July 2, 2009
Harold Swash, now aged 75 years old has been a golf putting coach for 40 years. He is also the man behind the Brand of Yes Golf. His Yes Putters have been used far and wide by Tour Professionals and club amateurs alike. His C Groove designed putter, training aids and wedges all come designed from his many years of experience in the game.
The background behind the technology of C Groove Yes Putters is that Harold worked out from many years of training and studying how the ball rolls when hit, that when putting, the ball skids first then rolls. He realised if he could reduce skid and increase roll then the putt would be truer, and would continue on a straighter path, hopefully towards the pin. His concentric circles were proven to do just the job when tested against other leading brands such as Ping, Taylor Made and Odyssey.
He has coached many top Golf Professionals including; Padraig Harrington, David Howell, Thomas Levet, Ian Woosnam, Darren Clarke, Robert Jan Derkson, Nick Faldo and Constantino Rocca to mention but a few. Harold doesn’t just cater for the golfing stars, he also teaches at his Putting School of Excellence in Bristol, where you can enrol in One-To-One tuition or join a Putting Clinic group session. His Yes putters are readily available to try but be warned, there are many styles to choose from. All Yes putters are named after Ladies. It no doubt started off as his closest family but now there are so many one can only assume he now names the Yes Putters after friends, colleagues and possibly even celebrities.
Top Five Yes Putters
- Callie
- Tracy
- Marilyn
- Victoria II
- Tiffany
Yes Putters come in blade, mallet and also some with unconventional shaped heads, with 3 different lengths available and in right or left handed options. Some of the Yes putter styles come in a pink ladies option. And some also come in a “belly putter” length which is popular with some golfers on and off the tour.
July 2, 2009
Golfers of all standards are recognizing that hypnosis does work. There is more to it than the stereotypical stage hypnotist who wears flowing robes, has a goatee and makes usually sensible people cluck like chickens, or do rather more embarrassing deeds whilst under his “spell”.
A lot of people are afraid of hypnosis, but this is usually due to lack of knowledge. They’ve seen a stage show and think “I’m not going there” or “you couldn’t do that to me”. There is a natural fear of losing control, and a secondary fear that maybe you can’t be hypnotized - that it takes a certain type of person to be hypnotized.
Everyone can be hypnotized, so long as you want to be. You pass through hypnosis every time you go to sleep and every time you wake up - it’s the dreamlike state between wake and sleep. When you drive home in your car, and ask yourself when you get there “did I check the traffic lights?” you’ve been in a trance - a state of hypnosis. When you stare through the TV and don’t hear your partner speaking, that again demonstrates trance; it is hypnosis.
Hypnosis is natural, normal, and powerful. Think how useful it could be to block out everything except what’s in your spotlight of thought, AT WILL?… Not just when you’re staring through the TV. Wouldn’t that be helpful when you’re teeing off on the 1st or putting for eagle on the 18th?
Hypnosis is a state of relaxation at one with a state of heightened awareness. You’re not asleep, you’re not knocked out and you cannot be made to do something you don’t want to do. You can hear and you can think. Again, wouldn’t it be helpful to be able to have a relaxed awareness on the golf course? To be able to remain calm inside, but totally aware of what is important at the same time, AND be able to block out unnecessary thoughts and distractions? Just one look at Tiger’s facial expressions and you know how he’s feeling and focusing when he is playing golf.
It seems to be that human nature is that if we’re not achieving the results we desire we must be doing something wrong. We look for something that needs to be fixed. In golf this usually means a fine dissection of our grip, stance, alignment, swing path and so on; followed by a rework of the swing (which may take all year to groove). Very few people think that their swing is basically alright, but they need to focus more clearly, relax more, or begin to think straight.
Returning to the “my swing needs to be fixed” culture, ask yourself “why is this the case?” Because most golfers hit several beautiful shots and a few that weren’t as beautiful - and each time it was the same person who swung the club. How can your golf swing need fixing when that swing hits both beautiful and less than beautiful shots? Ask yourself as well whether you can remember a day when you started on the 1st and hit some really nice shots and you felt yourself thinking “Oh, it’s going well today”?…and your confidence grew, and somehow everything came together and you had a great round of golf? Did your swing need fixing then? Is it your swing or your mind that makes the difference in golf?
Why not spend some time focusing upon your golf mind instead of the mechanics of golf? You can learn how to change your habitual thoughts with the help of hypnosis downloads. Why do you think the professionals use golf hypnosis? They use golf hypnosis because it works; hypnosis downloads can be used to get you to focus, to stay in the now, to visualize a great swing and to see what you really want to see. You can use golf hypnosis downloads to create a great swing which suits you as an individual.
