Once you’re a excessive handicapper trying to get higher, generally it appears like each tip is truthful sport. Slice fixes, placing drills, mental-game solutions? We’re all ears!

However in response to one trainer, there’s one thing easy that higher gamers do that might be a straightforward add for increased handicaps of their quest to get higher — and it doesn’t even contain altering their swing.

“The higher gamers that I educate have a very good pre-shot routine, and so they have one thing they do persistently, and so they execute it each single time,” says Gia Liwski, a educating skilled at Fiddlers Elbow CC in a Bedminster, N.J. “A whole lot of newer gamers or gamers who aren’t performing in addition to they wish to be, if they may create one thing very constant and really dependable that they will rehearse and prepare, then as soon as they get on the golf course, they’re going to have the ability to carry out it.”

So why is it that prime handicappers appear to wrestle with this? Liwski says it could be that they merely don’t know the way helpful it may be to train that consistency over each shot, particularly when they might be scuffling with info overload in different areas of their sport in an effort to enhance.

“A pre-shot routine is one thing that you could work on individually,” Liwski says. “So possibly sooner or later, you’re employed on fundamentals, and one other day you focus solely on pre-shot routine: the way you strategy the ball, and going via the motions earlier than you hit your shot. Be certain that it’s one thing dependable that you are able to do each single time you’re on the golf course.”

You heard it right here first, excessive handicappers. Give a constant pre-shot routine a strive, and watch your sport enhance.

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