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Columns that unpack golf's mental game, personality types, and improvement struggles from a psychology angle.
- Personality & Types
Does Golf Reveal Your Personality? Separating a Trait From a Bad Day
Golf and personality, sorted into what shows up every round and what only showed up today. A method for checking the same four moments across three rounds, and four axes for naming the tendencies that keep repeating.
- Mental Game
Why You Compare Yourself to Other Golfers — and How to Loosen the Grip
Feeling behind the people you started with isn't a character flaw. Here's why the gap looks bigger than it is, why identical effort surfaces at different times, and how to swap the yardstick instead of trying to stop comparing.
- On-Course Struggles
How to Review a Round of Golf: Keeping Notes That Actually Lower Your Score
A post-round review isn't a post-mortem — it's a record of your decisions. What matters isn't where the mistake happened but the choice you made just before it. Here's a three-line template and a version that survives for people whose notes never last.
- Practice & Improvement
Why Does Everyone Give You Different Golf Advice? How to Pick What Works
Golf advice contradicts itself because whoever is giving it is speaking from their own playing style. Here are three questions for filtering the advice you've been given, and how to translate a tip into language your body can actually use.
- On-Course Struggles
Does Who You Play With Change Your Score? Playing-Partner Fit on Four Axes
Why your score shifts depending on your playing partners. Fit isn't about getting along — it's about whether your attacking style, decision-making and pace mesh. Here are the six pairings that go wrong, and what to do when you can't change the group.
- Personality & Types
Build Your Golf Practice Around Your Type, Not Someone Else's Routine
The same practice plan sticks for one golfer and collapses for another. How to build a routine that fits your tendencies across four axes: aggressive/steady, analytical/feel, planned/spontaneous, clutch/practice-focused.
- Practice & Improvement
How Hard Is It to Break 100 in Golf? What the Barrier Actually Is
How difficult is breaking 100 really? The math behind the number, the three non-technical factors that build the wall, and the changes in goal-setting that bring the difficulty down.
- Mental Game
What Score Is "Not Embarrassing" in Golf? Why No Such Number Exists
At what score do you stop feeling embarrassed on the golf course? Why no such threshold exists, what your playing partners actually notice, and how to stop the number from tightening up your game.
- Mental Game
Overthinking Your Golf Swing? Decide Where Your Thoughts Belong
For golfers who freeze over the ball from overthinking. Why trying not to think backfires, a concrete method for doing your thinking behind the ball and keeping one thought at address, and how to build the habit at the driving range.
- Mental Game
Why Do Only Putts Make You Nervous? The Unique Psychology of Putting and How to Handle It
For golfers whose hands freeze only over the putter. Learn why putting carries its own special kind of pressure, how to switch your goal from holing it to matching the distance, and how to build a routine that holds up when it counts.
