Research-backed practice plans, drill breakdowns, and motor-learning notes from the PracticeCaddie team. No fluff — just what actually moves your handicap on Sunday.
A shank is hosel contact, not an open face. Here are the real causes, the diagnostic drill that finds yours, and a four-week protocol that fixes it.
An over-the-top move throws the club outside the line for an out-to-in path — the engine behind most slices. Here's the cause, the drills, and a 4-week fix.
A hybrid is played more like an iron than a wood: a slightly descending strike, ball just forward of center, small divot. Here's the setup, data, and gapping.
Force plates show 'weight shift' is mostly a pressure shift to the lead foot. Here's what good players do, the three faults that wreck it, and how to fix yours.
Early extension is the pelvis thrusting toward the ball as you stand up out of posture. TPI finds it in 67% of amateurs. Here's the cause and the fix.
Fairway woods reward a shallow, slightly-down strike with ball-then-turf contact. Here's the setup, the launch-monitor data, and when to bag the 3-wood.
Your stance sets your base and your posture sets your spine angle. Here is how to build an athletic, repeatable setup for every club, and the faults to avoid.
Amateurs make under 40% of putts from 6 to 9 feet, mostly from misreading break and speed. How to read greens: the physics, AimPoint, grain, and a routine.
Ball position sets the low point of your swing, which controls strike and launch. Here is where to play the ball for every club, wedge to driver.
Your grip sets the clubface, the biggest factor in where the ball starts. Here's how to grip a golf club: the 3 styles, grip strength, and pressure.
Putting is one-sixth of your scoring story. Here's what Strokes Gained: Putting measures, the make-rate data by distance, and where amateurs lose strokes.
Clubhead speed comes from your kinematic sequence, lead-leg ground force, and trained power. Here's the biomechanics plus a 6-week plan that adds 2-5 mph.
Approach shots are 40% of the gap between average and elite Tour pros. What Strokes Gained: Approach measures, the proximity data, and how to fix yours.
Strokes Gained isolates where you actually lose strokes by category. Here's what each metric measures, what amateur data shows, and which leak to fix first.
Driver is 14 swings per round and the smallest SG-loss category. Here's the weekly golf practice plan that allocates time where strokes actually leak.
PGA Tour averages 116 mph off the driver, scratch amateurs 110, mid-handicaps 95. The benchmarks by age and handicap, plus how to add 2-5 mph in 6-8 weeks.
Iron shanks are hosel contact driven by early extension, lie-angle drift, and hand-path errors. Here's the diagnostic, drills, and 4-week fix plan.
Lag putting drills that cut three-putts: Faxon's look-at-the-hole stroke, Stockton's intermediate spot, Kenyon's metronome, Utley's underhand toss, and more.
Course management is decision cost: strokes lost to target and club choices, not your swing. Here are the five highest-cost amateur decisions in golf.
The 12–14 second pre-shot routine rule isn't supported by primary data. Here's what 22,579 European Tour shots reveal — and how to train yours.
A shank is hosel contact, not an open face. Here are the real causes, the diagnostic drill that finds yours, and a four-week protocol that fixes it.
The golf mental game has three measurable levers: arousal, routine, focus. Here's what the peer-reviewed research says — and how to train each one.
Long irons punish slow swings and steep attack angles. Here's the setup, the swing, and the Shot Scope data that tells you when to bag a hybrid instead.
Most golfers practice hard and never improve. The 5-step framework — commit, diagnose, focus, root-cause, three practice modes — is what actually does.
Amateur golfers save about 17% of bunker shots; PGA Tour pros sit near 50%. Here's the setup, the five drills, and a 4-week protocol that closes the gap.
Ball striking is low-point control, strike location, and attack angle. Eight drills with named origins, success criteria, and the data behind them.
Putting is where amateurs leak the most strokes inside 30 feet. These ten golf putting drills — Faxon, Kenyon, Utley, Stockton, AimPoint — fix the leak.
Tour distance leaders draw it. Here's the setup, five drills, and a 4-week protocol that build an on-demand draw without collapsing into a hook.
Topping happens when your swing's low point sits behind the ball. Here's what causes it, the drills that fix it, and a four-week protocol that makes it stick.
Amateurs leak more strokes around the green than anywhere else. These ten golf chipping drills — Pelz, Utley, Mickelson, and tour standards — fix it.
Tour pros hold a 3:1 backswing-to-downswing ratio at every speed; most amateurs are 4:1 or slower. Here are eight drills that fix your golf tempo.
Tour pros hit fades on 50% of drives. Here's the setup, drills, and 4-week protocol that builds an on-demand fade with tighter dispersion than a draw.
A bucket of balls is not a drill. Here are ten golf practice drills used by tour coaches, each with a named origin, a success criterion, and the data.
Block practice feels productive but transfers worse than random practice. Here's the research — and how to design a session that actually moves your handicap.
Most range time trains the wrong skill for your handicap. Here are three driving range practice routines built from real on-course data, by skill level.
Around 60% of amateurs slice. Here's what actually causes it, the drills that fix it, and a 4-week structured practice plan that makes the fix stick.
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