Are You Ruining Your Golf Game by Thinking Too Much? Karl Morris Turns the Tables #423

Get a personalised mental game plan with Karl AI. Start Your 7-Day Free Trial Now. https://mindcaddie.app.link/B8OMj7jVv6b The secret to better golf is learning to trust your natural ability? In this episode of The Mind Caddie Podcast, performance coach Karl Morris is joined by American golf coach Randy Joyner to explore golf psychology, simplifying the golf swing and unlocking the potential that so often gets lost in technical thinking. Randy shares the extraordinary early success of his YouTube channel, The Pursuit: Chasing Golf Greatness, where his instinctive approach to the golf swing is helping players rediscover their confidence and enjoyment. Together, Karl and Randy challenge conventional golf coaching and explain why combining the mental and physical sides of the game can transform performance on the course. In this episode, we explore: Trusting your instincts: How reconnecting with your natural athletic ability can help you swing more freely and play better golf.

Get a personalised mental game plan with Karl AI. Start Your 7-Day Free Trial Now. https://mindcaddie.app.link/B8OMj7jVv6b The secret to a better golf swing isn't in your hands, your shoulders or your club — but in your feet? On this episode of The Mind Caddie Podcast with Karl Morris, Karl welcomes Terry Hashimoto, one of the leading experts in golf biomechanics, pressure mapping and ground reaction forces. Terry has spent decades studying what happens beneath a golfer's feet, working with elite players and developing technology designed to make complex golf science accessible to everyday golfers. Terry is the creator behind AI Sensor and The Golf Number, innovative technology that measures how pressure moves through your feet during the golf swing. His mission is to turn pressure mapping from an expensive, complicated teaching tool into a practical training system that helps golfers understand what they are actually doing — rather than what they think they are doing. In this fascinating, funny and occasionally sweary conversation, Karl and Terry explore why pressure transfer could be the missing piece in your golf game, how poor foot pressure can contribute to coming over the top, and why simply understanding where your pressure is moving may help you improve swing path, balance, rotation and distance. Terry doesn't pull his punches. He challenges conventional golf instruction, questions the obsession with swing positions and argues that golfers can sometimes improve faster by learning to feel their movement instead of filling their heads with mechanical thoughts. And for Karl, there's a fascinating connection between Terry's work and the mental game: the difference between thinking about what your body should do and actually sensing what your body is doing. Whether you're a club golfer looking to improve your ball-striking, a golf coach interested in biomechanics, or a player fascinated by the future of AI golf technology, this episode offers plenty to challenge your thinking. In this episode, we explore: The hidden power of ground reaction forces: Why what happens beneath your feet matters so much to your golf swing.

Get a personalised mental game plan with Karl AI. Start Your 7-Day Free Trial Now. https://mindcaddie.app.link/B8OMj7jVv6b The key to better golf isn't thinking more, but thinking less? In this episode of The Mind Caddie, Karl Morris is joined by psychologist and author Dr. Dicken Bettinger for a in depth conversation about the mental game of golf, performance under pressure, stress, overthinking and the "no thought state." Dicken explains why being in the zone isn't about eliminating thoughts, but changing our relationship with them. When golfers become caught up in thoughts about past mistakes, future shots, technique or results, they can lose connection with the present moment — and with the natural intelligence and skills they have already developed. Karl and Dicken explore why stress can actually be a useful signal, how letting go of resistance can restore clarity, and why some of the best performances in golf happen when players stop trying to control every aspect of their game and simply respond to what is in front of them. Drawing on Dicken's experiences with Sydney Banks and the Three Principles, this is a thought-provoking discussion about golf psychology, mindfulness, confidence, pressure and what happens when we learn to trust our training rather than getting trapped inside our heads. If you've ever stood over a golf shot thinking too much, struggled with pressure, or wondered why your range swing disappears on the course, this conversation could change the way you understand your mental game. In this episode, Karl Morris and Dr. Dicken Bettinger discuss: The "no thought state" and what it really means to be fully present on the golf course.

Get a personalised mental game plan with Karl AI. Start Your 7-Day Free Trial Now. https://mindcaddie.app.link/B8OMj7jVv6b John Dunigan thinks improving your golf swing is not actually the key to improving your golf? In this episode of The Mind Caddie, Karl Morris is joined by renowned golf coach and skill-acquisition specialist John Dunigan for a conversation that challenges one of the biggest assumptions in modern golf coaching: that the swing itself is the skill. John's simple but powerful phrase — "The swing is not the skill" — becomes the starting point for a much deeper discussion about how golfers actually learn to play better. Instead of obsessing over positions, mechanics and what the golf swing looks like, Karl and John explore what really matters: what you are trying to make the golf ball do, your awareness of the clubface, intention, feel, feedback and your ability to develop adaptable skills on the course. PGA Tour Coach and Master Coach - John Dunigan explains why watching the steering wheel while driving would be just as strange as watching your putter during a stroke, and why golfers can become trapped trying to control movements rather than learning to control outcomes. The conversation moves into putting, clubface awareness, shot shaping, practice design and the importance of experimenting with different outcomes rather than treating every mistake as failure. There is also a fascinating discussion about curiosity rather than judgment — using errors as information and learning from your own patterns and experience. As John puts it, golf can become an ongoing scientific experiment: see the shot, feel the movement, do it, review it, and learn from what happened. For golfers heading into the winter practice season, this episode offers a very different way of thinking about golf improvement, practice, swing mechanics and performance under pressure. If you've ever stood on the range trying desperately to perfect your swing, only to discover that the beautiful swing doesn't necessarily produce better scores, this conversation could change the way you practise. The swing is not the skill. The swing is there to serve the shot. 🏌️ Why the golf swing should serve the shot — rather than become the goal itself

Get a personalised mental game plan with Karl AI. Start Your 7-Day Free Trial Now. https://mindcaddie.app.link/B8OMj7jVv6b In this episode of Mind Caddie, Carl Morris is joined by Feldenkrais teacher Dr Jeff Haller to explore the powerful relationship between movement, awareness, balance and performance. Jeff explains how the Feldenkrais Method can help golfers become more aware of their bodies, escape habitual movement patterns and access greater freedom and creativity in their game. In this episode: The Feldenkrais Method explained — how curiosity, questions and awareness can reveal physical and neurological possibilities we didn't know we had.