1 Can you overcome the yips?
Jul 22, 2021
3 minutes
By Peter Jackson, author and scratch golfer
Photography: Getty Images
he dreaded yips has destroyed many golfing careers, but it’s not an insurmountable condition. It reveals itself as an inability to control the putter at impact due to involuntary muscle spasms. In golf it occurs mostly in putting, but also happens in plenty of other sports – darts and snooker have their own sufferers. The yips is often viewed as a purely psychological problem, but I believe it is a
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