Are You Actually Ready for the Weekend?
The weekend is nearly here.
The tee time is booked. The weather app has been checked at least six times. The clubs are probably still in the boot from last weekend or the mid-week game.
And somewhere between now and Saturday morning, you’ve decided something in your golf swing needs fixing.
Naturally.
Maybe the driver has been a bit wild.
Maybe the irons feel inconsistent.
Maybe you missed a few short putts last week and have now concluded that your entire putting stroke needs rebuilding.
So the search begins.
YouTube.
Instagram.
TikTok.
“ONE SIMPLE DRILL THAT WILL COMPLETELY FIX YOUR GOLF.”
Excellent.
Twenty minutes later, you’re standing on the range with a towel under one arm, an alignment stick through your belt loops and absolutely no idea what you were originally trying to fix.
But do you actually know what is costing you shots?
That’s the real question.
Not:
What does my swing look like?
But:
What is actually stopping me from scoring better?
Because they’re not necessarily the same thing.
You might think your driver is the problem because you hit one into the trees on the 14th.
But perhaps you missed seven greens from inside 140 metres.
You might think you need to work on putting because you had 36 putts.
But perhaps you kept leaving yourself 40-footers because your approach play wasn’t good enough.
Or maybe your golf swing is perfectly serviceable and you simply keep aiming at flags you have absolutely no business aiming at.
This is one of the biggest reasons good golf coaching matters.
The job isn’t simply to change your swing.
It’s to identify what actually needs improving.
Preparation should have a purpose
If you’re practising before the weekend, try to make it relevant.
Ask yourself:
What actually happened during my last few rounds?
Where am I genuinely losing shots?
What situations keep repeating themselves?
Then work on that.
Not whatever drill the internet has decided you need this week.
Sometimes the answer is technical.
Sometimes it’s short game.
Sometimes it’s putting.
Sometimes it’s course management and seeing the safer option.
And sometimes the best preparation for Saturday is simply hitting a few balls, finding your rhythm and resisting the urge to completely reinvent yourself before the first tee.
Practice what your game actually needs
One of the problems with practising without a plan is that we’re naturally drawn towards the things we enjoy.
If you love hitting driver, you’ll probably hit driver.
If you’re good with your wedges, you’ll probably hit wedges.
Nobody particularly enjoys practising the awkward 55-metre pitch they chunked twice last weekend.
Unfortunately, that might be exactly what needs attention.
Improvement starts by being a little more objective about your own game.
That’s also where golf lessons on the Sunshine Coast — whether through one-to-one coaching, G50 small-group sessions or on-course coaching — can help.
Not because every golfer needs their swing rebuilt.
But because sometimes another set of eyes can identify the problem considerably faster than another evening disappearing down the YouTube rabbit hole.
And if you genuinely don’t know…
Tell me what you think is going wrong.
Tell me what tends to happen on the course, what your handicap is and what you’re struggling with.
I’ll happily point you towards something sensible to work on.
No dramatic swing rebuild.
No secret drill.
No promises of gaining 37 yards before Sunday.
Just a sensible starting point.
And if you want more structured help, have a look at the G50 coaching options and find the session that best suits the area of your game you’re trying to improve.
Because the goal isn’t to arrive at the golf course with a completely new golf swing.
It’s to arrive knowing what you’re trying to do.
And preferably without an alignment stick sticking out of your trousers.
