bigcarl wrote:It think it depends how bad their putting is. The analogy is sound, though. If you cannot make putts under pressure you are going to struggle to beat an egg. It's the key to winning.
The ones who want to improve practice enough to be confident in their technique if not in the outcome.
Anyone who's putting is so bad that they have to spend several hours a day on their putting every day cannot be a serious or even good golfer
I Don't disagree with you on your point of practicing enough to be confident but a full day? Come on..
No one practices several hours a day on putting... no one.. amateur or professional ...it's not possible , or desirable you would do your head in ...end of story that means practicing putting is your full time job And if you were a pro the rest your game would fall apart. No golf coach would ever , ever tell you or let you spend that time . like footballers they need to practice all facets of thier game...
I'm not arguing how important practicing anything is, but I can tell you for example just practicing for practicing sake rarely works in golf . I see player after player on the practice fairway raking balls back one after the other and hitting them , at the end of the day they have just engraved thier bad swing a bit more
I presume. standing kicking at goal for several hours is just practicing kicking badly at goal and further engraining bad technique , he is unlikely to improve , he needs to know what he is practicing that's what the coaches are for
I totally agree across the board our goal kicking is not as good as it should be, but I'll take a guess that the coaching staff know more then we do and it's work in progress, they know it's hurting us. I would think they would have a taylored programme for each player I'm guessing Some of the players would need their technique fixing e.g. ball drop, head placement , follow through etc etc.
some (and I think a lot ) would need work on their mental approach to goal kicking as they appear to have sound technique (to my amature I'm not sure who our sports psychologist is but he will be working with some
I know a hell of a lot more about golf than I do footy, in fact my avatar is a famous quote from a past president who claimed that golf is like football " no wonder he left
And as a great golfer once said "the game is 90% mental" When asked what is the other 10% was he replied "mental"