Tim Beard talks tips with Su Dickens
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Practice makes perfect. It's an old cliché and one that is grossly misinterpreted by golfers, young and old, male or female.
Everyone tells you as you plough through your golf career, experiencing the ups and downs, the joys and frustrations, that the more you practice the luckier you get.
But according to some people in the know, whom I met on a recent visit to Tenerife, the old adage simply isn't true.
In order to go some way to mastering the game of golf, it's not just a case of beating balls on the range. That's not practice that's purgatory. What's required is purposeful practice working on the right things, improving your weaknesses and ensuring you're not practising your way into a bad habit…grooving your faults
We've all gone to the golf range, paid for our bucket of balls and enjoyed smashing them out towards the yardage boards and flags. But is that doing us any good?
At the Tenerife Ladies Open, I had the chance to chat to a few of the competitors and ask them not only what they work on but how amateur club golfers should be conducting their practice sessions to get the most from them.
Down on the grassy bowl which forms the practice ground at the Costa Adeje golf course, I bumped into England's Kirsty S. Taylor, who was enjoying the bright sunshine and cooling breeze having arrived on the island direct from a Tour event in Thailand, where players had suffered with temperatures around 45 degrees C and 95% humidity.
