The Face First Golf Podcast Craig Jones

Today we're talking what we're always talking about - the TRUTH about improving your game. 
Every week we do Live Lesson Friday where members send in their swings for my personal feedback and today we're putting a few members in the spotlight and sharing what they've been able to accomplish with 10 minute at-home daily practice sessions. 
You can do it too!
 

Are you one of those players who has fallen in love with your 56 degree sand wedge or even your 60 degree lob wedge from around the green?
Today we're talking about a better way to get the ball close to the hole and shave strokes. 
And there's a TON of actionable stuff you can do right now. 
We cover shot and club selection... how to pick your landing spot... the BLT setup for better contact and shots that role right up by the hole... PLUS a formula for picking your landing spot based on the club you choose. 
Lower scores are on the way!

Motivation comes and goes as how you FEEL.
That's why you can't rely on motivation to change your game (or to change anything else in your life for that matter).
Change requires work.
Fortunately, the work is simple...
But simple does NOT mean easy. 
It's simple because it's super easy to understand, and it only takes 5-10 minutes a day.
And you can do it at home. 
But the hard part is that it requires DISCIPLINE.
CONSISTENCY matters. 
It all means that if you only do the work when you're feeling motivated, you're not gonna do the work as often.
And if you don't practice FREQUENTLY for SHORT PERIODS OF TIME, your rate of improvement slows.
It's another one of those things that I learned in my years at Golftec.
At Golftec, we were taught from day 1 to encourage our students to take lessons WEEKLY.
And I was as skeptical about weekly lessons as our students were.
In regular lessons from a driving range or teaching pro, it was pretty standard that you'd encourage students to take MONTHLY lessons at the most.
The thinking was always that you need time to work on what you learned during the lesson and 3 or 4 weeks would give you time to engrain it.
So at Golftec when we were taught to push weekly lessons, at first I thought what a lot our students thought... that it was probably just a way to get people to burn through lessons so they'd need to buy more.
But then I started to see the difference in the rate of change of the weekly lesson takers vs the monthly lesson takers and it was a night and day difference.
The weekly lesson takers made changes much faster than the monthly lesson takers.
In many cases the monthly lesson takers rate of change was so slow as to be nearly imperceptible when looking at their swings on video.
It turns out that "taking a few weeks" to work on it was really just the student working their way all the way back to their old habit.
If they took weekly lessons, at least they would only work their way HALF way back to their old habit and they were reinforcing the new habit 3 to 4 times more often than the monthly lesson takers.
The key phrase from that is "reinforcing the new habit".
The more often you can do that, the better.
That's why I encourage the daily practice at home habit.
The more barriers to practice you can remove, the better.
Having to go the range is a barrier.
Even having to go to the garage to get your clubs is a barrier.
So put your clubs (or at least a club) where you have your practice setup.
I keep my clubs in my office and the net is right outside my office.
That makes practice almost inevitable.
And that's a good way to think about it.
Do everything you can to... Make practice inevitable.

Most players don't practice at home.
And if they DO practice at home, it's maybe 10-20% of their practice and the other 80-90% of their practice is at the range. 
For effective skill building, we've got to reverse that.  
 

Here's what they are...
Check your grip Set yourself up to practice at home Learn training vs trusting mode/read Golf is not a game of perfect by Bob Rotella Start working on chipping with a less lofted club This episode is packed with a LOT of actionable stuff! 
Let's go!

Improving your game does NOT take a Herculean effort. 
At Face First Golf we work smarter, not harder. 
Real improvement comes from doing the little things day in and day that add up to big things...
like reducing your handicap by a third like Ben Miller did. 
With 1000 days to go until his 60th birthday, Ben decided to do something golf related every one of those 1000 days. 
He shares his story in today's podcast.