Hi
My name is Mark Holloway and welcome to my blog page.
The articles on this page, are aimed at the golfer who is struggling to break through a scoring plateau, or for those, who feel they aren’t getting the rewards they want from their practice.
There are new ideas in each of the posts, which have been compiled from a diary I kept over my months of intense practice.
I recorded the things that just didn’t work well for me, and what I did instead that worked so much better.
I hope you find some benefit from them.
Cheers,
Mark
'Despite many years of playing, and practicing methods and ideas from the most respected sources, understanding how my body 'learnt', was the crucial factor that allowed me to improve so quickly'. Read more...
I began to do a bit of research and I came across an old time Canadian Neuropsychologist called Donald Olding Hebb. Who way back in 1949 coined a phrase that has stood the test of time….. it is ‘neurons that fire together wire together’. Read more...
When striking improves, a golfers confidence increases, and when that grows, so does the optimism that the next shot will be as good. Read more...
There is no 'mindfulness' with this task, we don't need to be consciously present, or in tune with the process, because there is hardly any reasoning input needed, unless! Read more...
The psychologist George Humphrey referred to this parable in this 1923 book. The story of man's mind: [6] "No man skilled at a trade needs to put his constant attention on the routine work." he wrote "if he does, the job is apt to be spoiled". Read more...
Jordan Spieth 2017 Open ChampionThe ‘zone’ is an emotional state, made up of a complex mix of brain chemicals? Can you enter that ideal state at will, or not. Read more...
'I was feeling optimistic because I was scoring well, so I would get nervous in case my score began to slip. If I felt discouraged because my score was slipping, I wouldn't be nervous, but I would be a lot less focused on the shot at hand'. Read more...
Chipping Eureka
'I was afraid I would hit the ground before the ball. I didn't want to duff the shot so much that there seemed to be a dense 'nervous' cloud that I couldn't get beyond'. Read more...
Putting magic from 40ft, where science meets art
'On short puts, the margin for error is wider. This makes the starting line, less critical. As the length of a putt increases, the margin for error, in the starting line, gets finer and finer'. Read more...
Use your sixth sense to play better golf
'A golfers swing isn’t a mathematic equation, it’s a sensory action with the tiniest of intellectual input. Read more...
Golf are feels real?
So, I had been trying to access an involuntary feeling, with voluntary intent, (I cant make my hands feel cold just because I want them to). Read more...
Sub Par in 8 months from better Golf IQ
'Something had to change, or this faulty DNA would mean I would crash and burn with all the pressure I put on myself. Like I did all those years back... and luckily something did change'. Read more...
Surefire way to improve your golf. Don't use the word 'swing'.
'Isn't the best route to hitting the ball well, actually about the how the club makes contact with it. Isn't the swing 'part' more about generating force'? Read more...
Mo Norman Golf
'Could it be closer to the truth, to say that whichever theory a golfer decides to follow during practice, eventually, it finds them arriving at the same destination they would have arrived at anyway'. Read more...
'I had come back from the range scratching my head, knowing I was missing something'. Read more...
'For some weeks through that summer, I had a nagging feeling, that the way I was practising wasn’t quite right'. Read more...
Phil Michelson Wins 2018 WGC Championship
'He is constantly searching for, and expecting improvement, which belies the fact that he loses so many more times than he ever wins'. His enthusiasm shines in his eyes, and animates his words when you hear him speak. Read more...
Before we press on, step into dreamland for a minute! What if when you were a kid again, and your own school had the sort of facilities for golf that the Loretto School Golf. Academy in Scotland has (see pic above)…. now wouldn't that have been something? Its amazing, Read more...
Jack's Secret - a practical, purposeful, right arrangement of mind
Jack Nicklaus had a secret, and it made him into the best golfer who ever played the game. Now, the thing about 'secrets' is that they aren't really secrets at all; actually, secrets are often very visible, and spoken of freely! The problem is that the real 'gems' of information, the things that can really make a difference to the watcher or reader is most often overlooked. Jack never hid his philosophies. Read more...
The worlds most fearless golfer - Bryson James Aldrich DeChambeau
Frank Sinatra sang that famous song 'I did it my way', and if there was ever a golfer who is doing it 'his' way its Bryson DeChambeau. So, a golfer doing it in their own way isn't so remarkable. Every year dozens and dozens of different golfers win golf tournaments . Each one having done 'it their way', each having a back story as unique and individual as they themselves are. One of the many remarkable things about Bryson is that he has followed an abstract teaching to become a winner. Read more...
Why did I hit the golf ball so badly today?
Did a black cat cross my path this morning, did I walk under a ladder? I even checked the calendar to make sure it wasn't Friday 13th, because an impostor stole my body and tried to play golf in it! ....and he surely never played this game before. Show me a golfer who has played the game for any length of time, and I'll show you a golfer who has asked themselves the type of question that is the topic for this article. Why did I hit the golf ball so badly today? Read more...
