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Six MORE Practice Tips for Powerful Play |
6 More Practice Tips for Powerful Play
As promised, here are 6 more proven golf practice tips. If you missed the first six, be sure to check them out at 6 Practice Tips for Powerful Play
Like the first six, these are tips we have used with great success over the past few decades with both our touring pro and amateur competitors. Hope you find an new idea or two here that will help you too!
7. Resist over-practicing.
Sounds like a no-brainer, but this is easy to do for the technical, compulsive and guilt-prone types who like or want to hit a lot of balls.
Symptoms to watch for--besides not having a life!--include fatigue, pains & strains, outcome thinking, impatience, being easily frustrated, burnout and then the nagging aches and pains that go with it all. Don't do it.
8. Resist Under-practicing.
Yes, this happens too. But, this is more common with the expedient, undisciplined and impulsive types that sometimes have a hard time getting to the course, or once there, have a hard time organizing themselves.
Symptoms here include the obvious like poor touch and feel, not having a good feel for your distances with each club, or simply feeling a bit "lost" a lot of the time.
Symptoms can also include the not-so-obvious...like poor performance confidence, difficulties committing to shots, etc.
9. Find your "Just Right" Practice
Knowing your personality can help you find the total average time for practice that is just right for you.
If you are more of a practical, left-brain type you are going to benefit from putting in more total time on the "practice logs"--
like a V.J. Sing, a Nick Faldo, or a Tom Kite--
before experiencing the "diminishing returns" of "over-practicing".
If you are more of an imaginative, right-brain type you will benefit from putting in less time on the "practice logs"--
like a Freddie Couples, a John Daly, or a Ben Crenshaw--
before experiencing those same "diminishing returns" from over-practicing.
Know your style.
[If you are not sure, one way to find out is with your GolfPsych Personality Profile --pull it up and check your #10 score. The more Practical you are the more "left-brained" you are. The more Imaginative on this scale, the more "right-brained" you are.
10. Warm Up Your Mental Routine
It is always a good idea to use part of your pre-round warm up to also warm-up your mental pre-shot routine. This is especially true for extroverts, naturally tense, analytical, or undisciplined players who are the most likely to have slow starts.
11. Practice Like You Want to Play
Spend a portion of your golf practice sessions simulating play. Use all the imaginative skills you have to hit various shots, chips and putts, visualizing being in the most challenging situations possible.
Use imagery incorporating all of your senses--i.e. hear the crowd, smell the pines, see the narrow fairway and the crowd and the scoreboard, feel the breeze-- to make it as "real" as possible. If your imagery is really good, your heart will race and your body will tingle with adrenaline.
Then, relax and put your focus on a great mental pre-preshot routine.
12. Play Like You Practiced
When you play, try to have the same calm, confident, composure that you have when you practice. Walk, talk, eat and warm up with the same smooth and even "flow" as it it were just another practice day.
Because you have practiced using a good mental pre-shot routine for challenging tournament-like shots, you are prepared to focus on using the same mental pre-shot routine for all shots when you play.
Let us know if any of these tips work for you!
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