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    20 Minute Golf Tune-Up: Overcoming Mistakes and Frustration
    20 Minute Golf Tune-Up: Overcoming Mistakes and Frustration
    20 Minute Golf Tune-Up: Overcoming Mistakes and Frustration
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    20 Minute Golf Tune-Up: Overcoming Mistakes and Frustration

    By Paul McCarthy and Marc Jones

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    Ruminating on errors and letting annoyances take hold are sure-fire ways of imploding on a round. Part of the ‘20 Minute Golf Tune-Up’ series, this book is designed to help golfers tackle the insidious effects that mistakes and frustration can have on performance. Through the examination of commonly experienced scenarios, readers will soon be playing better, more effective golf. Sections include what to do when:
    ...you give yourself a really hard time if you don’t hit a perfect shot every time
    ...you can’t seem to control your emotions when you get angry
    ...you feel frustrated when you don’t play to your expectations
    ...you feel frustrated when you do not chip well
    ...you lose motivation to train if you don’t do well in a game at the weekend
    ...slow players frustrate you and make you play poorly
    The book concludes with a must-read section on Self-talk
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    Other titles in the 20 Minute Golf Tune-Up series:
    - 20 Minute Golf Tune-Up: Putting
    - 20 Minute Golf Tune-Up: Practising On The Range
    - 20 Minute Golf Tune-Up: Concentration and Nerves
    - 20 Minute Golf Tune-Up: Confidence
    - 20 Minute Golf Tune-Up: Pre-Shot
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    Note: This book uses condensed and curated content from the authors’ acclaimed title The Successful Golfer; if you already have a copy of The Successful Golfer, please do not purchase this book, there is content overlap.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBennion Kearny
    Release dateJan 25, 2017
    ISBN9781911121282
    20 Minute Golf Tune-Up: Overcoming Mistakes and Frustration
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    Paul McCarthy

    Paul McCarthy’s career in management and leadership consulting spans over 25 years and he has worked with almost 100 organizations across the world in over 15 different industries and directly with thousands of leaders to develop their leadership capacity, capability and competency. He has developed leaders in the UK, Europe, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Dubai and Sri Lanka. During his tenure with Deloitte and KPMG, Paul was positioned as each firm’s subject matter expert across Canada for both Talent Management and Leadership Development, often being brought in to speak with C-suite leaders on current and future trends, challenges and opportunities in the future of work and leadership. He provides advice, guidance and has real experience of supporting leaders and leadership teams through the process to adapt how they see the future of leadership and organizations, bringing a disruptive, yet evidence-based, experiential, and experimental approach that is beginning to shift the narrative within and beyond organizations.

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      20 Minute Golf Tune-Up - Paul McCarthy

      20 MINUTE GOLF TUNE-UP: OVERCOMING MISTAKES & FRUSTRATION

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      Paul McCarthy and Marc Jones

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      [Smashwords Edition]

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      An imprint of Bennion Kearny

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      Published in 2017 by Dark River, an imprint of Bennion Kearny Limited.

      ISBN: 978-1-911121-28-2

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      Published by Dark River, an imprint of Bennion Kearny Limited, 6 Woodside, Churnet View Road, Oakamoor, Staffordshire, ST10 3AE

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      About the Authors

      About this Book

      What we shall cover

      I give myself a really hard time if I don’t hit a perfect shot every time

      I can’t seem to control my emotions when I get angry

      I feel frustrated when I don’t play to my expectations

      Research Bunker: Reflecting

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