. . .Answer the following questions: Body: Does your body have the strength and flexibility to create an injury free swing? Technical Skill: Does your golf swing (short game and putting stroke) repeat for you under pressure? Mind (The most important!): Can you concentrate skillfully on each shot? To access the “Zone”, we must honestly examine […]
Inspired by Star Wars, we must harness our “Golf Jedi” and work with the THREE INNER FORCES that propel us down the fairway to our potential: Motivation. We must have the fire and intense discipline to put the effort into maintaining and improving our game. This will be UNCOMFORTABLE. We must push ourselves to the edge for progress. GOLF […]
“I have told my players for many years that if you love golf, it’s going to be just like your first girlfriend, you will be humbled, and there will come a day when you have your heart broken.” -Coach Bob Austin’s speech to his high school boys team after a heart breaking close loss at […]
The ancient sage Patanjali tells us that the key to accessing “the zone” is to‘calm the stormy nature of the mind.’ When this is achieved, the golfer resides in their unlimited potential. How do we ‘quiet the turbulent mind’ over a golf shot? This challenging feat is accomplished with PRACTICE and DETACHMENT. Like the two sides of the […]
You have just missed a 50 yard wide fairway and now you think you can thread it through a ONE FOOT GAP IN THE TREES? Hmmm. . .DELUSIONAL? Dodie Mazzuca is the founder of Golf PROformance and teaches golf and mindset programs in Santa Cruz, CA.
If left unobserved, the DISTRACTIONS can turn into INTERRUPTIONS. They stifle our talent and smother our ability to swing and play with freedom. The hindrance then becomes an OBSTACLE. There are plenty of EXTERNAL DISTRACTIONS in golf. The course presents us with bunkers, canyons, bad lies, slow play, weather and more. And then there are the […]
Wise Words: “If you think you have it figured out, you had better check again.” -Bhavani Maki’s translation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra 2:10. You stand over the shot. The set-up feels perfect. This hasn’t happened before. . . Could it be possible? You smell the fresh morning dew on the fairway. You see every tiny […]
“When contentment is actively cultivated, it is an unparalleled sweetness of being.” (Patajali’s Yoga Sutras, 2:42) The golfer’s disease: We get wrapped up in waiting for some future happiness. The perfect score, the perfect playing conditions, the symptoms are endless. Desires (I WANT) and Aversions (I DON’T WANT) are the ego based roller coaster ride of emotions sabotaging our game. CONTENTMENT (Santosha […]