Too much practice?

[live4u120]

Is it possible to practice too much? I've noticed a trend where I start to get really good, and I play like that for a while, until I go inside. And I'll come back out, and I'm awful. My muscles feel like they start to wear out, and for some reason they start to tense up really bad on the downswing, and I can't even hit the ground. It's weird.

What do you think?

[alf174]

At the range? yes, absolutely. At the course, not yet, I need all I can get.

[John Kyle]

i have been wondering about this same thing. i started in June and i have played 18 holes 5-6 times a week every week. sometimes i think i play to much but so far the only thing that has happened to me is im getting better. range you can probably do to much but on the course i think you could play for forever and be fine.

[Ben]

I was watching those old Bobby Jones films Golf Channel shows in the offseason and remember him mentioning his theory on practice. (I am pretty sure it was one of these shows?) Anyway, he said something along the lines of practicing so long as you can keep your mind focused and into it. Once concentration fades, you aren't getting the most out of what you are doing.

[Sir Ryan]

Hmm, I don't think there's never too much practice. As long as you're consistently practicing the right things.

If practice makes perfect, then in golf you'd have to keep practicing, cause golf is not a sport of perfection.

[SpringBokVol]

Never too much practice. But you don't want to practice bad habits and you don't want to practice without purpose. Every shot on the range must have a point... don't just go out and beat ball into the ground. That will do you no good.

A 20 minute really intense focused practice is better than 3 hours of hitting 200 balls just to hit them.

[2bGood]

Yes you can hit too many balls. Build up to it if you want to spend 3 or 4 hours at the range and hit a few hundred balls. I actually find working on my short game can make me sore as my putting stance is not the best postion to spend an hour in (something I should change, but it never bothers me on the course).

Yesterday I spent 3 hours hitting chips, pitches and lobs - my forearms were really sore when I was done.