What do you practice most

I practice my short game most at home, I think this is the most important for scoring, what about you?



Liam,

I put a lot of time in on my long game, with out neglecting my my short game. The reason I practice with the longer clubs more is to keep those long swing muscles, and bone joints flexible. For scoring purposes however, the short game should recieve the majority of practice time. Reading greens, and how the different grasses, and conditions react to a putt should also be a big part of a person's short game practice time.

Without a doubt, I practice the short game and mostly pitching from 10 to 40 yards. My personal feeling is that pitching is a mini version of the full swing and I don't always have time to go to the range. If I practice putting, I try to only practice 3, 5 and 7 foot putts because these are the most important to scoring. Unfortunately, a 3 foot putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.

I practice clubmaking more than anything.

Only if you hole it

A missed 3 footer probably counts more than a poor drive - you get the chance to recover from the drive but the putts gone for ever.

hi liam,
dont want to sound smug but i got a cobra 4/R rescue and mspeed 3 wood recently so my long game is going really well they are so easy to hit so my focus will be on putting,sand play and pitching in that order

Putting. Ive recently spent hours and hours on the putting green until I now feel condifent that I can run the ball 2 foot by and get the one coming back. Id got into a habot of always lagging short and never giving it a chance and then pulling/pushing the short ones. So I have spent a long time working on setup, posture, alignment, accelaration etc

And as a result ive shot my best two rounds of the year this weekend. Long game was actually so-so but my short game was bang on. Got me up and down at least 4 times when id missed the GIR

Well gents,

I've changed my practice routine considerably over the past few months. I'm learning to leave my practice sessions in a positive frame of mind and I've incorporated my pre-shot routine into my practice.

Long - Rather than just banging balls at home or at the club, I'm spending more time on the course. Eg I'll borrow the cart, go to the tee, hit a drive and pick the ball up and hit it onto the green about 140m out.

Short - I'll chip ten balls over a 2m tall tree landing it just past it, punch a handful of balls over the handle bars of my toddler son's bike which is 25 metres away, lag putt and so on.

I've done 6 strokes in 9 months - by working really hard on my mental application and course management. I'm off 12.1. My goal is 10 by the end of the year. Thereafter, low single figures.

Cheers

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P.S. Liam,

Let us know when you start whooping your Dad!!!!

I spend hours at the range trying to hit cannonballs off rubber tees or 160yd 7-irons off a rock hard mat.

When my body starts aching, I head home, completely neglecting the short game.

Then, the next day, I head to the course, hammer 250yd drives, miss the green by inches (or hit and roll off), chip the ball across the green and into the greenside bunker, spend 2 to get out, and 3 putt. Then I sigh - mark it down as 'another 8' - and go on to the next teebox, where I'll have a fit and yell four-letter words at the collective contents of my golf-bag, forget everything I've worked on at the range, hit one in anger and slice it 40yds to the right into a lake ... Understandably!

What I DON'T understand, is why I'm not a scratch player.

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2008 bag:
Mizuno MX-500 460cc 10.5* Fujikura Tour Platform 26.3 stiff. (about to be replaced by MP-600 10,5* UST Proforce V2 stiff)
Mizuno F-50 3w 15* Fujikura Tour Platform 26.3 stiff.
Wilson Deep Red 5w 18* Graphalloy Fatshaft stiff
Cleveland HALO 3i hybrid 22* graphite regular
Mizuno MP-60e forged 5i-PW True Temper Dynamic gold R300 steel
Mizuno MP Black OX raw haze 50/6 GW, 54/9 SW, 58/10 LW
Heavy Putter B3-M
Titleist NXT Extreme

Like your humour Mox!!!

I play to scratch a couple of times a year, unfortunately only during Stableford rounds...

me too greeboman.

I scratch the 3rd, 8th, 10, and 14th

Im Agree With You ...but Mostly Im Still In Drivers Iron Shoot
Seems To Me Im Not Quite Good Enough So Im Skipping Short Game And Putting

I spend alot of time with my pitching wedge and 60 degree. Trying to get tight on my 40 yards in.