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Ok my name is Joanne Taylor and I'm a Senior Golf Coach at the Mike Yorke Golf Academy
at Horsham Golf and Fitness. My area of specialization is practice structure and how we can practice
more effectively.
How many of us when we're at the range get a bucket of balls and don't consider our target
or even what we are practicing for? Also how many of us just hit the ball where
the range matt points? How many of us also hit the ball great on
the range but really struggle when we get to take our range game to the course?
To improve the effectiveness of our practice we need to understand the types of practice
that we do. There are two types of practice really that
we can do. If we are learning a new movement or trying to change something in our swing
we may use block practice, this is repetition of the movement that we're trying to create,
the idea of this is focusing on retention of that movement, in this case as tempting
as it might be we're really trying to focus on the movement and we're not too concerned
where the ball goes. The other type of practice, which gets neglected
more often is random practice. This is the type of practice that will help us transfer
our range game to the golf course. This focuses a lot more on making every shot different,
we're not going to do the same thing over and over.
The golf course is the ultimate random environment, we never have the same shot or the same lie,
very rarely hit the same club twice. My tuition focuses on practicing like we're
on the golf course, I get a lot of my players put a structure together when they are on
the range, they're changing the club every shot, changing their target every shot, they're
also coming off the matt, realigning and going through their golf course routine, so any
pre-shot routine they have on the golf course they use that on the driving range.