Improving Your Putting Routine One mental game key to overcoming the yips is learning how to focus on execution and not results. Focusing on the score, the last hole, or how others view your performance when playing causes your mind to wander and distracts you from focusing on the process of executing a shot successfully. Physically, you don’t execute freely. … Putting Yips Article>>
Overcoming The Yips [Part 2] To overcome the golfing yips, professional golf instructor Hank Haney made adjustments in his mechanics and applied mental strategies to help him focus, according to his book, Fix the Yips Forever. Haney suggests that players use mental strategies in practice and during competitive round to help them beat the putting yips. On the course Haney … Putting Yips Article>>
Overcoming The Yips [Part 1] Golf instructor and analyst for ESPN Hank Haney battled the “yips” for twenty-years before developing a solution to overcome them. He credits his strategy to more research aimed to identify the underlining source of the cause of the yips. “Research shows that the yips are combination of motor skill problems that cause a player’s brain … Putting Yips Article>>
Golfers Who Choke Under Pressure Golfers who are labeled with the yips experience a condition that causes muscular contractions or jerking at impact. They are seen by others as golfers who choke under pressure. Research shows that anxiety and stress accelerates the involuntary movements in many neurologic disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and Tourette’s syndrome. This information lead … Putting Yips Article>>
Overcome Yips With Visualization Putting is a game within the game. Golf presents no greater mental challenge than your inner battle on the putting green. To putt great everyday, you first have to win the inner battle so you can then focus on getting the ball in the hole. The weird part about putting is that you can have the … Putting Yips Article>>
Changing Your Mental Approach Johnny Miller’s golf career would likely be way more impressive had he not been plagued by the putting yips most of his career. After his second major in 1976, at The Open Championship, Miller began struggling with the ‘yips’ and failed to win for the next 3 years. Even worse, he labeled himself as having the … Putting Yips Article>>