Keys to Success
Start each practice with warm-up
Practice all shots each time
Use variability of practice strategies
Practice in game like conditions

Equipment

• Golf clubs, 2 per student ( 5 & 7 irons)
• Golf balls, 20 per student
• targets, 5-9 spread out

• Using the same routine before every shot is an important key to golf.
• Your routine signals your body that you are ready to hit and guarantees that you start from the same foundation each time.

• Select a different target each time
• Work with a partner, who will time a check your routine sequence

• 20 shots using correct routine each time

• Allow alignment clubs.
• Provide markers for intermediate targets.

• Vary target each time
• Allow partners to distract
• Make students change clubs each time
• Remove alignment clubs

Equipment

• Golf clubs, set per pair
• Golf balls, 20 per student
• Targets
• Scorecards

• One way to effectively practice is to imagine that you are playing a round of golf, even though you are only in the practice area.
• Start by imagining the first hole; perhaps it is a 400-yard hole with a series of bunkers on the left of the green but a good opening on the right.  The fairway is wide and open and does not have many hazards.
• Decide which club to use for the first shot.  Then actually hit a ball.  Notice where it actually lands in the practice area, and imagine where that would have been in the imaginary fairway.
• Once you have imagined your ball landing, decide what shot you should hit next-perhaps a 5 iron onto the green, and then actually hit a 5 iron.  Continue hitting the shots that would be appropriate for the imaginary hole.
• Finish each hole by taking out a putter, choosing a target on the practice area, putting the ball, and imagining it going into the hole.

• Play with a partner, practice taking turns depending on where the balls land.

• 9 holes of golf in your mind.  Complete actual routine before each shot.

• Provide diagrams of holes to be played

• Have partners call shots