Who? Me? I’m just trying to point it straight. Welcome back to 15-minute golf drills. Today we’re going to be talking about an intermediate target. How we’re going to pick it out and what exactly it does. Could not recommend this more to do this for every single swing on the golf course. It truly makes a difference. If you’re out there just pointing your shot all willy-nilly, not quite making it exact, it’s going to be tough to predict where it goes. In my own particular golf game, I do this for every single shot except for when I putt from driver all the way down to chipping. All an intermediate target is is something on the ground two to 5t out in front of you directly on line with where you want that golf ball to finish. Make it easier to see. I’ve got a cone here. The way we’re going to go about this is when we’re on the course, we are going to step behind the golf ball directly on line with where we want the ball to finish. We are going to pick something on the ground two to five feet out in front of us that we can aim our shot over. More specifically, our club face. Club face is king, especially on the golf course. The golf ball is going to go where the club face is pointed. Promise there’s always going to be something out there. A leaf, a change in coloration in the grass, a divot, you name it. There’s always something to aim at. Unless you’re playing Augusta, that place is perfect. It might be tough there. After you’ve got that intermediate target, our entire goal is to make sure that the club face is pointed at that target first face and club face only to begin with. Once you feel like that club face is pointed perfectly at your intermediate target, then we will look down range to see if it’s pointed somewhere near where we want the ball to finish. After you’ve got the club face pointed, then we will take our golf stance. Before you take your swing, check the club face one or two more times, making sure that club face is pointed at the intermediate target and then tracing your eyes to the intermediate target and where you want the ball to finish. You’ve got confirmation that you’re pointed properly. Go ahead and hit it. Being an intermediate target, even on small shots like chipping, can make a huge difference. Because if you’re to just get up here and guess, I’m going to point at those blue barrels, and you look out there and you point randomly, yeah, you might be pointed at them. Also probably aren’t pointed at them. Practice with alignment sticks. But when we move to the golf course, we’ve got to get good at picking that intermediate target. Make sure to like, comment, follow, share for more. Let me know in the comments down below what you want to talk about
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Honestly probably would have saved me a couple strokes last round.
Above and below the toes lies.
I do this and it was a game changer for me when I started doing it especially on the tee box with the big stick. I would add that in order to crank up the accuracy a notch when I look at my intermediate target I am also sometimes thinking left edge, right edge, or right down the middle and this is especially useful if you are someone who can work the ball a little bit both directions! To me, unless maybe you’re pro and don’t have to, you aren’t really golfing if you are not using an intermediate target