Regardless of whether you are just starting out in golf or have been playing for some years, there is always something new for you to learn or some skill to hone and there can be no doubt that the best way to achieve that is with the help of a professional coach.

But the problem is that professional coaching can be very expensive.

At the top end of the scale you could think about enrolling at a golf school for an intensive week long course and immersing yourself for a full seven days in learning or perhaps improving one or two specific facets of your game. The cost will vary widely depending upon the school you pick and such things as the reputation of its instructors and the range of specialized training facilities which the school provides. However, in all cases the price will probably be high and you can certainly think about paying $1,000 to $2,000 or more for a course of this nature.

Your next option may be to consider individual coaching with a golf professional at a local club lasting perhaps one or two hours each day, or possibly only twice or three times each week. This option is certainly one which is well worth thinking about as an alternative to enrolling at a golf school, but it is still going to be fairly expensive, particularly if you decide that you need to continue your regular lessons for any length of time.

So what about a less expensive choice?

An increasingly popular alternative nowadays is to learn the game by watching DVDs in the comfort of your own home and, before laughing at this method, you might like to consider the range of DVDs presently being made by a large number of highly respected professional golf instructors and the huge number of golfers who are choosing this particular type of tuition.

Not only do DVDs allow a professional golfer to literally come into your home and take you through all aspects of the game in great detail and give you step by step exercises to follow so that you can master everything from improving your driving to hitting the perfect draw shot, but the essential beauty of DVD instruction is that it lets you work at your own pace and replay every lesson over and over again to ensure that you pick up every detail.

However, maybe the best thing of all is the fact that your own personal library of golf DVDs will not cost you a fortune.

Now, I do have to say that, if you are able to afford it, going to a golf school or personal one to one instruction with a local golf professional will almost certainly produce faster and better results than learning from a series of DVDs. However, instructional DVDs nowadays do come in a close second and you certainly cannot beat them as far as cost is concerned.

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The ability to learn from your bad shots and release them from your mind is one of the keys to winning golf. You only have to look at the world’s greatest ever golfers to see this. I don’t ever recall seeing the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo dwelling for any length of time over a bad shot or allow one to affect a subsequent shot they had to play. They certainly got over it before they played their next shot and just went back to their regular routine.

One of the key techniques in the application of golf hypnosis is the use of metaphor to communicate a concept that may be rejected or over analysed by the conscious mind. As an example, if I wanted someone to swing their golf club naturally and unconsciously, I might talk to them about the way they throw a ball of paper into a wastepaper basket or skim a stone across a pond – without any conscious thought.

So I’m always on the lookout for a good metaphor and right now I need one to use in my golf hypnosis to help people with their post-shot routines. In particular, to help them to learn whatever they can from a bad shot and then forget about it and move on “in the zone” or “in the now” to their next one. Perhaps that’s too difficult a concept for many of us and it’s always difficult to remember to forget something when you’re blowing a fuse after hitting a bad shot.

So, imagine my delight when I was listening to Nick Faldo on the television commentating on the Tour Championship. Tiger Woods had just pushed his tee shot way out to the right and was just in the middle slamming his driver into the ground with a dramatic lunge. Then suddenly he just seemed to switch off, his eyes glazed over like he was in a light hypnotic trance and he calmly bent down, picked up his tee and walked off in the direction of his ball. As he did so, Nick commented about Tiger hitting the “reset button” and getting back “in the now”. A very large, if metaphoric, light bulb lit up in my head and I just knew that I have to include that idea in my work.

So, the next time you’re feeling bad or angry after a bad or unlucky shot, just mentally hit your “reset button” and learn from the shot, consign it to the past where it can’t hurt you and step back into the now.

But how do I do that, Andrew? Well, you could try in vain to consciously remember a time when you hit a bad shot and followed it with a good one, but it would probably be in vain as you’d be consciously pre-occupied with your anger and forget.

The best way, if you’re familiar with self hypnosis, is to incorporate it into your hypnotic post-shot routine and it’ll just happen unconsciously. Alternatively, you could create your own “reset button” with an NLP anchor that fires off automatically whenever you’re in that situation.

Andrew Fogg, the Golf Hypnotist, is an enthusiastic golfer, hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. He is a practicing golf psychologist and author of a soon to be published book The Secrets of Hypnotic Golf and a series of golf hypnosis MP3 programmes.

Visit his website for information on how to get the most success, pleasure and enjoyment from the wonderful game of golf. More specifically, it is about how to improve your golf by working on the 90 percent of the game that is played in the 6 inches between your ears.

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