Golf Practice Drills-Your Feet

Balance and rhythm within a golf swing is tantamount to consistency and successful golf shots.

As you know by now the golf swing certainly is not about applying brute force.

With that in mind let’s look a simple yet very effective golf practice drills that will help you promote rhythm and balance in your golf swing. This is one of the most popular drills because it is so easy and effective. And it’s one you can use to warm up or even stay loose.

Golf Practice Drills – Feet Together Drill

Keeping your feet together (or very close to it) practice hitting a ball that is teed up. Swing very slowly at first thinking of a pendulum on a clock.

Focused on rhythm and timing and solid contact (distance is of no concern here). Just focus on a smooth back and forth – to and fro motion and making good contact. Once you are able to consistently make good contact with a consistent rhythm and motion, move the ball off the tee and onto the grass and continue to work the drill.

As you progress with golf practice drills and become more comfortable with your rhythm, balance, and timing you may be surprised at just how far the ball will travel with such an apparent lack of effort… good!

This is what I want. You’ll begin to see that it’s all about rhythm, timing and balance.

The net benefit of this golf practice drill is to improve your timing along with your balance and rhythm. This drill will also reduce the amount of swaying within your golf swing (a very common fault among beginners and high handicappers). This is accomplished via this drill by creating a narrow balance point with your feet so close together.

This is a great drill to always remember and to keep in your tool kit. During those times when your swing has seemed to have left you (it happens to everyone) you can break this drill out and actually can regain your apparent lost rhythm and timing. Even during your round of golf.

And believe me, once you begin to get your rhythm and timing back, a little thing call confidence won’t be far behind.

The feet together golf practice drills – a great drill to either learn or get back rhythm, timing, and balance. A drill you can break out as an on the fly fix at any time. A drill that can actually correct and even prevent many swing faults.

So, keep this drill handy and use it often.

Golf Swing Help

I want to talk briefly about getting some golf swing help for you. Golf swing fixes, cures, how to correct trouble and all that.

I debated with myself as to where to include this in our lessons.

Certainly much could be discussed later on in this course.

However, I wanted to at least pause for a moment at this point and discuss golf swing fixes in the context to what we have learned thus far.

If you haven’t taken a look at the 9 rules of ball flight, you’ll want to do that before reading ahead here.

For the purpose of our discussion here on golf swing help, I want to go over with you how to get your golf swing back on track in the early stages of your learning curve.

First and foremost if you begin to struggle with your swing and the results thereof, take a step back and review your grip, stance and alignment, and what your swing path is doing. Especially early on, reviewing these golf swing elements along with revisiting your practice drills will get you back on track.

Probably the biggest hurdle for golfers at this level to get over is the ‘patience with one’s self’ hurdle. When you’re fist learning it is incredibly important to give yourself time and stick to the concepts and drills outlined.

Along with the patience factor, there is the confidence factor. Anytime you are learning a new physical skill, the mechanics of it are going to feel awkward and funny (as in strange). This will hold doubly true if you are trying also to correct some bad habits in your swing that have, over time, become a part of your golf swing. The difficult aspect about the golf swing for all of us is that one gets to experience the results of their efforts immediately; and if they’re a bit on the ugly side it gets to your confidence.

A great many problems that have people working on golf swing fixes stem from a loss of confidence in their swing. Getting back to some basics and repetitively working on drills will do much to get your confidence back. Whether it’s solving problems or first learning the golf swing, solving problems can be a lot like losing weight; in that it sure seems a lot easier putting the extra .lbs on than it does taking them off. The point being, don’t expect immediate results. Once you determine the problem and learn the fix, you’ll need time, patience, and practice to right the ship.

If you feel as though you aren’t making headway, don’t just haphazardly look for a fix for your golf swing trying this and that. This is not a solution and will only make your frustration level rise, your confidence drop, and your interest in the game evaporate.

Don’t allow this to happen.

Simply get some golf swing help from your local golf professional. Everyone working to improve their game (at all levels) takes occasional lessons.

