How to Recover From The Yips The unwritten rule about the yips is… Don’t think about the yips… Don’t mention the yips… Don’t talk about the yips… Don’t admit you have the yips! Most golfers refuse to utter the word “yips” as if they have a terminal disease that will ruin their game forever. There is no doubt that the … Putting Yips Article>>
Winning the Battle of the Mind in Golf What words describe how you feel in the moments before you hit a short putt? Tentative? Anxious? Fearful? Doubtful? Scattered? Overwhelmed? Do you second-guess yourself even though the putt is not particularly difficult? These are the feelings and words golfers use to describe their experience when entrenched with the yips. Now, let’s … Putting Yips Article>>
Keys to Overcome The Yips in Golf Frustration is the one emotion a golfer cannot afford to carry from hole to hole. Yet every golfer has experienced frustration after missing a fairway, landing in the water, pushing a putt past the cup or double bogeying in the middle of one of their best rounds. You can probably identify several instances … Putting Yips Article>>
How to Stop The Full Swing Yips Yips is a dirty four-letter word to most golfers… They won’t say it, don’t want to hear about it and certainly don’t want to think about it. It is as if the yips are some kind of incurable virus contracted by mere thought or expression. Well, thought does play a huge part in … Putting Yips Article>>
Do You Have an Avoidance Mindset in Putting? Mark wrote in recently to share his view of the yips cycle… “The biggest thing I see is a shift in mindset from opportunity (chance to make birdie) to fear (just don’t 3 putt),” Mark said. Well said. I totally agree… I call this shift into an avoidance mindset. You focus more … Putting Yips Article>>
Focusing on Your Line or Pace When Putting I was working with one of my yips students this week. He said that he always looks at the putter during the stroke. He wanted to know if this was the correct thing to do… Other golfers have tried looking at a spot on the ball or in front of the ball … Putting Yips Article>>