Stop Wasting Time on Unproductive Practice
Transform Your Game with Purposeful Training
Are you spending hours hitting balls but not seeing results on the course?
Golf Practice Buddy’s science-based system helps you practice with real purpose, leading to faster improvements and better scores.
Our 3-T Approach focuses on three main categories of practice: Technical, Training and Tournament. Spending time in each category will help you play better golf.
Achieve Faster Results with Our Proven 3-T Approach
Technical Practice
Focuses on swing mechanics, laying important foundations and forming a crucial piece of the puzzle. However it won’t win tournaments alone and shouldn’t dominate all of your practice time. Most golfers are constantly refining their swings, but balancing technical practice with skill-building and performance practice is essential.
Training Practice
Builds your scoring skills. It develops feel and shot accuracy so you learn to get the ball closer to the hole. It’s essential for developing real playing skills and lowering your scores.
Tournament Practice
Prepares you to perform by practicing like you play, with shot by shot challenges where every shot counts. Test yourself and learn to perform under pressure.Why Golf Practice Buddy?
Golf Practice Buddy specialises in Training and Tournament Practice, two of the most crucial yet often overlooked elements for lowering scores at every level.
We complement swing coaches’ work, by emphasising effective shot-making over perfect swings, helping you improve your performances on the course.
Better Practice, Better Golf, Better Scores.
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The Problem:
Many golfers feel that their practice doesn’t always translate into improvements on the course. On the range, we tend to hit the same shots repeatedly, but on the course, every shot is different.
Within Technical, Training and Tournament practice, there are three types of practice that can help you make real improvements: Blocked, Variable and Random practice.
There are 3 main types of practice:
- Blocked Practice: Repeating the same shot with the same club to the same target. While this traditional approach can help build a skill and be very beneficial at times, it’s also very different to playing golf. Overusing it can limit your progress and ability to hit different shots on the course.
- Serial Practice: Involves hitting shots in different ways to become more adaptable. For example, practicing shots in a sequence such as 70, 80, 90 and 100 yards helps you adjust to different distances and shot feels. This type of practice builds versatility and is vital to your development.
- Random Practice: Playing a different shot every time and mimicking the unpredictability of playing golf. This is the closest form of practice to playing golf and develops the adaptability you need on the course.
Practice Can Be Misleading!
Many golfers feel they improve during practice, hitting more accurate shots and putts with better strikes, yet on the course, they see little progress. This is because performance in practice doesn’t always indicate how much is being learned.
On the driving range, we often use the same club and hit to the same target repeatedly, and this repetition makes it easier to hit more accurate shots.
On the course, we only hit the same shot twice if the first one goes out of bounds and every shot requires a new decision and approach.
By changing clubs, targets and distances after each shot, you may not get the immediate success that repetitive blocked practice produces, but your long-term learning and performance gains on the course will be much greater because you will be practicing playing golf.
Learning vs. Performance
During Golf Practice Buddy creator Dr Nicky Lumb’s PhD research, she explored how practice influences learning and performance by investigating the differences in shot accuracy between players who engaged in traditional, blocked practice and those who combined blocked, variable (serial) and random practice on shots between 50 and 100 yards over 10 practice sessions.
The results showed that players who only used blocked practice were more accurate in the practice sessions (Graph 1) but the players who engaged in blocked, serial and random practice were learning and benefitting more ( Graph 2). This demonstrates that the benefits of practice are not always immediately evident. Instead, they are often seen days, weeks or months later because the brain needs time to process and consolidate what it has learned.
It is important to remember that your immediate performance in practice is not necessarily indicative of how much you are learning. When you mentally commit to executing a shot and don’t succeed, your brain still learns. Improvements typically take time and often more time than we think they should!
Graph 1: Practice Session Performance - Accuracy improvements during practice sessions.
Graph 2: Long-Term Learning Benefits - Superior long-term benefits from combining blocked, serial and random practice methods.
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The Solution: To see lasting improvement, add variety to your practice by using different clubs and hitting to different targets and distances. It may feel less consistent at first, but research shows it leads to better long-term results.
All of the practices in Golf Practice Buddy are labelled Training or Tournament practices to help you build your skills and then test them!
Golf Practice Buddy helps you build real playing skills, so you can start to see results where it counts — on the course.
Stop Wasting Time: Start Practicing with Purpose.
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