Shrink Your Handicap: A Revolutionary Program from an Acclaimed Psychiatrist and a Top 100 Golf Instructor

by Phil Lee, Jeff Warne

Overview

Now available in paperback!

Don't you wish golf on the course was as easy as golf on the practice range? Don't you wish you could bring your range game to the course? Now you can, thanks to a golf psychiatrist and a top golf teacher. You can drive off the tee the way you do on the range--you can also putt under pressure just as accurately as you putt on your carpet. You can hit out of the sand in a tight match the same way you hit over land.

Shrink Your Handicap solves your golf problems with the help of Phil Lee, behavioral psychiatrist, and Jeff Warne, a Golf magazine Top 100 instructor, who together have formed a unique collaboration that shows readers how to overcome the mental obstacles that keep them from playing their best . . . every day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786885541
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	03/20/2002
Edition description:	1ST PBK
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.19(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Phil Lee, M.D., is Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Weill Medical College at Cornell University. He specializes in performance enhancement, with offices in New York City, Westchester, and Amgansett, NY.

Jeff Warne is Director of Instruction at Atlantic Golf Club, Bridgehampton, NY, and is Lead Instructor with the Jim McLean Golf School at Doral.

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Only Man Gets Anxious	xiii
Section I	Why Is the Course Harder Than the Range?
1	Golf Is Not a Mental Game	3
Section II	Insight-Oriented Defenses Against Anxiety Chemicals: Defusing the Time Bomb
2	Insight-Oriented Defenses	13
3	You Go Out of Your Way to Lose	33
4	You Are Desperate to Win, but Can't	36
Section III	Other Mental Defenses Against Anxiety Chemicals
5	Cognitive Defenses	43
6	Behavioral Defenses--Getting Over Ourselves	54
7	Imagery, Relaxation Defenses, and Self-Hypnosis--Tuning Out	64
Section IV	Physical Defenses Against Anxiety Chemicals
8	Physical Countermeasures	71
9	Physical Defenses on the Tee	74
10	Tiger on the Right: How Anxiety Chemicals Cause a Slic	80
11	Tiger on the Left: How Anxiety Chemicals Cause a Hook	95
12	Sand	102
13	Chipping and Pitching	115
14	Putting	127
Section V	Putting It All Together
15	Confidence	143
16	What's with Visualization?	146
17	Commitment	151
18	Swing Thoughts	155
19	Fast Fix--The Driver	171
20	First Tee Anxiety	176
21	Alignment and Target Awareness	180
22	How to Hit More Greens Without Changing Your Swing	184
23	A Rose by Any Other Name: Self-Hypnosis and the Pre-Shot Routine	188
24	Custom Fitting	202
25	What Is Your Mental Handicap?	209
26	Golf and Road Rage	211
27	Golf and Life	217

What People are Saying About This

Aaron Bakst

A must-read for all gofers who want to learn how to bring their 'A' game to the golf course.
—Ken Bakst, 1998 Masters participant

Editorial Reviews

Jeff Warne is relentless . . . improving the games of individuals of all levels. Together he and Dr. Lee provide . . . achieve peak performance.

Jim McLean

This is the perfect instruction book for any struggling golfer who is tired of mumbo-jumbo.

David Owen

There certainly is no shortage of books to help golfers alter their swings and improve their game. The authors of this book assert that while practicing golf swings is worthwhile, it is the psychological and behavioral aspects of the golfer that deserve attention. Behavioral psychiatrist Lee and golf instructor Warne are well matched to write about this topic. They claim that many golfers play beneath their potential because they allow anxiety to affect their swing and offer offers numerous cognitive and imagery techniques to alleviate this problem. Time, however, must be taken to absorb and practice these techniques. A golfer in a hurry to fix his or her game will not enjoy the book, although someone willing to spend time understanding the material will find it useful. Recommended for larger public libraries.--Patrick Mahoney, Kansas P.L., Overland Park Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\

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