Drew's Tip Of The Month
Gary Player once said, "The player who expects a lesson to “take” without subsequent practice just isn’t being honest with himself or fair to his professional.” We all want it now. We want to improve right away with as little pain as possible. I understand that and I can sympathize. The joy of the game is improvement. Shooting a lower score today than we did yesterday will make your day and keep us coming back to the game that we love.
The reality, however, is if you want to improve then you need your ball to do something different: fly longer, straighter, more consistent, without excessive curvature. To get your ball to do something different, you need to do something different, not better, just different. That is where the guidance of your PGA Professional comes in. If the information your golf professional provides you doesn’t feel different, then you haven’t made a change. The different feel will eventually go away through practice. Repetition is the mother of skill. You are exchanging an old habit for a new one and that can take time, usually 3-4 weeks assuming you practice. Small, daily, quality practice sessions (as little as five minutes) are more effective than once a week practice binges.
Using images and feels instead of words while you practice will improve your progress dramatically. Once you build that new habit, it will be difficult to go back to the old one. Wouldn’t that be nice? Keep Swinging!
