Taking The Movements To The Golf Course - Pre-Shot Routine (Video) - by Peter Finch
Taking The Movements To The Golf Course - Pre-Shot Routine (Video) - by Peter Finch

Practicing on the movement with the left shoulder and with the left arm is very, very important to make sure that you can get the consistency within the technique before you take it on to the golf course.

Now how do you bridge that gap? How do you take it from the driving range, from the practice range on to the golf course? A very simple way is to build a pre-shot routine around the feelings that you've been having within your practice sessions. Now what I mean by that is a pre-shot routine is something that you do before every single shot. Getting to a consistent and repeatable pattern with a pre-shot routine will get you more settled over the ball and get you comfortable before you have a golf shot. If you want to add in the practice drill and the feelings that we've already spoken about, this is a great place to do it on the golf course because you can practice it, you can get comfortable with the feeling and then you can start to go on conscious when you hit the shot and just let the swing flow. So for example, with this particular feeling a very simple way of including this in your pre-shot routine, first of all, just get yourself to the side of the ball and then all you want to be doing is you are slicing before you hit the shot just get a couple little pre-shot routine swings, just using the one handed drill. Now just to the side of the ball just so you are getting used to the left arm rotating the left shoulder turning underneath the chin. Now you only need to do two or three of these that is just getting that feeling. Then when you are over the ball, use the second drill that we've spoken about and just have that little rehearsal takeaway. So left shoulder round, left arm allowing you to rotate, just a single little practice swing and then move it on to the shot. When you are actually hitting the ball, you don't want to be actively thinking about things within your technique. So if you can just take that a little bit of time before you hit the shot, first of all do the one handed drill and then our little rehearsal takeaway, what that will do it will feed through your brain that those are the feelings that you want. Then step up to the ball and clip it away and hopefully you will have that more movement between the left arm and the shoulder. 2016-10-27

Practicing on the movement with the left shoulder and with the left arm is very, very important to make sure that you can get the consistency within the technique before you take it on to the golf course.

Now how do you bridge that gap? How do you take it from the driving range, from the practice range on to the golf course? A very simple way is to build a pre-shot routine around the feelings that you've been having within your practice sessions. Now what I mean by that is a pre-shot routine is something that you do before every single shot. Getting to a consistent and repeatable pattern with a pre-shot routine will get you more settled over the ball and get you comfortable before you have a golf shot.

If you want to add in the practice drill and the feelings that we've already spoken about, this is a great place to do it on the golf course because you can practice it, you can get comfortable with the feeling and then you can start to go on conscious when you hit the shot and just let the swing flow.

So for example, with this particular feeling a very simple way of including this in your pre-shot routine, first of all, just get yourself to the side of the ball and then all you want to be doing is you are slicing before you hit the shot just get a couple little pre-shot routine swings, just using the one handed drill.

Now just to the side of the ball just so you are getting used to the left arm rotating the left shoulder turning underneath the chin. Now you only need to do two or three of these that is just getting that feeling. Then when you are over the ball, use the second drill that we've spoken about and just have that little rehearsal takeaway. So left shoulder round, left arm allowing you to rotate, just a single little practice swing and then move it on to the shot.

When you are actually hitting the ball, you don't want to be actively thinking about things within your technique. So if you can just take that a little bit of time before you hit the shot, first of all do the one handed drill and then our little rehearsal takeaway, what that will do it will feed through your brain that those are the feelings that you want. Then step up to the ball and clip it away and hopefully you will have that more movement between the left arm and the shoulder.