Today on the show we are joined by Jon Sherman the author of the brilliant best selling book ‘The Four Foundations of Golf’, host of the ‘Sweet Spot’ podcast and the host of ‘Practical Golf’ website.

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Jon is a top amateur player in his own right and recently achieved a lifetime golfing ambition by qualifying for the US Mid Am

We opened up our conversation with some fascinating insights about his experience in qualifying and all of the challenges he encountered by stepping out of his comfort zone and competing at a much higher level.

How Jon has learned to have a different relationship with the game and his ability to deal better with the inevitable chaos golf often throws at us

It is this relationship to unpredictable outcomes which for me is the heart of an effective mental game strategy

We had a really wide ranging conversation covering multiple topics such as:

• Self learning and what it actually looks and feels like
• How to develop more clubface awareness
• Why giving yourself permission to fail in practice is so important
• Expectation management and why it has such a big impact on your mental game
• Matching skill level with practical expectation
• The ability to reframe outcomes to stay more level mentally
• The TWO THIRDS rule and how it can change your perception of the game
• How to genuinely enjoy the game more

A really great conversation with a deep thinker about the game and someone who is having a BIG impact on how people golfers approach getting better at the game.

To find out more about Jon Sherman go to

https://practical-golf.com/ 

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Today on the show we welcome back our good friend Kelvin Kelley

Kelvin is a certified Mind factor coach and Master Mind Factor coach

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He is a great coach who has a strong desire to SIMPLIFY the game to allow his students to PERFORM better

He has a wonderful thirst for knowledge and a desire to improve as a coach

He has been heavily influenced by great Australian coach Gary Edwin

We had a GREAT conversation

We talk about the importance of understanding your tendencies and how to MATCH up your swing

Starting with a clear INTENTION of the shot you want to play

• The vital importance of correct CONCEPTS
• Getting the set up right – The critical importance of SET UP
• Being READY to move and the more you get right the less conscious involvement in the swing
• Mirror your impact position
• Simplifying your swing to free your mind
• Kelvin also talks about his belief in JOURNALLING and how it has been a GAME CHANGER for his golf and his life
• How can a student benefit from understanding ATTENTION
• The difference between ‘having thoughts’ and ‘deliberate thinking’
• The multiple levels of ACCEPTANCE
• The importance of developing your own PHILOSOPHY
• Playing a ‘game within the game’ and how this can set you free

Kelvin is a really outstanding coach who has been prepared to study both technical and mental aspects to become the very best version of himself

A great conversation to really challenge your perspective on the game

To find out more about Kelvin Kelley go to

https://www.kelleygolf.com/  X (Formerly Twitter)

@kkelley_golf 

How to realise a long term golfing dream

Being clear on what we TRULY can control

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Today on the Brain Booster we have a really interesting guest in the shape of former attorney and now Performance Coach L.D. Simmons

He now runs Simmons Performance working with top amateur junior and college players as well as aspiring Tour Professionals

He got in touch after qualifying for a USGA event after 48 Years of trying

Achieving a sporting dream at the age of 64

We had a fascinating conversation about his quest as a player and his development as a coach

Especially about how he has applied key Mind Factor principles over an extended period of time

We looked into:

• Being absolutely clear on what you CAN control
• How the brain is so averse to uncertainty
• The importance of ‘pre programming’ behaviour
• The fleeting nature of performance
• What a really good warm up should look like
• Creating comfort in an unfamiliar environment
• Putting a score together with less than your ‘A’ game
• What is GOOD target selection?
• How to let the golf course ‘come to you’
• How Tiger Woods beat everyone with GOOD decisions
• Adjusting your tendencies from life to your golf

Great to hear this inspiring story from a golfer who kept GOING for many years with a dream to play in a USGA event

A strong message for us all and what could be POSSIBLE

What is POSSIBLE for you?

L. D. Simmons is a mental performance coach in the United States based in Charlotte, North Carolina.  He practiced law for 35 years before beginning a second career as a coach.

L. D. works with several touring professionals as well as high-level juniors, college players, mid-ams and seniors.  He focuses on the mental game as well as on course management skills.  L. D. also is the assistant coach of the Davidson College men’s golf team. 

You may find L. D. at www.simmonsperformance.com and at [email protected].

Today on the Brain Booster we welcome back for the third time my good friend Jim Waldron.

The two previous sessions with Jim were outstanding and prompted some wonderful feedback from listeners.

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Jim has an amazing knowledge of coaching and in particular the ‘Mind Body’ connection.

