https://pinhighpress.com/tags/preparation/ Recent content in Preparation on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/how-to-warm-up-before-a-round/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/how-to-warm-up-before-a-round/ <p>There is a recognisable rhythm to most amateur rounds. The first three holes are a kind of low-grade emergency, a stretch of double-bogeys and missed three-footers and pulled drives during which the player gradually figures out, in real time and at the cost of several strokes, what their swing is doing today. By the fourth hole the body has loosened up and the brain has caught on. The score by then is usually beyond saving. The opening stretch has done what it always does, which is to take the ambitions of the round and quietly shorten them by a couple of strokes.</p>