Review of Play Golf Better Faster: The Classic Guide to Optimizing Your Performance and Building Your Best Fast

[Dennis W Alice]

[Following is a volunteer review of "Play Golf Better Faster: The Classic Guide to Optimizing Your Performance and Building Your Best Fast" by Kalliope Barlis.]

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5 out of 5 stars

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"Play Golf Better Faster: The Classic Guide to Optimizing Your Performance and Building Your Best Fast" by Kalliope Barlis is an insightful and practical resource for all golfers. Her personal story of becoming a professional golfer is recounted in the book, highlighting the importance of vivid imagination, mental training, and strategic play. Focusing on neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) as well as aligning mind and body for peak performance differentiates this book from other golf literature.
 
The book is unique for its detailed approach to both the mental and physical aspects of golf. The author breaks down complex topics like sensory awareness, positive memory anchoring, consistency through routine, and equipment customization. Throughout the book, there are step-by-step exercises that will help integrate these practices into the everyday lives of golfers, ensuring not momentary but persistent improvement. Emphasizing “active stillness” and developing an inner dialogue that is conducive to the best performance possible in golf, this book sets out tools necessary for achieving flow states.
 
This book goes far beyond being just a guide on how one can improve his/her game; it’s a comprehensive manual on improving the overall approach to playing it. To create her holistic guidebook, the author has skillfully combined her own experiences with a range of practical exercises and psychological insights, which makes this work engaging yet helpful. 
 
What I loved most about this book was how it seamlessly blended imagination power alongside mental focus in the physical game of golf. The idea of using vivid mental imagery accompanied by supportive self-talk as a means of improving performance is both creative and functional. The book is professionally edited because I discovered a few errors in it. There is nothing to dislike about this book.
 
I would give this book 5 out of 5 stars because it offers a unique approach to improving one's golf game through extensive mental practice.
 
If you are interested in gaining knowledge about mental training that can change your game, then I recommend this book to you.

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Play Golf Better Faster: The Classic Guide to Optimizing Your Performance and Building Your Best Fast
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[Nelly Orion]

"It's impressive that Kalliope Barlis uses neuro-linguistic programming to enhance not only cognitive abilities but also creative thinking in golf."