Better Golf Academy: Strategy to Awesome Golf

Part 5 of 5, the finale of our Science of the Swing series, inspired by the book The Science of Golf by Will Haskett. Tour pros with coaches and endless video still say the same thing, what they feel in their swing and what's actually happening are two different things entirely. Today we get into why that gap exists, and why it's the real reason swing changes feel so wrong even when they're completely right. If you've ever made a change, hated how it felt, and gone straight back to your old habit, this episode explains what was actually happening in your brain, and how to give a good change the time it actually needs.

Part 4 of 5 in our Science of the Swing series, inspired by the book The Science of Golf by Will Haskett. Two golfers, identical swings, wildly different results. Today, we get into the real science hiding inside your golf bag: shaft flex, center of gravity, and a little thing called MOI, and why equipment that doesn't match your swing can create problems that look exactly like swing flaws. If you've been grinding on the range trying to fix a miss that just won't go away, this episode might point you somewhere you haven't looked yet.

Part 3 of 5 in our Science of the Swing series, inspired by the book The Science of Golf by Will Haskett. For decades, golf instruction got the main reason your ball curves slightly backwards. Today we break down what the ball flight laws actually say, why your clubface is doing most of the talking, and why the classic advice for fixing a slice can sometimes make it worse. If you've ever fought a slice or a hook that just won't go away no matter what you try, this episode gives you the real diagnostic tool the pros use, no expensive equipment required.

Part 2 of 5 in our Science of the Swing series, inspired by the book The Science of Golf by Will Haskett. Pros and amateurs use the exact same muscles in the golf swing. So why does one look effortless and the other looks like work? Today we get into the kinematic sequence, the hidden order your body is supposed to move in in every swing, and what happens when that order breaks down. If you've ever been told you're "casting" or "coming over the top," this episode explains what's really going on underneath those phrases, and gives you a simple way to feel the fix on your very next range session.  

Part 1 of 5 in our Science of the Swing series, inspired by the book The Science of Golf by Will Haskett. There's a moment in your golf swing that lasts less than half a millisecond, and it decides everything about where your ball ends up. Today we break down what's actually happening at impact, why chasing clubhead speed can be the wrong move, and the one number that separates a bomber from someone who just swings hard. You've probably mishit a shot and had it curve in some strange direction you didn't expect. That's not bad luck, that's a real thing called gear effect, and once you understand it, your misses start making a lot more sense. Tune in for the physics that actually moves your golf ball.

I used to think the shakiest part of my game was the part where I got mad. Turns out that's backwards. In this one, I'm closing out our five-part series on Jared Tendler's Everyday Golf Psychology with the idea that changed how I think about every bad shot I hit. There's a reason the best poker players in the world don't try to calm down when they're furious — and the same logic applies the next time you slam a club after a three-putt. I'll walk through exactly how to use that feeling instead of fighting it, and how it ties the whole series together.

Greg Norman had a six-shot lead at the Masters and the exact same swing that got him there. By the back nine, it was gone. Same motion, same guy — so what actually changed? Today on Close the Gap, we're looking at why the range and the course are never really the same task, even when the swing is identical. It's the reason "just practice more" doesn't always fix Sunday

In 1997, a college golfer stood over four short putts at a U.S. Open qualifier — and missed every one, losing a playoff spot by exactly one shot. Most people would've spent the rest of their life trying to forget that afternoon. This guy went the other way. He turned it into a twenty-year career studying exactly why golfers fall apart under pressure — and today I get into what he actually did with that failure, and why your worst round might be more useful than you think.

Ever notice how one guy takes a bad bounce in stride, and another guy is still complaining about it three holes later? Turns out that reaction says more about your scorecard than your swing ever will. Today we're getting into one of the most misunderstood parts of the mental game — and it might explain more of your bad rounds than you think.

There's a line about golf so famous almost everybody's repeated it without ever really thinking about it — and it turns out it might be completely wrong. Today kicks off a five-part series built around a brand new book from a coach who's worked with Tour pros and world champion poker players. Stick around for the story of a missed four-footer that changed one man's whole career, and a much better way to think about what your mental game is actually there to do.

