Helping Golfers Play Their Best in Competition

I specialize in getting golfers past what's holding them back and bringing out their best under pressure in competition, even if they are choking, in a slump, got the yips or are totally burned out.

If you are on the tour, that means I'll help you get consistent top-ten finishes (or better). That's how to have a great, well-paying career in golf!

For amateurs, that means more wins, lower scores and better finishes or qualifying for professional golf.

For students, that means boosting your game for a college scholarship or to set you up for a great career playing golf.

For everyone, that means less frustration and more enjoyment of this great game.

In golf, it's all about hitting a target (and the target doesn't move)

A golfer uses a club to hit the ball (the first target), which sends the ball to a second target (the fairway, green or cup). To do that, you learn the skills (through instruction and practice) of hitting the ball the correct way, with the correct club for the specific shot. Additional skills include reading greens, taking account of wind, etc.

Essentially, golf is a systematic process, played one shot at a time.

When all goes well, things go the way you want and you win (or get a score you're happy with).

But, being golf, it doesn't always go well.

A small percent of the time there are factors beyond your control (like the weather).

But, most of the time, the mental game is what holds golfers back from playing their best.

Thinking, worrying and distractions

The biggest problems in golf are thinking too much and distractions (add worrying to that mix as well): about the last shot, this shot, the next shot, the trees, the water, the sand, the rough, your score, your opponent's score, the media, expectations of others, how you'll be compared, the list goes on and on.

I like to ask golfers if the best drive they ever hit was when they weren't thinking about it (or it didn't matter). The answer is almost always yes.

I consider this my rule of golf - the more you think, the less of your ability can come out.

That's why my primary question is: how do you play in practice (or when it doesn't count)?

If you do well in practice but not in competition, then I know you have a problem with the mental game and that's what I can fix, quickly, no matter what your level of competition.

The result after our work together is that you focus only on each shot and let everything else fade until you are done.

How long to do this? By incorporating hypnosis and other mental training tools into my five-step mental coaching method - I can do it usually in three-to-five mental coaching sessions.

Overcoming golfing slumps

It seems like there's always a golfer on tour who's in a slump, where it seems like they just can't make the shots they need to win (or even to place in the top five). The danger of slumps is they can turn into self-fulfilling prophecies that turn into a career-killing death spiral.

But, if doesn't have to be that way. Again, if you are doing OK when it doesn't matter, then it's a mental game issue and I can fix it, quickly, guaranteed, using my mental coaching method.

Is that what you want? Then call me: (916) 802-5897

Curing the yips

I believe that every serious golfer, at some level, lives in fear of getting the yips.

That's a shame because the yips are curable.

The problem is that the approaches to curing the yips are usually to change technique, use behavioral therapy or take drugs. Those approaches can cover up the problem somewhat (at best) but don't solve it.

My approach solves the problem and I guarantees results.

What's different about my approach? It's a mental game approach, incorporating hypnosis and other mental training tools into my five-step mental coaching method, plus additional steps (this is my Curing the Yips Program) to overcome what is causing the yips. You don't know what is causing your yips? Of course you don't. If you did, the problem would be analytical and sports psychology would be able to fix it.

What I do with the yips is different than with other golfing mental game problems. My Curing the Yips Program is a seven-day program, which includes going out on the greens with you for practice and distraction.

If you have the yips, you've probably tried everything. What I do is so radically different that I succeed where others have failed. My program has a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee.

If we work together, the result will be that you are free of the yips.

Is that what you want? Then call me: (916) 802-5897

What about sports psychology for golf?

The reason I succeed where sports psychology has failed is because I use a different approach, based on how the brain is wired - an analytical part and an imagination part.

Sports psychology focuses on the analytical part, but problems with the mental game are stored in the imagination part.

I only work with the imagination part, using a different focus, different tools and faster results.

Sports psychology has its place, but if it could have solved your problem in a timely fashion, you would already be over it.

What about visualization and a positive mental attitude?

Golf mental game solutions

My golf mental game solutions are all about solving a mental game problem, which can be specific (such as a problem with your drive, short game or putting in certain pressure situations) or general (such as being in a golf slump).

I think of my solutions as I did when solving problems in business - specify the problem, choose the right tools to solve the problem (mental training tools in this case), implement them and then test the result.

By incorporating hypnosis and other mental training tools into my five-step mental coaching method, I can complete that process in a matter of days, instead of weeks, months or years and give a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee.

Do you want to make the most of your skills, ability and talent under pressure in competition? Then call me: (916) 802-5897

Continuing peak performance throughout the season

My Peak Performance Program for golf is all about building and maintaining *consistent* peak performance throughout the season. I use the word consistent because every player has spontaneous flashes of brilliance. Consistency is what wins tournaments, gets top-five finishes and builds careers.

My program includes first overcoming any problems with the mental game that are holding you back.

Then I use powerful mental training tools to improve your speed, power and accuracy (with measurable results) under pressure.

At that point, the two of us get together as needed to fix any new mental game problems that come up and to periodically tune up your mental game (like before tournaments).

That helps you bring out your potential, get peak performance on demand and get the competitive edge.

That's winning the mental game.

Imagine how that can improve your career and your life.

Is that what you want? Then call me: (916) 802-5897.

What's holding you back?

Are any of these holding you back?

• You're choking under pressure, you're in a slump or burned out

• You're having trouble competing against a certain player (or players)

• Something always seems to "set you off" and ruin your performance

• You've got the "yips" (involuntary shaking) or live in fear of doing so

• You have an "unlucky" course (or tournament)

• Something is holding you back from moving up to the next level - from winning, placing in the top five, getting on the tour or making it through Q School.

• You can't get a bad experience or accident out of your head

• You aren't making the cut as you should

• Chronic pain from injuries is holding you back

• Anger is affecting your ability and performance

• You're about ready to give up golf out of frustration