Most golfers tend to practice in a way that is much easier than the game itself, the range is fine for working on, or honing your swing and for cementing confidence in your swing but you can also create practice pressure situations with a game Dr Karl Morris calls the “Recall Game.
The Recall Game requires that you play regularly with a partner a 9-hole game that really trains your golfing brain and toughens you up mentally. You need to pick a time when your course is relatively quiet. With a partner you aim to play 9 holes and you both have six ‘recall shots’, so that when your opponent hits a great shot into the flag to four feet, you smile at him and ask him to play the shot again. He then has to take the shot that is furthest from the pin i.e. the worst shot to count as his score.
You can imagine how it feels when you have just holed a great 10 footer for a birdie and you get the call to ‘play it again’.
What does happen though with this game is when you bring off the shot for a second time your level of confidence and self- belief begin to grow and grow. The fact that you are creating a pressure that is even tougher than the real game has a real sharpening effect on your overall performance.
As you can guess though the best part of this practice game is the fun that you can have winding each other up.
Golf Psychology
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