Practice & Drills

What to do with range time so it changes something, plus practice you can do at home.

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Golf Drills: How to Pick Ones That Actually Change Something

There are thousands of golf drills and almost nobody needs more than four at a time. The problem was never the supply of drills, it was picking the right ones and sticking with them.

11 min read

Beginner

Are Golf Lessons Worth It? An Honest Answer

Lessons are the highest-return spend in golf and the first thing people cut. They are also genuinely wasted by a large number of golfers, and the difference is entirely in how they are used.

10 min read

Beginner

Chipping Drills That Actually Lower Your Score

Chipping is the cheapest place in golf to find shots, and the easiest to practise badly. A drill without a number attached is just hitting balls at a green.

10 min read

Beginner

How Long Does It Take to Get Good at Golf? An Honest Look

Every answer to this question online is a number somebody made up. What can be described honestly is the order things improve in, and which of the variables are yours to control.

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Beginner

How to Practise Golf at Home: What Actually Transfers

Home practice has one enormous advantage over the range and one serious blind spot. Knowing which skills fall on each side of that line is the whole game.

10 min read

Beginner

Practising With a Golf Net: Space, Safety and Feedback

A net is the cheapest way to swing a club every day and the only practice gear you own with a failure mode involving a ball coming back at you. Both halves of that deserve planning.

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Intermediate

Driving Range Practice Routine: How to Structure a Bucket

The default range session is sixty balls at one target with a driver, and it is the reason so much practice produces no visible change on a Saturday morning.

12 min read

Intermediate

Golf Swing Drills: Takeaway to Impact, With Reps

There are more golf drills on the internet than there are golfers, and most of them are missing the only two things that make a drill work: a fault it addresses and a number attached.

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Intermediate

How to Practice Golf Effectively: A Real Plan

Most range sessions are a warm-up repeated sixty times. The practice that changes your scorecard looks worse while you are doing it and holds up when it matters.

11 min read