Simplify your pre-shot routine with these 3 straightforward steps

Any golf skilled will inform you {that a} constant pre-shot routine is a major key to enjoying good golf.

However for some gamers — particularly learners — it may be troublesome to resolve greatest put together your self to hit every shot. Thankfully, GOLF Instructor to Watch Dr. Alison Curdt has a easy plan to comply with to make sure your pre-shot routine is straightforward to duplicate earlier than each single swing.

“One of many ways in which your efficiency may very well be held again is from the dearth of a pre-shot routine,” Curdt stated in a video posted on the newly-launched LPGA Professionals YouTube channel.

A helpful pre-shot routine, Curdt stated, incorporates a set of behaviors and actions that provide help to put together for the shot at hand. Beneath are the three steps she recommends taking.

Dr. Alison Curdt’s 3-step pre-shot routine

1. Swing rehearsal

“Step one behind the golf ball is, let’s do a rehearsal,” Curdt stated. “This may be getting ready your physique for the swing, loosening your muscle groups or feeling a motion that you simply’d like to maneuver.”

2. Decide a goal

“Second step is to be sure to choose a goal,” Curdt stated. “Stand behind the golf ball, be intentional with the place you wish to begin the golf ball.”

3. Put together the thoughts

“The third step is gonna be getting ready our thoughts for the shot,” Curdt stated. “That is gonna be utilizing a deep breath to arrange us, be calm, be emotionally uninvested within the shot to hit our greatest ones.”

If you mix all of the steps, the three steps movement collectively in a matter of seconds: swing rehearsal, goal choice and a deep breath earlier than addressing the ball.

Then, stroll into the shot and swing freely!

“You’re able to carry out,” Curdt stated.

For extra ideas from Curdt and different LPGA professionals, click on right here.

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