Practice makes for Consistency - not for Perfection!

Before you set off for the course, here is what you can do at home.

This is the ideal place to help condition your muscles to adapt themselves to the changes that you are working on.

At home, you are likely to have less distractions and pressure from your peers - if you were to train a muscle 60 times a dayfor 21 days a new habit would have been created.

You really can train your body consciously and subconsciously into the changes that you need to work on.

Remember, Practice does not make perfect - it leads to CONSISTENCY. And if you practice the wrong things you will only be training your body to do the WRONG things!

First off, get yourself a long adjustable mirror to practice in front of. Better still set up a camcorder,
and record say, a 5 minute session of you swinging - then replay it and make a note of any parts that need to be
improved upon.

The idea is to use the short club/ weighted club-training aid, and very slowly perform the exercise you are working on 
– the more senses you use while repeating this,  the better i.e. visualize the changes, feel the changes and talk yourself through the changes – this will make it easier for you to “let it happen” when the ball is in the way.

So 5 or 10 minutes spent in a quiet room with a short club will be a great supplement to you in your outdoor practice and will allow you to improve your golf in quicker time!

Practicing In Your Garden:

Great for beginners - what a great place to practice away from other players – you can go through the fundamentals and get used to hitting the airflow balls.
– remember, if you can hit them, you can hit any other ball. Use a fairly flat part of turf or concrete and practice your short game too, because around 70 percent of your game depends upon mid and short stroke play.

Practice At the Driving range

This is how I recommend you should approach your practice at the range:

First off Loosen up with your favorite exercises.

Practice exercises (in your particular area and club choices) first without the ball, to the tee peg.

Now use the ball – keep doing the practice exercises in between hitting shots.

Do not just go for height and power - practice consistency - particularly those mid shots.

At the Putting Green.

Games are often won or lost in your short game. If you have say 30 minutes for practice, use 15 minutes at the range, 
the rest on the putting green.