Education

Ten tips to help optimize your sleep and improve your golf

Written by Ben Langdown, Tim Roberts and Alex EhlertSeptember 21, 2021
In our previous blogs we have discussed ‘How do you plan for those early tee times?’, exploring how sleep quality and duration have a part to play in performance on the course and we’ve presented that sleep is one of the moderators of internal load.

How do you ensure you give yourself the best chance of a full, undisturbed, night of sleep?

By looking after your ‘Sleep Hygiene’, that’s how!

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Education

How do you plan for those early tee times?

Written by Ben LangdownSeptember 9, 2021
As you look through the second-round tee sheet you note that you’re off at 7.10am. Another early start – getting up in the dark, travelling to the course in the dark, warming up as the sun comes up…sounds inviting hey?! This is exactly where a strategy counts. Your schedule needs to be effective to set you up for a fast start – rather than waking up through the front-9 only to realise that you’ve played yourself out of contention because you didn’t pay enough attention to planning.

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Education

Optimize your golf with a dose of daily wellness

Written by Ben Langdown and Tim RobertsJuly 16, 2021
Even with a sweetly struck drive, it’s obvious that an old, cut up golf ball won’t perform optimally in the air, or roll true on the smooth, freshly cut putting surface of each green. In the same vein, a tired, stressed, and demotivated golfer won’t perform at their best either!

Having read the title, you may be wondering, what does ‘daily wellness’ have to do with golf? In fact, what does ‘daily wellness’ even mean?! In this blog we will focus on the importance of understanding and logging specific items each day and how, ultimately, this can improve your golf.

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Support

User guide: Overview of the ‘Daily Wellness’ features

Written by Ben LangdownJune 30, 2021
AMI Sports: Golf allows you to monitor your daily wellness – providing you with insights into how your sleep, recovery, energy, motivation, muscle soreness and stress levels are related to your training and golf performance. This support blog is designed to help you understand the key features on the ‘Daily Wellness’ screens.

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Education

Five reasons to use live practice monitoring on the driving range

Written by Ben Langdown and Tim RobertsMarch 16, 2021
New goals are often set at the end of the year, and/or at the end of the playing season, in preparation for the next, and this is no different in golf. With good intentions to keep a record of all your golf practice, you open the first page in a brand-new notebook. You log your driving range session from earlier in the day, recalling the clubs used and the number of shots hit, filling the neatly drawn table ready for your stats. Like most New Year resolutions, you start with excitement at creating something useful, high motivation to use the data, and looking forward to making it your best golf season yet. However, whether or not you manage to maintain the motivation to record months’ worth of practice sessions (accurately!) or in fact never bought a notebook to start with, have you then ever considered how you would have used the data?

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Education

Golfers, what priorities are you focusing on in the gym?

Written by Ben Langdown and Tim RobertsMarch 16, 2021
It’s clear that strength and conditioning is an important part of any serious golfer’s routine. You only have to look at the transformation to Bryson DeChambeau to see the impact a training program  (and arguably a nutrition plan) can have on performance. However, the specifics of how you train and how much you train (frequency, intensity and volume) can have a big impact on how efficiently and effectively you achieve your goals of increasing performance and reducing the risk of injury. With this in mind, have you ever considered – what do you want your weekly, 30 day and 90 day S&C priorities to look like? i.e what are you trying to achieve by working out?

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Decorative image showing a golfer made out of a mesh. To the right of the golfer is the AMI Sports: Golf logo
Education, Support

Golf & Technology: The Future

Written by Ben Langdown and Tim RobertsMarch 16, 2021
Performance in golf has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. Technological advances have led to new materials, construction methods, and the use of artificial intelligence, that together produce golf clubs and golf balls that help us hit further, straighter, and stop the ball faster. Technology has also changed the way players are custom fit for their clubs and how they practice, with launch monitors commonplace on driving ranges around the world.

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