Golf Practice Drills for your Full Swing and Short Game

Golf practice drills really help to build and instill key golf swing fundamentals. Here are a few of our top golf practice drills that emphasize various aspects of the full swing and short game.

Full Swing Backswing: Backswing Synchronization Drill

BENEFITS: This golf practice drill synchronizes hands, arms, torso, shoulders and hips in backswing and helps establish proper body rotation, rhythm and tempo.
1.聽聽 聽Take a longer club. Set up with butt of club in center of chest.
2.聽聽 聽Extend arms and grip the club down the shaft.
3.聽聽 聽Slowly take backswing to hip level with club head, hands, arms, torso, shoulders and hips synchronized.
4.聽聽 聽Return to starting position and repeat drill to ingrain feeling of synchronized turn in backswing.

Full Swing Downswing: Pause and Go Drill

BENEFITS: This golf practice drill helps encourage complete backswing and aids transition from backswing to downswing.

1.聽聽 聽Be sure to perform this golf practice drill at half-speed and pause at key checkpoints.
2.聽聽 聽Tee up ball, make full backswing and pause at top of backswing for 2 seconds.
3.聽聽 聽Check that you have a full shoulder turn (90掳); hip turn (30 to 45掳); your left arm is straight; and that 80% of weight is on inside of right foot.
4.聽聽 聽Keep your right knee flexed.
5.聽聽 聽Initiate downswing by shifting weight left which leads the hips, arms and shoulders to unwind through impact.
6.聽聽 聽Swing to finish position.

Putting Distance Control: “Feel Drill” Practice Drill

BENEFITS: This golf practice drill improves putting distance control, touch, feel and accuracy.

1.聽聽 聽Perform golf practice drill on putting green with 15 balls.
2.聽聽 聽Initiate drill with 30 foot putts, then shorter, longer, uphill and downhill putts.
3.聽聽 聽Identify target line and set up for putting stroke.聽 Then, turn head and look at the target.
4.聽聽 聽Execute putt while looking at target throughout stroke ensuring good putting form.
5.聽聽 聽Conduct 鈥渇eel drill鈥?for each target. Transfer feel to normal putting stroke (eyes over ball).
6.聽聽 聽Pre-round, conduct this golf practice drill for 5 to 10 minutes to 鈥渟et the feel鈥?of a particular course鈥檚 putting greens.

Implement all the practice drills in your daily golf practice routine because these tips definitely lower your golf score.

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