As an avid reader of the late Harvey Penick's sage instruction books, I also determined to spend most of my practice time working on my short game and putting.
As part of this experiment, New York City funded a series of independent studies to engage in the innovation process that is, to test whether the innovation was really working after some early promising results that gave the city the confidence to bring the model into regular-day instruction, learn both from mistakes and the positives, and iterate appropriately.