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The 3 Best Ways to Improve Your Mental Game & Lower Your Golf Handicap

We'll explore the three best ways to enhance your mental game in golf. From golf mental game coaching apps, to books, and one-on-one sessions with sport psychologists, we've got you covered.

Kate
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The Power of Resilience in Golf's Mental Game: 2 Key Lessons from Brian Harman's 2023 Open Championship Victory

Brian Harman's Open Championship victory was a powerful reminder of the significance of mental strength in golf. Learn how the mindset that led him to lift the Claret Jug is accessible to all.

Kate
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3 Signs You're an Angry Golfer (And How to Change With Golf Mental Game Coaching)

Anger on the course can be seriously destructive, both to your enjoyment of the game and your scores. Learn to overcome it today.

James
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The 5 Best Apps To Improve Your Mental Game For Golfers

Learn how new mental game apps can help you improve, and find out which is best app for your game.

Kate
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The 3 Most Important Skills for Playing Links Golf: Mastering the Mental Game

The next time you tee it up on a links course, remember these three tips.

Kate
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Are You Tom Watson or Greg Norman? The Power of Attitude in Golf

Recently I heard a story that compared the attitudes and mindsets of two golfing legends: Tom Watson, a winner of eight majors, and Greg Norman, who only won two.

Kate
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How to Break 80 in 2023: 3 Mental Tips from 3 Golf Legends

Incorporate these action points into your game, to help you achieve your goal of breaking 80.

James
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How Positive Psychology Can Help You Get Better At Golf: 3 Easy Tips

We all ask ourselves how can we get mentally better at golf? Positive psychology can be the answer to unleashing your potential...

Kate
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3 Ways You Can Master the Mental Side of Golf

3 suggestions for golfers looking to elevate their game by honing their mental skills.

James S
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How To Get Out Of A Mental Golf Slump

This simple mindset shift promotes mental toughness, resilience to frustration and helps you overcome doubts you have about your golf game.

Kate
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Matt Wallace - 5 Mental Game Tips To Help You Play Better Golf

Here are five things I recommend you do if you're serious about saving yourself shots and improving your golf.

Matt Wallace
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How Do You Get Mentally Strong In Golf?

Mental strength saves you strokes. Here are 3 ways you can improve at this part of the game.

James
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Stop Overthinking In Golf: 5 Easy Ways To Improve Your Mental Game

Here are five techniques you can incorporate into your game that will help you concentrate, quiet your mind, and focus on on what matters. You'll reduce intrusive thoughts and enjoy a quieter mind on the course.

Kate
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How to break 80 in 2023: 3 mental tips from 3 golf legends

Here are three bits of mental game advice from some of the world’s best golfers that will help you achieve your goal of shooting in the 70's.

Kate
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Winning Thoughts: Justin Thomas's mental game at the PGA

Let’s dive into the core aspects of JT’s mental game that enabled him to stay positive, patient, and eventually crawl his way into a playoff to win the 2022 PGA Championship.

James S
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Winning Thoughts: Cam Smith's mental game at the Open Championship

Let's dive into the core aspects of Cam Smith's mental game that enabled him to win the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews.

James S
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The Power Of Positive Thinking

Discover why positivity will give you the edge on the golf course.

James S
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What's the ideal mindset for great golf?

What I learnt from Ben Hogan, 25 years on the LPGA Tour, and numerous runner-up finishes in the majors about the mental game and performing under pressure.

Kris Tschetter
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The 3 Keys To Rory McIlroy's Mental Game

Rory McIlroy in full flow is addictive to watch. What are the secrets to his mental game?

James S
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The best putter you've ever played against

Whether it's someone you play regularly with, or competed against many moons ago, what was it about them and their style that made them such a good putter?

James S
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Dr Joseph Parent: 6 mental game tips from our 'Drive-Time' Chat

Check out the key takeaways from our recent conversation with one of the best performance psychologists in the world.

James S
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Read these tips for better driving range practice

Apart from a few golfers who go to the range to unwind, it’s fair to assume that most, if not all of us, go to improve our golf.

James S
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Hypnotherapy For Better Golf

Golf Guru has teamed up with the brilliant Rona Walker⁣ to launch some new sessions in the app, designed to help you relax and focus.

James S
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Presence, one of golf's greatest gifts - Elevation Golfing Nation

Golf for so many years was about the score, the outcome and the competition with myself. Now I'm able to disconnect the result from my enjoyment of the game, and I fell even more in love with it...

Alex (Elevation Golfing Nation)
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How I reduced my handicap by 11 Shots using the Golf Guru app

Nick, one of our Golf Guru members from Belfast, tells us how the app has helped him cut his handicap from 16 to 5.

Nick H
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Focus on your strengths

At Golf Guru, we ground the majority of our content in positive psychology, which asks: ‘What’s good in your life?’

James S
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Bryson's Secret Mental Training

Strolling amongst the crowds at the 2021 Open Championship, it was common to hear excitable spectators say to each other…“Let’s make sure we see Bryson mash/bomb/pummel/smoke a drive before we leave!”

James S
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