{"id":16123,"date":"2018-07-11T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16123"},"modified":"2018-07-19T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T21:39:15","slug":"new-camosun-golf-coach-doug-hastie-focuses-on-pressure-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/07\/11\/new-camosun-golf-coach-doug-hastie-focuses-on-pressure-training\/","title":{"rendered":"New Camosun golf coach Doug Hastie focuses on pressure training"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doug Hastie has replaced John Randle as head coach of the Camosun Chargers golf program. Hastie, who was the assistant coach of the University of British Columbia (UBC) Thunderbirds in the past, feels that the psychological ups and downs of the sport are a metaphor for life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGolf duplicates life as much as any sport,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019re going to have your ups and downs; you got to work through them. The downs just make the ups feel that much better. You get frustrated when you play bad, but that just means when you play well, it really feels good and you don\u2019t take it for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hastie knows that with golf, there are only certain things you can control.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou try to stay away from what we call outcome goals\u2014score and placing and all that kind of stuff. You try to focus on process goals, which is, what can you control? You can control how you think, you can control your pre-shot routine, you can control making decisions on the golf course,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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New Camosun Chargers golf program head coach Doug Hastie (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As far as the uncontrollable\u2014bad bounces and course conditions\u2014Hastie knows it\u2019s better to focus on what\u2019s possible to change.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to focus on short game and playing tactics, and hopefully get the team to push each other, and concentrate for that short season that we\u2019ve got,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Practicing being under pressure is important while playing at a competitive level for the six-week season. Tiger Woods\u2019 father jingled coins in his pocket as his son was putting to get him used to distractions; while Hastie hasn\u2019t gone that far, the players have consequences if they start to lose focus on the aspects of the game that are within their control.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t do anything out of term,\u201d says Hastie. \u201cYou just play golf. That\u2019s the toughest thing to do sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

When they\u2019re on the driving range, if the golfers hit two balls in a row without going through their usual pre-shot routine and aren\u2019t focusing on a specific target, they hit the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s to do some push-ups or sit-ups, whatever it is,\u201d says Hastie. \u201cThe goal on the range\u2014especially right before a tournament\u2014is simulating the golf course as much as you can, and trying to mentally put yourself in that situation on the first hole or 18th hole, whatever it is, and then hit the shot.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The players aren\u2019t just casually hitting balls when they\u2019re on the range; that doesn\u2019t do any good at all, says Hastie.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou change clubs between every ball, you change targets between every ball; you really try to put yourself in a pressure situation,\u201d he says. \u201cYou play some kind of pressure game against your buddies to try to push each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camosun recreation and athletics coordinator Graham Matthews says Hastie\u2019s experience with UBC and with the golf industry in general made him a really good fit for the position.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really excited and happy to have him on board,\u201d says Matthews. \u201cHe understands what a student athlete is all about: academics, plus the training, plus the competition and bringing all those qualities together. He just has a really good fit, I think, with coaching. We\u2019re looking forward to seeing how things open up for next year.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Team tryouts are Labour Day weekend; anyone interested in trying out can email Hastie at dhastiepga@gmail.com.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doug Hastie has replaced John Randle as head coach of the Camosun Chargers golf program. Hastie, who was the assistant coach of the University of British Columbia (UBC) Thunderbirds in the past, feels that the psychological ups and downs of the sport are a metaphor for life.\u00a0 \u201cGolf duplicates life as much as any sport,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-july-11-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16125,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16123\/revisions\/16125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}