[tim chapman]

I am going to seriously change my practice this year.

I would say 90% of my practice has been working on mechanics, I hit balls about 5 hours a week. The problem with that is you getting into a seriously bad habit of scrap and hit, scrape and hit. It gets very easy to find your rhythm and start hitting the ball well.

Then you get to the course, no real rhythm? Why?

Well the course is nothing like you have been practicing. You hit a different club and different distances with different flight shapes on every swing.

So this year 50% of practice will be working on mechanics and 50% will be working on hitting different clubs and shots to specific targets, switching on every shot.

I would also so in scrape and hit you really never can mimic your on course shot routine. I am thinking this is going to be critical in order to convert solid range striking to on course play.

the other problem with range work is that hitting off mats is very different to playing off turf & so less useful than we might think because of that