Shrink Your Handicap A Revolutionary Program

Shrink Your Handicap solves your golf problems with the help of Phil Lee, behavioural psychiatrist, and Jeff Warne, a Golf Magazine Top 100 instructor, who together have formed a unique collaboration that shows readers how to overcome the mental obstacles that keep them from playing their best.... every day.

Introduction: Only Man Gets Anxious

xiii

SECTION I: Why Is the Course Harder 'Than the Range?

Golf Is Not a Mental Game

3

(10)

SECTION II: Insight-Oriented Defenses Against Anxiety Chemicals: Defusing the Time Bomb

Insight-Oriented Defenses

13

(20)

You Go Out of Your Way to Lose

33

(3)

You Are Desperate to Win, but Can't

36

(7)

SECTION III: Other Mental Defenses Against Anxiety Chemicals

Cognitive Defenses

43

(11)

Behavioral Defenses---Getting Over Ourselves

54

(10)

Imagery, Relaxation Defenses, and Self-Hypnosis---Tuning Out

64

(7)

SECTION IV: Physical Defenses Against Anxiety Chemicals

Physical Countermeasures

71

(3)

Physical Defenses on the Tee

74

(6)

Tiger on the Right: How Anxiety Chemicals Cause a Slice

80

(15)

Tiger on the Left: How Anxiety Chemicals Cause a Hook

95

(7)

Sand

102

(13)

Chipping and Pitching

115

(12)

Putting

127

(16)

SECTION V: Putting It All Together

Confidence

143

(3)

What's with Visualization?

146

(5)

Commitment

151

(4)

Swing Thoughts

155

(16)

Fast Fix---The Driver

171

(5)

First Tee Anxiety

176

(4)

Alignment and Target Awareness

180

(4)

How to Hit More Greens Without Changing Your Swing

184

(4)

A Rose by Any Other Name: Self-Hypnosis and the Pre-Shot Routine

188

(14)

Custom Fitting

202

(7)

What Is Your Mental Handicap?

209

(2)

Golf and Road Rage

211

(6)

Golf and Life

217

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Shrink Your Handicap A Revolutionary Program from an Acclaimed Psychiatrist and a Top 100 Golf Instructor

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