We all experience it – we strike the golf ball like a tour pro on the range, rush to the tee full of hope and expectations and then….. Bam! We whack the first ball out of bounds and proceed to hit it like we’ve never played before. How can this happen? Why does this happen? […]
All around the globe, golfers are toiling away on the driving ranges, trying to improve their games. Yet, many of these golfers will not improve – some may even go backwards. And the few who do improve might have done so at a slower rate than they could have. This article explores 5 reasons why golfers […]
It’s coming to that part of the season where the big tournaments are at their finales. This makes it a nice time to discuss the idea of tournament preparation. Go to any range, anywhere in the World and you will see the same thing – hordes of golfers working on their swings. After all, isn’t […]
When I was learning golf, I thought that all I had to do was get my swing to look mechanically like Tiger Woods’ and everything would fall into place. If I could just hit his positions and ingrain them, I would then start hitting the ball pure every time – and then I could just […]
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a video of an insanely difficult golf drill. It got a lot of people talking, and I wanted to expand upon the idea – click below to watch the drill in action. The drill I conducted here shows me doing 5 ball flights – A fade A draw […]
Teaching chipping to a group of beginners recently reminded me of how difficult golf can be to learn. As a beginner, we have so much that we need to do in order to hit our first good shots. We could get a million and one things right, but still blade the ball across the green […]
You’re a golfing wussy. That’s right…. you heard correctly. I just insulted your softy-self. Time to “man-up”, and I’m going to show you exactly how to do that. Beginners vs Elites A recent podcast I did with a friend of mine discussed the differences between performance coaching (getting people better quicker) and participation coaching […]
Bored during practice? Are you working hard on the range but not seeing the success you want on the course? Listen up. A couple of years ago, I wrote The Practice Manual – The Ultimate Guide for Golfers, I talked about many of the principles of effective training for golf. Things such as Quantification Gamification […]
I’ve always been very goal-oriented. I remember as a kid writing down what scores I wanted to achieve and by when, as well as how far I thought I would hit each club as I got to certain ages and became stronger and better. As an adult, I have become better at the goal-setting process […]
I was playing around on my guitar the other night, learning a new riff. I knew the notes I had to hit, and was simply practicing hitting them the best I could. I was practicing for perfection. Sure I was getting better through the practice, but there was one transition that was a real sticking […]
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