How to make your opponent have the worst round of his life
Recently when looking at how the mind works I found a site dedicated to using Neuro Linguistic Programming (a form of hypnosis) and other techniques to make your playing partners play worse by decreasing their mental state.
Let me just show you one of the free articals...
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Traditional golf psychology techniques include positive thinking, visualization, and self-hypnosis. Many of these self-improvement methods were founded on the principles of the pioneering work in hypnosis by Milton Erickson in the mid 70s and Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ (NLP™) by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
Forward thinking golf psychology coaches have been using these techniques for years to eliminate tension and anxiety, increase confidence, and get golfers “into the zone”. These approaches work very well, and most of the successful PGA players use some variation of them everyday.
There exists, however, a darker and very devious way to use these same tools to your advantage on the course.
The same way that you can create a positive peak state in yourself, you can also sabotage your unknowing opponents by creating doubt, insecurity, and frustration within them at will.
Sounds like fun, eh?
Let’s take anchors for example.
Traditionally, you would create an anchor to instantly put yourself into an emotional state… say a positive state of mind. You might simply imagine yourself in the past doing something incredibly well and feeling very confident. As you reach the peak of your confident state, you would do something unique… like tap your index finger and thumb together. After doing this several times, your brain will actually link up the action of touching those fingers together with a feeling of confidence. Then all you need to do is perform that action on the course to feel confident.
That’s all well and good, but the really exciting thing is that you can also negatively anchor other players!
For example, when your opponent misses a short putt and berates himself, it’s obvious that he is in a negative mental state. At that moment, you can do something unique, like snap your fingers, hum a song, yawn – almost anything that is unique and is easily duplicated.
You’ve successfully set a negative anchor.
Do that each time he flubs a shot, and the anchor will become even stronger. Fire that anchor off (perform the unique action) when your opponent is feeling fine – and watch what happens. Your opponent will return to that negative feeling associated with the anchor – and his performance will suffer.
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