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When you go to the practice range, do you really know how to
evaluate your progress? Real learning can only take place with proper and
valid feedback. Did you think that learning golf would be different than
learning anything else? The steps needed are the same.
Most golfers have only focused on one area of feedback called
BALL FLIGHT. This would be fine if you truly could explain why the ball is
doing what it is doing in flight, but can you? It sounds sarcastic, but I'm
afraid that the only thing ball flight tells most golfers is which direction
to start walking. So what did you really learn? And if it was a poor result,
what is your plan for the upcoming shot to reduce the odds of it happening
again? Unfortunately the answer for most golfers is to create another mistake
to compensate for the last one. Is that true learning do you think?
If ball flight is all you analyze following your swing, you
are not extrapolating ALL vital information from that practice (or on-course)
shot. If two players each get a large bucket of range balls and one player
uses four sources of feedback while the other only one, who will improve
faster? By the way, feedback does not always have to be in a positive form to
be valuable for your progress; analyzing and understanding why a poor result
occurred may be more valuable for your long-term gain since golf really is a
game of mistakes… understand your mistakes, and you just might win the
tournament!
Evaluate these 4 sources of feedback following EVERY
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