Quick Beginner Golf Drills to Improve your Golf Game

Below are a few essential golf full swing practice drills for beginner golfers. You can practice these golf drills at home or on the range.

Top of Backswing Golf Drill

This golf practice drill ensures correct position at top of backswing and encourages full body turn in the backswing.

1.Assume normal address position with an iron.
2.Hinge wrists so that club is pointing up toward sky.
3.Keep wrists hinged and place club on right shoulder.
4.Rotate your body fully鈥攕houlders 90掳; hips 30 to 45掳.
5.Extend arms fully ensuring that hands are in front of chest. Check that club face is square and that back of left hand and club face are parallel to one another.
6.You are now in the correct top of backswing position.

Impact Position Golf Drill

This golf practice drill ingrains proper posture, swing path and impact position while encouraging good body rotation, weight transfer and follow-through.

1.Perform this golf practice drill without a club.
2.Take normal address position with hands facing each other.
3.Keep left arm and hand in place. Rotate right side of body to top of backswing. At the top, biceps and forearm form 90掳 angle as if holding a serving tray.
4.Initiate downswing with lower body. Rotate hips, arms and shoulders down while keeping right elbow close to the right hip.
5.Simulate 鈥渋mpact鈥?by clapping left hand.
6.Continue swing through to a balanced finish position.

Follow-Through 鈥淪plit Hands鈥?Golf Drill

This golf practice drill promotes proper release of the club and good weight transfer.聽 It also helps eliminate golf slice shots.

1.Grip a 5-iron with left hand in normal position and right hand several inches down on the grip.
2.Make small practice swings with hands reaching hip level in the backswing and downswing.
3.From impact to follow-through, emphasize the feeling of right hand rotating over the left hand.
4.Ensure that the toe of the club is facing upward in backswing and follow-through.

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