Roseanna Leaton, specialist in golf hypnosis cds and hypnosis mp3 downloads.
July 1, 2009
In golf, the slow pace of the game provides time to worry, to interfere with the smooth automatic processing of your swing, to think about what you don’t want to happen, rather than what you are meant to be doing. And the most basic, most essential thing in this game is to keep your mind focused on what you want to happen, not on what you don’t. Whatever you focus on will happen. The most essential thing in golf is your mental game.
“The psychology of golf goes a step further than course management. It entails mental toughness, self confidence, intimidation, gamesmanship, conquering inner demons, instant recall of past successes and being able to quickly purge failures. It is the game within the game”. TIGER WOODS
Golf is a game, and should be fun. No-one plays golf perfectly, not even Tiger Woods or Ernie Els or whoever else is, or has been, at the top of the game. It’s a game where mistakes are made, frequently…and no wonder…when you think about the size of the ball, length of club, and the distance the ball travels…just a whisker of a change in club face application can create a massive difference in where and how the ball travels. So this game is also a game of accepting mistakes and errors. And a mistake is only a mistake if you see it that way. It could alternatively be seen as an opportunity to learn.
“Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you” ALDOUS HUXLEY
All golfers may have beliefs about whether they are good or not at sport, or golf, or good or not at learning - but these are just beliefs, nothing more. There is no need to be held back by limiting beliefs. You can choose to change beliefs no matter how deep rooted they are. Everyone has a body and a mind that has a similar physiology and neurology to the best golfers in the world. Athletic literature is full of examples of athletes who have excelled because of their internal desire, rather than the physical attributes such as size, strength, power or speed. There are tall golfers and short golfers, male and female golfers, young and old golfers. It is not age or body shape that prescribes ability. It is your mind that makes the difference.
“Your thoughts create your actions. You create your thoughts” RICHARD WILKINS
Everybody has the ability to play golf well. How good they get will depend on their commitment. When one scrutinizes the training and preparation habits of great golfers, and all great athletes, it is clear that what is required is a combination of physical ability and a desire to be the very best. It all depends on personal choice - each person can be as good as they want to be.
“Our life is what our thoughts make it” MARCUS AURELIUS
How many times have you heard it said that good golf is 90% in the mind? How many times have you described a golfing problem as a “mental block”? If you yourself recognize it as a mental block then the first step is to learn how to think about your problem in a different way. Remember thoughts create emotions, which in turn direct your actions.
Everything in life depends on how you think about it, not just your golf. You can learn to choose your thoughts, and therefore control the outcome of them. It just takes a little time and practice - but the results will be truly AMAZING.
“All the difference will not make the way you think; yet the way you think will make all the difference” RICHARD WILKINS
Why not spend a little bit of time in working upon the 90% instead of the 10%? You can learn how to relax in an instant and to overcome your mental blocks with the help of hypnosis downloads. Why do you think the professionals use golf hypnosis? They use golf hypnosis because it works; hypnosis downloads can be used to get you to focus clearly, to stay in the now, to overcome obstacles and play great golf. With hypnosis downloads you can learn to control your mind and that is the quickest and easiest way in which you will knock shots off your handicap.
Roseanna Leaton, specialist in golf hypnosis cds and hypnosis mp3 downloads.
July 1, 2009
What can golfers do when they cannot get out to play for whatever reason? Do you just put the clubs away and forget all about the game until the opportunity to play returns? Just because you are injured, or haven’t got the time to play golf doesn’t mean that you can’t be doing something productive with your golf game.
What can you do? How can you brush up on your game of golf? The one most important, most vital thing all golfers can and should be doing is improving upon your mental skills. What do I mean by this?
You sit in your favorite chair, you feel nice and warm and peaceful, you close your eyes and relax; and as you relax you picture in your mind’s eye a putting green, picturing the putting surface, its color, its contours, and the pin placement. You see the ball lying there, round and white, and you imagine yourself lining up the putt, assessing the distance, feeling the putter in your hands, taking your practice strokes and then stepping up to the ball, taking a final look at the hole and then you stroke the putt. You see the ball run smoothly along the line that you chose and at the perfect pace so that it just rolls over the lip and into the cup - fantastic! You just made a great putt and it feels great too.
Do you think you could carry out this very simple task? Do you think it would take much time or effort to visualize great putts in this way, just whenever you are cozy and comfortable at home? And would it make you feel good to see all those putts in?
There is an extra benefit. Not only does this type of visualization give you a great feeling, it’s also creating MUSCLE MEMORY. Every time you VIVIDLY IMAGINE something your brain produces the SAME electrical activity as it does when you do that thing in practice, indicating that it is strengthening that neural pathway, thereby building your belief that your putts will roll in, creating an EXPECTATION that your putts will drop, making sure that you believe that you are a good putter.