 He has met and worked with some of the finest players in the history of the game

This particular conversation had some amazing gems of information in particular about the legendary Ben Hogan

Just went into some fascinating detail about HOW Ben Hogan went about changing his golf.

The fascinating details of how he took swing concepts and turned them into actual prominent movement patterns

• How he did a lot of swing work in a mirror in SLOW MOTION
• Closed loop training
• Balance and tempo
• Shot Shaping
• Swinging with his eyes closed asking his body ‘how does this FEEL?’
• Quarter speed
• Half speed
• Full speed
• How Hogan then took swing changes to the golf course
• The importance of TARGET PICTURE

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Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by a special guest in the shape of top coach Grant Waite.

Grant played for many successful years on the PGA Tour and had the opportunity to observe and learn from the true greats of the game such as Jack Nicklaus to Tiger Woods.

He became at one point on the PGA Tour statistically the best ball striker in the world.

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Grant spent a lot of time with legendary coach Mac O’Grady both working on his own game and then developing his own philosophy.

Contrary to popular belief about his methodology Mac really helped Grant to understand so much more about swings and how we need to ‘match up’

Easy to understand a swing like Adam Scott but how do swings like Lee Trevino and Jim Furyk match up?

The experience of going head to head with Tiger Woods in attempting to win the Canadian Open in 2000

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Follow Grant Waite on INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/geewaite/?hl=en 

Is your game being hijacked by overwhelming anxiety?

Have you suffered from the yips?

What role are EMOTIONS playing in holding you back?

Today we have an amazing guest in Dawson Church to discuss the potential benefits to your game of E.F.T. (emotional freedom technique)

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• Tapping meridian points on your body.
• Also the profound benefits of what Dawson calls ‘Eco Meditation’
• Based on ancient Chinese medicine wisdom, EFT is founded on the principle of the flow of energy in our body and how by tapping  ‘meridian points’ the energy balance can be restored
• Why in many ways our brain is ‘out of date’ in terms of how it perceives threat
• Why ‘talking’ to the emotional part of your brain can have limited effect
• Understanding how the BODY can be the secret to releasing so many emotional problems
• The fascinating work of Dr John Sarno and the link to pain and emotion
• Why we need to ‘listen’ to the body more. Be more connected to what it is trying to tell you
• Creating an ‘upward spiral’ of positive emotions
• Gratitude, appreciation and Joy
• Reducing stress inducing ‘beta’ waves and increasing ‘alpha’ wave frequency to be able to ACCESS your skills
• The ‘Flow’ state and how to access it more often
• The need to challenge yourself at just the RIGHT level
• Why we need to be aware of how much our consciousness is being ‘hijacked’
• The importance of the FIRST HOUR of the day
•  

A really incredible session with Dawson Church and all of his incredible research around human potential and performance.

Dawson Church is an award-winning science writer and researcher. Throughout his career, he has made significant contributions to the fields of health, psychology, and spirituality. His first best-selling book, The Genie in Your Genes, was the first to trace the links between consciousness, emotions, and gene expression. It was named “Best Health Book” by USA BookNews. It has been updated in several editions and translated into 18 languages.

To find out more about Dawson Church go to

https://dawsonchurch.com/eft-tapping/ 

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by iconic teacher from the USA Kiran Kanwar who has a VERY different view of how we COULD swing the golf club.

It is a view that has at its very heart SIMPLICITY and efficiency of movement with an emphasis on injury prevention.

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What Kiran has to say may well be different and oppose what you currently believe about the golf swing but surely it is important to QUESTION what we believe and ask ‘Could there be a different way to do this?’

Kiran has been studying movement and how the body works for over 30 years and has produced numerous studies

• During our discussion we looked into what Kiran calls the Minimalist Golf Swing
• How so much of the golf swing is dictated by your address position
• The futility of thinking about body parts on the downswing
• The role of arm swing and movement
• How the downswing should happen automatically
• What ACTUALLY happens with ground reaction forces
• Why simplicity frees us up to just PLAY golf
• A swing to help reduce injury

A thought provoking and challenging session. You may agree with some of what Kiran says or disagree with all of it but at least it will get you to think and challenge your model of the world

To find out more about Kiran Kanwar go to

https://kirankanwargolf.wordpress.com/about/

Join us in Manchester in November and become a CERTIFIED MIND FACTOR COACH – or simply come to improve your own game, go to : https://themindfactor.net/the-certification-course/

How to develop a better RELATIONSHIP to YOUR game of golf

We are joined on the Brain Booster with top mental game coach from Canada Kent Osborne.

