One common example of this phenomenon is choosing to abandon your opening preparation when faced with a particular opponent. Conversely, it also means that when in a tournament game, a player should rely on their training when making decisions, rather than impulsively "winging it" when faced with an unclear situation. This means that any training method used should accurately reflect, at least in part, the tournament game experience. The primary principle I use both for long-term training and in preparing for tournaments will be a familiar one to many: train the way you fight, then fight the way you train. Now with only sporadic participation in tournaments and a longer-term goal of improving my overall game, I've had to come up with something different for a training regimen, which has also meant a revised approach to pre-tournament prep work.
There's a lot to be said for simply playing a lot of longer time control games, which looking back on it now was probably my best chess improvement practice. During the scholastic phase of my career, I played in tournaments quite often, so without really trying I had constant exposure to new chess concepts and practical lessons, even though my (self-taught) training was not systematic.
This type of staccato and rushed approach resulted in little success for me as an adult player. This contrasts with the more common pre-tournament routine in which over the space of a week or two (at best) or a couple days (more often) players mostly spend time on openings and doing tactical drills, then put everything aside until the next tournament. Henderson could not be reached for comment.After long and sometimes hard experience, I've come to the conclusion that the most effective pre-tournament preparation consists of sharpening and focusing what you are (or should be) doing for your longer-term training efforts.
She currently ranks ninth on the tour in driving distance at 273.8 yards. Earlier this year, Henderson said she tried to “grip like a normal person” a couple of years ago and it didn’t go well. The 10-time winner might be the only player on tour who uses a 48-inch driver, though Chief Tour Operations Officer Heather Daly-Donofrio said there may be one or two other players.Ĭanada’s Henderson has gripped down on her clubs, including her driver, since she started playing the game at 3 or 4 years old.
The LPGA told Golfweek that it also plans to implement the Model Local Rule sometime after the 2021 season, noting that officials have already talked to the small number of players affected by the change.īrooke Henderson has used a longer driver for her entire professional career. A survey across the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions and Korn Ferry Tour found that a very small number of players have used or are currently using clubs longer than 46 inches. The PGA Tour said in a statement that it planned to implement the Local Rule at the beginning of next year.
The new Model Local Rule leaves it up to professionals tours and elite amateur events to decide whether or not they want to implement it beginning Jan. Golf Association and R&A have jointly announced a new rule that allows the option to limit the maximum length of a driver to 46 inches.