Every golfer thinks replaying their worst shots is how they get better. Turns out there's real research showing that's only true if you do it a very specific way, and most people are doing the exact opposite without knowing it. There's a tiny shift, something as small as one word in your head, that decides whether a bad shot teaches you something or just ruins the rest of your round. This one closes out our Bad Advice series, and it might be the most useful habit in the whole run.

I used to think the golfers hitting the most range balls were doing everything right. Turns out there's a second half to that practice most people never get to — and it's the half that actually shows up on the course. There's a batting practice study from the nineties, and a quieter follow-up on golfers, that together explain why some grinders never seem to close the gap between the range and a real round. Once you hear the fix, it's a two-minute change to how you already practice.

There's an experiment I can't stop thinking about. Researchers offered people in rural India a month's pay to win one simple game of skill — and the ones with the most on the line played the worst, by a mile. I'll tell you what that has to do with the four-footer you need to win your match, and why the most natural advice in golf might be quietly costing you the shots that matter most. If you've ever stood over a putt, told yourself "this one counts," and watched it slide by, this episode is for you. There's a reason it happens, it's measurable, and it has a name. And the fix isn't trying harder — it's almost the exact opposite, and I think it'll change how you handle pressure for good.

Part two of my new series, Bad Advice — the five bits of golf wisdom everybody repeats that the research quietly disagrees with. Every golfer knows the feeling: first tee, shaky hands, and a little voice telling you to calm down. But what if that voice has been sabotaging your game this whole time? Today I dig into a Harvard study that flipped everything I thought I knew about pre-shot nerves. It turns out the line between choking and coming through might come down to a single thing you say to yourself before you swing. I'll walk you through what it is, why it works, and the hundred-year-old science proving your nerves were never the enemy. This one might change your first tee for good.

There's one piece of advice you've heard on every first tee of your life, and I'm convinced it's quietly sabotaging your golf. It sounds supportive. It feels harmless. But there's a psychology study that shows it backfires hardest on the exact people who reach for it. In this one, I get into why you can't summon a feeling on command, and what actually holds up when you make a double and everything starts to slide. It comes down to two simple things you can do before your next round, and neither of them is a pep talk. Press play, and let's kill this advice for good.

I used to read my scorecard like it was a report card — see the number, feel good or feel awful, drive home. Then it hit me that two golfers can shoot the exact same score playing two completely opposite rounds, which means that number can't actually tell me how to get better. In this one I get into the idea that almost every stat in golf has a twin — a loud one that lies and a quiet one that tells the truth — and the three quiet numbers you can start tracking tonight with nothing but a pen. By the end you'll never look at the bottom of your card the same way.

It's late June, and if I'm being honest with you, the year probably hasn't gone the way you promised yourself it would back in January. I want to get into why that happens to almost every weekend golfer right about now — and why it usually has nothing to do with how hard you're trying. Then I take apart the most famous piece of advice in all of golf — the one on every coffee mug — and show you why it's quietly been sending you to the wrong end of the course. There's a single number hiding in your game that matters more than the one you've been losing sleep over. We go find it together.

Wyndham Clark woke up Sunday at the U.S. Open with a six-shot lead and nearly handed the whole thing back. In this one I get into why — and it has almost nothing to do with talent. There's a shift that happens in every golfer's brain the second they get ahead, and it quietly turns you tentative before you even notice it. I dig into a Columbia psychologist's research that explains exactly why protecting a lead is so much harder than chasing one, and what to do the moment you feel it happening to you. If you've ever been winning and suddenly couldn't make a swing, this episode is going to land. Give it a listen.

One of the greatest golfers who ever lived hit ugly shots all day long — and won anyway, more than almost anyone in history. In this one I get into his strange little secret, and why the player across from him, who swung it far more beautifully, kept losing to him. It comes down to a number Walter Hagen carried onto the first tee every single round, and what happened the moment a bad shot showed up. I'll show you how to borrow that same number for your own game this week — and why expecting your worst shots, on purpose, might be the most freeing thing you ever do on a golf course.

A year ago, Wyndham Clark smashed up a locker room and turned himself into golf's villain. This past Sunday, with an entire crowd openly rooting for him to fall apart — heckling him after almost every swing — he won the U.S. Open anyway. What carried him through wasn't talent, and it wasn't toughness in the way you'd expect. It was three small sentences he repeated to himself every single time the noise came, and there's real science behind why they worked. 

