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A Youth Mental Fitness Program: Connecting Golf to Life.

“Change Your Course” Mental Fitness Experience

Built on a foundation of mental wellness principles, Change Your Course teaches parents and teens how to perform and thrive in any situation. If a golfer can connect their on-course emotional response with their daily response to emotions, they are more likely to better handle adversity throughout the course of their life.

What to Expect…

Overview: Golf has many scenarios during a round that create specific mental and emotional responses.  Those EXACT same responses also exist in real life.  Change Your Course showcases those on-course scenarios, defines what is happening, connects them to real-life scenarios that create the same responses, and provides tools and exercises on how to navigate through them. 

It is that preventative approach that can drive down the rising numbers of anxiety, depression, and suicide.

Program Details and Objectives:

  • We focus on specific scenarios that create a mental & emotional response on the golf course and link those to real-life scenarios that create the same response.

  • Change Your Course is an “experiential learning” instructional program offered to youth-level and high school golf programs, country clubs and families.

  • Each retreat is an on-the-course, guided experience combining lessons in golf and lessons in life.

  • Built on a foundation of mental wellness principles, Change Your Course teaches kids and young adults how to perform and thrive in any situation.

  • We teach young golfers how to use “intentional thinking” and self-assessment to better performance and outcomes of situations on and off the golf course.

 What to Bring

  • Golf Clubs

  • Golf shoes or athletic shoes

  • 2 Golf Outfits

  • 1 Casual/ Athleisure Outfit for evening Group session: T-shirts, athletic shorts pants, pullovers, or golf polos. (No tank tops)

  • Notebook (We will also provide a journal)

Change Your Course Tools

  • DISC Golf Personality Profile: Created by Bobby Foster, the DISC assessment creates a personality profile on the golf course.  This tells us a lot about our participants prior to arrival.

  • One-on-one’s: Each participant will work with Dr. Karla Steingraber on an individualized toolkit.

  • Green Book:  Our workbook includes the lessons, techniques, exercises, and reflections of the participant’s experience as they go through the process.

  • 9-Hole Challenge:  We begin each program with our proprietary  9-Hole challenge accessed through a password-protected webpage on their mobile device.

"In golf, the most important distance is the five inches between the ears."

— Bobby Jones