Inside Golf, Australia. June 2014 | Page 52

instruction - preparation Improve your golf with a different approach Stuart Leong [email protected] P ractice makes permanent. If you work on the wrong things or practice the wrong way the likelihood of you improving is small. Most golfers have, at some stage, dedicated themselves to working on the game and practicing more. Frustratingly, very often golfers don’t improve despite the extra hours on the range. Typically, most golfers don’t practice the right things. Frequently we practice the areas of the game that we are already good at or the things we enjoy with no investment in those parts of the game that really matter. Understand Your Game Most golfers really don’t understand what actually influences their score and what they do well when they play golf well. Further, most golfers have very little understanding of what good or normal performance is for their score range. As a result, most of us are very concerned about parts of our game that may not have a big influence on our score. Very often these concerns are based on a false premise or flawed concept. In my own case when I was trying to be a tour player, over a decade ago, I ended up injured with stress fractures in several ribs from over practicing my approach shots and developing my full swing. It is easy to get caught up on all sorts of things that won’t make us better. The reason why ShotsToHole.com was created was to provide a tool to allow players and coaches to understand the most important parts of the game to work on to get maximum improvement. Our aim is to allow you to reduce your score with the least amount of effort. Sometimes just being aware of the importance of a particular area of your game is enough to start getting better. Targeted Practice If you aim at nothing, you hit nothing. Going to the range to tinker with your swing with n