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A Quick Drill For Consistent Shots Creating consistent shots in golf is a must. What happens with a lot of players is that, as you look from down the line, the golf club has a tendency to get too vertical on the downswing. It leads to taking too much turf, steep divots, and a ball spinning off to the right.  All of this is influenced by your setup. For example, if you have too much bend in the upper body, and the arms are extended far away from the body, there is a lot of tilt. This causes the golf club to get too vertical on the backswing, which will also create the steepness in the downswing, sticking the club into the ground, and the arms tend to reverse rotate.  So by standing taller at address and getting the end of the golf club pouring more toward your belt buckle, that will put you in an ideal position from address. However, this doesn’t mean that your swing will get more rounded to produce a consistent shot, so a simple drill can help. The 15, 10, 5 Drill First take a practice shot with the ball 15 inches above the ground. By swinging so high you have a nice rounded swing, almost like a baseball swing, and after swinging through, it allows you to square up the clubface. Next move to 10 inches above the ground, around and through, then 5, around and through, then on the tee, making sure the end of the golf club is pointed at your belt buckle.

When you’re putting the ball on greens that are spiked or bumpy, the most important thing to remember is that you need to control golf ball both at the moment of impact - and immediately after.

When putting with a regular putting stroke, the ball has practically no spin when it leaves the club head. So for the first several inches (depending on the length of your putt) the ball is really just skidding along. Then it picks up it’s own rotation and rolls towards the hole.

The problem is that when you try this standard putting on a green that is unusually bumpy the lack of spin becomes a big issue. There is a high risk that the ball may hit something small on the way and deflect from the target, long before it creates its own inertia. Being knocked off just a half an inch in the beginning will translate into a miss by a few feet by the time it reaches the hole.

The Solution

To develop the control you need when putting on bumpy greens, try to putt the ball with an upswing. This may sound like a small change in the way you stroke the ball, but hitting with an upswing will give the ball over-spin from the time it leaves the club head. This over-spin will help the ball to remain on target, especially during those first few crucial inches.