Ways to Enjoy Practising Golf at the Range—Part one

When winter comes, the nights draw in and the rounds of golf grow further apart than most would like. Rather than put the golf equipment away until March, here are some workouts you can have to keep your game in shape over the winter months and be on top form for the start of next season.

1. If you cannot get to the course, bring the course to you. At your range, play a round of golf in your head. Visualize the first hole of a course you play and tee off. Imagine where that ball would have landed and take an iron to make your approach shot. If you mis-hit a shot, where would that have ended up on your course? Play the shots as though you were out on the course and aim for different markers around the range to get a feel for your distances. And don’t forget the pitch shots when you swing your golf clubs.

2. Don’t just go down to the range and hit a basket of balls and come away again, go with a purpose in mind. How many times do you “ping-ping-ping” from other driving bays as people hit at a rate of knots with no real purpose. Yep, they can hit the ball a long way, but what about the delicate shots? Go along with a plan and just take one or two clubs(a TaylorMade R9 Fairway Wood for example)to concentrate on practicing specific shots with those.

3. follows on from that – take two consecutive discount golf clubs with you like a six iron and seven iron for example. Hit the higher numbered iron with a full swing. Then try to hit the lower iron the same distance with less of a swing.

Sometimes it is better to take a slightly easier swing with a club rather than a risky full swing when the target is at the limit of the range of a particular club.