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If you are a serious golfer who feels like you underperform on the course, Above Par is for you. It is frustrating to know you have more talent than you take to the course. And your host, Kathy Hart Wood, gets it. She combines her experience as a former tour player and Top 50 Teacher with her knowledge and insight as a Certified Life Coach to help you unleash all your talent. She shows you how to think Above Par so you can play below par.
In this podcast, Kathy discusses the mental aspects of golf and how golfers can self-sabotage mentally on the course. She emphasizes the importance of continuous mental practice, regardless of the season or tournaments. Kathy identifies four common ways golfers sabotage themselves mentally:
1. Failing to self-reflect and be aware of repeating patterns and habits.
2. Waiting for external situations to change to feel better, giving away power to circumstances.
3. Not setting intentions for the round, allowing the mind to wander.
4. Creating unnecessary mental turmoil by not preparing for certain shots or situations.
She encourages golfers to proactively address these issues and be more aware of their mental game to avoid self-sabotage. If you want assistance with your mental management on the course, contact Kathy at KathyHartWood.com
This podcast is a conversation that Tori Totlis of T-Time with Tori had with me about my experience caddying in the USGA Senior Women's Amateur this year in Scottsdale, AZ.
We get into how our brains can be either our biggest asset or biggest barrier in golf, discussing the importance of effective instruction and how it can be tailored to resonate with different learners.
“The fastest way to get better is to manage your mind first. Don’t wait to become a certain handicap before you decide to work on your brain and how you think out on the course. Work on it now.”
Tori and I dive into my three biggest takeaways on caddying for USGA events: being prepared mentally for the pace of play, understanding group dynamics, and setting up your course conditions.
You can listen to more of Tori's podcasts by going here on Apple
Connect with Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com
Listen in on part 2 of my interview with Tour Player Yoonhee Kim as she answers questions from members of the Above Par Academy.
Yoonhee talks about confidence, digging deep on the last few holes and worrying about what other people think.
You will relate to what she focuses on with mental golf and understand that you do not need to be a professional or low handicap to benefit from this work.
If you want to benefit from working on your mental golf connect with Kathy at KathyHartWood.com
Yoonhee Kim is a mini tour player working toward playing on the LPGA. In this episode, we talk about how she deals with pressure, fear, embarrassment and Tour qualifying school.
Yoonhee also shares some of her on-course mental tools and sayings that help her stay calm and present.
Regardless of your level of golf, you will find her story relatable as you learn how a tour player manages the golf brain and tournament play.
Connect with Kathy at KathyHartWood.com
Have you ever told yourself you needed to make a couple birdies on the last few holes?
Chances are it did NOT turn out the way you planned.
So the question is “How do you make a birdie?”
The quick answer is hit is close and make as short a putt as possible.
This is for sure an easier way to go about it but in this episode I want to shift the way you think about making a birdie so that you can open yourself up to more creativity and possibilities on the golf course.
And I will to help you prevent creating bogies when you are wanting to make birdies.
Connect with Kathy at KathyHartWood.com
Scoring can be mental. How you think about par, birdie, bogey can affect how you show up over the ball. You can put unnecessary pressure on yourself to make a putt for par or give yourself a "3-putt pass" on a par 5 if you hit the green in two.
In this episode, I share a different way to think about scoring so that you can stand over as many shots as possible from a calm, certain or confident place.
Listen in and gain a paradigm shift on scoring with 3 key concepts.
Learn more about Kathy at KathyHartWood.com
"Just play golf one shot at a time."
It is common advice but most golfers don't know how to exactly get that done.
In this episode, I first break down what it means to NOT play golf one shot at a time.
By understanding what happens when you get ahead of yourself on the course, ruminate over a previous hole or shot, or argue with the reality of the situation in front of you, you can better understand what is required to play in the present moment.
I share with you the 3 steps required to hit golf shots "one at a time."
Reach out to Kathy at Kathy@KathyHartWood.com or on her website:
KathyHartWood.com
Being a golf parent can be challenging. It can be hard to watch your child struggle with all of the ups and downs that golf brings, especially as we learn this game.
As parents, we can sometimes be lost at what to say to our kids. How to help them and support them along the journey so that they can have some success.
It's challenging at times to watch them feel bad, be upset, fail, beat themselves up, be negative. All the things that comes with being a junior golfer or a golfer for that matter.
There are a few key mental lessons that will definitely serve you and your junior or college golfer and I share them with you in this episode.
You can download the 7 Mental Lessons in a pdf by clicking
https://KathyHartWood.com/parent
All golfers deal with anxiety and fear at some point on the golf course. Some golfers struggle with these emotional states more than others.
Golf, however, does not produce anxiety or fear, it exposes it.
It exposes a state of our nervous system that we deal with in our day to day lives.
In this episode, Jill Howell, an emotional health coach, explains what is actually happening when you experience anxiety.
She also share some useful tools that you can take to the course to help you manage the anxiety and fear that shows up and interferes with your performance on the course.
If you want to download Jill's 10 easy ways to Relieve Anxiety and Overwhelm, had to KathyHartWood.com/CALM
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
Follow Scamanda on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
