What do you do away from the course or range that helps you with your golf game?

Are you stretching, weights, swinging a club in the backyard, planning and thinking about rounds?

I try and run through my round the night before to get me excited for the following day’s play. Usually see myself getting off to a good start with a nice 3 wood down the centre of the fairway and then making a regulation par from there and it continues. Nothing steadfast but just a general feel for how I want to play each hole. I then try and visualise that memory again when I’m walking to the same tee the next day out on the course.

That’s about all I do. I’d like to do more. I think some stretching exercises would be a good idea a few times a week. Perhaps some mirror drills or something to work on posture would also be beneficial as I tend to lose that as my round progresses.

What do you guys do?

I’m a weekend hacker at the moment trying to improve my game, but the main focus I have away from the range / course is stretching. Every night I try to do 30min of legs / hips / arms / shoulders etc. Not always possible but if I aim for every night it can only do good things. I usually do a 5-10min warm up on the treadmill, just a brisk walk and then stretch. I figure I’d probably be sitting down watching the TV anyway so might as well lie on the floor and stretch, Been doing it for about one and half months and already starting to feel a lot better. I was about as flexible as a plank of wood when I started….!

Practise putt on the carpet, five cent piece from three to eight foot.

Only other thing I do is read and learn. Learn the technique to play different shots, learn how to think my way around a course. I can then implement these thoughts when I’m on the course / range. Youtube is great for instructional videos.

Well as I said, just a hacker but trying to improve.

Read ISG

Dream about a good round the night before.

Screw it up on the day.

Read ISG again for a remedy

Rinse and repeat.

Watch Foxtel.

I continue to re-read Ben Hogan’s 5 Fundamentals of Golf…..........

I used to hit thousands of balls a week, but now play 4 times a week instead, and since I stopped practicing I have stopped improving and tbh am starting to go backwards.

Have to find a balance maybe play twice a week practice twice a week.

I am becoming just another chopper off 9 who can play to it once a week, if that.

Away from the course? Nothing

Know how you feel, I haven’t been practicing and my average drive has dropped to 299 meters. It’s very frustrating and really looks bad for me.

Read ISG

Dream about a good round the night before.

Screw it up on the day.

Read ISG again for a remedy

Rinse and repeat.

Ghetto train – get on it.
Bandit express.

Winner C grade OOM #3 Patterson River.

very true…...

I like to have a beer and dart when I’m away from the course….

I like to hit my 3 wood 300 m grouped to say 4 m before i leave the place where they hit balls away for no apparent reason.

Go hard or go home.

Sorry to the OP, not a damn thing apart from talk fishing and drinking dribble on a golf forum

What do I do away from the course?

None of your bloody business !

I hit balls into a net on the rare occassion, but that isn’t good for your game according to ONE !
I run around the cricket field to keep fit atm.
Drink alot of red too.
Jon…

I like to have a beer and dart when I’m away from the course….

“I work with retards, Those goofy bastards are about the best thing I’ve got going.” – Pat Healy – “There’s Something About Mary”

You back on the darts??
Tut tut

I make beer, then i drink my beer.
And i look on golf sites at all the stuff i cant afford.

Oh, and I also do what Getto does

I make beer, then i drink my beer.
And i look on golf sites at all the stuff i cant afford.

Oh, and I also do what Getto does

2011 C Grade Champion Vic ISG Round #4 OOM Keysborough Golf Club
2012 B Grade Champion Paterson River ISG OOM Round #3
2012 ISG Matchplay Champion

http://www.golflink.com.au/...

Oh no…...........you have the shanks ? :-)

I hit balls into a net on the rare occassion, but that isn’t good for your game according to ONE !
I run around the cricket field to keep fit atm.
Drink alot of red too.
Jon…

you can run???

i play touch footy winter and summer comps
im a marquee signing

I make beer, then i drink my beer.
And i look on golf sites at all the stuff i cant afford.

Oh, and I also do what Getto does

2011 C Grade Champion Vic ISG Round #4 OOM Keysborough Golf Club
2012 B Grade Champion Paterson River ISG OOM Round #3
2012 ISG Matchplay Champion

http://www.golflink.com.au/...

Oh no……........you have the shanks ? :-)

won a ball on sunday in mixed comp

I hope not, shank you very much.

But to answer the OP’s topic, and weak attempt to bring discussion back on line, practise swings in the garage/yard. Practise putting on the carpet to a coin. Concentrate on getting square impact, distance control is wasted considering carpet rolls differently. Chipping into a basket with different trajectories imitating flop(half flops anyways, bump n run and chip and release. Also watch videos of my swing.

Head to the gym three or four times a weak, plus physio exercises every night for 30mins – that’s just for my bad back!

If the kids let me, then some chipping and putting.

These days, seeing as I’m not getting any younger, (despite retaining my youthful, boyish, good looks) ......I now exercise religiously each day.

I do my “sit ups” seven days a week (I sit up once in the morning, and then lay back down again each evening).

I also do the odd stretch …. (usually when retrieving my dart, after dropping it on course when it was my turn to either tee off or putt.)

I also lift weights … (my golf bag in and out of the car at least once a day.)

I am also quite heavily into yoga …..... You’ll often see me on course these days, balancing on one foot with my other foot up near my knee (busy cleaning out some kangaroo crap from between my spikes)

Aside from the above physical exercises I also work these days on my pre shot routine, which I think is crucial to playing you’re best golf.

My aim is to get it refined to a reliable, concise and efficient three step process,

Eg, Step 1 …..see the distance required, Step 2 .. go to my golf bag. Step 3 …... quickly run thru my patented “eeny, meeny, miney mo”, club selection process.

I make beer, then i drink my beer.
And i look on golf sites at all the stuff i cant afford.

Oh, and I also do what Getto does

2011 C Grade Champion Vic ISG Round #4 OOM Keysborough Golf Club
2012 B Grade Champion Paterson River ISG OOM Round #3
2012 ISG Matchplay Champion

http://www.golflink.com.au/...

Oh no……........you have the shanks ? :-)

won a ball on sunday in mixed comp

Shanks are goneski, Codles

Hit an impact bag. Putt over a 5 cent piece – 10 in a row or start again. Pitch to a golf or girl mag 10 in a row or start again.

If at first you don’t succeed read one of the mags. One will improve you mind, one will improve your touch.

I give it a few of these one:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...