The Golfer’s Mind Lab
Most golfers spend hours training their swing and zero minutes training their mind. The Golfer’s Mind Lab fixes that. Every two weeks, we break down one mental challenge golfers actually face and give you a real experiment to run in your next round. No fluff, no clichés. Just one concept, one challenge, real results.
The Control Illusion - Playing What You Can Actually Influence
Welcome back to The Golfer's Mind Lab — the podcast that trains the mental side of golf one experiment at a time. Every two weeks, host BJ Stremple breaks down one mental challenge, explains the psychology behind it, and gives you a real experiment to run in your next round.
Episode 5: The Control Illusion — Playing What You Can Actually Influence
By episode five, you've built a real toolkit. The reset breath. The target lock. The Caddy Tally. The tension scan. Today's episode is the philosophical foundation underneath all of them — because there's one reason we get tense...
Tension - The Invisible Swing Wrecker
Welcome back to The Golfer's Mind Lab — the podcast that trains the mental side of golf one experiment at a time. Every two weeks, host BJ Stremple breaks down one mental challenge, explains the psychology behind it, and gives you a real experiment to run in your next round.
Episode 4: Tension — The Invisible Swing Wrecker
The best swing you've ever made felt effortless. The worst ones felt tight, forced, muscled. That difference isn't talent. It isn't technique. It's tension — and it's almost entirely driven by what's happening between your ears.
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The Caddie in Your Head - Learning to Talk Nice to Yourself
You’d fire a caddie who talked to you the way you talk to yourself after a bad shot. So why have you been carrying that bag for years?
In Episode 3 of The Golfer’s Mind Lab, BJ breaks down the psychology of self-talk — what negative inner dialogue actually does to your nervous system, why golfers are so much harder on themselves than they’d ever be on a playing partner, and why the fix isn’t forced positivity.
This week’s challenge: the Caddy Tally. No behavior change required — just a tally mark on your scorecard...
The Boundary Fence — Making Peace with Out of Bounds
There's a hole at almost every course that gets in your head before you even tee it up. Usually there's a white stake involved.
In Episode 2 of The Golfer's Mind Lab, BJ breaks down exactly what happens in your brain when you see out of bounds - why the harder you try to avoid it, the more likely you are to find it - and introduces the Target Lock, a three-step attention technique used by elite performers to redirect focus from trouble to the target.
This week's challenge: run the Target Lock on every shot...
Welcome to the Lab - The One Shot Rule
Welcome to The Golfer's Mind Lab — a podcast that trains the mental side of golf one experiment at a time. Every two weeks, host BJ Stremple breaks down one mental challenge golfers face at every level, explains what's actually happening in your brain, and gives you a real challenge to run in your next round.
Episode 1: The One Shot Rule
Most golfers are wired to replay mistakes. It's not a character flaw — it's negativity bias, an evolutionary survival mechanism that gives more weight to negative experiences than positive ones. On the golf course, it's costing you...
