FEARLESS GOLF

Fearless Golf - Dr. Gio Valiante Random House 6/2005

Paul's highlights from the books

1.      It is fear, the most critical impediment to playing golf to your greatest potential.

2.      Ultimately, it is about focus and paying attention to the things that are critical to success and ignoring those that serve no constructive purpose.

3.      Fear is the enemy.  Confidence is the conquering hero.

4.      To play your best, your mind has to be focused exclusively on hitting shots at precise targets.

5.      When they used to see only “FAIRWAYS and GREENS”, they now see only “HAZARDS”.

6.      “I did not win in the 1930’s because I had not learned to concentrate.  To shut my mind against everything but my own game”.  Ben Hogan

7.      “What is my target”?

8.      “There are 2 opponents in the game; yourself and the golf course”. Tiger Woods

9.      Confidence produces good shots and good shots produce confidence.

10.  When you are confident, you recover.

11.  Golfers who practice sloppy tend to play sloppy under pressure.

12.  Adversity is the very ingredient necessary to cultivate mental toughness.

13.  Hit the shots you know you can hit.

14.  It is not easy to see disappointment as the doorway to hope.

15.  Golfers must learn to remember the good shots so those are the ones the mind flashes to in a crucial moment.

16.  Improvement at anything requires that we strive to do things we are not capable of doing yet.

17.  “How do I want to play this shot”?  Jack Nicklaus

18.  The ideas of confidence, optimism, hard work, perseverance and discipline are timeless and universal across all pursuits.

19.  People become great at whatever they choose because of desire and hard work.

20.  Hit a bad shot, move on and ask yourself, “What is next”?

++ “The best way to predict the future is to create it”.  Abraham Lincoln

 

 


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