I apply all the same principles to my golf that I do with everything else. It would take too long to describe it all in detail, but there are things that work and things that don't work in terms of improving muscle control/memory (or whatever you want to call physical "ingraining" of subtle movements). I expect most of the forum know well enough for themselves the dangers of bad practice.

It's such a shame that 90% of folks at the range are just making themselves worse.

"Simulating a game" of golf is only any use if you learn from each shot and apply the correct "attitude" to the next. It CAN work if you are disciplined.
For example - if you are serving (in tennis) with a bad action, there's no point AT ALL in adjusting your aim/length for the next serve. Same with golf...if you are cutting across the ball and then try to "balance" the face of the club to land the ball on target (i.e. a fade) then swinging it along the same path again is simply ingraining the underlying fault.

I practice with a bucket of 45 balls and swing the club 150-250? times per practice.....