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The Big Picture of Mind Coaching – Jim Waldron #352

Mar 28, 2025

Jim Waldron, an outstanding golf coach renowned for helping players overcome the yips, shares transformative insights in this engaging discussion. He emphasizes the dangers of excessive internal focus, advocating for a sensory approach to enhance performance. Jim highlights the importance of distinguishing between internal thoughts and external experience while practicing. He critiques traditional coaching models, suggesting that unconscious movement patterns and tailored focal points are crucial for success on the course, ultimately fostering a mindset of curiosity and acceptance.

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Quick takeaways

Recognizing and reshaping your personal golfing narrative is crucial for improving both performance and mindset on the course.

Differentiating between internal thoughts and external cues helps golfers maintain focus and reduce anxiety during their game.

Effective swing changes require slow-motion practice and conscious embodiment of new techniques to transform movements into intuitive actions.

Deep dives

Understanding Your Golfing Story

Recognizing your personal golfing narrative is essential to improving performance on the course. This narrative shapes how players view their abilities and experiences in golf and can influence their overall mindset. By engaging with the fundamentals program of the Mind Caddy, golfers can start to identify and understand their current stories, which often govern their actions and emotions during play. The ultimate goal is to help golfers create a new, empowering script that propels them towards their full potential.

Intro

4min

Mastering Mental Dynamics in Golf

22min

Mastering Movement Change in Golf

5min

Rethinking Golf Coaching

11min

Understanding the Watchdog of the Mind in Performance Improvement

3min

Tailored Focal Points and the Path to Mastery in Golf

4min

Navigating Responsibility in Golf Coaching

15min

The Power of Acceptance in Golf Mind Coaching

5min

What will ACTUALLY make a difference to your golf and life

Today on the Mind Caddie we welcome back my good friend and colleague Jim Waldron.

This is a recording of a live presentation Jim gave to the Mind Factor coaches

Jim is an outstanding coach with an absolute wealth of experience.

This seminar is for the really dedicated coach or player.

There are some challenging concepts in here that have the potential to make a really BIG difference to your game and indeed your life.

In the session we talked about:

The dangers of spending TOO much time in your own internal world. Becoming too absorbed in your own thoughts.

The opportunity in golf to develop the skills of going EXTERNAL. In between shots having the capability to go to your SENSORY experience.

What can you SEE, HEAR or FEEL?
Having the DISTINCTION between the TWO WORLDS of INTERNAL and EXTERNAL
What focused attention actually is
The absolute ‘rules of the road’ with swing changes
The need for slow motion swings and FEELING the extremes either side of correct
Why information alone will never create swing changes
What is the correct ‘dose’ of practice
Making the movement patterns UNCONSCIOUS
The difference between working on the swing and PERFORMING the swing on the course
The need to develop a FOCAL POINT on the course
Developing a ‘basket’ of focal points to take out onto the course
Developing the ‘Let’s SEE what HAPPENS’ mindset
What is the essential nature of the unconscious mind? The ‘watchdog’ of the unconscious mind.