Lowerhandicaps.com
Welcome to Lowerhandicaps.com, a website devoted to lowering your golf handicap.
Let’s face it; the majority of players that desire to improve their golf skills will not have success with their current learning model. Many amateur players simply go to the driving range and hit balls. And they often end up engraining habits that will become barriers to long term improvement. A few lucky players will find a swing that they can repeat on the golf course. But the vast majority of amateur players working at the range may be doing far more harm than good to their games and their golf scores.
Fortunately barriers can be broken, old habits can be changed and there is a very simple method for achieving real golf improvement. There are three steps to sustainable golf improvement.
1) Decide exactly what it is you want to achieve. Choose a goal.
2) Develop a strategy for accomplishing the goal.
3) Make daily progress.
Golf improvement comes from developing many skills in succession or simultaneously. I believe most players know this and that can actually be road block when choosing a goal, too many goals to choose from. How do you determine which skill is the best one to start with or the best one to be working on right now? So the average amateur either doesn’t practice or study at all or they change direction so often nothing has a chance to stick. If you’re having trouble choosing a specific goal you need to seek the advice of a teaching professional or a highly skilled mentor or both. Teachers and mentors can be found at nearly every practice facility or you can also find them in books, magazines and DVD’s.
The second step is developing a system and strategy for achieving your goal. Most players do not have a system for organizing all the required ingredients. Nor have they considered how best to go about the learning process. Once again they must seek the help of teachers and mentors. Make sure you spend time studying golf, especially before you start practicing.
A player cannot expect to acquire sustainable improvement all alone.
The third step is take make daily progress. Do not make the mistake of only going to the driving range for two hours once a month or even once a week. You will see significantly better progress by practicing and studying for 10 minutes at a time every other day. Short (up to 30 minutes) practice sessions more often will dramatically improve your skills. Being involved in the game by practicing or by study on a daily basis will provide the greatest improvement in your scores. But be patient, it may take a week; it may take you a month or even six months. Every player is different, some will improve steadily by small amounts and others will make giant leaps forward with long stretches of time in between. As in all aspects of golf, BE PATIENT.
Lowerhandicaps.com is dedicated to providing quality relevant golf instruction. Throughout this site you will find instruction and information that will help you play better golf. We are constantly adding new pages to this site, so check back often.
Greg Peddie
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Copyright 2006 Greg Peddie