There's a voice in your head over every pressure shot, and most of us have never stopped to ask the obvious question — whose voice is it? On this one I get into why that voice keeps betraying you at the worst possible moment, and the strange one-word fix a University of Michigan researcher proved can change the whole thing. I'll show you why you're a brilliant coach for your friends and a total disaster for yourself — and how to close that gap right over the ball, in real time. It feels a little silly the first time you try it. Then it works, and you won't stand over a putt the same way again.

Ever been able to do something a thousand times in your sleep, then blanked the one time it actually mattered? It happened to a seven-foot superstar on the biggest stage in basketball — and it's the same thing happening to you over that knee-knocking two-footer. In this one we get into why a choke is the opposite of a skill problem, what a confused centipede reveals about your short game, and a fix so backwards it feels like cheating. Give your brain the wrong job on purpose, and watch what your hands remember.

In this episode, we get into why your brain treats a birdie like a bonus and a bogey like a wound — and the simple three-word trick that quietly costs the pros over a million dollars a year. Once you hear it, you'll never stand over a birdie putt the same way again. There's a famous study with the greatest title in sports science — "Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse?" — and what it found inside two and a half million PGA Tour putts might explain why you keep babying birdie putts and ramming in the ones for par. Same distance, same break, but the best players alive make one of them noticeably more often than the other.

Ever notice your worst golf decisions show up late — never on the first hole, always on the back nine? I dug into a famous study about parole judges that explains exactly why, and it has almost nothing to do with your swing. Turns out you've got a hidden tank, and every choice you make all day quietly drains it. In this one I'll show you what that means for your round — and the one simple move that protects the sharpest version of you for the shots that actually matter.

Some Knicks fans didn't watch the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history. Not because they didn't care — because they cared too much, and they couldn't sit in the discomfort long enough to see how it ended. Turns out that exact flinch is one of the quietest things holding back our golf. In today's episode I get into why we mentally "turn off the game" on ourselves the second a round goes ugly, what the science of avoidance says it's costing us, and a phrase straight out of this Knicks run that changed how I think about staying present when I'd rather walk in. Stick with me — this one's about learning to stay in the room.

What if the missing piece in your golf game isn't a swing fix — it's the right person in your corner? Today I'm telling the story of J.J. Spaun, who lost 50 pounds after a diabetes misdiagnosis, watched his entire sense of his own swing disappear, and had to rebuild everything from scratch. The coach he found didn't give him a checklist. He gave him a feeling — borrowed from a skateboard trick — and it changed everything. This episode is about feel over thought, but more than that, it's about the village behind every great performance. From Serena Williams to a rainy Sunday at Oakmont, the through line is the same: nobody gets there alone. If you've ever tried to figure out your game in isolation, this one is for you.

I picked a friendly fight with one of the smartest men alive this week. He ranked the hardest sports on earth, looked golf dead in the eye, and called it easy — because the ball just sits there. And on paper, he's got a point. But he walked right past the one detail that flips his whole argument inside out — the reason a still ball is scarier than a ball coming at your face at ninety. Stick around to the end, because it leads somewhere unexpected: straight to the real reason we keep coming back to the most maddening game ever invented.

Ever played the best nine of your life without a single conscious thought, then watched one bad swing turn you into a total stranger over the ball? Today I get into the question every golfer asks the second it goes sideways: slow down and lock in, or stay loose and fast? I'll show you why that question is a trap, and bring in years of research on focus that explains why "concentrating harder" is so often the exact thing making you worse. By the end you'll have one line you can draw in the grass that settles the fast-versus-slow argument for good.

