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Elite Mental Game helps golfers develop practical mental performance skills they can use to perform under pressure.
Our approach combines mental performance coaching, practical exercises, visualization and mental rehearsal, and other techniques designed to help golfers better understand and influence the thoughts, feelings, and actions that shape performance.
Here are answers to some of the questions we hear most often from players, parents, and coaches.
FAQ
What is Elite Mental Game?
Elite Mental Game is a mental performance system built specifically for competitive golfers.
We help players understand the mental patterns that influence how they prepare, respond to adversity, manage pressure, and compete. More importantly, we give them practical tools they can practice and use on the golf course.
Our goal isn't to eliminate nerves, negative thoughts, or bad shots. It's to help golfers respond to them more effectively and consistently.
What does an EMG team workshop include?
EMG workshops are interactive, practical, and tailored to the needs of each team.
Players learn mental performance concepts and immediately put them into practice through discussion, exercises, competitive examples, visualization, and techniques they can use before, during, and after a round.
Coaches also leave with shared concepts and language they can reinforce with their players throughout the season.
What will my players learn?
While every session is customized, EMG commonly helps golfers develop skills to:
- Build confidence from preparation and process
- Reset after mistakes and adversity
- Manage nerves and pressure
- Direct attention toward what they can control
- Develop more consistent pre- and post-shot routines
- Recognize unproductive thought and emotional patterns
- Use visualization and mental rehearsal more intentionally
- Compete with greater resilience, focus, and consistency
Is EMG only for golfers who are struggling mentally?
Not at all. Mental performance training isn't simply a solution for golfers experiencing anxiety, frustration, or confidence issues. Just as golfers train their swing, fitness, and course management, they can deliberately train how they think, focus, respond, and compete.
EMG works with golfers at different ability levels who want to become more consistent performers and develop mental skills they can rely on under pressure.
How is EMG different from a motivational speech?
Our objective isn't simply to inspire players for an afternoon. EMG gives golfers a framework, shared vocabulary, and specific techniques they can continue practicing long after the session. We want players to leave understanding not only what strong mental performance looks like, but how to develop it.
For team programs, this also gives coaches concepts they can reinforce during practices, tournaments, and individual conversations with players.
Does EMG replace a player's golf coach or sports psychologist?
No. EMG is designed to complement the technical, physical, tactical, and mental resources already surrounding an athlete. We focus specifically on practical mental-performance skills golfers can apply to preparation and competition.
What techniques does EMG use?
Depending on the individual or team, EMG may incorporate techniques including mental rehearsal, visualization, attention and focus exercises, breathing and relaxation techniques, performance routines, guided imagery, and hypnosis.
Not every technique is necessary or appropriate for every session. The objective is always the same: helping golfers develop useful mental skills they can deliberately apply to their performance.
What is mental rehearsal?
Mental rehearsal is the deliberate practice of imagining a situation, response, or performance before it happens.
Golfers already do this naturally when they visualize a shot, anticipate a difficult hole, or imagine how they'll feel in an important tournament. EMG teaches players to use this process more intentionally — directing attention toward the performance, response, and behaviors they want to execute.
Mental imagery and related psychological skills are widely used in sport-performance training. Research has examined their relationship with athletic performance across many sports.
Does EMG use hypnosis?
Hypnosis is one of several tools that may be incorporated into EMG mental-performance coaching. It is not the entirety of the EMG system, and a team workshop is not simply a group hypnosis session.
Hypnosis generally involves a state of focused attention in which a person may become more responsive to guided suggestions and imagery. It can feel similar to becoming deeply absorbed in a book, movie, visualization exercise, or other focused activity.
For EMG, it can be used alongside mental rehearsal and other techniques to help athletes practice useful thoughts, feelings, responses, and performance patterns.
What is hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a safe and naturally occurring state you’ve already experienced thousands of times. In fact, you experience the brain wave state we call hypnosis before you fall asleep and as you wake up out of sleep. It is not magic. It is a tool for "reprogramming" the subconscious mind, which is the control center of your life.
