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Mastering Golf's Mental Game Hardcover – 15 Sep 2014
by Dr. Michael T. Lardon (Author), Matthew Rudy (Author)
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Golfers are forever tinkering with their game, from the basic components of their serving, to their putting, to their mental approach to the game. Almost every professional now uses a golf psychologist, like Bob Rotella, whose books have sold nearly 500,000 copies. Michael Lardon is the new breed in golf psychology. While many golf strategies try to get players to eliminate thinking from their approach, Lardon believes that the entire mind, body, and spirit must be embraced. He perfected a multi-step kind of checklist that he believes golfers should employ as a means to eliminating overthinking and succumbing to pressure. This simple step was used by Lardon's star client Phil Mickelson when he won the British Open in 2013. Mickelson, who called the process Golf's Mental Scorecard, will write the foreword for this book.
Mastering Golf's Mental Game will be filled with stories of golfers gone awry and golfers who have gained confidence through this process, as well as other great "rules" that Lardon shares with his clients. A must-have for all weekend golfers, this is the kind of information that can sell forever.
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Publisher: CROWN; 1 edition (15 September 2014)
Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 2 x 21.1 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 527,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#1618 in Golf (Books)
#1047 in Sports Psychology (Books)
Dr. Michael Lardon is golf's hottest psychologist, having devised a mental approach to the game that helped Phil Mickelson win the British Open in 2013. That plan is detailed here, with a book that can follow in the footsteps of Harvey Penick's Little Red Book and Bob Rotella's Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect.
Dr. MIKE LARDON received a psychology degree with honors from Stanford University and his medical degree from the University of Texas. He then completed a psychiatric residency and subsequent fellowship in psychopharmacology and psychobiology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). During this time he worked with and caddied for his brother, Brad Lardon, in the finals of the PGA Tour Qualifying School. In 1995, Dr. Lardon won the Judd Research Award at UCSD for brain research on athletic peak performance. Dr. Lardon often collaborates with Dr. Eric Heiden, the 1980 five-time Olympic gold medalist and United States Olympic Speedskating Team physician. In addition, Dr. Lardon works with a variety of Olympic, National Football League, Major League Baseball, and PGA Tour athletes. He is currently an associate clinical professor of medicine at UCSD, and his private practice is located in San Diego. Dr. Lardon is frequently interviewed by major sports publications such as Sports Illustrated, ESPN magazine, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Golf Week, Golf Magazine, and Golf World.
Amazon.com: 4.6 out of 5 stars 99 reviews
John A. Ryan II
5.0 out of 5 stars This book probably saved me from quitting the game completely!
28 November 2019 - Published on Amazon.com
After 2 years straight of getting out and practicing/playing and reading so many books out there on improving all aspects of the game, and watching everything I could find on YouTube, getting coached via app, and getting coached in person from a former tour player and multiple equipment changes, I was still flat-lining in my ability to improve. I was most times having rounds that were no better, than previously when I only played a couple times a year. It was my coach that first pointed it out, in little ways, then I started to recognize anxiety in my rounds the more I worked at it, as I expected more from my game and didn't get it. This book showed me how to think of my rounds in a completely different way. For a data collection guy like me, it gave me things to focus on that cause improvement, WITHOUT being so focused on the score. It's very useful if you feel like you've topped out your game whether that's as a 25 or a 5 hcp. I printed out 9 pages of highlights from my kindle and am using them to re-think everything about how I approach the game. This very possibly saved me from calling it quits altogether as the game lost it's fun, and as frustration with score became the over-riding disappointment.
