Psychological Warfare Among the Golf Players

The golf players not only play the game on the course, but also in their minds. Since 2007, when Tiger Woods' former swing coach, Butch Harmon, started working with Phil Mickelson, Mickelson has established an 8-3 record against Woods when the two are paired together in a tournament. After Harmon started coaching Mickelson, he explained to Mickelson the "psychological warfare" Woods used against him, and how to counteract Taylormade RocketBallz RBZ Irons.
What was this psychological warfare? You can get a clue from understanding how Tiger was coached by his first mentor--his father, Earl. In order to make Tiger mentally tough, Earl used to deliberately try to distract his son by jingling change in his pocket with taylormade rbz irons, dropping golf bags, tearing open the Velcro of his glove, coughing loudly, and do anything else to unnerve the young golfer.
After that Woods did his usual thing with taylormade rbz: he acted like he and only he existed in the golf universe. He treated Mickelson as he does all opponents as if he was a slightly bothersome gnat who Woods had to put up with as he went from hole to hole.
Asked later if Harmon's advice on how to counteract Woods gamesmanship had worked, Mickelson answered dryly, "Possibly." Each golfer has his or her own ways of trying to psyche out their opponent. Jason Day, talking about the methods he used in last year's Accenture Match Play Championship, admitted to trying to get into K. T. Kim's head by constantly walking ahead of him during the entire match with Taylormade RocketBallz RBZ Driver. He hoped to keep reminding Kim that he, Day, was still around. In his second-round match against Paul Casey, Day made Casey putt out a short putt of only a little over a foot, instead of conceding it as one might normally do. This was very early in the match. Casey shot an angry glance at Day, and Day hoped this anger would affect the rest of his play with Taylormade RocketBallz RBZ. It did. Day won the match.
Before the opponent knows Taylormade RocketBallz RBZ, Couples is two shots ahead with taylormade rbz driver. Lee Trevino, a champion of the 1960s and 1970s, was a jokester. His constant joking and chatter during play and the loud clothes he often wore were so distracting to some opponents that at least two, Neil Coles and Tony Jacklin complained about it. At one tournament, when he found out he was paired with Trevino, Coles asked to be paired with someone else.