Golf Practice Designed to Optimise Your Improvement
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"You won't get anywhere without hard work," or, "remember, practice makes perfect.
" I heard statements like these throughout my teenage years and like the good disciple that I was, I followed the advice and went to the practice fairway nearly every day for years, and practiced and practiced, and guess what? I never played the game of golf as good as I wanted to, but I did hit the golf ball a lot better.
Possibly they have heard similar statements to those above that they should practice hard and often.
I did, and many others do as well.
But does it make you better? Well, I guess that depends on what you think better is.
Also, can you keep getting better? This might be the most important question of all.
The golf instruction industry has a pre-occupation for golf swing technique, and many golfers are getting so tied up in knots trying to improve their golf swing at the expense of learning how to play golf better.
It's fair to say that Tiger is the product of thousands of hours of highly disciplined golf training.
My definition of practicing is that it's the act of rehearsing behaviour until you improve it, or master it.
For me golf practice is old vernacular, it's the twentieth century's approach to golf improvement.
It's not enough to go to a range and mindlessly repeat a golf swing action over and over and somehow expect that you will get continually better.
In other words you don't do it without a well thought out and constructed plan that takes into account your personal goals and the amount of time you can devote to your activity.
Performing a component of your skill in an excellent way Isolating a component of your skill that needs attention and judiciously practicing that part of the skill until you have improved its value in the whole.
By flattening the left wrist position and squaring the club face in the process, this will reduce the excessive side spin on your golf shot.
You simply can't improve something if you can't measure its current position in relation to where you want it to be.
Evaluating your success through a feedback system Meaningful feedback is the breakfast of champions.
The type of feedback I'm talking about isn't a motivating speech which might psych you up in the short term but won't change the way you do something in the long term.
Determining how to do it better The whole purpose of deliberate golf training is to continually get better at the game of golf.
You really need to think about it carefully and thoughtfully before you apply yourself physically to the demands of the game.
Information is useless until you understand how it can help you.
If you want to keep improving your golf, you need to find out exactly how to do that.
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