Golf's Mental Hazards

Overcome Them and Put an End to the Self-Destructive Round

Alan Shapiro (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1997
TouchStone (Verlag)
978-0-684-80457-6 (ISBN)

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An exploration of the relationship between a golfer's personality and their performance on the links. Six major golfing personality types are identified, and advice is provided for remedying both the psychological and physical stumbling blocks that characterize each type on the course.

What's Your Golf Personality?
According to Dr. Alan Shapiro, the personality traits that cause problems in your everyday life can also wreak havoc on your golf game. If you're a worrier, chances are you're also anxious at the tee. If you're a control freak, you probably overanalyze your swing and tend to freeze up over the ball. If you have a short fuse, there is a good chance you're a club thrower.
Using his experience as a psychologist and a devoted golfer, Dr. Shapiro has identified six major golf personality types or "Mental Hazards." Just take the simple, forty-eight-question quiz provided to determine your Mental Hazard Profile, then read and apply Dr. Shapiro's customized advice for overcoming the Mental Hazards that plague you on and off the course.
No matter what your handicap, the unique approach of Golf's Mental Hazards will lead to increased self-awareness and lower golf scores, finally putting an end to the self-destructive round.

Alan Shapiro, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice and founder of Mental Skills Development, an organization that offers workshops for amateur and professional golfers. He was elected to serve on the subscribers' board of Golf Illustrated and lives with his wife and three children in Albany, New York.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. A Matter of Life and Death?

2. Your Mental Hazard Profile

3. Hazard One: The Fear of Fear

4. Hazard Two: Losing Your Cool

5. Hazard Three: Getting Too Up or Too Down

6. Hazard Four: Worrying What Others Think

7. Hazard Five: The Need to Be in Control

8. Hazard Six: An Unwillingness to Work

9. Why People Resist Change

10. In The Zone

11. The Whole Golfer

12. The Old and the New

13. Putting It All Together

APPENDIX

REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED READINGS

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.1.1997
Zusatzinfo	2 CHARTS
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	243 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Golf
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-684-80457-3 / 0684804573
ISBN-13	978-0-684-80457-6 / 9780684804576
Zustand	Neuware