{"id":378,"date":"2010-07-20T09:08:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2010-11-04T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T23:04:43","slug":"book-reviews-winning-the-battle-within-by-dr-glen-albaugh-and-michael-bowker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/golf\/378\/book-reviews-winning-the-battle-within-by-dr-glen-albaugh-and-michael-bowker","title":{"rendered":"Book Review &#8211; &#8221;  Winning the Battle Within&#8221;  By Dr. Glen Albaugh and Michael Bowker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2010\/07\/Albaugh_cvr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-443\" title=\"Albaugh_cvr\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2010\/07\/Albaugh_cvr-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stockton sport psychologist, Dr. Glen Albaugh is one of Northern California\u2019s golf treasures.\u00a0 He has positively affected the lives and golf games of hundreds, including many top players such as Kirk Triplett and Scott McCarran.\u00a0 You should appreciate that the territory between your ears is the most important space in golf, and Albaugh is a master of this domain.<\/p>\n<p>Short of directly working with Dr. Albaugh, studying \u201cWinning the Battle Within,\u201d is an exceptional way to improve your golf score and experience. There are many reasons to recommend this book.\u00a0 I found the sections on imagination, simplification, post-shot routine, the \u201cCircle of Performance,\u201d \u201cconfidence being a matter of choice,\u201d innovative practice techniques, and journaling, together with the check lists\/action plans for success contained in the Appendix just a few of very innovative and insightful aspects of the book.\u00a0 Dr. Albaugh is not just another sports psychologist and this is not just another ordinary golf book on the mental game.\u00a0 I highly recommend you read, \u201cWinning the Battle Within\u201d or better yet, work with Dr. Albaugh.\u00a0 He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:galbough@sbcglobal.com\">galbaugh@sbcglobal.com<\/a> and the hardback book is an absolute bargain at only $19.95 from Kele Publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stockton sport psychologist, Dr. Glen Albaugh is one of Northern California\u2019s golf treasures.\u00a0 He has positively affected the lives and&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/golf\/378\/book-reviews-winning-the-battle-within-by-dr-glen-albaugh-and-michael-bowker\" title=\"ReadBook Review &#8211; &#8221;  Winning the Battle Within&#8221;  By Dr. Glen Albaugh and Michael Bowker\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2437],"tags":[2451,2452],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-book-reviews","tag-sports-psychology","tag-glen-albaugh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2010\/07\/Albaugh_cvr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}