You are also creating for yourself a great mental pre-putt routine, honing in your visualization skills, teaching yourself to “see the putt in”; And if there is one thing that is true in putting is that if you can’t see the putt in, it won’t go in, because golf balls do what YOU TELL THEM to do. Sixty seven percent of your brain is devoted to hand and eye skills - to hand-eye co-ordination - and your hands don’t know what to do with the putter unless you can firstly see where you want the ball to go.
You can learn to visualize in this way easily and effortlessly, and you can practice putting in this way no matter where you are. I promise you that as you learn to see those putts in you’ll be stroking closer to 29 or 30 putts a round instead of 36 and that’s a seriously easy way of dropping your handicap.
“Your mind is a garden for your thoughts - if you plant flowers, you’ll get flowers. If you plant potatoes, you’ll get potatoes. If you plant nothing you’ll get weeds” RICHARD WILKINS
There have been several well-documented studies worldwide, covering golfers of all abilities, which have shown that mental putting practice of this type is in actual fact MORE EFFECTIVE than actual practice. What can be simpler? You sit in your armchair, close your eyes and visualize putt after putt dropping into the hole. Practice, in this way, really does make perfect.
And this very simple mental skill can be used for every shot, not just putting. You can mentally rehearse the perfect tee shots, short shots, bunker shots, trouble shots…the list is endless. Three catch phrases to remember in your golfing game are:- “Where there’s a will there’s a way” “What the mind can perceive, the mind can believe and the mind can achieve” “Whatever you imagine you create”. These three truths, which also relate to life in general, should become your golfing mantras.
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are probably right” HENRY FORD
I’ve only scratched the surface here with regards to the mental preparation you could be doing during an enforced lay off from the game of golf. You’ll see from my web-site just how many mental skills there are relating to playing golf well and in mastering this great game. Visualization is just one skill amongst many that a good golfer needs in their golf-bag. Golf hypnosis makes the learning of these mental skills very easy and has the added benefit of taking little time.
If you find it difficult to direct your own visualizations effectively, then you’ll find listening to a relevant golf hypnosis download is an easy way of setting the ball rolling in the right direction, so to speak. The key is that you must visualize what you want to happen, not what you don’t want to happen - remember, whatever you imagine you will create!
Roseanna Leaton, specialist in golf hypnosis cds and hypnosis mp3 downloads.
June 30, 2009
Golf lovers looking for a conversation to have while consuming a beer will often discuss the most incredible golf stars of their respective times. The game of golf changes in every epoch. The golf players have gotten stronger, and even more importantly, the gear has gotten much better. Today, <a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale+golf+clubs.html”>wholesale golf clubs</a> are works of craftsmanship, adding distance and marksmanship to anyone’s match.
Our selection for the 1st era is Bobby Jones, the most incredible amateur player to ever swing the sticks. In 1930, Jones won the Grand Slam overcoming all amateurs and professionals. Ponder thatfeat. In the U.K., he won both the British Amateur Championship and the British Open. Golf’s Grand Gentleman conquered thirteen majors and quit competitive golf attwenty-eight. Others like the tremendous competitor Byron Nelson were splendid during this era, but we’d put our wager on Hogan in an 18-hole playoff any time.
Our selection for the second time frame is amazing ball-striker Ben Hogan. He won an bodacious sixty-three tournaments from the late 30’s to late 50’s, despite losing time to WWII and a near-fatal accident. A unyielding competitor, Hogan epitomized endurance and his capability to hit perfect shots from anywhere on the tees. He spent decades analyzing the golf swing, and created one of the superior swings ever found on the fairways! Golf clubs wholesalers have been vending sticks designed by Hogan for years.
Arnold Palmer heads the list for the 3rd incredible player. The man at the front of Arnie’s Army used his strange swing to conquere large numbers of hardware, and the hearts of the ordinary golf player in the process. Golf stars headed out to buy wholesale golf clubs and learn the game after watching Palmer play. In one of golf’s greatest comebacks, Palmer emergedfrom seven strokes back in the last round to win the 1960 U.S. Open. The crowd cheered him to victory. He won 7 majors among his 60 tour victories, earning the golf nickname “the King.” Palmer bests Nicklaus in our list, but we admit it’s a controversial pick.
The Master of the current game is a tough selection. Actually, it’s not. Only a fool would not pick Tiger Woods. He is on pace to destroy all the golf records, and now his clubs are hot items with golf club wholesalers, too. We hope they’ll help us play like him!