In summary, do some self diagnostics on your swing, get back to basics, apply them through repetitive drills and practice drills, but if you get stuck trying to fix your golf swing then seek additional help.

We all do the same, and so should you.

Golf Lessons-Getting The Most

In our last segment we talked about strategies to fix your golf swing when a problem arises with your golf swing. First needing to recognize the problem, and then identifying the cause of the problem itself.

Also, I mentioned that if you get stuck and can’t seem to break away from your swing problem that you should seek out your local pro and schedule a set of golf lessons.

Because the last thing you want to be doing is going to driving range and trying everything under sun, hitting ball after ball only to frustrate yourself and accomplish little to nothing when comes to fixing your golf swing.

Essentially, what I am getting at here is that you need to know when to take golf lessons for an ailing golf swing.

Today, I want to go over a few thoughts to help you get the most out of your golf lesson with your pro.

First of all (especially if this is your first lesson) narrow down the scope of your lesson.

In other words, only have a couple of aspects of your golf swing that you want to address and learn about. If you’ve decided to take a lesson, it’s probably to correct a chronic problem, get to the next level on something you’ve been working on, or to begin learning something new. Of these, it’s important that you communicate your purpose to your instructor. And probably the most important aspect is to follow up your lesson by practicing (note that I did not say playing).

If you don’t already have a teaching pro that you are comfortable with, this is the first step. You’ll want to find a pro that listens to your goals and what you want to accomplish.

People learn and people teach in different ways and it is important to find a good match for yourself in that you have to trust in the teachings. In other words, it’s best to find a golf pro whose teaching style matches your learning style.

Don’t have unrealistic expectations and believe that you are going to get immediate results. The golf swing is a very complex physical movement that is even more difficult to replicate on a consistent basis. No matter what sort changes you’ve discussed with your teaching professional, know that it will take some time and probably a good bit of practice to get them ingrained into your swing.

I can tell you from experience that it is the practicing part that gets slighted or left out completely. You’re reading this probably because you want your golf game to improve, so I can be honest with you in saying; that if you don’t put forth the effort by practicing, and you expect the golf lessons from your pro to go with you straight to the first tee, you’re doing yourself and the money you paid for the lesson a disservice.

Don’t be put off by the thought of practicing your burgeoning golf game.

Remember it is practice that makes permanent; and trying to just play your way to a better golf game rarely works.

At best it’s incredibly inefficient.

And besides, everyone at every level of the game of golf if they are serious about their game practices.

Coming up I’m going give you something tips on how to get the most out of your practice and driving range time and some fun doing so.

Golf Tips: Getting Your Game To The Course II

Golf is like any other physical or athletic activity. The old adage that you play like you practice many times hold true.

Let’s take a look at a simple golf practice drill that can help your game make the transition from the driving range to the golf course.

First of all, change your targets frequently.

Think about it.

When you are on the course you rarely hit back to back shots from the same distance (if you do, then your swing needs more general work).

Start with your driver and hit it.

Then, for example, imagine that you are 180 yards from the tee. Pick out a target, select your club, and execute the next shot. If you miss hit your approach, then imagine you are just off the green in need of executing a pitch shot… and so forth.

This type of practice drill will better emulate what happens while your are play a round of golf and it adds that little bit of extra pressure on your swing when you only have one chance to make a particular shot. This is more of what occurs during an actual round of golf.

When you are on the practice tee and going through this simulated round golf practice drill, don’t forget to include your pre-shot routine.

If you don’t think you have one, then begin to develop one and use it before each shot.

This is an area that is grossly overlooked by golfers when they are practicing their various golf shots.

If you don’t include your pre-shot routine in your practice drills then you will have a different rhythm on the course than you do on the practice tee and you will most likely produce different results. Remember we want consistency.

Getting your golf swing and golf game from the driving range to the course is a natural trouble area for most all of us. But, if you remember that you play like you practice, then making the transition will be much less of a chore.

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