Dr. Glen Albaugh received his PhD in Sport Psychology from the University of Utah in 1971. He, along with contemporaries Bob Rotella, Tom Hanson, Bruce Ogilvie, Ken Ravizza, Keith Henschen, Rich Gordon, David Cook and others are considered founding fathers of modern Applied Sport Psychology. Dr. Albaugh coached the University of the Pacific Men’s golf team from 1971 to 1992 and was inducted into the UOP Hall of Fame in 2007. After three decades conducting Coaching Education workshops for the PGA, Dr. Albaugh was awarded honorary lifetime status in the PGA in 2011, was inducted into the Golf Writers Hall of Fame in 2013, and received The University of the Pacific's Alumni Mentor Award in 2018.
In 1989 Dr. Albaugh traveled to Russia with Legendary Hall of Fame 49ers coach Bill Walsh and Michael Murphy of the Esalen Institute to study Soviet Olympic athlete training and coaching programs. Those meetings influenced the direction of American performance-based coaching paradigms from the Olympics and professional sports to colleges, high schools and youth coaching.
Dr. Albaugh has been blessed to work with coaching thought-leaders from all corners of the sporting world, including Pete Carroll, Bill Walsh, John Dunning, Anne Walker, Nancy McDaniel, Conrad Ray, Fred Shoemaker, and Laird Small. Dr. Glen consulting clients over three decades include juniors to seniors and counts Champions Tour players, Scott McCarron and Kirk Triplett, Jeff Brehaut, Jeff Wilson (2018 USGA Senior Amateur Champion), and Charlie Wi.
He knew that changing the flow of information from the player to the coach was the first step toward giving golfers an opportunity to develop their internal feedback systems and apply the benefits of self-awareness, self-discovery and self-coaching.
He takes you on a journey into the inner game where you’ll experience the magic of rhythm and tempo (the forgotten fundamental), target retention, shot shaping, trajectory control, to get the benefit of his legendary Trust Drills a foundation for his profound insight that The Perfect Swing Is The One You Trust.
Dr. Glen remains passionately committed to changing the paradigm for practice whose singular purpose is to transition swings, mindsets and character to on course play.
As a player, Glen loved the action putting his bets down from 50cents to $50. Winning has never been the issue, but meeting the pivotal moments has always been at the top of his list.
The Clutch Golfer Formula, originally published in early December in digital format, quickly hit the top of Amazon’s Hot New Releases list, and shortly thereafter climbed to the #1 Best Seller position in the golf book category. The book is now available in paperback format.
The book, a collaboration between legendary Sport Psychologist Dr. Glen Albaugh and NCPGA Teacher of the Year Eric Jones, provides a framework for the average golfer to succeed in pressure situations. Noting that every round of golf will present one or more pivotal moments, the book details specific skills used by the Pros and provides a roadmap for amateur golfers to develop these same skills.
“Our extensive research and qualitative analysis showed us the three skills most predominantly used in clutch situations: focus, intention, and trust,” explains Dr. Albaugh, a Hall of Fame Coach at University of the Pacific. “These three skills, along with deliberate practice, are what we identify as the four pillars of clutch.”
While there are many books on the swing, and nearly as many on sport psychology, there are few on playing skills, says Jones. Other sports, particularly professional and Olympic athletes, regularly include performance skills training. Golf has been slow to adopt similar practices, he adds.
The Clutch Golfer Formula is part of the vanguard of new coaching philosophies that are helping amateur golfers everywhere improve their playing skills, particularly at the college and competitive junior levels. “The Clutch Golfer Formula is not about the golf swing. Nor is it about Sport Psychology. It is an integrated approach that is next-level coaching: performance skills training,” says Jones, who has published multiple best selling golf books on Amazon.
In the book the authors explain that succeeding consistently under pressure - being clutch - is not a chance event. Rather, amateur and professional athletes can deliberately train to improve their ability to pull off game-changing shots, no matter the situation.
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