Elite golfers should book tee times as practice deadlines to simulate tournament pressure. Without a concrete endpoint, junior players practice inconsistently and struggle when it counts. A five to ten minute warm-up before each round builds the habit of performing under time constraints.
If you want to play golf at an elite level, you need to be able to pretty much roll out and play whenever you're going to play. For that reason, I really prefer players to get tee times when they're gonna go out and play. A lot of the times I see junior golfers and they just practice until they feel good and then they go out and play, and maybe they play good, maybe they don't. But when they have a tee time, they have a deadline that they have to get warmed up by, all of a sudden there's a lot of anxiety. And that's just because they're not practicing for the actual way that they're gonna play in competition. So one of the ways you train for that is just go out and have a 5-minute, 10-minute warm-up, just get yourself loose, and then go out and play. That needs to be your comfort zone. You need to understand your game doesn't change that much day to day. All you really need to do is just get out there and make sure that your game holds up and to see what you got and learn how to play and improve while you're actually out there on the golf course.
