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GOLF
TEACHING PRO MAGAZINE®
Do you get frustrated
when your students don’t perform up to their potential? Do you want
to learn how to teach your students how to handle pressure more
effectively? Are you interested in becoming more knowledgeable about
golf psychology?
The United States
Golf Teachers Federation presents the Master the Mental Game seminar
series. The USGTF acknowledges that teaching should encompass both
the physical as well as the mental components of the game. If you
are only teaching the physical components of the swing to your
students, you may be missing a key element to having them play their
best.
Master the Mental
Game is a one-of-a-kind seminar because it not only teaches you the
secrets of the mental game, but also illustrates how to teach the
mental game to your students. You can read books on the subject, and
see a few lectures, but understanding how to apply the material to
your students can be very difficult. Master the Mental Game gives
you hands-on techniques that you can easily apply to help your
students develop their own mental toughness.
Participants in the
seminar will learn the Mental and Emotional Strengths program. This
program discusses five key strengths that are essential to mastering
the mental game. These strengths include:
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HAVING SELF-AWARENESS:
You have to know why you play your best and why you play your
worst.
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BEING CONFIDENT:
Confidence comes from our
preparedness. It also comes from our self-talk and ability to
fight off our negative critic.
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BEING CONNECTED:
We should be fully engaged in the process as well as the moment.
We also need to let go of our analytical thoughts and just react
to the moment.
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BEING FEARLESS:
We need to overcome our fear of looking foolish. Success stems
from facing our fears head on and allowing them to catapult us
to the next level.
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HAVING JOY:
Success takes enjoying what you do, whether it is practicing or
playing in competition.
The program will
illustrate these strengths, as well as how to harness these
strengths in your students, so that they can play their best.
Participants will also be instructed in how to use the
Mental/Emotional Strength Assessment Tool (MESAT).
This assessment tool
will allow instructors to easily assess their student’s mental game.
But, this seminar is not about just gaining knowledge. The second
half of the seminar illustrates how to teach these strengths in
practice situations and on the course. Participants will be shown
how to use these key strengths when instructing the short game as
well as the full swing. Participants will learn:
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A pre-shot
routine that allows the student to become
more reactive to the shot.
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An
effective post-shot that helps to let go of unwanted
negative thoughts.
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Key words
to say that enhance confidence.
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A
concentration routine that allows players to harness
their focus.
About the instructor:
Dr. Gregg Steinberg has been the head sport psychologist for the
USGTF for the past 15 years. He is a professor of sport psychology
at Austin Peay State University. Golf Digest ranked Dr. Steinberg as
one of the game’s great masterminds. He is author of the book,
MentalRules for Golf, endorsed by Hank Haney and Hale Irwin. He has
worked with many tour players such as Brandt Snedecker, Brian Gay,
Chris Couch and Carmen Hajjar. Dr. Steinberg was the sport
psychologist for the University of Florida men’s golf team that won
the NCAA championship in 1994.
Dates Available:
May 5th – Gaylord Springs Golf Course / Nashville, TN
June 9th – San Luis Rey Downs Golf Resort / San Diego
(Bonsall), CA
July 21st – San Luis Rey Downs Golf Resort / San Diego
(Bonsall), CA
October 5th – Indian Hills Golf Course / Port St. Lucie, Florida
Participants will
receive a diploma indicating that they have successfully completed
the “Master the Mental Game” education series.
For further
information please contact USGTF Golf Psychologist, Gregg Steinberg
at 931-206-1328 or by email at
mentalrules24@msn.com.
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