Let’s Keep Pace! by Dr. Betsy Clark for Players and Parents

In Every Kid There Lurks a Tiger, by Rudy Duran with Rick Lipsey (March, 2002) Hyperion, New York, NY.

In Rudy’s book he shares a 5 step program that helps parents to teach their children the fundamentals of golf.

Readers can learn specific information from junior club-fitting to solving the game’s colorful jargon as well as anecdotes from his experiences working with his most famous pupil, Tiger Woods.

Journey to Excellence: The Young Golfer’s Complete Guide to Achievement and Personal Growth by Henry Brunton with Michael Grange (July, 2009) Sea Script Company, Seattle, WA.

Journey to Excellence:  The Young Golfer’s Complete Guide to Achievement and Personal Growth is designed to help aspiring young golfers maximize their potential, on and off the course.

Based on the insights of one of the world’s hottest up-and-coming golf instructors Henry Brunton–Canada’s National Men’s Team coach, the first Canadian recognized by GOLF Magazine as one of the game’s Top 100 Teachers and a widely-acknowledged expert in developing elite players–Journey to Excellence provides a detailed, step-by-step path by which those who have the will can find the way to reach their goals.

Click here for the link to the sample chapter from Henry’s book.

Every Shot Must Have a Purpose (Nilsson and Marriott 2005)

Every Shot Must Have a Purpose offers cutting-edge techniques for integrating the physical, technical, mental, emotional, and social parts of a player’s game.

The book’s revolutionary preshot routine improves a player’s focus, leading to a golf swing that is not only successful but can be repeated under extreme pressure. Emphasizing the individual golfer rather than a right set of mechanics, the authors’ VISION54 method takes the frustration out of the game.

Sport Parent for the Future (Marriott and Nilsson 2005)

The importance of the parent’s role in the healthy development of today’s young athlete, both as an athlete and as a young person, is the focus of Sport Parent for the Future. Co-authored by Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson, this groundbreaking publication is a must-read for anyone whose child is either beginning sports, or who already plays sports and perhaps aspires to progress into new competitive arenas.

Co-authors Marriott and Nilsson communicate how the parent role will have a great impact on the young athlete’s future, even though each child might have other teachers and coaches. Ultimately, it is the parents who the child looks to for unconditional support and guidance. Parents are their closest role model. Parents of young athletes are given excellent advice such that: “You can create an environment where they will learn how to win and keep their motivation high. They’ll learn life skills that can contribute more than you’ll ever know to their physical and emotional well being.”

The Game Before the Game (Marriott and Nilsson 2007)

As complete game coaches, Marriott and Nilsson showcase their proven integrated coaching principles by outlining how practice should be productive, fulfilling and fun. This revolutionary approach of how to take the range to the first tee is shared through three essential areas of practice:

- Warm-up: ensuring that beyond the physical and technical, the mental and emotional elements also are warmed up and ready to go;
– Maintenance: intended to prevent your swing and playing from drifting between rounds;
– Preparation: getting ready for the “real” experience of playing golf. What is it that you want to get better at for the future?

Golf Parent for the Future by Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson

This booklet provides important insights and invaluable guidance for parents of junior golfers. The importance of the parent’s role in the healthy development of today’s junior golfer, both as a player and as a young person, is the focus of the booklet.  This groundbreaking publication is a must-read for anyone whose child is either beginning golf, or who already plays the game and perhaps aspires to progress into new competitive arenas.

Marriott and Nilsson offer their readers clarity and focus by highlighting four areas that enhance the relationship and communication between the junior golfer and their parents. These four “insights”, the authors believe, are among the most important for being a great golf parent for the future.

  The four areas: being clear about the boundary between you and your child; recognizing who they are versus what they do; the state you are in as a spectating or coaching parent; and how to give feedback in the best way possible.

The Authors inspiration for the booklet came from: “Our belief that the parent role will have a great impact on the junior golfer’s future, even though your child might have other golf teachers or coaches. Ultimately, it is the parents who the child looks to for unconditional support and guidance. You are their closest role model.”

