So many golfers are stuck in a box of their own creation that keeps them

at the playing level they think they should be at. If only they knew that

their mind could create and manifest great golf rounds…

Does that headline create some curiosity in you? Are you wondering what the heck

this is going to be about. As I came up for the idea to write about this,
I wasn’t quite sure myself. But then I thought, let’s just go first to a book
called “Quantum Golf” by Kjell Enhager.
I first read this book a couple years ago, before I was trained in
Neuro-linguistic Programming (I’m now a Master Practitioner).
And to be honest, I didn’t understand it at all. I even discussed it
with my local pro and between the two of us, decided that it was
a book that was better left to the psychology wizards.
Lately, I’ve been extremely fascinated with learning about what is
called “Quantum Physics”
(What does this have to do with golf? Don’t worry, I’ll get there).
It seems that scientists have been studying about things that are smaller
than atoms since the turn of the 20th century and that’s what they call
this science. Remember in high school or maybe before that, we were all
taught that the building blocks of all matter are atoms? Well, it turns
out it’s not true.
The big “Aha” about Quantum Physics is that we create our reality through
our observations and thoughts. And it’s now been proven by physicists.
These scientists were so baffled by this idea that some of them ended up
turning to mystic religions and others went bonkers over it.
Fast forward to Quantum Golf. It’s a fictional story about a man named
Smith. He’s from New York and a typical golfer who has taken numerous
lessons and done everything under the sun in an attempt to improve his
game (sound like anyone you know?). In desperation, he is told of this golf pro,
St. Claire, who lives in the middle of nowhere in the farmlands of middle America.
Smith flies out to take lessons from him and at the end of the story,
of course, he “gets it” and starts to play beyond what he thought was
possible. He is taught about creating a “superfluid” swing. He learns to
have “Q vision.” St. Claire tells him about the difference between “classical golf”
and “Quantum golf.” Classical golf is about the conscious swing and has gotten
him nowhere so far. He tells him that those who have mastered Quantum golf hit
the ball perfectly straight!St. Claire teaches him such ideas as: “The mind has
its attention only on the surface level, and then what you’re failing to take into
consideration as your priority is the unchanging, reliable inner being of the
individual who is swinging the club.
“Starting to sound a little far out now? Ok, that’s what I thought too the first
time I read this book. But now, it all makes perfect sense to me. You see,
classical physics teaches us about how everything is mechanical. About how you
can trace back every cause to it’s effect in a way that can be described or codified
by mathematics and known laws of our planet such as gravity. This is so much like
folks who think that the gateway to playing great golf is to consciously work on their
golf swing until they somehow come to the idea in their own mind that it is now

 perfect…and THAT never happens!Quantum golf and Quantum physics itself allows
for the dynamic of the human mind to actually change reality. Yes, that’s what I wrote…
CHANGE REALITY. Now, I’m not going to get into a discussion about what is reality
because I sometimes get dizzy thinking about that myself. However, too many
great philosophers have said things like: “If you think you can do a thing or think
you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” Henry Ford.or:
“Nothing is good or bad, except what thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare
In the past, I would have read this kind of great quote and thought to myself
something like: “Oh that’s nice” and went on my merry way of doing what I’ve
always done and not getting what I wanted to get.
Today, when I hear or read such quotes I not only believe it in the deepest part
of my golfing body and mind, but I can teach it with the backing of science behind me.
Once you really believe in the Quantum nature of your own mind, all sorts
of good things happen to your golf game. Can you think of a time when
you played with pure joy and exhilaration? Have you ever had a time when
you stood over a putt…
AND YOU KNEW you were going to make it !? Have you ever played
with another golfer and just felt his or her attitude rub off on you?
And then you played better because of it? I want you to have more
of these experiences.

For anyone who wants to learn a martial art, there is a lot to know in regards to the many different styles. Of course there is the question of finding the best martial art, which is a question a lot of people ask.

With so many martial arts styles to choose from, it can be very complicated to pick one to learn. No matter you may hear or what others have to say, it is quite impossible to name one style of martial arts as the ultimate best. Actually, there are several factors that come into play, which makes a statement about a style being the best impossible.

Even though one style may beat another in a competition or a fight, doesnt always mean that the winning style is the best. Before deciding to rush out there and learn a martial art, there are several things that you should decide first. Martial arts are great to learn, no matter which style you decide on.

