Golf's Mental Hazards

According to Dr. Alan Shapiro, the personality traits that cause problems in your everyday life can also wreak havoc on your golf game. If you're a worrier, chances are you're also anxious at the tee. If you're a control freak, you probably overanalyze your swing and tend to freeze up over the ball. If you have a short fuse, there is a good chance you're a club thrower. Using his experience as a psychologist and a devoted golfer, Dr. Alan Shapiro has identified six major golf personality types or "Mental Hazards". Just take the simple, forty-eight-question quiz provided to determine your Mental Hazard Profile, then read and apply Dr. Shapiro's customized advice for overcoming the Mental Hazards that plague you on and off the course.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. A Matter of Life and Death?

2. Your Mental Hazard Profile

3. Hazard One: The Fear of Fear

4. Hazard Two: Losing Your Cool

5. Hazard Three: Getting Too Up or Too Down

6. Hazard Four: Worrying What Others Think

7. Hazard Five: The Need to Be in Control

8. Hazard Six: An Unwillingness to Work

9. Why People Resist Change

10. In The Zone

11. The Whole Golfer

12. The Old and the New

13. Putting It All Together

APPENDIX

REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED READINGS