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Mental Golf Workshop Profile

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There are four basic ways you can improve your game:

  1. Technique - improve your swing and short game mechanics.
  2. Equipment - use the right club specifications and balls for your swing.
  3. Golf Fitness - increase your flexibility, strength, balance, stamina, etc.
  4. Mental Game - enhance your mental and emotional approach to the game.

Make improvements in any of the three physical areas - technique, equipment and fitness - and you're making progress. Combine those improvements with mental game improvement and you'll really be on your way to reaching more of your full potential.

Your Mental Golf Workshop Report focuses on these mental game areas:

  • Golf Temperament - Playing with positive energy by understanding and managing your unique golf temperament style.
  • Pre-Round Preparation - Getting rounds off to good starts with a consistent and effective pre-round routine.
  • Shotmaking and Short Game - Improving performance by increasing commitment and reducing tension over the ball.
  • Practice - Taking practice tee improvement to the course by using effective practice habits.
  • Course Management - Making solid course management choices by using strategies suited to your golf personality.
  • Working With Instructors and Coaches - Creating a productive learning environment for you and your coach.

Let’s face it; the game of golf in many ways is between our two ears. Yet the majority of golfers spend most of their time bashing golf balls to improve technique. You need to create balance in your practice and that includes the mental side of the game. Bobby Foster and his Mental Golf Workshop have created a simple, yet comprehensive, tool that is accurate at assessing who you are as a golfer. If we know your foibles, we can turn them into strengths.

We do an in depth analysis of your mental golf style including evaluations of the following: golf temperament, course management, pre-round preparation, playing shots, working with instructors, how & what to practice and golf fitness tendencies. The David Leadbetter Academy and The Titleist Performance Institute and many others use this program. This program not only identifies your style, but also builds plans to work to your strengths and improve your weaknesses. This program is geared towards improving your scores.

The Mental Golf Workshop Profile was developed by Bobby Foster. Bobby is a former teaching professional and golf coach at the University of South Carolina. While at South Carolina, he coached in both Men's and Women's NCAA championships. Bobby has spent the last 15 years building a successful management consulting practice and is a Certified Behavioral Analyst specializing in the DISC Behavioral Style Model. He explains the purpose behind the development of the Mental Golf Workshop™.

"My company has had great success using DISC-based work related profiles to help managers, salespeople and others improve their personal effectiveness in all types of working environments. The key to this success is that profile information is based on a person's own responses to a questionnaire and the information produced is personalized. People tend to be more open-minded towards information based on their own input than they are with evaluations based on others' opinions. Most people are interested in self-discovery processes, and profiles are great self-discovery learning tools.

I built the golf profile system so that golfers and golf instructors could enjoy the same benefits we've experienced with work related profiles. I wanted to build a profile system that would give golfers a framework for understanding the "what's and why's" of their mental golf traits, and our DISC based golf profile does just that. I also wanted to provide improvement ideas tailored to each person's individual golfing personality and ideas they could implement right away.

Far too often, golfers improve their ball striking and short game abilities by practicing and working with instructors, but these improvements don't carry over to the golf course. Most players realize this problem is "in their heads," but they don't really know where to start in improving their mental games. Our profile puts golfers "inside their own heads" and they gain a clearer understanding of what really goes on in their golfing minds.

Touring professionals work with sports psychologists and coaches on the mental aspects of their games but most golfers don't have those opportunities. Our profile enables golfers to coach themselves and also equips golf instructors to better understand the minds and learning styles of each student."

To begin the process, the first step is to follow the link at the bottom of the page to take the profile. You'll spend about ten minutes answering multiple-choice questions on the online questionnaire. Your answers will then go through a series of mathematical computations to produce a customized report detailing your tendencies.

Your personalized profile will detail your mental tendencies in 5 key areas:

  1. Preparing for a round
  2. Your Mental tendencies when hitting a shot
  3. Your Golf temperament
  4. Course management and shot selection
  5. Your most effective learning style

In the first section of your profile, you'll find five pages detailing your mental golf tendencies. You will be delighted with the accuracy of their profiles. After you have reviewed your present mental tendencies, you'll find ten pages of mental golf improvement ideas and many of these improvement ideas will be customized based on your DISC style for each area of the game. We suggest reviewing all of the ideas and then selecting a few at a time to incorporate into your practice session and as you play on the course. The ideas are written with the intention that you can implement them right away.

The entire 21-page profile printout is produced in a "workshop" format, with every page having an area to make notes and record your progress. This "workshop" format makes it easy to work with the profile by you or with one of our certified instructors in a mental coaching session.

The Golf Academy by the Sports Club/LA is confident you’ll find the entire process easy to use yet comprehensive and the recommendations you receive will be ones you will want to implement immediately.

The Mental Golf Workshop Profile

It’s Quick… It's Accurate… It’s Comprehensive.

"The beauty of this system is that our players get an accurate and comprehensive report without having to spend hours completing a laborious questionnaire. You sure get a lot for the time and money you invest in this process."

– Dr. Greg Rose, Co-Founder, Titleist Performance Institute

"Bobby's profile certainly makes you think about your game and what your priorities should be. The profile really helps you understand how to improve your mental game."

– Brad Faxon, Eight Time Winner On The PGA Tour

"I am amazed at how accurate so many of the tendencies and improvement ideas are for me. It is hard to believe that the results can be so accurate from this brief survey. I really enjoyed reading my profile because it helped me analyze myself more clearly and really think about how to improve my tendencies."

– Jonathan Byrd, Three Time Winner On The PGA Tour

Please click here to take the profile.