Personal Best Practice
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ABC - Always be challenging
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One of the most important success
factors to becoming a champion is this
sport is to practice as a champion.
Junior players who truly want to
succeed always find a way to push or
challenge themselves, even when they
practice. Are you "always challenging
yourself?" Here is a way to do
it. Get a small spiral bound
notebook that has lined pages. It
should be small enough to fit in your
golf bag. On the top of every page or
every other page, put the name and
description of a drill that you do and
what your goal is for each drill. It
might be a putting drill to make 10
five-footers in a row. Or it might be
a range drill to hit 10 consecutive
half wedges to a landing spot.
Whatever it is, keep track of your
personal best in each drill and the
date you did each attempt. Then every
time you practice always try to
challenge your best previous effort.
In the putting drill, were you
successful the first time or how many
times did you have to start
over? Another good use of the
book is to use the first page to put
reminders about the basics of your
swing, i.e grip, stance and alignment
for instance. These are thoughts you
can use to remind yourself during
competition when it's not going well.
Also reading over your practice book
and looking at all your personal bests
the night before or morning you play
will put you in the right frame of
mind. Now go practice !!
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