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...despite the pain he may be enduring in his personal life, the shrinks don't recommend betting against him. "His head will be in a good place on the golf course," says Rotella, the golf psychologist. "He's going to put all his energy into playing great, and that crazy mother probably will...
Patrick Cohn, a sports psychologist based in Orlando, Fla., and author of Peak Performance Golf: How Good Golfers Become Great Ones, says that Woods can block out distractions by not trying to block out distractions. Instead of telling himself to tune out the occasional heckler, he should just visualize placing the ball in the fairway. "Once you focus on the right stuff," Cohn says, "distractions fall by the wayside." (See the top 10 scandals...
...mind in the proverbial zone. And given his recent revelations that he's reconnected with Buddhism, it's fair to assume that Woods is doing a fair amount of quiet introspection. Do more of it, say the psychologists. With practice, you can enter an altered, hypnotic state on the golf course, though not to the point where you're barking like a dog on command. "You are aware of what's going on," says Ken Grossman, a Sacramento, Calif.-based hypnotherapist who has worked with many athletes. "You're not out in left field...
...example, Jennifer Scott, a golf hypnotherapist from Phoenix, suggests staring at some object on the course - perhaps a leaf on a fairway tree - and taking a deep breath while waiting to take a shot. "Your eyes are very powerful," she says. "If you're darting your eyes back and forth, you lose focus." Summon the subconscious and give yourself a mantra. "Think peace, harmony, relax, relax," Scott says. "The golfers I teach love those words." Denise Silbert, a hypnosis expert from La Jolla, Calif., recommends selecting a physical trigger, like holding a golf ball while walking down the fairway, which...
...significance of Tiger Woods' return to golf, in the Atlantic...