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

by Alan Shapiro

Book Overview

What's Your Golf Personality? According to Dr. Alan Shapiro, the personality traits that cause problems in your everyday life can also wreak havoc on your golf game. If you're a worrier, chances are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684804573
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Touchstone
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Very helpful!

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.

Insightful observations by thoughtful student of the game

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.

Provides easy to understand golf related mental tips

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!

Zen, existentialism, death anxiety - what else but GOLF?

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.

Something for All Golfers

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.