Miracles Happen on the Course Using "Grounded Golf" with Author Tara Fox
golf SMARTER
Josh Karp
4.3 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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- The mental game is a crucial aspect of golf, and it is often overlooked by recreational golfers.
- Visualization and leaving personal issues off the golf course can greatly improve performance.
- Tara's book 'Grounded Golf' focuses on steady performance under pressure, with a particular emphasis on women golfers.
- Tara's golf travel business, TMi Golf, offers customized golf trips to destinations like the UK, Portugal, and Spain.
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| 0:00.0 | That's teaching 101, right? If you can take a student and relate to something that they did well in the past as far as golf, and relate that to the golf swing, you get so much more performance right off the bat with mechanics. So that piece of the puzzle is super important. And also how they learn. People learn so differently. |
| 0:23.1 | You know, if you have a visual learner and you're teaching them how to feel the swing and the |
| 0:26.6 | back swing, that might not necessarily be great for them. So yes, it's mechanics, but you have to know |
| 0:32.7 | so much more how to get through to the student. How can they learn best and how can they learn fastest |
| 0:37.2 | to get out to the golf course? Hi they learn best and how can they learn fastest to get out to the golf course. |
| 0:39.7 | Hi, this is Brian Gerrissano from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, |
| 0:43.5 | and I play at Acting Golf Course. |
| 0:45.7 | This is Golf Smarter number 940. |
| 0:50.1 | Miracles happen on the golf course using grounded golf with author Tara Fox. |
| 0:56.3 | This is Golf Smarter, sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you |
| 1:03.4 | lower your score and raise your golf IQ. |
| 1:06.9 | Here's your host, Fred Green. |
| 1:09.3 | Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Tara. |
| 1:12.0 | Hi, Fred. It's really nice to be here. Thanks for having me today. |
| 1:16.1 | I'm excited about talking about your book. I get excited every week because I love having these golf conversations. |
| 1:23.6 | But you've got a great book because your book is, you know, you're a golf instructor, |
| 1:29.9 | but you really love the mental part of the game. |
| 1:33.1 | I do. |
| 1:34.2 | I think it's the piece, the missing piece for every golfer. |
| 1:39.1 | You know, there's so many books that have been written about it by incredible authors. |
| 1:43.9 | And if people knew more in the beginning when they start, how important the mental game is, |
| 1:49.7 | I think that we're going to start seeing a shift of how people learn moving forward. |
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