Do You Struggle With 3 And 4 Putting?
Dr. Patrick Cohn, golf psychology expert and author of the “Golfer’s Mental Edge” CD program, teaches amateur to tour professional golfers how to improve their mental game of golf using golf psychology strategies developed over the last 20 years of his career.
In this week’s golf psychology session, mental game of golf expert and author of The Mental Game of Golf, Dr. Cohn, answers a question from a golfer who has been struggling with 3 and 4 putting. He is having a hard time transitioning to his forward stroke.
“Why would a golfer, who has putt thousands of times on the practice green and on the course, can’t take the putter back? To me, it’s not a stroke issue or how smooth or slow you’re taking it back.
The main issue here is that it’s really based on fear, over thinking and over control. Everything that you’re telling me is really about over control or thinking too much about the stroke.
This is how many golfers get trapped into freezing over the ball, with the inability to pull the putter back or inability to transition from the back swing to the forward swing, because there is too many thoughts going on. There is too much over control. This is due to the fear.”
Listen to the audio below to hear how Dr. Cohn would approach this putting issue:
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