Practice Swings
It still surprises me, even after being a golf pro for 30 years, when new students tell me that they don’t have a practice swing. They will tell me that it slows down play, wastes energy, or they don’t want to use up all their good swings.
If you are in this group of golfers I would like to try and convince you that your practice swing may well be the most important part of your pre-shot routine.
Firstly I would like you to start thinking about your practice swing as a proper rehearsal of what you are about to try and execute, it’s not just a couple swipes to loosen up and It should have a specific theme. This theme should be related to what you have been working on in your game recently not something new that you thought of in the car on the way to the course.
Try as hard as you can to keep the theme the same for the whole round. Avoid chopping and changing to different feels and theories as this is probably the worst thing you could do to your swing and to your game. If you do keep switching your body will never make consistent smooth movements because it doesn’t get sufficient time to learn and then engrain what you are trying to improve.
Keep the theme of your rehearsal swings on the course simple only one main feel or position, definitely not multiple feels and\or positions. The feel for these swings should come from what you are feeling from tuition or from the practice range, again, not a random feel that you haven’t practiced.
If you use your practice swing as an accurate rehearsal you will certainly make your golf easier to manage on the course, it takes a bit of discipline but it is worth the effort.