Use a Golf Journal to Lower Your Scores For Less Than a
Dollar
As I give more and more golf lessons, it amazes me how much
money people will spend with me and as soon as they leave it
is like the golf lesson never happened!
I suggest to all of my students to keep a golf journal. With
a golf journal, we can get together at the end of the lesson
and discuss what their homework will be until the next golf
lesson. The challenge for me is that less than 5% of my
students do this and then wonder why they are not
progressing as fast as they would like.
I have attempted to emphasize how important this is by
bringing a clip board with a lesson sheet on it. I keep
notes on it throughout the lesson for myself as well as for
the student. After the lesson, we discuss what is on the
sheet and I then scan the sheet and email it to them for
them to use, record in their own way or, I guess, trash.
You can improve your golf game and handicap much faster for
under a couple of dollars! Although you can purchase a nice
golf journal such as The Ultimate Golf Journal by Lisa Bach,
you can accomplish your goals with a small notebook that you
can keep in your pocket, attach to your push cart or put on
the steering wheel of the golf cart while you play.
There is no secret to improving your handicap and shooting
lower scores. The answer is that it practice, practice, and
more practice. We have all had those moments on the driving
range where we cannot miss and the next time out we cannot
remember what we were thinking or working on to make the
ball react the way we wanted. By keeping a golf journal, you
can jot it down as it happens or after your practice
session.
Whether you take lessons or not, it is important to keep a
golf journal or a small notebook (less than a dollar) with
you when you practice or play. It is important to note the
flight of the golf balls. Do they start by flying to the
left or right? Once they get to the top of their flight do
they topple forward or to the left or right? What about the
trajectory of your golf shots? Are they too low, or too
high? Eventually after a couple of rounds of golf, you will
start to see tendencies. If you do take lessons, this will
be valuable information for your professional. As we all
know, the golf ball sometimes tends to fly differently once
we are on the golf course.
You will also want to begin keeping simple stats in your
golf journal. I do this a lot by using a scorecard and using
each line for a separate statistic. You will want to keep
fairways hit or missed, greens hit or missed, up and downs
that are converted and the number of putts that you take on
each hole.
By keeping a simple golf journal with some of these easy
suggestions along with others that you will come up with in
your own, you will begin to see good and bad patterns
forming. With this information, you can improve your
weaknesses and lower your handicap.
Max Johnson of VGS Golf & Country Club Learn how to use Golf
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