Useful Golf Tips for Gofers

For the average golfer or non professional, finding the time to practice is difficult enough. In most cases, even if the golfer finds the time to practice for improvement, their methods are flawed, thereby making the process even longer and inefficient. It's not how long you practice but how you practice. This special report will help you make the most of the practice time you have so you can enjoy the maximum improvement for better golf.

1) Identify what it is you need to practice and what you expect to accomplish.
No need to spend time practicing movements in your swing that have no value for your specific swing problems. Take a lesson with video analysis and first find the exact problem you need to resolve. Stay focused on that one need until it is mastered before moving on to another topic.
2) Prescribe an exact drill or remedy to repair the faulty swing move.
You may choose more than one drill or remedy for any one specific problem. Attacking a problem from more than one angle can be very beneficial.
3) Make sure your drills can be done without a club  or ball.
Practicing one night a week at the range for an hour will lengthen your improvement time considerably. To assure fast and lasting results you need to log a considerable amount of repetitions of drills or remedies until the new movement is natural. I suggest practicing for 5 minutes every time nobody is looking! Assign yourself some drills you can do at home or office. The more you do the drills without the pressure of attempting to produce proper ball flight is recommendable. Once you put a ball down you might revert back to your old swing movements and/or compensations. Taking the golf ball out of the picture allows you to stay focused on the movement you wish to reprogram. Make no mistake about it, this is reprogramming of your muscle memory through repetition.
4) Do your drills slowly and deliberately
Running through your drills quickly and in a sloppy manner is usually what I see on the lesson tee. Golfers do the drill two times and think it's time to hit another ball. You need to do every drill very slowly and deliberately talking to your subconscious all the way. Taking inventory of what it feels like to travel through your new motion and position.
5) Use a mirror or friend or feedback.
In most cases I would suggest using a mirror or other tools for feedback if needed. For instance, if you are working on your spine angle at address, you can place some masking tape on the mirror where you want your spine angle to be and the set to the golf ball and look at the mirror to see if you have accomplished the goal.
6) Once you decide to practice on the driving range hit your golf balls slowly.
Don't tell the range owner this, but most golfers could get twice the results from half the number of golf balls hit. Of course the establishment wants to see you beat your balls quickly and move on so someone else can use the mat. However you should take your time between each shot and take inventory on your results. Gary Player used to place his range balls behind him so he couldn't hit them so quickly. Do a drill or two between each shot. Remind your mind and body of where you want it to go.
7) Take notes on your practice session and improvement.
If you can't measure your progress you're wasting your time. The golf ball may not respond to you immediately. You may be improving considerably but haven't seen the results in ball flight. That's very common and normal. Stick to your program and measure results in the form of drills completed, balls hit properly, and your ability to begin to feel comfortable with the new motion.