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[GOLF LESSON]

BREAKING AWAY FROM THE

PACK

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’ve been invited to play in a lot of foursomes with the behaviors. Amateur golfers rarely have the kind of
Iweekend playing companions of my students over advanced performance plans and support systems of elite
the last two decades of teaching. Without fail, I hear athletes; in fact, amateur golfers often play with the same
something like, “Boy, our friend is playing so much players over and over and over again. They play the same
better. He’s taking our money again. What did you do?” courses, and they often make the same kind of mistakes.
The answer is always the same, “I didn’t do much. He did Every once in a while a golfer in the pack may pull away,
the work.” Athletes make the decisions and perform the may start taking lessons, start working on their game, buy
behaviors that lead to improvement - the key is to do it in new equipment, and really annoy the rest of the group by
a way that leads to permanent change. doing it!

In the theory of performance psychology, social support Improving as an athlete, any athlete, requires looking
networks can be critical to an athlete’s success - high- around you and not repeating the same behaviors of
performing teams drive one another and elite golfers those around you, but instead, of repeating the behaviors
have coaches and trainers and sport psychologists to of those athletes you aspire to be. An analogy that I’ve
reinforce positive behaviors and spot trending negative heard a lot lately comes from those of us who have been

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