A few ideas to get your golf game started up from April 2013.

The start of the golfing season is already in motion and if you have not thought of what you can do to improve your game for 2103. I have a number of great ideas you should consider.

18th Hole at the Lodge at Doonbeg, Co. Clare, Ireland. Concierge Golf Ireland

• Take your clubs to your local PGA pro for a health check:
• You should ask for your club’s lofts and lies to be rechecked.
• Check the clubs grips? Are they too worn out?
• Set out some specific golf goals for the coming season:
• Reduce your handicap by a couple of shots
• Make one or more of your golf club’s teams
• Win a club or an open competition
• Win a local Golf Club's Scratch cup.
• Reduce the total putts per round and become a better putter.
• Just perhaps enjoy the game more?
• You could take a series of golf lessons from your local PGA golf Professional.
• If you have taken a winter’s break from playing golf, it is quite difficult to pick up where you left off from your last game of golf. To avoid starting down the road of creating bad habits in your golf swing and then trying to second guess a swing fix. I suggest you should arrange a series of three to five lessons to look at your swing and golf game with your local PGA Golf Professional.
• Also please take some time to work on your flexibility. If you can improve your flexibility, you can hit the ball further and make more consistence golf strikes.
• May I suggest you could make an appointment to visit a recommended golf TPI expert and ask him/her to test your body’s flexibility?

Most of all, enjoy the game!

This is a plan that I have worked on this follow plan for one of my students

• Goals:
• To win his home Golf Club's Scratch cup.
• To play number one on his club's senior cup team.
• Sub Goals:
• Improve his 75 yard game & land the ball within 10 feet. (go from 7 out of 10 to 9 out of 10) 
• Improve distance putting.
• Play more conservative and tighten up of mid iron distance. 
• Use the front centre, centre and back centre of green as a targets and closely monitor the irons use to play.  

This is our golf training schedule:  2 month schedule before  

1. Week one: Golf lesson, analyse golf fitness, golf clubs require a loft and lie check. We will agree a golf practice plan. Practice plan requires 14 – 18 hours of practice excluding playing golf. Two rounds minimum a week.
2. Week two: Work on practice plan and golf fitness plan & complete the worksheets scoring analysis from competition rounds played.
3. Week three: Work on practice plan and golf fitness plan & complete the worksheets scoring analysis from competition rounds played.
4. Week four: Golf lesson & feedback on fist months scoring data. Golf fitness strength & suppleness test. Keep working on our practice plan, fitness plan and completed the worksheets scoring analysis.
5. Week five: Feedback session. On course golf coaching session & work on practice plan. Continue working on your golf fitness plan & complete scoring analysis.
6. Week six: Golf lesson & work on practice plan. Continue working on your golf fitness plan & complete scoring analysis.
7. Week seven: Feedback session. Golf lesson & work on practice plan. Continue working on your golf fitness plan & complete scoring analysis.
8. Week eight: Feedback session. Golf lesson & work on practice plan. Continue working on your golf fitness plan & complete scoring analysis. We will review how good our two months training plan is after we complete a skills test.

Lets go and keep going! 

Resources:

Golf coach & training manger: John Dooley PGA

Golf fitness coach: TPI Padraig Dooley PGA

Physical therapist: Mervyn Young Ph. Th. I.A.P.T CST-T

Please feel  free to contact me, John Dooley at john@conciergegolf.ie or visit my website www.conciergegolf.ie for further contact information. There are always Facebook & Twitter pages.