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To
enjoy the golf game you need the confidence and success to produce
your desired golf shots. Practice
correctly will always be the avenue to your success. To take
lessons and not practice afterwards is like buying a product
and not using it to fullest. No coach will be able to
guarantee you instant and continuous golf swing proficiency
results without practices. Practicing is to master what you
learn during your invested lessons. There are many studies
into how long it takes for your body to incorporate a new
athletic movement. Some say it takes 14 days to learn a new
one, and 45 days to replace the old one with the new.
Progress with players will vary widely depending on their
learning style and the urgency to enjoy playing the game of
golf.
Nothing good happens without a plan.
To enhance your practice
success is to develop a practice plan at the range. The golf
game required golf swing technique for long clubs to
achieve ball flight distance performance, iron clubs
for accurate shots to greens and precision short games
technique of pitching, chipping and putting. Ask yourself
what is your practice goals and be committed. You should
remember to practice toward your goals and also it will be
good to set an evaluation to assess personal achievement.
Correct Practice Makes Perfect.
It is not the high number of golf balls you hit or the
number of golf swing you perform during your practice.
Importantly it is the quality of each golf swing technique
you perform that account to your progress. When practicing
Focus On What You Want To Happen in Your Golf Swing
Technique. That is getting your body, arms and hands to
swing the golf clubface to impact on the golf ball
perfectly. Focusing will help to intensify and develop
cognitive and perceptual skills. You will enjoy the
discovery of what is hand-eye co-ordination, dynamic
swing tempo and timing. Your intensity of conscious and
subconscious mental skills will also surface.
Be patient,
mastering golf swing technique takes time. Don’t
expect miracles overnight. Instead, look for gradual
improvements. Keeping records and charting various
performance measures may help in identifying small
improvements that might otherwise go unnoticed. Remember
that small, gradual gains add up to major improvements.
"The more you
practice your undesired golf shots are temporarily
The less you practice your good golf shots are temporarily"
From Philip Ang
Make
your practice session challenging and fun.
I have seen a high
percentage of the golfers at almost any practice range still
spending majority of their time hitting balls with the
driver and long woods in a personal quest to reach the
distance markers. Professionals and good golfers will tell
you that this is not the sure way to practice and improve
your golf swing and game. Golfers should go to the range to
groove proper swing technique and train themselves for all
kinds of accuracy and distance golf shot performance. Pick
targets at the practice range for shot making to challenge
your proficiency. Simulate your practices like playing the
holes on golf course. For example for a Par-4 hole, start
with driver, then with a iron club follow by a short putt on
the practice mat assuming you are going for birdie score on
the hole. Such simulation is to prepare yourself as if you
are playing on the golf course. This is part of your golf
psychology and mental skill training. Remember that the game
of golf is played one stroke at a time and each stroke is
played with different golf club in your bag at different
positions on the golf course.
At the range
when you are hitting good shots and performing at your best,
do write down how you did it. How do you feel? Where your
confidence emerged from? How you prepare your shots? How you
manage and engage your attention? What is your golf swing
execution process goal. This is a very important asset that
you can earn and nobody can take it away for you. In fact
this is mental skill acquisition and training in sport
science which all elite athlete practice. The term is called
your Ideal State of Performance (IPS).
Enjoying your golf game.
Golf is special game, it is the only game ever played on the
moon.
Once you hit your first shot at the start of first hole you
have immerse into an endless challenge of your golf game. The thrill and
excitement for every golfer is the imagination of their
perfect golf shot making from your collective precise
distance judgment, golf club selection, golf swing
technique, confidence and wisdom. Every golfer
will experience good and undesired shots during the game,
please remember that golf professionals also will have bad
shots except that they make lesser than the amateurs during
the game. Do encourage yourself to
play with players of different skills. Learn the
sportsmanship, flair, mental and physical toughness of the good players that they
processed.
Try not to
play too many different sports. If you divide your practice
time among many sports, you run the risk of devoting too
little time to any one of them. To paraphrase an old saying,
you may make a reasonable showing in several sports but be a
true success in none. This is neither confidence
building nor as personally satisfying as being recognized as
truly competent in one given sport. Please don’t
play when you aren’t feeling well or are preoccupied with
something else. If you are not able to concentrate on your
golf swing technique and game because you are concentrating on other matters,
you will not perform your best.
Stop playing
when your shots performance are not get to where they should
be. The mere fact is that it indicates your golf swing
proficiency deteriorated. The frustration that you
experience from confronting
constant undesired shots can only increase the likelihood of further
failure mentally and physically in your game. Take a break,
go back to the practice range to get your swing technique
foundation corrected or take a lesson. It is not productive
to keep going
back to the golf course and producing the same undesired shots
repeatedly.
Why CEOs and
Executives play golf?
The golf
swing and game is an extremely challenging sport and
activity. The successful executive enjoys playing golf
because the game demands pre-game preparation, shots
planning and strategy, judgement and decision making for
precision shots, ability to execute challenging shot
performances, confidence and composure for optimum
outcome on the golf course. These are some of the traits
which match the successful executives in their profession.
Golf is used in business for networking and business
entertainment. The benefits of your client wanting to spend
5 hours playing golf with you is more than
tangible. You will be surprised that the better you are as
golfer, the more the people wants to know you. People like to
be with people like themselves – successful people. So better
practise and play good golf before you need it.
I have very
high regards for players with continuous persistence to
improve their game via practices. The game of golf is to
play to your perfection on all imperfect conditions and
environment on the golf course - a game that is played to
challenge your goals outcome with your golf swing skill
knowledge, experience, intellect, and wisdom.
My last note
is to remember to practice and play the game for personal
value.
Philip Ang
Asian Golf Centre
Certified & Licensed
USGTF
Master Golf Teaching Professional - USA
Singapore Sport Council - NCAP Level 1, 2 & 3
Singapore WDA-WSQ ACTA Certified Trainer
Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP™) Practitioner -
USA
Certified Time Line Therapy™
Practitioner - USA
Certified Professional Clubmaker by GCA (USA)
GCA Winner International Clubmaker of the Year - USA
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