Close the Gap to Lower Scores
The difference between your best and worst rounds isn’t your swing—it’s your mentality. Yet the basics of golf psychology are often misunderstood, leading to needless mistakes, higher scores, and inconsistent play.
Just as you can’t build a reliable swing with a bad grip or poor alignment, you can’t build a reliable game on a warped perspective. You might pull off good shots, even good rounds, but faulty technique always catches up to you. The same is true mentally. If your understanding of confidence, pressure, luck, focus, or emotion is flawed, you’re going to be compensating on every shot.
Everyday Golf Psychology is the ultimate problem-solver for the mental side of golf, no matter your experience, handicap, or skill set. Using his 20+ years of experience as a performance coach for golfers of all ability, including Tour pros, Jared Tendler gives you practical guidance that’s easy to apply.
You’re not learning about psychology for the sake of it or memorizing broad generalities. What you learn helps you correct the mistakes costing you strokes and causing inconsistence—negativity, overthinking, frustration, fear, and lacking confidence. These mistakes affect golfers at every level of the game. Even Tour pros aren’t immune.
No other golf psychology book tackles problems with such precision and clarity. Everyday Golf Psychology challenges long-held conventions, including the idea that golf is 90 percent mental. It’s not. Not even close. If it were, golf psychologists would be positioned at every course and a 20-handicap could become scratch simply by improving their mentality.
Full of clear, actionable advice based on how your mind really works, this book narrows the gap between your best and worst, allowing you to thrive under pressure, build lasting confidence, take your game from the range to the course, recover from mistakes without spiraling, and focus less on score and swing. With your mind on solid ground, you’ll find a version of golf that feels natural and repeatable.
Available April 21, 2026
TESTIMONIALS
“Jared Tendler has a rare ability to turn complex sports psychology into practical tools that actually translate to performance. This book delivers clear, actionable insights that golfers at every level can apply immediately. If you’re serious about improving how you think, train, and compete, this is a must-read.”
~ Cameron McCormick, Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher, Altus Performance
“A refreshing approach to the complex world of competitive golf. Whether you’re a PGA Tour player or a recreational golfer simply wanting to play your best, Jared provides you the necessary tools to elevate your game. Most importantly, Everyday Golf Psychology helps you become a better version of yourself.”
~ Bryan Gathright, Golf Magazine Lifetime Top 100 Teacher
“If you simply read it once, you will discover at least one significant blind spot in your mental approach to the game. If you also follow the easy to implement, straightforward suggestions, you will experience improvement more effortlessly than you ever thought possible.”
~ Dom DiJulia, Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher
“Like my former mentor, Pete Dye, I am a fan of holes that are visually intimidating off the tee but actually have more room than it appears, and there are subtle ways to work the ground to accomplish that goal. That’s my way of saying that we architects like to mess with golfers’ minds. This incisive book gives you tools to help deal with our mischief, among other useful skills.”
~ Brian Curley, Golf Course Architect
“The mental game is one of the most important—and often misunderstood—components of playing your best golf. In Everyday Golf Psychology, the depth and complexity of mindset are broken down into relatable, actionable insights that truly resonate. The book does an excellent job of addressing the full spectrum of mental challenges golfers face, from overconfidence to a lack of conviction when it matters most. It’s a resource that meets you where you are and helps you better understand the thoughts and tendencies that show up on the course. I highly recommend it to any golfer looking to improve not just how they play, but how they think.”
~ Scott Fawcett, Founder of DECADE
“Everyday Golf Psychology finally delivers what golfers want – clear, actionable mental advice you can actually use on the course. Jared does an excellent job identifying the real problems golfers face, and, more importantly, shows you exactly how to fix them. You will not find recycled cliches and generic concepts in this book. I’m confident golfers of all levels will find real help to take their game to the next level.”
~ Jon Sherman, Author of The Four Foundations of Golf
About Jared
Jared Tendler, MS, LMHC, is an internationally recognized mental game coach with over 20 years of experience. His clients span 45 countries and include everyday golfers, as well as PGA Tour and LPGA Tour winners, world champion poker players, executives, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and financial traders. In addition to Everyday Golf Psychology, Jared is also the author of three best-selling books, The Mental Game of Trading, and The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2.
As a junior golfer, Jared dreamed of playing professionally and his interest in golf psychology began after choking in the U.S. Open local qualifier in 1997 — missing four short putts and a playoff by one shot. While playing collegiate golf for Division III Skidmore College, Jared was a three-time All-American and won nine tournaments but continually underperformed in national events.
Driven to find better answers, he earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology and became a licensed therapist. In 2005, Jared started working with golfers to develop a practical, straightforward approach to golf psychology, helping players at every level, from tournament professionals to beginners.
Proving his clients aren’t the only ones to benefit from his system, Jared solved his own issues and in 2013 qualified for the U.S. Mid-am, shooting two-under. Currently, he’s a member at Jericho National Golf Club in New Hope, PA, regularly plays in regional tournaments and now dreams of playing in the U.S. Senior Open. Click here to read more about his recent golf activity.