re: Golfers: Getting Over the Hump

Ygm baw

I wanna know more about this practice/range routine you can work up for us. tigerbait01@yahoo.com

I'm interested in this practice routine if you don't mind sending it to me as well. Jbrign1@gmail.com

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More range time

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This is what finally made the game "fun" for me. Many visits to the range until I could hit most clubs consistently, but especially the driver. Just forced myself to do it.

The one thing you can't really work on at the range is short/sand game... so mine still blows. But the game is more fun hitting a 9 into a green instead of a 3-iron after slicing a weak drive 50 yards off the fairway.

Tell that girl thanks baw. And thank you baw.

I'll get ya one of these baw:

Obviously chipping and putting will be the part of the game that yields more strokes. In order to become a better player you need to work on all aspects of your game but the most important are(in order which is most to least)

Speed putting
Chipping(all aspects)
20 yards - 75 yards
Ball striking

Ive seen terrible ball strikers shoot even par because they can maneuver around the green so well.

Some key drills for each include;

Speed Putting

Square drill

Place 4 tees in a perfect square 3 foot away from each other on ends. You need to find a place on the practice green in which you can have downhill an uphill 20-30 footers. You will hit 50 putts from uphill and 50 putts from downhill.
Start at 20 feet and hit 10 putts trying to make the ball stop at the back of the square. Hit all 10 puts while looking at the back of the square only, not the ball. Now hit 10 balls trying to stop them on the front part of the square without looking at the ball and focusing on the front part of the square.
Move back to 30 foot and do same.
Now switch to other side and do same.
After you hit your 80 putts go back to original area and you can start looking at the ball. Hit 2 balls from 20 feet trying to stop first one at front of square and second at back square. Do this one more time and move to 30 foot. Hit one ball and make it land in the middle of the square. Go to other side and do exact same.

This will make you a great speed putter. Then you focus on breaks. Which if you would like, I could also tell you a drill for that.

Ill add the other 3 soon.

Nice.

I have to get a little more in depth for some ball striking drills and dont really want to tonight. But I will give a break putting drill.

Break Putting

Gate Drill

Find a breaking putt that breaks about 1 foot from 10-15 feet. The ball should be trickling in as it hits the cup. Find one that breaks left and one right but we will focus on one at a time.

Roll some putts and see where your aim should be. Place 2 tees right where you putted from(one at heel and one at toe of putter. Place a tee on the where the aim is(right to left breaker place tee 1 foot on right side of hole if it is a 1 foot breaker). Now roll more putts and see exactly where it breaks into hole. Place two tees about hole length apart 2 inches from the hole as if the ball has to travel through these 2 tees perfectly to make it. Not go about 3 inches more and place 2 tees about 2 holes apart making it as if the ball should travel perfectly through these 2 as well to make it.

Practice never looking at the hole but at the tee you placed to line your putt on. You want to look up at your putt after hitting it to really see the break of the putt take place and get your confidence for reading and putting on breaks. You will probably find you need to aim a little farther out on left to righters(righty).

Honestly, I had to move away from drills, especially those that required a lot of preparation for little result.

Instead, I focus on what the goal of the drill was, and work on that instead. Just a lot less crap to deal with