Before You Press Play
- Read by: Dena Kouremetis reads a book written in Laura King's first person, so the hypnotherapist's own voice is the one thing this edition leaves out
- At its heart: Mental rehearsal as the counterpart to practice, emotional regulation on the course, visualization borrowed from tour players
- Vibe: Confident and unhedged, a coaching session with a sales pitch stapled to the end
- Short version: Concrete enough once you accept the premise, and no use whatever if you do not.
Read as far as the last paragraph and the description of this audiobook has given up describing it altogether, having moved on to selling something else. Once you understand the process by listening to Awesome Golf Now, the copy says, check out Laura's Complete Awesome Golf Hypnosis CD series. It then explains that although Laura provides the script and teaches you to write your own, you may as well buy the ones she has already recorded for you. That is a product page spending its final lines routing you toward a second purchase, and it tells you what sort of publishing operation you are dealing with before you press play.
What We Made of It
Laura King's credentials arrive late and arrive complete: certified sports hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner, performance and life coach. The description says she has personally helped professional golfers from the PGA, Champions, and LPGA Tours improve their games through visualization and hypnosis, and that the book walks you through the same techniques she uses with private clients. That is a specific claim about a specific practice, which is the reason to take the thing seriously or to put it straight back down, depending entirely on where you already stand on hypnosis as a performance tool.
Claims in the bullet list are not hedged anywhere. Shave points off your game without hours of practice. Control your mind and improve your game overnight. Learn a simple step-by-step method to use these powerful tools that allow you to use 100 percent of your mind. Stop analyzing the faults in your swing and start to feel and know what you want when you step up to the tee. Anybody who has read a self-improvement page before will recognize the register instantly, and anybody who has not should know the copy never once attempts to qualify it.
Why Awesome Golf Now Works as an Audiobook
Bobby Jones supplies the epigraph, and it is a good one: golf is a game played on a five-inch course, the distance between your ears. The description builds outward from there to Jack Nicklaus, quoted saying 90 percent of golf is mental and credited with using visualization and hypnosis, and then to Tiger Woods, who the copy says uses hypnosis as part of his game day preparation. The sentence introducing that last point opens with it is widely know, a letter short, which is the kind of thing that survives into a product description when nobody reads it twice.
Underneath the salesmanship sits a genuinely reasonable structure. A coach improves your swing through physical rehearsal; this book proposes mental rehearsal as the parallel process, using hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming to handle the second half of the work. The listed outcomes are modest and recognizable to any golfer: stay in the moment, move past the three-putt on the last green, release anger and frustration after a mistake, remember why you play at all. Strip out the overnight-improvement language and what remains is a course in emotional regulation for people who lose strokes to their own tempers.
Five hours and fifty-five minutes, and the voice is not the author's. Dena Kouremetis is credited with narrating a book written throughout in Laura King's first person, one that promises Laura will walk you through the same powerful techniques she uses with her personal clients. That gap matters more here than it usually would. Hypnosis scripts depend on a voice you are prepared to follow, and this is a book that teaches you to write your own scripts and then offers to sell you a series in which King has already recorded hers. The audiobook is the single link in that chain where you do not get her.
What Might Not Land
The title on the listing is missing the half that would tell you what you are buying. Awesome Golf Now is what the product page carries; the description's own opening line reads Awesome Golf Now: Achieving Peak Performance with Hypnosis and NLP. Hypnosis and NLP are the two terms a buyer most needs in advance, because between them they are the entire method, and both have been trimmed off the shelf label. Somebody browsing golf instruction could plausibly reach a checkout believing they had bought a swing book and discover otherwise an hour in.
Language throughout the copy keeps forgetting which format it is in. It refers to Laura King's latest book, to her book, and to what you will find in the book, then turns around and calls Awesome Golf Now the right audiobook for you before closing on a CD series. This is print marketing with one audio sentence patched into the middle of it, which is common enough and mostly harmless, but it does mean the description was never written with a listener in mind and can tell you nothing about how the material lands in the ear.
One review exists. It runs to seven words, it was filed in Australia in January 2026, and it reads: a very goo read well worth it. The typo belongs to the person who wrote it. So does the word read, on a listing for a recording. Against that sits the only rating arithmetic on this page that behaves itself: a single vote, a 5.0 badge, five points from a possible five, with the lone visible grade matching the average exactly. It is the tidiest number in view and simultaneously the least informative, since one person agreeing with themselves is not a consensus.
Who Should Pick Up Awesome Golf Now
Belief is the entry fee here. If the idea of self-hypnosis before a round strikes you as ridiculous, nothing in these six hours will argue you round, because the description never once addresses a skeptic. It addresses somebody who has already spent money on clinics, equipment and lessons and is hunting for the missing variable. If you are that golfer, and the plateau is real, the method on offer is at least concrete: scripts, rehearsal, a repeatable process, and a practitioner who can name the tours her clients play on.
Hypnosis is either a tool you are willing to try or it is not, and that decision has to happen before the purchase rather than during it, because the book spends no time at all defending its premise. Golfers who want mechanics should read the runtime and the tag and then keep looking, since nothing in here concerns grip, stance or swing plane. And anyone who dislikes being sold to mid-chapter should know the description manages it twice before you have even started. Bring your own skepticism if you have any, because the copy has not packed any for you.
Common Questions
Who reads the audiobook, and does it matter that it is not Laura King?
Dena Kouremetis is credited, on a book written in King's own first person. It matters because the method is voice-dependent: the description teaches you to write self-hypnosis scripts, then points you at a separate CD series in which King has already recorded hers. This edition is the one link in that chain without her.
Is any golf technique taught here?
None whatsoever. The copy states plainly that a coach handles physical rehearsal while this book takes the mental half, and the listed outcomes are staying in the moment, moving past a three-putt, and releasing anger after mistakes. Nothing touches grip, stance or swing plane, so pair it with instruction and do not substitute it for lessons.
Where did the subtitle go on this audiobook listing?
Nowhere good. The description's opening line carries a subtitle, Achieving Peak Performance with Hypnosis and NLP, while the product page shows only the first three words. Those two terms amount to the whole method, so a browser could reasonably buy this expecting swing instruction and get something quite different.
Can one five-star review tell me anything useful?
Very little indeed. The single entry runs to seven words, arrives from Australia in January 2026, and calls the book a very goo read, typo included. It is also the only rating on the page, and the average matches that grade exactly, which makes the number tidy and the evidence base extremely thin.
