It’s the night before a competition and you fancy nipping along to the driving range to squeeze in one last practice, but how can you best use your time to help you perform well the following day?
The most important thing is to know what your personal keys to playing good golf are and focus on those. I would also advise not getting too caught up with technique the night before you play, and instead would suggest you apply my 80/20 rule, in which 80 per cent of any practice should focus on performance and only 20 per cent on technique.
It’s all about being clever with your range time, and managing it efficiently to give yourself the best possible chance of performing to your full potential. In this article, Golf Monthly Top 50 Coach Alistair Davies shares his expert tips, along with a few technique drills to fill that 20 per cent and help you play well when it matters…
1. Impact Fix
One of the things I like to do on the range the night before is get my impact position absolutely perfect. I have a drill called the ‘impact fix’, which involves taking your normal address position, then moving your body forwards into your impact position.
So move your body on to your lead side, rotate your torso, hips and knees and push the shaft forward to create shaft lean at impact. From this pre-set position, just hit little quarter-swing impact shots, trying to create the pressure on the golf ball you’re looking for and experience how your body should feel at impact.
This will help you get the right contact. I would urge you not to worry about swing positions the night before a competition. This is one of the best drills, so use it to make sure you’ve got good contact and control over the golf ball – ‘feels’ that you can then transport into the next day.
2. Driver Sharpener
If the course you’re playing doesn’t have a range, then it’s also good to sharpen up your driving the night before. One of the keys to getting your driving right is the angle of attack. Too many people hit down on the driver, costing them both yards and potentially accuracy too. This driver drill using a headcover will help.
Take your driver and put the headcover down on the mat in front of the ball – just a little over a driver’s width in front of it. The idea is to then hit drives without…
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