1/12/2024 0 Comments Long game golf![]() This is a very simple and telling drill of how balanced your setup is. This will show you exactly where your arms should hand at setup so that you do not start too close or too far from the ball. Fold at the hips and bend at the knees until the club hits the ground and you are balancing with your hands on the club. Simple hold your club out where the club face is about eye level and your arms are out straight. This is a great “do anywhere” type drill, especially inside the comfort of your own home. Watch this video for a great explanation and visual of this drill: Once you get the feel and sensation of a clean, square shot with one hand you should be able to translate than into you 2-handed pitch. The key is to get your club face through the ball while your body is moving so that you can keep the club head square. Swinging with both hands, you are going to focus on keeping the face square through contact and follow through. When pitching the ball you want your club face to be square at impact and at follow through. Here is a video explaining and showing how this drill works: This should have you hitting the ball straighter and with a better trajectory quickly. The key to this drill is that you stay inside the alignment stick so that your swing plane is steep and then you strike the ball without striking the swing plate. Place it a couple of inches behind you sticking up from the ground. Place a swing plate directly behind the ball and put an alignment stick behind your club at about the same angle that the shaft of your club is making with the ground. This is a great drill to teach you the steeper swing plane that you want to have in a pitch compared to other shots. One of the things golfers struggle with the most is trying to help a pitch get up in the air rather than hitting down on the ball and letting the club do the work. ![]() You want the second tee to stay in place and not move so that you know you are coming in at the right angle of attack. Your goal is to try to hit the top of the first tee and create a divot right where the tee starts. The purpose of this drill is to teach you to bottom out your swing after striking the ball rather than before. Place a second tee even with the first and almost in line with the toe of your golf club. Place one tee directly in front of your ball about 1 inch ahead. Having a larger target to aim for gives you added confidence and you make a lot more inside the big circle than you do in the hole. It is a simple drill that you can do with a hula hoop or a string long enough to make a 5-6 foot circle around the hole.įind different lies, angles, and even hazards and practice getting them inside the larger circle. This drill is simply teaching you to get close enough to the hole on a chip shot so all you have to do is tap it in. This drill will help you learn to make good, shallow contact with the ball on short chip shots.įor a good visual example of this drill, watch this video: Repeat that same drill with your left hand. With this grip, and very little movement of the rest of your arm and wrist, make contact using the pivot of your upper body. Choke down on the grip and move your hand forward so that your grip is leading your club through contact. With your right arm, grip the club like you would if both hands were being used. All you do is get in your normal stance, move forward so that all of your weight is on your lead foot, and then pick your back foot up leaving just the tip of your toe on the ground. Essentially, this drill teaches you the right position to have the club just drop right down onto the ball. This is a great chipping drill to get your weight forward and to make sure that your swing bottoms out just past the ball. Try this from different places on the green and at different angles from the tee that you laid down so that you get a feel for the speed going flat, uphill, or downhill. Turning to face the outskirts of the green, putt a ball towards the fringe of the green with a goal of getting the ball as close to the fringe as possible without going onto the second cut. Place a tee into the ground at the spot and drop the balls next to the tee. Simply grab five golf balls and head to a flat spot on the green about 40 feet away from the fringe. This drill will help you learn precise distance control uphill, downhill, and on flat surfaces. Lag putting is the idea of getting the ball close which is more about distance control than anything else. It is a lot easier to aim for hole the size of a hula hoop than it is to aim for a hole the size of, well, a golf hole. Lag putting is a very important concept to learn for long distance putting. A post shared by Marcus Potter Lag Putting
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