How To Practice Like A Tour Pro
One of the topics that comes up during my one on one mental coaching sessions is how to practice golf. What are the best things you can do during your valuable time spent practicing that are going to transfer to…
4 Of My Favorite Pressure Practice Drills
If you’re a golfer who prefers to be as efficient as possible with their time and see real improvement, your practice sessions will include a combination of block, random and pressure practice drills. By block practice, I mean consciously thinking…
The Biggest Difference Between You And A Tour Player
The guys over at Game Golf, have a huge amount of data from hundreds of thousands of rounds and they sent me a breakdown of average score by performance in the different areas of the game. What it shows is:…
How To Practice A Better Mental Game
Tomorrow I’m giving a mental skills clinic at a golf course in Maryland. As I review my clinic itinerary in preparation, it occurred to me that you would benefit from a few of these mental game practice drills, and hence…
Learning How To Handle Pressure
If you’ve read “The Talent Code” by Daniel Coyle, you’ll know that talent is not simply "God-given", it’s more likely the result of Effective Practice, and the environment that a student learns and develops a skill. I speak to many…
How Good Can You Become This Season?
Your success this season is completely within your control. Instead of letting another golf season pass without seeing a change in your scoring average, let’s make this one different... Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to be posting…
What is “Deliberate Practice”?
The term ‘Deliberate Practice’ has been widely used since being popularized by the writer Malcolm Gladwell in his book "Outliers". In this book he introduces us to “the 10,000-hour rule", a concept that is believed to have come from a…
Your Elite Player Game Improvement Plan
Reaching your potential is not just about skills development, it’s about your motivation and the strength of your plan. Without a destination in mind, and the journey mapped out, you’ll struggle to motivate yourself to get there. What do you…
The Tour Player “1/3 Rule” For Better Practice
How do you spend your time practicing? How do you know you are building the skills you need to get better? Are you using the right practice drills for better golf? One of the biggest mistakes a golfer can make…
How To Practice For Playing The Golf Course
Consequence and progression in practice Is your practice regime stuck in a rut? Are you going to the range and just going through the motions? Does your performance and improvement on the range seem to leave you when you need…