Daily Practice & Indoor Improvement!

I’d like to congratulate Class A LPGA Pro Marty Mallott on the new indoor golf facility named in her honor at Defiance High School in Ohio . She’s the girls golf coach there, and Executive Director of the Ohio Women’s State Open (where I had the good fortune to win the senior title in 2008). She and her family have outfitted a wonderful center for young players, and community members, to work on their golf regardless of the weather.

I was honored to be in Defiance for the dedication and to conduct a 3-hour indoor KiAi Golf Intensive. Without the seductions of the golf course or seeing shot results, it seems much easier for people to concentrate on what they’re actually doing and feeling as they swing, chip and putt, and to take time for the energetic and fitness aspects of the game.

Having grown up in the Midwest , I’ve noticed that golfers there and in northern climes tend to be the nuttiest of all! Probably because the summers are short and winters long, they really love their golf and savor the prime time they get to play.

With the cold snowy winter months looming, it is so great to have an indoor golf place and practices to do. In Defiance I shared KiAi Golf BLISS Fitness and Swing-Patterning KATA exercises that I designed for people to:

a) practice every day, indoors or out, at home or work, with or without a driving range or golf course

b) be empowered to work on their swing and “golf mind” themselves

c) have ways to get into “the zone” and return when they start “losing it” on the golf course.

Daily practice really is the name of the game, regardless of climate, talent, size, age, gender, etc. In the martial arts we call it conscious regular training. There is no perfect in golf, but training surely is the way to feel more natural, confident and capable. They're defying the winter in Defiance, and its possible for people everywhere to do even a little practice every day. Besides, who wouldn’t want to be swinging and improving, all of the time??!?