The 30-Second Golf Swing: How to Train Your Brain to Improve Your Game
- Mental Game
- Hard Cover
Product Description
At every level of competitive golf from the Saturday afternoon best-ball to the U.S. Open, champions conquer golf with far more than a grooved swing. To separate themselves from the pack, champions funnel their golf experiences through a process that brings order to their games. I call this process the 30-Second Swing, a method of running your brain to control your game. By adopting the 30-Second Swing you can rid your game of mental errors and the hidden obstacles that keep you from playing to your talent level.
Playing to your talent level involves far more than the second and a half you spend swinging the club. The golf swing is only one piece in the pattern of great golf, a 30-Second Swing pattern for running your brain. Thirty seconds, give or take a few, is the time it takes to plan, execute, and evaluate every shot. To have the best chance for success, you must learn to apply all your resources to each and every shot you hit, both in practice and in play. By doing this you can impose your will on the golf course rather than allowing the golf course to impose its will on you. The techniques in this book will help you recognize what’s happening when your game starts to slip, and you’ll have the tactics to regain control immediately.
The goal of this book is to make your score match your talent for the game. You’ll learn how to train your brain to run your game so that you develop a mastery not only of golf but of yourself. Training and running your brain correctly — controlling your thoughts, reactions, memories, and images — is essential to playing the game to your potential.
The 30-Second Golf Swing: How to Train Your Brain to Improve Your Game
Chip Burkle said,
Wrote on July 30, 2010 @ 7:10 pm
Don’t buy this book if you’re looking for golf swing mechanics. Do buy this book if you’d like help on your mental approach to the game. This is what separates good golfers from great golfers, inconsistency from consistency, and frustration from enjoyment.
Rating: 5 / 5
Eagle Vision said,
Wrote on July 30, 2010 @ 7:16 pm
This is not a conventional golf instruction guide. If you’re looking for his titles on the mechanics of the golf swing, then the list is long.
Break 100 Now: From Hacker to Golfer in Just 90 Days
How to Break 90: An Easy Approach for Breaking Golf’s Toughest Scoring Barrier
Total Golf
The LAWs of the Golf Swing: Body-Type Your Golf Swing and Master Your Game
This book sensibly outlines a method to play to your full potential. This is a true book covering the mental game through using your mind to prepare through evaluating yourself. So you can hit a straight 250 yard drive, but can you chip, putt or hit approach shots with equal accuracy?
There are several methods that the author improves your game through self assessment and self critique. Through a detailed analysis, you determine your strengths and weaknesses. Additionally, the author focuses upon positive thinking and target oriented play. What this book focuses upon are mental keys. A valuable section is what ‘not’ to do.
I admit the concept of reading golf strategy is quite dry. There are boxes that feature vignettes that tend to keep your attention.
Through my personal experience in playing and reading, I do what is outlined to a great degree to improve my game but this book really ties everything together that I learned along the way. It is more practical than Harvey Pennick’s book, through more concrete plans, or even Raymond Floyd’s, Master’s Guide of Scoring.
The Elements of Scoring: A Master’s Guide to the Art of Scoring Your Best When You’re Not Playing Your Best
Harvey Penick: Little Red Book
A complementary subject to this book, written by a different author is another book that I recommend:
Golf: The Mental Game
I recommend this book to a beginner who has had some lessons and plays with some regularity. This is also good for a player in a plateau in their golf potential. Lastly, this is a good book for those people who have a natural talent/temperament for the game but want to make it to the next level.
Rating: 5 / 5
Westfield Appraisal Service said,
Wrote on July 30, 2010 @ 8:02 pm
I’ve read all the top books about the mental side of the game and this one is the best by a wide margin.
It is not an easy read because you actually have to spend time contemplating how you’re going to use the concepts, but it is not boring in the least. Many of the concepts have been borrowed by authors of newer books without attribution.
The advise in this book has improved my pre-shot routine. It has helped me break out of the “practice” mindset when I am playing. I paid full retail and it was money well spent.
I can see how a chop might not like this book, but any mid to low hdcp player would see its value in lower scores.
Rating: 5 / 5
Alvaro Luis A. Simoes said,
Wrote on July 30, 2010 @ 10:47 pm
I am glad I bought it; I am sure I will keep coming back to it from time to time.
Rating: 4 / 5
Denis Beauchamp said,
Wrote on July 31, 2010 @ 1:42 am
I have started applying the suggestions found in this book and have found a marked improvement in my game management. Everything suggested by T.J. Tomasi is based on personal and teaching experience and as such is invaluable information for us as golf-players-trying-to-improve.
Rating: 5 / 5