Introduction
Hello, you have managed to end up at The Golf Course's Psychology Section. By now, you know that The Golf Course is a web site designed to promote the game of golf, and as an educational resourse to show that golf can be seen in a variety of avenues of our lives. This particular section (the Psychology Section) shows how psychology plays a role in the game of golf. (For those of you who have or haven't played golf ... have you ever really thought how psychology can play a role in golf? I hadn't!) Anyway, we have a few sections to the psychology section of the web site. They are outline for you below.

Story - "The 18 Holes"
For those of you who haven't yet had the pleasure of taking a psychology course in your school, we (the creators of this site) wrote a short story about an 18 hole round of golf. In this story, there are 4 golf players and 2 caddies. Some golfers play well ... and others play poorly. Even if you just like the plot ... it is a thought provoking story.

As you read it, think to yourself ... have I ever done that? Wow, I can see the stess that these people are under ... and much, much more. Everyone has some ability to understand psychology because we are all human (atleast I think so?) and we all seem to understand emotions and how they affect us.

Talk To The Golf Pro
Well, we called this section "Talk To The Pro" because we interviewed the golf pro at Baltusrol (Cindy Ferro) and she had many interesting things to say. So we felt that you would like to hear what it was that she had to say!

In this section, we present 13 questions to our pro relating to the psychology of golf and she gave us her feelings and experiences. In each question, you will find the ability to read her response on the HTML page, listen to her response (via WAV Format, Real Audio 14.4 and Real Audio 28.8), and view her response (via MOV Format and Real Video 28.8). Try it out ... and enjoy

Teacher's Corner
This section is for teachers. The Golf Course Team designed this site so that it could be used in the classroom environment. We worked closely with our coaches to design suggested uses for this site in the classroom. Please stop in and check out how this site can be used in schools.