Driving Range Tips: Practice vs. Pre-Round Warm Up
Golfers sometimes mistake how to practice their swing vs. the type of warm-up required before playing a round.
In today’s video PGA Professional Mike Richards explains the key differences to help you maximize both with some great driving range tips. .
Determine Club Carry Distance to Score Better
Today we are talking about a method to determine the exact carry of each one of your clubs. It is very important to know carry distance. If I am hitting over a bunker or water hazard, I need to know where the ball is going to land. Below is a method to determine club carry distance.
The first thing I need to do is determine the distance to a known target. On the cart, the GPS will tell you the distance, but the distance GPS is measuring is frequently inaccurate and should be compared against course markers. However, course markers generally measure to the center of the green, not the hole. My choice for accurate measurement is a range finder. The range finder will give the accurate distance to exactly where the pin is placed today. This is what I need to know to determine carry distance. The exact distance to my target determined by the laser is 66. My cart GPS said 70, it was off by 4 yards (94% accurate).
Now that I know the exact distance to my target is 66 yards, I will take my 60-degree wedge and 5 -10 balls. I will hit the balls to my target and see where they land on the green. I use my normal swing. Once I am done hitting all the balls, I go to the green to measure where they actually land.
I place tees in the ground indicating where the ball landed by their pitch mark on the green. Next, I step off and see how far the balls really roll out. On this particular green with my 60-degree wedge they did not roll much, between 3 and 6 yards. Now I know the carry distance on my 60-degree wedge is 75 yards and the balls roll out somewhere between 3 and 6 yards.
I have determined the carry and roll out distance on my 60-degree wedge. I will want to do this with each one of my clubs. Then I will know which club to hit into the green.
The carry distance is the yardage from the point of impact to the point of landing. Tip: Go to the driving range once a month or so and hit five – ten golf balls with each club to track off the distances you achieve with each club.
Golf Rangefinder VPRO500
Golf Swing Transition And Strike Drill
In today’s Golf Swing Transition drill Alex shows you how easy it can be to get good golf impact, consistency and have a reliable golf transition that is more instinct and natural than complicated thoughts.
BETTER HIP ROTATION In The Golf Swing
In this video, we’ll show you how to move your hips during your swing to produce more powerful and consistent golf shots!
Better Hip Rotation in the Golf Swing will help you create maximum distance and increase your clubhead speed through the ball.
The Best Golf Swing Lag Drill
In today’s video PGA Golf Professional Matt Holman demonstrates how to create more lag in the golf swing to help create more power and consistent strikes with the golf ball.
This Best Golf Swing Lag Drill comes to us courtesy of David Leadbetter school of golf.
Rickie Fowler – Slow Motion hands at impact
In today’s video you’ll see a key movement of the hands at impact for helping maximize power in the golf swing.
The golfing community loves to study and analyze professional golfers swings so that they may learn how to improve their own golf swing.
Ball Position For Driver, Irons, And Wedges
We get asked about ball position a lot. It’s an important topic because where the ball is in your stance will ultimately decide where you position your body at impact. So your ball position will either help or hurt the quality of your shots… it’s that important.
In this video, we’re going to look at where we see the best players in the game position the ball for the driver, irons, and wedges.
How To Go Wide To Narrow in Your Golf Swing
It’s all about having the right mix. We all have wide moves and we all have narrow moves in our swings.
Having the right blend and having them show up at the right time is what’s important for hitting more pure irons shots.
We’ve created a simple checklist on how to go from wide to narrow in your golf swing.
