How a former Navy SEAL helped Lucas Glover overcome 10 years of the yips and become golf’s most in-form player

How a former Navy SEAL helped Lucas Glover overcome 10 years of the yips and become golf’s most in-form player

By Don Riddell and Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — The yips: two words that strike fear into the hearts of every golfer. For Lucas Glover, it was a terror that tormented him for years. An involuntary muscle tension in the wrist, the yips are not exclusive to golf, but the term – popularized by legendary Scotsman Tommy Armour in the 1920s – has become synonymous with a spasm that can cripple the swing of even the game’s biggest stars. Ernie Els, Daniel…

How a former Navy SEAL helped Lucas Glover overcome 10 years of the yips and become golf’s most in-form player

By Don Riddell and Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — The yips: two words that strike fear into the hearts of every golfer. For Lucas Glover, it was a terror that tormented him for years. An involuntary muscle tension in the wrist, the yips are not exclusive to golf, but the term – popularized by legendary Scotsman Tommy Armour in the 1920s – has become synonymous with a spasm that can cripple the swing of even the game’s biggest stars. Ernie Els, Daniel…

How a former Navy SEAL helped Lucas Glover overcome 10 years of yips and become golf’s most in-form player

The yips: two words that sound innocuous – even cute – to the average person, but strike fear into the hearts of every golfer.