Quality golf practice will help you lower your score

A quality golf practice program is more than swinging a golf club and trying to hit the golf ball a 100 or 1000 times a day or week.

Once you have your golf swing fundamentals and set up sorted there are more important things to focus on.

Such as:

• Building a strong pre shot routine.
• Focus on playing to a target.
• Learning to relax.
• Get your balance and alignment right.
• Focus your eyes and thinking on the target.
• Play for accuracy instead of distance.
• Tap into your natural swing and rhythm.
• Learning your distances.

You will also need a golf practice program for your body. This is for building core strength, flexibility and fitness.

This could include physical conditioning, resistance training, stretching, massage and corrective therapies.

We all get aches and pains and need adjustments from time to time.

Most people are wasting their time at the driving range

Have you noticed how most golfers go to a driving range with poorly fitted golf clubs, they use range balls - which are different to those they use on-course.

They have no pre shot routine and hit golf ball after golf ball without ever moving away and starting each shot as they would on the course.

This is without considering they are focussed on hitting the ball rather than playing to a target.

Basically, the time spent at the driving range is not planned and has no purpose.

Get a golf practice program designed for you

Get your golf professional to design a quality golf practice program for you. This includes a regular lesson program on-course and on the practice area to get your golf swing and set up fundamentals sorted.

Most importantly, focus on your putting and short game. This is where you score.

Also, find a physiology specialist who knows golf to give you a physical and a movement assessment. Have them design a golf fitness and flexibility golf practice program for you.

Practice on-course and measure your stats

Practice where it counts, on-course. Even walk the course backwards so you really get to know the distances and true depth of what you are playing into.

Most of all keep a golfing stats booklet so you know what is working and what's not. You can track where you waste shots.

Use this booklet to give to your golf professional so they can help you focus your golf practice program where it counts.