Skills Assessment Challenge: 20 Yard Shots
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Ready to take on this Skills Challenge? If your technique is dialed in, you'll move up to 40 yard shots right away. If not, this drill will seem impossible!
The pitching skills assessment is all about consistency.
By now, you should be at one heck of a pitcher and chipper of the golf ball and a great putter as well.
And now what we're going to do is build on those skills that you've been working on.
And learn how to hit the exact same shot over and over again by learning how to use our core properly.
And that is the key to this drill.
What I have there is two chipping rings.
I have the three foot and the six foot.
And basically what you're trying to do is get to a hundred points.
And the way that you score points is each shot that flies into or hits the ring is worth a certain amount of points.
So for the smaller three foot chipping ring, we get five points for that.
And if you get into the six foot wider ring, you get one point for that.
And it has to fly in there.
Can't bounce in there.
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and learning how to use your core, which is going to be so fundamental to this drill.
You're going to have to learn to use your body that you've been working on already, But it's going to be even more important because this drill will be darn near impossible if you're trying to time this with your hands.
So all I'm trying to really feel here is rocking my shoulders back, pulling this back part of my rib cage back to open up, to stretch this part of the body, the core, because that's what's I'm going to fire on the way down to bring my arms, hands and shoulders back to the ball.
My arms and hands are very quiet.
I'm not trying to flip the club or do anything like that.
I'm using that goat arm position to keep the club face very quiet and very square through the strike, so that I'm not relying on timing.
I want to have the same repeatable stroke over and over again.
So you can have as many balls as you like.
I hit, you know, eight, seven, eight, nine, then I go for a walk, pick up the balls and come back.
I don't want to get in the habit of just kind of doing the exact same thing over and over again.
Golf isn't like that.
I don't want to practice like that.
So golf is you hit a shot and then you've got a break before you hit the next one.
So I try to make this relatively realistic, but I'm going to hit a pile of balls here.
I'm going to show you how we go through this drill and help you understand tendencies and misses and that type of stuff.
So I'm going to hit the ball relatively low.
You can alter the trajectory for based on the shot that you want to hit or what you like to practice.
I like practicing keeping that right wrist arched back and D loft in the club face, making sure I get good compression on the ball.
So that's what I'm going to hit here.
So these balls are going to land and then, of course, kick off the back of the green there into the bunker.
So, but that's perfectly fine.
Obviously again, you know, based on your practice area or kind of shots, you'd have to tend to hit at your comb club the most, you can alter this, but it's all about accuracy and consistency.
All I'm trying to do is hit it in that yellow ring every single time, get five points, get to a hundred and you are ready to move on to the next phase.
So now let's hit some here.
One point just missed the yellow ring.
Five points.
So I'm now up to six and this is how you're going to keep track.
Just kind of keep going through them and add up the total.
Seven.
Only got one point there.
I've got one in the middle.
So that's seven and five is 12.
Oh, I think I just missed that was close, but I'm going to only give myself 1.
13.
Oh, it's going to be short.
No good there.
Ah, just short of the yellow ring.
Only 1 .
14.
Short shoot wasted two there.
It's no good.
There we go.
All right.
So we've got the yellow ring there.
So 14, 19.
So averaging 19 on each one will take me five, uh, you know, five piles of seven, seven, eight balls at a time to get through this drill.
It may take you a lot longer.
It may take you less time, but the key is understanding how to move your body to get that club, to do the same thing every single time.
You may struggle a little bit with distance control.
It may be a little long, maybe a little bit short, but what you need to be able to do is get that club face to do the exact same thing, be pointing the exact same way.
And the way that you're going to do that is by engaging your core.
So it's really understanding, using your core to rotate back.
That's what moves my arms and hands back.
And then as I come down, I'm firing this part of the core that I stretched to, then bring my arms and hands and shoulders down, and then controlling that club face with my right hand.
So that the club face does the same thing through the ball every time.
So go through this, please post your, if you post a little practice session in the comments below, I'd love to take a look at it and see how you're doing.
And we'll help you out with anything we see that you might be doing wrong.
That's going to make this drill take a little bit longer.
Ryan
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Jeff
Chuck
William
Chuck
Patrick
Chuck
Patrick
Jim
Chuck