A martial art can teach you self discipline, self defense, and several other traits that will help you no matter where you decide to go in life.

Self defense

All over the world, there are several martial arts schools and dojos that emphasize self defense a lot more than others. Schools that focus on kata, forms, or light sparring are less than likely to teach you what you need to protect yourself on the street. If you are looking for street self defense, then you will want a style that trains hard and doesnt let up.

Fitness

Even though martial arts can improve your fitness level, it isnt the goal behind a lot of the martial arts styles. Several styles, such as Tae Bo, are based purely on martial arts and doesnt include a lot of physical fitness training. If you are looking for fitness as your main goal, then you should be looking into something other than martial arts.

Fighting ability

This will vary among the many different martial arts styles. Self defense schools will most often take advantage of fighting skills, teaching you everything you need to survive. Most martial arts styles are slow in theory, teaching you kata, movements, and forms. Self defense schools on the other hand, teach you how to inflict the most amounts of damage in the least amount of time.

Competition

Competition based martial arts are all about winning trophies and showing the world your style of martial arts. The competition that you have chosen, will greatly impact your style of martial arts. Youll need to decide if you will be fighting or showcasing display kata, light or heavy contact, or focusing on grappling or striking.

Before you decide on a martial arts style, you should always research the schools and dojos in your area and see what all they offer you. The best schools will allow you to participate in a few free classes, or offer you discounts on your first few months. They will answer any questions that you have, and work with you to help you learn as much as you can. Martial arts can be a very fun and exciting learning experience.

There are hundreds of different martial arts styles out there, although you may be limited in choice, depending on what all is offered in your area. Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Kickboxing, and Jiu-Jitsu and some of the most common types of martial arts, and normally offered just about everywhere. The more distinct styles, such as Kung Fu, Shootfighting, Kenpo, and Shaolin styles are a bit hard to harder to find.

If you do your homework on some of the styles that are offered in your area, youll find one that best fits your reasons to study. Martial arts can change your outlook on life - all you have to do it devote yourself to learning all you can about the philosophy of your martial art.

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I love golf, and ALMOST everything that goes with it. The list of reasons to love the game is long and distinguished. Golf is very unique in the regard that in loving it, there are things that you can actually hate about it. Luckily that list is nowhere near as long as the love list. I don’t mind the 5 hour round, once I’m on the golf course, unless I have to be somewhere else at a particular time, I really don’t care how long it takes. As long as the round is moving at a decent pace, it should’t matter how long it takes. When you have to wait ten minutes to tee off on every hole, it can be very frustrating, but there are worse things on the golf course.

Playing with someone that is clueless is far worse than playing a long round. How many times have you played with someone that walks in your putting line and has no idea that they have even done it? How about the guy that is talking while you are putting? Or the guy that looks for his ball in the woods for much longer than he should. Then there is the “club checker” that feels that he has to ask you after every shot ”what ya hit?” Some golfers just don’t understand that what club I hit should not have anything to do with what club they hit. Then there’s the guy that gives commentary on every shot, you don’t need to hear that you “snap hooked that one”. Please don’t get me started on the “talker” When a friend of mine introduced me to the game of golf, he made sure that I was aware of all the little things that I needed to know. He told me about walking in another golfer’s line, about not making people wait for you,and not talking while another golfer is hitting or putting. All of these things seem obvious but we see culprits on the course daily. There are what I like to call ”golf orphans”, these are the golfers that picked up the golf on there own. They did not have or did not want anyone to teach them the game the right way, they purchased clubs, maybe went to the range a couple of times, and here he is introducing himself to you on the first tee.

Please don’t get me wrong, I am all for new golfers coming to the game, it is clearly one of the best decisions that I ever made, and everyone has to start somewhere. No one really cares how well or how bad you play golf as long as:

1. You don’t make people wait
2. You don’t talk while others are hitting or putting
3. Don’t talk to much in general
4. You are friendly
5 Don’t walk in someone’s else’s line
6. Control your temper
7. Don’t be clueless

By all means, enjoy the game of golf in your own way, but just don’t be clueless.

