Advanced Tip of the Month
Good Practice Time Management

You are a good player who is looking to shave the last few shots of your score. You need to spend practice time on the right areas of your game. To do this, you need to start keeping track of how you spend your strokes on the course. At the very least, begin tracking how often your tee shots find the fairway, fairway shots hit the green, your up and down conversion rate when playing shots from around the green and how your putter is performing. I use a more comprehensive stats sheet with my serious students but even just the few stats from above will start giving you a clear understanding of which parts of your game are strong and which need work.

The PGA Tour keeps very detailed statistics on all the players. Mike Weir and most of the other players use these stats to their benefit by using them to direct their practice sessions and time with their coaches.

Being a better player, you probably already spend practice time on your short game but you need to make sure your time is well spent by having an accurate assessment of your game.