This column appeared this week in Junior Golf News published by the Canadian Junior Golf Association, but the core message is also applicable to all golfers. Here’s some hard-nosed advice for bringing your competition to its knees during this competitive golf season: Don’t try so hard. If you’re reading this column, I’m pretty sure that you have worked your tail off: You’ve likely put in the hours hitting balls through the winter and you … [Read more...]
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Stop trying so hard and start playing better
April 21, 2016 By Tim O'Connor
Filed Under: Blog, Coaching, Columns, Golf, Instruction, Performance Tagged With: CJGA, Jason Day, Lily Tomlin, Rickie Fowler, Rory McIlroy, trying
A poetic alternative to trying so hard
March 9, 2016 By Tim O'Connor

As the baseball season beckons and golf courses open in northern climes, I present you with a little poetry from the esteemed journal Mad Magazine. We marvel at the Shortstop’s art: Just to see him swerve and lunge and dart! Of course, to some, it makes no sense Because the ball just cleared the fence; But in the field the Shortstop knows That he must … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Blog, Coaching, Columns, Golf, Instruction, Performance Tagged With: Frank Jacobs, Lily Tomlin, Mad Magazine, performance, Shortstop, try softer, trying hard