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Golfer’s Pre-Shot Routine

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10th January 2008

Golfer’s Pre-Shot Routine

Have You Developed a Pre-Shot Routine?

 A pre-shot routine is something most golfers have. Very rarely do you see someone take a club out of their bag, walk right up and smack the ball without any aforethought.

 Your pre-shot routine is where you get comfortable with your stance, where you get mentally geared up for the shot, and where you hunker down to test your physical prowess in the game.

 Men and women both do it.  We walk up to the teebox, plug the tee into the ground, step back, aim, line up, waggle back and forth a couple of times, and eyeball the fairway – and it becomes a system we use each and every time we address the ball.

 Some people always do two warm up swings.  Others lift the clubface off the ground and quickly move it back and forth over the ball before they make contact with it.  What’s your pre-shot routine, or are you even aware that you have one?

 In a famous I Love Lucy episode, Ricky and Fred make fun of Lucy and Ethel by tricking them into thinking they have to hop skip and jump toward the ball or use an “over the shoulder, left-handed, whirling stimey” before they swing the club.

It’s not too much of a stretch for many golfers!  Some have the weirdest set-up pre-shot routines you’ve ever seen, but it doesn’t really help the ball go farther or straighter. 

What it does do is help the golfer feel less anxious about the shot. It’s like a Linus blanket. In fact, some need the pre-shot routine to release the built up tension they feel about hitting the ball – especially on the teebox.

If you want to develop a pre-shot routine that actually works for you better than just being comforting, then make sure it includes lining up your ball and mentally focusing on relaxing during the shot.

Position your clubface behind the ball and imagine a line that your clubface will swing through as it comes down for the follow-through.  Take one practice swing behind the ball and envision the shot.

When you address the ball, commit to the shot, take a breath, and bend your knees.  If you need to take a waggle, do it – but make sure you know what works best and what may be hindering your real backswing and follow-through.

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28th December 2007

7 part series - Consistent Golf

Subject: The PROVEN formula for consistent golf…

 by Nick Bayley who is the Director of Instruction for ConsistentGolf.

Nick has helped literally thousands of golfers from all
around the world to improve their golf games and become more consistent…and now it’s your turn.

So read carefully to what Nick has to say as it’s probably going to be the turning point to help you become the consistent golfer you’ve always wanted to become.

To start this off, here is Nick’s PROVEN formula for consistent
golf…

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From the desk of Nick Bayley, Director of Instruction, ConsisentGolf

Subject: The PROVEN formula for consistent golf…

If you’ve ever wanted to become a consistent golfer but failed…I’m
going to give you the proven formula to do it. So listen up.

Now first of all, you must understand that there are 4 distinct games
that make up the game of golf.

The first game is: The Long Game, e.g. driving, irons etc.
The second game is: The Short Game, e.g. chipping, pitching etc.
The third game is: The Putting Game, e.g. short putts, long putts etc.
The fourth game is: The Mental Game, e.g. confidence, concentration etc.

If you try and improve all of these “games” at the same time you’re more than likely to NOT get any better. And you may even get worse because you’d have too much to try and improve.

As you know, golf is a very complex game — but the improvement process can be made a lot simpler, and here’s how…

Out of those 4 separate games above you need to decide and pick the
weakest game for you.

So for example, let’s say the weakest part of your golf game is The
Short Game. 

So if you want to become a consistent golfer you should focus all of your attention on improving your short game.  And you should keep doing this until you’ve formed the habits that allow you to have a short game that is at a level you’re happy with…considering the time and effort you want to put into improving it.

Then once you’ve done that you then should maintain your short game
improvement and move onto improving the next weakest part of your game.

You simply keep repeating that process until you have all four “games”
at a level  you’re happy with. Then at that time you will be the consistent golfer you’ve always wanted to be.

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After reading about this proven formula for consistent golf you may be
thinking this sounds all very well…but how do you actually do it?!

Well, to help you become the consistent golfer you’ve always wanted to become Nick has created something truly unique and special to help
you do it.

It’s an online golf school.  The first fully featured online golf school
in the world.  Naturally because it’s online it’s significantly cheaper than your normal real world, offline golf school.  Not to mention you don’t have to travel, be told when you’re going to practice and for how long and generally put your life on hold in an attempt to improve your golf game.

But best of all…you’ll only pay if you improve!

Click here to find out how to play more Constent Golf 

P.S. Look out for the second part in this 7 part ConsistentGolf series as
it will be sent to you in about 5 days. The subject of the next email will
be: You are the golfer today because of this.

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