Swing Thoughts

On this episode Coach Tim and GSL talk Club C's, Can Mid-Am and are you a Competitor or a Victim? That plus a quick look at the PGA Champ and other golf-nerd nonsense!

Golf's Spiritual Leader shares tales of the Senior Am with Mental Coaching Guru Tim and they both discuss Jordan Spieth's amazing Big Boy Pants display at the Open and introduce the transcendent concept of "Pre-Acceptance!"

This week Golf's Spiritual Leader and Coach Tim talk about The Pilgrimage to Scotland, practicing with purpose and a golf story you'll be telling on your next par 3 wait!

On this episode Coach Tim and Golfs self-proclaimed Spiritual Leader continue talking about Big Boy golf, building a better brain through training and Tim's follow up to the fascinating and successful book on Moe Norman, The Feeling of Greatness.

Coach Tim talks Collegiate success and Golfs Spiritual Leader finds some Big Boy Pant and puts them on for some tournament toughness. No chafing!

On this episode GSL (Howard); and University of Guelph Golf Coach (Tim); meet external golf thinker/teacher Ron Sisson of Calgary who approaches the game in a completely different way. Also Howard's going through his usual early season mental breakdown and Tim's going through his usual early season intervention!

On this episode GSL - Golfs Spiritual Leader - Howard and Super Coach Tim, speak with 2 very interesting and though-provoking guests about the power of external focus and choice. You won't want to miss Dr. Gabriele Wulf and Dr. Rebecca Lewthwaite talk about some next-level learning techniques and how you can apply them to your golf game and your ability to play this ridiculous sport!

This week Howard and Tim find out their hips are tight and that's not cool. Golf physio guru Kevin Honsberger loosens them up and then spends some quality time talking about how you can improve your swing and performance through biomechanical balance! Also Coach Tim and GSL Howard talk Sergio and the Masters and getting ready mentally for the season ahead.

Howard and Tim welcome Dr Judson Brewer author of The Craving mind for a lively discussion of habit-breaking and mindfulness. You'll hear how once again how "being present" is better than that nasty of habit of "being angry" and "being clubs in ponds!" As well Coach Tim and Golfs Spiritual Leader get you ready for the Masters.

Humble and Tim talk about setting intentions and getting ready for the 2017 Season of Nonsense. Also they ponder the eternal golf conundrum: "Does anybody really like Phil Mickelson?"

This episode features Coach Tim and Spiritual Leader Howard talking, Tiger, Taylor Made and process. Also they equate comedy and golf and the idea that learning to be comfortable with being uncomfortable is the key to both. Enjoy responsibly.

It's an emotional episode as Tim and Howard talk about Golf and Dads and loss. Howards gets angry in the desert and Tim talk about the process and being present. Also the Nerds will be live at the Toronto Golf show!

Tim and Howard re-unite for 2017. Tim leads an exercise in mindfulness and Howard blabs on like the Golf Nerd he is. Lots of laughs and learning as usual as well as the Truth behind how far you really hit it.

Our last episode is a lively one with our first studio audience filled with SwingThoughfuls who share their golf-learning from 2016. Humble and Coach Tim talk through some of their favourite guest moments and Howard re-commits to freaking out a little less in 2017.

Tim and Howard talk about intention and body awareness some more... Howard ends the season by reverting back to a few old habits and legendary TV sports and news broadcaster Mark Hebscher drops by to chat about recent PGA tour winner Canadian Mackenzie Hughes.

Howard and Tim finish off the season in style! Low numbers and lots of learning as well as some interesting perspective from YouTubes most watched golf instructor Shaw Clement.

Coach Tim talks about a typical mental coaching session, Howard decides he is in fact a Spiritual Leader of Golf and the Nerds discuss a recent round where one of them is in a mini-huff until he does something that is a good take away for all golfers!

If ever there was a sport that needed some Zen it's Golf and one of the Masters of Ohhmmm Dr Joe Parent joins Howard and Tim to talk and about losing strokes and weight! The man who coached Vijay Singh and Christie Kerr to Number 1 in the world just might be able to help you break 90.

Golf talk you won't hear anywhere else! Karl Morris on why the Euros' thrive at the Ryder Cup, the passing of Arnold Palmer and what's the missing link between How to Swing and How to Play? Also Swing Thoughts live and win a round with Howard and Tim.

The low-handicappers' season of commitment: Humble conducts a Q & A with Paul Gortnar and Mike Bondy, two of CoachTim's clients. The three tournament players share stories and insights from a season of working on their mental game, that can help all aspirational golfers!

Fascinating Megan Chapman, HP at Georgian Bay Club, on how giving yourself "permission" and "forgiving yourself" allows your "technique to arrive." And have fun!

Howard and Tim revisit golf hell - how Howard got out, and the perils of his buddy who is definitely in, and we flip through Natural Golf written by Sam Snead and given to Howard's dad in 1959. Guess what? New golf books aren't much different.

Paul Dewland, PGA Tour mental performance coach, describes benefits of coaching for Joe and Jane Amateur and what tour players seek; Howard dissects Tim's re-engagement with Mr. Shank in his Club C.

With Dave Robinson, a business relationship expert, we knock around how our emotions and beliefs come into play with our golf shots, how we talk to ourselves and how we think our golf buds are judging the hell out of us. This ain't no Golf Channel chat. Fascinating stuff!