Golf putting yips articles and tips to improve your putting, overcome the yips, and play better golf. Learn how to cure the putting or chipping yips and improve your skills.
Where do the Driver Yips Come From? How can you get rid of the yips? These questions steadily flow into our Golf Yips Survey. Golfing with the yips can be terrifying, maddening, frustrating, and depressing. Ultimately, the yips can cause you to question your abilities as a golfer and the feasibility of ridding yourself of this performance block. Imagine stepping … Putting Yips Article>>
Strategies to Overcome The Putting Yips Golf is a challenging and sometimes frustrating game… One day you are playing great and the next day you are hitting the ball all over the place. So, how do golfers respond to having a bad round? Many of these golfers go the “figure things out” route. This can be a very slippery slope … 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>>
Putting Yips What Causes Your Putting to Change on The Course? I received a messaged from Joe about his putting… He said the following: “I can putt very well on the practice green. I was always a good putter. But now, once I get on the course with others, the yips enter the game. I get last minute twitches that … Putting Yips Article>>
Taking Practice Putting to The Course In “Sports Psychology Sessions with Doc,” Dr. Patrick Cohn answers a question from Don who wants to know why golfers struggle on the greens when putting. Visit Sports Psychology for Athletes at Peaksports.com and click on contact us to submit your mental game question for Dr. Cohn to answer in his mental game videocast … Putting Yips Article>>
Quick answer: In Dr. Cohn’s golfer survey, many golfers said new putters or grips helped only temporarily, and some gave up golf because of the yips. Below you will find why quick fixes do not last and the 7 strategies he uses instead. The Yips And Quick Fixes To date, I’ve had 558 golfers take my yips survey. Sadly, 15 … Putting Yips Article>>
Why Do Golfers Miss Short Putts? In “Sports Psychology Sessions with Doc,” Dr. Patrick Cohn answers a question from Don who wants to know what he can do to improve his putting on the golf course. Visit Sports Psychology for Athletes at Peaksports.com and click on contact us to submit your mental game question for Dr. Cohn to answer in … Putting Yips Article>>
PGA Tour Players With The Yips Why aren’t some Tour Pro’s able to overcome the yips when money is no object? We’ve seen Kevin Na, Ernie Els, Padraig Harrington, even Tiger Woods get the yips over the last couple of years. You’ve heard of the statement: Money doesn’t buy happiness, right? Well, money does not buy a yip-free stroke in … Putting Yips Article>>
Overcoming Pressure From Having The Yips John recently wrote to tell me he’s make progress with his putting yips… What was interesting is the fact that he’s owned up to the idea that the yips are not physical, but totally mental… “What really stuck with me was owning up to the fact that I have the yips…. then knowing that … Putting Yips Article>>
Quick answer: When you care too much about whether a putt drops, every putt feels like life or death and the yips get worse. Dr. Cohn’s advice: separate yourself from the outcome and focus on the process of putting so you can putt with freedom. Stop Focusing On The Outcome To Overcome Yips If you have been following my tips, … Putting Yips Article>>
Thought You Have Before Making A Putt? I discuss with my personal coaching students frequently about the last thought over the ball because it is so critical for good execution… When you have the yips, you think about everything you shouldn’t think about–before you take the putter back (or during the stroke). These thoughts might include: Sound familiar? You can … Putting Yips Article>>
Putting Yips And Fear Of Failure Many different fears underlie the concept of fear of failure in golf… And fear of embarrassment is one of the main fears I see in golfers today. Why is fear of embarrassment such an issue with golfers who have the yips? In the yips cycle, it’s the main reason golfers tighten up and jab … Putting Yips Article>>
How to Simplify Your Putting Mark, a golfer who had the yips wrote me last month to say that he had stopped his tinkering with putting and was putting much better… “Dr. Cohn.. amazing! I have not had the yips since you posted my comment about reading books on putting and how it triggered the yips. Somehow reading that story … Putting Yips Article>>
What to Focus on When Putting Last week, I wrote about the problems with labeling your putts. This week, I want to talk about golfers who focus too much on missing shots… When you struggle with any part of your game, the tendency is to focus more on not missing shots or putts instead of making them. Some of the … Putting Yips Article>>
What Makes The Length of The Putt so Difficult? Some golfers struggle with a certain distance when putting. You might do well with long putts, but struggle on short putts. Or you might struggle only with longer putts that require more touch. Why would one length of putt give you fits on the green? Does your smooth stroke on 10-20 … Putting Yips Article>>
How to Handle Your Frustration With Putting Does the frustration from yipping cause a spill over effect into other areas of your game? According to one reader, David, he thinks that, on hit worst yipping days, it leaks into the rest of his game. He went on to say there are three reasons for this: I think everyone understand the … Putting Yips Article>>