1162: The Mental Side of Golf with Julie Elion
5/20/20261 hr 10 min
Soly visits with golf psychologist Julie Elion for a firsthand look at the methods and techniques she’s used with numerous touring pros to improve their mental approach to golf. Support our Sponsors: Titleist Rhoback Yeti If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining The Nest: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at nolayingup.com/join Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsJulie Elion· Guest0:00
[gentle music] Be the right club. Be the right club today. Yes. [upbeat music] Johnny, that's better than most. How about him? It is better than most. Better than most. [crowd cheering] Expect anything different?
Soly· Host0:28
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up podcast. Soly here. Got a conversation coming shortly here with, uh, mental golf expert, mental expert in general, Julie Elion. You undoubtedly know the name, uh, recognize her probably from the Netflix series, Full Swing. She's worked with Max Homa. She's worked with Wyndham Clark. She's worked with Justin Thomas, Phil Mickelson in the past. Uh, has a lot of great examples, uh, of, from her experience, and we talk a lot about that. She loved the idea, and I, I of course did too. Any, any chance I could get to improve my own mental a- approach of kind of flipping it on me and giving us, uh, giving the listeners a little bit of an example of what a counseling session, uh, would look like with her. So she kind of tried to break me down to the studs, uh, and my approach to golf and trying to get a little bit better. We could all try to get, uh, a little better with our mental game and, uh, gives me specific things. I kind of actually do them, right? It is a little bit of homework that came with it, uh, as you'll see, and I, I need to ... I, I haven't been great since we've done it, uh, but I promise I will get to work on this stuff, Julie. Um, it was great. Just fun diving into the mental game, uh, as well. But another key to playing your best golf is gonna be making sure you've got the right golf ball and