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3 On Course Drills

Here are three drills you can use on the course, mid-round, that don't overcomplicate or cause you to over analyze. Simple, straightforward, easy to replicate drills that target three major areas of the golf swing.

Here are 3 drills you can take to the course. We often associate a drill as something that has to be performed at the driving range but what about those times when your game has slipped off the rails mid-round and you need something- anything- to get it back on track.

Here are three drills you can use on the course, mid-round, that don’t overcomplicate or cause you to over analyze. Simple, straightforward, easy to replicate drills that target three major areas of the golf swing.

17 Comments

  1. Joe. Allison

    October 28, 2018 at 9:08 am

    Great tips, they work. Thanks, Joe Allison

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    • Quite The Chap

      October 28, 2018 at 5:41 pm

      Thanks Joe! Thanks for tuning in! Anything in particular you’d like to see?

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      • don stage

        October 30, 2018 at 12:04 pm

        More work your way to scratch games.

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    • Otis Regatoni

      July 27, 2019 at 6:48 pm

      Q the Chap,
      I just think of Pamela Anderson- cures my mid round woos.

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  2. Robert

    October 30, 2018 at 7:10 am

    These tips work great on the course to keep your swing consistent.

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    • Quite The Chap

      October 30, 2018 at 7:10 pm

      Thanks Robert, happy to hear it’s workin’!

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  3. don stage

    October 30, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    Perfect set of 3, I also do these holding 2 clubs to increase the feel as I warm up. I have 1. addition, John Jacobs said to feel like your hands get to the ball at the same time as or slightly ahead of the right knee. I use the club head getting to the ball before the right groin instead but the idea is the same. Something to sync up the hands/club head and the lower body.

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    • Quite The Chap

      October 30, 2018 at 7:12 pm

      That’s some great insight, thanks Don. John definitely knows what he’s talking about!

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  4. Mike DuMont

    February 11, 2019 at 9:42 am

    I find your tips and instructive presentations to be very simple yet extremely helpful to my game.
    Many thanks and keep them coming.

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    • Quite The Chap

      February 12, 2019 at 11:52 am

      Thanks Mike, more on the way!

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  5. dafydd maddox

    April 22, 2019 at 10:12 am

    did nothing for my putting!

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  6. Elwood M White

    July 26, 2019 at 1:44 pm

    We start thinking about the Cheeseburger after the round, that helps focus on finishing the round so we can get done and enjoy the burger.

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  7. Ed Fernandez

    September 26, 2019 at 7:21 pm

    Colby,

    Love the tips, drills, and just plain common sense information that you bring to the table. It also doesn’t hurt to have a great sense of humor, as I believe that in order to play, and enjoy, the game of golf, you MUST have a sense of humor. It is just too cruel a sport not to be able to laugh at yourself every once in awhile, although I do prefer to laugh at others while on the course. Thanks for your passion for the game of golf and your efforts to help us become better golfers.

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  8. Mark Turner

    September 27, 2019 at 6:28 am

    Since you’re asking for drills, here’s one I use on course on occasion. As an older player who has lost flexibility (and needs to spend more time with the golf yogi), I occasionally develop a problem with sliding back and forward during the swing or collapsing my right leg, both seemingly to get more rotation or oomph but which make it difficult to make consistent solid contact and is much more likely to cause a loss of distance/accuracy than it is gains. Therefore, I devised a simple and easy drill to help me catch this and get back to rotating instead of swaying. First, I pick an object, preferably tall and thin (a flagstick is perfect) that is relatively close to me (at least much closer than it’s background) and that has some sort of farther away background (not open sky) like trees, etc. I then take a normal stance and do easy swings while looking up with my eyes (not my head) and watch to see if the closer object (flagstick, whatever) is moving relative to the background. If you’re swaying back on the backswing, the pin will move the opposite direction relative to the background (to your left for a right-handed golfer) and then reverse when you come back to the ball. If the pin stays relatively motionless, then you aren’t sliding. Anyway, for me this is a quick and simple means of getting back to rotating instead of sliding/collapsing. P.S. Really enjoy the tips. Thanks!

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  9. Brian Mitchell

    April 20, 2023 at 1:59 pm

    Great stuff, Quite The Chap! I will take those 3 tips with me to the range later. Thank you!!!!

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  10. Mike McAteer

    June 4, 2023 at 11:54 am

    I have always been a very good putter but a while back i developed the yips where i couldn’t pull the trigger and started stabbing at the ball. I went to cross handed and have been much better but I now have a tendency to pull the putt. Cross handed has never seemed natural to me I seem to over power the putt with my left hand but when I try my normal grip I start stabbing at the ball. I would like to go back to my natural grip and not be afraid to putt.

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