Game Improvement

Apr
24
2010

Keeping a Practice Journal

What was going wrong with your game six months ago?  What was going right? How about three months ago? How have you spent most of your practice time over the last 12 months?  How many lessons have you taken?  What did you learn at each one?  How did your play and practice following each lesson improve?  Or did it degrade first?

Hopefully you see where I’m going with this.

Looking at the poll currently in my sidebar, a vast majority of respondents [...]

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posted in Game Improvement, Goals 6 Comments

Dec
15
2009

Your Golf Improvement Strategy

I love the poll questions because they really give me a chance to learn from all of you.  Sure, it’s not exactly scientific, but I’ve learned something interesting from every one I’ve ever posted.

The latest poll asked about the ways you improve your golf game.  If you haven’t voted yet, please feel free.  The question is, “Which of the following have you done in the past 12 months to improve your golf game?“  I presented you with a bunch of [...]

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posted in Game Improvement, Golf Philosophy 14 Comments

Dec
15
2007

An Interesting Golf Improvement System

I’ve recently been in touch with Doug Kercher, an Australian PGA golf professional. He’s been teaching the game for over 17 years and has been playing on the Australian Senior Tour since the 2006 season.

Doug has developed an interesting game improvement system, that I think might help me get more forward motion in my quest this coming season. It’s called Golf – Your Perfect Plan for Practice and Play

You can read a little about it here. If [...]

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  • How Long do You Read Putts?
  • I’ve been reading Golf Unplugged by Jim Apfelbaum (great book; review upcoming) and it contains a quote from Bobby Jones.  Faced with a pressure putt, he said:

    I resolved that no matter how much time I consumed, I was going to tranquilze my breath before I made another putt.  So I began to take great pains to study the line.  I really did not study the line, for I have never been able to see more rolls and bumps in a [...]

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