What is Smart Practice?
In the “Wilfred and Willy” article, you have learned to use your two brain hemispheres with the WWW preshot routine to learn quickly. Now, let’s see how you can maximize your training sessions with smart practice.
First, devote 80% of your practice time to short game techniques with the putter and wedges (chips, pitches, and sandtraps). Why? This is where your can save many strokes and much time on the course. Then, devote 10% of your time to approach techniques: half swing and three-quarter swing with medium and short irons, shots in the rough or the fairway, etc. Finally, spend the remainder 10% practicing long game techniques: full swing with medium and long irons, hybrids, fairway woods without a tee and driver with a tee. I recommend practicing 5 techniques per session.
Simulate a round of golf on the driving range
Imagine yourself playing a round of golf. For example, imagine how you would play a par 5, say 520 yards. First, the tee shot with a driver. Then the fairway shot with a 3-wood or a hybrid, and perhaps an approach shot with a wedge, followed or not by a pitch or chip. By changing clubs and techniques with each shot, you will become more and more comfortable playing in a real game. Isn’t that the ultimate goal of golf practice?
A dual objective with each swing: the target and the mechanics
The Foundation before technique
Before trying to fix a movement, many golfers benefit from clarifying what belongs to the mind, the body, and the motion itself.
That is exactly the role of The Socle – The Golfer’s mental and physical Foundation.
A necessary first step, calmly established, to put things back in the right order before any technical work.
