Selected Product:
| Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game
Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Author: Joseph Parent
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: 2002-05-14
ISBN-10: 0385504462
ISBN-13: 9780385504461
List Price: $17.95
Average Customer Rating:
 | |
The Art of the Short Game: Tour-Tested Secrets for Getting Up and Down
ISBN-10: 1592402925
ISBN-13: 9781592402922
List Price:$25.00
Golf:: The Best Instruction Book Ever!
ISBN-10: 1603200010
ISBN-13: 9781603200011
List Price:$29.95
Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible: Master the Finesse Swing and Lower Your Score (Dave Pelz Scoring Game Series)
ISBN-10: 0767903447
ISBN-13: 9780767903448
List Price:$34.95
Fearless Golf: Conquering the Mental Game
ISBN-10: 0385511922
ISBN-13: 9780385511926
List Price:$21.95
|
To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game by Joseph Parent (ISBN-10: 0385504462, ISBN-13: 9780385504461).
At this time we have not yet written a review for Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game by Joseph Parent (ISBN-10: 0385504462, ISBN-13: 9780385504461). Please continue to keep checking back to this page as we are constantly adding reviews.
Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com
The best players know that golf is a game of confidence, and most important, concentration–the ability to focus and block out distraction. The goal of achieving clear thought is also at the heart of Buddhist teachings. In his highly original and groundbreaking book, noted PGA coach and Buddhist instructor, Dr. Joseph Parent, draws on this natural connection and teaches golfers how to clear their minds, achieve ultimate focus, and play in the moment for each shot.
Zen Golf presents a simple system for building “mental game mastery.” Dr Parent’s unique PAR Approach (focusing on Preparation, Action, and Response to Results) guides golfers with specific techniques for each aspect of their games. In chapters such as “How to Get From the Practice Tee to the First Tee”, “You Produce What You Fear”, and “How to Enjoy a Bad Round of Golf”, the author shares a personal teaching regimen that has helped improve the games of professionals and amateurs alike. By combining classic insights and stories from Zen tradition, Zen Golf helps eliminate the mental distractions that routinely cause poor shots and loss of concentration, allowing golfers to feel in “the zone” that professionals have learned to master.
Clear, concise, and enlightening, Zen Golf shows golfers how to prepare for, execute, and equally important, respond the results of any golf shot. A different approach to golf instruction, this book shapes ancient philosophies into new teachings.
Zen Golf
| Customer Rating: | | Really enjoyed this book. Great way of looking at the game. Seemed more helpful than other "sports psychology" books. |
I am enjoying golf again
| Customer Rating: | After being frustrated with myself on the golf course during the past few months I was beginning to wonder if I might stop playing.I have a handicap of 19 and was really struggling to play to it.Once I had a bad hole I would get down on myself and the whole thing would snowball.
After reading Zen Golf and putting into practice some of the techniques I have played two lots of 9 hole stableford competitions and had 23+25 points.
I have played 2 rounds of 18 holes in competition.The first round of our club championship at 85-19-66 (par is 69).In our annual men's tournament 83-19-64.During these rounds I have only had one 7 and nothing higher.
Most importantly I have actually been enjoying myself.
I am certain this booked has really helped me and I will continue to use the techniques that I have learnt.I will probably read this book over and over when I need to as there are several more things I want to try. |
Improve my game!!
| Customer Rating: | | I am a beginner golfer and this book is helpful for the mental part of golf! I would suggest it to anyone that plays golf. I gave to a friend that throws clubs in frustration and she played a round for the first time with no broken clubs and was relaxed, she says the book is helping her too |
Zen Golf is the Second Best
| Customer Rating: | I loved this book! I learned more about the art of the mental game of golf in this thin volume than in a half dozen longer times (.e.: The Mental Games of Golf). I would put this up there with "See It Sink It" or "Every Shot Must Have a Purpose".
A must have for any serious golfer. I dare you to read the story about the golden statue and tell me that it didn't affect you! |
Connects the Mind and Body
| Customer Rating: | | Finally, a book that puts the mental game into sections that make sense. Told in a down-to-earth way, the examples and insights provided by "Zen Golf" really do pertain to the game we love. Understanding that the results of a swing are not necessarily the be-all and end-all is very powerful knowledge. Learning to breathe will apply to a myriad of endeavor, both athletic and personal. Ostensibly, it is a book about golf, but one that fills many gaps in all kinds of life situations. Dr. Parent is a born teacher. |
|
