Golf Drills

Ensures a straight putting stroke and square face at impact by providing immediate feedback. If your stroke deviates or the face is misaligned, you'll hit the 'gate'. Perfect for grooving short putts.

Builds confidence on short putts from all sides of the hole and introduces mild pressure. By seeing putts go in from various angles and making many in a row, a beginner's fear of those knee-knockers diminishes.

Improves distance control on long putts to help eliminate three-putts. By putting to progressively farther targets, a beginner learns to calibrate swing length and speed for different distances.

Strengthens the mechanics of the putting stroke by isolating each hand. Putting with the lead hand alone promotes a smooth pendulum motion and prevents the trail hand from overpowering, while trail-hand putting enhances feel.

Enhances feel and distance control by removing visual input. With eyes closed, a golfer learns to rely on touch and the body's natural sense of the stroke, often resulting in more consistent distance on putts.

Assures that you are starting the ball on your intended line for straight putts. The string provides a visual path for the putt, helping you groove a stroke that sends the ball along that line into the hole.

Tests and builds extreme consistency and focus under pressure on short putts. Making a large number of short putts consecutively ingrains confidence and routine; if you can do it in practice, you'll trust yourself on the course.

Trains you to start putts on a perfect line with a pure roll. By rolling a ball along the length of a yardstick, any error in face angle or impact quality is magnified, helping to fine-tune your stroke for straightness and solid contact.

Sharpens aim and speed by making the actual hole seem large. By putting to a target smaller than a hole (like a tee or coin), you learn to roll the ball with precision. When you go back to a real cup, it feels much easier by comparison.

Helps beginners learn to make contact by sweeping up on the ball. Focuses on hitting the tee to promote an upward swing path and solid contact with the driver.

Improves balance and tempo in the driver swing. Encourages a smooth swing and solid contact by limiting lower body movement.

Develops proper sequencing and eliminates a rushed transition. By pausing at the top of the backswing, players learn to start the downswing smoothly, improving timing and consistency with the driver.

Increases hip turn and encourages a draw ball flight for more power. By dropping the trail foot back, it promotes a fuller backswing turn and an inside-out swing path.

Improves the feel of club positioning and swing path by separating the hands on the grip. Helps the golfer sense the proper arm fold and clubface orientation during the swing.

Keeps the arms and body connected throughout the driver swing. Helps prevent 'flying elbows' or an over-the-top downswing by encouraging a one-piece takeaway and downswing.

Develops explosiveness and proper weight transfer for maximum driving distance. Modeled after the famous running start swing, it encourages a full-body athletic motion and better sequencing.

Enhances hip turn and sequencing in the swing. By using an alignment stick through the belt loops, it gives visual feedback on hip rotation, helping to maximize power and consistency.

Trains the ability to hit intentional fades and draws with the driver. Advanced players use this to learn ball control and to tackle different course scenarios by curving the ball on demand.

Builds proper swing fundamentals by focusing on a half-swing motion. Teaches beginners the correct wrist hinge and release: forming an 'L' shape with the lead arm and club on the backswing and a mirrored 'L' with the trail arm on the follow-through.

Improves centered contact with irons. By creating a narrow gate to swing through, it trains you to hit the ball with the middle of the clubface, eliminating shanks or toe hits.

Teaches proper ball-first contact by ensuring the low point of the swing is in front of the ball. This drill helps eliminate 'fat' shots (hitting the ground behind the ball) which is crucial for solid iron play.

Prevents the lead arm from 'chicken-winging' and promotes a connected swing through impact. Keeping a glove under the lead armpit encourages proper extension and body rotation in iron shots.

Helps control trajectory and promotes solid, ball-first contact. The punch shot (or knockdown shot) is a low-flying iron shot that teaches players to deloft the club slightly and compress the ball – a valuable skill for windy conditions and better contact.

Develops advanced trajectory control with irons. Practicing hitting the ball high and low on command improves understanding of swing mechanics (face loft and angle of attack) and is useful for varying conditions and pin positions.

Challenges you to hit intentional draws and fades with your irons. This refines clubface and path control, and simulates the creative shot-making required in advanced play (curving around trees or to tough pins).

Enhances balance and ball striking consistency by removing stability. Standing on one leg forces your body to stabilize and swing efficiently, leading to better contact and center-of-gravity control when you go back to a normal stance.

Uses visual feedback to fine-tune iron contact. By applying impact spray or using impact tape, you can see exactly where on the clubface you're hitting the ball, allowing advanced players to adjust for perfect center-face strikes.

Teaches control over where the ball lands on chip shots. By focusing on a specific landing spot (rather than the hole), beginners learn to predict roll-out and improve consistency on chip-and-run shots.

Builds confidence and skill in short chips by simulating on-course pressure. By chipping to within a small radius of the hole from various angles, beginners develop touch and consistency.

Introduces proper sand shot technique by training you to hit the sand in the correct spot. This drill teaches beginners how to take sand before the ball in a bunker shot, which is key for escaping greenside bunkers successfully.

Develops distance control with wedges by varying swing length. By visualizing the arms on a clock face, golfers can produce reliable distances for different wedge swings, which is crucial for scoring.

Improves feel and technique in chipping by isolating each hand. Chipping balls with only one hand (both left-hand-only and right-hand-only) helps identify the roles of each hand and encourages a smooth, connected stroke without scooping.

Enhances distance control and feel by hitting a series of wedges at increasing (and then decreasing) distances. This drill trains you to make fine adjustments in swing length and speed, crucial for intermediate players trying to knock it close from various yardages.

Builds confidence and technique for high, soft lob shots (flop shots) that stop quickly. This advanced drill teaches you to open the face and use an aggressive, accelerating swing to hit over obstacles or to tight pins.

Simulates real-round pressure for short game shots. By attempting to hole out or get up-and-down from various tough lies, you practice not just technique but also the mental focus needed to save par. This drill sharpens your creativity and consistency around the greens.

Hones technique for escaping buried ("fried egg") lies in bunkers. Advanced players must be adept at this difficult shot – this drill teaches the adjustments needed to blast out a ball that's deeply embedded in sand.