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About Dr Deborah Graham and Jon Stabler |
Our Beginning...
Dr Deborah Graham -
The origins of this site began over 25 years ago. It started with a study of touring professionals that was born out of my love for sports and a passion for working with athletes--not to mention my need to meet the research requirements of my doctoral dissertation.
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With the help of a mentor, noted licensed Sport Psychologist, Dr. Richard Lister, an LPGA Hall-of-Fame Member, Carol Mann, and a popular teaching professional, Jim Hardy, I was able to take the study directly to the LPGA Tour players. Our goal: to determine "scientifically and statistically" why the top LPGA pros are so much more successful than the other Tour pros.
The results were conclusive and exciting. And they led to a similar study of the PGA Tour and Champions Tour players. This time I was assisted by my husband, Jon Stabler, |
co-founder of GolfPsych and co-author of our book The Eight Traits of Champion Golfers, Simon & Schuster This time I was also assisted by a growing number of touring professionals who were spreading the word, enthusiastically encouraging fellow tour members to participate. One of our favorites of these was Bruce Crampton, who won a remarkable 34 times on the PGA and Champions Tours.
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Our Mission...
In short, these studies led to an exciting full time practice as a licensed counseling psychologist traveling extensively with the various U.S major tours for over 15 years. Blessed by word-of-mouth, my "traveling practice" grew to include over 350 touring pros and thrived in large part because of the enthusiastic support of some of the great ambassadors of the game, including another of our all time favorites Dave Stockton.
This provided an unmatched opportunity to teach--and a priceless opportunity to learn from--hundreds of the greatest golfers in the world, as well as the countless dedicated people and organizations and corporations who support them. We quickly came to see that mental skills for golf become mental skills for life. Almost as quickly, we adopted a long range mission of "helping as many people as possible to be the best they can be via competitive golf".
Jon gave our mission a huge thrust into all types of competitive golf on an international level by helping me write the book, but even more so by developing quality programs, schools and support materials and products for all levels of competitors (as well as programs and schools for their teachers & coaches). We have run these programs through GolfPsych.com for the past 17 years.
Sharing What We Know...
With this website, we are thrilled to extend our reach and our mission even further. We are combining our 40 plus years of experience to provide quality, reliable information to help you "be the very best you can be through the great game of golf”.
It is in this spirit that we happily share what we have learned with you here. Golf is a magical, wonderful sport through which you can truly get to know yourself, improve yourself and grow in many more ways than lowering your scores.
Enjoy the journey and let the many rewards come!
Deborah Graham, PhD Licensed Counseling and Sports Psychologist to over 360 top tour players |
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