Most golfers spend hours on the range and in the gym, but completely ignore the one area that determines how they perform under pressure: their mental game.

In this episode of the Flow Golf Podcast, we introduce a powerful analogy that explains why golfers choke, spiral, and lose confidence when it matters most.

Think about your physical golf bag. You wouldn't step onto the course with only a putter and expect to shoot a great score.

Yet that's exactly what most golfers do mentally.

You'll learn:
✅ Why golfers feel calm and confident in some moments, and anxious and tense in others
✅ What it actually means to have a "mental golf bag"
✅ Why most golfers' mental bags are completely empty
✅ How to start building mental tools you can rely on under pressure
✅ A simple breathwork exercise you can train daily to lower heart rate, release tension, and improve tempo

This episode isn't about positive thinking or motivation.
It's about training mental skills the same way you train your swing, with repetition, structure, and intention.

If you want to stop the bogey train, handle pressure better, and play closer to your potential, this episode is mandatory listening.

🧠 Download the FlowCode app and start training the mental game today.

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Or search "FlowCode: Coaching App" in your app store.

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Ever flush it on the range... then step onto the first tee and everything falls apart?

It's not a swing issue, your state changed.

In this episode, Hallam Morgan breaks down FlowCode's foundational framework: The Performance Loop.

A simple, powerful model that explains how focus → thoughts → emotions → state → swing → outcome repeats on every shot, and how you can train the mental side like a real skill.

You'll learn:

✅ Why the "range-to-course" drop-off happens (heart rate, grip pressure, tempo)

✅ How your thoughts create emotions (not the situation itself)

✅ How to shift focus to what you want

✅ Why mental skills need reps, not inspiration (the "biceps" analogy)

🧠 Download the FlowCode app and start training the mental

game today.

👉 Click here: https://bit.ly/flowcode-podcast

Or search "FlowCode: Coaching App" in your app store.

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If you've ever felt your swing "vanish" the moment the stakes rise, you're not alone.

In this episode of the Flow Golf Podcast, Dr. Rick Sessinghaus breaks down the junior golf mental game: why pressure makes golfers rush, overthink, and tighten up, and how to train mental skills (breath, focus, and routines) so you perform when it matters.

What this episode covers:
✅ Why pressure changes your swing even when mechanics don't
✅ The biggest mental mistake juniors make late in tournaments
✅ How breathing, focus, and routines decide outcomes
✅ Why "don't mess up" thinking destroys performance
✅ How to reset after a bad shot instead of compounding mistakes
✅ What it actually means to train the mental game

This conversation features:
👉 Dr. Rick Sessinghaus (mental coach to elite players)
👉 Coach Josh Alpert (top junior golf instructor)
👉 Elite junior golfer Jaden Soong sharing real tournament pressure moments

This isn't motivation.
It's a framework junior golfers can use immediately.

🧠 Download the FlowCode app and start training the mental game today.

👉 Click here: https://bit.ly/flowcode-podcast

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Most golfers say the mental game is important.
Very few actually train it.

In this episode, Dr. Rick Sessinghaus breaks down the true fundamentals of the mental game, starting with the one skill everything else depends on: focus.

You’ll learn why peak performance (flow) isn’t random, how your pre-shot routine should actually work, and the exact tools elite players use to get calm, confident, and committed on demand.

This episode isn’t about positive thinking.
It’s about training your state, the same way you train your swing.

What You’ll Learn:

✅ Why flow always follows focus

✅ The biggest mistake golfers make with pre-shot routines

✅ How to use breath, visualization, and self-talk correctly

✅ The 5 flow triggers that pull you into the present moment

✅ How to train focus off the course so it shows up under pressure

If you want your best swing to show up when it matters, this is where the mental game actually starts.

🧠 Download the FlowCode app and start training the mental game today.

👉 Click here: https://bit.ly/flowcode-podcast

Or search "FlowCode: Coaching App" in your app store.

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Ever flush it on the range... then feel it disappear on the 1st tee? That's not your swing breaking in five minutes, it's your state shifting (mental, emotional, physical). In this episode of the Flow Golf Podcast, you'll learn how to control your state on demand so you can access flow more consistently, and build your personal code for flow.

