Many golfers put a lot of effort and focus on their technique, but not on their own mental state of mind, which is the most neglected and least understood aspect of the game. The real fact is that golf is very much a mind game. This handbook, Psychology of Golf, is the ultimate guide to the mental game and it is helping also knowing yourself better. This practical book gives a unique insight to feelings well known to you: nervousness, tension, anxiety, selfdoubt, loosing self confidence, yips and simply feeling of losing control over your shot, not forgetting short missed putts. The author of this book, Dr. Bruno Taajamaa, member of the R&A, Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, is an enthusiastic and keen golfer himself who has played well over 1500 different golf courses around the world, including all Scottish golf courses. Alongside his long medical practice, he has been apublisher of the FGF - Finnish Golf Finland magazine for over 30 years. His interest in golf history adds an extra dimension to these mental problems in golf. Every generation of players on all levels have suffered from difficulties in managing the psychology of game. But if you are happy to learn, this book is designed to help the modern golfer to solve these common fault caused by psychological factors. Our own mind is an important partner during a round of golf. All your common sense and you have other mental talents as well. Jack started golf as a young boy with his keen golfing father, Charlie Nicklaus (2) - his first coach. He played well as an amateur untill 1962, when turning into a professional golfer. The great name behind Jack Nicklaus is famous pro Jack Grout, a man whom Jack trusted. Grout himself admired Bobby Jones. So did Jack. Jack Nicklaus has said quite a few important things of mental golf. Breath taking, panoramic, superb, spectacular - such as those hidden gems. Just find them and play them. But not against them.
Koko: 21,5cm korkea x 15cm leveä
