# The Mental Game · Golf Level 6: Advanced

Golf · Level 6: Advanced · Insporta Book (https://book.insporta.app/golf/level-6/the-mental-game/)

The Mental Game in Golf (Level 6: Advanced) on Insporta: 40 sourced facts behind 4 tests. Covers: focus; pressure and nerves; and more.

The mind on the course: focus and routines, pressure and nerves, confidence and resilience, and goals.

## Test 1: Focus

- Published in 1995. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Results follow good processes. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Tension changes grip and tempo. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Hard to force, easier to allow. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Studied in putting and many target sports. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Positive, simple cues help. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Players replace it with the shot they want. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- See it, feel it, trust it. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- The last is fully in the player's control. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- A longer final fixation goes with better putting in studies. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)

## Test 2: Pressure and nerves

- Gripping down is sometimes called choking down, which is different. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Experts perform best when they do not micromanage. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Too little or too much both hurt. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- After Yerkes and Dodson. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Coaches suggest a breath and a slower routine. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- A word, a breath or a touch of the glove. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- He took a triple-bogey seven and lost the play-off. (Source: The Open, 1999 championship records)
- Over-control is the link. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Let it out, then let it go. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- The top of the curve, at a middle level of arousal. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)

## Test 3: Confidence and resilience

- A key part of confidence. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- A Canadian-American psychologist. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- He called these mastery experiences. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Described by Carol Dweck. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Memory tends to keep the bad ones. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- It can be trained like a skill. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- The reaction ends at an imagined line. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Doing it yourself counts most. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- The reaction has a time limit. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Beyond the line the shot is gone. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)

## Test 4: Goals and imagery

- A common framework in coaching. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Fully in the player's control. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Motivating, but partly out of the player's hands. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Each kind does a different job. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Used off the course and in routines. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Such as ten greens in regulation. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Where did focus drift, and why? (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Winning depends on others too. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- From the big aim down to daily habits. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)
- Process goals are the daily habits. (Source: Sport psychology in golf (Rotella; Bandura; Vickers; Yerkes-Dodson; Dweck) as used in coaching)

Sources: PGA coaching and general teaching guides, launch-monitor teaching material, sport-psychology research as used in golf, the Rules of Golf 2023 and Model Local Rules where a rule is named, and championship records for settled events; original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

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