We break down the four ways to shift state (sensory, cognitive, environment, social), why "just take a deep breath" is incomplete advice, and how to start stacking techniques so your reset works when pressure hits.

What You'll Learn
✅ Why performance changes even when your swing doesn't
✅ The 4 levers to shift state: sensory, cognitive, environment, social
✅ How to reset after a bad hole and get back to the present moment
✅ How to stack breath + senses + focus cues for a stronger reset
✅ The 7 Flow Mindsets (gratitude, creator, observer, awe, growth, playful, transpersonal)

📲 Download the FlowCode app and start training the mental
game today.
👉 Click here: https://bit.ly/flowcode-podcast
Or search "FlowCode: Coaching App" in your app store.

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A three-country coaching tour. Hundreds of juniors. Pressure moments, breakthroughs, and real-time proof that FlowCode principles work anywhere in the world. In this episode, we break down exactly what happened in Thailand, China, and Vietnam, and the lessons every serious golfer and coach needs to hear.

Rick Sessinghaus, Hallam Morgan, and Josh Alpert just returned from a multi-stop FlowCode tour across Asia. From 3-day junior camps to Ryder Cup-style finals, to elite academies building world-class culture, this trip showcased the future of global golf development. We unpack the stories, pressure moments, cultural differences, mindset wins, and what coaches should steal immediately for their own programs.

What you'll learn:
✅ The performance behaviors that separated the top juniors on the trip
✅ The exact mindset skills that showed up under real tournament pressure
✅ What FlowCode techniques worked instantly (breathwork, recall, state-shifting)
✅ How elite academies build culture, discipline, and identity at a world-class level
✅ Why “fun + seriousness” is the ultimate learning environment for juniors
✅ The biggest coaching lessons Rick, Hallam, and Josh are bringing back home

📲 Download the FlowCode app and start training the mental
game today.
👉 Click here: https://bit.ly/flowcode-podcast
Or search "FlowCode: Coaching App" in your app store.

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Most golfers blame mechanics for poor shots… but the truth is tougher: your focus is often the real reason performance breaks down. In this episode, Hallam Morgan unpacks the simple, powerful four-stage focus and flow framework used by elite players and top coaches to improve decision-making, control emotional state, and unlock more consistent ball-striking. It all starts with one thing: where you place your attention.

These four key questions eliminate overwhelm, silence swing thoughts, and shift players into the present-moment focus where great golf actually happens.

If you’re ready to sharpen your focus, coach the mental game more effectively, and use real, measurable tools that elevate performance, this episode is for you.

📲 Download the FlowCode app and start training the mental game today.
👉 Click here: https://bit.ly/flowcode-podcast

Or search "FlowCode: Coaching App" in your app store.

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In this episode, Dr. Rick Sessinghaus and Hallam Morgan break down the future of mental coaching in golf and how new technology, especially EEG-based training, is transforming the way golfers measure and train their state. We explore brainwave data, real-time feedback, intuition vs. data, mindset fittings, VR/AR simulations, and how players can learn to shift into a focused calm state on demand to shoot lower scores.

What you'll learn:
✅ Why the mental game is now measurable, and why every golfer needs to start treating it like any other performance metric.
✅ How wearable tech exposes your real state (brainwaves, HRV, focus levels) so you can finally train it.
✅ The truth about intuition vs data, and why relying on numbers alone will destroy your performance.
✅ How to shift your state on demand using repeatable FlowCode triggers backed by real EEG feedback.
✅ The “mental golf bag” concept: how elite players build tools they can rely on under pressure.
✅ What’s coming next: VR pressure simulations, advanced EEG wearables, and the future of mental coaching in golf.

If you’re ready to elevate your coaching and start training the mental game with real, measurable tools, this episode is for you.

🧠 Download the FlowCode app and start training the mental game today.
👉 Click here: https://bit.ly/flowcode-podcast

Or search "FlowCode: Coaching App" in your app store.

📲 Follow us on Instagram @FlowCodeGolf for weekly tools, frameworks, and new episodes.