Parents of young golfers are given excellent advice such as: “You can create an environment where they will learn how to win and keep their motivation high.  They’ll learn life skills that can contribute more than you’ll ever know to their physical and emotional well being.”

Managing Emotions – Golf’s Next Frontier Based on research by Doc Childre and the Institute of HeartMath®. (Institute of HeartMath) HeartMath’s Quick Coherence™ technique for emotional balance and high performance in golf. Coaching with Quick Coherence and the Freeze-Framer* by Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson, co-founders of VISION54

If you are a passionate golfer, you can appreciate the pleasurable emotional state associated with playing at the peak of your game. You also understand how emotional blowups or meltdowns can quickly override and undo the results of countless hours of practice. This illustrated, 60-page book explains how you can achieve and maintain optimal emotional states for extended periods of time – even in the heat of intense competition.

You’ll learn HeartMath’s Quick Coherence® technique for emotional balance and high performance in golf. It’s easily integrated into practice routines, just like chipping, putting, ball striking, etc., and will help you maintain your energy, avoid errors due to emotional judgments and inner turbulence, shoot lower scores, and stay at peak longer.

LADIES, GET A GRIP by Mary Galvano

Ladies Get A Grip is a light hearted, non-intimidating self help book to speed up the process of getting women out onto the golf course.

Whether for business or pleasure, you will never have to miss an opportunity again. A very simple, down to earth learning process. Learn business etiquette, golf rules, basic golf swing and putting, booking tee times, how to use your femininity to get ahead in business or social situations and more.

Swing Like a Pro by Dr. Ralph Mann and Fred Griffin

With scientific accuracy, biomechanics expert Dr. Ralph Mann and top PGA instructor Fred Griffin present a groundbreaking guide to a perfect golf swing.

Based on empirical evidence rather than one professional golfer’s opinion, these two experts combine science, teaching experience, and the best swings in the game to provide you a consistent approach to getting the most out of your golf swing. Forward by Brad Faxon. 243 pages with illustrated drills and instruction.

The Ten Commandments of Mindpower Golf: No-Nonsense Strategies for Mastering Your Mental Game by Dr. Robert K. Winters

This unique guide will help players at every level develop the emotional toughness necessary to win the mental game of golf.

Dr. Robert K. Winters carefully guides you through his time-tested action plan for success, providing personal work-book assignments and key-point summaries to heighten the learning experience. With ten easy-to-follow principles for improving the mental aspect of every golfer’s game, this book will be a great addition to your collection.

Enrich your golf game by learning: thou shalt have a great attitude; thou shalt always believe in thyself; thou shalt play one shot at a time; and much more!

Putting Genius

This is the ultimate golfing technology for the player who wants to take his/her game to the highest possible level!

The Putting Genius Software is a completely unique training tool for the mental aspects of sinking putts.

Build your confidence, concentrate better, and take your putting to the highest level with the same methods used by the best athletes in the world.

Dr. Bob’s techniques are explained in Putting Genius right away – there’s no lengthy coaching sessions or advice that’s impossible to follow. Once you apply his system, you will allow your personal putting genius – the genius that’s already inside you – to come forth.

Until it Hurts: America’s Obsession with Youth Sports and How it Harms Ours Kids (Mark Hyman, 2009)

Over the last seventy-five years, adults have staged a hostile takeover of kids’ sports. For generations of children the effects have been devastating. The quest to turn children into tomorrow’s superstars often has led adults to push them beyond physical and emotional limits, sometimes with tragic consequences.

In Until It Hurts, journalist, coach, and parent Mark Hyman explores how youth sports reached this problematic state. He gives heartbreaking examples of children and their families, including his own, pushing beyond healthy limits in headlong pursuit of sports glory, athletic scholarships, or even professional careers. His investigation takes him from the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania to a prestigious Chicago soccer club, from adolescent golf and tennis superstars in Atlanta to California volleyball players. He speaks with dozens of children, parents, coaches, psychologists, surgeons, and former big-leaguers.

Outliers: The Story of Success (Malcolm Gladwell 2008)

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers”–the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

How I play Golf by Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods has written a book about how he plays golf offering his intimate view of both his game, mental and physical, and his unique personality on and off the course.

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