The secret to breaking the 80s may not be found only in the range

can’t be found either only in golf tips, golf books or golf lessons.

The secret to over 80 can also be found in recent performance research.

This research doesn’t tell you how to drive a ball, sink a putt, or hit an iron. It also doesn’t tell you how to play a course.

Instead, it tells you excuse me to learn a motor skill. Knowing how you learn a motor skill can help you get the most out of practice. More importantly, it speeds up learning.

And accelerating learning can propel your game to the next level quickly.

Below are 7 actionable tips based on performance research. Build them into your practice routines and take your game to new heights.

Tip 1: Set Specific Goals

Setting specific goals, such as beating or winning the club championship, speeds up learning. Also increases skill retention.

For best results, choose moderately challenging, long-term goals. Combining them with even low levels of practice can boost learning by up to 400 percent.

Tip 2 – Choose the right swing thoughts

Oscillating thoughts are valuable tools. But you need to use the right thoughts. The key is to use external oscillating thoughts, no internal one is.

Experienced golfers, use swing thoughts that refer to the club, not the body, thoughts like “Lean the shaft forward at impact” and not “Place my hands in front of the club at impact.”

Tip 3: Learn from a professional

When you learn from a professional, you play like one. So take golf lessons from a pro whenever you can. Highly effective, it is the best way to learn and the best way to achieve consistency.

A professional can see your mistakes. Can. A professional will also not allow you to instill mistakes. She will correct them and teach you how to do things right, speeding up learning.

Tip 4: Practice how you play

If you leave your best shots in practice, it’s because you’re not practicing to transfer skills from field to field. Transfer practice encourages the specificity of learning. The process is called practicing as if you were playing.

In other words, instead of hitting 25 drivers in a row, hit driver, then 7-iron, then PW, just like you would during a round.

Or hit wedges from a grassy area, not a mat. Try to create real game conditions when you practice.

Tip 5: Work on a change

When you practice working on multiple shifts at the same time, you literally short-circuit your brain. Repeating a movement changes your brain, increasing its efficiency in information processing and movement control.

But that’s only if you’re working on one change at a time.

Also, use training aids. Why? Because the brain can’t tell when you’re doing something right or wrong. Training aids teach you how to perform the skill correctly, instilling the fundamentals the right way.

Tip 6: Practice, practice, practice

There is no escape. You have to practice to improve. Research shows that it takes 10,000 hours of work to ingrain a motor skill. It also shows that you need to do something for 10 years to master it.

So if you really want to lower your golf handicap, practice. No one has learned to play golf well without practice.

Tip 7: Buy videos

Forget verbal training aids. Instead, use a video or photo. We learn faster using our eyes, not our ears. So find a golfer who is good at a skill, like chipping, and watch him do it.

This process is called “shaping”. Modeling gives you a “blueprint” to guide your movements. So if you want to improve, buy videos.