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How many times have you had a conversation with someone about the pro golfers that play at an incredible level? It goes something like this:

Golfer 1: “Man those guys are good”

Golfer 2: “Yeah, but they practice everyday”

Sound familiar? The point is, if you want to play better golf you have to practice everyday. Before you automatically say you don’t have time, consider that practice doesn’t have to mean going to the driving range and pounding a couple of buckets of balls. It is well documented that the best and fastest way to improve your game is to improve your short game. High handicappers waste most of there shots within 100 yards of the pin. Which stands to reason that if you sharpen your short game, you will easily drop strokes off your average score.

An hour long session everyday is out of the question for the average golfer, ten minutes a day is certainly within reason. Here are few things you can do for 10 minutes everyday:

1 Practice putting for a few minutes before dinner.
Putting practice by far can be the most beneficial. Putting should be the cornerstone of your short practice sessions. Even if it is for only a few minutes, you want to keep the feel of your putter fresh in your mind. Look at putting as a game within in itself.

2. Chip golf balls in your backyard.
Becoming an great chipper is another way to shave those strokes off your handicap. Practice making clean contact so when you are on the course you have much less anxiety about chili dipping or sculling the ball across the green. If you feel comfortable chipping, it takes stress off your irons because you know that if you miss the green you have the confidence to chip it close to save par.

3. Read a golf magazine.
The articles and tips that are in golf magazines today are extremely helpful if you are willing to try them.

4. Read golf tips on the internet
The internet is an unlimited source for golf tips

5. Golf stretches before breakfast.
Stretching is a good way to increase your distance with all clubs. All of the top pros spend a good amount of time on maintaining and increasing their flexibility. How else do they hit 300 yard drives.

Pick one(or two) from the list everyday and do it for 10 minutes. By doing something to improve your game everyday gives you confidence when you are on the golf course, and we all know that confidence on the course is priceless.

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Your perfect golf vacation with your friends starts and stops with you. Toss the vacation package brochures in a heap and design your own ideal golf getaway. This is the final of four articles to assist you in providing an outing for yourself and your friends that will make you want to do it every year (as we have for 19 years running).

From the last article, you are now at the minus one month point. So far you have rallied the troops, picked the dates, selected the lodging and golf courses and are in the final preparation stage. You will soon see your friends smiling faces at the airport baggage claim. The final preps and smoothly running the whole show are child’s play. The tough part was getting your bunch of friends to buy the tickets to enjoy the event. Here are a few things you will want to do before the scream of the aircraft’s tires on the tarmac.

1. Transportation. The limiting factor is arrival and departure from the airport due to clubs AND suitcases. If you can just barely stuff everyone in the vehicles at this point, the rest of the week is gravy. From your experience, you know that when you pack up four guys to go golfing locally, you will entirely fill the trunk of a full sized car. With that in mind, you should plan on a full sized car for every three people. We use one minivan/SUV augmented with cars for our adventures. Just make sure you allow for the limiting case.

You need to arrange these rental vehicles ahead of time, but you can only drive one yourself. Here is the minus one-month mandatory. When you figure out your vehicle requirements, contact the group to arrange among them and you who will contact and rent the remaining vehicles. There will probably be some in your group that have existing discounts and can score a great rate. Hash this one out via email.

2. Entertainment. Unless you are going to the deserts in Arizona or get exceedingly lucky, you will have a rain day or two. You will also have a bunch of time at night after golf (after you have all told your lies). We suck that time up pretty effectively watching the golf channel, ESPN, playing cards, or watching videos. The latter is what you can address ahead of time. We have a guy that is pretty good at selecting movies to watch and we task him to bring them with him. Movies like “Gladiator”, “Miracle”, etc. are big. More risque’ titles are optional. On severe rain days, we also have gone bowling (a real hoot), done the local movie theater, and toured the area.

3. Checklists. After about ten years of being asked twenty times per day where we were playing the next day, or when we had to leave, or what was for supper, or who stole my teddy bear, I finally started typing out these things. I make a copy of each and post sporadically throughout the house. I make individual laminated cards and hand to each golfer. Know what? It reduced the questions to half and now when asked, I say that I can’t remember, let me walk over to the frig and read it for you. Here are the things I prepare ahead of time:

Listing of course, tee times, course contact number, and departure time. I base departure time on MapBlast directions and factor in a stop for ice for the coolers and if we will need to hit range balls.

Listing of the menu for the evening meals. If this is your first time, keep the menu simple and make sure you have the recipes in hand. With any size group, you are going to have a chef or two and this won’t be a big deal.

