Dr. Patrick Cohn
website: www.peaksports.com
Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn has been an athlete and a coach. He’s experienced firsthand how beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors influence performance. Dr. Cohn’s passion for sports was born early in life. It grew as he participated in sports such as football, hockey, baseball, lacrosse, racquet ball, and golf.

Today, Dr. Cohn is the president and founder of Peak Performance Sports in Orlando, Florida. Experts in the field of sports psychology consider him the leading authority on mental skills for entering the zone and pre-performance routines, largely based upon his extensive research. He is a mentor to many in the field of sports psychology and provides performance enhancement skills through mental game coaching for individual and team athletes.

He has consulted with high profile teams such as the Miami Dolphins, NASCAR winners, NHL Players, National Motocross Champions, and PGA Tour professional golfers such as Brian Watts and J. L. Lewis. He’s also worked with powerful corporations such as IBM, Canada and USA Today.

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Bobby Foster
website: http://www.mentalgolfworkshop.com/app/default.aspx
Mr. Bobby Foster, developer of the World Renown Mental Golf Workshop™ profile.  He has a management consultant headquartered in Columbia, SC. Bobby is a former teaching professional and golf coach at the University of South Carolina where he coached several All-Americans including four players who played on The PGA Tour. He is a Certified Behavioral Analyst specializing in the DISC Behavioral Style Model.  The system generates personalized information for working on your mental game just as video and launch monitors produce personalized information for working on your swing and customizing your equipment. The profile works great for self-coaching as well as for collaborating with your instructor or coach.

Mental Golf Workshop™ profile prov ides a review the detailed descriptions of your mental golf tendencies and customized strategies for these areas of your game – Golf Temperament

1. Pre-Round Preparation
2. Mental Tendencies When Playing Shots
3. Course Management
4. Working With Your Instructors
5. Mental Tendencies Toward Golf Fitness

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Dr. Deborah Graham
website: www.GolfPsych.com
Dr. Deborah Graham is a licensed Counseling Psychologist specializing in golf performance. Working with professional and amateur golfers from around the world, her client list includes over 350 players on the PGA, LPGA and Champions Tours, 13 of which she helped guide to 16 major championships.  Beginning in 1981 with a study of LPGA players she determined the statistical differences between champion and average players on tour, collecting data with the assistance of LPGA hall of fame member, Carol Mann.

The findings helped earn her doctorate and identified 8 critical traits important for success in golf. This study was duplicated on the PGA and SR. PGA tours with the assistance of her husband, Jon Stabler, again finding the 8 champion traits and forming the foundation of the GolfPsych mental game training system. These studies and their Tour experience resulted in their book, “The Eight Traits of Champion Golfers”, published by Simon and Schuster in 1999.

Dr. Graham has also authored numerous articles for newspapers and golf magazines, published a mental game newsletter and appeared on golf programs for a variety of networks including ESPN, Fox and CNN.

Among Lynn’s notable students are LPGA players Suzann Pettersen, Ai Miyazato, Brittany Lang, Minea Blomqvist and PGA tour player Kevin Streelman.

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Denise McGuire, Ph.D.

website:www.getinthezone.net

Dr. Denise McGuire is a licensed psychologist, performance coach and founder of Get in the Zone, a company which utilizes leading-edge technology and scientifically grounded methods to help golfers optimize their performance both on and off the course. She holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Akron and has training in biofeedback and other performance-related techniques such as Brain Gym and HeartMath.

Dr. Denise trains golfers to play consistently in their optimal zone through developing awareness and skills in the mental, emotional and physiological aspects of performance. She utilizes an integrated model of instruction and works closely with PGA and LPGA teaching professionals to tailor the best performance plan for each client.

Her clients include both professional and amateur players ranging from beginners to high school, collegiate, LPGA tour players and mini tour golfers. Dr. Denise works with many of the best male and female junior golfers in Colorado some of whom are state champions. She has developed performance programs for the Colorado Women’s Golf Association, the Colorado Junior Golf Association, the Executive Women’s Golf Association, the Colorado State University Women’s Golf Team, the Regis University Men’s Golf Team as well as numerous high school golf teams.

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Dr. Bill Moore
website: www.trustitgolf.com
For the past 15 years Dr. Bill Moore has served as a mental coach and advisor to elite performers both in the U.S. and abroad. His experience as a sport scientist, collegiate coach and competitive athlete brings a unique blend of skills when helping individuals perform at optimal levels under ongoing competitive stress.  He has conducted performance enhancement seminars for a variety of businesses including Nokia, Northwestern Mutual Financial and Catholic Healthcare West, as well as sport organizations such as USOC, USPTA, and the PGA. Dr. Moore has been a mental coach for PGA professionals, ATP tennis professionals and Olympic athletes, as well as collegiate and elite junior athletes.

Formerly a professional tennis player, NCAA Division I coach, Associate Professor of Sport Psychology and Director of a PGA/PGM program, Dr. Moore has a rich depth and breadth of skills in leadership and forming and developing effective teams. His applied research has focused on the relationship between confidence and trust, with specific application to elite performance. Dr. Moore has also presented and published papers at international and national conferences and has co-authored a book, Case Studies In Applied Sport Psychology: An Educational Approach.

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Pia Nilsson
website: www.vision54.com
Pia Nilsson has enjoyed an extraordinary career that has led her to be world-renowned as co-creator of the VISION54 principles, best-selling author and Complete Golf Coach. For many years now, Pia has been internationlly regarded as a leader in the coaching arena. As such, she stands apart in the golf and sports world as an intuitive and elevated thinker, whose teachings continue to have a profound influence on coaching in golf, sport, business — and life.

Well-known for her role in coaching Annika Sorenstam on her path to super-stardom, Pia’s other notable students include LPGA Tour players Suzann Pettersen, Ai Miyazato, Brittany Lang, Minea Blomqvist and PGA tour player Kevin Streelman.

Michael Riggs, M.Ed.
website: www.performanceconsultingltd.com
Michael Riggs holds a masters degree in sport and performance psychology from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.  Over the past 17 years he has been enrolled by literally thousands of junior golfers to assist in achieving their true playing potential. Michael is the architect of ONE Way Golf, a one-on-one mental skills development program designed for young golfers who are seeking to reach extraordinary levels of success and satisfaction within their games. Michael and his team have proven that great golf performance is the product of intelligent and intentional effort housed within an extraordinary attitude allowing confidence, concentration, and composure to rule.  Michael’s creativity, passion, and knowledge of the golf performance theatre make him one of America’s most talented and flourishing mental skills coaches for Jr. players.

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Dr. Bob Rotella
website: www.practicelikeapro.com
Internationally known for his work in the area of applied sports psychology, Dr. Robert Rotella is consistently recognized as the world’s premier Sports Psychologist. Dr. Rotella has dedicated his life to helping coaches, athletes, business leaders, and salespeople use their minds and emotions to take them to the top of their chosen professions As a teacher, Robert Rotella has been selected as one of the “Top 10 Golf Teachers of the 20th Century” and has directed the leading graduate program in the country for over 20 years, at the University of Virginia. Dr. Rotella served as the Director of UVA’s Sports Psychology Department – one of the nation’s foremost programs for sports psychology – as well as President of the North American Association for Applied Sports Psychology.

Dr. Rotella’s golfers on the PGA Tour have consistently been winners, including British Open Champion, Padraig Harrington and Trevor Immelman, the 2008 Masters champion.