Thursday, June 5, 2008

Create A Plan For Your Golf Improvement

Golfers need to come up with a plan and stick with it if they want to see improvement. Golf is like any other sport, and that means preparing to play your best. This plan you need to come up with should have a fitness element. Incorporating both strength and stretching into your golf plan will give you much better results.

Practice

With any golfer, you must practice. Your practice should be broken down to putting, chipping, irons and driver. You should prioritize more time on the aspects you are not doing well. Isolate your weaknesses to improve your overall game.

Any practice session can have time segments. 15 minutes for putting, 15 minutes for chipping, 15 minutes for 100 yards and in, and 15 minutes on your golf driver swing.

Conditioning

If you are a golfer over 50 this is a must. With aging comes physical decline. The end result is shorter drives, more mis-hits, and much higher scores. It makes for an un-enjoyable game of golf. Working on your golf muscles will add power and consistency to your golf swing.

Your strength (or lack of) directly correlates to your driving distance. If your backswing is short and weak, you will not be able to produce any golf swing speed, which is a must to hitting longer drives. Most golfers know that flexibility is critical to a bigger backswing with more power. You need to do stretches specific to your golf swing, not just general stretches for the sake of stretching.

Mental

Your mental training can be as simple as visualization. Spending 10 minutes in a quite place envisioning your perfect golf swing and playing on your home course. Picture playing each hole to par. The more you do this, the more you will do it on the course. They say golf is 90% mental, so why wouldn't you spend time on it.

So what are you waiting for? Put your golf plan together and do it asap!

About The Author: Mike Pedersen is one of the top golf performance experts in the country. For more information on his best-selling program visit his golf fitness plan, at his golf fitness system site today.

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