Karen Palacios-Jansen Managing Editor for Golf Fitness Magazine, the nation’s leading golf magazine dedicated to improving your game by improving your body and your mind, recently interviewed America’s top Olympic hopefuls for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games about how their sport compares to golf.
Although many of our top contenders for medals at this year’s games may not be ready for the tour after the Olympics, golf has become an escape for them from the daily grind of training and important part of their lives while they are not competing. “All the athletes I talked to are fascinated with the game,” says Jansen, who was able to talk to 8 top contenders for this year’s Vancouver Games and who is married to Dan Jansen, a winter Olympian himself, “all agreed that professional golfers are some of the most mentally tough athletes on the planet.”
Many of the Olympians find parallels between their sport and the game of golf. “There are no take backs. Physically, in my sport, it’s all about staying relaxed in a potentially intense situation much like the game of golf,” says Team USA’s top woman skeleton contender Katie Uhlaender who is a self-taught golfer.
As with most golfers, most Olympians agreed that golf can be a mentally draining sport. America’s top contender for a medal in biathlon Lowell Bailey finds many psychological similarities to his sport and golf. “The shooting part of biathlon is psychologically very similar to golf,” says Bailey who is involved in a fund raising scramble golf tournament every summer.
Read the entire story at http://www.golffitness-magazine.com/public/articles/features/2010/02/olympians.html
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