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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x9ywfls","crawl_time":1770029023,"first_indexed_time":0,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,dailymotion!www,\/video\/x9ywfls s443","src_root_hash":"3687493675733262814","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"How To Make Golf Easier: Try This Simple Practice Method - video Dailymotion","meta_descriptions":["Make Golf Easy With This Simple Approach To Practice. In this video, Joe 'the pro' Ferguson demonstrates a simple but effective approach to practice that should help the game of golf feel and seem easier out on the course. Give it a try next time you're working on your game as we're confident it will have almost instantly positive results on your performance."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"00:00\nAre you fed up of putting work into your game and not seeing that effort reflected in your scores?\n00:05\nWell, I've got a little hunch as to why that might be, and I've come to the beautiful Parkston\n00:09\nGolf Club to tell you why. The number one thing I see with poor practices is people not making\n00:14\ntheir practice difficult enough. Now, what I mean by that is taking it easy on yourself in practice\n00:19\nand giving yourself lovely, fluffy lies and not really challenging yourself might be good fun,\n00:24\nbut I don't think you're going to see the benefits on the other end. Think about it. If you're trying\n00:28\nto get fit, you don't go to the gym and put the treadmill on the slowest setting with no incline\n00:33\nwhatsoever. You challenge yourself. You make that more difficult and you see the benefits in your\n00:37\ncardiovascular fitness. The same principle should apply to your goal. I've got some practice tips\n00:43\nall the way from driver, irons, down to your short game and your putter. Let's get to it. Let's get\n00:48\non that driving range. Starting with driver, how do we make driving practice more difficult? Well,\n00:53\none of the things I see all the time down at the driving range is people just picking out,\n00:56\nsay, a marker post on this range and hitting balls towards it. Whilst that's not a bad use\n01:02\nof your time, I think we can be a little bit more focused. A fairly average-sized fairway here in\n01:07\nthe UK, at least, would be about 35 yards wide. One of the things I love to do on the range is go\n01:13\nahead and pick out a target that is significantly smaller than that. For example, on this range here\n01:18\nat Parkston Golf Club, I've got some markers out here that are really, really useful. I'm picking out\n01:23\nan area that's about 20 yards in width, in my opinion, between the black marker up in the\n01:28\ndistance there and the yellow marker. That's a significantly smaller target than I would see\n01:33\non the golf course. When I'm practicing towards that, it will fine-tune my feels and my perception\n01:38\nof what a fairway is. When I get back out onto the golf course, all of a sudden, that 35-yard fairway\n01:44\nfeels absolutely massive. Now, you don't just have to stop there. You can also challenge yourself and\n01:49\nmake it more measurable. A lot of things I like to do, hit 10 balls in a row and see how many of those\n01:55\nballs I can keep between those two parameters. If you've got a bit more time, you can keep going and\n02:00\nhit ball after ball after ball and not stop until you hit your target number, which might be 20 fairways.\n02:06\nIt might take you a few to get there, but like I said, once you get out onto the golf course and get to\n02:10\nthat 35-yard fairway, you'll really feel the benefits from a confidence point of view. A little tip for you\n02:15\nthat I would use either bring a notepad or use the notes section on your phone. Note down what you've\n02:20\ndone in terms of a score so you can track it and see if you can beat it next time. While we're on\n02:24\nthe driving range, you can use the same principles in your iron play as we've just spoken about there\n02:29\nwith driver. You can create small greens and smaller targets to sharpen your focus. One thing that I\n02:34\nreally like to do with the iron side of things is to me, strike is absolutely key. Your front-to-back\n02:41\ndispersion is equally as important as your left-to-right dispersion. To achieve good front-to-back\n02:46\ndispersion with iron play, you need precise striking. One thing that I've picked up recently to help me\n02:54\nwith that strike is this clever little training aid, the Butterblade. The Butterblade is essentially a\n03:00\nlittle training aid iron that has been through the honey I shrunk the kids machine. It is tiny. It's\n03:04\nabout half the size of my normal Gamer 7 iron. What this does is puts a real premium on strike. If you\n03:12\nmiss the middle, you really, really know about it. There's not much margin for error here. As much as\n03:17\nyou might think that might affect your confidence, it's actually going to really, really dial you in.\n03:21\nYou don't need to be confident here. The point of this is we're making it far more difficult to find\n03:26\na strike in practice so when you get out onto the golf course and you see your normal iron in front of\n03:30\nyou, it feels enormous and it feels like you cannot miss. So what I've been doing over late, I've been\n03:35\nincorporating at least half a dozen shots in all of my warm-ups and practice sessions with this\n03:39\nButterblade. Just making it that much more difficult for myself in practice makes it so much easier when I\n03:45\nget to the golf course and it's one less thing to think about knowing I've already dialed in my strike.\n03:53\nAnother good option if you don't want to spend the money on a training aid like the Butterblade is\n03:57\nhead to your pro shop or somewhere like Golf Clubs for cash and find the oldest smallest bladed iron\n04:02\nyou can and hit a few shots with that before you play or in your practice sessions. It'll essentially\n04:06\ndo the same thing for you.\n04:12\nSo how many of you practice like this? You've just hit a nice chip shot, you give yourself a nice\n04:16\nfluffy low, plenty of grass underneath the ball, you drag another ball and you just do the same and\n04:22\nyou repeat, repeat, repeat thinking you're getting better at chipping. Well, I would argue\n04:26\nthat you're probably not. That was really good, nearly went in. If you think about it, how many\n04:30\ntimes do you get that lie out on the golf course? Unless you're significantly luckier than me,\n04:35\nit's not very many. We quite often sat down in the rough, we've got a tight bear lie. So all you're\n04:41\ndoing by treating yourself well in this practice area is setting yourself up for failure on the golf\n04:46\ncourse. So what I like to do is quite the opposite. I like to flick the switch and make it as difficult\n04:50\nas possible. And I like to find some of the tightest, muddiest, most compact and scruffy\n04:56\nlies possible to really fine tune my strike and my feel. Now this is something that a lot of tour\n05:02\npros do and have done very successfully. Nick Faldo is one who very rarely would play his good\n05:08\nshots in a practice round. He would go and find the most awkward lie or stance possible. So when it\n05:13\nbecame tournament time, he was prepared for anything. Padraig Harrington has also been known with his\n05:19\nshort game practice to find those sort of railway sleeper steps that you get going into bunkers\n05:24\nand clip chips off that because it's the ultimate firm tight surface. Now that might be a little bit\n05:29\nextreme, but like I say, especially in the winter, you might be able to find some less than optimal\n05:34\nlies. And if you can drag your ball onto those lies, and it's a little tricky at first, but if you can\n05:39\nlearn to find strike from some of these really tough scruffy lies, all of a sudden, every time you get\n05:46\nout onto that golf course, let's go again here, let's give it even worse, every time you go out\n05:50\nonto that golf course after this, when the ball's even sat halfway reasonable, and that's a really\n05:57\ngood example, or not quite, it's going to seem like an absolute delight compared to this. So once\n06:02\nyou've really fine-tuned your strike here in the tougher conditions, every time you get on that golf\n06:07\ncourse, it'll be a nice surprise. So furthermore, on the short game, it doesn't just stop with\n06:10\nchipping. We're in the bunker now, and there's loads of ways you can make bunker shots difficult.\n06:14\nAgain, what I generally see is people chucking them down on nice fluffy lies, and just splashing\n06:19\naway to their heart's content. But I like to make it progressively more difficult. So if you've got a\n06:23\nline of, say, three or even more golf balls, try and make each one progressively worse in lie. The\n06:28\nfirst one's good. I'm going to tap on the head of that one, so it's a bit more buried, and we're really\n06:33\ngoing to bury that last one. Almost half the ball is submerged beneath the ground there. Then, when you're\n06:40\npracticing, the first one should be relatively easy to splash out. Now, we know we've got a slightly\n06:45\nmore difficult one with the second shot, so I'm preparing myself for eventualities on the course.