DR. JOSEPH PARENT is a widely known coach of PGA Tour golfers and corporate business executives. He has a Ph.D. in psychology and has been a teacher of Buddhist meditation and stress management for more than twenty-five years. He lives in Santa Barbara, California, where his company, Mental Game Mastery for Golf, Business, and Life is headquartered.
The lessons in Zen Golf make the mental game seem so simple. Dr. Parent has given me very effective methods for working with thoughts and emotions, and for taking the negatives out of the picture. -Vijay Singh, Masters and PGA Champion Soothing and enlightening, Zen Golf exposes us to the storm-tossed waters of the golfer's psyche, but in short order, Dr. Parent has us bobbing easily amidst the waves. -Guy Yocum, Senior Writer for Golf Digest There's no other book like this one. If you want to know what has gotten in the way of playing better and what you can do about it, look no further. -Mike Radar Reid, PGA Tour Winner Doc's unique teaching methods helped me to concentrate and to go from the range to the first tee in a way that gets my round off to a much better start. -Willie Wood, PGA Tour Winner Dr. Parent's use of golf as a metaphor for business is full of great insights that have helped our staff grow as people and professionals. -David Hausdorff, Vice President, Merrill Lynch, Private Client Group Here is a roadmap to inner confidence, self-awareness and the feel of a purely struck golf shot. This approach to learning and life is a wonderful and powerful expression of the future for golf instruction. -Fred Shoemaker, author of Extraordinary Golf and co-teacher of Golf in the Kingdom seminars with Michael Murphy