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. Take a longer club. Set up with butt of club in center of chest.
2. Extend arms and grip the club down the shaft.
3. Slowly take backswing to hip level with club head, hands, arms, torso, shoulders and hips synchronized.
4. 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. Be sure to perform this golf practice drill at half-speed and pause at key checkpoints.
2. Tee up ball, make full backswing and pause at top of backswing for 2 seconds.
3. Check that you have a full shoulder turn (90°); hip turn (30 to 45°); your left arm is straight; and that 80% of weight is on inside of right foot.
4. Keep your right knee flexed.
5. Initiate downswing by shifting weight left which leads the hips, arms and shoulders to unwind through impact.
6. 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. Perform golf practice drill on putting green with 15 balls.
2. Initiate drill with 30 foot putts, then shorter, longer, uphill and downhill putts.
3. Identify target line and set up for putting stroke. Then, turn head and look at the target.
4. Execute putt while looking at target throughout stroke ensuring good putting form.
5. Conduct “feel drill” for each target. Transfer feel to normal putting stroke (eyes over ball).
6. Pre-round, conduct this golf practice drill for 5 to 10 minutes to “set the feel” of a particular course’s 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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