Three Ways to Make Golf Practice More Doable

Three Ways to Make Golf Practice More Doable

If you really want to reach your goals you'll have to practice. There are no little pills that I know of that will help you get around this reality in anything you want to improve at.

It's easy for practice at golf may take a back seat to studies, work, family or what-have-you. Here's a few ways that I hope will make it easier to get out and practice at golf: 

 

Creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Specific

Measurable

Attainable

Realistic

Timely

Come up with something measurable like how many four foot putts can you make in a row and practice until you can do it. The ultimate is to do a combine on a Trackman or Flightscope to establish your benchmarks for various distances.

In Alameda we use the Flightscope and I would have you ten balls with say your pitching wedge and we would get an average of your distance and your average distance from a target we picked. ideally we would do the combine for all of your clubs and that would take about an hour and a half (130 balls).

Remember why you are practicing- Whether to beat your buddy in the big golf getaway or win the club championship keeping your eye on the prize is usually a pretty darn good incentive to find a way out to the range or course to play a few. Write it down somewhere and post your goal somewhere easy to see a few times a day.

Think smaller amounts of time- Low dosages more often is better than long sessions infrequently. At the very least keep a club handy to make swings hit into a net or just grab to work on your grip and take your stance. 

If you got 20 minutes that's about a small bucket or 30 balls. Even this amount of time can keep you on track to reach your goals for this season.

Kris Moe back in Alameda to help grow golfers and Chuck Corica Golf Complex

Kris Moe back in Alameda

I'm Kris Moe and I'm thrilled to be moving back to Alameda to help Greenway Golf turn Chuck Corica into a top notch golf facility.

Last year George Kelley (the founder and one of the three partners of Greenway) asked me to help him find a director of instruction for Chuck Corica.  Since I lived in Santa Rosa (85 miles away) it didn't occur to me at the time to throw my hat in the ring for the position. One of my close friends thought it might be a great opportunity since Greenway Golf was committed to turning Alameda into their flagship location for the whole country to marvel at.

When I learned that they are bringing in famed architect Rees Jones to redo the "South" (aka Jack Clark) course along with a redo of the par three course and building a new short game practice area I was convinced I wanted to be part of this development. Click here to see the improvements.

I attended Alameda High School through 1979. We always had a great high school team and the legacy continues with the continued support of juniors in the area. This includes free golf lessons for kids on Saturday mornings and many of these kids move onto more intensive instruction with Erik Stone and Woody Winslow (including current tour player James Hahn and female great Grace Na).

I'll be offering golf lessons in Alameda but I'll also be very involved in growing the business of selling golf clubs, repairing golf clubs and making the facility a fun place to be, hence my title- director of fun and golfer development!

Until I get my name on Alameda's website feel free to contact my cell phone at 707-529-6458 or my email, kris.moe@sbcglobal.net Call to book a lesson or if you have any ideas on how to make Chuck Corica a better place to enjoy golf.

BTW- Here is my new app that you can download on your i phone, https://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/kris-moe-golf/id693762450?mt=8