The answer to that is, not surprisingly, No. I have been having some fascinating conversations with a guy called Richard Boult who has created a pretty inspirational blog site at The Artful Golfer. Richard basically did a very similar thing to what I did but using different methods. He went from shooting [...]
Archive for March, 2007
So is there one sure way to get better at golf?
Posted in Golf, John Richardson, Scratch to Scratch, Uncategorized on March 29, 2007 | 5 Comments »
A message to Garcia (part two – bring back Brian Barnes)
Posted in Golf, John Richardson, Scratch to Scratch, Sergio Garcia on March 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My Message to Garcia post last night attracted some emails from some of you saying that the real message to Garcia should be “grow up” and wondering why I hadn’t made a bigger deal of the spitting incident. Some readers didn’t actually notice I had mentioned it at all. The golf boards are [...]
A message to Garcia
Posted in John Richardson, Scratch to Scratch, Sergio Garcia, Tiger Woods, US Masters on March 27, 2007 | 7 Comments »
“A message to Garcia” was originally a inspirational story by Elbert Hubbard. It was written in 1899 and has been translated into 37 different languages and incredibly even been recreated as two movies. The full text is below but it is about a soldier who is given a task to take a message [...]
Ahhhh – look. Nine bad holes didn’t destroy Tiger’s career!
Posted in Tiger Woods, critics on March 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
“Ohh look – I’m winning again. That’s lucky because I was just about to sack Hank after last week.”
Someimes it’s hard not to just talk about Tiger all the time but so much goes on in the golfing world that surrounds Tiger that it’s simply not possible to comment.
Last week he played nine bad [...]
Tiger Woods and the terrible sin of one messed up round.
Posted in Golf, John Richardson, Mike Celizic, Scratch to Scratch, Tiger Woods, critics on March 22, 2007 | 6 Comments »
The golfing community is in a state. Tiger messed up one round. The world’s greatest golfer (possibly greatest ever) played so badly that he shot a 76 on the final. Not an 80 or even an 86 but a 76. 6 over par on a course that last year would only [...]
Success, fear and the curious tale of the missing £25,000…
Posted in Fundamentals, Golf, Tiger Woods, belief, critics on March 19, 2007 | 5 Comments »
It had been a good week.
I had finally completed my second coffee shop book and the follow on course to take coffee shop owners by the hand and help them make more profit from their business. Both projects had been hanging over my head for several years and now they were finally complete and [...]
How to beat Tiger (clue: lose the boobs)
Posted in Golf, John Richardson, Scratch to Scratch, Tiger Woods, belief, critics, man boobs, phil mickelson on March 16, 2007 | 16 Comments »
“Dad?”
“Yes Becan”
“What are man boobs?” Michael put down his glass of wine and looked over at me with an expressionless face. He then turned to face his eight year old son and looked him straight in the eye.
“They are a bad, bad thing”
I stayed silent and simply nodded. I was sitting in [...]
Tiger Woods – I wonder why he’s the best…
Posted in Golf, John Richardson, Ryder Cup, Scratch to Scratch, Tiger Woods, belief, golf practice on March 14, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The Tiger thing is such a huge phenomenon that it’s impossible to ignore. Having grown up in the Seve era and Tiger not playing his A-game when I was doing my challenge (Vijay Singh was world number one during that year) it has taken a while for me to fully grasp the whole “Tiger” [...]
Mark Calcavecchia, a new putter and errr… belief (again)
Posted in Golf, John Richardson, Scratch to Scratch, Tiger Woods, belief, critics on March 11, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Mark Calcaveccia holing another big one at the Pods Championship. (Courtesy Golf Channel)
The 46 year old ex British Open winner has just having a miraculous example of how belief really is crucial to this whole silly game. At 46 he is theoretically well past his peak (obviously don’t tell that to [...]
Fred Funk and belief
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2007 | 7 Comments »
During my challenge I hit tens of thousands of balls and worked enormously hard for many hours every week on every aspect of my game but categorically the most important of the whole process was keeping the belief in mind that I could do it. Towards the end it was this belief and my [...]
5 over again at Carnalea
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Friday 2nd March
Out with my Brother in law and we both shot five over for 14 holes. Again some woeful putting so a good performance generally considering the state of the course. With the practice greens closed there is little chance to get my putting back on track so I’ll just let it be at [...]
The EFT for Golf book
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So many people have been asking for this and finally David Walters and I have completed it. I know dozens of you have spoken to David directly and benefitted from his amazing skills with EFT (at least two club championships have come out of it!) but David’s time is very scarce now that he [...]
Aha – a 76 at Blackwood Golf Centre
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday 14th February
A 76 at Blackwood on a horrible day with horrible putting (again) and the confidence comes flooding back. Like I say in the book, ad nauseum, this whole game is as much about belief as it is about the swing or your clubs. Suddenly it all seems effortless again, apart from [...]
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