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R Do you have a mental switch to change from negative golf to positive golf?
R Have you ever pondered how to manage your brain on a golf course? 

Thank God my Auntie Peggy sent me to a hypnotherapist when I was 16. Oh yes she did!  Now you hold on to your ‘woo, woo’ thoughts.

What did I learn that helped me throughout my playing career and still does today?  I learned to relax my muscles when I got scared. How? I just did an internal gut check and then I sensed which muscles were being affected.  It was usually my right shoulder shriveling up to my ear as I was propelled at quantum speed by my race mind down the fairway. So . . . once sensing tight muscles, I slowed down and breathed slowly while focusing on relaxing the grabby tension with massage until the pliability and suppleness returned to my shoulder area.

Physical checks are easier to tap into making it possible for a player to turn the tide toward better ball striking. You can feel taut muscles, jumpy tummy, and quick or slow pace walking speed. Not so easy with mental fear bursts disguised as pre-shot routines that look perfect but feed nothing to the ‘how-to-hit-the-shot-instinctly’ mode.

To play well you have to keep mental concepts simple.  

        Click here, and try these exercises for you mental management!.
 

Since attending the ‘Annika week in Fort Worth, I just got to thinkin’ about mental golf. Annika had to discipline herself to keep her focus on her game plan. Tough stuff considering there were over 600 media gawking at her every move. And Annika is a seasoned professional in the game of tension.

Equally as tuff though, for the weekend golfer, is to discipline the mind to keep the focus on simple thoughts making it possible to create decent golf shots. Weekend golfers rarely achieve their lofty goals so mental tinkering occurs, which creates mental chaos. And oops . . . there goes the score.

No, Annika didn’t make the cut. It wasn’t due to poor mental golf or a golf swing that was mechanically unsound. Being the professional golf tour player that she is, still Annika had never experienced such pressure in her life.  As Albert Einstein wrote, “Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”

• And has she even entertained the chance to win the Colonial?
  
  "I dream about it, of course," she said. "You've got to have high expectations when you visualize anything, and you have to have fun with it, too. My goals are on the LPGA. That's where I want to go win tournaments. . . . I want to test myself. It's going to be a learning experience for me, a learning week, and I'm never going to forget it."   Annika Sorenstam, The Washington Post 5-13-2003
   

• "I can't imagine there could be any more pressure on anyone," said Kim Kelleher, publisher of Golf for Women magazine. "To be able to perform under that is truly remarkable. I'll be nervous just watching her. But she's a very impressive person with the whole package -- attractive, well-spoken and so talented. She'll be fine."The Washington Post 5-13-2003
   

• "It's been a lot of pressure and a lot of emotion," Sorenstam said at a news conference during which she choked back tears several times. "I want to come back tomorrow. I gave it everything I had. I loved the golf course. I tested myself, and I have a lot to be proud of. To be part of something like this is something I'll never forget." The Washington Post 5-24-2003

Don't tell me about what you know, tell me about your experience!

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I want to introduce to you my colleagues, www.QMediaGroup.com.  With the QMediaGroup, and my own staff, my golf training will be available to my students wherever they are  Through our collaborated efforts, Penny Pulz GOLF and QMediaGroup combine a strong experience of IT knowledge, video knowledge and golf knowledge.. . . . Stay Tuned!

Golf Video Pro offers full motion golf video lessons with graphic overlays and audio.  Using high speed internet access anyone can upload their golf swing, I prepare your golf lesson which you are then able to access whenever and wherever you please to view over and over again. 
 

excerpt, The Wisdom of Women's Golf, Dr. Criswell Freeman

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