\n06:50\nSo my technique is here, I get a little bit more weight forward, stick the club in the ground,\n06:56\nand we're getting the ball out of the bunker. Now, this last one, we have to go a little bit more\n07:00\nextreme, and we have to dig it a little bit more, and we played that one really, really nicely. But it's\n07:05\nnot just about the lie of the ball. There's slopes in this bunker we can use. So I can come here,\n07:11\nand instead of a lovely, perfectly flat lie, which we rarely get, I can pop myself on this downslope\n07:15\nhere in a less than optimal lie in an awkward situation. And these are situations you face on\n07:21\nthe golf course, so why would you not practice them? I'm going to get my body level with that\n07:25\nslope, and I'm going to go digging for the ball, and that would be a perfectly acceptable result on the\n07:31\ngolf course. I've got it to about 15 feet there. How many times have you hit a wedge shot\n07:34\ninto a bunker, and you've plugged it up the face here? So we're going to, on a heavy upslope,\n07:39\nwe're going to stand on that ball. I can barely see it. That's not an uncommon occurrence for me,\n07:44\nunfortunately. So again, how do we deal with it? If we haven't practiced it, it's going to be a nasty\n07:49\nsurprise on the golf course. So all the difficult things you do here that make it awkward will make\n07:55\nit significantly easier on the golf course when you're needing to escape from these very difficult\n08:01\nsituations. The putting green is one of the easiest areas to make your practice more difficult. We've\n08:05\ngot plenty of holes here on this beautiful green at Parkesland Golf Club, but I'm not going to use\n08:10\nthose holes. I want to use a smaller target. So I've got a tee peg with me. I'm just going to try\n08:14\nand hit some sort of four or five foot putts. And instead of aiming for that hole, which we know is\n08:19\nplenty big enough to take a golf ball, I'm going to be going at a smaller target of that tee peg.\n08:26\nAnd if I can hit that tee peg, that probably, you know, I've missed my target there, but that\n08:29\nprobably would have gone in. So if I can start hitting putts where I'm consistently hitting that\n08:35\ntee peg, then I can be very short and very confident when I get out on that golf course,\n08:40\nI can hit the hole. And it's all about getting that confidence. Another way of narrowing your target,\n08:45\nparticularly on these very holeable short putts. And I do this up to about six feet,\n08:50\nwhich I consider a really important range for your scoring. Again, just narrowing your targets.\n08:55\nWhat I've done here is up by the hole, instead of giving myself the entire hole to aim at,\n09:00\nI've just made a small gate at the front with the tees. It's obviously slightly bigger than the ball\n09:04\nbecause I still want the ball to be able to go through. But all of a sudden, instead of having\n09:08\nthe entire hole to aim at all of a sudden, I know that was just creeping in the right half.\n09:13\nIt's gone in, but it's only gone in off that right hand tee peg. So the idea of this exercise\n09:18\nis to get yourself to a point where you can get straight through that gate without hitting either\n09:23\nof those tees. So we're just narrowing our focus again. It makes the task more difficult in practice.\n09:29\nSo once again, on the golf course, it becomes a lot easier. One thing that we never think about\n09:34\nenough in putting, in my opinion, is strike. We all take it for granted that we're going to hit the\n09:38\nputt out the middle of the face, but I've played enough pro-ams to know that's not the case.\n09:42\nAnd one way I like to make practice difficult to ensure I do that is the use of two elastic bands.\n09:47\nSo if you've got a putter that permits, and some shapes do and some shapes don't, but you can\n09:51\ngenerally figure it out. I like to wrap two elastic bands around the head like this and create a very\n09:56\nsmall gap around a centimetre in the middle of the putter face there for me to make contact with that\n10:02\ngolf ball. All of a sudden, if you miss the face, miss the centre of the face slightly on the heel\n10:06\nor the toe, the ball will shoot off at a very funny angle and you'll get that instant feedback.\n10:12\nSo when you've got that elastic band on there and you really need to meet the middle of the putter,\n10:17\nyou get a real sense straight away of whether you're hitting the middle of the face. So when\n10:21\nyou take those elastic bands off, you've done your hard work, you've done your training, you've\n10:25\nnarrowed your focus and dialed in your strike. So again, it's one less thing to think about on the\n10:29\ngolf course.\n10:30\nSo there's a few tips for you to help make your practice more difficult and benefit your\n10:34\ngame. And I've got a hunch if you're willing to follow those practice tips, 2025 could be\n10:40\nyour best golfing year ever.","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to player](https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x9ywfls#player-wrapper)[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x9ywfls#main)\n\nSearch\n\nConnect\n\nWatch fullscreen\n\n![](data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAS0AAAD7AQMAAAAFPVArAAAAAXNSR0IB2cksfwAAAAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAAANQTFRFAAAAp3o92gAAAB9JREFUeJztwQEBAAAAgiD\/r25IQAEAAAAAAAAAAHBnJj0AAR63v1sAAAAASUVORK5CYII=)\n\n- Add to Playlist\n- Report\n\n[![](https:\/\/s1.dmcdn.net\/u\/fioY1bksWqrcjHeY\/60x60)Golf Monthly](https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/golfmonthly)\n\nFollow\n\n- Add to Playlist\n- Report\n# How To Make Golf Easier: Try This Simple Practice Method\n\n- 2 days ago\n\nMake Golf Easy With This Simple Approach To Practice.  \n  \nIn this video, Joe 'the pro' Ferguson demonstrates a simple but effective approach to practice that should help the game of golf feel and seem easier out on the course. Give it a try next time you're working on your game as we're confident it will have almost instantly positive results on your performance.\n\n## Category\n[🥇 Sports](https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/category\/content-sports)\n\n###### Transcript\nDisplay full video transcript\n\n00:00Are you fed up of putting work into your game and not seeing that effort reflected in your scores?\n\n00:05Well, I've got a little hunch as to why that might be, and I've come to the beautiful Parkston\n\n00:09Golf Club to tell you why. The number one thing I see with poor practices is people not making\n\n00:14their practice difficult enough. Now, what I mean by that is taking it easy on yourself in practice\n\n00:19and giving yourself lovely, fluffy lies and not really challenging yourself might be good fun,\n\n00:24but I don't think you're going to see the benefits on the other end. Think about it. If you're trying\n\n00:28to get fit, you don't go to the gym and put the treadmill on the slowest setting with no incline\n\n00:33whatsoever. You challenge yourself. You make that more difficult and you see the benefits in your\n\n00:37cardiovascular fitness. The same principle should apply to your goal. I've got some practice tips\n\n00:43all the way from driver, irons, down to your short game and your putter. Let's get to it. Let's get\n\n00:48on that driving range. Starting with driver, how do we make driving practice more difficult? Well,\n\n00:53one of the things I see all the time down at the driving range is people just picking out,\n\n00:56say, a marker post on this range and hitting balls towards it. Whilst that's not a bad use\n\n01:02of your time, I think we can be a little bit more focused. A fairly average-sized fairway here in\n\n01:07the UK, at least, would be about 35 yards wide. One of the things I love to do on the range is go\n\n01:13ahead and pick out a target that is significantly smaller than that. For example, on this range here\n\n01:18at Parkston Golf Club, I've got some markers out here that are really, really useful. I'm picking out\n\n01:23an area that's about 20 yards in width, in my opinion, between the black marker up in the\n\n01:28distance there and the yellow marker. That's a significantly smaller target than I would see\n\n01:33on the golf course. When I'm practicing towards that, it will fine-tune my feels and my perception\n\n01:38of what a fairway is. When I get back out onto the golf course, all of a sudden, that 35-yard fairway\n\n01:44feels absolutely massive. Now, you don't just have to stop there. You can also challenge yourself and\n\n01:49make it more measurable. A lot of things I like to do, hit 10 balls in a row and see how many of those\n\n01:55balls I can keep between those two parameters. If you've got a bit more time, you can keep going and\n\n02:00hit ball after ball after ball and not stop until you hit your target number, which might be 20 fairways.\n\n02:06It might take you a few to get there, but like I said, once you get out onto the golf course and get to\n\n02:10that 35-yard fairway, you'll really feel the benefits from a confidence point of view. A little tip for you\n\n02:15that I would use either bring a notepad or use the notes section on your phone. Note down what you've\n\n02:20done in terms of a score so you can track it and see if you can beat it next time. While we're on\n\n02:24the driving range, you can use the same principles in your iron play as we've just spoken about there\n\n02:29with driver. You can create small greens and smaller targets to sharpen your focus. One thing that I\n\n02:34really like to do with the iron side of things is to me, strike is absolutely key. Your front-to-back\n\n02:41dispersion is equally as important as your left-to-right dispersion. To achieve good front-to-back\n\n02:46dispersion with iron play, you need precise striking. One thing that I've picked up recently to help me\n\n02:54with that strike is this clever little training aid, the Butterblade. The Butterblade is essentially a\n\n03:00little training aid iron that has been through the honey I shrunk the kids machine. It is tiny. It's\n\n03:04about half the size of my normal Gamer 7 iron. What this does is puts a real premium on strike. If you\n\n03:12miss the middle, you really, really know about it. There's not much margin for error here. As much as\n\n03:17you might think that might affect your confidence, it's actually going to really, really dial you in.\n\n03:21You don't need to be confident here. The point of this is we're making it far more difficult to find\n\n03:26a strike in practice so when you get out onto the golf course and you see your normal iron in front of\n\n03:30you, it feels enormous and it feels like you cannot miss. So what I've been doing over late, I've been\n\n03:35incorporating at least half a dozen shots in all of my warm-ups and practice sessions with this\n\n03:39Butterblade. Just making it that much more difficult for myself in practice makes it so much easier when I\n\n03:45get to the golf course and it's one less thing to think about knowing I've already dialed in my strike.