Introduction

As a golf coach, do you often wonder what your client is thinking about when struggling with a golf lesson? As a player, how often have you asked yourself the same question after playing a poor shot! Your conscious thought process in the seconds before, during and after execution often undermines your ability to perform both off and on the course. Would you like to be able to train a golfer’s conscious mind with the same discipline on the range as you train technique? This 2 day workshop reveals HOW. Attentional focus lies at the heart of consistent golf and an applied coaching program has been developed and published.

This practical workshop will explain why, where, when and how to guide a golfer’s attentional focus whilst developing both technical skills in practice and throughout the pre-shot, transition and post-shot routines in practice and play. Understanding how your mind processes visual, external and internal auditory information and controlling that which you are attending to is critical to golfing success. The peak performance ‘zone’ can be consciously trained and accessed on demand, once you and your golfer understand how to use internal auditory and visual memory systems of the brain effectively.

The practical workshops will demonstrate how traditional coaching methods can be enhanced and how to adapt the appropriate scientific principles of Motor Learning, Behavioral Psychology and Attentional Focus in to coaching and learning golf’s physical fundamentals. You will be able to apply these principles to your own game and also learn how to include them in your own coaching programs. Every professional coach and golfer will benefit significantly from an understanding of how to coach and train attentional focus skills.

At the workshop completion, PGA coaches can be licensed to on-sell to clients the Target Oriented Golf program (training manual and DVD) to support and complement their current and new coaching methods.

Course Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Understand Attentional Focus – what it is and how to use it for coaching and playing golf.
• Understand how implementing the fundamentals of Motor Learning, Behavioral Modification, and Attentional Focus improve and expedite the acquisition of physical and mental golf skills
• Recognise the impact of poor awareness of attentional focus has on both learning and playing golf.
• Experience personally why, where, when, how to consciously guide your attentional focus for golf.
• Visually assess a golfer’s attentional focus by observing their physical golfing routines.
• Understand how to distinguish between a technical and attention issues and resolve appropriately.
• Be able to deliver practical lessons in attentional focus training on the range and putting green.

Course Content

Morning seminar topics in the classroom:

• The pathway to coaching attentional focus skills and its role in how we learn and how we perform.
• Understand how inefficient practice interferes with golfers’ effort to develop precision and accuracy.
• Understand how attentional focus training differs from alternative psychological methods available.

Afternoon practical topics on the range

• Putting process – learn how to develop a personal mental ‘script’ for pre and post shot routines
• Full Swing process – learn how to develop, improve, or change swing mechanics to increase precision and consistency, quickly and easily using attentional focus strategies.
• Discipline and Flow - identify and correct issues within a golfers pre, transition & post shot routine.

To book this course, please contact Colin Cromack directly on 0759 268 5031 or email colin@targetorientedgolf.com