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Tempo Drills for Better Contact
Tempo is the single biggest contact predictor — and the easiest thing to improve with a metronome and a rep count.
Drills for this practice plan
Iron play
The Carve
Lock onto your your 7-iron-yard target with a 7-iron and hit 10 stock shots. No shaping, no experiments — this drill is about your bread-and...
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The Marksman
Pick a target. Hit 5 shots with each of 5-6-7-8 iron, logging carry distance from the launch monitor. Goal: discover your actual gaps so you...
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The Knockdown
Pretend you are playing into a stiff headwind. Take one more club than your stock yardage to ~15 yards short of your 7-iron number (e.g., 6-...
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Iron Sharpening
Play "phantom holes" — call out an imaginary par-3 yardage, pick the club, hit one ball. Score: 3 points if inside a 10-yard circle, 1 if in...
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The Worst-Ball Gauntlet
Hit two iron shots to the same your 7-iron-yard target. You only score the worst one of the pair. Play 8 pairs (16 shots). The pressure is "...
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The Ladder
Hit one shot at ~15 yards short of your 7-iron number, one at your 7-iron, one at ~15 yards past your 7-iron number — three different clubs,...
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The Long Stick
Choke down two inches on your 5-iron and aim it at a target that is normally a 7-iron number (your 7-iron yards). Three-quarter swing, contr...
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The Apex Shift
With a 7-iron at your your 7-iron-yard target, hit 9 shots in three sets of three: 3 stock trajectory, 3 flighted (ball back, hands forward,...