How much do you spend on practice?

I took out our clubs winter membership to the golf studio. Cost me £150 and you get 5 hours per week on Trackman for it. It had been running since November (ends at the end of March) but I didn't take it out till 3 weeks ago and still got charged full price. Still a decent deal though, if I used all 5 hours every week it would have worked out at £3 per hour for Trackman. I'm trying to get there twice a week and I book it in 2 hour slots so I'm using 4 hours a week, which is more than the 0 hours per week practice I've had for the last 4 years.

I'm going to stop using my left dash balls though, I got a new one out when I first went and after those 8 hours it's scuffed to bits and unusable for course play.
 
If there's time, I'll have a few putts before going to the first tee.
If I'm 20 minutes early, I might have time for a few chips.
That's chipping the ball onto the green. Eating chips might be done after the game.
 
Another one who rarely goes to a range so I would put my spend at £10-15 per year. If part of my game needs work I'll go out on the course and practice the issue there. I don't mean hitting from the same spot repeatedly, just go when it's quiet, hit two balls, hit the shot I need to practice whether it's applicable or not. As long as I'm not holding anyone up, I never am, all's good. I find this works better for me than going to a range
 
I have a range card at mine which is a £50 top up minimum. Realistically, that's about 5 visits. Sometimes that can be in a month, but during the summer, I don't go much at all. Let's estimate mine at £25/m
 
Virtually nothing.

I stopped most of my practicing when they converted the practice ground to a range.

I dread to think what the cost would add up to if I was to practice to the extent I did 20 years ago.
I used to hit around 1000 balls a week just on short iron practice alone.
 
In the winter I have good intentions of getting to the range once a week.
Life gets in the way too much. Bad weather too so at best it's every fortnight.
When I go its usually a group of us so it's fun to work on our games collectively.
Other times we play games like trying to shape the ball etc.

The range converted to trackman range this year. Whilst it's fun it's also £9 for 90 balls.
It used to be a 5er for 110. Given the choice I'd go back to them days.

Once the weather improves I won't darken the door of the range till next autumn. All practice will be done at the course.
 
I have always used the practice ground at the club so very little!
I don’t like driving ranges.
I practice my short game more than anything else.

To many people smashing driver on ranges when short game practice would bring their handicap down more imo.😉
 
clubchamp98 said:
I have always used the practice ground at the club so very little!
I don’t like driving ranges.
I practice my short game more than anything else.

To many people smashing driver on ranges when short game practice would bring their handicap down more imo.😉
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Exactly this for me, driving doesn’t cost me that many shots.

So practice for me is the short game area, chipping green and practice bunkers.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Another one who rarely goes to a range so I would put my spend at £10-15 per year. If part of my game needs work I'll go out on the course and practice the issue there. I don't mean hitting from the same spot repeatedly, just go when it's quiet, hit two balls, hit the shot I need to practice whether it's applicable or not. As long as I'm not holding anyone up, I never am, all's good. I find this works better for me than going to a range
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I do exactly the same, I find the variety of conditions out on the course more beneficial.

At the moment however, I am trying to introduce a small change to my swing and I have without a doubt become a range rat. Hopefully the constant repetitions will see it embedded sooner rather than later.

And this is costing me about £20 a month.
 
Orikoru said:
Until about two or three years ago I didn't bother practicing much as I was improving just be playing regularly - but then of course I hit a bit of a glass ceiling where I needed to start working on it.

I typically go to the local range on a Tuesday lunchtime (work from home Tuesdays), which is £4.50 for 50 balls. On Thursday nights I used to play football, my wife would have her best friend round for the evening - my football group has died out now, so I was thinking to keep the same arrangement and go to my nearest Trackman range instead. It's £12 for 100 balls there, which I can take my time over, spend an hour and half ish there.

But when you add it all up it's a lot steeper than you realise. £16.50 a week is £858 a year on practicing - some people's actual memberships aren't that much! Over 70 quid a month in practice sounds insane tbh. But people will say you need to be practicing twice a week to really improve. (Granted my football worked out a bit less than a fiver a week, so I can deduct that I suppose.)

I don't really have the option of practicing at my club, they have a hitting area that you use your own balls for, and a putting green, that's about it. Maybe in the longest nights of summer I could get out and do nine holes on those Thursdays nights between 8 and 9pm but that feels a long way away right now.

How much do you all spend just practice? Is £70 a month something you'd be willing to put in to get better at golf?
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Do you enjoy going to the range ? If you enjoy it then 70 quid a month is peanuts, most people spend more on takeaway coffee. If you don’t enjoy it then it’s probably not worth you going. Practice because you want to not because you feel you have to
 
Parsaregood said:
Do you enjoy going to the range ? If you enjoy it then 70 quid a month is peanuts, most people spend more on takeaway coffee. If you don’t enjoy it then it’s probably not worth you going. Practice because you want to not because you feel you have to
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I do enjoy it but it's also not really peanuts, it's a noteworthy expense. For context, I currently have less than £100 in my account and payday is over two weeks away. 😂😬
 
Going to the range can be an expensive pursuit these days. There's no doubt about that.
Without a free area to hit at your club the days of pounding balls every day isn't financially within everyone means.

This isn't a modern problem. Many of the best players of today and the past encountered this issue.

Finau hit balls into a mattress in his garage. Seve hit balls at the beach.
Some guys had to caddy all day in the hope they could hit some balls in the evening.

If you want it enough you can find a way.

We are lucky these days with modern technology that anyone with a half decent phone can see in super slow motion what they are doing in their swing. Times gone by guys where literally taking photos or using grainy film to see what was happening in their swing.
Now anyone can see exactly whats happening in their swing and what the face is doing in glorious 4k.

Making swing changes is best achieved in slow motion. Feeling the positions you want to hit and training your body over and over to repeat the action. This can be done anywhere. In front of a mirror at home. Infront of a window. This is the home work that can be done before taking the new move to the range to see how it works in a setting that costs money before taking it to the course.
You can do 100s of repetitions before even hitting a ball.
The beauty of this approach is 3 fold.
1. It's free
2. It's easier on the body.
3. You aren't reacting to the ball flight

Just watched the "build a swing" with from GM with Robert Rock as I typed this. It took 5 years and none of it was natural. That's the work put in by an elite player. I can only imagine the rehearsal swings he has put in in that time. 😄
 
Not sure, we have a driving range and buy buckets loaded to a card, which I bought a large number a few years ago and have not used up.

It's outdoors so practise is occasional rather than regular on the range. Though I'll often go onto the course myself to practise .
 
garyinderry said:
Going to the range can be an expensive pursuit these days. There's no doubt about that.
Without a free area to hit at your club the days of pounding balls every day isn't financially within everyone means.

This isn't a modern problem. Many of the best players of today and the past encountered this issue.

Finau hit balls into a mattress in his garage. Seve hit balls at the beach.
Some guys had to caddy all day in the hope they could hit some balls in the evening.

If you want it enough you can find a way.

We are lucky these days with modern technology that anyone with a half decent phone can see in super slow motion what they are doing in their swing. Times gone by guys where literally taking photos or using grainy film to see what was happening in their swing.
Now anyone can see exactly whats happening in their swing and what the face is doing in glorious 4k.

Making swing changes is best achieved in slow motion. Feeling the positions you want to hit and training your body over and over to repeat the action. This can be done anywhere. In front of a mirror at home. Infront of a window. This is the home work that can be done before taking the new move to the range to see how it works in a setting that costs money before taking it to the course.
You can do 100s of repetitions before even hitting a ball.
The beauty of this approach is 3 fold.
1. It's free
2. It's easier on the body.
3. You aren't reacting to the ball flight

Just watched the "build a swing" with from GM with Robert Rock as I typed this. It took 5 years and none of it was natural. That's the work put in by an elite player. I can only imagine the rehearsal swings he has put in in that time. 😄
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Yeah yeah, but surely it's easier to just buy new clubs right 😬
 
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