Lions After the Game
The Front Nine Tips for Parents Raising Junior Golfers, Hole 4
One of the behavioral traits you can measure through DISC testing is the Dominance trait. If you test high in this trait you LOVE to compete and win, but you HATE to lose.
One of my most memorable, intense family consults was mentoring a family about dealing with their competitive daughter after a game. The mother thought it would help on the ride home to logically discuss what went wrong in her daughter’s performance. The car ride always ended with screaming and tears. My advice to the mother was to say nothing for at least an hour. Magically, the fights in the car subsided that summer.
“Telling a competitive child all the things they did wrong after a performance ensures one thing...they will eventually find something else to do.”
Betty Baird Kregor is an LPGA Master Teaching Professional and owner of StraightShot Inc., specializing in the DISC personality system to mentor and advise athletes of all ages and abilities.
In 2014, Kregor retired from over 27 years of teaching golf to consult athletes in the mental aspects of sport an serve as a "performance coach" for goals, scheduling, practice programs, college advising and more.
Her LPGA education in DISC profiling allows an athlete to maximize their performance with "self awareness" of their strengths and weaknesses. It is also an important tool in finding the right college fit. College athletic consulting is a service that benefits 9-12th graders in learning how to market their talents, schedule college visits and value the importance of academics.