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This drill video is Avoid Lazy Aiming.

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So many students, many golfers that I have, I have kind of an indoor/outdoor

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performance

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studio.

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It's got, you know, it's kind of aimed at a specific spot on the driving range.

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I'll have people hitting there, just casually hitting, and then I'll ask them

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to deliberately

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aim at a target.

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There might be just a few degrees away from where the building is aimed, and

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they'll often

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struggle.

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These are the same golfers that when we go on the course, if a T-box is aimed

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to the left

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or to the right, they have a hard time recognizing it and they aim with the T-

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box.

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So one of the concepts here is we're going to try to avoid lazy aiming.

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I want you to make it a habit that whenever you go to the driving range, if

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they have mats

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then you are never going to aim exactly where the mat is pointing.

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So I am never going to be perfectly square to the framework of the mat.

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I might be one or two degrees to the left, or I might be one or two degrees to

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the right,

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but I want to get used to the edge of the mat not being perfectly square.

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If I want to put an alignment stick down, I'm okay with that.

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It just won't be parallel to the end of the mat.

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Now, if you're practicing off grass, we don't have this constraint.

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We don't have the laziness of aiming here, but we can still have a laziness of

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not picking

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targets.

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Now, if you are working purely on mechanics and you're not getting ready to

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take this

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to the course, then I'm not too worried about where you're aimed and where you

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're hitting

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it.

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But that should only be a small portion of your practice, especially if it's

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more of

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a warm-up and you're getting ready to go play.

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If you're trying to transfer this to the course, then I need to be picking a

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specific target

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and I want to practice giving myself visual challenges, not making it easier on

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myself.

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So if this was my mat, this box I've got it aimed pretty much at that bunker.

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So now if I wanted to aim at the blue flag, now visually, this looks like I'm

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aimed sideways

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compared to the mat, but I've double checked it with my fields and my visuals

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compared

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to the target.

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This will help me make a more confident swing on the course when I have a

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little bit more

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of an uncomfortable aim.

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So now we're aimed at that blue flag.

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Caught my neck a little bit on that one, heard the sprinklers going off.

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Golfers always have good excuses.

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Those are my two.

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All right.

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The competitor in me wants to try it again, but the teacher in me says, "You

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know what?

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I don't want to give into it that easy.

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I'm going to now pick a different target."

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So now I'm going to aim right of that bunker.

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So I'm aiming what feels like right of this box on the ground.

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And I got it just, it's a tiny bit left on my target, it's still right of the

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bunker,

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so it was a good shot.

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I was happy with that.

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And it accomplished my goal of not having a lazy aim.

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Now I'll give myself a second try at the left blue and white pole.

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So I'm aiming there.

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This does visually look distracting, but I can still get committed by into the

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shot.

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And that's not bad, just a tiny bit left of the blue flag, but pretty happy

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with that.

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I'm going to wrap it up before my equipment gets wet.

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If you are struggling with taking your range game to the course, it could be a

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result of

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your process and part of your process is aiming.

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So when you're practicing, always pick a target and you don't make it easily,

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easily, visually.

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And what I refer to as lazy aiming.