subject: The Best Way To Create Your Golf Training Routine [print this page] A proper training programme is the most important part of your golf training routine. When training, most folks forget to work on shots close to the green. Extra hours hitting a picturesque drive can be fun, but fixing the kinks in your shots in the sub 100-yard range will cut strokes from you card faster.
With any training regime, it is best to build a routine, and stick to it. Commit to spending as much time working the short game as you do the long game. If you have two hours to spend at the driving range, commit to spending an hour on the putting green.
Chip shots, shots out of the sand and approaches should not be neglected. A super human drive may be a thing of beauty but approach shots will win more matches. As best you can, replicate real world conditions during your golf training. Smooth sand and a ball perched neatly on time may make for a pretty out, but it is not something you will ever see while on the links. Toss the ball as straight and as high as possible and let drop. You get more out of learning how to dig it out. Drop your practice balls against the wall to learn how to handle tough outs; be that a big shot or the smart move to the side.
There has to be a park in the neighborhood that is not always trimmed on time. Train at rescuing your game from the deep salad. Not making it to the driving range is not a reason to skip training. If you spent an hour at the driving range this morning, then you owe yourself an hour of short game practice. A bucket of balls is the only equipment you need to practice chipping from the unattended edges at the park.
Quite possibly the most import part of your golf training should be training your putter swing. More matches are lost on the green than any other part of the course. When on the putting green, be sure to practice puts from a variety of distance; from a few inches to thirty or forty feet. Practice putting uphill, downhill and cross slope.
Do not forget that you can practice at home too. You can chip from the garden and weed at the same time. Refrain from mowing the back yard another week and practice some light chip shots. Find a neighbor and take turns hitting practice balls into each other yard to work on blind chip shots.
Metered practice will improve your game more than any elements of your golf training routine. Spending an hour, a few days a week, will pay off more that long stints on the weekend. Weekends are best-spent playing eighteen any way.
