QLG: Ultra-Performance Coaching and Training for the Golfing Mind

A.P. O’Neill: Passion for Performance

Ultra-Performance coaching and training for the golfing mind

While watching the 2018 Masters, I informed friends about my plans to coach golfers to new levels of performance. They didn’t doubt me, but they asked: how?

It’s hard to explain I told them. How about I just show you instead…

Within the week, the wheels were in motion. Within the month, I was coaching my first golfer – himself a PGA Professional with over 35 years experience in the game. Two weeks later Ryan was playing his best golf in recent memory, and within the month together we’d transformed his game by every measure possible.

I am proud to say that I’ve since gone on to successfully transform the game of every single golfer that I’ve ever worked with.

The methods I use to coach and train golfers are the very same methods that allow me to my accomplish my goals of becoming an ultra-performance coach.

Coaching and Training is like golf. You have to have the tools – the skills, the knowledge and the experience. How did I come by mine you ask?

Magician to ultra-performance golf coach (in many difficult steps)

At the start of QLG I declared openly that ‘I was a Magician re-purposing his skills’. I also declared that ‘I believed I had something special to give to the game’ – and time has shown that to be correct.

My first love in magic were the technical disciplines of legerdemain, but it wasn’t too long before I discovered the magic of the mind. And I have no words that would adequately describe that to you. The best I can say is that (when I first started) it was so amazing that I couldn’t believe it myself – and I was the one doing it.

As I advanced further and deeper I perhaps discovered the very secrets of life (certainly a deeper understanding), and these secrets are too profound to be frittered away on entertainment. I soon began coaching people (met through my performances) to achieve their personal dreams, and in the process, began to hone my skills and learn my craft.

So in 2018 when I announced my goal of coaching golfers to new levels of performance – it was no idle pipe dream – I’d been preparing for years.

When I share the details and my approach with my golfing clients, I am often told that my concepts and philosophies transcend golf and can be utilised in virtually every walk of life. I believe that to be true, however I have always loved golf, still do and always will.

Inspiring, coaching and enhancing my clients golfing experience is my chosen profession and my sole focus.

Brief history and QLG update

The last few years have been spent well; working with golfers and developing the QLG PHASE 3 ONLINE Coaching Programme.

PHASE 3 Coaching is based upon The 10 Essential Elements. These are undeniable mental skills that enable you to gain Mastery over your Mind and become a more Complete Golfer in every way. Including but not limited to: enhanced quality of play, lower scores and a more enjoyable golfing experience.

To give you a flavour: we have one gentleman golfer that was averaging 90 shots/round off the short tees, and could just as easily card mid 90’s. Since joining the Programme he’s recorded a best round of 79, he’s now also playing off the longer tees. So dropping 10 shots under more demanding conditions – and the punch line is – he’s 70 years old.

Who is Ultra-QLG for?

If what you read here resonates with you, if you’re up for the challenge and looking to test your limits – maybe we’re right for each other.

Ultra-QLG is for golfers who see what I see and are looking to develop a working relationship with me (A.P. O’Neill) and together apply QLG to your game.

If that sounds like you, you are most welcome to join me and experience the QLG 5 Star Treatment for yourself.

Ultra-QLG 2021 Course Details

Golf has been my passion for many more years than I care to remember (35) and as a young man I became a reasonable enough player to consider making a career from it, certainly not on the playing side, but from coaching and repairing clubs, so I took the traditional route to PGA Club Professional.

I qualified in 1997 and realised felt that my game was not good enough for my liking, I’d get embarrassed to join up with club members on the course, avoid playing, avoid demonstrations during lessons, that sort of thing. I’d only just managed to scrape through the ‘playing ability’ side of things during training and therefore playing golf became somewhat of a battle.

During all these years, I was the typical ‘gullible golfer’, believing that the latest ‘swing aid’ would be the catalyst I’d need to help make me a better player. I sought out the advice of anyone who would offer it, from my friends, who I wasn’t embarrassed to play with, to well known coaches.

In the background was ‘The Mental Game’ Over the years I’d seen quotes from world famous golfers about how much golf is played in the mind. ‘See the ball fly in your mind’ they’d suggest. That’s ok for them, I thought, with their world class swings. I tried it, but it never worked and so, the myriad of swing thoughts and the merry-go-round of ‘got it’ ‘lost it’ continued.

Then, through the topsy-turvy minefield of social media, I met AP who seemed to be selling an ‘improve your golf’ concoction dealing with the power of the brain. The gullible golfer never dies, so he was inviting anyone to ask questions about their game. I did, ‘ha’ I thought, ‘he’ll never be able to answer this one’ ‘lets see how good he really is’

Well I’m so glad he did answer. What’s happened over the space of only a few months working with AP has been transformational to my golf and the way I approach it.

Although Ive never met him face-to-face he is the only person I’ve ever been in contact with who really cares about his client’s golf. His reply made sense, ‘ill ask him another one’ I thought, ‘bet he wont reply’ well, guess what? He’s never ever stopped replying, he’s answered every single one of my questions and he has impressed upon me how important the mind is when it comes to golf. He is patient, respectful and gets you back to enjoying the game again. His attention to helping one with their game is incredible but tempered with the realisation that the player must take some ownership. Why should he care, if you don’t?

In his former life he was a magician. In my eyes he’s simply turned those skills to helping people play better golf. He’s ‘magic’ at that too.

Ryan A. Patterson