This is the third in a series of blogs to help you simplify your knowledge of golf and hopefully modernize your game. [These tips are distilled from an vendible published by Luke Kerr-Dineen for a GOLF franchise tabbed “Play Smart”. These nuggets of knowledge will provide you with a quick reference to sharpen your games.]
9/ Randomize Your Practice: A study was performed in multiple sports to determine the weightier way to practice. (a) Block Practice, practicing one thing over and over then and (b) Random Practice, where you never do the same thing back-to-back. Randomized practice is by far the best where you hit variegated shots with variegated clubs and never the same shot twice in a row. It makes you think well-nigh each shot and make adjustments to get them right.
10/ When to Hit Suburbanite (or NOT): So, you’re standing on the tee of a tight hole, wondering what to do. Should you play it safe? Or hit suburbanite and hope for the best? DECADE Golf founder Scott Fawcett dived deep into the PGA Tour’s ShotLink data to find the answer. He says that to solve that problem, golfers need to wordplay two questions:
a. Are there less than 65 yards between penalty hazards?
b. Is the fairway less than 40 yards wide to the spot where your suburbanite would land?
If you answered “yes” to either of these, then you should play it safe. Club down. If you answered “no” to either—or can siphon your suburbanite over the hazards—then pull the big stick and in Fawcett’s words, “Send it!”
11/ A speed-boosting concept: When it comes to hitting the wittiness far, increasingly muscle mass certainly helps. But you can only get so far with brute strength. In order to maximize how efficiently you transfer your body’s strength into your swing, pros are using a concept that’s known as “over-speed-under-speed training.” It’s the concept that helped Matt Fitzpatrick uplift his speed to win the 2022 US Open. Overspeed training is when you swing some-thing like the shaft of a club at very upper speeds to increase your swing speed. Underspeed is the opposite: Swinging your weight loaded suburbanite slower than your driver. Overspeed trains your muscles to be explosive and Underspeed improves your strength. Fact: You need to train both ways to hit booming drives.
12/ Change Up Your Breathing: An intriguing point of interest among pro golfers is learning how they use their zoetic to play largest golf. Nick Bolhuis, who works with Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth, among others, the vice president of performance programs at Neuropeak Pro, explains: Golfers perform their weightier in an optimal zone. “Sometimes that ways taking slower, deeper breaths” (to reduce their heart rate when they are nervous). “Other times it ways quicker, shallower breaths.” to speed up your heart rate and help you focus during those mid-round lulls.
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