The Seven Personalities of Golf: Discover Your Inner Golfer to Play Your Best Game
Product Description
Get in touch with your inner golfer and the personality traits that affect your game.
Is your personality affecting your game? Do you approach every shot with a go-for-broke attitude, even when the moment might reward a more deliberate, methodical strategy? Or do you carefully calculate every swing, even when a bit of reckless abandon might give you a better chance of getting out of a jam?
Every golfer, whether amateur or pro, has a dominant personality: a set of traits that sometimes helps you win–but sometimes lands you in the rough. By carefully observing professional golfers’ behavior and analyzing his own students’ successes and failures, leading mental golf instructor Darrin Gee has identified seven basic personality types and the on-the-course strengths and weaknesses each confers.
Gee illustrates the basic characteristics of each type with accounts of great players’ performances, both brilliant and disastrous. Are you naturally an “Intimidator” (Tiger Woods)? A “Methodologist” (Nick Faldo)? A “Gamesman” (Lee Trevino)? Take a quick questionnaire to determine your personality. Gee then shows you how to use your personality to your advantage while outlining situations where you’d be wise to take a tip from another personality’s playbook. The latest of Gee’s insightful guides, The Seven Personalities of Golf offers essential advice for any golfer wanting to improve his or her mental game.
The Seven Personalities of Golf: Discover Your Inner Golfer to Play Your Best Game
Matthew Hughes said,
Wrote on July 5, 2010 @ 7:52 pm
Performance enhancement in golf traditionally follows three paths:
Take lessons from a pro, get fitted for custom equipment, and develop the flexibility and strength to maximize your body’s swing potential. Eventually, a golfer realizes that these three paths can only take one so far. A fourth path has emerged in the last several years that explores the role of mental preparation as a means of improving one’s game. After years of examining this issue, Darrin Gee came to the realization that personality type was a crucial determining factor influencing the willingness of a golfer to embrace this fourth path. Darrin has a degree in psychology and writes from the perspective of a professional. This book is a simple, clear, and informative distillation of Darrin’s findings. After a golfer has invested thousands of dollars to improve his or her game, the answer to the final step necessary to make the leap to a new level of performance and enjoyment of the game may very well rest between the covers of this timely and unique book. Well worth the investment!! PS. I am a Freddy Couples type all the way.
Rating: 5 / 5
David Wilber Sr. said,
Wrote on July 5, 2010 @ 10:10 pm
I’ve had the pleasure to take instruction and buy the “Seven Principles” of golf and it has lowered my handicap by 10 strokes. Confidence built in putting alone is a major lesson learned. Darrin has a way of helping everyone. I’m sure this will be helpful as well. Thanks again Darrin.
Dave Wilber Sr.
Rating: 5 / 5
BOB KEELING said,
Wrote on July 6, 2010 @ 12:41 am
Darrin Gee’s “The Seven Principles of Golf” can change your game. It offers an integration of mind and body that will give you confidence and help you enjoy the game of golf again. It will help you to swing the club, instead of hitting the ball. I have read hundreds of books on golf, but only a few have a special shelf in my golf library. Gee’s book sits on that shelf along with Harvey Pennick’s books, Pelz’s “Short Game Bible,” and Jack Nicklaus’s “Golf My Way.” Thank you Darrin Gee.
Rating: 5 / 5
Karen Scinta said,
Wrote on July 6, 2010 @ 3:37 am
Darrin,
I have purchased two of your books for my son Karl and I can see his mental golf game improving by the game. He is so confidint that he has joined a group with the local Panthers (our Professional hockey team). They paly every Thursdy and he gives them “a run for their money”.
It was great meeting you in Hawaii and I hope to return again for a few lessons.
“Four”
Karen Scinta
Rating: 5 / 5
P. Flanagan said,
Wrote on July 6, 2010 @ 5:38 am
This is not as game altering as the reviews lead me to believe. Basically all of this information could be boiled down into a long magazine article. There are many books out there that are better and more in depth.
Rating: 2 / 5