short game practice??

[Gizmo722]

How much time do you spend practicing your short game guys? I am concerntrating on it more and more at the mo.touchwood,it seems my swing is feeling more natural since im hitting less balls on the range and concerntrating on wedge play and putting.

 

[medwayjon]

I go the club once a week and practice chipping and bunker shots.

I also always hit atleast 50 balls a week at the range at the short targets.

 

[theeaglehunter]

I spend more time practicing my short game at the moment than being on the range, I am beginning to see the benefits of this on the course as I am becoming rather deadly from around 30 yards...up and down more often than not. Plus I often end up damaging my swing through hitting too many golf balls on the range and letting silly errors creep in. If I was going for a practice session I would probably spend 45 mins to 1 hour on the short game practice area and then 15-20 minutes on the range.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I'm about to step it up now the longer nights are here. I find it very difficult to hit proper high shots, especially little floating shots with an open blade, from range mats. Now I can get on the practice ground after work I intend to work on my approach shots from about a nine iron in and then get to grips with my chipping.

So much better of grass as you can vary the lie from a good one to a grassy lie where you can slide the club under the ball through to bad lies in the rough

 

[Nico]

Unless having a lesson now only take my wedges and my driver to the range.

Spend most time hitting full PW's, then the gap and LW, then back to PW and finish with few Drivers.

Concentrate on distance control and posture.

 

[RGuk]

I do a fair bit but the practice area at mine is a bit soggy a.t.m. Bunkers are an absolute MUST and I like to practice small lobs over the bunker and generally experiment with my 3 wedges. I have two differing opinions on it.
1) If you can reliably get on the green from everyhwere around the green, then the difference between turning 3 shots into two more often than not is A LOT of practice. If a player struggles to make 3-6 foot putts, then it almost irrelevant how good you can become.
2) However, if you/we/I are poor then developing solid techniques to make "guaranteed" one putt chances, then it's GOLD for your scores. Once my putting is back up to a good level, I'll invest in some serious time chipping and pitching.
I'm still trying to get back to the "I'll be within 4-6 foot, whatever", but hardly feel it's worth it when I'm not confident with medium short putts.

 

[TonyN]

I think your short game is he most important of all.

If you drive off the tee to he fairway, where ever it may be, then most of the time good or bad we can get anywhere close enough to approach from.

Its from here that is gonna decide if you take par or in my case bogey.

Anywhere within 100 yards, if you can drop the ball with in a few feet of the pin, you stand a chance of scoring well by keeping ya putts down. If your only 50 yards from the green and you pitch over the other side of the green then you aint likely to be picking up the pars.

Obviously putting is key. You have to be able to putt well to be a decent player. In my opinion, short game and putting deserve all the time and effort you can throw at them. Worry about the long irons and tee shots after them.

 

[Parmo]

I stayed on for an hour on Saturday to practice my putting and then moved on to chip and runs in rough next to the green and then about 10 yard pitch and runs, I struggle from in front of the green to get birdie putts.

I am planning to stay off the course this weekend (easier said than done) and to take my ball bag and practice from 50 yards in and then a hour on putting. I seem to have corrected my driving (touch wood) and was left with ten or so yards to the pin on a few holes which I fluffed and either got par or a boggy when a birdie was there for the taking.

 

[pjaz]

A good shortgame is the key to lower scores IMO.

At the moment my range practice starts from 58 wedge all the way to driver and back to 58 wedge so the short sticks get two work outs - first to warm up the muscles/get my rythmn and then at the end to have a real go at the full range of shots - long/short high shots, bump and runs etc.

 

[Toad]

I don't spend a lot of time practicing my short game now as I seem to have a good feel for the shot from 100 yards and in.

I was fortunate enough to live right next to a very good pitch n putt course when I was younger, and would spend every day playing there when not at school, I never played a full course until I was around 20.
I have a pretty solid short game now and believe that the years I spent playing there have helped me with my short game enourmously.I wish it was still open but it closed 15 years ago due to lack of interest.