This came up again in a lesson today, as we discussed how to practice the changes that my student has decided to make. We talked about what a typical practice session looks like. It might an hour of hitting balls and in that time, you might hit around 70 shots. We talked about how you could approach this hour and how to split it up into different disciplines. No matter how you decide to split up your practice time, the secret to a fruitful session is where you put your focus.

If you look along a driving range, anywhere in the world, you’ll see countless people practicing. Unfortunately, you’ll only ever see a small handful of people using any kind of alignment aid. This never ceases to amaze me. Why would people not want to use something to help them point to a target. If you look at any coverage of the driving range at any tour event on the TV, you’ll see the pros with sticks on the ground. Even it’s just for 5 or 10 swings, they’ll do it and the

Practice is vital in this game and there are many golfers who diligently go to the range once or twice a week, or more. Tour legend, Vijay Singh is well known for hitting upwards of 600 balls a day! BUT, we cannot just go there and blast away. Hitting a shot and immediately rolling another one in and firing again can be very destructive. It’s not Golf at this point. So, slow it down. Take a rehearsal swing, see and feel the shot first, have an intention, a target and above al