The Golfing Mind

Send us a text http://www.siegergolf.comIn golf, match play involves more psychology than Strokeplay because not only are we playing the course, we are playing our opponent as well, and often as we seek to get a mental advantage over our opponent, but all too often, this backfires. We become not the challenger, but the challenged.  Some Tour Professionals are more famous for performing well in mat...

Send us a text https://www.siegergolf.com/preland-pageThere are a few critical and obvious things that professional golfers do that amateur golfers do not do. I am not talking about breaking par regularly I am talking about pre-shot habits that we simply don't have, but if we were to have them I believe it would make an immediate and major difference. Just as you cannot think your way to having a...

Send us a text https://www.siegergolf.com/preland-pageThe dreaded yips. It belongs to that list of words that golfers must never speak, Which include but are not limited to Shank Hook Thin Whiff Skull and Knife.   There is an old saying, "Once you've got em, you've got em". Which has been an unspoken truth for many years. However, we know if we are honest with ourselves, that is not strictly true...

Send us a text http://www.siegergolf.comWho is the greatest golfer of all time? How often has this question been discussed amongst friends experts pundits and wise people, I can't imagine. There is no definitive answer to this question we can only express a point of view that we hold and try to justify it the same names generally come into the pot, but different names generally emerge. I was recen...

Send us a text http://www.siegergolf.comWhen we do things without thinking and do them automatically the outcome is generally pretty good, however when we try too hard to control our level of performance we frequently get in our own way and inhibit our ability to execute because we have too many thoughts cluttering up our minds. In a sense, it's like telling your friends a joke in the clubhouse an...

Send us a text http://www.siegergolf.comClosing a game when you have a lead is never as easy as it seems, especially to the player with the lead! There have been many recorded instances of players blowing a five-shot lead or a four up advantage not only in the professional ranks, but it happens All too frequently with the average club golfer. How do we get the job done? how do we close down a matc...

Send us a text We all know that golf is a game, and we play games for fun. Yet, how many golfers don't have fun on the golf course!! I think the reason for that is because too often - golfers have unrealistic expectations, they often expect to be hitting shots like the professionals to hit perfect drives to make all the clutch putts and in so doing create unnecessary stress. What I call the Fear F...

Send us a text http://www.siegergolf.comMany people think that their mental strength "is what it is". There is nothing they can do to improve it and the more or less figure that's all there is to it. The reality is we can increase our capacity to perform at higher levels by developing our mental strength, which has been demonstrated scientifically to be achievable for all people. However, it does...

Send us a text https://www.siegergolf.com/buy-nowGolf would be a much more enjoyable game if there was no uncertainty. If we knew we could find the middle of every fairway, impart explosive backspin onto our wedges (just for show) and get out of any bunker with the effortless ease over feather floating in the sky.    Sadly, golf is an uncertain game, even at the highest level we never know exactly...

Send us a text https://www.siegergolf.com/preland-pageHow often have you been playing one of the best rounds of your life and with six holes to go you just know (almost as though you had psychic powers), you just know it's going to blow up.  How often have you had a commanding lead in a match play game and you knew it wasn't enough!!!  We have all been the victims of this self-sabotage mechanism,...

Send us a text The mental side of the game of golf is highly impacted by our 'habit' of thinking, or our mental approach to the game both on and off the course. There are without doubt good habits, bad habits and sad t say downright ugly habits - in which camp are you. Chances are you'll think you are in the good camp. Sorry to say I doubt you will be quite as much as you may believe. The thing we...

Send us a text https://www.siegergolf.com/offers/BaAEYBog/checkoutSometimes, for reasons best left to Sherlock Holmes to discover, our game abandons us. We fall into what is generally called a 'slump', our swing becomes a cross between a softball batter and a first-time lumberjack. On the greens, we can feel a sense of victory if we avoid a four-putt, and the fairway looks as narrow as the parting...

Send us a text http://www.siegergolf.comWe all have a Bogeyman. Or at least a dark thought that lurks within every golfer. a hole you cannot make par on, a club you just cannot hit, a shot you fear, a player who beats you every time. No matter how hard you 'try' the bogeyman haunts you, and history repeats itself once again. It is not limited to amateurs many brilliant professionals cannot win a t...

