Good golf drills?

Question

what are some good golf drills to practice chipping and putting?

what about drills for driving? drills for using irons?

Answer 1

The best golf drill is: see your local pro.

Answer 2

For chipping and putting I use three balls. I throw all three in the rough, pitch on the green and try to make the putt. KISS, keep it simple stupid.

For iron drills, after I am warmed up, I try to hit a different club to a different flag on every shot. Start over on every shot, line yourself up, go through you pre-shot routine and finish your swing balanced, hold it until the ball lands.

Good driver drills are hard to come by. After I am good and warmed up, I like to just kill the ball, I mean hit it as hard as I can. At this point I am checking for major misses, am I slicing, hooking, too high, low? After I kill 10 balls, I try to hit at 80-90% and focus on a very small target, again, focus on starting over on every shot, pre-shot routine, finish high and balanced, until the ball lands.

Any drill that puts you in a playing situation is a good drill. Take your time when you are practicing, don’t machine gun balls, at the range.

Play closest to the pin for $1 with a buddy, try to simulate pressure.

Answer 3

Chipping:  Place a small towel on the green and try to land the ball there every time.

Putting:  Practice lag putts;  putt from one side of the green and try to stop the ball right at the fringe on the other side.

Driving:  Experiment with different tee heights to find your sweetspot.

Irons:  Start with feet together, behind the ball and stride into the swing to feel proper weight shift.

Answer 4

The short game drills...absolutely love them.  Here's a good putting drill for you: Take 6 to 8 balls to a putting green and find a hole that has level ground surrounding it....make sure the putt is dead straight.  Take the 6 to 8 balls and put them in a circle all around the hole.  Practice going around the clock making all the balls.  If you miss one...start over.  Once you can make all the putts from say 3 feet move back another 3 feet and start the whole process again.  Once you can do that find a hole that has a gradual break in the putt.   Set up the balls at 3 feet away and start the whole process again.  Then master that and move back 3 feet so you're now looking at a 6 foot breaking putt.   Move back each time you can sink all the balls.  Now onto chipping...if the driving range has a chipping green you're golden. ...drop about 15 to 20 balls in a location...walk up to the putting green and survey the green to which you will be chipping to and pick a spot where if you landed the ball there it would release to the hole...place a towel on the ground directly on the spot...now go back to your chipping location and practice hitting the balls to that spot and see if the balls end close the hole...if they come up short then move the towel closer to the pin and start over again.   You can do the same thing with pitching the ball...If you have a close friend who also plays golf...the two of you can play little short game drills/games....like you pick a spot in the rough or a bad lie and verbally say how far away from the pin the ball will end up and try to get it there....if you succeed then you get a point...your friend then has to either get inside of you or match your distance to get a point....you can set a limit say 7 points wins the game....if he doesn't beat you or match you on that location you keep your position as #1...if he does match or beat you he chooses the next position and hits first....so on and so forth....you can do the same thing for putting too and also practicing your sand shots too...Good luck man..

Answer 5

Really just make sure you have the technique sorted and the practice, practice and practice some more.  You can play little games for chipping and putting to introduce a challenge into your practice.

Training can be monotonous, but it is the only way to improve.

Just find something you find fun and exciting and include that into your practice

Answer 6

Besides lots of practice on all of them, the best drills that i find the most effective are as such:

Drives- Accuracy, pick a target about 10 feet in front of you that you wanna hit your ball directly over.  Then pick a target about 300-400 yards away depending on how far you hit it, and line up the first target and the second target in a straight line.  Then, make sure you swing towards the target further away, and compensate for any side spin tendencies.

Drives- Power, work on shoulder turn, core excersises, and overall ball-striking.

Irons- accuracy, the towel or object under the armpit works great.  Also, practice working the ball both ways to a target, first draw, then fade, then straight and so on.

Chipping- never decelerate.  This creates mishits.  Just concentrate on picking a spot to land the ball, and hitting it solid.  As for spin goes, experiment with ball position with regards to stance, lie, club angle, bounce and so on...  Work on trying to predict the spin of your ball, and practice playing all types of spin.  I like to predict the shot on the practice greens and then try to hit it.

Putting- the most important part of the game.  Practice keeping your head as still as possible by picking a spot just in front of your ball to place your eyes.  When you strike the ball, make sure your eyes never move from that spot.  Also, work on ball contact and speed by aiming for places beyond the actual hole.  The ball can never go in if it doesnt get there.

PRACTICE!!!

Answer 7

A swimming noodle under the right armpit (if you're right handed). Take swings with any club. When the club makes contact with the noodle, that is your "full" backswing. The more flexibility exercises that you do, will lengthen your backswing with coil. Don't over swing. Try it...it works. Just ask J B Holmes.