Golf Mental Fitness:

How to Prevent Burnout

Golf mental fitness is very important if your junior golfer is thinking about getting involved in tournaments. As your child grows, his swing may change. His golf coach may, at some point, want to change his grip. All this adds up to the possibility of going through a slump and your child needs to have the tools available to him when this happens.



Once your child gets started playing competitive golf, his playing, practicing and tournament schedule may snowball. Add to this trying to keep up with the demands of school as they get older and you may have a prescription for burnout. Or, your child may find himself in a situation where, while playing in a tournament, another player will try to psych him out by “reminding” him of a bad shot. Some kids do this to throw the competition off-balance and your kid needs to be able to deal with these situations just as he would have to deal with a playground bully.

Golf mental fitness for juniors has become so important that mental training has become an integral part of the golf program at Hank Haney’s International Junior Golf Academy and other prestigious academies that combine training, competition and academics for serious junior golfers. But what do you do if your kid just needs a little bit of help with dealing with other kids, higher scoring or mental fatigue and stress?