Golf Practice Colours Explained
Science-Driven Practice. Tournament-Proven Results.
Develop
Train
Perform
Why use a Coloured Golf Practice System
Maximize your practice with a system backed by science—ensuring every session translates to lower scores and better tournament performance.
As a talented golfer or coach, you dedicate 100+ practice days per year.
But are you practicing with a clear purpose?
Our Coloured Golf Practice System simplifies proven training methods into three focused phases:
🟢 Green Practice – Develop Your Golf Skills
Explore, experiment, and refine techniques to build a strong foundation.🔴 Red Practice – Train Your Golf Skills
Push beyond your limits, challenge your abilities, and simulate high-pressure scenarios.🔵 Blue Practice – Perform Your Golf Skills
Fine-tune execution, sharpen focus, and prepare for tournament play.
This structured golf practice approach ensures that every session has a clear purpose—helping you understand what to practice, where to practice, how to practice, and what standards to meet—so your training directly translates to better tournament performance.
What are the Golf Practice Colours?
Green Practice
Develop Your Golf Skills
Or Develop Practice, this is where you learn and explore something new in your golf game.
Advantages of Green Practice
Creates an environment for refining and experimenting with new techniques.
Encourages problem-solving through variability, enhancing adaptability under pressure.
Helps develop a more robust, personalized swing pattern that aligns with your natural movement.
Provides a high-transfer environment—taking skills from the range to the course.
Allows for creative shot-making and decision-making to improve feel and execution.
Green at a Glance
Common Challenges of Green Practice
Can feel unstructured; staying intentional with your goals is key.
Embracing uncertainty is crucial—there won’t always be immediate clarity.
Easy to slip into excessive range time—quality over quantity is essential.
Breaking movements down can feel controlled but reduces course transferability—keep movements whole.
Every shot needs a clear target and intention to simulate on-course conditions effectively.
Practice Thinkers Podcast
About the Green Practice
Interested in the Practice App?
The Practice App has different features and pricing for individual golfers and coaches/teams.
Red Practice
Train Your Golf Skills
Train Practice, this is where you challenge yourself in Practice.
Advantages of Red Practice
Separates you from the competition—those who train in this way gain an edge.
Challenges your skills beyond comfort levels, elevating your standard of play.
Prepares you for high-pressure tournament conditions by introducing consequences.
Tests swing changes under stress, ensuring they hold up in competition.
Develops mental endurance and resilience, increasing overall performance capacity.
Provides an honest reflection of where your game truly stands.
Red in a Flash
Common Challenges of Red Practice
Can feel mentally and physically draining—strategically plan sessions to avoid burnout.
Training with pressure isn’t about replicating exact tournament stress—it’s about conditioning your response to it.
The temptation to revert to high-rep practice for comfort—quality, challenge-driven reps are what matter.
Best utilized further from tournament days to avoid overloading before competition.
Practice Thinkers Podcast
About the Red Practice
Interested in the Practice App?
The Practice App has different features and pricing for individual golfers and coaches/teams.
Blue Practice
Perform Your Golf Skills
Perform Practice, this is where you perform skills already learnt.
Advantages of Blue Practice
Fine-tunes your game, ensuring peak readiness for tournament play.
Directs focus towards execution and performance rather than technical changes.
Allows for targeted course-specific preparation, enhancing strategic play.
Maintains a strong mindset, reinforcing confidence in strengths.
Can incorporate structured or blocked practice when necessary to solidify consistency.
Blue at a Glance
Common Challenges of Blue Practice
The temptation to tweak and adjust—trust in what’s already built.
Can be overlooked, with too much focus placed on swing mechanics and technique rather than performance.
Requires discipline to avoid unnecessary changes—stay committed to your blueprint in this phase.
Confidence-building comes from execution, not constant correction.
Practice Thinkers Podcast
About the Blue Practice
Interested in the Practice App?
The Practice App has different features and pricing for individual golfers and coaches/teams.
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No, unless you can prove you are predominately still playing Tournament Golf consistently.
You get access to the app for free, and the coach education too, as a coach if one of your golfers signs up for the app..
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Meet Your Practice Coaches
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Performance Director, Tour Coach + Academic
Stuart’s current work is to support Swiss Golf as their Performance Director for the professional team, to assist Robert Macintyre and Bernd Wiesberger with their practice, whilst completing a Doctorate in Human Performance with the spotlight on Golf & Practice.
Tour Level Experience
Stuart has coached at all Majors in Golf, and at the Ryder cup. The work he does with professional golfers takes him all over the world.
He is an Advanced member of the PGA of Great Britain and recognized by Golf Digest at one of the top international coaches.
Having started his full-time coaching career under the guidance of David Leadbetter, he became ever more interested in the science of how we learn, skill acquisition, motor control and how we practice.
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Pete is a practice coach with a Masters by Research in the learning and practice habits of European Tour Players.
He has also co-authored two books on golf practice.
One for Golf Coaches
A Constraints-Led Approach to Golf Coaching
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One for Golfers and Coaches
Swing Like Tiger: A History Lesson on Tiger Wood’s Practice
Pete works with all levels of golfer around the globe as a practice consultant.