

The Mental Golf Show
Josh Nichols
Host Josh Nichols shares from his own 20 years of competitive and golf psychology coaching experiences, along with years of learning psychology, as well as interviews with players, coaches, and experts in the golf industry, all with the goal of helping you think better on and off the golf course.
*This podcast is not meant to apply to every individuals’ mental health. And not all opinions expressed by guests reflect Josh’s opinions and experiences.
*This podcast is not meant to apply to every individuals’ mental health. And not all opinions expressed by guests reflect Josh’s opinions and experiences.
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Jan 30, 2020 • 36min
Special Guest Vanderbilt Head Coach Scott Limbaugh
Back with another awesome conversation with a high level college coach! Well, I don't know if the conversation is awesome. At least Coach Limbaugh's half of the conversation is awesome. Why do awesome coach's keep agreeing to stoop to my level? Might never know. But listen up here because Coach Limbaugh is a down to earth, self proclaimed (and geographical) southerner, and really great, quotable, fun guy to talk to and learn from. And not to mention one of the best coaches in the country. Hope you enjoy and get something out of it!
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Jan 27, 2020 • 29min
My Goals for My Game in 2020
We all need to set goals, and if I as a mental coach cannot set goals and hold myself accountable to those goals, then I'm really being disingenuous. So I have set goals for myself and my own golf game for this year. I hope you can learn and be able to set some realistic and some stretch goals for yourself this year as well.
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Jan 23, 2020 • 57min
Special Guest Duke Men’s Coach Jamie Green
Coach Jamie Green, Head Men's Coach of the Duke Blue Devils, and I go the distance on this episode. We cover the gamut of topics about how to coach, how to be coached, how to become an elite level player, and many many more how to's. So listen up and learn a thing or two from this top-ranked college coach!
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Jan 20, 2020 • 26min
Leaderboard Blindness
What if you never looked at a leaderboard for an entire tournament? Or purposely had no clue what you were shooting for the day? I think we've all threatened to do this, or at least posed the thought experiment. But what if you actually did it? Baylor Head Coach Mike McGraw did it with his players, and he wrote it down in his book "Better Than I Found It". Listen up and learn. And maybe you'll be compelled to experiment for yourself!
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Jan 17, 2020 • 19min
Special Guest Coach Lisa Strom
On this episode I have a conversation with Lisa Strom, head women's coach of Kent State. Kent State is a top-5 ranked school in the nation, and Lisa Strom took over in July 2019. So she inherits an awesome team that she is making better on a daily basis. Listen up for how she thinks and the way she goes about improving herself and her team, and how that can help you too.
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Jan 13, 2020 • 22min
How I learned Acceptance TWICE in one qualifier
I know I haven't been at this whole mental coaching thing that long relative to so many awesome, experienced coaches out there. But I do have quite a bit of playing experience under my belt. And in my own life I have learned that there is a very high correlation between high acceptance and player better. In this episode, I tell a story about how I learned acceptance twice in one competitive round of golf.
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Jan 9, 2020 • 32min
Special Guest Georgia Coach Chris Haack
Chris Haack is a coaching legend. He is in his 24th year at Georgia and has won two NCAA Championships. Here's just some of the players that Coach Haack has had on his teams: Erik Compton, Harris English, Brian Harman, Russell Henley, Ryuji Imada, Hudson Swafford, Brendon Todd, and Bubba Watson. His accomplishments speak for themselves so gain any wisdom you can from this conversation!
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Jan 6, 2020 • 18min
Your Practice Isn’t Hard Enough
Just me this time, and I want to address how so many players are too casual in their practice relative to a tournament or competition. If there is a dramatic difference in intensity from practice to tournament, then their will be a big difference in mindset as well. So here are some ways to give yourself the best opportunity to play your best when it matters.
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Jan 3, 2020 • 25min
Special Guest Stanford Coach Conrad Ray
This guest needs no introduction, but here goes anyway. Coach Conrad Ray is in his 16th year at Stanford, and is the reigning NCAA Champion. He has coached some of the best players in the world. He knows how to turn really good players into great players that will play at the highest level. So listen to his experience and wisdom and apply it to your own game and life.
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Dec 30, 2019 • 27min
The Good and the Bad of 2019
This has been a really good year. When I look back over the whole year in retrospect it really looks like a roller coaster. A lot of lows where I was going through a slog of building a new business from scratch, waiting for new players to work with, and trying to think of new things to create and post. But so many highs, with a ton of newly learned skills, so many things that I created, and best of all dozens of people that I would've never talked to had I not started this venture.
So long story long, I have one person to thank for making this all worth it: you. Here's to creating more and better in 2020!!
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