I always assumed the all-time greats were quietly obsessed with their legacy. Then Nelly Korda won the one title she'd chased her whole career, and when a reporter asked her about that legacy, her answer flipped the whole thing on its head for me. In this episode, I get into the goal-setting research that explains why a vivid dream pulls you forward and a vague "legacy" never could — and what Korda was actually chasing all those years. There's a simple shift at the end that changes the kind of goal you write down in the first place.

div]:bg-bg-000/50 [&_pre>div]:border-0.5 [&_pre>div]:border-border-400 [&_.ignore-pre-bg>div]:bg-transparent [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8"> _*]:min-w-0 gap-3 standard-markdown"> I was outside the ropes at Riviera yesterday watching Nelly Korda, then went home and caught her post-round interview on YouTube. That's when the real story hit me, her game plan for the final round of a major isn't about her swing at all. It's two words she repeated, and they go against everything you'd expect from the most driven player in the game. Turns out there's hard science behind why wanting it too much is the fastest way to lose it. I'll show you the exact move to make the next time you feel your hands start to squeeze. This one might change how you walk to the first tee.

In this episode, I dig into the one sense you've probably never thought about — the one quietly running your entire swing while your eyes take all the credit. I tell the story of the blindfold drill that makes your contact better instead of worse, and the strange rubber-hand experiment that reveals the real twist: your eyes aren't powerful because they're accurate. They're powerful because they win every argument with your body — even when they're dead wrong. Then I break down exactly what that looks like when you're steering a putt or peeking on an iron, and I hand you a simple eyes-closed drill you can run on the practice green today. If you've ever felt like you're guiding the club instead of swinging it, this one's going to land. Wait until you hear what starts happening around the sixth swing.

If you've ever stood over a short putt and felt your hands completely betray you — this one's for you. Today I'm getting into one of golf's most misunderstood and most stigmatized experiences: the yips. And what I found in the research genuinely surprised me. It turns out, not all yips are created equal. Some are anxiety-driven. Some are neurological. And treating the wrong one with the wrong approach doesn't just waste time — it quietly convinces you that you're too weak to fix something that was never about weakness in the first place. Today I break down what's actually happening in your brain, what the science says about each type, and why the hardest part of beating the yips has nothing to do with the treatment.

This episode draws from Lanny Bassham's "With Winning in Mind" to explore how a golfer's self-image quietly controls their performance — and how to start rewriting that story one shot at a time. The core insight is simple but powerful: you will always perform consistently with the identity you hold about yourself. The practical tool is just two words. After a good shot, say "that's like me." After a poor one, say "that's not like me." Do that long enough, and you stop performing like the golfer you've always been — and start becoming the one you've decided to be.

div]:bg-bg-000/50 [&_pre>div]:border-0.5 [&_pre>div]:border-border-400 [&_.ignore-pre-bg>div]:bg-transparent [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8"> _*]:min-w-0 gap-3 standard-markdown"> This episode is about one thing: tempo. Not someone else's — yours. Ludvig Åberg looks effortless not because he's talented, but because his rhythm never changes regardless of the moment. Dr. Joan Vickers' research confirms it — elite performers aren't more technically precise, they're more rhythmically consistent. Your tempo isn't a flaw. It's a fingerprint. Find it on the range. Protect it with a routine. And when pressure hits and the music starts to fade — don't go through the motions. Find the beat. And dance.

This episode explores one of golf's most overlooked and surprisingly well-supported mental performance hacks: chewing gum. It opens with my personal observation of Tiger Woods chomping away through his iconic 2019 Masters victory and Collin Morikawa doing the same on Tour, then weaves in the neuroscience behind why — including research shared by Adam Grant showing that gum chewing increases cerebral blood flow, sharpens focus, and reduces stress, especially under pressure. Phil Mickelson's frontal cortex theory ties it all together with the practical on-course science. The episode then translates the research into a simple, immediately actionable strategy any golfer can use starting their very next round. The central message is that performance edges don't have to be complex — sometimes the gap between a drifting brain and a focused one is exactly two dollars and an orange flavor.

This episode opens with a personal birdie streak at Pelican Hill Golf Club and uses it to introduce one of psychology's most surprising findings — the hot hand doesn't actually exist. Gilovich, Vallone, and Tversky studied thousands of NBA shots in 1985 and found that a player on a streak is no more likely to convert the next attempt than one who just missed several straight. The streak is real. The predictive power of it is zero. The golf application is where it hits hardest. Three birdies and your brain tells you to press. Three bogeys and it tells you to protect. Neither instruction is coming from the course — both are coming from a pattern your brain invented. The key distinction is whether something genuinely improved, or whether you simply started believing the next shot was owed to you. One is useful information. The other is the fallacy. The fix is simple and hard: play the shot, not the story.

