How to Acheive Golf Consistency with Deliberate Golf Practice Techniques

I bet you would love to know why the majority of golfers playing this great game aren't improving in-line with improvements in golf club and golf ball technology. How is it that we humans, as capable as we are, can't seem to swing a golf club in such a way that the end result is lower golf scores? Over the past few years many golf books and golf magazines have been asking similar questions, and the results of these articles and discussions tend to point to problems in these five areas.

Golf swing technique Golf performance psychology Golf course strategy and management Golf health and fitness Golf practice and training

There is an enormous amount of literature dedicated to the first and second areas, and in particular, golf swing technique. In my golf library I have golf instruction books that go back more than one hundred years which describe in detail how to swing the golf club; and yet to this day something seems to be missing from the equation. In this article I will shed some light on what it is and more importantly what you can do about it.

Dr Karl Anders Ericsson of the University of Miami has spent the past twenty five years looking into how our culture has always recognized outstanding individuals, whose performance in sports, science and the arts is greatly superior to that of the rest of the population.

Dr Ericsson's work focused on the differences between expert performers and everyone else. He discovered that one primary distinction between expert performers and the rest of us is a day to day dedication to the deliberate effort to improve their performance in a specific domain or field of expertise.

Practicing in a highly deliberate way is a very demanding activity that requires that our attention be completely and specifically focused whilst we're honing our skills. I believe that this is the missing factor in golf performance improvement.