1 factor higher gamers do this increased handicaps ought to emulate

If you’re a excessive handicapper seeking to get higher, typically it seems like each tip is truthful recreation. Slice fixes, placing drills, mental-game options? We’re all ears!

However based on one instructor, there’s one thing easy that higher gamers do that may be a straightforward add for increased handicaps of their quest to get higher — and it doesn’t even contain altering their swing.

“The higher gamers that I train have a very good pre-shot routine, and so they have one thing they do constantly, and so they execute it each single time,” says Gia Liwski, a educating skilled at Fiddlers Elbow CC in a Bedminster, N.J. “Quite a lot of newer gamers or gamers who aren’t performing in addition to they wish to be, if they might create one thing very constant and really dependable that they will rehearse and prepare, then as soon as they get on the golf course, they’re going to have the ability to carry out it.”

So why is it that prime handicappers appear to wrestle with this? Liwski says it might be that they merely don’t know the way worthwhile it may be to train that consistency over each shot, particularly when they might be fighting data overload in different areas of their recreation in an effort to enhance.

“A pre-shot routine is one thing which you can work on individually,” Liwski says. “So perhaps at some point, you’re employed on fundamentals, and one other day you focus solely on pre-shot routine: the way you method the ball, and going by the motions earlier than you hit your shot. Ensure it’s one thing dependable that you are able to do each single time you’re on the golf course.”

You heard it right here first, excessive handicappers. Give a constant pre-shot routine a attempt, and watch your recreation enhance.

For extra suggestions from Gia Liwski, click on right here.

Golf.com Editor

As a four-year member of Columbia’s inaugural class of feminine varsity golfers, Jessica can out-birdie everybody on the masthead. She will out-hustle them within the workplace, too, the place she’s primarily liable for producing each print and on-line options, and overseeing main particular initiatives, resembling GOLF’s inaugural Type Is­sue, which debuted in February 2018. Her origi­nal interview sequence, “A Spherical With,” debuted in November of 2015, and appeared in each within the journal and in video type on GOLF.com.