Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Playing with heart - Pebble Beach’s top teacher wants to chokeproof your game

The secret to controlling emotion has been golf’s most maddening mystery. The great mass of players is repeatedly undone by the coordination-killing and mind-blanking forces brought on by fear, anger or frustration. The chosen few—invariably the champions—find a way through. But when asked to explain how, most of these champions have responded with a shrug or the hoariest cliché in the jargon of the athlete: “Heart.” Now it turns out that the heart might have been the secret to emotional control all along.

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Posted by Tom Beckman on 04/11 at 05:23 PM
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