Swing Thoughts

With Dave Bunker, one of Canada’s top amateur golfers, GSL and Coach Tim learn how the three-time Canadian Mid-Amateur champion took his game to a new level with commitment to change, resilience, and experience playing alongside PGA Tour and Champions Tour players.

Qigong trainer Gill Carmody enlightens GSL and Coach Tim on how elements of the practice of Qigong assist golfers in entering a state of flow, taking advantage of momentum, and feeling balanced in golf—and in life.

Erika Larkin, a Golf Digest Top 50 Teacher in US, joins GSL and Coach Tim to share how you can improve with a natural motion that is less about mechanics and more about harnessing momentum, balance and tempo.

GSL and Coach Tim connect with Chris Finn, CEO of Par4Success, about the importance of strength, flexibility and rotation in preventing injuries and playing your best golf. GSL learns he’s an "Oh-Four," but there’s nowhere to go but up. Check out  www.par4success.com . 

Something different! Coach Tim and GSL are featured on the Mind Caddie podcast hosted by European coach Karl Morris to talk about the growth of Swing Thoughts, the value of sharing our thoughts, and how golf is a portal for transformation. 

GSL and Coach Tim welcome Lindsay Knowlton, founder of Iron Lady Golf, who shares how more women can get into the game, feel comfortable, and—novel concept warning!—have fun.

Coach Tim and GSL welcome LPGA Professional Debbie O’Connell who shares her wisdom how to release mindset blocks on the golf course and in life, and we marvel at Scottie Scheffler’s brilliant execution in winning the Open Championship. Check Debbie out on  www.debbie-oconnell.com . 

GSL and Coach Tim further explore the performance-enhancing Quiet Eyes technique, revisit DECADE and the value of “expectation management,” and we debrief Scottie Scheffler’s intriguing comment that “golf is not fulfilling." Coach Tim’s Getting Unstuck book is now available on Kindle for sale price of $6.99, down from regular $9.99 until Sunday. Visit Amazon.

Coach Tim and GSL welcome back Karl Morris, Hall of Fame level Friend of Show, and dive into how knowing the difference between a training mindset and a playing mindset can help you bring your range game to the course.

GSL and Coach Tim explain how Quiet Eyes steadies your putting nerves and stroke, how your mind's negative bias can keep you stuck, and we dissect another GSL debacle (he didn't make another 10!).

Coach Tim and GSL debrief J.J. Spaun’s resilient U.S. performance, explore whether golf instruction is a “Ponzi scheme,” and go deep on GSL’s three shanks and a missed-one incher in another missed qualifier. Is GSL’s insistence he’s not in golf hell denial?

GSL and Coach Tim debrief the strange ending of the Canadian Open and put on their latex gloves for another grisly post-mortem on GSL’s second tournament 10 in a few weeks.

Coach Tim and GSL share counter-intuitive wisdom that focusing on the shot—not the swing—improves your ball-striking, which explains why your shots from the woods are usually better than your shots from the fairway.

GSL and Coach Tim have an enlightening conversation about improvement with Jon Sherman, author of  The Four Foundations of Golf , and we conduct on post-mortem on GSL’s latest double-digit disaster. He is coping fine.

GSL and Coach Tim debrief the Leafs’ latest playoff meltdown, we recount GSL’s latest hellacious incident—making a quad in a tourney with Lady Friend there to witness—and we try to understand why Scottie Scheffler is so damn good.

Coach Tim and GSL—that’s Golf’s Spiritual Leader for newbies—explore and extract the learning from a deep, dark mystery: How did GSL and Oracle Kent make back-to-back double bogeys in … a scramble?! We also delve into how stories can send us spiralling but we can avoid crashing landings.

GSL and Coach Tim learn more about the importance of fitting and how indoor golf can help your game year-round from Stewart Bannatyne of the Virtual Golf Club, and we delve into how accepting the vagaries of golf leads to a better experience and game. Check out  www.virtualgc.ca .

GSL and Coach Tim get some education from Jeff Hay of Varsity Golf Recruiting on the ins and outs, facts and fictions about U.S. college golf, we break new ground by telling golf jokes, and our who-snubbed-Swing-Thoughts contest continues.

On Episode #281, we continue to explore what we learned from Rory McIlroy's victory in the Masters with Performance Coach Kent Osborne, how having a sense of purpose makes a big difference for us mere mortals, and a great letter from an American STD.  

On Episode #280, GSL and Coach Tim share their amazement with Rory McIlroy finally winning the Masters and what we mortals can learn from him, and we debunk myths and get the real goods on the Stack and Tilt method with coach Nick Adcock. 

With Episode #279, GSL and Coach Tim begin their 10 season of podcasts devoted to geeking out on the game, as they discuss finding purpose in golf, how investing in fundamentals has huge RIO, our Masters picks, and other nonsense.

In our last off-season episode, GSL and coach Tim vent their spleen at the Orange One, and share how focusing on process and fundamentals in the winter leads to better results, and GSL admits he spent same amount on a new putter as his first car.

On the latest episode we talk about Spain, not freaking out, not focusing on golf swing pass-fail, the tryranny of confidence, playing w fear and hope.

GSL and Coach Tim begin the first Swing Thoughts of 2025 and 10th year of the podcast exhorting how giving yourself “grace” is a key to performance in golf and in anything, and they review the new TGL extravaganza, and revisit Nick Taylor’s exciting clutch victory in the Sony Open.

With episode #275, we conclude our ninth year and the 2024 season by delving into GSL’s yoga deep dive, lessons learned from his season of balance, and how trying less and developing a mission—as per Coach Tim’s new book—can help your game become unstuck in 2025.