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I Am Looking For A Good Practice Routine


I know this is probly kind a basic but, does anyone one have a good routine for practice.

Please Go Into detail,
So how do you practice and how often?

Thank You!

This is from a high school coach who was once a member here...it will work you out...


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Golf Team Practice Schedule

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It seems as some high schoolers are having to "freelance" practice. Here is our schedule and an explanation of the drills:

Pre-Season Practice Schedule

Practice is at 3:00pm Monday-Thursday

Mondays...Play 9 holes (Blue Tees).

Tuesdays...Range/Short Game
- 20 Balls on the green each at White and Red Flags
- 20 Balls on target with tee shot
- Pelz Club Drill
- Chip 3 different lengths 20 balls each with 50% up and down conversion.
- Complete Going Home Drill

Wednesdays...Short Game
- Yardstick Drill 1
- Yardstick Drill 2
- Ladder Drill
- Putt 9 Holes (Score 22 or less)
- 9 Up & Downs (one spot, all 9 holes, 3 different clubs)
- 6 CONSECUTIVE Up and Downs

Thursday...Play 9 Holes (Blue Tees).

Chipping & Putting

Goal: Achieve a simple shoulders only stroke with chipping and putting. Focus on maintaining your triangle and eliminating wrist movement.

Drills:

1. Chip-In Drill
a. Pick one spot around the putting green and chip to each hole until you hole a chip. Utilize the proper club for each shot to practice with the three club chipping method. Vary your spot and distance from the green each day you perform the drill. Attempt to hole one chip in EACH hole.
2. Up & Down Drill
a. From one area around the putting green, chip balls to each hole utilizing the proper club for the shot. You must get up and down to proceed to the next hole.
3. Ladder Drill
a. Set tees at 3, 6 and 9 feet. Stroke 10 putts from each tee. You must make 7 from 3 feet, 5 from 6 feet and 3 from 9 feet. Repeat this drill at 3 separate holes.
4. Yardstick Drill 1
a. Place stick with top edge lined up with the hole. Place the ball on the stick about 3-6 inches from the end. Stroke the ball down the stick focusing on keeping the putter square to the line and the stroke down the stick. Must make 20 putts in this manner.
5. Yardstick Drill 2
a. Place stick as in Drill 1 but this time use four compass points and make 5 in a row at each point.
6. Putting Feel Drill
a. Practice 10-20 foot putts while looking at the hole. Line up and then look at the hole while you make the stroke, feeling the stroke flow back and through.
7. Pelz Club Drill
a. Place a club 2 feet behind the hole. Putt from 15 feet keeping 6 balls in a row between the hole and the club. If the ball goes in the hole, comes up short, or hits the club, start over. After completing 15 feet, move to 25 and repeat.
8. Going Home Drill
a. Hit a chip shot and then putt it in the hole. Keep going until you fail to get up and down. This is your "Going Home" number. Each time you practice, perform this drill to the best of your ability to meet or beat your number.





My personal routine...

Twice a week at the range: hit 7iron, 9i and 52* wedge to targets a little too far away for all of those distances...have an alignment stick down and shape the ball up and down, back and forth shot to shot...

Hit some pitches and some bunker shots with a handful of the balls in the bucket...


Play 3-6 times a week...hit chips, little pitches and putts for at least 10min. after every round with a 1.5hr session on Saturdays...


Practice putting in front of the tube in the living room every night after work...

Swing a golf club in the living room every time my wife looks the other way...



...and that's about it...
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Those drills look like a tough workout week after week even though I'm sure I'd enjoy putting that much work into it. Too bad I don't have the means (time, money, etc) to focus on golf that much. I'd love to have a complete practice green where I could do the chipping & up-n-down drills on a more regular basis.

Currently, I use an old yellow tent stake, 30 golf balls & my back yard for chipping/pitching practice. I put the tent stake out in the yard as a target point. My goal is to get the ball to stop inside a guesstimated 8' circle centered on the tent stake. I figure it's a max 2 putt if I can get the ball to stop in that circle. I'll vary the location of the tent stake to change the distance, wind direction, obstacles (bird bath & sun bench makes for a good obstacle for lofting practice), etc. I use 30 balls because I can get a rough percentage (15 out of 30 in that imaginary circle is 50%) of how well I did during that 30 ball set. My goal is to increase that percentage to where I have a decent chance of cutting strokes off on the course.

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Hey TopDog20,

The posters above have some great specific advice. I'll stick to a basic principle that all teachers agree on: practice like you play.

In other words, don't go to the range and bang out ball after ball at a vague target. Approach each ball as you would a shot during a round. As golfmaniac168 suggests, apply your on-course pre-shot routine to each shot. Whatever you do, pick a distinct target, even with the driver.

Some instructors take this a step further, advising students to change clubs after each shot, rather than hit a series of shots with one club before switching to the next. For instance, hit your driver, then 6-iron, as you would on a par-4. This replicates the way the game is played.

I haven't tried this method, but it kinda makes sense. (I wouldn't recommend going from the range to the putting green and back after every 2-3 shots, though!)

At any rate, always remember this phrase: "Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect."

Cheers,
DoctorK

hi
everyone advise was good but what I think that one should try to work on the hitting with different clubs in the bag

Determine the areas of the game that need the most work and practice those areas the most to get the most "bang for the buck".

