How to Set Goals for Your Golf Game | Titleist Tips

Dr. Mo Pickens shares his advice on effectively setting goals for your golf game and breaks down the four areas of focus he uses with his students. His keys include developing result-focused goals, statistical goals, process goals, and then setting a schedule to keep you on track.

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00:00 – Setting Goals
00:17 – The Four-Part Process
00:33 – Result Goals
00:45 – Statistical Goals
01:20 – Process Goals
01:57 – Setting Your Schedule
02:45 – Managing Your Time
04:00 – Recapping the Goal Setting Approach

A very common topic really in any sporting Endeavor is goal setting and I have a lot of parents asked me about that I have a lot of amateurs asked me about that knowing that they’ve heard that at the tour ranks of of hey goal setting is very important but how do you

Actually go about it and so how I break it down is what I find most people only think about their result goals they want to win the Club Championship they want to win the member guest and and that’s great but how are you going to achieve

That is where you really need to get to so I break down a setting into four parts and so really it starts with your result goals because that’s what motivates and drives you and and is encouraging to you so that is important and I want to learn that from every

Student but what I want underneath that is okay well what stats are going to support that how many greens do you need to be hitting how many putts are you taking per round those types of things and we have strokes gain but most people don’t have strokes gain only the tour

Players have that so I don’t use Strokes gain a ton unless I’m working with the tour players with all my juniors and all my colle college players and all my amers I want them to just be able to keep up with basic stats you know Fairways and greens and putts per round

Which you know anybody in the audience can do so you have result goals this is what I want to achieve statistical goals this is kind of where I was last year and here’s what I’m looking to improve this year then you would have process goals so a process goal let’s say the

Statistical goal is to go from eight Greens in 2023 to 12 Greens in 2024 well the process is how are you going to achieve that how much are you going to practice your irons any given week what are you going to do with your teacher to

Work on your tball do you need to do any club fitting like what steps need to be taken to give you a realistic chance to change those stats from where you were to where you want to be and then underneath the process that says this is

How many times I’m going to do it per week or this is what it’s going to look like in January and then February would be a schedule and so when I’m with my players we we’re basically mapping out a schedule for how they would lay that out

And some of them like to do that like hey here’s my basic schedule for when I’m at home and here’s my basic schedule for when I’m on the road and then I have other players who let’s say it’s a college player and they finish in early November and they’re going to start

Again in February they would map out potentially every day during that schedule and say okay this day is off and this day is going to be a full day and I’m going to put in four hours of practice and I’m going to play 18 holes

And the next days is going to be a half day so for most golfers uh that can’t dedicate their life to it whether that’s in college or whether that’s in high school or or they’re doing it for a living is we need to be realistic with

Their time and and how they’re going to divvy that up and most people I would say that I I run into that are just your basic weekend kind of fun golfers but want to improve they’re devoting about 8 hours a week to their game cuz they’re

Playing on a Friday and a Sunday or they’re playing around Saturday and then they’re going to going to play some non holes one evening so it’s really being structured with how you’re going to use that eight hours if you don’t have eight hours that doesn’t mean you can’t

Improve it means structure your four hours and be really efficient with it if you got 12 hours hey we got a little bit more time and then you got to decide where you want to put that I think one thing that am don’t really recognize though is that you can’t just go play

Golf and improve your golf I mean you have to work at it and you have to work at it in a manner that is trying to improve the goals we’ve already set so if you’re like hey my putting is not going well and I really want to improve

My putting but all you do is go play every week your putting is probably not going to improve a whole lot you know so that’s the way I try to help players understand is if we know what we’re trying to improve then we can dedicate some specific amount of time to it each

Week even if it’s only 30 minutes four times a week if you work on your speed control that’s going to improve your score so that that’s how I would think about it so that’s how we would break it down or at least how I would break it

Down from result goals stat goals that support that the process the core things that I’m going to need to do to change my stats and then what that looks like on a schedule if you can follow that then you can really one know what you’re

Trying to do and you can evaluate it as you’re going through that process