Drill Library

Two sticks laid on the ground like railroad tracks separate your body alignment from the target line, so you stop aiming your feet at the flag.

A stick held vertically against your chest gives you an honest look at whether your hands hang naturally under your chin at address.

A stick planted behind you at your address-shaft angle gives instant feedback on whether your takeaway and downswing are tracking the same plane.

Holding the club with all ten fingers, baseball-style, helps you calibrate a relaxed, even grip pressure before settling into your normal grip.

A full-length mirror or glass door lets you see faults in your posture and alignment that are nearly impossible to feel on your own.

Two tees form a narrow gate around the ball — clipping one gives instant feedback on an out-to-in path or an open clubface.

A basket or headcover set just behind the ball physically blocks an over-the-top move, forcing the downswing to drop onto a proper inside path.

A headcover placed just outside and behind the ball trains the club to approach from inside the target line — useful for learning a draw or simply killing a slice.

One headcover outside the ball and one inside create a tight neutral corridor, so clipping either one tells you exactly which path fault is creeping back in.

A towel pinned under both armpits trains your arms and torso to move together, fixing the 'hanging back' or scooping motion behind fat and thin shots.

Hitting balls with your feet together removes your ability to over-rotate or flip your hands through impact, exposing the handsy release that causes hooks.

Starting with your feet together and stepping toward the target as you swing trains proper weight transfer and a lower-body-led downswing.

Swinging a lighter-than-normal club at maximum effort trains your body to move faster than it does with a standard club, raising your overall speed ceiling.

Pumping the club partway down from the top, several times before releasing, trains a hips-first downswing sequence instead of an arms-first cast.

Counting 'one-two-three' on the backswing and 'four' on the downswing programs the roughly 3:1 tempo ratio shared by most repeatable ball-strikers.

Balls placed around a hole like numbers on a clock face force you to adapt your technique to each lie and angle instead of repeating one comfortable chip.

Chipping with only your lead hand on the club prevents the wrist from collapsing or scooping, training crisp, descending contact.

Hitting to a series of graduated distances builds feel for exactly how much backswing and speed each yardage needs.

Using your lead arm's position at address and partway back as reference points builds a repeatable menu of swing lengths mapped to specific carry distances.

Placing a towel on your intended landing spot — not the hole — retrains your focus onto where the ball should land and release, the real skill behind good chipping.

Two tees form a gate just wider than your putter head — clipping either one shows an off-path stroke before it costs you a putt.

A taut string stretched directly over your target line gives continuous visual feedback on whether the ball is actually rolling on-line.

Two coins placed along the curved path of a breaking putt act as intermediate aim points, training you to commit to the full curve rather than aiming straight at the hole.

Putting with only your lead hand removes the over-mechanical, steering tendencies that creep into a two-handed stroke and restores natural touch.

Putting to progressively longer and shorter targets with a consistent rhythm builds the pace judgment behind reliable lag putting.

Drawing a line in the sand behind an imaginary ball trains you to strike the sand at a consistent point instead of the ball itself.

Drawing a foot-sized circle around where the ball sits teaches exactly how much sand a standard splash shot should remove.

Intentionally pressing balls into the sand to create fried-egg lies lets you rehearse the specialised, steep technique a plugged lie demands.

Hitting three bunker shots in a row with a full, half and short finish trains distance control through follow-through length rather than swing speed alone.

A structured routine — assess, pick a target, rehearse with two distinct practice swings, then commit — builds the consistency tour players rely on under pressure.

Mentally splitting every shot into red (danger), amber (manageable miss) and green (ideal target) zones simplifies decision-making and cuts down high-risk choices.

Narrowing your focus from a broad target, like 'the green', down to one small, specific point sharpens concentration and reduces vague, unfocused swings.