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Thursday May 15, 2008
Watch With A Purpose

I am going to stress this once again... that if the Big Break is watched with the right intention, it could add so much value to a competitive golfer's arsenal.  It truly is a case study on performance, and sports psychology.  I have been studying golf mechanics, golf performance & sports performance intently for the past twenty years of my life, and I take lots of pride in sharing gathered tidbits of information with my students.  Things that I have learned over those twenty years of my career, and things that I feel have taken me just about twenty years to learn.  That is what experience is, right?  Especially in teaching the game of golf.  With age comes experience and knowledge.  The more small things you can pick up over time, the better you become.  A good teacher / mentor is one that can strategically and positively share past experiences or mistakes with a student.  In turn, this will help the student bypass certain mistakes that they otherwise could have made and allow that student to learn at a more rapid pace... potentially saving years.  I can remember when Bob Toski would share things with me that probably took him thirty years to learn, and in turn I learned it in thirty minutes... simply because he was willing to share his experiences.  That is what made him a great mentor.  

With all that being said... as the pressure grows week in and week out for the remaining competitors, let's continue to watch and learn.  Let us continue to be thankful and appreciate that these players have put themselves out there for the entire golfing world to critique.  This type of pressure really is not what those players on the PGA & LPGA Tour face.  Those players hit a few bad shots and more often than not, the TV cameras are actually taken off the player and move to players that are performing better... like the players in the final groupings of the day.  When a player's every single move is watched and critiqued, it is so easy to tear that player apart.  We should instead thank the player for putting themselves out there.  Let's thank them for their courage and watch with the intent of learning from their goods and bads.  

 
 
 
 
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