DALLAS (SMU) – SMU Women's Golf Coach Jeanne Sutherland knows this:
"Golf is one of the very few sports where a player is completely in charge of her own motivation. There are no substitutions, no time-outs, no defense. Managing the mental part of the game is key."
She expects her golfers to exercise more than their golf game. Since she began coaching college golfers 22 years ago, Sutherland has made a practice of sending her golfers books designed to exercise their mental game.
Sutherland's seven SMU golfers recently read psychologist Angela Duckworth's bestselling book, Grit.