7 Things You Should Never Do At The Driving Range

Too many amateur golfers don't spend time coming to the driving range but unfortunately when they do

they don't do the things correctly to actually help them with their golf

So in today's video we're going to go into seven things you should never do

when you're working on your game on the range. Right unfortunately too many times people come to the driving range without a plan they're just

hitting balls without any thought or care and what's the first thing they normally go for

straight for the driver banging balls down there hoping they're going to get better

I want you to go to the driving range with a plan. You need to have a good idea of what you are doing

that day. Are you actually playing golf on the range by going through some different shots? Are

you actually working on your golf swing? So actually playing golf swing, whatever you are

make a plan and actually stick to it. You can have some fun at the end of the driving range

by hitting some drivers but if you're working on your swing, work on your swing

do you think i got better no absolutely not but sadly so many golfers practice this machine gun

of actually just hitting shot after shot after shot and not getting better at all so this is what

i don't want you to do what i do want you to do is actually play golf as much as you can and what

i mean by that is golf is a very unique game where actually less is more where it's practiced in a way

sadly where what we do is we hit more shots unfortunately scoring wise we're trying to do

something less so I like to take a lot of time when I'm on the driving range not just machine

gunning through balls but actually just doing what I call a three ball drill where I take three balls

out and I want to make sure that these three balls have my full quality attention at each and every

shot I'm going to walk away go through my routine whatever I'm working on in my swing I'm making

making sure my full attention is on these shots. Sadly, not a lot of golfers actually take the time

to record their swing when they're on the driving range. They rely so much more on feel as opposed to actually what is actually happening I don like that I want some real evidence of what I doing So I going to set my camera up just in slow motion I just going to put it on a tripod and what I going to do is just press record and film just a few shots from

straight down the line. Now getting the camera angles correct is massively important. So I like

to have it very consistently, have the camera about belt height and I want to make sure when

you're shooting a down the line shot like this that the camera is pointing straight through my

hands to the target depending on what you're working on if the camera's to the left or right

the shot can actually make you look better or worse than you actually are so just keep it very

consistent point the camera straight to the hands and if you're doing one face on do exactly the

same thing get the camera pointing straight at the hands and just step back enough if you can

so you can see the entire swing throughout. But just click it on slow motion, hit a few shots

and actually then take some time to go through and see if you're doing what you actually think you're doing

OK, so I'm hitting it like a bit of a donkey on the driving range, but actually it's OK

because this is a safe space to actually work on your game. of course I want to get good I want to get better and I want to be able to take it onto the golf

course but when you're on the driving range and you're actually working on your swing take the

time to work on your swing too many times I see golfers just pretty much just showing off to their

friends making these good strikes looking good but if you're working on your swing work on your

swing if you're working on a technique you are trying to change a movement pattern and it doesn't

need to be perfect. What I want the end result to be obviously is to be good. We want the long-term

goal to get better, but it's okay to enjoy that journey, enjoy those bad shots, and actually just

cut yourself a bit of slack. You're on the driving range, it doesn't really matter, but you want to

get better long-term, so just enjoy it. So clubface really is key when it comes to actually being able

to control the golf ball so don neglect clubface control drills And one of my favorite and it one of the best drills I think you can do on the driving range is actually on purpose do some slow swings and really just pay

attention to where the clubface is and how you're actually going to open and close it and what I

want you to do is actually hit three balls where the first one you're going to hit as far left as

you possibly can so I want you to set up perfectly normally aiming dead straight to start with but I

just want you to make a slower swing and just pay attention to how you're closing the clubface down

to hit it left and I want this thing to go miles left so let's hit one just aim straight but really

get this feeling of turning that clubface over and you can see that thing has gone miles left

Now most people will think you're really bad on the driving range but actually you meant to do it

it was an intention so that's fine but now I want you to do the opposite now I want you to actually

feel what does it feel like to open that club face up on demand so what I want you to do is just take

your normal setup really feel what it feels like to have that club face open and hit it miles to the

right. Wow I mean that one went off the driving range but you can see I've got a good clear

understanding of what it takes and what it feels like to close the face what it feels like to open

the face. Now hopefully you can understand if you can experience both ends of the spectrum you can

find the middle ground. With this one, I just want to aim straight, get that club face going

straight at the middle and trap that middle ground. Best shot of it all day

So don't rely on feedback when you're working on distance control. And what I mean by that is I see

so many golfers actually aiming for a target sort of 40, 50 yards away. They hit the first one long

they get the second one short and then they normally get the third one bang on. The problem

is golf you don't get that feedback. All that's happened there is your brain is just adjusted to

the two previous shots. It's so important when you're working on distance control it has to be

random. Go to random distances, actually go through your routine but if you're working on swing that's

fine Work on swing It okay to hit shot after shot to the same distance but that a totally different practice session when you working on distance control really work on distance control so here all i

want to do is i've got a random target i'm going to make sure that i go through my routine behind

the ball first of all do a nice kind of feel swing really just trying to gauge the distance

in my own head do a few rehearsal swings getting used to that before going in and pulling the trigger

So right I don't want you to get just good at drills you've got to be able to put it

into the full swing and too many times I see golfers just doing this they're getting so good

at drills and drills are great by the way but it needs to be able to move into your full swing

so you have to mix it up a bit I love to actually take some time to go from drill to full shot drill

to full shot just doing alternate shots getting used to that movement pattern that you're learning

in the drill and then being able to put it into real life into a full swing the other thing that

I love to do is just do the drill and the full swing slowly and get faster and faster and faster

If you can't, if you're not seeing that good new move that you're trying to put in with the drill

at slow speed, there is no chance it's going to happen at full speed. So take your time

go through some drills, whatever the drill that you're working in on, and just make sure that

every time you do it, you take the time to do a full swing and keep mixing it up and get those

drills working for your full swing. So I hope you enjoyed that video of seven things you should not

do next time you go to the driving range and hopefully you learned a few things of what you

should do next time you go and practice. Please make sure you like and subscribe to the Golf

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