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Golf's Mental Hazards: Overcome Them and Put an End to the Self-Destructive Round

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There are six hazards according the author. He provides a test for us at the beginning of the book. Then you can specify your own mental hazard--it's according to your own nature/character.

The author introduces a fictional person for each hazard. This is an awkward part of this book. Psychologists are not always a great story writers. It's a hazard in this book:-)

But the explanation of the mental hazards and how to overcome them are clear. I like autor's honest confession about his anger, disappointment etc.

This is the 3rd book on Mental Golf that I have read, and by far the best. The author provides a great test (similar to Myers-Briggs) that helps to focus on 6 areas that can be improved mentally. Each of these areas then has a chapter that has golf-related ideas (instead of some other books that provide overall life changing fixes...yuck) to get over the mental hurdles. For me, Hazard 5 (control freak) and 4 (trying to live up to other's expectations) were right on the money as far as the test scores then the anecdotes. I now have alot of new, useful golf-related ideas to try. Thanks!

The book made me realize that many, if not, all of my fears when playing golf are really very common. It's really helped me focus on my game without worrying that everybody else is watching me and much better than me. Finally, I can enjoy the game and not worry about anybody else.

The self evaluation is very insightful if you're honest with yourself.

I guess it is a little self-centered of me to think that anyone else cares where my tee shot goes. The book sure helps put things into perspective. I'm ready to read it again.

This tightly written little gem of a book is packed full of interesting insights about the mental side of the game. Mr. Shapiro draws on material ranging from clinical psychology to zen, and from Hogan, Nicklaus & Woods to the double-digit handicappers most of us are more intimately familiar with in shaping a realistic and workable strategy for golfers of all abilities to not only get the most out of their golf games but to find more balanced lives away from the course. I highly recommend it.

One of those "little" books that turns out to be a gem of wisdom "Golf's Mental Hazards" is a book that will definitely inform your game, whether it's the game of golf or the game of life. A clincal psychologist, Dr. Shapiro employs a deft and insightful quiz to help the golfer establish his/her personality profile and then uses the profiles to point out strategies to improve the game. The book can be read as a straight "how-to" on the game of golf (and this avid duffer clearly knows and loves the game) but it also delves deeper into strategies that can inform and enhance the golfer's life when off the links, as well. Calling upon such eclectic references as Zen, Existentialist Psychology and death anxiety, Dr. Shapiro weaves together a philosophy of golf, and of living, that will expand the mind and spirit as much as it enhances the game. Delivered with both elegant insights and the rollicking style of a stand-up comic,"Golf's Mental Hazards" is a thoughtful, funny, delightful, and very helpful book, destined to become a classic in the literature of golf.

There is something for everyone here who ever steps on the golf course. From Dr. Shapiro's simple mental profile you take to his six chapters focusing on golfers traits Dr. Shapiro will find something for everyone; even you Tiger Woods. Don't go looking for any other book to begin your journey into the mental side of golf. This is a must for every golfers library.