269: Best of The Mental Golf Show (2025)

Dec 16, 2025

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This year has been a monumental one for The Mental Golf Show. It's the most interviews I've ever done (33 up to this point) and I feel like my skill as an interviewer has drastically improved across this year, and certainly over the life of the podcast.

So with guest episodes in mind, I wanted to pull out some of my favorite nuggets from interviews in 2025. I wanted to include so many more than this, but I also wanted the episode to be about an hour long so I landed on 9 guest nuggets (I said 8 in the pod intro, pardon my bad counting skills).

Below are all the guests and their episode number so you can go back and listen to their full episode:

Webb Simpson: What confidence is made of, how to grow it, and what hurts Webb's confidence (Episode 242)
Dan Abrahams: How to get the most out of your ABCD Game (Episode 239)
Jayson Nickol: Getting comfortable going low and eliminating “Anyway Shots” (Episode 238)
Ross MacLeod: Is putting the most important part of the game? (Episode 244)
Mike Booker: The difference between a “Tournament Golfer” and a “Golfer Who Plays Tournaments” (Episode 241)
Gary Waters: The benefit of detaching yourself from your results (Episode 254)
Lou Stagner: Where should players set their stat benchmarks? (Episode 236)
Jim Waldron: What and how much should we be thinking about during the golf swing? (Episode 245)
Dawn Grant: How do you maximize joy on the golf course? (Episode 250)

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