Focus on your typical problems that you think you have and focus more on the short game shots than long game shots would be my general advice.

If you are like most people, you probably have limited time for practice.

Listen to Andy -- practice your short game! Too many golfers are preoccupied with hitting the driver on the range, when putting, chipping et al comprise a much bigger percentage of shots played on the course.

A great short game is the best weapon a golfer can have.

Cheers,
DoctorK

I put together a video on pre-shot routine. Maybe it would be helpful.

YouTube - Golf Tips, Lessons, Instruction & Drills - Pre-Shot Routine

You have a bunch of good ideas above. Here's a thought from a little different direction. In the days past when I played a lot of tournaments, I broke my practice up into an eight week cycle, as follows:
1. Putting - place tees at 4, 7 & 10 feet on a flat part of the practice green - using 6 balls, hit 50 putts from each distance starting with the longest.
2. Short game - wedges, greenside bunker shots, chips with 7 & 8 irons.
3. Short irons - 7, 8 & 9 - taking smooth swings, hit 50 balls with each club.
4. Middle irons - 4, 5 & 6 - same as above.
5. Long irons - 2 & 3 - after hitting 50 balls with each, hit 25 more fading and drawing some & include a few at 1/2 to 3/4 as you would for a layup.
6. Fairway woods - 50 balls with each again, finishing with 5 as position tees shots with each club.
7. Driver - 50 balls to start with, then 25 more fading and drawing, finish with 10 more hitting as hard as you can.
8. Recoveries - long bunker shots with irons and fairway woods, wedges from deep rough to the practice chipping green, iron recovery shots with restricted back swing or follow thru (use a bag stand found on most ranges to simulate a tree), and any other shot of this type you have encountered or had trouble with.
Any "extra" time you have, spend chipping and putting.
I would practice two days a week, play four days and take one day off when not competing. During a tournament week, I would drop the practice to one day. This cycle gave me the opportunity to improve each part of my game on a regular basis through the year. And with hitting "only" 150 balls a day, I still had energy to devote to anything that needed an immediate fix. Hope this helps.

Doh... I cannot believe I completely misread the topic of this thread. I even read a few responses before posting and still managed to do this.

I'm getting old.

live on 10 acres and my parents built me a green with the dirt with removed from making a lake(now my water hazard) . For the past 6-8 months I have followed this rutine and went from shooting 102 avg. To now shooting 84 avg. As you can see by the results, it's worked for me and I hope it will help you!! I was on a high school golf team in the fall(read my name) and these are SOME of the drills we used.

I start by 5-7 minutes of stretching and LIGHTLY swinging the club like a baseball bat to loosen up my shoulder muscles, as well as muscles just below and behind the under arm.
After this warm up, I hit about 20-35,(60-80 yard wedge shots). This is about 45% of a pitching wedge(48*).
After this, I work my way to longer distances, by hitting all the ODD NUMBERED CLUBS(9,7,5,3) hitting about 12-20 of each.
After this(boy that sounds redundant, sorry) I hit all the even number clubs(8,6,4,2) this usually is the time you are most loose and can thoughfor, focus on the clubs that will most likely be used.( if you tend to use the odd numbered clubs more, then hit the evens first instead of odds.)
Once this is done, head to the chippting and putting green. I prefer to start with the putting first to get a feel for the speed so I can chip and pitch more accuractly. Start putting by using the ' six ball drill' . This is done by starting at 3 feet from the hole(roughly) and placinga tee in the ground there. Every six inches or so put another tee in the ground, until you have six tees in the ground. Start at the closest to the hole and work your way back. When you get to he top, start back from there and work your way to the hole again, if you miss a putt during this, start over. This will increase your confidence in those putts that everyone is most often faced with.
When chipping, aim for a flag that is only about 20-25 feet away, this will simulate the feeling of missing the gir, and will allow you to practice the feel of getting 'up and down.'
All this should take about 1-1:30 hours, depending if you want to do all of the above or bits and pIeces.
Sorry I almost forgot the driver and the 3-wood. After completing all other excersices, then go to the range for the big dog and company!! This would have allowed you to be as loose as possible and you would have started to tired, so you would also be building muscles.
When you get to the range, start with the driver because with most of the clubs you were using during practice, they require a swing that sweeps the ball up, not come down on it. So hit about 15-20, WELL AIMED, WELL CONCENTRATED SHOTS. after this, do the same with the 3- wood. When practice is coming to an end, hit about 15-20 'I DONT CARE WHERE MY BALL GOES!!' driver shots, this will allow for optimal muscle toning and will allow for better control with the more muscles you gain.

Sorry to make this so long but I hope it helps. !!!! And again not all this has to be done at every practice, if you pick and chose to do some things and not others, great. Just make sure that you still do it in the order I stated. Go from the top of the list to the bottom and do what you want to do and don't want, BUT KEEP IT IN ORDER!!! IT HELPS FOR LESS MUSCLE TENSION, STRONG CONFIDENCE AND FOCUS, AND ALSO, INCLUDES HINTS FOR THE NEXT STEP THAT FOLLOWS THE ONE YOU ARE DOING AT THAT TIME!!!!