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‘The lessons in Zen Golf make the mental game seem so simple’ Vijay Singh, current World No 1 Golfer
‘Soothing and enlightening, Zen Golf exposes us to the storm-tossed waters of the golfer’s psyche’ Golf Digest
‘In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That’s something my mother passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset’ Tiger Woods
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In this ground-breaking approach to golf instruction, Dr Joseph Parent, both a noted PGA Tour coach and a respected Buddhist teacher, draws on this natural connection to teach golfers how to play with more consistency and less frustration, and consequently how to lower their scores.
‘When body and mind are synchronized, we can uncover our inherent dignity and confidence. The ultimate goal is not just to help people become better golfers, but better human beings.’
Zen Golf offers a fresh perspective for golf and for life. Instead of focusing on what's wrong with us – what's broken, flawed or missing – we can take the attitude that there is something fundamentally, essentially right with us.
In chapters such as ‘How to Get from the Practice Tee to the First Tee’, ‘You Practice What You Fear’, and ‘How to Enjoy a Bad Round of Golf’, author Joseph Parent shows how to make one’s mind an ally rather than an enemy: how to stay calm, clear the interference that leads to bad shots, and eliminate bad habits and mental mistakes.
Rather than an instruction manual that takes you through a systematic programme, it is a collection of brief chapters offering the wisdom of traditional Zen stories and teachings distilled from a lifetime of actual lessons with golfers, many of whom are PGA professionals.
Continued success at golf (and any other endeavour) requires preparation, action and response – these form the framework for the instructions presented in Zen Golf. Applied correctly, they will help every reader of this unique book to achieve their peak performance.
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What you get is a gentle guide to cultivating the Zen art of awareness - becoming aware of what possibilities exist within you and your mind already, rather than seeking an external fix.
I bought this book because I suffer from acute anxiety, which manifests in all sorts of unwanted bodily symptoms and explosions of white-hot anger, such as when I miss a simple putt for birdie and end up with bogey. Never forget that anger ALWAYS sits on top of some sort of suffering from the past, and missing putts is suffering. This book is helping me to see things on the golf course differently, and I'm using lots of the exercises to train my mind in a different way from the usual self-loathing that accompanies a poor shot. I'd love to say that my handicap is tumbling - it isn't, but that's not why I bought the book.
If you liked 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' you'll like this. If you prefer 'Twenty Zillion Tips To Hit The Ball Half a Mile' then avoid.
Happy swinging. No,not that sort, you naughty boy.
Bazmataz
However, amongst all this is some good stuff and sensible points.
I managed to wade through half of it then threw it in the bin in total disgust.
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