Is Your Golf Practice Hurting Your Game?

With all this warm weather I couldn’t resist getting out and getting some practice in. Which got me to thinking - when you practice do you just beat balls, or do you go with a goal in mind?

Do you practice your strengths or do you focus on your weaknesses? Do you work on your posture, grip, and alignment or do you just hit balls and the only criteria is that you hit the ball in the vicinity of where you want or it has the shape that you are looking for?

If you are not doing these things then you could be doing more harm than good. How you ask? Great question, the answer is that you are now ingraining or reinforcing bad habits.

So here are the Simple World's tips for better practice:

1. Always have a target, the more specific the better. A tree on the horizon, an old divot, blade of grass, leaf, you get the idea.
2. Use alignment aids whenever you possibly can.
3. Change your target and clubs often, try to simulate a round of golf.
4. Challenge yourself.  If it’s a swing change don’t leave until you complete the amount of reps it takes to achieve your goal.
5. Spend more of your time on your putting & short game.
6. Take some lessons. Not because I teach for a living, but because the best players in the world have another set of eyes, shouldn’t the rest of us?  

We are all working towards the same goals - lower scores and more fun.