Paul Casey at Houston – Mental Golf is Key to Golf Advance

I’ve been watching Paul Casey’s golf advance this year starting with his constant golf achievement in Abu Dhabi if he was talking optimistically about accepting into the top 20 in the world. Now, with his second-place accomplishment at the Apple Golf Championships at Dove Mountain and his able achievement at the Shell Houston Open endure weekend, he’s at amount six on the apple rankings. With his golf apperception alive this well, he’s absolutely one of the favourites to win this anniversary at Augusta.

Casey was acutely focussed and in the zone, as he explained at the columnist conference, “I kept my arch down, to be honest, and didn’t pay too abundant absorption to what was traveling on. I just anticipation it was abundantly difficult out there, so why accountability myself with alive too much.” He went on to say, “It wasn’t until the endure blooming I looked up if I was in the alembic and knew I had to get up and down to exhausted J.B. Otherwise a play off.” He went on to exhausted long-hitting J.B. Holmes in the playoff.

Now this isn’t the aforementioned Paul Casey who went into a affecting slump aback in 2005. The new Casey has rebuilt himself to a new akin with the advice of sports Psychologist, Dr Don Greene, as able-bodied as coach, Peter Kostis. Aback then, Casey was accident his way mentally and that was impacting his golf physically as well. Now he’s about as far from a slump as can be imagined.

So, who absolutely is Don Greene? Able-bodied he’s no accustomed golf psychologist. He started out as a best diver and Blooming Beret afore earning his doctorate in sports psychology. For the endure 25 years he’s been alive with humans beneath burden alignment from badge SWAT officers, through able golfers, Grand Prix drivers, Olympic athletes and for the endure 15 years he’s been specialising in the assuming arts with musicians, singers and actors – and Paul Casey.