[neil]

I believe many don't know the difference between practice and playing -I thought I did before old Waverly.It turned out I had been practising for about 20% of the time. It is very difficult to go to a practice area and be totally motion oriented whilst hitting a ball,ignoring ballflight and target.It is then difficult to force yourself to hit a bucket of balls with acquired motion,let alone basic motion. Those of us who can be disciplined will improve-and it is all in the book.Practice can be done 95% at HOME. I believe people really need to understand the basics of the book before trying to build a stroke pattern and good teachers will teach the basic ,short strokes which can be succesfully monitored by the student. This does not stop you from going into playing mode,just go and play . You may transfer your practice feel into your play very quickly-or not...but first of all learn-REALLY LEARN what practice is- then what to practice. Most of you on this site will think I'm insulting your intelligence ,I can assure you that is not the intent. This post is written by an amatuer who is just trying to play better and who spent years only "playing"-even on the range.I have since learned what practice is and have worked as hard as I can(work permitting),mostly at home. I pass on the above advice so that other begginers may avoid years of fruitless "practice". In the past 6weeks since old waverly may game has begun to change.Of course it could just be coincidence