Practice Thinkers Podcast

A player I work with had been on a knockdown shot for a week and was thoroughly fed up with it.

So I asked her a question with no golf in it at all. When you meet someone new, do you trust them straight away?

She said no. Nobody does.

That is a new shot. You spend time with it, in a few different situations, and somewhere in all that you find out what it's actually like. Most players do the opposite. They learn it on the Tuesday, take it into a tournament on the Saturday, it doesn't come off, and the shot gets quietly dropped. Or they never test it at all and it lives on the range forever.

Neither of those is a problem with the player. It's a problem with the pace.

Ettle is the app in this episode. It's what tells her that week was a Build week, and what shows her a month later that she still hasn't put any heat on that shot. It opens properly in October.

Ettle: https://ettle.golf A practice game in your inbox every fortnight: https://peterarnottgolf.kit.com/c2e29a9f89 The Tiger Practice Guide: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiger-Practice-Guide-Training-Champion-ebook/dp/B0CKLZKZN9

The podcast is back. First conversation of the new run: Aidan O'Hagan, a professional golfer, on how his practice changed as he moved up — and what most golfers get wrong about theirs.

Inside:

• The shot that went left three times in a round, and what it taught him about where to aim his practice
• Why he stopped grinding on technique and moved to a 70/30 split
• External focus vs internal focus — what he thinks about over the ball now
• Standards and consequences: what a practice session has to cost to mean anything
• "Compete as much as you can" — why almost everything he does now has a score on it

Why the podcast went quiet: I spent the time rebuilding Practice Thinkers into an app. It's called Ettle now — a 30-second daily log that names what kind of work your practice was: Build, Challenge, or Prep. The first coaches and players are on it this month. It opens up in September.

Links:

Get first access to Ettle (plus a practice game every fortnight): https://ettle.golf

Blue (Perform) Practice Podcast

In this Practice Thinkers Podcast Stuart and Pete discuss what BLUE practice is, when the best and worst times to do it are.

Also where to do it.

They also discuss how they apply it with the elite level golfers they coach and the common pitfalls of BLUE practice. 

Hint...This area is not about developing or training skills, it's about performing them. It's not about learning something new.

PRACTICE APP

To learn more about our practice app, specifically designed for and how to train and schedule Green Practice in our app go to:

www.practicethinkers.com/practice-app

Red (Train) Practice Podcast

In this Practice Thinkers Podcast Stuart and Pete discuss what Red practice is, when the best and worst times to do it are.

They also discuss how they apply it with the elite level golfers they coach and the consistent patterns we see players and coaches fall into with RED Practice.

Hint...Most of you don't train RED ENOUGH!

PRACTICE APP

To learn more about our practice app, specifically designed for  and how to train and schedule RED Practice in our app go to:

www.practicethinkers.com/practice-app

Green (Develop) Practice Podcast

In this Practice Thinkers Podcast Stuart and Pete discuss what Green Practice is, when the best and worst times to do it are.

Also where to do it.

They also discuss how they apply it with the elite level golfers they coach and the common pitfalls of green practice. 

Hint...We see a lot of golfers and coaches spend too much time in this area and sometimes at the most in-appropriate times!

PRACTICE APP

To learn more about our practice app, specifially designed for  and how to train and schedule Green Practice in our app go to:

www.practicethinkers.com/practice-app

In this podcast, the Pete and Donal chew the fat on performance, strategy and planning in golf.

We discuss:

• Getting the right people on the bus
• The 80/20 rule of performance
• Getting out of your own way
• Falling into deficit gaps

You can find out more about Donal and his services on his newly launched website

https://www.donalscottgolf.com/

Come join us at:

www.practicethinkers.com

FREE Practice Thinkers Games Depot

Join 100's of golfers looking to improve their golf practice habits

• Lots of Free Golf Practice Games

• Games in All Areas of the Game

• Practice Habit Tracker

• Practice Games Community Forum

FREE Practice Games Depot

Swimming Against the Tide

In this podcast, the Practice Thinkers team discuss an article on the representative practice of Olympic Swimmer; Cameron McEvoy. 

