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Tom's Featured Tip: Winter Distance Practice
For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective.
You are probably thinking that this tip is about gaining distance over the winter, but it's not.
It's about using an indoor simulator to really learn the distances with your irons and hybrids, and the gap yardage between your clubs for:
- Your stock swings,
- Your stock plus swings (for when you need maximum yardage from a club),
- And your stock minus swings (for when you need a little less yardage than your stock swing)
A simulator is required to get it right, so if you are near the Plum Creek Driving Range in Batavia NY, there's a great one available for your use. Simulator hourly practice rates vary from $20 to $35 per hour, depending on the day and time, and senior discounts are available. Appointments may be made by phone (585) 993-0930
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Before I outline how to learn your distances, first see what learning level you fit into to see if this exercise matches your skill level.
- Learning Level 1 - Raw Beginner
You need to work on learning a swing method first, then develop some swing consistency before you move on to calibrating distances for clubs.
- Learning Level 2 - The Initiated Player
You are experienced, but not a low handicap player. You may be able to utilize this drill if your swing is relatively consistent, or you may need the watchful eye of a coach or teacher to monitor your technique while you perform this exercise.
- Learning Level 3 - The Advanced Player
You know your swing and it's relatively consistent. Go for it.
You'll need some 3"x5" index cards for hard copy notes that you can laminate and keep or transfer to your iPhone notes when you're done. Either way, memorize the results.
- With every iron and hybrid you are swinging, do this with each club before you actually hit a ball:
- Take ten stock swings, ten stock plus swings, and ten stock minus swings.
- Next, start with your wedges and move up through your bag from iron to iron and hybrids.
- With each club take three warmup swings, then five stock swings, five stock plus swings, and five stock minus swings.
Mis-hits don't count,
only your solid strikes.
- Record the carry distances that are displayed for all the actual swings, then average the distances.
It's great to know the maximum distance you can hit each iron, but the real value of this exercise is nailing down your stock swing distance. When you define your stock swing distances for your irons and can repeat your swing, you're on your way to great golf.
Do the exercise with your woods after you've finished with your irons and hybrids, but for them make note of the carry and the total distance.
If you change equipment - irons or ball - it may affect your distance, so be aware of the possibility.
You should see a gap between stock swings for your irons of 10 to 12 yards. If it's larger or smaller, something is probably wrong with your swing or your equipment, and you need to make corrections.
Try this, you'll like it!
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Love your practice, own your swing, own your health,
Tom
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Tom
Tom's Bonus Tip: Practice Quotes
For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective.
In keeping with this issues's "practice" theme, here are a couple of interesting quotes I recently came across.
The first is from Nick Saban, an ultra successful college football coach whose quote about football practice applies equally well to golf:
"Don't practice until you get it right, practice until you can't get it wrong"
I read the next quote in a hilarious book irreverently titled "Sh*t My Dad Says" by Justin Halpern:
"Nobody likes practice, but what's worse: practicing or sucking at something?"
Enjoy, Tom
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Love your practice, own your swing, own your health,
Tom
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