The Golfer’s Mind Lab
Stagione 1
The Boundary Fence — Making Peace with Out of Bounds
di BJ Stremple
There's a hole at almost every course that gets in your head before you even tee it up. Usually there's a white stake involved. In Episode 2 of The Golfer's Mind Lab, BJ breaks down exactly what happens in your brain when you see out of bounds - why the harder you try to avoid it, the more likely you are to find it - and introduces the Target Lock, a three-step attention technique used by elite performers to redirect focus from trouble to the target. This week's challenge: run the Target Lock on every shot where OB is in play and track where the ball goes versus where your attention was. Plus: BJ's personal on-course recap from his own round testing the technique on a course with plenty of white stakes to work with.
Welcome to The Golfer's Mind Lab — a podcast that trains the mental side of golf one experiment at a time. Every two weeks, host BJ Stremple breaks down one mental challenge golfers face at every level, explains what's actually happening in your brain, and gives you a real challenge to run in your next round. Episode 1: The One Shot Rule Most golfers are wired to replay mistakes. It's not a character flaw — it's negativity bias, an evolutionary survival mechanism that gives more weight to negative experiences than positive ones. On the golf course, it's costing you strokes. In this episode: — What negativity bias actually does to your game — The One Shot Rule and why "play one shot at a time" fails without a mechanism — The reset breath — a breathing technique that activates your parasympathetic nervous system and signals your brain that the last shot is done — This week's challenge: the reset breath for one full round — BJ's personal on-course recap The Golfer's Mind Lab. One concept. One challenge. Every two weeks. Music credits: All songs written, recorded, and mixed by BJ Stremple.