hitting balls on the range/practice ground, how do you do yours?

[chris3081]

If you are getting lessons or building a better swing make sure you get a selfie stick off amazon to actually check you are improving. Mirrors are not good enough anymore.

Play drill games like seeing how many target you can hit out of 10 or creating a imaginary fairway and truing to get 10 drives down the fairway with a long iron, 3 wood and driver. If you can find a grass patch practise irons and hybrids from the rough to ensure you still hit target. Just do some genuine drills with small targets.

If you actually make it competitive and pressured range can be brilliant fun.

Then make sure you spend similar time on the putting green doing short game drills again make it fun

 

[m9wst]

I enjoy going to the range but find it gives a false sense of security - i get pretty good at hitting balls on the range off a mat, but take that onto a course in a scoring environment and things are totally different.

I practised fairly hard last year, especially on short game and putting at the golf club rather than a driving range but dont feel it got me anywhere so i think my practice time this year will be more spent on the course playing holes.

Only thing i enjoy doing at the driving range is trying to hit "silly" shots - huge low hooks/cuts, really low punch shots, really high shots etc etc, i find this helps me on the course as i inevitably find myself in a ropey situation needing a minor miracle to get out with a scorecard in tact.

 

[hovis]

i go to the range about 3 times a week for stress relief and to keep flexible as i live for weight lifting and the two don't go hand in hand really. if I've noticed some bad things creeping into my game i also give things a little tweak.

i find range work doesn't really transfer to the course where as short game practice does

 

[ScienceBoy]

I much prefer short game practice areas, been very lucky to have ones just for pitching. Hitting 100 50 yard shots really sharpened my game.

I nearly always had those areas to myself, strange.

Hitting off grass is my preference but one place had 3 "greens" and 5 mats to hit from for 20-50 yard shots.

The other place had three "tee" areas and two greens, like a short 20-60 yard hole.
I wish I had the space to build that at home!

 

[Capella]

I hate hitting balls at the range. Our mats are awful and I find it very very hard to take aim on the range (I normally pop down an alignment stick to help me, otherwise I go nuts ... I don't have that problem on the course or even our very open practice course, which does not offer much to guide the eye either). I do use the range to warm up before a round (only for comps or when I am playing on my own ... the usual weekly round with me mum I don't, because she is the most impatient person ever when it comes to warm-up) and sometimes when I am working on something specific in my full swing (like for example at the moment I am trying to keep the wrist hinge longer and compress the ball more). But even then I normally hit just 25 or at the most 50 balls, which equals a half or full basket from our ball maschine. But most of my practice time I spent on the short game area and the par 3 practice course.

 

[patricks148]

decided to go at Lunchtime and hit a bucket or so..... not an auspicious start .... pretty much shermaned the whole bucket. not had one in some time on a course

 

[ScienceBoy]

decided to go at Lunchtime and hit a bucket or so..... not an auspicious start .... pretty much shermaned the whole bucket. not had one in some time on a course

I've not hit a ball since October, hit a bucket of peaches yesterday, with a touch too much draw at times.

Strange game

 

[patricks148]

I've not hit a ball since October, hit a bucket of peaches yesterday, with a touch too much draw at times.

Strange game

didn't that leave a bit of a mess on the clubs?