Jeromy Stansbury
5.0 out of 5 stars Mental Score Card Works
22 April 2016 - Published on Amazon.com
Normally I don't write a review but I thought if I could help out just one fellow golfer it would be worth the time. I have read around 7 mental books dealing with golf. This was far the best book that I was able put to use. I will admit I read over the mental score card part and told me self I was not going to try that stupid stuff but I decided to give it at least one good go. If you give it 100% and worry more about your routine and mental score instead of your score towards par you will not be sorry. This was the first time I ever played and did not know what my score was towards par when I was finished my round. I keep my mental score at the top of the card and my Par score at the bottom of the card. This was the mental break through that I have been waiting for. Stats do not lie. First time I used it in a tournament and my mental score card was 95%. 6 birdies and 1 eagle so I would say it worked. This was the break I needed to get me from the mid 70's into the mid 60's.
david a browne
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Book - Repeatable Process - Brilliant Results
18 October 2014 - Published on Amazon.com
As a former behavior change and leadership consultant for many years, I came to learn that all SUSTAINABLE transformation comes from repeatable and repeated PROCESS. I also came to appreciate that the human changes, not the employee, and full consideration of the PERSON, not just the employee, was paramount.
Dr. Lardon has brilliantly applied these lessons to Golf - the biathlon for the masses - a sport demanding athleticism, flexibility and power in one shot, a quiet mind, stillness and finesse on the next. Dr. Lardon's work with the amazing Phil Mickelson is living testimony to the simple brilliance of this book. Battling arthritis while playing golf at the highest level on the planet is no easy feat. Mickelson's performance while working with Dr. Lardon shows how even the best can continue to improve both in absolute performance as well as the sustained consistency of that performance.
Can't recommend this book enough to all interested not only in golf but in personal leadership and performance optimization at large!
Thomas J. Isaak
5.0 out of 5 stars for golfers and parents of tournament golfer
1 November 2014 - Published on Amazon.com
As a former professional golfer who now competes in high level amateur events while also serving as a high school golf coach, I am always seeking ways to improve my golf game and those of the players on our team. For me, instant credibility was given by the forward from Phil Mickelson in which in described his collaboration with Dr. Lardon as they sought ways to define and bring out 'the zone'. All golfers have had some experience in which they are able to hit shots, make putts, and think correctly which is why we continue to play: to find that 'zone' when playing in events that really matter to us. Dr. Lardon's book gives clear and objective methods that we can use to bring out the zone more often. As a coach, I also appreciated his definition of external motivation as it hopefully shows that we cannot bribe players to work harder at the game; it really does take internal motivation on their part. What we as coaches and parents can do to help our players improve is shown by Dr. Lardon and should be a guideline for us as mentors to younger golfers: make the game fun and give the players some tangible and reasonable goals to hit to help build the motivation within them. This is a must-read for all golfers seeking to improve AND also for parents/coaches who are trying to help younger players improve
5.0 out of 5 stars Good system, enjoyable read!
13 December 2014 - Published on Amazon.com
I read this book about 2 months ago, but have been waiting to review it because I wanted to give the system a real-world test first. The game of golf has often been extremely frustrating for me, but also very rewarding at times. Without ever quite being able to put my finger on why, I've always felt that I should be a better player than what my score shows. Now I've tried Dr. Lardon's pre-shot pyramid and mental scorecard 3 times so far, and each time it has lowered my score. This method really does work, not only for the pro players talked about in the book, but also for a high-handicap, recreational player like me!
Now, it will take a certain minimum effort. Once I got in the habit of doing the pre-shot pyramid, that part seemed to become almost automatic at times. The mental scorecard part, as long as you're marking a normal scorecard, I found that it doesn't take too much more effort to just mark that down also at the same time. For a mostly public course player like me, there are often times when you have to wait on the next tee box, and that to me was the perfect time to do the mental scorecard.
The case studies of the various professional athletes that Dr. Lardon uses to illustrate his chapter topics are enjoyable and enlightening. In Dr. Lardon's first book "Finding Your Zone", it was the chapter on Dreams I found most intriguing. Here, it was the chapter on Motivation that really hit home for me. In fact, there were several times while reading the book where I found myself saying "oh no, that's me!" or "I'm glad I don't do that anymore!". I think just about any player of any level will find something in one of these topics that really hits home for them as well.