\n\n03:53Another good option if you don't want to spend the money on a training aid like the Butterblade is\n\n03:57head to your pro shop or somewhere like Golf Clubs for cash and find the oldest smallest bladed iron\n\n04:02you can and hit a few shots with that before you play or in your practice sessions. It'll essentially\n\n04:06do the same thing for you.\n\n04:12So how many of you practice like this? You've just hit a nice chip shot, you give yourself a nice\n\n04:16fluffy low, plenty of grass underneath the ball, you drag another ball and you just do the same and\n\n04:22you repeat, repeat, repeat thinking you're getting better at chipping. Well, I would argue\n\n04:26that you're probably not. That was really good, nearly went in. If you think about it, how many\n\n04:30times do you get that lie out on the golf course? Unless you're significantly luckier than me,\n\n04:35it's not very many. We quite often sat down in the rough, we've got a tight bear lie. So all you're\n\n04:41doing by treating yourself well in this practice area is setting yourself up for failure on the golf\n\n04:46course. So what I like to do is quite the opposite. I like to flick the switch and make it as difficult\n\n04:50as possible. And I like to find some of the tightest, muddiest, most compact and scruffy\n\n04:56lies possible to really fine tune my strike and my feel. Now this is something that a lot of tour\n\n05:02pros do and have done very successfully. Nick Faldo is one who very rarely would play his good\n\n05:08shots in a practice round. He would go and find the most awkward lie or stance possible. So when it\n\n05:13became tournament time, he was prepared for anything. Padraig Harrington has also been known with his\n\n05:19short game practice to find those sort of railway sleeper steps that you get going into bunkers\n\n05:24and clip chips off that because it's the ultimate firm tight surface. Now that might be a little bit\n\n05:29extreme, but like I say, especially in the winter, you might be able to find some less than optimal\n\n05:34lies. And if you can drag your ball onto those lies, and it's a little tricky at first, but if you can\n\n05:39learn to find strike from some of these really tough scruffy lies, all of a sudden, every time you get\n\n05:46out onto that golf course, let's go again here, let's give it even worse, every time you go out\n\n05:50onto that golf course after this, when the ball's even sat halfway reasonable, and that's a really\n\n05:57good example, or not quite, it's going to seem like an absolute delight compared to this. So once\n\n06:02you've really fine-tuned your strike here in the tougher conditions, every time you get on that golf\n\n06:07course, it'll be a nice surprise. So furthermore, on the short game, it doesn't just stop with\n\n06:10chipping. We're in the bunker now, and there's loads of ways you can make bunker shots difficult.\n\n06:14Again, what I generally see is people chucking them down on nice fluffy lies, and just splashing\n\n06:19away to their heart's content. But I like to make it progressively more difficult. So if you've got a\n\n06:23line of, say, three or even more golf balls, try and make each one progressively worse in lie. The\n\n06:28first one's good. I'm going to tap on the head of that one, so it's a bit more buried, and we're really\n\n06:33going to bury that last one. Almost half the ball is submerged beneath the ground there. Then, when you're\n\n06:40practicing, the first one should be relatively easy to splash out. Now, we know we've got a slightly\n\n06:45more difficult one with the second shot, so I'm preparing myself for eventualities on the course.\n\n06:50So my technique is here, I get a little bit more weight forward, stick the club in the ground,\n\n06:56and we're getting the ball out of the bunker. Now, this last one, we have to go a little bit more\n\n07:00extreme, and we have to dig it a little bit more, and we played that one really, really nicely. But it's\n\n07:05not just about the lie of the ball. There's slopes in this bunker we can use. So I can come here,\n\n07:11and instead of a lovely, perfectly flat lie, which we rarely get, I can pop myself on this downslope\n\n07:15here in a less than optimal lie in an awkward situation. And these are situations you face on\n\n07:21the golf course, so why would you not practice them? I'm going to get my body level with that\n\n07:25slope, and I'm going to go digging for the ball, and that would be a perfectly acceptable result on the\n\n07:31golf course. I've got it to about 15 feet there. How many times have you hit a wedge shot\n\n07:34into a bunker, and you've plugged it up the face here? So we're going to, on a heavy upslope,\n\n07:39we're going to stand on that ball. I can barely see it. That's not an uncommon occurrence for me,\n\n07:44unfortunately. So again, how do we deal with it? If we haven't practiced it, it's going to be a nasty\n\n07:49surprise on the golf course. So all the difficult things you do here that make it awkward will make\n\n07:55it significantly easier on the golf course when you're needing to escape from these very difficult\n\n08:01situations. The putting green is one of the easiest areas to make your practice more difficult. We've\n\n08:05got plenty of holes here on this beautiful green at Parkesland Golf Club, but I'm not going to use\n\n08:10those holes. I want to use a smaller target. So I've got a tee peg with me. I'm just going to try\n\n08:14and hit some sort of four or five foot putts. And instead of aiming for that hole, which we know is\n\n08:19plenty big enough to take a golf ball, I'm going to be going at a smaller target of that tee peg.\n\n08:26And if I can hit that tee peg, that probably, you know, I've missed my target there, but that\n\n08:29probably would have gone in. So if I can start hitting putts where I'm consistently hitting that\n\n08:35tee peg, then I can be very short and very confident when I get out on that golf course,\n\n08:40I can hit the hole. And it's all about getting that confidence. Another way of narrowing your target,\n\n08:45particularly on these very holeable short putts. And I do this up to about six feet,\n\n08:50which I consider a really important range for your scoring. Again, just narrowing your targets.\n\n08:55What I've done here is up by the hole, instead of giving myself the entire hole to aim at,\n\n09:00I've just made a small gate at the front with the tees. It's obviously slightly bigger than the ball\n\n09:04because I still want the ball to be able to go through. But all of a sudden, instead of having\n\n09:08the entire hole to aim at all of a sudden, I know that was just creeping in the right half.\n\n09:13It's gone in, but it's only gone in off that right hand tee peg. So the idea of this exercise\n\n09:18is to get yourself to a point where you can get straight through that gate without hitting either\n\n09:23of those tees. So we're just narrowing our focus again. It makes the task more difficult in practice.\n\n09:29So once again, on the golf course, it becomes a lot easier. One thing that we never think about\n\n09:34enough in putting, in my opinion, is strike. We all take it for granted that we're going to hit the\n\n09:38putt out the middle of the face, but I've played enough pro-ams to know that's not the case.\n\n09:42And one way I like to make practice difficult to ensure I do that is the use of two elastic bands.\n\n09:47So if you've got a putter that permits, and some shapes do and some shapes don't, but you can\n\n09:51generally figure it out. I like to wrap two elastic bands around the head like this and create a very\n\n09:56small gap around a centimetre in the middle of the putter face there for me to make contact with that\n\n10:02golf ball. All of a sudden, if you miss the face, miss the centre of the face slightly on the heel\n\n10:06or the toe, the ball will shoot off at a very funny angle and you'll get that instant feedback.\n\n10:12So when you've got that elastic band on there and you really need to meet the middle of the putter,\n\n10:17you get a real sense straight away of whether you're hitting the middle of the face. So when\n\n10:21you take those elastic bands off, you've done your hard work, you've done your training, you've\n\n10:25narrowed your focus and dialed in your strike. So again, it's one less thing to think about on the\n\n10:29golf course.\n\n10:30So there's a few tips for you to help make your practice more difficult and benefit your\n\n10:34game. 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The number one thing I see with poor practices is people not making\n\n00:14their practice difficult enough. Now, what I mean by that is taking it easy on yourself in practice\n\n00:19and giving yourself lovely, fluffy lies and not really challenging yourself might be good fun,\n\n00:24but I don't think you're going to see the benefits on the other end. Think about it. If you're trying\n\n00:28to get fit, you don't go to the gym and put the treadmill on the slowest setting with no incline\n\n00:33whatsoever. You challenge yourself. You make that more difficult and you see the benefits in your\n\n00:37cardiovascular fitness. The same principle should apply to your goal. I've got some practice tips\n\n00:43all the way from driver, irons, down to your short game and your putter. Let's get to it. Let's get\n\n00:48on that driving range. Starting with driver, how do we make driving practice more difficult? Well,\n\n00:53one of the things I see all the time down at the driving range is people just picking out,\n\n00:56say, a marker post on this range and hitting balls towards it. Whilst that's not a bad use\n\n01:02of your time, I think we can be a little bit more focused. A fairly average-sized fairway here in\n\n01:07the UK, at least, would be about 35 yards wide. One of the things I love to do on the range is go\n\n01:13ahead and pick out a target that is significantly smaller than that. For example, on this range here\n\n01:18at Parkston Golf Club, I've got some markers out here that are really, really useful. I'm picking out\n\n01:23an area that's about 20 yards in width, in my opinion, between the black marker up in the\n\n01:28distance there and the yellow marker. That's a significantly smaller target than I would see\n\n01:33on the golf course. When I'm practicing towards that, it will fine-tune my feels and my perception\n\n01:38of what a fairway is. When I get back out onto the golf course, all of a sudden, that 35-yard fairway\n\n01:44feels absolutely massive. Now, you don't just have to stop there. You can also challenge yourself and\n\n01:49make it more measurable. A lot of things I like to do, hit 10 balls in a row and see how many of those\n\n01:55balls I can keep between those two parameters. If you've got a bit more time, you can keep going and\n\n02:00hit ball after ball after ball and not stop until you hit your target number, which might be 20 fairways.