We discuss:

• Pointless practice
• Group training and different challenges
• The demands of the sport

Come join us at:

www.practicethinkers.com 

NEW for COACHES: Practice Master Class Course

A stand alone online course for golf coaches that helps optimise your group and individual practice time.

Done at your own pace this course is all about helping you discover how to solve the transfer problem.

Transferring Practice to Performance…

Master Class Course 

FREE Practice Thinkers Games Depot

Join 100’s of golfers looking to improve their golf practice habits 

• Lots of Free Golf Practice Games

• Games in All Areas of the Game

• Practice Habit Tracker 

• Practice Games Community Forum

FREE Practice Games Depot

In this podcast we flip the script as Pete is interviewed by Liam Grehan on how we apply practice science at Practice Thinkers.

We discuss Reflections on Liam's Lessons, including:

• Behaviours in Context
• Feedback and Calibration
• Zooming the Lens in and Out

...and a brief chat about Tiger's return.

You can find Liam on X here - @liamlggrehan

Come join us at:

www.practicethinkers.com

Practice Thinkers Game Depot

Join 100's of golfers looking to improve their golf practice habits

• Lots of Free Golf Practice Games
• Games in All Areas of the Game
• Practice Habit Tracker
• Practice Games Community Forum

Click Here - Practice Games Depot

New Book Release

Buy our new book The Tiger Practice Guide: Training like a Champion Golfer here:

Click Here - The Tiger Practice Guide

You may also enjoy our Pro Practice History Series:

Pro Practice History with Rick Fehr

Pro Practice History - Paul Eales

Pro Practice History - Confessions of a Psychopath Practicer

In this podcast the Practice Thinkers team, Stuart Morgan, Ian Renshaw, and I review a previous podcast with Simon Dyson on his practice history.

We discuss:

• Training Aids and Building Awareness through Feedback
• Tuning in and Exploring Variation
• Proactive vs Reactive Solutions
• Exploring the Discomfort of your B or C-Game
• 'Switching On' to the Test of a Round

You can find Stuart on X @ https://twitter.com/StuartMcoaching and explore his coaching offer at https://www.practicethinkers.com/stuart-morgan

Come join us at:

www.practicethinkers.com

COACHES: Practice Master Class Course (6 DAYS TO GO!)

A 6 week online course for golf coaches that helps optimise your group and individual practice to performance.

Starting Monday the 29th of January for six weeks.

5-7pm each Monday (GMT)

https://www.practicethinkers.com/practice-master-class

The orginal podcast, referenced throughout the discussion:

Pro Practice History with Simon Dyson

New Book Release

Buy our new book The Tiger Practice Guide: Training like a Champion Golfer here:

https://mybook.to/gleHJ2a

You may also enjoy our Pro Practice History Series :

Pro Practice History with Rick Fehr

Pro Practice History - Paul Eales

Pro Practice History - Confessions of a Psychopath Practicer

In this podcast the Practice Thinkers team, Stuart Morgan, Ian Renshaw, and I discuss alternatives to technical swing changes.

We discuss:

• Building the Capacity to Access Shooting Lower Scores More Often
• Alternatives to Technical Swing Changes
• Accumulating Good Practice Days
• Zooming In and Out

You can find Stuart on X @ https://twitter.com/StuartMcoaching and explore his coaching offer at https://www.practicethinkers.com/stuart-morgan 

Come join us at:

www.practicethinkers.com

COACHES: Practice Master Class Course

A 6 week online course for golf coaches that helps optimise your group and individual practice to performance.

Starting Monday the 29th of January for six weeks.

5-7pm each Monday (GMT)

https://www.practicethinkers.com/practice-master-class 

New Book Release

Buy our new book The Tiger Practice Guide: Training like a Champion Golfer here:

https://mybook.to/gleHJ2a 

Want to go down a Rabbit Hole into The Tiger’s Practice? Our new video Tiger Masterclass allows you to digest all the practice advice from the book but in even more depth.

It’s a Tiger Rabbit Hole of Practice, jam-packed with expanded content from the book + bonus archive footage of Tiger’s practice.

One that will leave you in no doubt of how Tiger got so good and more importantly how you can apply these practice nuggets to your game.

https://www.practicethinkers.com/tiger-woods-book