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Last night the Big Break Sandals Resort Finale aired on Golf Channel. Our spotlight player last year here on
Ladies on the Tee and our hometown favorite, Carling Coffing, was kind enough to invite me to her grandparents house to witness the outcome with a houseful of family and friends.
Trying to get information out of Carling prior to the Finale was impossible. This young women can keep a secret…aided, of course, by a Confidentiality Agreement required of every contestant. Week after week, I sat glued to the TV on Monday evenings at 9pm ET watching the drama unfold. The emotional toll was immense…on me!! Nevermind those 11 golfers fighting it out over 10 episodes (a 2-week period fro the golfers). I was a wreck!!
Soap operas have nothing on this format. The editing was quite interesting. What was more interesting was
Tags: Carling Coffing, Duramed FUTURES Tour, golf, Golf Channel's Big Break, golf tournament, Lili Alvarez, Women's Golf
Mental Toughness is the ability to maintain a steady state.
For the ultimate ‘mental toughness‘ you need to have a mental conditioning coach develop a drill that works for you specifically to condition you for your state management on the golf course. The ideal session necessary to develop results conditioning is 90 minutes. Mental conditioning, mental toughness, peak performance, physical performance, resilience to negative effects on the golf course is a life time investment in yourself as a person and as a golfer.
We all experience states we don’t like – denying they exist, don’t make them go away.
How do you change your state when you’re on the golf course? It requires keen awareness on your part. It’s not what happens to you – it is what you do with what happens to you that counts. States are also contagious, so watch out. How is your state affecting others, and how is their state affecting you? All great questions to have for a round-routine – solid answers to dial into your nervous system.
Your ability to focus on the golf course can be your heaven or hell when you competing. The prime rule in this reality is we must become in our lives what we choose to experience in the world. Have no doubt, reality changes in the present as a direct result of our focus. The more we focus, the greater the change.
There is always a subtle yet powerful difference between working toward a result and thinking and feeling from it. In our minds we are always “on our way” to a accomplishment.
We also tend to experience what we identify with in our beliefs. The quality of our beliefs and expectations has a direct and powerful effect on what happens to us on the golf course. My research has shown the more intense the “watching” – focus, the greater the watchers influence is on how the ball behaves. Your ability to focus, stay focused and stay in state is the mind-set of a champion. State management is a must for competitive, consistent and fun for a golfer while out playing on the course.
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By Ida Centoni – www.PerformanceMomentum.com
Our thanks to Ida Centoni, Mental Conditioning Coach for her invaluable insights to help each of us become better golfers…and people! Thanks for visiting Ladies on the Tee, the Voice of Women’s Golf at www.sherrytabb.com. We invite you to leave your comments below.
Tags: golf, golfers, ladies golf, mental conditioning, mental game, Women's Golf
Men, Women Golfers Need a Course in Gender Bias
Last summer, a women’s tournament was played at a popular metro Detroit west side course. As the foursomes began to arrive at the 10th tee, they found it stacked four groups deep with men who had been allowed to cut in at the turn. When the women complained to the starter, he said, “You women play too fast. You were supposed to make the turn in 2 and ½ hours, not 2! If you slowed down, you’d play better!”
True story.
Women play too fast. Women play too slow. Men don’t hit it as long as they think they do. Men hate to play golf with women. Women are better putters and chippers. They’re rules ghouls. Men swing too hard. Women swing like powder puf fs. Women shouldn’t play in men’s events. Men shouldn’t play in women’s events. Men cheat.
The battle of the sexes is alive and kicking on the links.
Tags: gender bias, golf, golf course, golf etiquette, golfers, Women's Golf
Author, James Ross, takes us back to Prairie Winds Golf Course in East St. Louis for his latest novel, Opur’s Blade. For those of you who have read Ross’ earlier releases, Lifetime Loser, Finish Line and Tuey’s Course, you will feel like you are reconnecting with friends in the clubhouse.
J Dub Schroeder, the golf pro at Prairie Winds is back and at the center of things as he discovers a raw golf talent in a young boy named Owen Purler, Jr. This young boy arrives at J Dub’s golf course with his mother, who is seeking to show her son another side of life. Owen’s father is a long hauler and is absent from his son’s life most of the time. He is also not keen on having Owen getting involved in a game they obviously can’t afford.
Turns out though that Owen is quite the golf prodigy and J Dub becomes a somewhat surrogate father helping Opur (as he is nicknamed by the regulars at the golf course) not only refine his golf skills but also to navigate through life and the trauma that he faces early on. Opur falls in love with the game and with the characters that are part of his new family at the course and needs both of them to deal with his tragedies.
Tags: adolescent, aneurysm, coach, divorce, drama, golf, inspiration, parenting, premarital sex, sports, stl, teenage, www.ladiesonthetee.com
Golfers Can Alleviate Exertional Muscle Cramps by Proper Hydration Techniques
By Susan Hill, Certified Golf Fitness Trainer
Competitive golfers are well aware of the perils of dehydration and its potential effect on performance. It can create significant risk to your game and your health. What research has shown is your body not only loses hydration but also its salt content through excessive sweating. With more than half the country locked in a heat wave it is very easy to begin excessively sweating during your round of golf.
Golfer’s in general usually know that you need to stay well hydrated during play but what you may not realize is that water alone is not the solution. You also need to make sure that you have the proper amount of salt replacement. One easy way to think about this is what ever is sweated out, must be put back in. If you do not keep yourself properly hydrated out on the course you will begin to feel small muscle twinges.
Small muscle twinges are the first sign that your body has a deficiency. If this begins to happen to you during your golf round you need to take a break, cool down and start to get fluids and salt back into your system. If you do not address the problem
Tags: golf fitness. golf exercise, golf nutrition, muscle cramps
Bright Times for US Womens Golf
That’s two in a row for anyone who is counting ( like….the entire US golf population that follows women’s golf!!). CPR has breathed new life into women’s golf in the US. In this case CPR means, Cristie – Paula – Resuscitation!!
After this weekend’s US Women’s Open win by Paula Creamer, the US women’s golf platform is looking bright and hopeful. Cristie Kerr just won the 2nd major of the season, the LPGA Championship by a mere 12 strokes and captured the #1 ranking in women’s golf a couple of weeks ago. When was the last time Americans have won back-to-back majors on the LPGA Tour? Heck for that matter, when
Tags: golf, golf tournament, golfers, ladies golf, US Open, Women's Golf
