Mental Golf Lesson - Golf Back to Front

Practising Golf Back to Front

Why is it that so many of us golfers use our time for golf practice to hit driver and iron shots more than any other. Well, we just love to play golf and the feeling of booming a drive or hitting a sweetly struck iron to the heart of the green gives us a feeling of “I could play on the tour if I did that regularly”

However, when you are on the course for real it is unlikely that we can hit a perfect drive and perfect approach shot every time. This golf practise instruction is intended to help you achive this.

If you think about it, your most used club in the bag will probaby be your putter, So shouldn’t we practice with this club the most.

And if this is the case shouldn’t we spend more time on putting than other parts of our game? You bet we should.

This is really what I mean by “Practising Back to Front”

If you could get to a point with your putting that you were confident of getting down in two shots 80% of the time when you were on the green, no putting yips, do you think this will transfer to other parts of your game. You bet it will.

Let’s try a mental exercise. I want you to close your eyes and place yourself on your home course. Pick out a par four hole of about 380 yards.

Now visualise your tee shot landing in the middle of the fairway. This tee shot has left you about 150 yards to the green.

This should be a mid iron (Maybe 6 or 7 iron) Now if you can hit the green with this shot you can already guartantee yourself a par because you know that your putting will help you get down in two more shots.

So think about your practise sessions as back to front. Start with putting and then go to chipping, pitching, iron play and finally driving.

To help you make 2 putting a more regular part of your game you need to set yourself some targets. Below is an easy drill to help.

Take ten balls and place them down 20 feet from the cup.

Hit the first ball and make sure you either hole out with the first putt or the second putt.

Your aim is to get all ten balls down in two shots. If you fail to get any of the ten balls down in two then should start again from the first ball.

If you can achieve this then it will definately lead you to an improvement not only in your putting but your thought process when you are out on the course.

Good luck with this one

All the best

Richard