Practice only counts, though, if you're practicing the right things. Go get a lesson on your swing. Maybe two lessons. Learn what it takes for you to hit the ball straight, then go practice those things thousands of times, like this.
Go to your back yard and swing twenty times, with, say, a 7-iron. No ball, just swing. Then swing twenty more times, but with your left hand only. This strengthens that side of your body and teaches your left arm how to move. Then swing twenty more times with both hands on the club.
Now make twenty swings with the right hand only. Follow that set with twenty swings with both hands, but with your heels together. This is an old exercise that teaches your upper body how to move and how to keep your balance during the swing.
Finish up with twenty normal, two-handed swings. There. That's 120 swings, and it took you only fifteen minutes at most. If you were to do that every day, you would make about 3,600 swings in a month. Your swing would get good.
Once a week, go to the range and do this exercise, hitting a ball every tenth swing, but no more often. It's a swing drill. If you hit one you don't like? Let it go and stick to the drill.
Putting? This is just as easy. Get ten or so golf balls and putt at a target maybe two feet away. Work on having a smooth stroke and hitting the sweet spot on the blade. This is the spot where you feel no impact and the ball just shoots right off.
Go to your back yard and swing twenty times, with, say, a 7-iron. No ball, just swing. Then swing twenty more times, but with your left hand only. This strengthens that side of your body and teaches your left arm how to move. Then swing twenty more times with both hands on the club.
Now make twenty swings with the right hand only. Follow that set with twenty swings with both hands, but with your heels together. This is an old exercise that teaches your upper body how to move and how to keep your balance during the swing.
Finish up with twenty normal, two-handed swings. There. That's 120 swings, and it took you only fifteen minutes at most. If you were to do that every day, you would make about 3,600 swings in a month. Your swing would get good.
Once a week, go to the range and do this exercise, hitting a ball every tenth swing, but no more often. It's a swing drill. If you hit one you don't like? Let it go and stick to the drill.
Putting? This is just as easy. Get ten or so golf balls and putt at a target maybe two feet away. Work on having a smooth stroke and hitting the sweet spot on the blade. This is the spot where you feel no impact and the ball just shoots right off.
After a few rounds of two-footers, try some three-footers. Now put a secure backstop behind the target you're putting for, and hit a few putts that would go 30 or 40 feet if you were on a putting green. The ball should roll directly over the target on its way to the backstop.
That's all the putting you need to do, and it took five minutes.
That's all the putting you need to do, and it took five minutes.
Short game is a little tricker, but keep that backstop up and chip some balls into it with a 6-iron. What you can learn off the carpet in the den is to chip the ball straight and make clean contact every time.
If you get some plastic practice balls, you can practice pitching. Hang a thick blanket over a curtain rod and hit the plastic balls into the blanket. As with chipping, you're practicing how to hit the ball straight and make clean contact. Five minutes would be all you need for the chipping and pitching combined.
In less than one half hour you have practiced the major skills that will help you play better golf. If you can that every day, you'll see results in a week, and a big improvement in two or three. Golfers who are pressed for time could alternate the swing drill on one day with the putting and short game practice on the other day.
But by all means, do something every day. As Ben Hogan said, "Every day you miss practicing is one day longer it takes you to get good."
Bob Jones is a golf researcher who can show you the reason why you don't strike the ball as consistently as you would like to. It's a little thing, and anyone learn to do it right, in just minutes, right at home. Find out what it is in this FREE download at www.therecreationalgolfer.com
If you get some plastic practice balls, you can practice pitching. Hang a thick blanket over a curtain rod and hit the plastic balls into the blanket. As with chipping, you're practicing how to hit the ball straight and make clean contact. Five minutes would be all you need for the chipping and pitching combined.
In less than one half hour you have practiced the major skills that will help you play better golf. If you can that every day, you'll see results in a week, and a big improvement in two or three. Golfers who are pressed for time could alternate the swing drill on one day with the putting and short game practice on the other day.
But by all means, do something every day. As Ben Hogan said, "Every day you miss practicing is one day longer it takes you to get good."
Bob Jones is a golf researcher who can show you the reason why you don't strike the ball as consistently as you would like to. It's a little thing, and anyone learn to do it right, in just minutes, right at home. Find out what it is in this FREE download at www.therecreationalgolfer.com