Think Like Tiger
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Learn how techniques from champion golfer Tiger Woods can be applied to anyone’s game
John Andrisani explores the mind and its expansive application to golf, using Tiger Woods as the ultimate role model. From dominating the junior ranks in his boyhood, to becoming the first player in history to hold four major championship trophies at once—the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA—it has been his mental game that fuels his fire.
With Think Like Tiger, you can improve your own golf game and learn how to:
• Use the power of concentration to let nothing disturb you
• Meditate to alleviate mental stress and relax muscles
• Use your imagination when planning shots
• Practice shots that will stimulate your mind
• Develop your own system for inducing self-confidence
“I’m honored to say that I was one of the official members of ‘Team Tiger’. This latest book of Andrisani’s contains a great deal of insightful information about the mental game of Tiger Woods…You will learn to make the mental side of golf a priority. You will also learn how to play to your potential, by applying the thinking process to your setup, swing, and shot-making game.”
—from the foreword by John Anselmo, former coach of Tiger Woods
This book contains an independent study and analysis by John Andrisani, former senior editor of instruction at Golf Magazine; he has not consulted with or sought the participation of Tiger Woods in its preparation.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Andrisani (The Tiger Woods Wayand The Short Game Magic of Tiger Woods) interviewed family, former teachers, coaches and a clinical psychologist to gain insights into Tiger's mental game. From father Earl Woods, Tiger learned mental toughness and discipline: for example, when playing with the young Tiger, Earl would intentionally cough or drop clubs to train Tiger to block out gallery noises while swinging. Tiger's first professional teachers, Rudy Duran and John Anselmo, realizing Tiger was already swinging like a pro, stressed mental imagery and self-confidence. Even mom Tida Woods (interviewed by Anselmo on Andrisani's behalf) had a hand in Tiger's mental mastery by instructing him in the precepts of Buddhism and meditation. By far the most intriguing aspect of this analysis of Tiger's mental game is the pseudo cloak-and-dagger chapter on Captain Jay Brunza, a Navy clinical psychologist who Andrisani (a former senior editor on instruction at Golf Magazine) is convinced taught Tiger to hypnotize himself into a "super-clear, super-positive, heightened sense of relaxed concentration." Because Woods was not consulted regarding any of the information offered here (as the back cover disclaimer reveals), the analysis reads like hearsay. A lackluster writing style and basic golf concepts presented as secret revelations relegate the book's appeal to beginners.
