Coach | Golf Thoughts Ep 4
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Two Keys for Any Player to Get Better at Golf w/ pro golfer Michael Hébert
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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How to Detach Yourself from Golf Results w/ pro golfer Ryan Muthiora
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May 31, 2021 |
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How a Mental Coach Thinks Before, During, and After a Tournament
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May 24, 2021 |
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What to Think if You’re Nervous on the 1st Tee | Golf Thoughts Ep 3
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May 17, 2021 |
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What to Think If You Bogey the First Hole | Golf Thoughts Ep 2
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May 10, 2021 |
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Do You Have a Plan? w/ Identical Twin Pro Golfers Jeremy & Yannik Paul
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May 03, 2021 |
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How to Actually Improve Your Mental Game w/ Jared Tendler
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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The Key to ’Making It’ for Every Golfer | Josh Nichols on the Raising Golfers Podcast
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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How Knowing Yourself Can Unlock Your Golf Game w/ pro golfer Alex Scott
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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What to Think if You’ve Never Broken Par Before | Golf Thoughts Ep 1
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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The 80% of the Mental Game Nobody Talks About w/ Kent Osborne @scratchattitude
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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How Intentionality Can Change Your Golf Game w/ Mini Tour Pro Kolton Lapa
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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How Patience Pays Off w/ Mini Tour Pro Alejandro Tosti
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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How to Mentally Handle Bad Weather Conditions
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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What to do After You Play Terrible
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Good Players Don’t Say Probably
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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The Mentality to Handle Anything in Golf w/ UNCW Coach Jonathan Bowden
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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How to Reach Your Golf Goals in 2021
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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A Good Way to Pre-Accept Bad Golf
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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How I’m Working On Accepting Bad Golf
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Commitment
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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Control
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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The Temptation to Tamper with Technique
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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There’s No Such Thing as Luck in Golf
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Day of Rest
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Your Practice Needs to Be a High Quantity of Quality
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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One Good Way to Accept Bad Shots
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Aim Small Miss Small
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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What You Can Learn from Tiger and Dustin at the 2020 Masters
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Bad Shots are Inevitable. So Why Aren’t You Ready for Them?
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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Your Game Doesn’t Change Overnight
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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How to Take Control of Your Own Improvement
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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You Have to Know THIS About Your Golf Personality w/ Dr. Bhrett McCabe
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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How a Regular Person Can Become a Scratch Golfer w/ Sean Denning of parmachine.com
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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How Managing Expectations Makes You a Better Golfer and a Happier Person w/ Jon Sherman of Practical Golf
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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The Competitive Formula w/ My Swing Instructor and Mentor Robert Linville
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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The Best Definition of Process I’ve Ever Heard w/ Kellen Lee, CMPC
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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How to Get Over Scoring Plateaus w/ Adam Young Golf
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Where to Find Your Golf Motivation w/ Scott Barnicle, PhD, CMPC
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Why the Mental Game is Vital w/ Dr. Lindsey Blom
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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How to Play Freely When the Pressure is Highest w/ Mini Tour Player Casey Komline
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Should You Be Trying to Shoot Lower Golf Scores?
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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How You Should Act When College Coaches are Watching + More | GTOTD
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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#59: Many Blows Fell a Large Tree- How to Reach Your Big Golf Goals
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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#58: What Decides Who Wins a Golf Tournament?
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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#57: Dr Lindsay Ross-Stewart, PhD on the Importance of the Mental Game
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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#56: You the Athlete Need to Determine Success with Aaron Goldman of PLAYFree
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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#55: Birdie Putts and Having the Confidence to Go Low
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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#54: Two Sports Psych Masters Students Discuss the Psychology of Putting
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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#53: There’s No One Way to Think
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May 04, 2020 |
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#52: Too Afraid to Suck
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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#51: Dealing with Change
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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#50: Visualization Practice
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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#49: When Things Feel Out of Control
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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#48: Wrong but Committed
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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#47: Update Pod - Coronavirus Edition
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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#46: Playing it Safe
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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#45: Special Guest Vanderbilt Head Coach Scott Limbaugh
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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#44: My Goals for My Game in 2020
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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#43: Special Guest Duke Men’s Coach Jamie Green
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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#42: Leaderboard Blindness
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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#41: Special Guest Coach Lisa Strom
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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#40: How I learned Acceptance TWICE in one qualifier
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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#39: Special Guest Georgia Coach Chris Haack
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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#38: Your Practice Isn’t Hard Enough
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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#37: Special Guest Stanford Coach Conrad Ray
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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#36: The Good and the Bad of 2019
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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#35: Special Guest Auburn Head Coach Nick Clinard on Acceptance and much more
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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#34: Forget Your Goal
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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#33: Special Guest Arizona Head Coach Jim Anderson on Re-Instilling Confidence
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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#32: Removing Nerves
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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#31: Special Guest Auburn Women’s Head Coach Melissa Luellen
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Dec 07, 2019 |
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#30: Update Pod
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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#29: Special Guest Boston Univ Coach Bruce Chalas on Perspective and Counterintuitive Thinking
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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#28: Special Guest Baylor Coach Mike McGraw on Emotional Maturity and Impacting Lives
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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#27: How to Stop the Vicious Circle
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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#26: Stop and Smell the Roses
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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#25: Post US Mid Am Recap/How to be Positive when things go Bad
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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#24: Pre-US Mid-Am Update
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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#23: What is Golf Mental Coaching?
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Sep 08, 2019 |
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#22: Mental Warm-Up
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Aug 25, 2019 |
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#21: Slow Play
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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#20: I Need to Evolve
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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#19: How to Make Quitting Easier
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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#17: My Student Bounces Back
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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#18: The pressure of an entire country on your shoulders
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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#16: Stick to the Process No Matter the Pressure
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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#14: The Next Shot
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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#15: The Lies You Tell Yourself
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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#13: Failure is the Most Important Thing that can Happen to You
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Jul 14, 2019 |
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#12: How to Get Off the Bogey Train
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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#11: Nerves. What, Why, and How?
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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#10: Perspective
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Jul 07, 2019 |
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#9: The #1 Thing Players Ask Me
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Jul 06, 2019 |
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#8: Gary Woodland Plays the Long Game
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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#7: The Long Game
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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#6: 6 minute rant about self-awareness
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Jun 15, 2019 |
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#5: Tiger’s Win at the 2019 Masters
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Jun 09, 2019 |
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#4: Increase Your Self-Belief
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Jun 02, 2019 |
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#3: A Tale of Two Golfers
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May 13, 2019 |
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#2: Lower Importance to Raise Your Game
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May 10, 2019 |
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#1: Why I Quit Pursuing Pro Golf
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May 05, 2019 |