all right deep in the heart of georgia it lives the
georgia golf center and i'm gonna get familiar with one of my new local ranges
for a nice little practice day here we
go beautiful facility here at the georgia
golf center they have grass and mats today we're on
the mats and my bucket of balls cost me 13 little on the steep end if
you ask me but a beautiful facility they have covered
and non-covered stalls for you to hit in and
i wanted to torture myself in the 90 plus degree weather 100
humidity and go uncovered to try to get used to this new
environment i find myself in so just warmed up with a few little
shots and now i'm going to get started with my
drills for the day so after i'm warmed up with
just wedges and stuff i'm going at a 162 yard flag i have an 8 iron
and i just want to find out what is happening
on the day so just getting things warmed up building up to a full swing so
just little little shots first then getting into the eight iron here
and what i'm trying to find out is are my balls fading today are they
drawing with my stock shot and i'm gonna base my practice day
off what's happening here with my eight iron and what i found
especially with recent play is i want to get back to
my shots when i want to know what's gonna happen so the first thing i'm
gonna do here is what i call a big fade drill and i have a six iron
and i'm just working on huge fades after i'm
warmed up and i want to use this drill as a way to start feeling what it's like
to hit a big cut shot and this helps open up my body
learning um what my fade swing is feeling like
so i'm really trying to crank through to the left and this is the first thing i
want to do is
when i'm at the range is really get my body working properly
so this big fade drill is step one then after that i go to you guessed it
big draw drill now if you struggle with in draws this
is gonna be great because you're gonna learn how to turn your back
to the target which is key when you want to hit any type of draw
and it's also going to help you really rotate your body much
more than ever this is a critical drill for probably 90
of golfers out there and something you should do just don't go hit
balls straight every time really try to hook the ball as hard as you can
this is a good one and i'm really just getting a good feel for what a hook
feels like then i go with the same club six iron my
stock shot drill and this is now very similar to the
eight irons i hit earlier i want to find out what my stock shot is
doing and after you do the big fade and the
big draw drill now you can start feeling the
differences between your swings and you can really
feel the subtleties of like okay that was more of the fade feel this is more
the draw feel then i go straight to my driver drill
because i want to hit drivers while i'm fresh
i don't want to do it at the end i want to do it kind of more toward the
beginning my driver drill is going to be me
hitting drives at different targets every single time i don't want to do two
shots at the same target and as difficult as this is and it's kind of uh
you know it takes a little bit of time to go reset your alignment stick every
time but it's super critical because on the golf course
every hole you hit driver is going to be aiming at a different target
and you can see here i hooked it when i aimed the way right
and you should know that i felt very uncomfortable aiming to the right
and the more left i went the more comfortable i felt
but that's going to affect you on the golf course when you have a hole
that makes you feel like you're aiming out to the right so you've got to get
familiar with targets at different spots in the range so i do this drill for
quite a while and hit a lot of drives just going from
the right to the center to the left and i keep doing this
and this is the bulk of my practice and the reason i'm doing this is because of
the rounds i have played out here i've been very uncomfortable on the tee box
so i wanted to focus on that a big deal next up i am going to what i call the
scoring drill now you want to do this after your
driver when you're a little more fatigued
and so it's not a full on out driver swing
it's i'm hitting a pitching wedge here at a target 121 yards away which is a
trash can barrel that i'm trying to land my shots in
and so i'm really hitting at a small target
and trying to just get perfect swings as i get more fatigued and tired in this
you know heat and humidity the more you work on this shot
the more birdies and pars you're gonna make because you're gonna learn where
you can lay up you're going to have this consistent
swing that's going to get you pretty close or hopefully pretty close to your
target every time and this is something you should spend a
lot of time on when you're at the range and really try to dial to a tiny target
out there so that you can get comfortable and
confident when you are on the golf course firing
at flag sticks a lot of times when you have the wedge
in your hand you're firing to a smaller target you're looking small it's not
a five wood from 200 yards that you're just trying to get on the green this is
something you are really trying to get close
and spend a lot of time hit about a third of your balls here because this
is going to really benefit you on the
course then you go to this cool down drill a lot of people don't do
this they just fire drivers at the end and they walk off and go home
you really want to do a cool down drill you do it in every other
sport you play so i'm hitting seven iron punch shots
similar to my driver drill i'm going at a different target every single time
not full swings i'm just trying to get controlled distances
you're going to use this shot a lot on the golf course anyways when you're
punching out of trouble and or you're just trying to hit
something underneath the wind and so you really want to practice this
nobody practices this and you should spend a good amount of
time just hitting these little punch seven irons all around at
different targets and it will really benefit your game and it's a great way
to kind of cool down after or toward the end of your practice
session take a break i needed a few of those
then i just hit a five wood favorite shot drill here i'm just
hitting fun shots just trying to hit my last
four or five six balls at different targets quick shots fade
shots low shots high shots
something fun just to work on as you know you're about to leave and maybe try
to fire one at the golf cart and pick her if you can and of course you're
gonna try that's always fun so hope you like this
video a little practice range day session for you good luck out there i
love you guys if you're in the neighborhood at the
georgia golf center stop on by it's a cool spot maybe we'll run into
each other there so i will see you in the next video