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Cures For The Yips

Cures For The Yips

  • May 28, 2020
  • David MacKenzie
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Many frustrated golfers reach out to me each week in search of solutions for what they describe as “the yips”. If cures for the yips aren’t implemented, it can destroy scores, enjoyment and a player’s self-esteem. But help is at…

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Curing The Yips By Lowering Performance Anxiety

Curing The Yips By Lowering Performance Anxiety

  • June 14, 2018
  • David MacKenzie
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Being a mental coach for golf, I get many golfers contacting me each week about the chipping and putting yips. The studies that have been done on the yips show that in 70% of cases the yips are caused, or…

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How Ernie Els Cured The Yips

How Ernie Els Cured The Yips

  • June 7, 2018
  • David MacKenzie
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Curing the yips is something that I’m asked about every week. Ironically, the yips typically affects better, more competitive players who are used to scoring well, which worsens the performance anxiety brought on by it. Even major champions are not…

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Making The Yips Disappear

Making The Yips Disappear

  • March 29, 2018
  • David MacKenzie
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Since you're reading this article, I’m going to assume that you suffer from the yips. If I’m right, then I’ve got some information for you that I believe will help you overcome the yips and play with freedom. From my…

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Cures For The Chipping Yips

Cures For The Chipping Yips

  • January 25, 2016
  • David MacKenzie
  • Yips
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Do have the chipping yips? Do you play in fear of the chipping yips causing you embarrassment and ruining your scorecard? Do you focus on it for most of the round and let it affect your enjoyment of the game?…

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How Do You Cure The Yips?

How Do You Cure The Yips?

  • January 28, 2015
  • David MacKenzie
  • Yips
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In order to find your cure for the yips, it’s important to first know exactly what it is and what causes it. The golf yips come in all shapes and sizes - putting yips, chipping yips and even driving yips.…

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How To Cure The Yips

How To Cure The Yips

  • January 23, 2014
  • David MacKenzie
  • Yips
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The Yips can be a golfer’s worst nightmare. That uncontrollable involuntary muscle movement that happens right when you don’t want it to can cause even the best golfers total misery. As a mental game coach, I get asked regularly about…

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Yips
  • Cures For The Yips

    May 28, 2020

  • Curing The Yips By Lowering Performance Anxiety

    June 14, 2018

  • How Ernie Els Cured The Yips

    June 7, 2018

  • Making The Yips Disappear

    March 29, 2018

  • Cures For The Chipping Yips

    January 25, 2016

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