\n\n02:06It might take you a few to get there, but like I said, once you get out onto the golf course and get to\n\n02:10that 35-yard fairway, you'll really feel the benefits from a confidence point of view. A little tip for you\n\n02:15that I would use either bring a notepad or use the notes section on your phone. Note down what you've\n\n02:20done in terms of a score so you can track it and see if you can beat it next time. While we're on\n\n02:24the driving range, you can use the same principles in your iron play as we've just spoken about there\n\n02:29with driver. You can create small greens and smaller targets to sharpen your focus. One thing that I\n\n02:34really like to do with the iron side of things is to me, strike is absolutely key. Your front-to-back\n\n02:41dispersion is equally as important as your left-to-right dispersion. To achieve good front-to-back\n\n02:46dispersion with iron play, you need precise striking. One thing that I've picked up recently to help me\n\n02:54with that strike is this clever little training aid, the Butterblade. The Butterblade is essentially a\n\n03:00little training aid iron that has been through the honey I shrunk the kids machine. It is tiny. It's\n\n03:04about half the size of my normal Gamer 7 iron. What this does is puts a real premium on strike. If you\n\n03:12miss the middle, you really, really know about it. There's not much margin for error here. As much as\n\n03:17you might think that might affect your confidence, it's actually going to really, really dial you in.\n\n03:21You don't need to be confident here. The point of this is we're making it far more difficult to find\n\n03:26a strike in practice so when you get out onto the golf course and you see your normal iron in front of\n\n03:30you, it feels enormous and it feels like you cannot miss. So what I've been doing over late, I've been\n\n03:35incorporating at least half a dozen shots in all of my warm-ups and practice sessions with this\n\n03:39Butterblade. Just making it that much more difficult for myself in practice makes it so much easier when I\n\n03:45get to the golf course and it's one less thing to think about knowing I've already dialed in my strike.\n\n03:53Another good option if you don't want to spend the money on a training aid like the Butterblade is\n\n03:57head to your pro shop or somewhere like Golf Clubs for cash and find the oldest smallest bladed iron\n\n04:02you can and hit a few shots with that before you play or in your practice sessions. It'll essentially\n\n04:06do the same thing for you.\n\n04:12So how many of you practice like this? You've just hit a nice chip shot, you give yourself a nice\n\n04:16fluffy low, plenty of grass underneath the ball, you drag another ball and you just do the same and\n\n04:22you repeat, repeat, repeat thinking you're getting better at chipping. Well, I would argue\n\n04:26that you're probably not. That was really good, nearly went in. If you think about it, how many\n\n04:30times do you get that lie out on the golf course? Unless you're significantly luckier than me,\n\n04:35it's not very many. We quite often sat down in the rough, we've got a tight bear lie. So all you're\n\n04:41doing by treating yourself well in this practice area is setting yourself up for failure on the golf\n\n04:46course. So what I like to do is quite the opposite. I like to flick the switch and make it as difficult\n\n04:50as possible. And I like to find some of the tightest, muddiest, most compact and scruffy\n\n04:56lies possible to really fine tune my strike and my feel. Now this is something that a lot of tour\n\n05:02pros do and have done very successfully. Nick Faldo is one who very rarely would play his good\n\n05:08shots in a practice round. He would go and find the most awkward lie or stance possible. So when it\n\n05:13became tournament time, he was prepared for anything. Padraig Harrington has also been known with his\n\n05:19short game practice to find those sort of railway sleeper steps that you get going into bunkers\n\n05:24and clip chips off that because it's the ultimate firm tight surface. Now that might be a little bit\n\n05:29extreme, but like I say, especially in the winter, you might be able to find some less than optimal\n\n05:34lies. And if you can drag your ball onto those lies, and it's a little tricky at first, but if you can\n\n05:39learn to find strike from some of these really tough scruffy lies, all of a sudden, every time you get\n\n05:46out onto that golf course, let's go again here, let's give it even worse, every time you go out\n\n05:50onto that golf course after this, when the ball's even sat halfway reasonable, and that's a really\n\n05:57good example, or not quite, it's going to seem like an absolute delight compared to this. So once\n\n06:02you've really fine-tuned your strike here in the tougher conditions, every time you get on that golf\n\n06:07course, it'll be a nice surprise. So furthermore, on the short game, it doesn't just stop with\n\n06:10chipping. We're in the bunker now, and there's loads of ways you can make bunker shots difficult.\n\n06:14Again, what I generally see is people chucking them down on nice fluffy lies, and just splashing\n\n06:19away to their heart's content. But I like to make it progressively more difficult. So if you've got a\n\n06:23line of, say, three or even more golf balls, try and make each one progressively worse in lie. The\n\n06:28first one's good. I'm going to tap on the head of that one, so it's a bit more buried, and we're really\n\n06:33going to bury that last one. Almost half the ball is submerged beneath the ground there. Then, when you're\n\n06:40practicing, the first one should be relatively easy to splash out. Now, we know we've got a slightly\n\n06:45more difficult one with the second shot, so I'm preparing myself for eventualities on the course.\n\n06:50So my technique is here, I get a little bit more weight forward, stick the club in the ground,\n\n06:56and we're getting the ball out of the bunker. Now, this last one, we have to go a little bit more\n\n07:00extreme, and we have to dig it a little bit more, and we played that one really, really nicely. But it's\n\n07:05not just about the lie of the ball. There's slopes in this bunker we can use. So I can come here,\n\n07:11and instead of a lovely, perfectly flat lie, which we rarely get, I can pop myself on this downslope\n\n07:15here in a less than optimal lie in an awkward situation. And these are situations you face on\n\n07:21the golf course, so why would you not practice them? I'm going to get my body level with that\n\n07:25slope, and I'm going to go digging for the ball, and that would be a perfectly acceptable result on the\n\n07:31golf course. I've got it to about 15 feet there. How many times have you hit a wedge shot\n\n07:34into a bunker, and you've plugged it up the face here? So we're going to, on a heavy upslope,\n\n07:39we're going to stand on that ball. I can barely see it. That's not an uncommon occurrence for me,\n\n07:44unfortunately. So again, how do we deal with it? If we haven't practiced it, it's going to be a nasty\n\n07:49surprise on the golf course. So all the difficult things you do here that make it awkward will make\n\n07:55it significantly easier on the golf course when you're needing to escape from these very difficult\n\n08:01situations. The putting green is one of the easiest areas to make your practice more difficult. We've\n\n08:05got plenty of holes here on this beautiful green at Parkesland Golf Club, but I'm not going to use\n\n08:10those holes. I want to use a smaller target. So I've got a tee peg with me. I'm just going to try\n\n08:14and hit some sort of four or five foot putts. And instead of aiming for that hole, which we know is\n\n08:19plenty big enough to take a golf ball, I'm going to be going at a smaller target of that tee peg.\n\n08:26And if I can hit that tee peg, that probably, you know, I've missed my target there, but that\n\n08:29probably would have gone in. So if I can start hitting putts where I'm consistently hitting that\n\n08:35tee peg, then I can be very short and very confident when I get out on that golf course,\n\n08:40I can hit the hole. And it's all about getting that confidence. Another way of narrowing your target,\n\n08:45particularly on these very holeable short putts. And I do this up to about six feet,\n\n08:50which I consider a really important range for your scoring. Again, just narrowing your targets.\n\n08:55What I've done here is up by the hole, instead of giving myself the entire hole to aim at,\n\n09:00I've just made a small gate at the front with the tees. It's obviously slightly bigger than the ball\n\n09:04because I still want the ball to be able to go through. But all of a sudden, instead of having\n\n09:08the entire hole to aim at all of a sudden, I know that was just creeping in the right half.\n\n09:13It's gone in, but it's only gone in off that right hand tee peg. So the idea of this exercise\n\n09:18is to get yourself to a point where you can get straight through that gate without hitting either\n\n09:23of those tees. So we're just narrowing our focus again. It makes the task more difficult in practice.