Practice / Training
6 Reasons You’re Wasting Time on the Driving Range
Motor Learning Let’s get down to it. Most people don’t improve after going to the driving range. Why else would we call the walk from the range to the golf course is called the “longest walk in golf”. That’s why we need to work on making your practice on the driving range transfer to the […]
3 Essentials to Breaking A Habit
You’re reading this article because you play golf and have spent various periods of time working on a shot or a part of the swing that you want to improve. You remember when somewhere along the road you hit a rough patch where you weren’t playing as well, and your ball flight was unpredictable. It’s […]
Why Practicing More Can Actually Make You Worse
Congratulations, you’ve finally done it. You’ve committed to getting better at golf, and made the promise to work harder than ever on your game. Or maybe you’re recently retired and have more time on your hands. So off to the course you go, everyday, to bang a tour-size bucket of balls. The problem is, you’re […]
Two reasons you don’t take your best game to the course
The past week, you went to the driving range you were killing it. You had a baby draw nailed down with the driver and a killer flop shot around the greens that you pulled off 90 percent of the time. So when Saturday came around, it was time to win some money. That beautiful draw with the driver […]
3 Proverbs to Help You Improve Your Golf Game
While I can’t verify that they’re completely original, here are some sayings and proverbs we use all the time to players to help them improve their golf games. “One in a row is not a streak” The biggest mistake players make when taking a lesson or trying to make swing changes on their own, is […]
Play the Golf Course on the Driving Range
Struggling to take your driving range swing to the golf course? It’s a common complaint among golfers. “But I hit it so great on the range. Why can’t I do that on the course?” Sound familiar? Swings on the range and play on the course are 2 very different things. On the course, you’re not […]
Be Your Own Teacher: The New Ball Flight Laws
Introduction This review paper is devoted to a discussion of the ball flight laws – a discussion of the club factors that affect a golf ball’s flight pattern in space. I believe that a golfer can greatly benefit if he has in-depth understanding of the factors that affect ball flight – in particular, the influence […]
Practice Frequently, Not Longer
Practice makes perfect, right? Well, not if you’re doing it wrong. To improve your golf game, it’s important to take time to work on problem areas, master what you’re already good at and retain what you’ve learned. But, it’s how you go about your practice – in this case the duration and frequency – that […]
Do We Need to Relearn How We Learn the Golf Swing?
Human beings are learning animals, probably the most efficient learning machine ever to have walked the earth. From birth we are programmed to alter our behavior depending on our desires and the feedback we are receiving from the environment. Our success as a species is largely down to how efficiently we learn and change our […]