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Stop Guessing What To Practice Next

Jun 29, 2026
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Most golfers “practice” by walking onto the range, looking at the buckets, and deciding on the spot what to hit.

A few wedges.
Some 7‑irons.
A handful of drivers.

You leave sweaty, but you don’t actually know if any of that moved you closer to lower scores.

You didn’t have a plan. You just had time.

Why guessing doesn’t work

When you guess what to practice, you usually:

  • Avoid your real weaknesses
  • Over-practice what already feels comfortable
  • Never build skills in any kind of logical order

That’s why progress feels random. One week you play great, the next week you feel like a different golfer.

A better way to think about practice

Think of your game like a book with chapters:

  • Chapter 1: Contact and starting the ball on line
  • Chapter 2: Controlling distance
  • Chapter 3: Start line and curve
  • Chapter 4: Wedges and scoring clubs
  • Chapter 5: Course management and decision-making

If you bounce around all five chapters every time you practice, you don’t really finish any of them.

Instead, you want to give one chapter at a time a real chance to stick.

This is what a game development plan does for you:
It tells you what chapter you’re in and exactly what to work on this week.


Soft pitch

If you’re tired of guessing what to practice, that’s exactly why I created the Game Development Playbook and built it to work with the Fairway Finder community.

You get:

  • A step‑by‑step path for building your game instead of random tips
  • Weekly support and accountability from me and other golfers actually doing the work

👉 Game Development Playbook

👉 Join the Fairway Finder community

If you’ve ever thought “I work too hard on my game to be this stuck,” this was built for you.

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