This past week on social media I shared a clip from Jason Day’s post-round interview after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Unfortunately, the clip isn’t available online anymore but when asked about his win, Jason emphasized 4 main areas that I thought were important to share. He says that his physical training and nutrition are two areas he has really focused on improving recently. He trains hard in the gym and he eats to fuel his body for the grind of competition.
Also, he said that he spends 3.5 hours a day working strictly on short game, where he said that he writes everything down in a notebook, as in everything. He tracks the drills that he does, how he performs during those drills and he analyzes his results from one practice to another. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t expect a junior golfer to have 3.5 hours every day to practice their short game (it’s a professionals job) but the takeaway is that Jason commits that much time to short game and he emphasizes the importance of writing things down every day during practice.
You never hear players say “I type it in my phone”. Writing something down has a different emphasis than typing in your phone. Maybe you forget your notebook that day, if so, type it in your phone, then WRITE it down once you get home. I do that myself at the gym sometimes and have to write it down once I get home if I forget to grab my workout book that day. But try to always have a book that stays in your golf bag and WRITE down what you do EVERY SINGLE DAY. Numbers, drills, feelings, effort level, scores, tournament stats, post-tournament feedback etc. I wrote an article earlier last year about the importance of keeping a journal that you can check out here.
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