Welcome to the Lab - The One Shot Rule
The Golfer’s Mind Lab by BJ Stremple
Episode notes
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 ...