Send us a text https://www.siegergolf.com/offers/BaAEYBog/checkoutFew shots cause more stress or pain than the dreaded four-foot putt. If for a birdie missing it is painful and a cause for misery, if for a par it becomes pressure-filled as we don't want a bogey as the result of such a short putt. Is there a way we can improve our ability to manage deal with and overcome this approach and give ours...

Send us a text https://www.siegergolf.com/offers/BaAEYBog/checkoutYou will have heard of an athlete or golfer as being in the zone,   where they perform with an almost otherworldly level of skill.  The mystery is not that they are performing at an almost superhuman level but that they don't know how it came about.  Is there a formula, are there factors we can control that increase the probability...

Send us a text https://www.siegergolf.com/offers/BaAEYBog/checkoutAt one level the mental game of golf (and life) can appear as complex and unknown as Quantum Physics, yet at another level extraordinarily simple. So simple that it is missed and overlooked because it is obvious. In this podcast, I explore the one thing that above all I believe is the keystone of the mental game of golf (and life). ...

Send us a text http://www.siegergolf.comVery very few players (other than professionals and scratch players) practice with any purpose or regularity. The majority of amateurs go to the range and hit balls, all being well they will feel good about how they are swinging it and consider it a good session.   Practice is essential to enable us to develop good on course habits.   We can't recreate press...

Send us a text http://www.siegergolf.comIf there is one keystone principle that is essential to managing your game from a mental perspective I believe it is this one in this podcast. Throughout my professional career people seem to hope there is a secret move, thought or technique that will be an instant fi to their golfing (and life) woes.  There is not. But there are critical principles that are...

Send us a text http://www.siegergolf.comThe mindset and motivation of players from the 1930' and 40's were I believe very different from today, with small purses, limited sponsorships and prize money only available for the top 10 or 15 places. Some played for glory others money but the great champions Hogan, Nelson Snead were all able to stand above the pack - natural talent and a work ethic that...

Send us a text http://www.siegergolf.comThe bounceback factor is a constant indicator of better golfers. The players who make birdie after a bogey is one of the most revealing stats of the top 20 golfers in the world. Whatever level you you are at, the ability to let go of bad shots, to actively manage setbacks on the course, will help you get back to the right frame of mind to play your best golf...

Send us a text http://www.siegergolf.comWith a NEw Year comes fresh hope and dreams of the best being realised. The eternal lament of the golfer "If I could only..........putt, chip, drive, relax, make birdies...." you know the speech.  So why so often do our well-intentioned desires fail? From my profesional expereince is is. due to having unconscious blocks (or beliefs) which we are not aware of...

Send us a text As we look forward to what we want to achieve in our golf game next year, I imagine "Get Better" is top of the list regardless of your current level of play. This week I look at three things to consider to best give yourself a realistic chance of making that positive change happen. Additionally, amongst the packages on offer the Silent Mind Golf Platinum Package, is for professional...

Send us a text https://www.siegergolf.com/offers/BaAEYBog/checkoutAll things being equal you will experience a moment when it all goes spectacularly wrong, whilst cruising to an easy win, you somehow manage to play shots that not only defy belief but hand victory to your opponent. It happens, to the very best players in the world. What can you or more importantly should you do about it. In this po...

Send us a text https://www.siegergolf.com/offers/BaAEYBog/checkoutGolf is not a thinking game, or is it?  Robin explores his views on the role of thinking and golf. Specifically when we are playing and start trying too much and start getting in our own way. Just as too many cooks spoil the broth as the saying goes...too many thoughts clutter the mind and lead to lack of focus. A Birkhall Media Pro...

Send us a text https://www.siegergolf.com/offers/BaAEYBog/checkoutThe key fundamentals of the mental game of golf, are the same as for our lives. Personally and professionally there are a few. key aspects which are critical to the development of a strong positive expectation filled self-image.  As. golfers we commiserate, and get down on ourselves ten times more often than we encourage or lift our...