\n\n09:29So once again, on the golf course, it becomes a lot easier. One thing that we never think about\n\n09:34enough in putting, in my opinion, is strike. We all take it for granted that we're going to hit the\n\n09:38putt out the middle of the face, but I've played enough pro-ams to know that's not the case.\n\n09:42And one way I like to make practice difficult to ensure I do that is the use of two elastic bands.\n\n09:47So if you've got a putter that permits, and some shapes do and some shapes don't, but you can\n\n09:51generally figure it out. I like to wrap two elastic bands around the head like this and create a very\n\n09:56small gap around a centimetre in the middle of the putter face there for me to make contact with that\n\n10:02golf ball. 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Boilerpipe Text	00:00 Are you fed up of putting work into your game and not seeing that effort reflected in your scores? 00:05 Well, I've got a little hunch as to why that might be, and I've come to the beautiful Parkston 00:09 Golf Club to tell you why. The number one thing I see with poor practices is people not making 00:14 their practice difficult enough. Now, what I mean by that is taking it easy on yourself in practice 00:19 and giving yourself lovely, fluffy lies and not really challenging yourself might be good fun, 00:24 but I don't think you're going to see the benefits on the other end. Think about it. If you're trying 00:28 to get fit, you don't go to the gym and put the treadmill on the slowest setting with no incline 00:33 whatsoever. You challenge yourself. You make that more difficult and you see the benefits in your 00:37 cardiovascular fitness. The same principle should apply to your goal. I've got some practice tips 00:43 all the way from driver, irons, down to your short game and your putter. Let's get to it. Let's get 00:48 on that driving range. Starting with driver, how do we make driving practice more difficult? Well, 00:53 one of the things I see all the time down at the driving range is people just picking out, 00:56 say, a marker post on this range and hitting balls towards it. Whilst that's not a bad use 01:02 of your time, I think we can be a little bit more focused. A fairly average-sized fairway here in 01:07 the UK, at least, would be about 35 yards wide. One of the things I love to do on the range is go 01:13 ahead and pick out a target that is significantly smaller than that. For example, on this range here 01:18 at Parkston Golf Club, I've got some markers out here that are really, really useful. I'm picking out 01:23 an area that's about 20 yards in width, in my opinion, between the black marker up in the 01:28 distance there and the yellow marker. That's a significantly smaller target than I would see 01:33 on the golf course. When I'm practicing towards that, it will fine-tune my feels and my perception 01:38 of what a fairway is. When I get back out onto the golf course, all of a sudden, that 35-yard fairway 01:44 feels absolutely massive. Now, you don't just have to stop there. You can also challenge yourself and 01:49 make it more measurable. A lot of things I like to do, hit 10 balls in a row and see how many of those 01:55 balls I can keep between those two parameters. If you've got a bit more time, you can keep going and 02:00 hit ball after ball after ball and not stop until you hit your target number, which might be 20 fairways. 02:06 It might take you a few to get there, but like I said, once you get out onto the golf course and get to 02:10 that 35-yard fairway, you'll really feel the benefits from a confidence point of view. A little tip for you 02:15 that I would use either bring a notepad or use the notes section on your phone. Note down what you've 02:20 done in terms of a score so you can track it and see if you can beat it next time. While we're on 02:24 the driving range, you can use the same principles in your iron play as we've just spoken about there 02:29 with driver. You can create small greens and smaller targets to sharpen your focus. One thing that I 02:34 really like to do with the iron side of things is to me, strike is absolutely key. Your front-to-back 02:41 dispersion is equally as important as your left-to-right dispersion. To achieve good front-to-back 02:46 dispersion with iron play, you need precise striking. One thing that I've picked up recently to help me 02:54 with that strike is this clever little training aid, the Butterblade. The Butterblade is essentially a 03:00 little training aid iron that has been through the honey I shrunk the kids machine. It is tiny. It's 03:04 about half the size of my normal Gamer 7 iron. What this does is puts a real premium on strike. If you 03:12 miss the middle, you really, really know about it. There's not much margin for error here. As much as 03:17 you might think that might affect your confidence, it's actually going to really, really dial you in. 03:21 You don't need to be confident here. The point of this is we're making it far more difficult to find 03:26 a strike in practice so when you get out onto the golf course and you see your normal iron in front of 03:30 you, it feels enormous and it feels like you cannot miss. So what I've been doing over late, I've been 03:35 incorporating at least half a dozen shots in all of my warm-ups and practice sessions with this 03:39 Butterblade. Just making it that much more difficult for myself in practice makes it so much easier when I 03:45 get to the golf course and it's one less thing to think about knowing I've already dialed in my strike. 03:53 Another good option if you don't want to spend the money on a training aid like the Butterblade is 03:57 head to your pro shop or somewhere like Golf Clubs for cash and find the oldest smallest bladed iron 04:02 you can and hit a few shots with that before you play or in your practice sessions. It'll essentially 04:06 do the same thing for you. 04:12 So how many of you practice like this? You've just hit a nice chip shot, you give yourself a nice 04:16 fluffy low, plenty of grass underneath the ball, you drag another ball and you just do the same and 04:22 you repeat, repeat, repeat thinking you're getting better at chipping. Well, I would argue 04:26 that you're probably not. That was really good, nearly went in. If you think about it, how many 04:30 times do you get that lie out on the golf course? Unless you're significantly luckier than me, 04:35 it's not very many. We quite often sat down in the rough, we've got a tight bear lie. So all you're 04:41 doing by treating yourself well in this practice area is setting yourself up for failure on the golf 04:46 course. So what I like to do is quite the opposite. I like to flick the switch and make it as difficult 04:50 as possible. And I like to find some of the tightest, muddiest, most compact and scruffy 04:56 lies possible to really fine tune my strike and my feel. Now this is something that a lot of tour 05:02 pros do and have done very successfully. Nick Faldo is one who very rarely would play his good 05:08 shots in a practice round. He would go and find the most awkward lie or stance possible. So when it 05:13 became tournament time, he was prepared for anything. Padraig Harrington has also been known with his 05:19 short game practice to find those sort of railway sleeper steps that you get going into bunkers 05:24 and clip chips off that because it's the ultimate firm tight surface. Now that might be a little bit 05:29 extreme, but like I say, especially in the winter, you might be able to find some less than optimal 05:34 lies. And if you can drag your ball onto those lies, and it's a little tricky at first, but if you can 05:39 learn to find strike from some of these really tough scruffy lies, all of a sudden, every time you get 05:46 out onto that golf course, let's go again here, let's give it even worse, every time you go out 05:50 onto that golf course after this, when the ball's even sat halfway reasonable, and that's a really 05:57 good example, or not quite, it's going to seem like an absolute delight compared to this. So once 06:02 you've really fine-tuned your strike here in the tougher conditions, every time you get on that golf 06:07 course, it'll be a nice surprise. So furthermore, on the short game, it doesn't just stop with 06:10 chipping. We're in the bunker now, and there's loads of ways you can make bunker shots difficult. 06:14 Again, what I generally see is people chucking them down on nice fluffy lies, and just splashing 06:19 away to their heart's content. But I like to make it progressively more difficult. So if you've got a 06:23 line of, say, three or even more golf balls, try and make each one progressively worse in lie. The 06:28 first one's good. I'm going to tap on the head of that one, so it's a bit more buried, and we're really 06:33 going to bury that last one. Almost half the ball is submerged beneath the ground there. Then, when you're 06:40 practicing, the first one should be relatively easy to splash out. Now, we know we've got a slightly 06:45 more difficult one with the second shot, so I'm preparing myself for eventualities on the course. 