Gail Smirthwaite
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Golf Confidence Coach Expert
Gail Smirthwaite Quick Facts
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- Golf Confidence Coach - Specialising in the Mental Side of Golf
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- ‘The Seven Secrets of a Highly Successful Golfer’
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- Coach, Author, Speaker
I just wanted to introduce myself and tell you a little about what I do. I currently write for ‘Lady Golfer Magazine’ on Golf Mind Matters in the UK - you may already have seen one of my articles.
I am also a trainer on the CPD programme for the PGA (Professional Golf Association – UK) and I tour UK Golf Clubs conducting talks on ‘how to play golf with confidence’ to all standards of golfers.
I am sponsored by ‘Glen Muir’ which is one of the leading prestigious golf clothes companies in the UK. I also coach many individual tour golfers including Alison Nicholas who is our ex-US Open Golf Champion and who has just been announced at the 2009 Solheim Cup UK and European Captain.
I have also developed a programme called ‘Confidence Caddie’ which led to me writing my book entitled ‘The 7 Secrets of a Highly Successful Golfer’, which is now currently available as an Introduction to my new E-Course in the products section of the site.
I look forward to helping you to master the mind game of golf in 2008 – don’t forget to sign up for my newsletter on the Home Page.”
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Visualise Your Way to Golf Success!
See it … Do it! You probably have often heard me say that you create your own reality. How many times do you see a hazard as you are about to take a shot, and combined with your self-talk, you have already decided that is exactly where your ball is going to end up?
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Golfing “In the Moment”
Zen Proverb – ‘Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind’ The word Zen has become part of the English language, but what does it actually mean? It is much easier to answer ‘WHEN is Zen’ because it is all about being in the NOW! The whole point of Zen practice is to become fully aware of the here and now. To play golf fully in the moment is to play great golf. As soon as we begin to engage our thinking process, our mind then goes into the past or future.
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Learning Style is Important When Learning New Golf Skills
HOW WE TAKE IN INFORMATION AS INDIVIDUALS IS SO IMPORTANT TO OUR SUCCESS WHEN LEARNING NEW SKILLS… The actual vocabulary we use is so important when it comes to the internal conversations we have or what I call our ‘self-talk’. The words we choose to use can have a profound impact on our self-esteem and achievements. It can also affect how we take information from others, especially when we are learning new skills. When we speak, we communicate in channels abbreviated as VHF – Visual, Hearing, and Feeling.
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Self Talk Can Sabotage or Supercharge Your Golf Game
This is all about that chitter chatter in your head when you are just about to play a shot! • How would it feel if you could turn it ‘OFF’? • How would it feel to have the ability to focus completely to the exclusion of everything else going on around you? Let’s take a look at this voice in ...
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Why Trust is a Key Element in Playing Golf
A good client wrote to me saying that her problem is not so much thinking negative thoughts but ‘thinking at all!’ How many of you can relate to that? She went onto say that if any sort of thought enters her head, even positive thoughts, she then starts trying too hard. If she just swings and ...
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Turn Off Negative Thinking to Improve Your Golf
I was so inspired when I read the following quote: nn‘The weather is like golf – things can look bleak, then a break appears in the clouds and everything has changed.’ So why do we so often carry a bad shot in our minds with us to the next one and possibly the one after that; making sure that ...
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Understand How Your Values Affect How You Play Golf
My main purpose in helping you to understand your ‘Values’ is to bring awareness to you that the ‘values’ (or rules) by which you live your life will most likely be different to those of your playing partner. Your interpretation of say the value of ‘honesty’ is not necessarily how others see ...
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Achieving Consistency in Your Game of Golf
It will probably comes as no surprise to you that over the course of my career I have spoken to many golfers about what bothers them the most about how they play golf. Many of you have filled in a mini-questionnaire on my website, and the answers that you have given help in creating many of the ...
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Excellence in Golf Depends on Attitude
‘Excellence is not a skill it is an attitude’. - Peter Jacobse I have talked about attitude in a previous article and discussed being in the right state of mind and how to get into the ‘flow’. So does golfing excellence depend upon our attitude? Noun 1. excellence - the quality of ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Gail Smirthwaite
What's going on in your golf is a reflection of what's going on inside you. Sometimes people can be doing 'all the right things' outwardly- yet subconsciously sabotaging their game of golf from the inside.
Any winning golfer will tell you that it's important to believe in yourself, but how exactly do you do that when YOU ARE the sum total of all the beliefs, both positive and negative, that you have created about yourself and your ability to play golf?
If you're serious about improving your game of golf, you have to address what's going on 'inside' such as how you truly feel about your ability to play well, how confident you are when playing in front of your playing partners, how you react to a series of bad shots, and your real reasons for not enjoying your golf, and more…
And at the same time, this inner contemplation should not distract or prevent you from making full use of my practical, proven techniques that you can apply right now to increase your golfing success by creating a great mental attitude to your game.
How to get started
I created the Confidence Caddie Program to help people like you to master both the 'inner' and 'outer' game of golf, because no matter how much you practise your technique, which is of course important too, you absolutely need a strong and positive mental attitude to help you play the golf consistently well.
The first step is to sign up for my FREE weekly Confidence Caddie newsletter packed full of FREE TIPS, information and advice.