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How To Achieve Your Golf Goals In 2025

How to Achieve Your Golf Goals in 2025

  • January 8, 2025
  • David MacKenzie
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It’s that time of year again! Time for a fresh start and creating a new, better, happier you in 2025. Most people set goals every year, but because these goals and New Year’s resolutions rely too much on willpower alone,…

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The Rory McIlroy Goal Setting Process

The Rory McIlroy Goal Setting Process

  • January 21, 2022
  • David MacKenzie
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“I used to write down that I want to win five times, I want to win a major, I want to win The Race to Dubai, I want to win the FedEx Cup…but I can’t control it. There’s so many…

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A Better Approach To Goal Setting: A Personal Philosophy

A Better Approach To Goal Setting: A Personal Philosophy

  • January 1, 2022
  • David MacKenzie
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As you set your goals for the new year, I'd like you to think less about what you want to achieve and more about the person/player that you want to become.  I’m not saying that you shouldn’t set outcome goals.…

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10 Performance Habits To Crush It In 2021

10 Performance Habits To Crush It In 2021

  • January 7, 2021
  • David MacKenzie
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Now that 2020 is finally behind us, I'm sure that you are spending some time reflecting, resetting, and planning so that you can improve your performance and grow throughout the upcoming year. From the years that I've been coaching the…

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How To Achieve Your Goals In 2022

How To Achieve Your Goals In 2022

  • January 7, 2020
  • David MacKenzie
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Now that the New Year is underway, I’m sure that you have at least a few goals to better your life and make it a successful year. How well did you do with your goals last year? Did you achieve…

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The Goal Setting Formula For Your Best Golf

The Goal Setting Formula For Your Best Golf

  • December 29, 2017
  • David MacKenzie
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“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement”. – Brian Tracy It's at this time of year (during the off season for most) that my students and I review the past year and set goals for the new season.…

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Year End Evaluation And Goal Setting Worksheet

Year End Evaluation and Goal Setting Worksheet

  • December 28, 2016
  • David MacKenzie
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The week between Christmas and New Year is the perfect time to reflect on the past year (the successes and the things you could have done better) and put together a plan to make 2017 your best golf season yet.…

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What’s Standing Between You And Success? Let’s Find Out…

What’s standing between you and success? Let’s find out…

  • May 12, 2016
  • David MacKenzie
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The “elite” golfer reaches the top because they view the game as both a science and an art. It looks like an art when they play, but what goes on behind the scenes is much more calculated. In modern golf,…

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Top 4 Deal Breakers Of Success In Golf

Top 4 Deal Breakers Of Success In Golf

  • December 14, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
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From my experience working with elite players, I can put the reasons for not being able to break-through from good to elite into 4 "deal breakers of success" in golf. Here they are... Not having a plan/goals for your success…

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The Amazing Power Of Goal Setting In Golf

The Amazing Power Of Goal Setting In Golf

  • January 15, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
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“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement”. - Brian Tracy Where will your game be at the end of the New Year? Why is it important to think about this now? The best players and most successful people…

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Goal setting and planning
  • How to Achieve Your Golf Goals in 2025

    January 8, 2025

  • The Rory McIlroy Goal Setting Process

    January 21, 2022

  • A Better Approach To Goal Setting: A Personal Philosophy

    January 1, 2022

  • 10 Performance Habits To Crush It In 2021

    January 7, 2021

  • How To Achieve Your Goals In 2022

    January 7, 2020

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