This chipping lesson can be conducted at the start of each golf round or during practice sessions to help you judge the distance of your chipping strokes. This lesson will require up to 100 meters of flat practice fairway, approximately 10 golf balls and your relevant chipping clubs (wedges and short irons etc).

Start this lesson by chipping a ball 5 to 10 meters up the practice airway. Once the ball has come to rest, aim the next chip shot directly at the stationary ball and try to hit the ball on the full. If you haven’t hit the ball or duffed the shot, the ball will run past the first ball struck. If you happened to hit the ball on the full or have duffed your shot, try  to hit the closest ball on the full again. Repeat this process until your hitting a ball a distance were you wouldn’t otherwise use your chipping clubs. It is advantageous to conduct this lesson several times until you feel that your distance control of your chipping irons is improved.

Additional Lesson - Distance control for all clubs
This lesson can be also conducted to improve the distance control of all your clubs (short irons, long irons, fairway woods and your driver). All you have to do is start the aforementioned chipping lesson until you reach a distance were your chipping irons are inadequate. At this distance you change your chipping irons to short and mid irons and continue trying to hit balls on the full, whilst making sure that each successive shot travels further than the first. Once the short and mid irons an inadequate, continue onto the long irons, fairways woods and driver until the maximum distance that you can hit with your driver is exceeded. This additional lesson can only be conducted using long practice fairways and/or driving ranges and will require a lot more the 10 golf balls. It is also advised that when you change from your chipping irons to short and long irons, fairway woods and driver, that only one shot per club is conducted. This will provide the most optimum distance control for all your clubs in your bag

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This lesson will teach you how to put a golf ball on a green in the exact direction were you want to ball to travel. This lesson will require your putter, a couple of balls, a practice green, a straight edge (piece of material , wood or metal, 50mm x 50mm and approximately 1.5 meters long) and two irons.

Start this lesson by placing the straight edge (in line with the hole) approximately 1 to 2 metres away from the hole.  Take a golf ball and place it just out from the middle of the straight edge. Using your putter, try to sink the ball by using the straight edge as a guide. If you miss the putt, move the straight edge to counteract the break that caused the ball to miss the hole. Continue this lesson stated above until you sink 3 balls in a row. After this you can move the straight edge further away from the hole or move the straight edge around the hole to enable the putt to have different speed and break properties. Even if you sink three ball in a row, it is advised to putt at least 5-10 balls in each location. The use of the mechanical aid (straight edge) will train your brain and muscles to take the putter back and through the ball, which will increase the chance of you putting the ball in the direction that you want it to go.

After you have used the straight edge in about 5-10 various locations around a hole, replace the straight edge with two irons from your bag. Instead of using the straight edge as a guide, use the two irons (which must be placed in parallel and 10 mm wider than your putter width) to guide your putter straight back and towards the direction of the hole. It is vital that when using the iron club as guides, that the putter must not touch the iron shaft’s. This will further train your brain and muscles to perform straight putts without the need for mechanical aids (the straight edge). Conduct this lesson in various locations and distances around the hole numerous times, until you can consistently putt the ball in or close to the hole. During this lesson it is vital to think and visualise (see routine in Golf Tips) for every putt you perform, so that you can learn the properties of the green (speed and break).  

This lesson will teach you a process for you to become more consistent, confident and accurate with short putts. around the green For this lesson you will need 12 golf balls, your putter and a practice green that has numerous challenging hole locations.

Before you start this lesson, you must inspect every hole location on the practice green and rank each hole according to its difficulty. A flat hole location with little too no break can be considered as easy, while a hole location that is located on a ridge or slope may be labeled as a difficult hole. During this lesson you will alternate from the easiest hole through to the most difficult. This progressive change in increased difficulty will provide the most optimum process for you to become more consistent and accurate with short putts.

To start this lesson, you must place a group of three golf balls around four directions of the easiest hole on the practice green. In each direction a ball must be placed approximately 0.5 metres, 1.0 metres and 1.5 metres from the hole. Once the ball placement has been undertaken, you can start by putting the closest ball in any one direction (preferably the easiest direction) into the hole. In order to goto the next ball that is further away from the hole, the previous golf ball must be holed. Once all three balls in that direction have been holed, you can retrieve these balls and start on a new direction. This process can be carried out for every direction around the hole, making sure that in order to proceed to the next direction, all three balls in that direction must be holed successfully in a row. Once you have holed each ball in every direction, you can continue to the next more difficult hole and so on, until you have completed this lesson on the most difficult hole location on the green.

To get the most out of this lesson, it is vital that you perform every putt with a specific routine (see routine in  Golf Tips). This will train your brain and muscles to consistently perform accurate short putts whilst in any given scenario on any green. The reason why you hit three golf balls from 0.5 metres, 1.0 metres and 1.5 metres away from the hole, is to give you the feel, which will in turn train you brain and muscles, about which direction and speed to hit a ball around any hole location. With anything, practice makes perfect, so in order for you to improve dramatically at your short putting, you need to practice.

This lesson will help you perform a more accurate drive from the tee block, without sacrificing any distance. This lesson will require about 50 golf balls, a practice fairway (driving range or a practice hole etc), your set of golf clubs and a couple of tees.

Firstly, you must warm up by stretching, exercising and hitting a couple of golf balls using either your wedges or short irons. It is important that when you’re warming up you keep yourself focused on the task, so that you improve both your physical and mental abilities. Whilst hitting your practice shots with your wedge, you must ensure that you perform an adequate routine before every shot. The golf routine I adopt can be found in the Golf Tips section of this website.

Now that you have warmed up, you can now trade your wedge for your driver. Go ahead and set-up your golf ball with your golf tee. When setting up the golf ball on the tee you must ensure that you can see half a ball over your driver when you place your driver head is placed on the ground, next to the golf ball. Next, aim for an object down the fairway, set-up your golf stance and ball position and correctly grip your driver. The proper golf stance, ball position and golf grip can be accessed in Golf Swing Fundamentals of this website. Once your stance, ball position and grip is correctly set-up, go ahead and hit the ball with your driver at 25% of the power of your full swing. Continue hitting the golf balls with 25% of your full swing until you hit three consecutive shots to where you were aiming. Whilst hitting your driver at 25% of your full swing, you must ensure that you perform an adequate routine before every shot. Once again the golf routine I adopt can be found in the Golf Tips section of this website.

Once you have consecutively struck three golf balls at 25% of your full golf swing to where you were aiming, increase the power of your swing to 50%. Repeat the aforementioned process until you hit three golf balls to where you were aiming at 50% of your full swing. Once you have completed your three straight drivers at 50% of your full swing, continue this process for both 75% and 100% of your full swing. If you find that it is difficult to hit three consecutive golf balls straight when conducting your full swing, try reducing your swing to either 25% or 50% and repeating the aforementioned process again.

This lesson will train your body to perform each segmental stage of the full golf swing correctly in both the physical and mental aspects of the golf swing. This lesson can be also used for every club in the bag, but is best suited to your driver, fairway woods and long irons.

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