The importance of incorporating golf practice drills into your practice routine

Most beginner to intermediate golfers take a haphazard approach to practicing their golf game.  When they do practice, they often go to the driving range, buy a bucket of balls and swing away without a clear purpose or plan to improve their golf fundamentals, shore up weak areas of their game or address problem swing areas that is affecting their golf scores.

Instead, you should practice with a purpose and incorporate key golf practice drills into your golf practice routine to develop a more consistent golf game across all phases in a much quicker time frame.

The reason that golf practice drills are important and should be incorporated into your golf practice routine is that they reinforce sound golf swing fundamentals, instill the proper golf swing mechanics into your swing and promote the proper "feel" of a properly executed shot so that your overall golf swing becomes second nature.  Golf practice drills break down the larger whole into small, discrete parts that are easier to work on.  When those discrete parts are mastered, the larger whole (for example, the full golf swing) is more easily understood and ingrained into muscle memory.

For example, let's say that you are having trouble transitioning from the top of your backswing to impact with the golf ball. What most golfers would do in this situation is hit shot after shot on the range until they felt they fixed the problem.  The problem with this approach is that they spent an entire practice session addressing a singular golf swing issue blindly without knowing if the golf swing issue was actually fixed and more likely introducing a host of errant adjustments into the golf swing causing future golf swing issues.

A good set of golf practice drills efficiently solves swing issues correctly without throwing off the rest of your game.  Golf practice drills work on the specific mechanics of a particular component of your swing so that once that particular issue is addressed, your overall golf swing improves.

So, to improve your game and gain more consistency more rapidly, incorporate a regular set of golf practice drills into your practice routine.  Your golf fundamentals and muscle memory are sure to improve dramatically.