Happy Monday Golfers; This week’s blog topic is “How Good Are You at Practicing?”

Which type of golfer are you when it comes to practicing:

Loves to practice but don’t feel like you’re getting the most from it?
Avoid it because you’re not sure where to start?
Get bored and need some guidance on how to mix things up?

Whichever it is, when we hear the word practice, we tend to think of beating balls on a range, but does it need to be this way? Let’s take a look at how to make your practice more fun, engaging and help get the most from it to improve your performance where it matters the most…on the course.

Set Some Clear Goals

Before you make your way to the practice ground or golf course, ask yourself, what would I like to get from today’s session? If you record stats, what are they showing or is there something you would like to improve on from a recent lesson you took or a poor performance with the driver over the past few rounds? Set yourself some clear goals/objectives.

Record Some Feedback

Not only for your benefit but it’s great information for your coach. Enabling your coach to get an insight into how you practice but also how are you performing and what low-hanging fruit is there to help you improve next time. This could be just as simple as how many balls you hit, how you hit such as strike, curvature, start line relative to the target, and what you felt and what actually was your intention during the session.

Get A Practice Buddy

Research has shown that practicing with others has shown to be the most effective when transferring to on-course performance. Whether it’s having competitions/challenges against one another or chatting about how you may execute a certain shot. Without realising you are creating a good learning environment to improve your skills. Aside from the performance side it can be more fun and also it can help create more accountability.

Use Your Time Wisely

At the end of the day, golf is played on the golf course so if you are short on time, I would recommend getting most of your practice on the course. Unless a specific skill or area of your game needed some TLC I would highly recommend getting out on the course and trying to improve in the appropriate environment. If you need any assistance with some on-course games, then please get in touch.

– Coach Tim