10 Best Pre-Season Golf Drills
Get rid of the rust and hit the ground running this season with these must-try, tee to green drills
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Must try tee to green drills to help you play your best golf
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Get rid of the rust and hit the ground running this season with these must-try, tee to green drills
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10 Best Pre-Season Golf Drills
It’s time to dust off the clubs and get your game in shape for the new season – it’s going to be your best yet! Coming back from a break, and often it’s that short game touch that we lose. However, for many amateurs , the whole game can feel a little alien come the start of a new season.
With our selection of the 10 best pre-season golf drills, which cover every area of the game, you’re sure to hit the ground running when you tee it up for the first time – and you’ll be razor sharp in all departments.
So, let’s get rid of the rust.
1 Par 18
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‘Par 18’ will help you to get up-and-down more often this season
The aim of ‘Par 18’ is to turn three shots into two. Take a different club to three different locations, about 15 to 25 yards from the pin. Observe the different flights and how each shot rolls out. Then, go and putt out – that’s all nine balls. This drill links your chipping to your putting, and there’s a consequence. Make sure you record your scores, so you start to add some pressure to your practice sessions. Can you shoot par?
2 Bunker Basics
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It’s easy to forget the bunker basics after a period of not playing [Image credit: Tom Miles]
3 Hybrid Coin Drill
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This simple drill can work wonders for your long game [Image credit: Tom Miles]
4 Centred Ball-Striking
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Your confidence with the driver will increase when you start finding the centre of the clubface
This drill helps golfers to understand how the angle of attack affects the strike – and it can prove really effective in getting your ball striking quality back after a layoff. It will test to see whether you can adjust your attack angle for each of the three shots above (low tee, mid tee, high tee).
That angle of attack will be steeper for the ball teed low, fairly neutral in the middle, and when pegged up high you’ll be hitting the ball on the up. You should be able to adjust so every shot finds the middle of the clubface.
5 Putting Rhythm
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This simple drill will improve your rhythm on the greens
Firstly, get yourself some alignment sticks before the new season gets underway – they’re fantastic for putting drills. Now, every putt should have the same rhythm, regardless of distance; it’s what we call the 2:1 ration, so if you take two seconds going back, you have a second to hit it. A lot of golfers have too long a backswing and then decelerate, which messes up your speed.
Note how the stick is restricting the length of the backswing. Set up for a ten-foot putt and take your stroke without hitting it. If you can learn to accelerate, you’ll stop leaving so many putts short this season.
6 Strike Drill
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This chipping drill will help the ‘scoopers’ and ‘diggers’ out there [Image credit: Tom Miles]
7 Flamingo Drill
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Start to hole more putts from close range with the ‘flamingo drill’ [Image credit: Tom Miles]
8 Weight Transfer
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All you need is a tennis ball to improve your weight shift [Image credit: Kevin Murray]
9 Power Drill
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This is a super drill for getting you back into the groove and hitting solid, powerful drives [Image credit: Tom Miles]
10 Chalk Drill
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Get yourself some chalk and head to the driving range to improve the quality of your ball striking [Image credit: Tom Miles]
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