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460: Mastering Golf’s Mental Game with Author Dr. Michael T. Lardon

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3577 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

460: Sports Psychiatrist Dr. Michael T. Lardon returns to discuss his latest book Mastering Golf’s Mental Game - Your Ultimate Guide to Better On-Course Performance and Lower Scores - In this helpful book, Dr. Lardon shows us how to organize our thoughts and use them for maximum performance. Not just an associate clinical professor of medicine at UC San Diego, Michael was a world ranked table tennis player. So he understands how the mental game can bring us down. But he also knows how to get into the zone and stay focused on what works. Both of Michael's books are available in our Golfers'Mart at GolfSmarter.comThis is just a taste of the full 40 minute interview. To hear the entire conversation which includes a segment on how Dr. Lardon's working relationship with Phil Mickleson, you can purchase it right now for only $1.99 in our Golfers'Mart at http://GolfSmarter.comFor exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

For members only, Golf Smarter number 460 published on October 28, 2014.

0:06.9

SmarterPodcasts.com delivering sound advice.

0:13.9

Mastering Golf's Mental Game with author Dr. Michael T. Larden.

0:18.1

This is Golf Smarter.

0:21.7

Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast, Michael.

0:24.8

Hi, Fred.

0:25.9

How are you?

0:27.0

I'm doing great.

0:28.1

Nice to be here, Fred.

0:29.2

It's great to have you back on the show.

0:31.5

Your first book was many years ago, right?

0:35.3

2008 now, hard to believe.

0:37.2

Wow. Well, congratulations.

0:39.0

You've gone through a lot in that time, and professionally as well.

0:45.6

But you have a new book, Mastering Golf's Mental Game,

0:49.8

The Ultimate Guide to Better On Course Performance and Lower Scores.

0:54.0

Michael, I have a shelf full of

0:56.9

metal game books. Why should I be getting rid of all of them to keep yours? Well, I don't

1:04.3

know about getting rid of them all, but this book is really designed to be a little bit different.

1:10.1

And it's modeled next to a very

1:13.1

famous book called Feeling Good by David Burns, which is a psychology book. And if you ever go to

1:20.2

all the outpatient clinics, it's sort of a Bible. and the model is like this.

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