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How to Practice Golf: Logging and Measuring The Quality of Your Golf Training Experience

5/1/2013

 
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When you complete your golf training session how will you know how you did? Will you measure how many shots you hit within the allocated time line? Or possibly, whether you achieved your score goals in the session? 

These are important parts of a golf training session to evaluate, but I believe there’s one that’s even more important. 
"The amount of quality training you completed within the allocated training period."

When you divide the segment time into the overall time it gives you a value of how much work was performed within the overall training period. I have witnessed many elite golfers who quite frankly waste their time on the practice ground, and have very little to show for it by the end of a practice session.

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In the training session example above, Ben was on the driving range and short game area for three hours and thirteen minutes and he completed two hundred and fifty strokes. 

Fifty percent of these strokes were training his short game skills, and fifty percent was training his long game skills. 

His segment time for the three hours and thirteen minutes was one hundred and thirty nine minutes, and between his sets he spent about fifty minutes over the three hours not hitting golf shots. 



If you divide Ben’s 139 minutes of segment time into 193 minutes total time, you can gain a measure of the percentage of the quality of his training time, it would look like this; 139 ÷ 193 x 100 = 72 %. 

In my opinion this is an excellent training session because it suggests that Ben went about his work without the common distractions I witness on the golf range that dramatically reduces the effectiveness of it. 

Ben’s result is two percent above what we call the golden standard (70%) for the qualitative and quantitative measure of your golf training session.

Something to think about next time you go to the practice fairway to work on your game.

Lawrie Montague and David Milne - Pro Tour Golf College
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Anders A
5/1/2013 09:51:05 am

Hi,
isn+t this little of overdo?

Lawrie Montague link
5/1/2013 11:15:09 am

Thanks for your comment. It depends. How serious you're about managing your time and extracting as much quality as possible from the practice experience.
My experience of the majority of golfers I have worked with over 25 years and also observed over that time is that they waste a great deal of their time through poorly planned practice habits.

Anders A
5/1/2013 05:05:50 pm

I want to follow the pricip "practise as you play".

From my wiew of point that is to NOT make my time stiff-legged, by that I mean, NOT having the ambitions to fill my time on the range/practise green to 100 %.

I wish to move around between the different practise parts to fill up my energi for next step. I do not to rush!

If I should hunt for 90 % (not reaching it) it would mean to stress to a not wished amount.

That why I think your sheet will make an over-do.

Lawrie Montague link
6/1/2013 01:36:10 am

Thank you for your reply and of course we completely respect your point of view. We are just sharing ours with you.

Anders
7/1/2013 02:46:04 pm

Ok, have a nice 2013.

Astha
9/1/2013 06:20:36 pm

hi there,
I wanted to know what exactly you mean by:
"zone 1, zone 2,etc. and
how one is supposed to identify the intensity level? or is that a standard?

Lawrie Montague link
9/1/2013 11:10:18 pm

Thanks for your question. Zone 1 = 1 metre or 3 feet from the flag and Zone 2 = 2 metres or approximately 6 feet from the flag etc.

The intensity refers to your honest assessment of how the particular training routine makes you feel. 3-4 on the scale would be high and ideally when you construct your practice program if you're preparing for a tournament you will be attempting to train in the high end.

Sorry I wasn't clear about that but I have posted a number of articles about zones and intensity on our site. Thanks so much for your question and best of luck with your golf this year.

Lawrie Montague


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