The modern-day golfer has a support team of nutritionists, therapists, their caddy and various mentors to optimize their playing ability during a championship. Their training regime, as with many professional athletes, is focused on building up levels of energy, strength and flexibility. While the average amateur will not usually have the time to put in the same level of off-course training, they can benefit from the following key pillars of on-course performance optimization techniques that the pro golfers use.

A lot of amateur golfers head out to the first tee without getting a chance to practice some putting on the putting green. They then find that on the first few holes in their round of golf that they make the following putting errors: