How do you like to practice????

PW, 8, 6, 4 iron or PW, 7, 5, 3 iron. 15 balls on each. Then 30 shots practicing less than full swing with the 3 wedges. Putting green for 45 mins to work on chips then 45 mins on putting and then a couple of times round the par 3. That would be my optimum practice session but I don't get the time at the range to do it regularly.
 
I dont like practice much at all unless its a practice round of golf, though I do force myself to practice now and then, but its so boring half the time and the other half is more boring. Practice on the course is much more fun.
 
you all should read:

Every Shot Must Have a Purpose

It covers how you need to practise as though you are really playing on the course. This helps stop the usual mental excuse of 'but I hit it great on the range'.
It has a few great practice drills that you can do with 54 balls at the range. Each one a different type of shot that has to be hit as though you would do on the course with full pre-shot routine.
Highly recommended book, certainly mixes practice up - one of the tasks of the 54 ball practice is to play a few shots by turning the club over and doing it left handed! Very funny to try!
On the accompanying web site you can also get some little score pads for the 54 shot challenge so you can keep track of how you do and set yourself little challenges:
Vision 54

The peeps use to teach Annika Sorenstam so I guess they know what they are talking about :)

Cheers
Nick
 
Do any of the compulsive "range rats" ever just go there to have a bit of fun?? No pre shot routines, no drills, no visualisation....just a bit of fun.

Isn't it compulsory for everyone to hit balls at the range wardern when he is scooping balls in his little truck??

Isn't at least one "Happy Gilmore" swing a pre requisite for every range session??

And trying to hit one out the back of the range is a given surely??
 
Of course hitting the guy in the buggy is mandatory as is trying to put it into the next county over the top of the net. Try a happy gilmore swing once and was in traction for a week. Its not all about being Faldoesque in intensity and is always good to have a bit of fun otherwise it would almost become a punishment and not something to be enjoyed
 
I went to the Algarve a few years ago with 6 non golfers (HID included) we decided to have a bit of fun on the Butch Harmon driving range.....the groups attention span was about 5 minutes until i showed them how to hit big hooks and slices into the building sites on either side!!!!
i couldn't get any of them off the range then!!!!!.....they were even buyng loads more balls to do it!!!!

Needless to say the builders wasn't overjoyed at our visit!!!
 
Generally speaking, I can't stand range practice, and have to really disipline myself to focus on a productive session. I suffer from a very short attention span!

I try to never hit more than a few shots at a time with any one club, unless I'm working on something specific. You'd never use the same club on two succesive shots on the course, well, not normally!

I enjoy the short game practice at the pitching and chipping area of the club, and going round the 9 hole par 3, where it's normally quiet enough to have a few attempts at things.

Come the lighter evenings, I'll chuck up a net in the garden, and start to get a feel of things. Short regular practice laced with the odd lesson, and maybe the odd product evaluation!

Otherwise, ranges are just expensive down here.
 
I do enjoy practice but I find that I hit each shot well. What I need is a practice routine that somehow adds pressure - a similar pressure to that felt in a competitive round. I know that such things exist in putting practice but does anyone know of anything similar when hitting driver/3 wood/5 iron/wedge at the range/practice ground??
 
How do you like to practice???
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I actually dont like to practise unless its on the course or i am doing a set routine with a mate as i loose concentration.

I see on course practise as the way forward as you get a feel for a round, can try different shots in a proper setting and i helps with course management.
 
managed to finish early enough to get to the range last night - probably not that good an idea as I still have this damned heavy cold and possibly a chest infection.

anyway, thought I would try to use a bit of self-discipline, 10 balls each club, starting at the bottom. working quite well, a lot more straight then not. going quite well until I started tightening up after 75 or so then a bit more wayward with the 5 and more so the 4-i. a few minutes break settled the hybrid down, (a couple loose to the right) and fairly good with the 5-w (unusual that).

then the new doggie, started dead straight then began to pull/hook for a few, got it straightened out again - I'm also working on the new stance which is still feeling a little odd. only lost one out to the right which was the old nemesis.

not sure how good a way to practice this is, and next time I'll start top down but it was nice to see the majority splitting the range boards. still nothing beats getting out on a course.
 
I did a Happy Gilmore with my new Callaway C4 driver a few years ago, the head snapped off, needless to say I haven't tried it since. Probably the best thing for that driver though what a heap of junk that was.
 
Do any of the compulsive "range rats" ever just go there to have a bit of fun?? No pre shot routines, no drills, no visualisation....just a bit of fun.

And trying to hit one out the back of the range is a given surely??
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I have fun sometimes....especially when I take a lob wedge.
As for reaching the end....no-one can reach the end of our range. If I go to the other range though, I'm always trying to sneak a drive or two under the fence at the end. It's only 185 yards long :)
 
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