Short Game Golf Drill from PGA Professional Steve Atherton

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• Instructor: Steve Atherton
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Short Game

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You know, practicing your short game isn't nearly as fun as hitting balls on the driving range, beating drivers, and hitting long irons. So anything you can do to make short game practice more fun is good for your golf game. What we're going to do today is do a drill that simulates gameplay and gives you a quantifiable score that you can work to improve every week. What we've done is we've dropped 5 golf balls in various lies around the green here. You're gonna play the ball onto the green, and you're gonna putt the ball into the hole for a score. And each week, you wanna try to see if you can lower your score as you practice. Okay, so we're at the first golf ball. With the tight lie, again, I wanna make sure that I don't use too much wrist hinge in the backswing. That makes it very difficult to hit the ground in the correct place. So for this shot, I've chosen a 9-iron. It's going to keep the ball low and let it roll. The way we're going to hit this shot, we're going to move the ball to about 2/3 back in the stance, meaning just back of center of the stance. I'm going to lean my weight onto my left foot. I'm going to point the butt of the grip right at my left hip, and I'm going to just use my shoulders and make a cutting stroke. This isn't a big shot, this doesn't have a lot of wrist hinge, it's a very simple motion. So, ball slightly back, lean forward, grip to left hip, and putt the ball onto the green. Now we move to one of the little bit tougher shots here. I've got an uphill lie, and…