In the next episode of our lockdown golf discussion, we talk to Theo Bezuidenhout of TBVP Sport Psychology for insight into the mental work done in the game of golf.
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He shares with us personal success stories as well of those of top South African players like Zander Lombard and Brandon Stone.
Our chat ends with his findings from work done with the SA amateur stars who won big in Japan last year.
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Who is Theo Bezuidenhout
A sport psychologist, guest-lecturer and founder of BVP Sport Psychology as well as the current High Performance Psychologist for GolfRSA.
Theo has consulted as a sport psychologist over the last decade and in that time, he has worked in numerous sporting codes including athletics, cricket, hockey, tennis, swimming and rugby.
Early on in his career Theo became involved in golf and he has a passion for helping golfers develop the mental processes needed to succeed. In this capacity, Theo has worked with various provincial and tertiary teams as well as various South African Golf Association (SAGA) number one ranked players. Theo’s influence has also extended to the professional game and he has assisted various Sunshine Tour professionals in developing their mental approach to the game.
Theo also consults with European Tour professional, Zander Lombard and describes Zander winning the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit as a career highlight.
In his capacity as sport psychologist, Theo has worked with various institutions throughout his career including GolfRSA; TuksGolf Academies; the High Performance Centre (hpc) at the University of Pretoria; Stanford Golf; Texas Christian University (TCU) Golf; The English Golf Union (EGU), the Nashua Titans; The Golf Management Campus at Zwartkops Country Club; the African Turf Academy (ATA) at Silver Lakes as well as the Sunshine Tour Gary Player Development Squad of 2016/2017 and also the MoreGolf Group. He also helped guide the SAGA National u/19 team to a World Junior Golf Team Championship win in 2019 in Nagoya, Japan.
Theo has a professional philosophy that performance (good or bad) is not co-incidental and he encourages clients to maintain both physical and mental processes and routines that lead to consistent performances and a consistent life.
