Zen Golf

Name: Zen Golf
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ISBN: 9780007205301

ISBN-10: 0007205309

ISBN-13: 9780007205301

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Authors: Joseph Parent

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In this approach to golf instruction, Dr Joseph Parent, both a noted PGA Tour coach and a respected Buddhist teacher, draws on this natural connection to teach golfers how to play with more consistency and less frustration, and consequently how to lower their scores.

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List price: $20.65
Publisher: HarperCollinsWillow
Pages: 224
Size: 4.23" wide x 6.41" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.572



Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Different Perspective


Empty Your Cup


Four Kinds of Students


Thinking Outside the Box


Par for the Course


Cover the Roads with Leather


How Big Is Your Mind?


You Are Not Your Thoughts


Basic Goodness


Unconditional Confidence


Clearing the Interference


A Perfect Swing



The PAR Approach


Preparation


What Is Your Target?


Your Mind's Eye


The Vividness of the Moment


Where Is Your Target?


Don't Hit It into the Lake


Be Decisive


Bacon and Eggs Breakfast


More Curious Than Afraid


Natural Commitment


Avoid the Anyways


Dive Under the Waves


Cool, Calm, and Collected


Listen to Your Intuition


Center of Gravity


Remember to Breathe


Cultivating and Strengthening Awareness


Action


How to Get from the Practice Tee to the First Tee


Transitions


Synchronizing Body and Mind


Give It Time to Sink In


Never Keep More Than a Hundred Thoughts in Your Mind During Your Swing


During Your Swing Is Not the Time to Give Yourself a Lesson


Give Up Control to Get Control


You Produce What You Fear


Hitting the Target Ten Thousand Times in a Row


In Golf We Trust


Can You Put a Cat in a Box?


To Care or Not to Care


How to Make Every Putt


Putt with Imagination


Don't Count Your Money


The Slow-Motion Walk-Up


Not Too Tight, Not Too Loose


Beware of Trying for a Few Extra Yards


Nothing Special, Nothing Extra


Response to Results


The Post-Shot Routine


Thanks for the Memories


The Angry Guy


How to Make a Flower Blossom


Pebbles in the Bowl


Untie the Sandbags


Fire Your Evil Caddie


Isn't Where You Have to Play It from Punishment Enough?


Accentuate the Positive


Uplifted Body, Uplifted Mind


You Can't Stop the Waves, but You Can Learn to Surf


Why Are You Still Carrying Her?


These Things Come and Go


Overcoming Self-Sabotage


Patience Pays


Take Your Medicine


How to Enjoy a Bad Round of Golf


Who Knows What's Good and What's Bad?



A Game of Honor


Chi Chi's Prayer


Shambhala Golf


A Warrior's Dignity


Gentle, Inquisitive, Fearless


Index of Exercises


References and Recommended Reading


Zen Golf Lessons