“The more I practice the luckier I get” – Gary Player
Practice, as I well and truly know, is a luxury for many who subscribe to this little email ditty.
Life has a habit of getting in the way, a trip away for work, a family occasion, jobs that need doing around the house or an emergency of some description pop up and before you know it two weeks have passed and you haven’t even touched a club.
Not good for the old golf game.
It’s a fact of life that if you want to get better, you have to put some time into this game in order to see results, and that’s not just playing the game.
It means some time dedicated to practice.
How much time?
Well that’s the subject for a whole other email, but whatever time you can spare then it’s wisely invested practicing.
Never a waste of time.
So what do you practice and what do you work on?
I’m often asked by casual and weekend players strapped for time, what areas of the game they should work on in order to get better and the answer babycakes is always the same.
The fundamentals, the basics of set up.
How you stand to the ball.
Jack Nicklaus often said that 50% of the outcome of a shot was directly attributed to set up, the other 50% was down to swing and mental reasons.
I used to give lesson after lesson working on peoples set up positions and getting them into good positions in order to start the swing.
I would say 90% of my own practice time is dedicated to the basics of the set up. If you start well and go bad in the swing you can often save it mid swing. If you start bad, your doomed from the very start.
And the best part of all of this is that anybody can pick up a club, stand in front of a mirror and work on their set up position.
10 minutes a day, that’s all it takes. If that.
Everybody has ten minutes, provided they get their head out of the smartphone.
And here’s the even better news.
To help you in your journey to golfing nirvana and to help get those scores down I have written a little-book that is free to you, yes a gift from me to you.
The book is called “9 Ways to Lower Your Handicap & Shoot Your Best Round Ever” and you can get those little hands of yours on a copy by clicking this link here.
Bob James PGA