Practice Structure and Skills Transfer
"I can hit it stone dead from 100 yards. On the range. Standing on a mat. With no one watching."
You probably know someone like this. You might be someone like this.
I hit balls for an hour, dial in a lovely little stock fade, and feel like a proper golfer. Then I get to the course and that same shot, off grass, with a bunker on one side and out of bounds on the other, doesn't show up the same way. The range me and the course me are, apparently, two different golfers.
Part of the problem is what practice actually looks like for me. No real target most of the time, no consequence for a miss, just bucket after bucket of the shot I already like hitting. It feels productive. It isn't teaching me much about the golfer who has to hit one shot, that counts, under pressure, on a lie I didn't choose.
I'm not short on hours. I'm just spending them on practice that doesn't look much like golf, and that's why the transfer keeps breaking down.
Great on the range, mysterious on the course. I practise the shots I already like rather than the ones that actually go wrong, there's rarely a real consequence attached to a miss, and I trust the bucket of balls more than I trust what my scorecard's telling me.
If any of this sounds familiar, it's worth finding out how far it actually runs. The free assessment covers this alongside seven other areas that shape a round, and takes about eight minutes.
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