How to accurately chart rounds and figure out
what is costing
you strokes
How to get a solid grip and control over your own advancement
How to recognize situations that hamper performance
The professional's techniques and strategies
How to acquire the knowledge and skills to improve all facets of your game
Chapter 1: Helps you Develop Performance Awareness
Teaches you a system for accurately charting
rounds of golf
to determine which statistical areas of the game are costing
you strokes. The chapter includes:
Sample round analysis
Thorough explanation of objectively and subjectively
determining
stroke-costing shots
Blank worksheet for more effective round assessments
Chapter 2: Helps you Increase Technical Awareness
Covers the basic fundamental-technical aspects
of golf. This
includes:
Instructions and illustrations regarding proper
grip, alignment and
set-up, posture and stance, ball position, and swing path
Explanations for the most common causes of
swing path and ball
flight errors, e.g. slice, hook, loss of distance, top, chunk,
improper
divots, shank and more
Introduces kinesthetic awareness exercises
to help you develop a
feel for proper swing path, contact, tempo, timing, and grip pressure
Chapter 3: Helps you with the Execution of the
Short Game, Trouble and
Specialty Strokes Instructs you on how to properly execute chips, pitches,
flop shots, bunker shots and putts. It also includes:
Technique for mastering shots from difficult
lies and under tough
playing conditions.
Chapter 4: Helps you Expand Mental and Emotional Awareness
Explains the impact that confidence, improper
thoughts,
tension, nervous reactions and anger have on performance.
It also includes:
Exercises, worksheets, a questionnaire, and
sample journal
to help you develop psychological awareness.
Chapter 5: Helps you Identify Mental Errors and
the Typical Situations
that Cause Performance Problems
Discusses the various mental errors that players make. It also addresses:
Typical situations that cause performance
problems such as
improper pre-competitive preparation, mental and emotional reactions
Tackles these errors in situations ranging
from the start of competition,
when play is going well and also when it is progressing poorly
and what a
player does in between shots
Offers suggestions for developing effective
performance routines and course
management skills
Chapter 6: Helps you Recognize the Impact of Other Life Management Factors
Addresses key environmental factors including:
How sleep, nutrition, fitness, self-discipline,
attitude, time management
and recovery or lack thereof can potentially affect performance
Recommends ways to improve each of these variables
Worksheet to aid monitoring and assessment
Chapter 7: Helps you Implement Performance Enhancement
and Emotional
Control Techniques You learn:
How attitudes are developed, why they affect
performance and
how to change them
How to identify and restructure self-talk
The power of affirmations
The different forms of attention and how to focus more effectively
How to use triggers and cues to change behaviors
How to stop unproductive thoughts
Two key types of visualization and when to use them
The art of relaxation and the techniques for manifesting it
How to use models to manifest development
Chapter 8: Helps you Put it All Together Instruct you on how to:
Properly set goals
Practice effectively and efficiently
Periodize technical, mental and fitness training
to maximize
performance
Identify and increase the frequency of peak performance moments
Included are sample goal setting worksheet,
daily practice log
and training regimen
Chapter 9: Helps you Keep it Together As the final
chapter, it offers
suggestions on how to:
Sustain the motivation to achieve
Avoid athletic staleness and burnout
Better Golf Solutions thus is much more than
just another
expert training program. “It provides a life-long philosophy and
process for continuous self-improvement. It is an approach and
perspective that all high level players adhere to because they
recognize and accept the laborious nature of this game,” says Dr.
Bouchard.
That you have certain physical and mental
capabilities which are
being greatly underutilized?
What you, like most players, may not recognize
is that it’s your MIND
and METHODOLOGY that keeps you from reaching your performance
potential?
That all players have certain tendencies that
recurrently cost them strokes?
If you don't definitively know what they are, how much they are
actually
costing you and how to properly correct them, then you run into
a vicious
cycle with the same results.
There is no one book on the market that covers
how the various physical,
plus mental, in addition to the emotional and environmental aspects
of the
game impact scores, provides you with assessment tools and teaches
you
how to strengthen your specific weaknesses. Better Golf Solutions
was
written to cover all these aspects and more, under one umbrella!
Regardless of whether you are a high, mid or low handicap player
you can take advantage of the Better Golf Solutions system.
You may not have to work harder, only train and play smarter!
You certainly WON'T have to take expensive
lessons or buy new
equipment to achieve your performance objective. You simply have
to be more self-aware and train and play smarter.
In an easy-to-understand, step-by-step way,
in almost a one-on-one
interaction with the reader, Dr. Bouchard guides you through the
process.

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