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Slow play practice is one of those games that looks really easy on paper, but takes a lot of patience to actually execute. When you are at the range, deliberately force yourself to wait in between shots. This can be combined with "Play a course on the range" for an added simulation. Use nothing but your normal preshot routine to get you into the zone for a shot. You may use things like books, writing emails, checking facebook or other distractions in between shots but start with 1 minute in between shots, and aim for 5 (or even 10) as you get closer to tournaments or if you simply want to challenge it.
Tags: Practice Strategies, Intermediate
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This range game is slow play practice.
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So this is to get you used to the pacing on the course, because it's very easy to get into
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rid them in a routine when I'm hitting ball after ball.
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But when I'm on the course, I'm going to have to wait.
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So in this game, you're basically going to force yourself to wait.
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So what you do, and you can designate a certain number of golf balls if you want, you
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can use the timer on your phone to make sure that you're actually doing it.
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But basically what you're going to do in slow play practice is you're going to take
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a certain amount of time between shots.
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A good starter version is about a minute.
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But if you can work up to doing three, four, even five minutes in between shots, it's
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really going to replicate what it's like on the course.
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I used to bring a book to practice, and so I would get up there and I would hit a shot.
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And then I would go back to my bag and I'd read a small section in the book.
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Come back, imagine it's the next shot on the course.
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Walk through my pre shot routine and see if I could recreate the shot the very first
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time.
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So it's a great way for transferring what you're doing on the range to on the course.
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And it's a really good way of testing to see if you're going to break down when you
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get on the course.
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Because if you can't trigger the swing that you want with just your pre shot routine,
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if you need to have rapid fire balls, there's no way that it's possibly going to work
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when you're under the gun and when you actually have to wait in between shots.