06:50 So my technique is here, I get a little bit more weight forward, stick the club in the ground, 06:56 and we're getting the ball out of the bunker. Now, this last one, we have to go a little bit more 07:00 extreme, and we have to dig it a little bit more, and we played that one really, really nicely. But it's 07:05 not just about the lie of the ball. There's slopes in this bunker we can use. So I can come here, 07:11 and instead of a lovely, perfectly flat lie, which we rarely get, I can pop myself on this downslope 07:15 here in a less than optimal lie in an awkward situation. And these are situations you face on 07:21 the golf course, so why would you not practice them? I'm going to get my body level with that 07:25 slope, and I'm going to go digging for the ball, and that would be a perfectly acceptable result on the 07:31 golf course. I've got it to about 15 feet there. How many times have you hit a wedge shot 07:34 into a bunker, and you've plugged it up the face here? So we're going to, on a heavy upslope, 07:39 we're going to stand on that ball. I can barely see it. That's not an uncommon occurrence for me, 07:44 unfortunately. So again, how do we deal with it? If we haven't practiced it, it's going to be a nasty 07:49 surprise on the golf course. So all the difficult things you do here that make it awkward will make 07:55 it significantly easier on the golf course when you're needing to escape from these very difficult 08:01 situations. The putting green is one of the easiest areas to make your practice more difficult. We've 08:05 got plenty of holes here on this beautiful green at Parkesland Golf Club, but I'm not going to use 08:10 those holes. I want to use a smaller target. So I've got a tee peg with me. I'm just going to try 08:14 and hit some sort of four or five foot putts. And instead of aiming for that hole, which we know is 08:19 plenty big enough to take a golf ball, I'm going to be going at a smaller target of that tee peg. 08:26 And if I can hit that tee peg, that probably, you know, I've missed my target there, but that 08:29 probably would have gone in. So if I can start hitting putts where I'm consistently hitting that 08:35 tee peg, then I can be very short and very confident when I get out on that golf course, 08:40 I can hit the hole. And it's all about getting that confidence. Another way of narrowing your target, 08:45 particularly on these very holeable short putts. And I do this up to about six feet, 08:50 which I consider a really important range for your scoring. Again, just narrowing your targets. 08:55 What I've done here is up by the hole, instead of giving myself the entire hole to aim at, 09:00 I've just made a small gate at the front with the tees. It's obviously slightly bigger than the ball 09:04 because I still want the ball to be able to go through. But all of a sudden, instead of having 09:08 the entire hole to aim at all of a sudden, I know that was just creeping in the right half. 09:13 It's gone in, but it's only gone in off that right hand tee peg. So the idea of this exercise 09:18 is to get yourself to a point where you can get straight through that gate without hitting either 09:23 of those tees. So we're just narrowing our focus again. It makes the task more difficult in practice. 09:29 So once again, on the golf course, it becomes a lot easier. One thing that we never think about 09:34 enough in putting, in my opinion, is strike. We all take it for granted that we're going to hit the 09:38 putt out the middle of the face, but I've played enough pro-ams to know that's not the case. 09:42 And one way I like to make practice difficult to ensure I do that is the use of two elastic bands. 09:47 So if you've got a putter that permits, and some shapes do and some shapes don't, but you can 09:51 generally figure it out. I like to wrap two elastic bands around the head like this and create a very 09:56 small gap around a centimetre in the middle of the putter face there for me to make contact with that 10:02 golf ball. All of a sudden, if you miss the face, miss the centre of the face slightly on the heel 10:06 or the toe, the ball will shoot off at a very funny angle and you'll get that instant feedback. 10:12 So when you've got that elastic band on there and you really need to meet the middle of the putter, 10:17 you get a real sense straight away of whether you're hitting the middle of the face. So when 10:21 you take those elastic bands off, you've done your hard work, you've done your training, you've 10:25 narrowed your focus and dialed in your strike. So again, it's one less thing to think about on the 10:29 golf course. 10:30 So there's a few tips for you to help make your practice more difficult and benefit your 10:34 game. And I've got a hunch if you're willing to follow those practice tips, 2025 could be 10:40 your best golfing year ever.
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Give it a try next time you're working on your game as we're confident it will have almost instantly positive results on your performance. ## Category [🥇 Sports](https://www.dailymotion.com/category/content-sports) ###### Transcript Display full video transcript 00:00Are you fed up of putting work into your game and not seeing that effort reflected in your scores? 00:05Well, I've got a little hunch as to why that might be, and I've come to the beautiful Parkston 00:09Golf Club to tell you why. The number one thing I see with poor practices is people not making 00:14their practice difficult enough. Now, what I mean by that is taking it easy on yourself in practice 00:19and giving yourself lovely, fluffy lies and not really challenging yourself might be good fun, 00:24but I don't think you're going to see the benefits on the other end. Think about it. If you're trying 00:28to get fit, you don't go to the gym and put the treadmill on the slowest setting with no incline 00:33whatsoever. You challenge yourself. You make that more difficult and you see the benefits in your 00:37cardiovascular fitness. The same principle should apply to your goal. I've got some practice tips 00:43all the way from driver, irons, down to your short game and your putter. Let's get to it. Let's get 00:48on that driving range. Starting with driver, how do we make driving practice more difficult? Well, 00:53one of the things I see all the time down at the driving range is people just picking out, 00:56say, a marker post on this range and hitting balls towards it. Whilst that's not a bad use 01:02of your time, I think we can be a little bit more focused. A fairly average-sized fairway here in 01:07the UK, at least, would be about 35 yards wide. One of the things I love to do on the range is go 01:13ahead and pick out a target that is significantly smaller than that. For example, on this range here 01:18at Parkston Golf Club, I've got some markers out here that are really, really useful. I'm picking out 01:23an area that's about 20 yards in width, in my opinion, between the black marker up in the 01:28distance there and the yellow marker. That's a significantly smaller target than I would see 01:33on the golf course. When I'm practicing towards that, it will fine-tune my feels and my perception 01:38of what a fairway is. When I get back out onto the golf course, all of a sudden, that 35-yard fairway 01:44feels absolutely massive. Now, you don't just have to stop there. You can also challenge yourself and 01:49make it more measurable. A lot of things I like to do, hit 10 balls in a row and see how many of those 01:55balls I can keep between those two parameters. If you've got a bit more time, you can keep going and 02:00hit ball after ball after ball and not stop until you hit your target number, which might be 20 fairways. 02:06It might take you a few to get there, but like I said, once you get out onto the golf course and get to 02:10that 35-yard fairway, you'll really feel the benefits from a confidence point of view. A little tip for you 02:15that I would use either bring a notepad or use the notes section on your phone. Note down what you've 02:20done in terms of a score so you can track it and see if you can beat it next time. While we're on 02:24the driving range, you can use the same principles in your iron play as we've just spoken about there 02:29with driver. You can create small greens and smaller targets to sharpen your focus. One thing that I 02:34really like to do with the iron side of things is to me, strike is absolutely key. Your front-to-back 02:41dispersion is equally as important as your left-to-right dispersion. To achieve good front-to-back 02:46dispersion with iron play, you need precise striking. One thing that I've picked up recently to help me 02:54with that strike is this clever little training aid, the Butterblade. The Butterblade is essentially a 03:00little training aid iron that has been through the honey I shrunk the kids machine. It is tiny. It's 03:04about half the size of my normal Gamer 7 iron. What this does is puts a real premium on strike. If you 03:12miss the middle, you really, really know about it. There's not much margin for error here. As much as 03:17you might think that might affect your confidence, it's actually going to really, really dial you in. 03:21You don't need to be confident here. The point of this is we're making it far more difficult to find 03:26a strike in practice so when you get out onto the golf course and you see your normal iron in front of 03:30you, it feels enormous and it feels like you cannot miss. So what I've been doing over late, I've been 03:35incorporating at least half a dozen shots in all of my warm-ups and practice sessions with this 03:39Butterblade. Just making it that much more difficult for myself in practice makes it so much easier when I 03:45get to the golf course and it's one less thing to think about knowing I've already dialed in my strike. 