{"id":8769,"date":"2017-05-20T10:47:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rotaryswing.com\/golf-lessons-blog\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:35:29","slug":"how-to-practice-golf-like-the-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rotaryswing.com\/golf-lessons-blog\/how-to-practice-golf-like-the-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Practice: How to Practice Golf Like a Pro | Improve Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Machine gun Rick. We all know him, right? You&#8217;ve seen him on the range. He&#8217;s pounding 500 balls every minute? You may be machine gun Rick. To practice, and to actually improve, this isn&#8217;t very productive. I&#8217;m not learning anything. I&#8217;m just pounding balls. This is maybe a decent workout, there&#8217;s a lot more productive ways to spend my time, though.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re serious about getting good at golf, and you really want to understand what it is you&#8217;re doing, and actually want to improve when you&#8217;re out here spending your time, then you&#8217;ve got to slow down and try and work on movements. The movements that you&#8217;re trying to learn can&#8217;t be learned at full speed.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Ccc24qxdeQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThink about this for a second: what on earth, in your life, of all the things that you&#8217;ve learned, did you learn starting out going full speed? Nothing. You learned how to drive a car, if you learned how to drive on a manual transmission you probably did it in a parking lot going really slow. 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