Golf Is a Game of Confidence

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Dr. Bob Rotella, whose clients include Nick Price, Davis Love III, Tom Kite and Pat Bradley, is firmly established as the premier performance enhancement specialist in the golf world. In Golf is a Game Of Confidence, "Doc" Rotella focuses on the most important skill a golfer can have: the ability to think confidently.

Confidence, or "playing with your eyes," can be the difference between making par and a bogey, one-putting and three-putting, winning and losing. To help listeners revolutionize their own course management and mental game, Rotella relates stories of the game's legendary figures, and allows the listener not only to get inside the ropes but also to get inside the heads of the game's greatest players in their most important moments.

Filled with lore about the great players, great courses, and great tournaments, Golf Of Confidence inspires golfers to reach new heights in their games and their lives.

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Director of sports psychology at the University of Virginia, Rotella (Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect) writing with freelancer Cullen, offers advice not unlike that preached by Harvey Penick, which is to visualize each shot before it is made. But he has other words of wisdom as well: have an overall game plan; practice enough so that in tourney play it is almost automatic; learn when to be patient and when to be aggressive; and, above all, have fun. Rotella illustrates his lessons with chapters based on 18 golfers he has worked or talked with, some famous like Byron Nelson, Pat Bradley, Davis Love III and Tom Kite, but others less well known, like a New Jersey accountant who finally broke 80, a Virginian who won that state's Senior Amateur tournament and his own father, whom he introduced to the game at age 63. He also has observations on controlling anger, bouncing back from defeat, coping with near-disabling illness and learning confidence. Links addicts at any level can learn from Rotella's recommendations. (May)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780684830407
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 5/28/1996
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 273,456
Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 7.60 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Bob Rotella was the Director of Sports Psychology for twenty years at the University of Virginia, where his reputation grew as the person champions talked to about the mental aspects of their game. His client list includes Hall of Fame golfers like Pat Bradley, Tom Kite, and Nick Price as well as stars of the present, such as Darren Clarke, Keegan Bradley, Padraig Harrington, Graeme McDowell, Mark Wilson, and Rory Mcllroy. A writer for and consultant to Golf Digest, he lives in Virginia with his wife, Darlene.

	Introduction	9
No. 1	How Brad Faxon Stayed in the Present	13
No. 2	How Fred Arenstein Broke 80	37
No. 3	How Jay Delsing Kept Trusting	43
No. 4	How Davis Love III Got Back to the Masters	56
No. 5	How Val Skinner Won the Sprint	76
No. 6	How Paul Runyan Beat Sam Snead 8 and 7	84
No. 7	How Patsy Price Broke 90	94
No. 8	How Tim Simpson Battled the Yips	100
No. 9	How Byron Nelson Won Eleven Straight	111
No. 10	How Bill Shean Prepared for the Club Championship at Pine Valley	119
No. 11	How Billy Mayfair Rebuilt His Confidence	138
No. 12	How Dicky Pride Crossed the Fine Line	151
No. 13	How David Frost Learned to Close	164
No. 14	How Guy Rotella Came to Golf	175
No. 15	How Nona Epps Learned to Come Through in the Clutch	184
No. 16	How Pat Bradley Finished Her Victory Lap	194
No. 17	How Claude Williamson Got from Stumpy Lake to the Cascades	204
No. 18	How Tom Kite Honors His Commitment	213
	Appendix: More Rotella's Rules	235

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Anonymous

Posted July 10, 2003

Won't find a better book on golf

This is the Ultimate book for golfers. This is a book on the psychology of the game. It will help you lower your score, I guarantee it. I used to shoot in the low to mid 80's, now I shoot low to mid 70's. If it helped a decent golfer shave 6-10 strokes, imagine what it could do for a below average golfer. You won't be dissappointed. BUY THIS BOOK!!

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