These players have learnt the fundamental of the golf swing and are at the stage of attaining the golf swing proficiency. They hit equally number of good and bad shots. These golfers should practice regularly to achieve the proper body movements to be accustomed to golf swing for the short irons and long woods.

“No one can take away the mastery of your golf swing proficiency after your achievement”

 At the Practice Range

1. What you need to do during your to practice sessions?

• Have an organized practice session.

• Improve golf swing proficiency and ball striking ability for the mid, short irons, fairway woods.

• Ensure correct ball position at address for all clubs.

• Spent 50 percents of the practice time on the short games.

• Practice three times a week when possible. The more you practice the faster you master your golf swing proficiency.

• Practice your precision putting skills for 1, 2, 3, and 4 meters distance to the hole.

2. What you need do for your swing performances?

• Maintain good set-up posture for all golf swing executions.

• Ensure more arms and hands action during the golf swing execution.

• Ensure your correct clubface's position at impact with the ball. Make this the top priority for all swing executions to airborne the balls.

• Swing within your athletic ability for all shot performances.

• Know your average hitting distance and shot performances for all your clubs.

 Playing on the Golf Course

3. Your Preparation for a game

• Have a game plan.

• Arrive early and has a good body stretching warm-up.

• Hit about 100 balls at the practice range before the game where possible to get your physical swing readiness.

• Do chipping and putting to get the feel of the day for the short games when possible.

• Aim for a bogey game.

• Do not have an intensive practice session of hitting more than 300 balls at range the day before the game.

4. Your Tee-shots

• Read the layout of each hole to land the ball away from the hazards.

• Ensure correct body and clubface alignment for all tee-shots.

• Draw straight line on the ball to assist the tee-shot alignment.

• Your primary priority is to get the ball airborne onto the fairway, distance is secondary.

5. Your Fairway shots to Greens

• Maintain good ball impact on all shots till you reach the green.

• Swing with your physical and athletic ability.

• Get out the fairway sand bunker in one attempt.

• Hit the ball to the centre of the green regardless where the flag stick position to allow for shot performances error.

6. When your ball is outside the Greens

• Get the ball on the green with one chip or pitch shot performance.

• Get the ball out of the sandbunker in one attempt regardless where it landed.

7.  Your Putting

• Draw straight line on the ball to assist your direction alignment.

• Get the ball nearer to hole is the best choice.

• Long putt focus on the feel for distance control over accuracy.

• Short putt focus on the distance control and accuracy.

8.  Your Mental game

• Before any shot execution, stand behind your ball and exercise shot performance visualization.

• For body and clubface alignment a golf shot picks an intermediate target just in front of the ball.

• Ensure that you do a regular pre-routine swing action to enhance your mental with physical readiness for the golf swing execution.

• Exercise simple golf swing thoughts with simple swing movement.

• Enjoy your game seriously for fun.

9. Your Equipment

• Mark the ball for your identification.

• Dress up, look smart and feel good for your game. Use clean golf glove.

• Avoid playing with clubs in your bag that you have not successfully produced good shot performances at the practice range.

• Avoid playing with clubs that are too heavy that might tire you easy.

• Have a Rules of Golf Book in your bag.

10. What is good for you to do?

• After your game, take notes on what you need to practice on your precision shot performances.

• Watch more golf tournaments on TV to see how Professionals prepare for their shots execution and play the game.

• Try to play with good golfers more often to learn course playing management. Learn the Dos and Don’ts on the course.

• Find something to do for your game improvement aspiration (e.g do more stretching exercises to attain body flexibility for your golf swing enhancement).

 My Personal advise

Find a golf coach that can prepare an intensive training program to suit your busy working schedule to attain your strong swing foundation.

“A good coach will make a golfer see what they can become
rather than what they are.” From Philip Ang