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Improve Your Golf: Play Less & Practice More
If you were to study your scorecards and discover that the total strokes includes numerous threeputts, spending some time practicing your lag putting should be the By John Campbell obvious strategy. Whatever area of your game is adding strokes due to ost golfers who play the Finding time to practice might be poor execution, this should be given game for recreation or the main stumbling block for golfpriority during those times you have in competition have a ers who want to improve, but even available for practice. While it may be desire to improve. The limited opportunities can make a enjoyable to be hitting buckets irony is that so many fail to appredifference.Iffindingtimeisthemore issue, of balls on the driving range, identifyciate the importance of practice in make sure that during practice, the ing the problem areas of your game achieving that goal. Some who play focus is on the areas of your game and working on them is more likely to golf regularly only ever pick up their that require more attention. Do you clubs when they play the traditional struggle with your chipping around the reduce your handicap. The notion that spending less time eighteenholes.Whentheyfindthis green? a Are you a chronic three-putstruggle,thetendencyistotryter? tofind Pinpointing the main fault in your playing golf could actually improve your game may seem a strange one. a solution while on the course. This game determines what you should be The point, of course, is that if you seldom produces results. doing during practice sessions. only ever play golf and never practice, For anyone who is serious about It is very common to see golfers the likelihood of improvement is slim. improving their game, practice is a on the driving range pounding balls Workingonspecificareasofyour must. If the best golfers in the profes- with the driver. However, if the real sional world feel the need to practice, cause of high scoring on the course is game can make all the difference. If how much more so the weekend or down to a poor short game, then this you are someone who loves to play golf and you want to lower your recreational golfer. While the very needs to be given priority. Spending handicap, spending less time on the thought of practice leaves many an hour at your local course chipping feelingcold,thebenefitscouldmean around the green will be more advan- course and more time on the practice area could be the answer. it is time well spent. Practice may not tageous to improving your game. make perfect, but it will help.
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