A spar room at my condo has been converted to a make shift indoor range. The catch carpet is low pile commercial grade carpet and the mat is two pieces of builders grade plush carpet stacked on top of one another. When whiffle balls are hit into it its possible to see whether you are hooking or slicing the ball by the way it comes off the carpet. If it lands in front of you it hooked, in back you sliced, bounces off and flys directly over your head its straight.
When you go to retrieve the ball and its still spinning like a top counter clock wise its hooked badly a nice gentle spin I hope would indicate a draw. Vice versa for slices and fades.
Taller golfers will need high ceilings and for gods sake wear eye protection good shots will come of the catch carpet pretty quick and sometimes fly right at your face. My seem a little over the edge but I would say that if I had not been hitting balls in this room I most likely would still be struggling at the range just to hit my irons clean. I would be that much poorer too.
I figure I was opening myself up to some ribbing especially from the more advanced players around here who my have a hard time remembering the days when just hitting the ball clean enough to advance it was a struggle.
At least now when I do go to the range to get some real feed back half my bucket isn't waisted on fat and thinned shots. Also makes for a great place to loosen up before those spur of the moment rounds when there is no time to hit the range first.
My $.02 is to NOT spend too much time on your fullswing on setups like this. I've seen responses from people who do this all winter, then find out in the springtime........they've grooved a Slice/Hook. Or.......the mats/carpet give a false sensation of your impact zone - it fosters "scooping" the ball, rather than making solid contact.
I would use it for chips/pitches, or putting, and work on your short game. For gosh sake, don't spend a lot of time in there - these mat/carpet/indoor setups tend to foster a LOT of bad habits.
My $.02 is to NOT spend too much time on your fullswing on setups like this. I've seen responses from people who do this all winter, then find out in the springtime........they've grooved a Slice/Hook. Or.......the mats/carpet give a false sensation of your impact zone - it fosters "scooping" the ball, rather than making solid contact.
I would use it for chips/pitches, or putting, and work on your short game. For gosh sake, don't spend a lot of time in there - these mat/carpet/indoor setups tend to foster a LOT of bad habits.
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Thats pretty much what I do is practice full swing in there. Living in FLA though I have year round acsess to the outdoor range and try to get out there every other day or so. Still have a mixed bag of problems with anything 5 iron or above. Pulls left fades and slices. The fades I can deal with The slices and yanks left are going to be a major problem on the course.
I would tend to agree with SamT I have always found it to be more helpful to work on my shoat game, I practice a lot on chip shots, flop shots, putting, and practicing with the 9I to hit 1/2 and 3/4 shots. I also will set up on the lawn a umbrella open turned upside down and hit 20-25 balls into it at different distances I will not move back until I hit all the balls into the umbrella then I move back a few feet and repeat this again. For me this drill helps with shot placement around the green.
great idea!.....
that reminds me of the time I tried putting up a nett in the backyard
.....forgot to tie it to the clothes line properly.... then one """""whack""""" later a ball was flying over 3 houses on the full agggghhhhhhhhhhhhh..... thank goodness it only landed in their swimming pool but It was a great drive I'll admit hehehe
My $.02 is to NOT spend too much time on your fullswing on setups like this. I've seen responses from people who do this all winter, then find out in the springtime........they've grooved a Slice/Hook. Or.......the mats/carpet give a false sensation of your impact zone - it fosters "scooping" the ball, rather than making solid contact.
I would use it for chips/pitches, or putting, and work on your short game. For gosh sake, don't spend a lot of time in there - these mat/carpet/indoor setups tend to foster a LOT of bad habits.
I try not to practice too much in driving ranges too!,
even tho it doesn't snow here.
I find that it does get you into bad habits..... I have done once...I think it was because the space was so small and there was walls surounding me
I find that the only good way to practice indoors is to get a golf course simulator, and hit into a net. Good way to practice, and you get to play a fake course at the same time. I would love to get one, but I don't have a place to put one...
A simulator would be nice but certainly out of my price range. Something I noticed about the simulator at the shop where I buy my equipment is that they have it a bit tweaked for sales. When the guy told me I had just hit a 6 iron 178 on the sim my first thought was "ya right!?". Never hit one that far on the course or range. Must be the humid air knocking them down
Really. At one, I was testing all the different Mizuno MP irons against each other. I was hitting the 33's, 37's, and 30's. (32's weren't available for demo there quite yet) Launch angle and spin were about right, but then I noticed that I was carrying the 6 iron 206 yards. I'm thinking that that can't be right. So I asked the guy how accurate the monitor was. He said is was right on on launch angle and spin, but it might be a little heavy on distance. I was thinking "just a little?" (C'mon, even bad shots were flying 170 yards, and that is my normal distance with my MP 33's.)
Murph, I know what you mean by it being out of my price range. That is waaaaaay out of my price range.
I find that the only good way to practice indoors is to get a golf course simulator, and hit into a net. Good way to practice, and you get to play a fake course at the same time. I would love to get one, but I don't have a place to put one...
For those of us not willing to pay the price for a simulator, a golf dome is the perfect way to paractice "indoors." Sure saves wear and tear on the walls in the den!
Domes are cool, but many of the ones I've seen are short (90 yards?) and short (anything higher than a 4I hits the roof before it gets that 90 yards out).
I'm fortunate in that I do some work at a very large dome in the winter and get to hit as many balls as I like. I only hit wedges and half wedges to flags and buckets ranging from 20 yards to about 100 yards. I occasionally will hit 7 irons just to keep my full swing sharp. The dome work does wonders for my game come Spring. I'm miles ahead of the guys who just use nets.
November 3rd, 2004, 09:28 AM
especially from the more advanced players around here who my have a hard time remembering the days when just hitting the ball clean enough to advance it was a struggle. 
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