03:53Another good option if you don't want to spend the money on a training aid like the Butterblade is 03:57head to your pro shop or somewhere like Golf Clubs for cash and find the oldest smallest bladed iron 04:02you can and hit a few shots with that before you play or in your practice sessions. It'll essentially 04:06do the same thing for you. 04:12So how many of you practice like this? You've just hit a nice chip shot, you give yourself a nice 04:16fluffy low, plenty of grass underneath the ball, you drag another ball and you just do the same and 04:22you repeat, repeat, repeat thinking you're getting better at chipping. Well, I would argue 04:26that you're probably not. That was really good, nearly went in. If you think about it, how many 04:30times do you get that lie out on the golf course? Unless you're significantly luckier than me, 04:35it's not very many. We quite often sat down in the rough, we've got a tight bear lie. So all you're 04:41doing by treating yourself well in this practice area is setting yourself up for failure on the golf 04:46course. So what I like to do is quite the opposite. I like to flick the switch and make it as difficult 04:50as possible. And I like to find some of the tightest, muddiest, most compact and scruffy 04:56lies possible to really fine tune my strike and my feel. Now this is something that a lot of tour 05:02pros do and have done very successfully. Nick Faldo is one who very rarely would play his good 05:08shots in a practice round. He would go and find the most awkward lie or stance possible. So when it 05:13became tournament time, he was prepared for anything. Padraig Harrington has also been known with his 05:19short game practice to find those sort of railway sleeper steps that you get going into bunkers 05:24and clip chips off that because it's the ultimate firm tight surface. Now that might be a little bit 05:29extreme, but like I say, especially in the winter, you might be able to find some less than optimal 05:34lies. And if you can drag your ball onto those lies, and it's a little tricky at first, but if you can 05:39learn to find strike from some of these really tough scruffy lies, all of a sudden, every time you get 05:46out onto that golf course, let's go again here, let's give it even worse, every time you go out 05:50onto that golf course after this, when the ball's even sat halfway reasonable, and that's a really 05:57good example, or not quite, it's going to seem like an absolute delight compared to this. So once 06:02you've really fine-tuned your strike here in the tougher conditions, every time you get on that golf 06:07course, it'll be a nice surprise. So furthermore, on the short game, it doesn't just stop with 06:10chipping. We're in the bunker now, and there's loads of ways you can make bunker shots difficult. 06:14Again, what I generally see is people chucking them down on nice fluffy lies, and just splashing 06:19away to their heart's content. But I like to make it progressively more difficult. So if you've got a 06:23line of, say, three or even more golf balls, try and make each one progressively worse in lie. The 06:28first one's good. I'm going to tap on the head of that one, so it's a bit more buried, and we're really 06:33going to bury that last one. Almost half the ball is submerged beneath the ground there. Then, when you're 06:40practicing, the first one should be relatively easy to splash out. Now, we know we've got a slightly 06:45more difficult one with the second shot, so I'm preparing myself for eventualities on the course. 06:50So my technique is here, I get a little bit more weight forward, stick the club in the ground, 06:56and we're getting the ball out of the bunker. Now, this last one, we have to go a little bit more 07:00extreme, and we have to dig it a little bit more, and we played that one really, really nicely. But it's 07:05not just about the lie of the ball. There's slopes in this bunker we can use. So I can come here, 07:11and instead of a lovely, perfectly flat lie, which we rarely get, I can pop myself on this downslope 07:15here in a less than optimal lie in an awkward situation. And these are situations you face on 07:21the golf course, so why would you not practice them? I'm going to get my body level with that 07:25slope, and I'm going to go digging for the ball, and that would be a perfectly acceptable result on the 07:31golf course. I've got it to about 15 feet there. How many times have you hit a wedge shot 07:34into a bunker, and you've plugged it up the face here? So we're going to, on a heavy upslope, 07:39we're going to stand on that ball. I can barely see it. That's not an uncommon occurrence for me, 07:44unfortunately. So again, how do we deal with it? If we haven't practiced it, it's going to be a nasty 07:49surprise on the golf course. So all the difficult things you do here that make it awkward will make 07:55it significantly easier on the golf course when you're needing to escape from these very difficult 08:01situations. The putting green is one of the easiest areas to make your practice more difficult. We've 08:05got plenty of holes here on this beautiful green at Parkesland Golf Club, but I'm not going to use 08:10those holes. I want to use a smaller target. So I've got a tee peg with me. I'm just going to try 08:14and hit some sort of four or five foot putts. And instead of aiming for that hole, which we know is 08:19plenty big enough to take a golf ball, I'm going to be going at a smaller target of that tee peg. 08:26And if I can hit that tee peg, that probably, you know, I've missed my target there, but that 08:29probably would have gone in. So if I can start hitting putts where I'm consistently hitting that 08:35tee peg, then I can be very short and very confident when I get out on that golf course, 08:40I can hit the hole. And it's all about getting that confidence. Another way of narrowing your target, 08:45particularly on these very holeable short putts. And I do this up to about six feet, 08:50which I consider a really important range for your scoring. Again, just narrowing your targets. 08:55What I've done here is up by the hole, instead of giving myself the entire hole to aim at, 09:00I've just made a small gate at the front with the tees. It's obviously slightly bigger than the ball 09:04because I still want the ball to be able to go through. But all of a sudden, instead of having 09:08the entire hole to aim at all of a sudden, I know that was just creeping in the right half. 09:13It's gone in, but it's only gone in off that right hand tee peg. So the idea of this exercise 09:18is to get yourself to a point where you can get straight through that gate without hitting either 09:23of those tees. So we're just narrowing our focus again. It makes the task more difficult in practice. 09:29So once again, on the golf course, it becomes a lot easier. One thing that we never think about 09:34enough in putting, in my opinion, is strike. We all take it for granted that we're going to hit the 09:38putt out the middle of the face, but I've played enough pro-ams to know that's not the case. 09:42And one way I like to make practice difficult to ensure I do that is the use of two elastic bands. 09:47So if you've got a putter that permits, and some shapes do and some shapes don't, but you can 09:51generally figure it out. I like to wrap two elastic bands around the head like this and create a very 09:56small gap around a centimetre in the middle of the putter face there for me to make contact with that 10:02golf ball. All of a sudden, if you miss the face, miss the centre of the face slightly on the heel 10:06or the toe, the ball will shoot off at a very funny angle and you'll get that instant feedback. 10:12So when you've got that elastic band on there and you really need to meet the middle of the putter, 10:17you get a real sense straight away of whether you're hitting the middle of the face. So when 10:21you take those elastic bands off, you've done your hard work, you've done your training, you've 10:25narrowed your focus and dialed in your strike. So again, it's one less thing to think about on the 10:29golf course. 10:30So there's a few tips for you to help make your practice more difficult and benefit your 10:34game. And I've got a hunch if you're willing to follow those practice tips, 2025 could be 10:40your best golfing year ever. 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Readable Markdown	00:00Are you fed up of putting work into your game and not seeing that effort reflected in your scores? 00:05Well, I've got a little hunch as to why that might be, and I've come to the beautiful Parkston 00:09Golf Club to tell you why. The number one thing I see with poor practices is people not making 00:14their practice difficult enough. Now, what I mean by that is taking it easy on yourself in practice 00:19and giving yourself lovely, fluffy lies and not really challenging yourself might be good fun, 00:24but I don't think you're going to see the benefits on the other end. Think about it. If you're trying 00:28to get fit, you don't go to the gym and put the treadmill on the slowest setting with no incline 00:33whatsoever. You challenge yourself. You make that more difficult and you see the benefits in your 00:37cardiovascular fitness. The same principle should apply to your goal. I've got some practice tips 00:43all the way from driver, irons, down to your short game and your putter. Let's get to it. Let's get 00:48on that driving range. Starting with driver, how do we make driving practice more difficult? Well, 00:53one of the things I see all the time down at the driving range is people just picking out, 00:56say, a marker post on this range and hitting balls towards it. Whilst that's not a bad use 01:02of your time, I think we can be a little bit more focused. A fairly average-sized fairway here in 01:07the UK, at least, would be about 35 yards wide. One of the things I love to do on the range is go 01:13ahead and pick out a target that is significantly smaller than that. For example, on this range here 01:18at Parkston Golf Club, I've got some markers out here that are really, really useful. I'm picking out 01:23an area that's about 20 yards in width, in my opinion, between the black marker up in the 01:28distance there and the yellow marker. That's a significantly smaller target than I would see 01:33on the golf course. When I'm practicing towards that, it will fine-tune my feels and my perception 01:38of what a fairway is. When I get back out onto the golf course, all of a sudden, that 35-yard fairway 01:44feels absolutely massive. Now, you don't just have to stop there. You can also challenge yourself and 01:49make it more measurable. A lot of things I like to do, hit 10 balls in a row and see how many of those 01:55balls I can keep between those two parameters. If you've got a bit more time, you can keep going and 02:00hit ball after ball after ball and not stop until you hit your target number, which might be 20 fairways. 