See All Sites

Don’t Choke by Gary Player To Hit Bookstores on 1 June

May 4, 2010 | Filed Under: General News | Comments: 1   Share

What does it feel like to stand on the tee at the 18th hole at Augusta National needing a par to win The Masters?  You know you have the physical skills to hit four good shots, but do you have the mental ability to control your nerves and emotions?  What if you slice your drive into the woods?  Can you recover and still don the Green Jacket?

Gary Player answers these and many other questions about the mental aspect of golf and just how important it is in becoming a true champion.  Don’t Choke – A Champions Guide To Winning Under Pressure chronicles Player’s 18 Major Champion victories and how he dealt with the pressure that comes with winning a major.  It is an honest look at when and how he succeeded, his failures and how each failure led to greater success.  It deals with the most difficult times he ever faced when on the course from thinking he blew the 1959 Open Championship at Muirfield only to learn that his final score of 284 held up and the 1969 PGA Championship in Dayton, Ohio where he needed police protection on and off of the course because of the incorrect notion that he was an Apartheid supporter.  It also relives his great successes from winning his third Green Jacket at the age of 42 to completing the Career Grand Slam on the Champions Tour – his greatest professional accomplishment.  The book shows how experiences like these helped shape the mind of a champion and enabled Gary Player to become one of the greatest players in the history of the game.

Don’t Choke is a book for golfers and non golfers alike.  Everyone feels pressure and everyone deals with it in different ways.  The key is to learn how to control the mind and actually learn to love pressure rather than fear it.  Remember, once you master the mind the body will follow.

You can pre-order your copy of Don’t Choke at all major online book retailers and at http://www.garyplayer.com/shop.  Copies will arrive in book stores on 1 June, 2010.

« Back