Heady Golf is about the eight inches of course between one ear and the other — practical mindset work, tested round after round, for golfers who are tired of losing strokes to their own head.
Every week, a short essay lands in your inbox — written for golfers who know the game is mostly played between the ears, and who are done blaming their swing for what their mind is actually doing.
No equipment reviews. No tips you've already heard. Just honest, practical thinking on the mental side of the game, from someone who's spent twenty years figuring it out the hard way on real courses with real money on the line.
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Short, direct pieces on the mental side of the game — no fluff, no "just relax," just what's actually worked.
Why so many golfers freeze over the ball — and how a simple trigger can quiet an overthinking mind.
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Why your opening tee shot feels so difficult — and how changing one belief can set you free.
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Jackson Koivun's breakthrough victory is a reminder that sometimes the greatest pressure comes long before the tournament begins.
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Many golfers feel stuck because they judge improvement by score alone. Learn why better decisions often come before lower scores.
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Ryan Fox won The Open by trusting a simple principle. Here's what it means for every golfer who overthinks.
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Why the best golfers adapt to what the course is asking — and how to do the same on your next round.
Read the note →The mindset work that happens before you ever pull a club — how you walk to the first tee decides more than your grip does.
Mid-round mental tools for staying in the shot you're hitting instead of the scorecard you're protecting.
The four-foot putt is rarely a stroke problem. It's almost always a thinking problem. Here's how to think differently over it.
How to actually learn from a bad round instead of just replaying it on a loop until your next tee time.
I've played for over 20 years and sit at a mid-to-low handicap — and for most of that time, I assumed every bad round was a swing problem. New lessons, new equipment, new drills. The scores moved a little. Then they stopped moving at all.
What actually changed my game wasn't another swing fix. It was the unglamorous work of figuring out what I was telling myself between shots — and slowly, deliberately, changing it. I read more books and listened to more podcasts on the mental side of sport than I'd like to admit, tried most of it on real rounds, and kept the handful of things that actually held up under pressure.
I'm not a sports psychologist. I'm not selling a credential. I'm a golfer who got obsessed with the other half of the game — and Heady Golf is where I write down what's actually worked, for anyone else stuck three strokes higher than their swing deserves.
