Tour Mentality

19 Dec Out Of Your Comfort Zone – Australian Digest Nov Edition

Posted at 16:39h in Australian digest, Australian Golf Digest, Golf News, Players, Tour, Tour Mentality by Nick O'Hern 0 Comments

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SOCIAL media was abuzz recently when Stephen Curry, from the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, was granted a sponsor’s exemption to tee it up in a Web.com Tour event in the US. Opinions were divided on whether this was a good thing for the game or...

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16 Oct GOING HEAD-TO-HEAD- Australian Golf Digest; Sep Edition

Posted at 16:38h in Australian Golf Digest, Golf News, Instructional, Players, Tour, Tour Mentality, Uncategorized by Nick O'Hern 0 Comments

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I LOVE matchplay and wish there were more events on tour calendars with the format. Unfortunately the powers that be don’t find it great for TV ratings when the top players are eliminated early on. The WGC–Match Play has even gone to a round-robin format...

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22 Sep NICK O’HERN: GO THE LEFTIES!

Posted at 19:24h in Australian digest, Australian Golf Digest, Golf News, Players, Tour, Tour Mentality by Nick O'Hern 0 Comments

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NOW call me biased, but left-handers really do make for better golfers. To me, golf is more art than science, although elements of both are certainly required. Given we use the creative side of the brain more than righties, it makes perfect sense that lefties tend...

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24 Aug Moonlighting

Posted at 07:11h in Golf News, Instructional, Players, Tour, Tour Mentality, Uncategorized by Nick O'Hern 0 Comments

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Recently I’ve been playing some one-day events on the OGA Tour here in Orlando, Florida, aka the Moonlight Tour. About 20 years ago Frank and Mary Magee started the Tour recognizing the need to provide opportunities for open competition and some prize money. Nowadays the...

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07 Aug NICK O’HERN: CHILD’S PLAY – Australian Golf Digest; July Edition

Posted at 22:19h in Australian digest, Golf News, Instructional, Players, Tour, Tour Mentality, Uncategorized by Nick O'Hern 0 Comments

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GOLFERS’ techniques seem to get better every year. With video technology, quality coaching programs and equipment these days being much more forgiving, it allows players to stand there and smash the ball incredible distances. Add up all this and there are some very talented young players...

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14 Jul COMMIT TO CHANGE – Australian Golf Digest/JUNE 2017

Posted at 01:58h in Golf News, Instructional, Players, Tour, Tour Mentality by Nick O'Hern 0 Comments

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Hmm, there might be something in this. I managed to shock a few people while playing a couple of tournaments on the Aussie circuit before Christmas. The reason? I was putting right-handed with a short putter. For someone who’s left-handed and used a broomstick putter his...

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01 Jul I Miss Walking

Posted at 20:50h in Players, Tour Mentality by jaijo 0 Comments

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A few months ago I drove down a road by accident that ran right through the Winter Park Golf Club, just north of downtown Orlando, Florida. I never realized there was a golf course smack in the middle of one of the most affluent suburbs...

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05 Jun May Australian Golf Digest Column: Aim Small, Miss Small

Posted at 00:19h in Instructional, interviews, Tour Mentality by jaijo 0 Comments

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The tighter your target, the less severe your miscues become. In the movie, “The Patriot”, Mel Gibson’s character tells his son while shooting a rifle, “Aim small, miss small.” It’s great advice that carries over not only into golf but all sports. One of my favourite athletes...

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24 May Golf Assessor’s Best Golf Books of All Time

Posted at 11:48h in Instructional, interviews, Tour Mentality by jaijo 0 Comments

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Top 50 I'm delighted to have had my book 'Tour Mentality' feature in Golf Assessor's 'Best Golf Books of All Time'  list recently and honored to be amongst some very impressive company including Bob Rotella, David Leadbetter, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. The guys at Golf Assessor reached...

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12 May Australian Golf Digest Column: Total Commitment

Posted at 16:01h in Instructional, Tour Mentality by Nick O'Hern 0 Comments

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The April edition of my column in the Australian Golf Digest Total Commitment One of the toughest parts about golf is accepting the result of a bad shot, because it’s easy to get into the ‘if only’ mind game. ‘If only’ I’d hit the right club, ‘if only’...

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