The sporting world was buzzing with excitement this week when a virtually unknown golfer won the biggest prize in professional golf – The Open Championship!
Louis Oosthuizen, a young South African golfer, defied expert predictions and held his nerve for four consective days to emerge victorious at the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland. Oosthuizen eventually won by one of the biggest margins in history of the Championship!
So – how did he do it?
It appears that the unsung hero was sports psychologist Karl Morris.
He was asked by Oosthuizen’s management to work with the young sportman a month before the Championship and teach him how to control his concentration on the golf course to get the best out of his game.
The psychologist employed hypnosis to enable Oosthuizen to switch his concentration on and off as he toiled through the stresses and strains of competing with the world’s greatest golfers in the worst weather that Scotland could throw at them.
Louis was encouraged to relax, smile and joke as he walked around the course.
Then as he prepared to play a shot, he was to lock into a focused state (commonly known as ‘getting into the zone’) to produce the best result possible.
And to trigger that state, he painted a red dot on his glove. As he looked down at this hands, the red dot would activate the trigger in his mind, enabling him to block out any distractions and execute the perfect golf shot.
The effect astounded everyone. The results were truly amazing and he won by country mile!
Now club golfers across the country are busy painting red dots on their golf gloves in the hope of emulating Osthuizen’s stunning performance.
Sadly, most are unaware that without the help of a professional psychologist or hypnotherapist to set up the anchoring and triggering process, nothing particularly wonderful will occur.
The young South African’s success is really no surprise to me.
Hypnosis was credited with the early success of the young Tiger Woods who learned how to move in and out of ‘the zone’ at will.
Once again the sporting world has witnessed the power of hypnosis to produce amazing results.
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