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    The Golfer's Guide to Peak Performance: Playing With Your Mind, Not Just Your Clubs
    The Golfer's Guide to Peak Performance: Playing With Your Mind, Not Just Your Clubs
    The Golfer's Guide to Peak Performance: Playing With Your Mind, Not Just Your Clubs
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    The Golfer's Guide to Peak Performance: Playing With Your Mind, Not Just Your Clubs

    By Louis Csoka

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    Golf is 90% mental. Now how many times have you heard that? The good news is, it’s true; the bad news is, you probably haven’t been working on it! How much time do you spend on working the mental side of your game? Is it as much as your physical game? I very much doubt it. Perhaps the mental side of golf is only for a lucky few, endowed with such a gift. It isn’t. Anyone who is willing to put effort into a systematic mental skills training program will be able to enjoy the same tough, mental approach to their game as the best players do. All it takes is the willingness to do as much for your mind as you do for your body when it comes to playing golf.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLouis Csoka
    Release dateJul 10, 2012
    ISBN9780985079208
    The Golfer's Guide to Peak Performance: Playing With Your Mind, Not Just Your Clubs
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    Louis Csoka

    Louis Csoka, President & Founder of Apex Performance, Inc., has designed, developed, and implemented sports training and development programs with primary focus on sustained peak performance. He has successfully delivered targeted results as a high performance consultant with various sport organizations across a multitude of sports. He has worked with teams and individual athletes in applying peak performance mental skills and advanced technologies as primary levers for achieving extraordinary results. His work is focused on creating Peak Performance Centers and programs for sport organizations and teams; designing and implementing performance-based assessments and developmental programs; developing high-performance sport teams; training and developing elite athletes in critical mental skills for sustained peak performance, and incorporating leadership into the framework of sport performance. Dr. Csoka’s current engagements include work with exceptional athletes at the high school, collegiate and Professional levels.

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      The Golfer's Guide to Peak Performance - Louis Csoka

      The Golfer’s Guide to Peak Performance

      Playing With Your Mind, Not Just Your Clubs

      Louis S. Csoka, Ph. D.

      Published by Apex Performance, Inc.

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 by Louis S. Csoka

      www.apexperform.com

      ISBN: 978-0-9850792-0-8

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. That you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The Golfer’s Guide to Peak Performance

      Playing With Your Mind, Not Just Your Clubs.

      Louis S. Csoka, Ph.D.

      Contents

      Chapter1: Are You a Clutch Golfer?

      Chapter2 Golf Is 90% Mental

      Chapter3: If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, Any Path Will Do

      Chapter4: We Become What We Think About Most

      Chapter5: Playing Under Pressure

      Chapter6: We Have Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself

      Chapter7: Control Your Attention and You Control Your Game

      Chapter8: If You Can See It, You Can Do It: The Power of Imagery

      Chapter9: Your Pre-shot Routine

      Chapter10: Preparing for Your Club’s Championship

      Chapter11: Mental Training: The Apex Way

      Chapter12: The Funny Side of Golf

      Chapter 1: Are You a Clutch Golfer?

      Probably not. Not because you don’t want to be or because you are incapable of great moments, but because we don’t understand what true clutch players really do. Being successful does not necessarily equate to being good under pressure. But being consistent in those successes does. Let’s take the 1992 Army-Navy game to set the scene for this discussion, since the Army football team used the same mental training program outlined in this book.

      It’s the fourth-quarter with two minutes and 30 seconds remaining. Imagine yourself as Army’s field goal kicker. Army has just delivered a remarkable fourth quarter comeback to within two points from a 14-point deficit. The crowd is absolutely wild! Army has the ball and is driving down the field but gets stalled on the 27-yard line with 40 seconds remaining. It is fourth down. A field goal is the only chance for winning the game. It is up to you. You have kicked a 44-yarder only once before during the season. The ball is snapped. It is in the air and it is good! The stadium erupts in wild celebration. Your teammates rush onto the field. You have beaten Navy in the most important moment of your life as a West Point athlete. But wait! There is a flag. Delay of game by Army and a five yard penalty. Kick it again. But now it is a 49-yard kick. You have never even attempted that distance before, let alone make it. The ball is snapped. It is in the air and travels dead center through the uprights, with yards to spare. Army wins 25-24! You just delivered a clutch performance. Everyone would agree and, having personal knowledge of this cadet’s performance and mental training, I agree as well.

      So what makes clutch performers like this cadet? It’s not what most people think. The reality is that most people do very poorly in extreme situations. The general understanding of clutch performance is being able to do extraordinary things in critical situations. That is not the real description though; clutch performers actually do what they normally do except they also do it in critical situations (Sullivan, 2011). Nothing extraordinary in terms of what they do but extraordinary in the outcome. This means they can be counted on consistently.

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