RYP Academy / Mental Performance
The mental game, coached like mechanics.
Most juniors are told to “be confident” and left to work out how. We treat focus, resilience and pressure the way we treat a swing change — as trainable skills, with a specialist, on a schedule.
The coach
Yannick Artigolle
M.S. Sport, Exercise & Performance Psychology · CMPC
A former NCAA Division I golfer at Northwestern who now works with junior and competitive amateur players using evidence-based psychological approaches. Trained in ACT and CBT, and in modern performance psychology.
Competitive golf is challenging for most teenage golfers. Yannick is your partner. He’s there for all our athletes to manage the ups and downs of competitive golf, teaching you the skills to compete and most importantly enjoy the golf.
What it covers
Focus, confidence and resilience — under pressure.
Managing tournament stress
What to do with nerves on the first tee.
Building a pre-shot routine
A repeatable process that holds when the shot matters.
Converting practice into play
Closing the gap between what a player can do on the range and what they shoot.
Recovering after a mistake
The double bogey is not the problem. The next three holes are.
Focus, confidence and composure
The tools underneath the rest — holding attention on the shot in front of you, and building confidence rather than summoning it.
The curriculum
Three seminars, on record.
S.M.A.R.T. Goals
Turning “play better” into something an athlete can actually train against and measure.
Passengers on the Bus
What to do with the thoughts you cannot switch off — carrying them rather than fighting them.
Focusing on the Controllables
Wind, lies, playing partners, a bad break. Where attention belongs, and where it is wasted.
Recordings are available to members.
Between sessions
Debrief.
A coach cannot stand next to every player at every tournament. Debrief is a conversational check-in that opens three hours before the tee time and again after the round — course strategy and focus cues going in, honest reflection coming out.
The logs are summarized for Yannick so the next 1-on-1 starts from what happened, not from what a player remembers two weeks later. Parents see summaries rather than transcripts, so the athlete stays candid.
In development
When it matters most
A number, not a hunch.
When a player performs well below their practice standard the moment it counts, that is a mental-performance problem, and treating it as a swing problem wastes a season.
It is the signal that routes a player into 1-on-1 work with Yannick. One session is one token, up to one a month. Elite includes two a month.
Next step
Start with a 15‑minute call.
Fifteen minutes, no pressure. We will tell you where your player is and whether the academy is the right next move — including when it isn’t.