Have you ever found yourself completely immersed in an activity to the exclusion of everything else? That is a natural trance state. A common example of this is while watching a movie and becoming so connected to the characters that you feel like it is really happening, even though logically you know they are just actors. Maybe, you are on your phone and are so focused that you did not hear someone attempt to speak with you.
The hypnotist will lead you to think and feel things that will allow your mind to enter the brain wave state we call hypnosis.
When you are in hypnosis, you won't even know you're hypnotized because it feels so normal.
Will I lose control during hypnosis?
No. Hypnosis isn't mind control, and participating doesn't mean surrendering control to someone else.
A person remains engaged in the experience and can hear, think, respond, and choose whether to follow suggestions. The goal within EMG is simply to create a highly focused environment for mental rehearsal and performance coaching.
Do players have to participate in hypnosis?
No. EMG is broader than any one technique. We want players and coaches to understand what we're doing, be comfortable with the process, and engage with techniques that support their development.
If a player, parent, coach, or program has questions or concerns about a particular technique, we encourage that conversation before a session.
What is the subconscious mind?
The subconscious mind is also known as the unconscious mind, which means you are unconscious to it.
The subconscious mind is the control center of your life. Once it learns your patterns: values, rules, beliefs, and habits, this becomes your identity. This is how you would describe yourself on a dating profile. We think, "that's just the way I am."
To keep it simple, the subconscious mind is like a hard drive on a computer that stores all the experiences (memories) of your life from your birth until now, data. It is also a pattern recognition machine, meaning it notices when things happened more than once so you can continue to repeat it, essentially running you on autopilot. It has no critical thinking skills, meaning it stores data and repeats patterns without judgement of whether it is good or bad.
What is the conscious mind?
The conscious mind is the mind you are conscious of. It is your internal dialog, the voice in your head. Its job is analysis. It helps you figure out what to do when you meet a new person, go to a new place, or see something for the first time.
Once it has completed its analysis it must then ask your subconscious mind what to do now. Since the subconscious mind is your control center it makes sure that what you do now is in alignment with your identity, what you have always done. The bottom line, is your conscious mind is subject to the decisions of the subconscious mind.
Have you ever noticed how difficult, if not impossible, it is to use your conscious mind's discipline, willpower, or to think your way out of a bad habit? This is because of subconscious programming. It can make you feel stuck and lose hope of ever changing.
How do the two minds work together?
If you have your driver's license and have been driving long enough your subconscious mind has learned how to drive. This is the fourth stage of learning, unconscious competence, meaning you are now able to competently drive without having to use your conscious mind. You automatically press the pedals, steer, avoids things, and safely arrive at your destination without you having to think about it.
This leaves your conscious mind to do other things, such as imagine details of a phone conversation, or listen to a podcast and analyze what is being said.
What is subconscious reprogramming?
Your subconscious mind gets programmed by noticing the patterns in the data (the memories of what happened to you). It can then run you on autopilot, you will repeat your patterns without conscious analysis (decision making).
There are two ways to reprogram a pattern: repetition of something new (like a swing change) or doing hypnosis.
When you are in hypnosis your subconscious mind is open to collect new data, which is the suggestions of the hypnotherapist. This new data immediately goes to the top of the list and is most vivid because it is most recent. Real memories (data) were filtered by the conscious mind, while this new data is not filtered, so it is more impactful. The subconscious mind has no critical thinking skills, so it can not tell the difference between data from memories or data from suggestions during hypnosis. So it fully accepts the data in hypnosis, even if it is illogical and doesn't make sense.
Let's put this all together so it makes sense to you. When you are in hypnosis your subconscious mind can be reprogrammed because the new data can overwrite the old data, therefore creating changes to the way you feel and act after the session.
If it takes about 30 days for your brain to adopt a change, then consider hypnosis to be a habit accelerator, where each session is equal to about a week of strengthening the change.
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