Why “Just Practice More” Is The Wrong Advice To Improve Your Golf Game

Many sports require vigorous practice to improve. Don’t get us wrong, practice is a critical element of golfing and becoming more comfortable with your swing. However, advice that requires you to swing over and over again until it ‘clicks’ is not what you should follow when working to improve your golf game.

This is because golf requires an intricate group of muscles and movements. Practising over and over again just builds on bad habits and can limit your swing further.

Below, we’ve detailed why practice does not always make perfect when it comes to golf, and why you need more than just a repeated swing to truly master the sport.

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Practice Can Repeat Mistakes

It is incredibly easy to build a bad habit in golf simply because your swing feels right. Without feedback and adjustments, a bad habit soon becomes a problem. Before long, you’ll have a locked-in flawed swing that takes time and a lot of patience to fix.

BioGolf helps you understand the why behind your swing issues and what you can do to improve them. This way, you become more aware of what your body is doing and how you can make effective tweaks to improve. This begins with a personalised swing analysis through to training curated for your body and your needs.

Practice Doesn’t Remove Limitations

You may have pre-existing limitations to your swing. This could include, but isn’t limited to, tight hips, a weak core or poor posture. No amount of time playing can correct these without focusing on your biomechanics. Swinging with these limitations, in fact, can cause more harm than good, with the risk of injury growing exponentially.

Mobility stretches, exercises, and techniques grounded in biomechanics aim to help you loosen and improve your range of motion before you tee off. Performing the right exercises can assist you in achieving the extra power, distance and consistency you have long been hoping for.

Practice Fixes Results, Not Causes 

Practice may help you to take a few points off your score, but it won’t build the consistency you need to achieve fantastic scores every time you hit the course. This is because practice is ‘results-focused.’ By this, we mean that it’s grounded in trying to lower your handicap, improve your scores or beat your mates. However, that slice in your swing or that ball flight will not meet a long-term solution until you work out the cause of it. By working on bio-mechanics, we don’t just identify the cause. We help you eradicate it. With us, your results don’t just improve; your body feels better when playing golf. 

Practice Causes Frustration 

Golf is as mental as it is physical. So, if you’re practising over and over again while still making mistakes, you will soon grow frustrated. For some people, this can turn a love of golf into a hatred for it. 

We help golfers see what is actually wrong with their swing so they can fix it and achieve results beyond their expectations. Our support fosters your growth and also supports your love of the game well into the future. 

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