Golf Driving Range Drills to Play the Perfect Shot

Golf driving range drills are a great way to instill good golf swing basics and fundamentals into your golf game.聽 Here are some of our favorite golf driving range drills that focus on key aspects of the full swing including the backswing and downswing.

Golf Driving Range Drills for the Backswing: Backswing Takeaway Drill

BENEFITS: This golf driving range drill encourages proper body turn during the takeaway and establishes good backswing rhythm.

1.Place a ball behind club head at address and in line with instep of back foot.
2.Slowly begin backswing takeaway and roll ball backward with club head until ball is behind back foot. Repeat drill until takeaway feels natural.

Golf Driving Range Drills for the Backswing: Top of Backswing Drill

BENEFITS: Ensures correct position at the top of the backswing. Encourages full body turn in backswing.

1.Assume normal address position and hinge wrists so that club is pointing up.
2.Keep wrists hinged and place club on right shoulder.
3.Rotate fully鈥攕houlders 90掳; hips 30 to 45掳.
4.Extend arms fully ensuring that hands are in front of chest. Check that club face is square and that back of left hand and club face are parallel (in line).

Golf Driving Range Drills for the Downswing: Pause and Go Drill

BENEFITS: Encourages complete backswing and aids transition from backswing to downswing while establishing good impact position, weight transfer and follow-through.

1.Perform drill at half-speed pausing at key checkpoints. Tee up ball, make full backswing and pause at top of backswing for 2 seconds.聽 Check that full shoulder turn 90掳; hip turn 30 to 45掳; left arm straight; 80% of weight is on inside of right foot; right knee flexed.
2.Initiate downswing by shifting weight left which leads the hips, arms and shoulders to unwind through impact.
3.Swing to finish position.

Golf Driving Range Drills for the Downswing: Shake Hands with the Target Drill

BENEFITS: Encourages proper release, arm extension and weight transfer.

1.Take normal backswing.
2.In downswing, just after impact, ingrain sensation of 鈥渟haking hands with the target鈥?to promote good arm extension down target line and encourage proper release.

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