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Golf Practice Efficiency
By Gaëlle | June 12, 2008
Do you feel the amount of balls you hit each month during practice has been beneficial to your game? Do you feel you are improving enough from your practice effort?
If you do, keep doing what you do, if you don’t or are not too sure, keep reading this.
The less time you can afford to spend practicing your game, the more you need to make it efficient to get equal results.
You might be so busy that you can’t practice as much as you would like to but that doesn’t mean you can’t improve your game. You just need to do high quality practice, don’t do more of it , do it better.
3 keys to more efficient practice:
1: Focus on essential:
Don’t waste time and energy on the things you are already good at, spend more time on the aspects of your game that are letting you down and costing you too many shots. We all tend to do more of what is easy and fun instead of what is hard and necessary. But working on your strengths instead of your weaknesses won’t make you a better golfer. Your weaknesses are holding you back from the level you want to play at. Focusing on the critical parts will quicken your progression.
2: Focus on what you want to do instead of what you don’t want to do:
Here is the part where a professional instructor can help you find what is right for you to do and how to do it properly to achieve the results and achieve them faster. At this stage, your challenge practicing is to stay focused on what you have to do and not let yourself be distracted.
It’s such a common mistake golfers do! How many golfers wonder what they did wrong after a bad shot instead of re-centering their thought on what they have to do to hit the good shots?
So don’t loose track! Keep your mind on what you have to do. Accept the bad shots as part of the improvement process and stick to the essential.
3: Monitor your progress:
Measure the efficiency of your practice. You need to get feedback from what you do to stay on track. If you don’t monitor where it goes, it might end up miles away from where you wanted it to be. A regular reassessment of what you have been working on will definitely help you to quicken your progression by maintaining your effort on the correct way.
Monitoring your game improvement has also the effect of maintaining your motivation.
It absolutely shows you how much you improve, sometimes less than you wished but still better. Getting the feedback of moving towards your goals is stimulating and will help you to stay focused, motivated and that will keep you moving towards your goals.
These are 3 key factors to better golf. Professional tour players use them too, that’s the key to efficient practice which they need more than anybody. Now, at your level, considering your expectation and your time availability you don’t need to do so much but you can do as well in the quality of your practice. That’s how you will be able to achieve the level of performance you want.
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