1162: The Mental Side of Golf with Julie Elion
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Be the right club. Be the right club today. That's better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most! Expect anything different?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up Podcast. Solly here. Got a conversation coming shortly here with mental golf expert, mental expert in general, Julie Elion. You undoubtedly know the name, recognize her probably from the Netflix series, Full Swing. She's worked with Max Homa. She's worked with Wyndham Clark. She's worked with Justin Thomas. Phil Mickelson in the past has a lot of great examples from her experience, and we talk a lot about that. She loved the idea, and I, of course, did too. Any chance I could get to improve my own mental approach of kind of flipping on me and giving us uh giving the listeners a little bit of an example of what a counseling session uh would look like with her so she kind of tried to break me down to the studs uh my approach to golf and trying to get a little bit better we could all try to get a little better with our mental game and uh gives me specific things i kind of actually do them right it's a little bit of homework that came with it uh as you'll see and i need to i haven't been great since we've done it uh but i promise i will get to work on this stuff julie um
It was great. Just fun diving into the mental game as well. But another key to playing your best golf is going to be making sure you've got the right golf ball and club set up for your game. Titleist gives golfers several ways to find the right ball model, including their fitting app, which uses launch monitor data to make an informed recommendations in just a few swings with a certified fitter on the club side if you're investing in new equipment you've got to get it right there's so much to dial in between the head models a hosel the weight settings the lofts the lies the wedge grinds the yardage gapping it's just completely unrealistic to go at it alone and get results i just got fit with the new gts
I'm like, there's like 16 different head configurations. There's all these weight things you can move around. It would take me weeks, months to do all that configuring for myself and actually get to the right answer there. But you get to a master fitter, they know exactly what to look for. The ball starts going left. Here's what we're going to do to this thing. And sure enough, just keep making the same golf swings. The ball started doing exactly what I wanted to do by the end of the session.
How did Julie Elion get started as a golf psychologist and who has she worked with?
Took less than an hour. I've got a new GTS driver on the way. It's incredible. Simple message. Go get fit. Check out the fitting locator at Titleist.com to find one near you. Let's get to our conversation with Julie Elion. What's the process like for writing a book for you? Have you ever written, is this the first time writing a book?
I thought we were going to start with your process.
We can get to my process.
You already avoided your process.
I feel bad taking up your valuable time with my process. It's not important.
It's my favorite thing to do is to look into somebody and help them out or just hold up a mirror. And you and I already started with that one nanny down and life and you're trying to squeeze it in. And I think that's a perfect place to start.
Well, let's start there. I'm afraid to hold up a mirror to myself, but as someone that has a fair amount of their golf on the internet, competitive golf on the internet, I feel like in some way our audience has somewhat of a relationship or understanding of my golf journey or whatever that might be. But do you work with many people that are not professional golfers that want to improve their golf game?
if they can afford it. Yeah. Um, but also that's a terrible thing to say because there, there's a lot of access to what I believe in and my work and my book is about to come out, but you know, All truth told, I actually looked through some of your rounds. Like this morning I was looking at Park. And just not looking at your swing. I was more looking at how you held yourself and how you were speaking with yourself.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–2:17
2
How did Julie Elion get started as a golf psychologist and who has she worked with?
2:17–15:41
3
How can non‑pros apply sport psychology techniques to improve weekend golf?
15:41–50:39
4
What pre‑round rituals and ‘brain drain’ exercises does Julie recommend?
50:39–1:10:23