Golf State of Mind - Mental Game Training with David MacKenzie

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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GS#427 March 11, 2014 David MacKenzie is a mental game coach that will help you consistently play to your potential. His Golf State Of Mind method is designed to help eliminate mental mistakes. He says that small changes to your mental game can cut 5-7 shots per round. We go into depth on visualization, how to practice the Mental Game, course management, and his 9 shot drill for the practice range. *David comes to us from a suggestion by a GOLF SMARTER listener. http://GolfStateOfMind.comGet more when your visit the refreshed golfsmarter.com! Introduce an Upcoming Episode: Receive free gifts for recording a show opening by clicking on "Record Your Show Open Here!" tab on the right side of golfsmarter.com. Watch Daily Video Highlights from Our Interviews: Follow @golfsmarter on Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube daily to see our highlights and helpful insights from our interviews on the podcast. Post a Review: you'll receive three free gifts when you post an honest review about Golf Smarter the podcast. Fill Out a Listener Survey: It only takes a few minutes to fill out our survey, which helps us to better serve your interests in the podcast. You'll receive a free link to Tony Manzoni's video and Justin Tang’s summary of Tony’s Lost Fundamental on pdf! This episode is brought to you by BreakfastBalls.Golf. Visit BreakfastBalls.Golf for the best quality and pricing on premium used golf balls. Find your favorite brand at half the price of new balls! Use GOLFSMARTER at checkout for 20% off your order!This episode is brought to you by 5Hour Energy. 5-hour ENERGY Transfusion flavor is available online or in stores. Head to 5hourENERGY.com and order yours today!Check out "Invested in the Game", a new original podcast from Charles Schwab. This podcast is their way of sharing the incredible stories behind the game. Listen now at schwab.com/TheGame or wherever you get your podcasts.This episode is sponsored by Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply. This episode is sponsored by HIMS. Start your free online visit today HIMS.com/golfsmarter and received personalized ED treatment options. This episode is brought to you by RULA. Find a therapist or psychiatric provider who specializes in you at rula.com.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Former GolfSmarter host, Fred Greene has been nominated for the 2025 Audiocaster of the Year by the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame Vote now at BARHOF.org. Voting is open through July 1. Please welcome our new host of Golf Smarter, Josh Karp! Fred has retired and will be working on his game with more intention than ever. You can stay up-to-date with Josh on all the GolfSmarter... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Golf Smarter number 427.
0:04.6	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.
0:07.5	Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the Golf Smarter podcast.
0:15.7	Great golf instruction never gets old.
0:18.6	Our interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement
0:23.2	conversations like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. There's the external
0:28.6	confidence and there's internal confidence. External confidence isn't long lasting. External confidence is
0:34.1	based on how long you're playing and most people think that confidence is a result
0:38.8	of how well you just played the last shot or played the last hole or played the last round,
0:43.2	when really we want to think about confidence being something that you can generate within,
0:48.3	which then affects your play. If you're thinking about confidence as being you have to be playing
0:53.3	well to build confidence,
0:55.0	and you put more pressure on your game and you don't feel like you're as good a player after hitting a couple of bad shots.
1:01.0	Whereas confidence can be built from the inside out if you can start to imagine yourself as a good player
1:07.0	and convincing yourself that you're a good player and talking to yourself in the light way when you're out on the golf course. You can build confidence that is much more
1:14.7	long-lasting and enduring.
1:20.8	Golf State of Mind, Part 2 in our conversation with David McKenzie.
1:24.8	This is Golf Smarter. Thank you again for joining us, for sticking around for rest of this conversation,
1:31.3	because I have so many more questions that I wanted to talk about with you on Golf State of Mind.
1:38.5	Great.
1:39.0	It's been a pleasure of.
1:40.0	Yeah, thank you.
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