Golf Psychology & Biomechanics Articles
Long-form guides by Chris Brook — author of Quiet the Mind, Lower the Score. Built for US & UK golfers who want performance that holds under pressure.
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When Understanding Isn’t Enough — The Emotional Science Behind Permanent Swing Change
Why the mind rejects unfamiliar movement more strongly than willpower can overcome. A 6,000-word, science-driven exploration of emotional resistance, prediction error, identity conflict, and how the brain finally accepts permanent change.
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The Anatomy of Wrist Loading — Grip Strength, Wrist Flexibility & Clubhead Speed
A complete biomechanical and psychological exploration of wrist loading and grip strength in golf. Learn how hand pressure, wrist flexibility, and neuromechanics determine clubhead speed and control with both driver and irons.
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Forward Shaft Lean at Impact — The Real Science of Containing the Release
Forward shaft lean is the visible hallmark of a stable impact — but achieving it requires understanding the unseen biomechanical and psychological conflicts that cause most golfers to release early. This long-form article breaks down wrist angles, grip structure, gravitational conflict, and rotational speed limits, with detailed causes, sensations, and solutions for every golfer type.
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What Happens When Your Lead Arm Doesn’t Drop — How It’s Costing You Speed with the Driver
The hidden driver leak: when the lead arm stays high at transition, the handle rises, the wrist cups, and you’re forced to save the face with a late roll — costing 5–8 mph and adding spin. A golfer-friendly breakdown with wrist-release timing, ground-force cues, TrackMan ranges, and drills.
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The Door That Defines Your Strike — The True Release Pattern & Psychology at Impact
Most golfers over-release the club past impact. This long-form piece explains the true impact release pattern using the door analogy, why the hinge must close into the lead arm (not past it), and how psychology and identity govern wrist angle, speed, and strike stability.
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The World’s Biggest Article on Clubhead Speed — For Moderate Swing Speeds
The most in-depth, scientifically grounded article ever written on clubhead speed for real-world golfers. Explore biomechanics, psychology, and identity to increase speed safely and effectively — without breaking technique or balance. Covers kinetic sequence, overspeed training risks, and gender-tour differences (PGA vs LPGA).
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Driver Face Control at Moderate Speeds — Start Line, Gear Effect & Spin Axis
The world’s most comprehensive, real-world guide to driver face control. I explain how microscopic face changes shift start line, how gear effect tilts spin axis, and how to read TrackMan data at ~85 mph club speed / ~130 mph ball speed to build playable curves on command.
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The Ageless Golfer — Coaching Senior Golfers Through Biomechanics & Identity
A definitive, long-form guide that reframes senior golf from decline to distillation. Biomechanics, rhythm, strike, sequencing, pressure timing, and performance identity — plus ball compression guidance and practice frameworks for UK & US seniors.
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Inside the Coaching Process: Chris Brook on Truth, Precision & Progress
In this exclusive interview, Chris Brook shares the truth of his coaching and what golfers can expect. Using biomechanics and psychology, he delves deep to discover the small, subtle changes that create the biggest, lasting gains.
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Perfect Driver Impact at 75–95 mph: 5° Up AoA, 11–13° Launch, ~2500 rpm
A step-by-step, golfer-friendly blueprint to deliver a calm, upward strike that launches at 11–13° with ~2500 rpm — tailored to 10-handicap women & men. Integrates biomechanics with psychology using the Three Pillars and Quiet the Mind, Lower the Score.
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Optimum Driver Swing Plane: Biomechanics for Power & Accuracy
Discover the true biomechanical swing plane for the driver. Learn how to find your unique corridor, prevent compensations, and unlock distance and trust off the tee.
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How to Build (and Rebuild) Golf Confidence
Learn how to build golf confidence, stop losing it after bad shots, and quickly rebuild it under pressure. Practical reset routines, drills, and a Mental Scorecard method adapted from Chapter 6 of Quiet the Mind, Lower the Score.
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The Ryder Cup Mental Demands at Bethpage Black (USA)
Inside the Ryder Cup’s psychological cauldron at Bethpage Black: arousal, attention, identity — with practical tasks, first-tee scripts, pair contracts, and flow triggers that scale from tour to club level.
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How to Maximise the Time You Have for Golf
You don’t need more time — you need better hours. A practical 1:1 guide with tasks, transfer tests, and weekly frameworks for beginners, committed amateurs, seniors, and ladies. Built for UK & US golfers.
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Mental Golf Coaching for US Golfers
Why mechanics alone fail and how US golfers can make changes stick by integrating psychology, swing mechanics, and performance identity. Includes the Quiet the Mind workbook for rewiring resistance.
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On-Course Practice: 7 Training Rounds
Range work doesn’t transfer. Use these 7 practice rounds to build strike, decision-making, and pressure tolerance on grass — with Quiet the Mind protocols for state control.
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Why Your Golf Swing Feels Right but Looks Wrong
Align perception with biomechanical reality: external calibration, internal anchors, strike integration, and consolidation under pressure. Includes managing mental noise and on-course transfer.
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Your Identity Is Strike, Not Score
Anchor your process to contact quality and let the score come to you. A strike-first focus quiets the mind and creates real consistency when stakes rise.
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The Hidden Struggle of Golf Swing Changes
Every adjustment rewires the brain and identity. Here’s why tinkering collapses under pressure and how to build changes that transfer to the course.
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Swing Movements Work in Opposite Pairs
No movement exists alone. Learn the opposite-pair principle — pelvis↔spine, arm elevation↔scapula, shallowing↔side bend — and why isolated fixes fail.
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Consistency in Golf: Misunderstood
What golfers really want is more playable shots and fewer disasters. Build predictable patterns and functional misses — not mythic “consistency.”
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Golf Tips Don’t Work
Quick fixes collapse when pressure rises. Lasting consistency comes when mind and mechanics are rebuilt as one system — here’s your starting blueprint.
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First-Tee Nerves: A 90-Second Reset
First-tee jitters are biology, not weakness. Use this 90-second reset and a single intention to steady your state and swing freely under pressure.
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The Real Science of Swing Changes
Swing change isn’t bought — it’s built. Rewire the nervous system to create improvement you can trust on the course, not just on the range.
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Quiet the Mind, Lower the Score — Book Overview
A practical overview of the frameworks inside Quiet the Mind, Lower the Score — identity, confidence behaviours, and transfer drills that hold up under pressure.