For a lot of people reading this email, time to practice is a luxury. What with jobs, family and other commitments, getting time to go and work on your golf game is as rare as rocking horse excrement.
That’s why if you get even a spare twenty minutes to work on your game it’s vital that you spend it working on the right things, you have some direction, you have some purpose.
Sad to say in my very humble but truly undoubtedly very accurate opinion, I can walk onto a practice green or range in any country at any time and 90% of the people there are actually wasting their time.
Making themselves worse and not better.
How so?
Well what they mistake for practice is actually mindlessly beating balls, it’s more exercise than anything and certainly doesn’t do a great deal to actually improve their golf game.
Fact. I once read an excerpt from a book by Tiger Woods in which he actually said that some of his best ever practice sessions were only ever 20 minutes long.
Reason being is he went to practice with a specific purpose and aim in mind, his practice was short, sharp, intense and on the money.
And he didn’t do too badly, until he let his pecker get the better of him.
So what’s a happy hacker supposed to do?
I thought you would never ask.
This is what I tell people, with bundles of time to practice and little time to practice. Make sure your practicing the right thing and make sure your practicing with purpose.
One of the best ways I know to help you with this is to record your practice session, make little notes on what you’re working on, why you’re working on it and how it feels.
A simple note pad and pencil will do the job, even on the back of an old scorecard you keep in your bag. No doubt for all the cool kids out there an app exists for that type of thing.
Just remember your screen time dear boy.
Onwards.
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Bob James PGA