A previous guest who has written a wonderful book called ‘Scratch Attitude’ç

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Kent is very prolific on twitter and puts out really great thoughts on a regular basis.

He is primarily focused on club players as opposed to professionals and how the average player can get so much more from his or her experience of the game.

He has a very practical no nonsense view of the game underpinned by a deep understanding of psychology from his previous career developing leaders in business.

We had a wonderful conversation looking at the impact of EMOTION on our game and how it is almost impossible to ‘out think’ your emotions.

• Does mental game coaching ACTUALLY work?
• When it doesn’t WHY doesn’t it work
• We looked at the importance of RITUALS as opposed to routines
• How you can STACK emotions in your favour before you play
• Why GRATITUDE is such a beneficial concept
• The importance of FEELING gratitude as opposed to just an intellectual understanding
• Kent had some really strong views on JOURNALLING
• The importance of actually ENJOYING and recording your successes
• Being totally absorbed in the PROCESS of your practice
• When golf becomes a SPIRITUAL endeavour
• The sheer joy and beauty of EVENING golf

 A wonderful conversation with a great coach and very deep thinker about the game of golf

To spend time in the company of Kent just makes you feel better about the game of golf and indeed the game of life

To find out more about Kent and his work go to

https://scratchattitude.com/

Join us in Manchester in November and become a CERTIFIED MIND FACTOR COACH – or simply come to improve your own game, go to : https://themindfactor.net/the-certification-course/

How we can play golf in THIS moment 

Today we welcome back on the show my good friend Susie Meyers to discuss more concepts around ‘Point A’

Susie is one of the very best coaches in the USA and wrote the highly acclaimed book ‘Golf from Point A’ which I believe is required reading for every golfer interested in maximising their golfing experience.

Susie is on the list of the 100 Top Coaches in the USA

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She coaches at all levels of the game from start-up players to tour winners like Michael Thompson so her experience is extensive.

Every time I get the chance to speak to Susan the conversation just flows and her passion and enthusiasm for the game of golf just oozes out of her

• On today’s show we discussed:
• What is POINT A golf and WHY is it so important?
• How we fall into the trap of trying to ‘fix’ our previous shot
• The dangers of linking one shot to another when every shot is a UNIQUE moment in time
• The ‘Thinker’ and the ‘Doer’ and why we need to understand the difference
• The BURDEN of the PAST
• The myth of ‘problem solving’
• Can you control your golf swing?
• Can you control where the ball goes?
• The myth of control and how this creates so much instability
• With Point A there is NO PAST, NO FUTURE just this unique moment in time
• Why we need to be absorbed in the PICTURE of the shot and how these pictures influence our movements.
• How our PICTURES inform our body how to move
• Every shot has a different FORMULA
• How Point A can give you a different perspective on the golf course. The course is then no longer a THREAT
• Point A in everyday life

 A brilliant session with a wonderful coach

To find out more about Susie and her brilliant work go to

https://susiemeyersgolf.com/

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Today on the show we are joined by top coach Hugh Marr.

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Hugh has an incredible depth of knowledge and experience having coached at all levels of the game but most notably with some of the best players in the world on the European Tour.

As well as his full time role as a coach Hugh is now involved in his passion which is mentoring young aspiring coaches to be the very best version of themselves.

We got the chance to discuss Hugh’s view of the current state of coaching.

• How many coaches respond to trends.
• The dangers of too much YouTube ‘information’
• How we KNOW too much but UNDERSTAND too little.
• What does a good lesson REALLY look and feel like?
• How we can only influence ONE thing as coaches
• Why you should NEVER have to get worse to get better
• Why more practice is not the simple answer
• How the ‘team’ of a player needs to evolve
• Why it is important to prioritise WHO you are taking information from and WHEN
• How to make your practice more RELEVANT
• The vital importance of hitting ONE more green per round and holing ONE more putt from 6ft
• Why your CARRY distance is so important with your irons than total distance
• Why it is VITAL to know your golf course and the most RELEVANT shots you will hit
• The challenges of being a TOUR COACH
• The highs and the lows
• The challenge of not attaching personal emotion to players results
• Developing as a coach
• The importance of UNDERSTANDING as opposed to just knowledge
• The need to keep asking ‘WHY’
• Effective critical thinking
• Why ‘quick fixes’ need to be part of a good coaches armoury
• To find out more about Hugh go to

www.hughmarr.com

Join us in Manchester in November and become a CERTIFIED MIND FACTOR COACH – or simply come to improve your own game, go to : https://themindfactor.net/the-certification-course/