Interview
It sure was nice to see David Duval come in tied for second at the AT&T Pro-Am at Pebble Beach. He had four rounds of 67-68-67-69. Those are solid scores in anyone's book.
Believe it or not, this early in the season he is now 16th on the money list with over $557,000 earned in 2010.
John and I have been big fans of Duval here at the GolfDashBlog and it is just nice to see someone who has been to the dark side of golfing depths for some time but now seems to be emerging into the light again.
I just read his post-round interview at Pebble Beach and ...
1. GolfDash: How does the mind "influence" the physical body and vice versa?
Dr. Joe: I like to say that the golf swing is 90% mental and 10% mental. That is to say, there is nothing that we do physically that is not, at some level, controlled by our mind.
The key is finding a way to let the "thinking" mind do all the preliminaries to physical performance - selecting a target, judging the lie, gauging weather influences, etc., then letting our "intuitive" mind take over, to let our bodies make a free swing.
2. GolfDash: What is the best "state of mind" to play golf ...
I have always been a fan of Katherine Roberts and her golf fitness expertise. I reviewed the excellent movie, The Back Nine (by Jon Fitzgerald) a few weeks back (
Best Golf Film of the Year: The Back Nine) and Katherine was featured very prominently in it.
Katherine is as much a terrific personal and motivational coach (as you'll see in the movie) as a world-class golf and sports fitness guru.
She just has such a nice, simple way of communicating that it is very refreshing and after seeing the movie I knew I wanted to feature her on our GolfDash Blog.
We caught Katherine in between her many projects to ...
GolfDashBlog: A lot of us know the name Joey Diovisalvi and have see you associated with the PGA Tour over the years. For those of who don't know you, can you bring them up to speed?
JoeyD: I'm a biomechanics coach on the PGA Tour and have been for over a decade now. I'm currently working week in and week out with seven Tour pros -- Pat Perez, Ryuji Imada, Jason Dufner, Charlie Wi, Chez Reavie, Jason Gore and Tom Pernice Jr. Before that I spent seven years working with Vijay Singh, including his run where he was the top-ranked player in the world. I've been featured on the CBS ...
Five-times Open Champion Peter Thomson was the last professional to win three consecutive Open Championships (1954-56), a feat Padraig Harrington is attempting to emulate this year. Here, The Melbourne Tiger, who celebrates his 80th birthday in August, describes the Turnberry course and Harrington and Woods’ chances of claiming the Claret Jug.
The Open Championship returns to Turnberry this year. You played in the 1977 Open, which Tom Watson won – what are your memories of the course?
I played there in the British Matchplay Championships, I think in 1957, so I was very familiar with the place having had a lot of serious rounds there in the Championship. As ...
Just piggybacking on the post below.
I heard this brief interview with Duval on The Golf Channel last week.
He said it is really not swing mechanics or swing issues in the way now. It is something else.
To find out, click the link below to access the interview.
David Duval Interview on The Golf Channel