Joan Vickers' Quiet Eye research reveals that elite golfers hold a long, locked gaze on a specific spot on the back of the ball for about two to three seconds before and through their stroke — while amateur golfers let their eyes wander between the ball, the hole, and the line. That half-second difference in gaze duration turns out to be the difference between a quiet nervous system and a hesitant one. The eyes aren't just watching the ball — they're telling the brain the environment is stable enough to commit. The practical takeaway is simple but counterintuitive: stop trying to look at the target during execution and start giving your eyes one very specific job — one dimple, locked, quiet. Golfers trained on Quiet Eye technique outperformed those who worked on their actual stroke mechanics, and did it with lower heart rates and less muscle tension under pressure. The target lives in the mind. The gaze lives on the ball. Get those two things in the right place at the right time, and the shot almost takes care of itself.

City Slickers gave us one of the most memorable lines in movie history — Curly's one finger, one thing. Legendary golf instructor Harvey Penick lived by the same philosophy, giving students a single thought per lesson and nothing more. The reason? The human brain can't manage a committee meeting and still swing a golf club. Researchers call it paralysis by analysis: too many competing thoughts interrupt the automatic muscle memory built through years of practice, and the result is a swing that never had a chance. The fix is simple, even if it isn't easy. Before your next round, identify the one thing you've been working on — a swing thought from your pro, a feel you've been chasing — and let that be your thread from the first tee to the 18th green. On the range, same rule: one problem, worked on until the body starts to understand. Not five fixes stacked on top of each other. Just one thing, trusted completely. As Curly would say, that's what you've gotta figure out — and now you have.

Is it true that staying balanced with a good follow-through — even after a bad shot — actually helps your next shot? According to neuroscience, yes. Researchers Antonio Damasio and Paula Niedenthal found that your body and brain are in a constant two-way conversation. Slumping and dropping your head after a bad shot doesn't just look defeated — it tells your brain to feel defeated. The fix is simpler than you think. Holding your finish, keeping your head up, and walking tall sends a different signal to your brain — one that says manageable, still here, let's go. You can't always control your thoughts after a bad shot. But you can control your posture. And it turns out, that's enough to change what comes next.

You missed a three-foot birdie putt — and your brain immediately decided that chances like that don't come around very often. That's counterfactual scarcity: a near-miss that doesn't just sting in the moment, but sends a signal forward that opportunity is rare. And that belief is what loads the pressure onto every close look you get from that point on. The fix isn't positive thinking. It's a more accurate story. You hit it close because you can hit it close. The scarcity was never real — your brain just told you it was. Stop thinking scarcity, start thinking series.

You've hit that shot a hundred times. But the moment the coaches showed up, you made a quadriple bogey. That's not a swing problem — that's the Spotlight Effect. Cornell psychologist Thomas Gilovich proved that we think twice as many people are watching us as actually are. And we overestimate how many people truly care about how we hit the ball. The gallery in your head is always bigger than the one on the fairway. The fix? Stop performing. Find your target, trust your reps, and get out of your own way. The spotlight feels real. But everyone around you is living inside their own.

Bluma Zeigarnik wasn't studying golfers. She was watching waiters in a Vienna restaurant — and what she noticed about memory and unfinished business turned into one of the most cited findings in cognitive psychology. In this episode, we break down the Zeigarnik Effect and what it means for every golfer who has ever carried a bad hole into the next tee box. The brain keeps open tabs. We'll show you how to close them.

Two landmark studies. Two researchers who never met. And one par 3 with water on the left that ties them together. In this episode, we break down Gary Klein's Pre-Mortem and Daniel Wegner's Ironic Process Theory — and explain exactly when each one should be running your brain.

What if your bad round had nothing to do with your swing — and everything to do with your first two holes? A fascinating classroom experiment reveals how early failure quietly shuts the brain down, and why positive thinking alone won't bring you back. In this episode, we talk about how confidence is lost, how it's rebuilt, and why the only way back is giving your brain something to believe in.

Kahneman and Thaler proved it with a coffee mug. You prove it every time you play scared on the back nine. This episode is about the endowment effect — why you overvalue what you own, why your score is not yours to protect, and how champions play free when everyone else plays safe.

