Practise.Practise.Practise.

ciaran_m

I don't know if there's a thread already like this one, but when you have some spare time, what part of your golf game do you tend to practise?

Are you the person practising the most awkward chip shots you can find or the person bashing balls down at the range?

I prefer to practise chipping, earlier today I played 18 holes, then spent 3 hours practising chipping, flop shots and bunker shots.
What do you do?

GreeBo

lots of good stuff here

TheDoc

I actually have slacked of major on my practice. Must get back into it, hitting the range once or twice a week. Normally depends on my current form.

I'd say I need some practice with my 3 wood and rescue, as I'm not hitting them properly at all lately.

My normal routine would be some 8/7 iron's to just fine tune my irons, and alot of P-Wedges and Gap wedges. After doing some stat tracking last year I found out that the vast majority of second shots into par 4's for me was from within 125 yards. So I've been working on them alot, and coupled with buying some proper wedges, have noticed a big improvement in terms of scoring. Not only am I really confident I'll hold a green, I'm getting the ball close to make birdies, which was something lacking from my rounds last year, making birdies.

levitronix

Just bought two all day practice passes for the gui academy , going to do a lot of practice over the next few weeks if i had good practice faicilties at my club id practice over playing 9 holes any day

chuckyarelaw

*Practice

charlieIRL

chuckyarelaw wrote: »

*Practice

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ssbob

I prefer to play golf when I have time so if I have a spare hour I try play 4/5 holes, prob be better off just practicing chipping/pitching but don't enjoy that!

ciaran_m

ssbob wrote: »

I prefer to play golf when I have time so if I have a spare hour I try play 4/5 holes, prob be better off just practicing chipping/pitching but don't enjoy that!

Chipping and pitching is much more enjoyable if your doing it with a friend. When myself and my friends do it we make a little competition out of it. We throw a ball down in different spots around the green and see who can get it up and down or who can chip it closer. Whoever chips it closest gets a point, we play first to 10 points.

GreeBo

ciaran_m wrote: »

Chipping and pitching is much more enjoyable if your doing it with a friend. When myself and my friends do it we make a little competition out of it. We throw a ball down in different spots around the green and see who can get it up and down or who can chip it closer. Whoever chips it closest gets a point, we play first to 10 points.

Golf is also much more enjoyable when you are pitching and chipping well

WHIP IT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgHb_OSUHFc

Thought this was a good one for lag putting... anyone else have any other good ones for putting? (he asked, after three-putting three times on the back-nine today )

realgolfgeek

WHIP IT! wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgHb_OSUHFc

Thought this was a good one for lag putting... anyone else have any other good ones for putting? (he asked, after three-putting three times on the back-nine today )

Personally think this is an awful drill.

I want to be aiming for something that is not going to stop my ball if I overhit it, that way I can tell how much further my ball would have gone and be able to judge my pace better.
If he had hit the club on the ground with any pace, how does he know if the ball was going to go past it by 4 feet, 6 feet, maybe 10 feet by ?

hades

WHIP IT! wrote: »

anyone else have any other good ones for putting?

The putting drills i use are

1 -
You take three 3ft putts, three 12ft putts and three 30ft putts. The par for the game is 15, going on the way that you should hole out the 3 footers and 2 putt everything else.

The key here is not to do the putts from the same place and to mix it up. I generally pick a hole on the practice green and pace out the 30ft, finish that out. Then pace the 12ft in a different direction etc. And the for the next round, i always pick a different hole.

2 -
Eight putts of 5ft. I usually do 4 to one hole, set up so that the balls are in a cross pattern, or at 12, 3, 6 and 9 if looking at a clock. And then i do 4 balls to another hole.

This is a very common practice method, with people varying the distance from 3ft to 5 ft.

These 2 drills have helped me immensely in the last few months.

Sipper

Here is a good one I use for bunker practice. It gives me good feedback if I am doing it correctly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDhAvFFL5VM

ciaran_m

Does anyone have some good tips for reading the break on greens?

ShivasIrons

ciaran_m wrote: »

Does anyone have some good tips for reading the break on greens?

Roll balls, if you could empty a bucket of water on the greens and see where the water flows.

The Aimpoint system is very good, uses the feet to feel the break.

ssbob

ciaran_m wrote: »

Does anyone have some good tips for reading the break on greens?

Be focused 100% of the time:

1. Make sure you ask around about a new course before you go there, lots of courses always break towards one side of the course(Mallow for instance towards the river)
2. As you are walking up to greens look at them
3. Use your feet to feel the break as you are walking over them
4. watch your playing partners chips/putts

GreeBo

ciaran_m wrote: »

Does anyone have some good tips for reading the break on greens?

find the local low parts, the ball will always want to go there.
a good way to find them is walk with your eyes closed...easy way to determine uphill versus downhill.