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Part 2- Advanced Golfers Program Weekly Training Schedule
By Tony | September 23, 2008
Over the next five days I will take you through the weekly training schedule of one of our students enrolled in the Australian High Performance Golf Academy AHPGA Advanced Golfers Program. Tuesdays and Thursdays are the AHPGA 18 hole competition days. On these days the students record all of their statistics from their rounding so as we can continue to measure ,analyse and improve their performances.
TUESDAY
8:00am- Arrival at AHPGA facility
8:15am- EM Wave training
Our students train 15 to 20 minutes daily on the Heart Math (EM Wave) Technology to improve and educate them in how to optimize their mental game`s/ emotional control and coherence level`s on course for improved performance.
8:30am- Pitching training
Today we worked on the AHPGA three swings pitching system. Starting first with swing 2 with a sand wedge and then after alternating between swing 1 and swing 3 pitch shots. All of our students work frequently (at least 3 times a week) on improving their distance and direction control with their wedges inside the scoring zone. At AHPGA one of our expectations is that our students hit approximately 5,500 pitches in training over the year.
9:30am- Full swing
Today we continued to work on improving the swing path and plane of this student. He has a tendency to deliver the club on too steep an angle. He has specific training drills to isolate and continue to improve and eventually make a permanent change to his current motor pattern. All of our students work daily on their specific personalised training drills as a part of their 4 week improvement cycle.
10:30am-Putting training
Today we worked specifically on speed control drills. One of the drills we use here at AHPGA to develop speed control on the greens is the `leap frog drill`. In this drill we place a golf tee, coin (or similar object) approximately 6 metres from our starting point (which is also marked) and then another tee a furhter 3 metres. You will now have a 3 metre gap between the second and third tee. We use 4 golf balls in this drill.The objective of this game is to stroke your first golf ball so that it rolls past the first tee. With your second golf ball you need to roll it past your first ball. Your third ball then must roll past your second golf ball and finally your fourth golf ball must roll past the third golf ball and also stop within the 3 metre gap between the secong and third tee. Try this drill on both up and down hill putts. When you can start rolling the golf balls `leap frog` style as above, you can increase the difficulty level by narrowing the gap down to 2 metres. This is a great drill to develop and train great speed control on the greens!
11:30am- Lunch/ Rest time
12:30pm- On course at Palm Meadows GC for the regular Tuesday AHPGA 18 hole competition. From these weekly roundings the students fill out statistics record sheets so we can continue to measure ,analyse and improve their on course performances.
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