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It must be detrimental to practice too much before playing.

I practiced for about 30 minutes on putting and then 30 minutes on chips and lobs. 1 hour on full shots and wedges - about 150 balls. This was during lunch.

I played after work and I shot horribly. I felt fatigued during playing. I was slicing the long clubs (driver and irons).

I guess I overdid it during lunch time (Yeah Yeah, I took a 2 hour lunch - so?!).

Are you sure you weren't fatigued because you forgot to eat during your lunch break?

LOL!

No, I ate before playing (I made a sandwich). I had 2 bottled waters after practicing.

yup, u over did it, i had the same problem before.
I used to hit way too many balls before a round.
I now spend 20 min chipping, 4-5 shots with each club on the range,
and end it with driver. then ill putt for 10 min.

i dont really want to fix anything before the round, just get warmed up and swinging
through the ball smoothly.

I wasn't 'fixing' anything. I was just trying to do "machine gun golf" by hitting one after another after another. At the time, I thought it was fun.

For me, practicing, going back to work, and then playing after work wouldn't make sense. Practicing, to me, is warming up, checking my shots, making sure I don't have the shanks. I also don't spend nearly that much time on any one shot. If I'm warming up, I may only hit 3 putts, 3 chips, etc. No more than 9 on either. As far as the rest of the bag, I may, may, hit 1/2 a bucket before a round.

Continuous shots on the range is overdoing it for sure

Take a lesson from the pros ... the vast majority practice after their rounds. Before the round, probably 15-20 mins each on the putting green and warming up on the range.

No range at my course...my warmup usually consists of a cigarette on the way to the first tee...I tried to hit 100 balls before I played about a year ago and was worn out by the middle of the round...think about it...if 40% of shots more or less in a round come with a putter included, then a 30 handicapper is still making about 60 shots with the rest of the set, and how many of those are full swings...not that many...

Recipe for disaster...when I do play away and have range access I generally will hit about 20 balls max on the range, chip a little and roll a few putts...just enough to feel where the swing is at that day...not even enough to really warm up as I kinda depend on the run of good holes that kicks in just as I am settling into the round about three or five holes in...this usually happens in concert with getting warm...tried doing a full warm up and going to the first tee with my muscles in optimal condition and because I wasn't mentally into the round, the "zone" I somehow missed the window and didn't settle all day...weird and maybe that's just me...

if you are practicing before you play, do just enough to warm up. don't over practice before a match play or round it could ware you out.

Here is what I do:

1) 5-10 chips
2) 5-10 pitches
3) a few flops
4) a few sand shots
5) 5 7i full shots
6) 5 2h full shots on a tee
7) 5 drivers
8) 5 pitching wedges
9) 10-20 putts

** But here is the key for me: One all these steps, I stop as soon as I have hit a good shot **

If I hit a perfect drive on my second ball. I am done and moving on to the next step.

I can execute this warm up at a leisurely pace in 40-45 mins.

Although, I have yet to discover the correlation between a good warm up and a good round as I have had plenty of bad rounds after a good warm up and vice versa.

Robert

A warm up, shuld be just that, a warm up..

Loosen up a bit, a few shots with each club, finish off with some putting & then another couple of shots back on the range with the first club you intend using, whether this is going to be a driver, 3 wood or 6iron etc.

Get out on the course a bit more stretching, a few choice swipes with a club then step up to the plate, to use your US slang.

Oh, & no large meals before a round as a stomach digesting a large meal means you are actually going to be sapped of energy as your digestion is taking it all.

Food & liquid taken before & during a round should be little & often. Knowing when to balance high output sugar foods & slow release starchy foods. There are many articles &publications which talk about just this type of thing

2 hours would give you enough time to play 9 - better practice and doesn't require the endurance. I don't even hit the range during the summer - I walked a 9 hole par 3 in about 1-1/4 hours hitting two balls per hole tonight.

I now take 5 practice swings with the driver, 5 iron, and 9 iron (not hitting balls). I take a few test putts to determine the speed of the greens. I make 6 short putts and 6 long putts. I practice chipping about 6 balls. Then I play.

Fortunately or unfortunatley, my gimpy body won't let me pound balls anymore so I chip and put a bit and hit 10 balls, or so, then I am off, hoping to get loose by the third hole.

Perhaps "machine-gunning" the balls at lunch hurt your tempo?

Its very easy to get very involved on the range either when hitting well or when things are getting frustrating on the range & the temptation is to get just another bucket of balls.

Heck, I can quite easily go down the range & pound away at 300+ but resist the temptation usually to have that sort of a workout when I'm going to be playing an important round of golf, or on too hot a day.

Really not sure about machine gunning balls. Yeah hit lots of balls but keep in the routiene you would for each shot as you'd take it on the course & cement that preshot routiene, so that all flows seemlessly & calmly.