As someone who is very linier with how I aim\/setup, I really loved Wyndham Clark’s practice station last week <\/p>\n
\u2013 Ball position line \u2014 LKD (@LukeKerrDineen) February 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 3. Scottie Scheffler: Stress about your grip<\/p>\n You know one thing Scottie works on a lot? His grip. He has a tendency\u2014like most golfers\u2014to move his grip around, which can affect his takeaway and other positions on his backswing. That\u2019s why he carries an extra 7-iron with a practice grip on it to dial it in, and checks the position of his hands painstakingly before every range ball he hits.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me it\u2019s just checkpoints. I\u2019m not trying to find something when I arrive at a tournament. I\u2019m trying to do the same things I\u2019ve always been doing,\u201d Scheffler says. \u201cGetting my grip right has always been one of those key fundamentals for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Kevin C. Cox<\/p>\n 4. Brian Harman: Find space for yourself<\/p>\n This one caught me slightly by surprise, frankly, but it\u2019s a good one.<\/p>\n Working, for tour players and the rest of us alike, is stressful. It\u2019s easy to disregard the self-care and recovery portion, but it\u2019s an essential part of getting better, says Harman.<\/p>\n \u201cSomewhere peaceful to lay your head is pretty important,\u201d he says. \u201cWe get pulled around a lot out here and having a place where you can go and get left alone to gather my thoughts is really important.\u201d<\/p>\n Jonathan Bachman<\/p>\n 5. Coach Sean Foley: Activate your body<\/p>\n At least when you\u2019re practising golf, you\u2019re literally doing the thing you want to do. But golf isn\u2019t chess. It\u2019s a sport, which, whether you want to or not, means you need to spend time in the gym.<\/p>\n \u201cDoing activation techniques in the gym to make sure your body is ready, that\u2019s boring. Stretching, that\u2019s boring. Doing it every single day, 50 weeks a year, that\u2019s really boring,\u201d says Foley, Golf Digest No. 3-ranked teacher.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone\u2019s obviously good at golf because they were passionate about the game, but I think the ones who become great are the ones who are really good at the parts that they don\u2019t like about it.\u201d<\/p>\n 6. Corey Connors: Improve your tempo<\/p>\n Connors has one of the smoothest swings in the game\u2014but his butter draws didn\u2019t get that way by accident.<\/p>\n The Canadian said he used to spend hours on the range with his dad, practising a pause between his backswing and downswing.<\/p>\n \u201cHe always felt that if you have good rhythm in your golf swing, you don\u2019t need perfect swing mechanics,\u201d Connors says. \u201cWorking on tempo and rhythm is something that is pretty boring. There\u2019s nothing too fancy or flashy about it, but I think it\u2019s really important. It always helped me strike the ball more solidly, and it can help the everyday golfer.\u201d<\/p>\n Corey Conners\u2019 tempo is so buttery smooth. Used to work on it religiously as a kid. <\/p>\n Win or lose this week, he\u2019ll end up in the Golf Swing Tempo Hall of Fame. pic.twitter.com\/4QBML70W65<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 LKD (@LukeKerrDineen) May 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 7. Coach Justin Parsons: Perfect your posture<\/p>\n When was the last time you checked your golf swing posture? Pros do it all the time, multiple times per day. Try it yourself using a mirror, and you\u2019ll soon appreciate how incredibly tedious it can be. But pros don\u2019t do it because it\u2019s interesting. They do it because it\u2019s important.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen your body is unbalanced at setup, the first thing it\u2019s going to try to do when you start moving is try to find balance,\u201d says Parsons, a Golf Digest top coach to multiple tour players. \u201cGetting your posture right is a detail these guys focus on every day.\u201d<\/p>\n 8. Luke Donald: Practice your wedges<\/p>\n Pros work hard to hit their ball longer off the tee to put themselves in scoring range with their wedges\u2014but that only works if you\u2019re actually good with your wedges. Which, of course, requires practising.<\/p>\n The way most pros do this is by simply hitting lots of wedges to different distances. Dustin Johnson improved his wedge game by hitting wedge shots inside 100 yards at random intervals. J.T. Poston does it by moving up in five-yard increments. Luke Donald, one of the best wedge players of all time, did it in three-yard increments.<\/p>\n \u201cRather than just hitting to the same spot over and over again, which is not very similar to golf, I try to create games that are a bit more golf-like,\u201d Donald says. \u201cCreate variability and then attach a score, then you can figure out where you stack up and what I need to work on and what I don\u2019t need to work on.\u201d<\/p>\n 9. Coach Adam Schriber: Hit lots of short putts<\/p>\n Along those lines, practising your short putts is something pros do relentlessly every day. Why? Because a paltry 5 per cent difference between making 92 per cent of your putts inside five feet and making 87 per cent of your putts is the difference between being inside the top 10 on tour and being outside the top 100.<\/p>\n \u201cYou just have to do them over and over again,\u201d says Schriber, a Golf Digest Top 50 teacher who coaches J.J. Spaun. \u201cHitting all those three-footers gets really boring, but it\u2019s the only way to get better at them.\u201d<\/p>\n 10. Matt Fitzpatrick: Track your stats<\/p>\n Half the battle of getting better at golf is knowing what to get better at. And to do that, you need to track your stats.<\/p>\n Fitzpatrick famously has tracked every shot he hits on the course by hand, then inputs them into a spreadsheet to review. Most players have a team of coaches that crunch the numbers before their rounds, and it\u2019s the players\u2019 job to sit down weekly to review it all.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s something I\u2019ve always done because I think it gives me a bit of an edge,\u201d Fitzpatrick says.<\/p>\n Sean Foley agrees: \u201cGoing over data with these guys week after week, that\u2019s boring, but it pays their bills.\u201d<\/p>\n Follow Golf Digest Middle East on social media<\/p>\n
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