Practice Routines

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By Greg K

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  1. Greg K

    Greg K
    Saint Robert, MO

    Military
    I have the ability to practice maybe two hours per day; one hour before and after work. With this much time, what kind of practice routines has everyone found successful? I usually have a tail of two nines; maybe 3-4 over on one side and even-two under on the other side. I'm usually around mid-upper 70s. So, what type of actovoties has worked?
  2. I usually putt, hit some bunker shots, flops, chips...play around the green first. Then, I'll slowly work my way up through the bag. I'm very confident with my long irons/woods, so, most of my time is devoted to my short game. Sometimes, I'll "play a few holes in my mind", while I'm practicing. 

  3. Matthew P

    Matthew P
    Spring, TX

    what are your stats ? for example how many putts, FIR,GIF, etc??? 

  4. AJAR

    AJAR
    Portland, OR

    Your game is a lot better than mine so my plan is to practice as many up and down scenarios as possible. Long bump and runs, chipping over bunkers and downhill lies out of bunkers. 

  5. Greg K

    Greg K
    Saint Robert, MO

    Military

    I recently began keeping the stats on FIR, GIR, PUTTS, and Up/Downs.  I recently added a 60 degree wedge to the bag in order to get the ball closer to the hole on the up/downs.  I was having the ball run too much causing difficult par putts when missing the green.  Putting has been an issue too.  If I have 5 bogeys a round, that means I have probably two three putts.  I have been focusing a lot on putting lately too; trying to make sure I make those 4-5 footers.  My iron game has improved a lot in the last few weeks too resulting in about 2-4 birdies a round.  That's what keeps me in the middle to low 70s.  My goal is to shoot in the 60s by the end of this year!

  6. John L

    John L
    Dewey, OK

    work putting and short game in the morning. keep to inside 50 yards. Putting start simple with gate drills work on your tempo. then move to distance puts (ie. 5,7,10ft) puts. you can do some 15 20 footers as well but focuse on tempo and getting that ball on line. do short game. chips, pitches and some flops. same mentality start close to the green and work your way back. put a bunker between you and the flag. and not just directly between you. get off to the side where maybe you  hitting slightly across the right or left edge of a trap. look for diffrent situations that might provide an optical illusion for more advanced practice. Afternoon sesion work the bag. start short irons and work your way to the big dawg. again its all about rythem tempo and good contact. after that pick targets and hit diffrent types of shots. and don't settle for 8 iron to the 150 marker. work hitting a 6 or 7 to the 150. work on knock downs. we've all played on windy days and if you dont have a good knock down game you may aswell hang it up.

    cheers greeens and fairways 

    simba

  7. Fred Closs

    Fred Closs
    Denton, TX

    The key is you are practicing and what John L. suggested makes sense. However, it might be a good idea to practice most with the clubs you use most often. For example, if you shoot 75, miss 5 greens, have 31 putts, 3 pitches, 2 chips, 3 fairway wood shots and 22 iron shots, you'll find 41% of your shots are putts and 49% are putts, chips and pitches. 33.3% are full fairway wood/iron shots and 18.7% are driver swings, it might behoove you to spend at least 55% of you practice time on the short game, 30% on iron and wood shots, and only 15% driver swings. You could break it down further and let's say, you have 2 hours to practice daily, you might want to spend 45 minutes putting, 10 minutes chipping, 5 minutes on pitch shots, 40 minutes on irons/fairway woods and 20 minutes with your driver. To break the monotony, you could break up the 10 hours practice time per week and spend 3 days on putting, chipping and pitching and 2 days on irons, wood and driver shots.

  8. Gabe B

    Gabe B
    Sioux City, Iowa

    Greg,

     

    It is nice to hear that you have the time to practice and I think the best way to take advantage of that time is to work hard on your short game. I tell my students to work 3/4 of the time on putting and chipping. It is important to maintain a long swing so use some of the 1/4 of the time to hit balls and work on the long game.

     

    One of the things that I found to be very helpful was to play the course on the range with the long game and then recreate some of the shots with the short game and putting. If you don't have the time to play this is a pretty good way of getting your game in shape.

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