Practice The Truth

mafc

Usually play 18 holes at least 3 times a week, some times 4.
2 of those would be competition. Although I managed to play 5 days in row from last Thursday (3 competitive rounds). Might spend 20 minutes on putting green before starting a round.
I never go to the range but might spend 30 minutes chipping in the garden on the days I don't get to the course

Minimum for me is
3 rounds x 4 = 12
Putting green 3 x 20 = 1
Chipping 4 x 30 = 2
So a total of 15 hours
Improving....................8 hc

galwaylad14

mafc wrote: »

Usually play 18 holes at least 3 times a week, some times 4.
2 of those would be competition. Although I managed to play 5 days in row from last Thursday (3 competitive rounds). Might spend 20 minutes on putting green before starting a round.
I never go to the range but might spend 30 minutes chipping in the garden on the days I don't get to the course

Minimum for me is
3 rounds x 4 = 12
Putting green 3 x 20 = 1
Chipping 4 x 30 = 2
So a total of 15 hours
Improving....................8 hc

Some life!

FixdePitchmark

There you go mafc

We are beginning to see a picture of 12 to 15 for the improving mid to low handicap player,

This game is a disaster time wise.

quinda

18 holes every weekend plus usually another during the week which is matchplay at this time of year (in too many match play competitions!). Try to get another 9 holes of practice early morning mid week and some time in the club short game area.

18*2 - 8
9*1 - 2
Range - 2
Total - 12

7.8 currently and improving.

bustercherry

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

But is it not practice / experience for a competitive round.

This is something people need to practice and get experience at.

No you practice to learn/improve a skill in a controlled manor where there is no adverse outcome. It must have a purpose so you have confidence and trust when you compete.

Competition is all about getting the job done. Experience of a competitive round (or more likely rounds) is useless if you don't do anything with it afterwards. You should be using this experience to identify areas for practice in order to make you more competitive.

spacecoyote

bustercherry wrote: »

No you practice to learn/improve a skill in a controlled manor where there is no adverse outcome. It must have a purpose so you have confidence and trust when you compete.

Competition is all about getting the job done. Experience of a competitive round (or more likely rounds) is useless if you don't do anything with it afterwards. You should be using this experience to identify areas for practice in order to make you more competitive.

but wouldn't most pros say that when practicing you should be creating a competitive scenario , as no pressure practice won't necessarily translate to the competitive round

FixdePitchmark

Yes but you are getting feedback on your game. Without it you wouldn't know what to practice.
It is still time spent at the activity. It provides confidence .

The best range player in the world can be poor at putting together a good round.

Also in a round. You are in deep rough, poor lies, divots , hanging lies.
Very difficult or rare a person goes out to practice that.

You need experience.

bustercherry

spacecoyote wrote: »

but wouldn't most pros say that when practicing you should be creating a competitive scenario , as no pressure practice won't necessarily translate to the competitive round

No I didn't say practice should not be competitive....

Most amateurs practice is internal focused, by that I mean they work on swing mechanics, body position etc......

By rights they should be devoting the same, I spend more, amount of practice to working with an external focus of attention. Here you are forgetting about technique and focusing on the shot outcome. Drills, like most of the common putting drills, work like this but they also introduce the competitiveness to our practice routines.

Ultimately there is no adverse outcome as you can always restart the drill or practice routine. I'm not convinced that you can introduce the same pressure of completion into practice but that's my opinion.

GreeBo

spacecoyote wrote: »

but wouldn't most pros say that when practicing you should be creating a competitive scenario , as no pressure practice won't necessarily translate to the competitive round

Maybe in a practice round but when at the range or practice area I dont think you should bring competitive scenarios into it (unless you are making practice more fun)