Stop Practicing Your Strengths
You're Wasting Your Time
If I’m being honest with myself, when I look back at most of my range sessions, they end up being dominated by things I’m already good at. For me that’s a nice baby cut with a 6 iron. I can sit there at the range and flush my 6 over and over again, impressing all the old retired women on the mats next to me.
And although I love putting on a stripe show for the ladies, it’s a massive waste of my time.
If you’re like most amateur golfers, you probably default to practicing what already feels good. And I get it. There’s something deeply satisfying about flushing your favorite club over and over. It confirms that you’re not completely hopeless at this game lol. But that comfort-seeking behavior is probably the thing keeping a lot of us stuck right where we are.
Real improvement comes from spending time on the parts of your game that make you incredibly uncomfortable. The parts you’d rather avoid. For me that’s 70 yard pitch shots. I hate them with a passion. They feel awkward and I can never consistently land them in the same spot.
If you made the old retired women sit there and watch me hit those they’d end up laughing at me.
But guess what? Time and time again it’s those 70 yard pitch shots that are the reason I ended up with a par instead of a birdie.
Discomfort Is Actually Data
The moments during a round when you feel uneasy are probably handing you the most valuable information you’ll ever get about how to improve.
