Gordon Morrison

PGA pro and coach at Vestfold Golf Club/MSc Sports Psychology. Skill Acquisition & Sport Psychology consultant, PhD Yips researcher

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@BeatTheYips @Golf_Science @NGF_ @Golfnl @beatdystonia Erik- you are referring to putting here? Regards

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@AxeSherwin @JGGolfFitness I have some experience and research in the yips and in full swing or chipping yips any clear focus and goal for the swing tends to help. Usually imbedded within a solid shot routine. So hitting hard could help as suggested below by Scott 👍

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@BeatTheYips https://t.co/2wdbKrrBXq
Interesting discussion here from Stephen Hendry and Gary Wilson

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@BeatTheYips It looks a little like the snooker yips when the player struggles to get the cue to the ball…

[David C @davidcolly]

This is very sad - Alastair made a truly great contribution to Golf & the science of golf.
A huge privilege to have known him and to be able to recognise his contributions to golf & The PGA with the naming of the ‘Cochran Golf Science Suite’ at the Belfry a couple of years ago.

[Golf Performance Network @golfperfnetwork]

🗣️LIVE TALK🗣️

Wednesday 13th March (8pm-9pm UK time)

The mental health challenges DP World Tour players face during their careers - by Dr Ian Peek

Network: https://t.co/CW3GxjpVcI

[Dr Ian Peek @IanPeekCoaching]

ICYMI- a summary of my PhD findings on the challenges @DPWorldTour players will face during their career. Big thanks to @DempsterMartin for getting the story out there 🙏👍

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@BeatTheYips @NGF_ @Golfnl My guess...the straightest were the left hand only putts, the best for distance control were with both hands and worst for straightness and length were the right hand only (yips affected hand)?

[Dr Ian Peek @IanPeekCoaching]

If you’re an ambitious golfer,coach or parent please listen to this podcast & re-post. Not because of me or @DanAbrahams77 ,but for the 16 @DPWorldTour players who were brave enough to open up about the mental health-challenges they faced.
They want to help those coming behind.

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@BeatTheYips @NGF_ @beatdystonia @NBF_Bowlen @runnersworldnl @KNLTB Hi Erik , with your yips being across different sports, but connected by common movements (forehand and putting involve similar R/H moves) it gives support to the sports biography angle suggested by klampfl et al. It does seem very common!

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@CoachNealPT @PeterArnottGolf Motor learning and performance by Schmidt and wrisberg. Second edition. Old now but was my first book on the topic

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@travisfulton Raffa Cabrera bello of course 😀

[Ettle @ettlegolf]

The body changes relative to the environment it is in.

In Space it no longer needs bone density, due to the lack of gravity.

The body adapts to its new environment, in Space, shedding bone density, realising it doesn’t need it.

Too long in Space, we become more like a fish, with slender bones, because we don’t need as much bone density in Space.

Movement changes relative to the environment it is in.

On the Driving range, it no longer needs a repertoire of movement capabilities, due to the lack of variability (lie, target, wind, depth perception, wet ball, boundaries, etc.).

Movement adapts to its new environment, on the driving range, shedding its repertoire of movements.

Too long on the driving range, we become more like a fish out of water when playing golf, with a slender repertoire of movements, because we don’t need as much on the driving range.

But we do on the golf course...

[Graeme McDowall @GraemeMcDowall]

Thanks @offtheballbbc for the opportunity to come on and talk about the book, great experience!

[Flushing It @flushingitgolf]

Harrington on the mental game:

“I would actually say once you get to our level it’s 99% mental. I’ll find you 10000 guys who hit the golf ball better than any pros on tour or as good as them and they’re not tour players and never will be.”

Spot on 👏

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@BeatTheYips @DPWorldTour Think he also mentioned going cross handed? Just caught the end of the interview on sky. Interesting to see how it goes for him.

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@BeatTheYips Thanks Erik, I am looking forward to reading it :-)

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@PsychScientists Andrew, hi again and fair play to you for posting this thread. I see interesting responses (eg tennis ball against a wall) and of course we think this doesn’t help. But… this is the real world, good players did this! My point…Cog psyc is not ‘bad’ for coaching! 👍

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@PsychScientists Andrew, in cognitive psyc perception, attention and problem solving are 3 key areas as we know. So it could be used well to design practice just the same as an ecologically guided approach? I think the issue is more about some coaching styles not necessarily routed in evidence 🤔

[Gordon Morrison @GolfGordon]

@BeatTheYips @GameImproveGolf Great work guys, Tony I am almost ready with some more data on chipping yips regarding the analysis of the movement. Will be in touch about it once its ready.