02:06It might take you a few to get there, but like I said, once you get out onto the golf course and get to 02:10that 35-yard fairway, you'll really feel the benefits from a confidence point of view. A little tip for you 02:15that I would use either bring a notepad or use the notes section on your phone. Note down what you've 02:20done in terms of a score so you can track it and see if you can beat it next time. While we're on 02:24the driving range, you can use the same principles in your iron play as we've just spoken about there 02:29with driver. You can create small greens and smaller targets to sharpen your focus. One thing that I 02:34really like to do with the iron side of things is to me, strike is absolutely key. Your front-to-back 02:41dispersion is equally as important as your left-to-right dispersion. To achieve good front-to-back 02:46dispersion with iron play, you need precise striking. One thing that I've picked up recently to help me 02:54with that strike is this clever little training aid, the Butterblade. The Butterblade is essentially a 03:00little training aid iron that has been through the honey I shrunk the kids machine. It is tiny. It's 03:04about half the size of my normal Gamer 7 iron. What this does is puts a real premium on strike. If you 03:12miss the middle, you really, really know about it. There's not much margin for error here. As much as 03:17you might think that might affect your confidence, it's actually going to really, really dial you in. 03:21You don't need to be confident here. The point of this is we're making it far more difficult to find 03:26a strike in practice so when you get out onto the golf course and you see your normal iron in front of 03:30you, it feels enormous and it feels like you cannot miss. So what I've been doing over late, I've been 03:35incorporating at least half a dozen shots in all of my warm-ups and practice sessions with this 03:39Butterblade. Just making it that much more difficult for myself in practice makes it so much easier when I 03:45get to the golf course and it's one less thing to think about knowing I've already dialed in my strike. 03:53Another good option if you don't want to spend the money on a training aid like the Butterblade is 03:57head to your pro shop or somewhere like Golf Clubs for cash and find the oldest smallest bladed iron 04:02you can and hit a few shots with that before you play or in your practice sessions. It'll essentially 04:06do the same thing for you. 04:12So how many of you practice like this? You've just hit a nice chip shot, you give yourself a nice 04:16fluffy low, plenty of grass underneath the ball, you drag another ball and you just do the same and 04:22you repeat, repeat, repeat thinking you're getting better at chipping. Well, I would argue 04:26that you're probably not. That was really good, nearly went in. If you think about it, how many 04:30times do you get that lie out on the golf course? Unless you're significantly luckier than me, 04:35it's not very many. We quite often sat down in the rough, we've got a tight bear lie. So all you're 04:41doing by treating yourself well in this practice area is setting yourself up for failure on the golf 04:46course. So what I like to do is quite the opposite. I like to flick the switch and make it as difficult 04:50as possible. And I like to find some of the tightest, muddiest, most compact and scruffy 04:56lies possible to really fine tune my strike and my feel. Now this is something that a lot of tour 05:02pros do and have done very successfully. Nick Faldo is one who very rarely would play his good 05:08shots in a practice round. He would go and find the most awkward lie or stance possible. So when it 05:13became tournament time, he was prepared for anything. Padraig Harrington has also been known with his 05:19short game practice to find those sort of railway sleeper steps that you get going into bunkers 05:24and clip chips off that because it's the ultimate firm tight surface. Now that might be a little bit 05:29extreme, but like I say, especially in the winter, you might be able to find some less than optimal 05:34lies. And if you can drag your ball onto those lies, and it's a little tricky at first, but if you can 05:39learn to find strike from some of these really tough scruffy lies, all of a sudden, every time you get 05:46out onto that golf course, let's go again here, let's give it even worse, every time you go out 05:50onto that golf course after this, when the ball's even sat halfway reasonable, and that's a really 05:57good example, or not quite, it's going to seem like an absolute delight compared to this. So once 06:02you've really fine-tuned your strike here in the tougher conditions, every time you get on that golf 06:07course, it'll be a nice surprise. So furthermore, on the short game, it doesn't just stop with 06:10chipping. We're in the bunker now, and there's loads of ways you can make bunker shots difficult. 06:14Again, what I generally see is people chucking them down on nice fluffy lies, and just splashing 06:19away to their heart's content. But I like to make it progressively more difficult. So if you've got a 06:23line of, say, three or even more golf balls, try and make each one progressively worse in lie. The 06:28first one's good. I'm going to tap on the head of that one, so it's a bit more buried, and we're really 06:33going to bury that last one. Almost half the ball is submerged beneath the ground there. Then, when you're 06:40practicing, the first one should be relatively easy to splash out. Now, we know we've got a slightly 06:45more difficult one with the second shot, so I'm preparing myself for eventualities on the course. 06:50So my technique is here, I get a little bit more weight forward, stick the club in the ground, 06:56and we're getting the ball out of the bunker. Now, this last one, we have to go a little bit more 07:00extreme, and we have to dig it a little bit more, and we played that one really, really nicely. But it's 07:05not just about the lie of the ball. There's slopes in this bunker we can use. So I can come here, 07:11and instead of a lovely, perfectly flat lie, which we rarely get, I can pop myself on this downslope 07:15here in a less than optimal lie in an awkward situation. And these are situations you face on 07:21the golf course, so why would you not practice them? I'm going to get my body level with that 07:25slope, and I'm going to go digging for the ball, and that would be a perfectly acceptable result on the 07:31golf course. I've got it to about 15 feet there. How many times have you hit a wedge shot 07:34into a bunker, and you've plugged it up the face here? So we're going to, on a heavy upslope, 07:39we're going to stand on that ball. I can barely see it. That's not an uncommon occurrence for me, 07:44unfortunately. So again, how do we deal with it? If we haven't practiced it, it's going to be a nasty 07:49surprise on the golf course. So all the difficult things you do here that make it awkward will make 07:55it significantly easier on the golf course when you're needing to escape from these very difficult 08:01situations. The putting green is one of the easiest areas to make your practice more difficult. We've 08:05got plenty of holes here on this beautiful green at Parkesland Golf Club, but I'm not going to use 08:10those holes. I want to use a smaller target. So I've got a tee peg with me. I'm just going to try 08:14and hit some sort of four or five foot putts. And instead of aiming for that hole, which we know is 08:19plenty big enough to take a golf ball, I'm going to be going at a smaller target of that tee peg. 08:26And if I can hit that tee peg, that probably, you know, I've missed my target there, but that 08:29probably would have gone in. So if I can start hitting putts where I'm consistently hitting that 08:35tee peg, then I can be very short and very confident when I get out on that golf course, 08:40I can hit the hole. And it's all about getting that confidence. Another way of narrowing your target, 08:45particularly on these very holeable short putts. And I do this up to about six feet, 08:50which I consider a really important range for your scoring. Again, just narrowing your targets. 08:55What I've done here is up by the hole, instead of giving myself the entire hole to aim at, 09:00I've just made a small gate at the front with the tees. It's obviously slightly bigger than the ball 09:04because I still want the ball to be able to go through. But all of a sudden, instead of having 09:08the entire hole to aim at all of a sudden, I know that was just creeping in the right half. 09:13It's gone in, but it's only gone in off that right hand tee peg. So the idea of this exercise 09:18is to get yourself to a point where you can get straight through that gate without hitting either 09:23of those tees. So we're just narrowing our focus again. It makes the task more difficult in practice. 09:29So once again, on the golf course, it becomes a lot easier. One thing that we never think about 09:34enough in putting, in my opinion, is strike. We all take it for granted that we're going to hit the 09:38putt out the middle of the face, but I've played enough pro-ams to know that's not the case. 09:42And one way I like to make practice difficult to ensure I do that is the use of two elastic bands. 09:47So if you've got a putter that permits, and some shapes do and some shapes don't, but you can 09:51generally figure it out. I like to wrap two elastic bands around the head like this and create a very 09:56small gap around a centimetre in the middle of the putter face there for me to make contact with that 10:02golf ball. All of a sudden, if you miss the face, miss the centre of the face slightly on the heel 10:06or the toe, the ball will shoot off at a very funny angle and you'll get that instant feedback. 10:12So when you've got that elastic band on there and you really need to meet the middle of the putter, 10:17you get a real sense straight away of whether you're hitting the middle of the face. So when 10:21you take those elastic bands off, you've done your hard work, you've done your training, you've 10:25narrowed your focus and dialed in your strike. So again, it's one less thing to think about on the 10:29golf course. 10:30So there's a few tips for you to help make your practice more difficult and benefit your 10:34game. And I've got a hunch if you're willing to follow those practice tips, 2025 could be 10:40your best golfing year ever.
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