Multiple copies of the “order sheet” for sandwiches. For most of our noon meals between rounds, we dine on our self-prepared, gourmet sandwiches prepared the night before. As you saw from the previous articles, I solicit what the group wants and have that on the shopping list. What winds up being the least confusing way is to have some sheet for people to circle or fill in to specify what sandwiches they want for the next day. You rotate the preparers (two is best) every night and with that sheet, they manufacture the gourmet feast. (Don’t discount this! The sandwiches you make will be superior to anything short of the full meal at the course AND you will not have to wait on it if you are pressed for time between your rounds.)

Biggy! We did not keep a record of our scores for our first few years. Big mistake. What great history we tossed out. Keep a record! I prepare a hard copy sheet to fill in as we go. It allows us to follow who is the overall stroke leader and gives us all ammo to use in negotiating the next day’s bets. I take this home and plant it permanently on our golf website.

Expenses. I pay for everything with minor exceptions and collect everyone’s share the final evening. That keeps it simple. I currently use a spreadsheet to administer this. It works great. I would provide this for you, but this article format doesn’t allow. Before that, I simply used pen and paper and got it to within a penny. My point is that from the minute you start your adventure, keep a tally of what you have spent! Streamline course check in by paying for everyone, buy all the food and drink, buy all the gas, etc. If someone pays for anything, log it in immediately. If you are religious in this, you will have no complaints, only praise.

4. Things nobody else will bring but you:
  - Several decks of cards, poker chips
  - Cribbage boards
  - Screw driver and pliers (you never know)
  - Pens, pencils and permanent markers (you will need all)
  - Over the counter pain killers
  - Band-Aids
  - Game

5. Arrival. So here you have a rambunctious group of friends descending on the Mecca of golf. You have motored to the house your staying in and it is the mad dash to the best room to be found. NOT. To avoid any hard feelings between the lodger that got the queen bed and the lodger that got the twin bed, simply set up a quick draw out of the hat. For subsequent years, do the same, but use the seniority system. Once a person misses, he goes to the end of the list.

6. Once you have dumped your bags in the drawn rooms, it is time to go shopping. With the template I gave you in the last article, and with your modifications based on menu and orders, grab one or two volunteers and get what you need.

This is the conclusion of my recommendations on how you can have the best golf outing or outings you have ever had. The fact that folks have been coming to enjoy my preparations for 19 years should be testimony to you.  At least give it a shot once. The first time may not be exactly perfect, but my guess is that it will be superior to and more remembered than anything you can buy as a package. Go for it!

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Golfers will do anything they can in hopes to play better golf and hit the LONG ball. Am I right?

Are you in this group of golfers? If so, I’m quite confident to say you’ve taken a golf training system / lesson or or two. Golf training lessons can be very effective in getting you back on track, if your swing has gone south. But, not always….

Why is that so? Let me explain…

How many golf training or lesson have you taken, only to be more frustrated, disappointing at your scores & performance and hitting the ball worse than before that golf lesson?

Do you know why this is happening even to veteran golfers? It can be many different reasons, such as too many swing thoughts and possibly your behavior; making drastic changes that require hours at the range and hitting thousands of balls; or lastly, your body just can’t effectively move in the way it needs to, to make a mechanically correct golf swing, and many more hidden reasons….

I’m inclined to say that for the majority of golfers, especially the older golfer, it’s the last reason above. Your body just can’t move the way it needs to. The question now is, why is that so?

Why can’t your body do what you know it needs to do to swing the club correctly? It can drive you to the point of quitting the game. But there is hope. There is an approach that will almost 100% of the time correct this problem. Do you want to know what it is? It’s addressing your “physical body and your mind limitations”. That’s what’s keeping you from a great game of golf. Do you know that hypnotherapy and even the misconceived NLP can improve your game of golf?

Do you ever get on the course and just feel like you can’t make a full backswing? Or, it just feels impossible to maintain your golf posture and “stay in your swing”?

No amount of golf training systems or lessons or hitting balls will correct this.

The reason is your “physical and mind” issue, and until you work on it, it will never get better. I’ve seen it time and time again. Golfers walking off the course in pure disgust. They’ve taken many golf training systems or even paying tons of money for lessons that they already knew, hit balls at the range, and even bought the latest, greatest titanium drive; and yet still can’t play like they think they are capable of.

Stay tuned for Part 2 of “Why Talking A Golf Training System Isn’t Always The Answer?”

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