This episode challenges the myth that golf "feel" is a natural gift, opening with Steve Jobs testing iPhone prototypes until one "felt right." The discussion establishes that feel is a trainable skill through three principles: it can be systematically developed, improves over time with practice, and can be rebuilt when lost. Evidence includes tour pros like Collin Morikawa playing without a glove and wine research showing experts develop superior pattern recognition, not better senses. Links: Drills: https://bettergolfacademy.com/feel Website: https://bettergolfacademy.comInstagram: @bettergolfacademy Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BetterGolfAcademy TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bettergolf.academy Contact Me: https://bettergolfacademy.com/hello Subscribe to Daily Golf News from me: https://bettergolfacademy.substack.com/

_*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5"> Most golfers approach putting completely wrong, obsessing over stroke mechanics while missing the three fundamental skills that actually matter. Through the dramatic story of Alexander the Great solving the legendary Gordian Knot with one decisive sword stroke, discover why putting success comes from systematic execution rather than perfect technique. Learn how to read greens like a tour pro using your feet as much as your eyes, develop the technical precision to consistently start putts on line, and master distance control through external focus. Packed with research from putting experts and actionable drills you can use immediately, this episode will transform your approach to the most important part of your game. Links: Drills: https://bettergolfacademy.com/putting Website: https://bettergolfacademy.comInstagram: @bettergolfacademy Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BetterGolfAcademy TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bettergolf.academy Contact Me: https://bettergolfacademy.com/hello Subscribe to Daily Golf News from me: https://bettergolfacademy.substack.com/

In this episode, I explore the powerful connection between golf and mental health, examining how and why golf has become a form of self-care and therapy for millions of players. Using research from sports psychology, insights from mental health experts, and personal anecdotes, I demonstrate how golf provides unique mental health benefits through its combination of nature exposure, physical activity, social connection, and mindfulness practice. With younger generations now citing mental health as their primary reason for playing golf, this episode offers practical strategies for intentionally approaching golf as a wellness practice that can enhance longevity, reduce stress, and provide lifelong benefits for both mind and body. Links: Dan Evan's Quote: Instagram @dansgolfworld Drills: https://bettergolfacademy.com/peace Website: https://bettergolfacademy.comInstagram: @bettergolfacademy Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BetterGolfAcademy TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bettergolf.academy Contact Me: https://bettergolfacademy.com/hello Subscribe to Daily Golf News from me: https://bettergolfacademy.substack.com/  

In this episode, I explore the three crucial strategies high handicappers can use to avoid disaster holes: embracing the boring play, knowing your go-to shot under pressure, and developing a post-mistake routine.  Using research from sports psychology, insights from golf legends, and personal anecdotes, I demonstrate how these mental game approaches can help golfers lower their scores dramatically without changing their swing. The episode explains how most high handicappers aren't held back by their inability to hit good shots, but rather by their poor decisions and emotional reactions when things go wrong. By implementing these three rules, you can potentially drop 3-5 strokes from their handicap within a month. Don't believe me? Just try it.  Links:  LMG Golf Clubs: https://liquidmetalsgroup.com Drills: https://bettergolfacademy.com/blowup Website: https://bettergolfacademy.comInstagram: @bettergolfacademy Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BetterGolfAcademy TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bettergolf.academy Contact Me: https://bettergolfacademy.com/hello Subscribe to Daily Golf News from me: https://bettergolfacademy.substack.com/

After witnessing a disturbing interaction between a father and his talented young daughter on the driving range, this episode dives into the critical question: Can we raise kids who excel at golf while maintaining their passion for the game? Through research from sports psychology and youth development experts, I explore how parents can foster excellence without sacrificing joy. The episode offers three science-backed strategies that create a foundation for both competitive success and long-term love of golf. Learn how fostering autonomy, developing a growth mindset, and creating emotional safety around performance can transform your child's relationship with golf. These approaches don't just produce happier young golfers—research suggests they're also the optimal path to developing champions who sustain their success long-term. Links: Website: https://bettergolfacademy.comInstagram: @bettergolfacademy Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BetterGolfAcademy TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bettergolf.academy Contact Me: https://bettergolfacademy.com/hello Subscribe to Daily Golf News from me: https://bettergolfacademy.substack.com/