Foreword
by Ben Crane, PGA Tour Player
When Fred Funk first told my wife and me about Lanny Bassham we felt like we had heard about sports psychologists before. I had read books and tried other methods of achieving mental consistency. This was different. This was someone who had gone to the Olympics and knew he was good enough to win, but didn’t have the proper mental system to get the job done. So Lanny set out on a four-year journey to get back to the Olympics and shoot in a way that he would be less affected by the environment and more concerned with his personal mental program.
I have felt much of the same in big golf tournaments. I had the physical skills but I didn’t have a plan for what I was going to do when things arose in the rounds that needed mental toughness. I have been paying close attention to how I feel and react in tournaments and I have concluded like most golfers that the game is a 90 percent mental. Now I want to clarify that I have put in many years of physical practice to get my skills to their current level and one of my goals is to continue to develop them much further.
But to reach my goals I knew that mental consistency had to become my goal as well. Mental Management has shown me how to think before the shot, during the shot, and after the shot.As most everyone knows I have had issues with playing slow on the golf course. I think it's safe to say that I was a tough case when I first decided to go see Lanny and Troy Bassham at Mental Management Systems. My mind was overactive when I was trying to hit golf shots and so I would waggle over the ball until I would get so frustrated that I would just forget everything and hit the shot. Because of their help I have come a long way in the last few years. I have started to feel the trust come up and the try go down as my mental program gained consistency.
I remember feeling this really soft peaceful place in my mind as I was coming down the stretch trying to win my 3rd PGA Tour event. I used to try to wake myself up from that peaceful place as if to say to my Subconscious “ your not trying hard enough.” Later the same year I had a 10 foot putt to win in Malaysia and I remember praying for peace as I walked onto the green and not feeling pull from the environment, but just a quiet very soft place. Everything just washed away and I was just entirely focused on running a good mental program, not trying to make a result happen. The more I have committed to the process the more I have gotten out of it. I can relate it to my faith in Jesus. The more I put in to knowing Him the closer I feel to God.When I loose my dependence on Christ and start trying to do things on my time line I begin to try not trust. I feel my mental game is similar, when I make it primary instead of focusing on results, I have a lot more success.
WithWinning in Mind is a reference book on the relationship between thinking and performing while under pressure taught by a person who has lived what he teaches.
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