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In this video, golf's biggest YouTuber Rick Shiels walks you through his ultimate 30 minute range session. Starting with the basics around the technique, he then moves onto into some of the games and challenges you can take on at the range that will improve your overall skill set. Use Rick's framework to power boost your game for the year ahead.
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00:00oh I've leaked it hang on ball I want it to feel like your heart is racing
00:06certainly on the last few shots because that's how you're going to best develop your skills
00:10all right guys Rick Shields here top 50 coach for golf monthly and today I'm going to show
00:21you a 30-minute power boost range session to get you ready for this season to have the best
00:28golfing season you've ever had so let's hit the clock 30 minutes we're gonna break this up into
00:33three different elements the first 10 minutes is all going to be about getting your basics correct
00:39things like alignment ball position and technique I'll somewhat say the boring stuff let's go through
00:46that first even though it's boring it's incredibly important first thing I want you to do is get a
00:52couple of long golf clubs out your bag something like the three of them four iron and we're going
00:57to use one of the golf clubs for an alignment aid and another golf club for a ball position aid
01:04you'll even still see right now some of the best players in the world when they practice they will
01:10have ball position aids out and alignments like it's so unbelievably important what we to do with this
01:18alignment one on the ground I want you to pick a target so I'm going to go for that blue flag that's
01:23just to the right of the 100 marker I'm going to put this club just running parallel to the left of
01:29that line I'm then going to make sure this club is at perfect right angles to the club on the ground
01:36because we're going to use I'm just going to use something quite lofted to start things off like a
01:40pitching wedge we're going to use the club that's on the ground here to use as a reference point for
01:48our alignment you can see there my right foot and my left foot are perfectly spaced between that club
01:55and then this club on the ground we're using mainly for ball position so for a pitching wedge I've got
02:00that absolutely smack bang in the middle of my stance if anything it's just a reminder it's almost
02:07setting that kind of default setting back to make sure that you're not getting out of place with where you
02:13aim or where your ball position is going to be so what I would do from here then is hit a few shots
02:19to warm up and also just to get your eye in so I've got my alignment I've got my ball position
02:27and I can work on a few nice easy shots
02:33and it's not not always like me I just hit that exactly over that blue flag that I was aiming for so
02:38that gives me a lot of confidence that my alignment is absolutely spot on and each time when you address
02:44the ball almost step out of that mould and come back in again don't get lazy so I'm going to hit
02:50about 10 shots doing this making sure this drill is absolutely nailed on to start things off
03:08okay so I'm really happy with that I feel like I've got my eye in for my ball position
03:24and my alignment the next thing to work on is your technique again I'm going to be honest with you the
03:30slightly boring stuff but we want to get out of a practice session we want to improve even if it's by
03:36one percent even less than one percent as long as every time we go to the range we improve by that
03:41little amount now the best way is in person lessons go and see a coach work on techniques that you need
03:47to work on or there's a few youtube channels out there obviously golf monthly is all my own where you
03:53can pick up on some golf tips and what I'd also recommend to get hold of is something like this this is
04:00uh basically a try a monopod with a little stand on the end and you can attach your phone to this
04:05handle I'm going to set my phone up and just take a few videos of my swing so I can have a look at my
04:10technique in slow motion top tips have the camera placed at waist height and have the angle of the
04:16phone in between where your feet are going to sit and where the ball is going to sit the reason why we
04:22have that position in is because if the angle of the phone is too far to the right
04:26or too far behind you the actual path of your club coming down will look totally different almost the
04:33aspect ratio just will look totally wrong so making sure that phone position is at waist height
04:38and in between your feet and the ball pretty much in line with your hands is the perfect location
04:44and this is where I'm going to get a little bit more technical so for myself
04:47I'm working on keeping that club face more closed going back so this is my main focus right now I'm
04:53almost forgetting result for a minute and focusing solely on this point in my golf swing exaggerating
05:00that feeling I'm not too worried about where the shot's going to go this is the the technique element
05:08of your practice session exaggerating that move
05:23and then looking at your phone and getting that feedback so what I like about this now I'm getting
05:27that instant feedback I can see the feeling that I'm getting from that swing is matching up with the
05:34actual reality of my club face being more closed or more square exactly what I'm working on you know
05:40I love about this as well I'll often send this to a friend or I'll post it online or even send it to the
05:45golf coach I've been working with just to get that kind of feedback or sometimes I don't know if it's a
05:51real true practice session if you've not actually shared it on social media makes you just feel a
05:55little bit better about yourself that everyone's not practicing and you are you're getting better
05:59this is invaluable feedback we've all got these in our pockets now use it it definitely helps
06:08okay so that is the housekeeping stuff done they're the things that will definitely help
06:12you start your practice session off well I mentioned earlier a bit of the boring stuff but very very
06:19important stuff right next up it's time to test yourself I've got a few really simple games here that
06:26you can do this with so the phone goes away the monopod goes away these clubs get put back in the
06:31bag because now it's time if you start getting in the zone of doing some testing yourself games
06:37I've got three really good ones the first one is a distance challenge game so start off with one of
06:43your irons now what I want you to do is think about when you practice you want to improve on your
06:48weaknesses you don't want to just practice all the time your strengths because there's no massive value in
06:53that you're already good at that practice your weaker shot so for example my weaker shots I'm not
06:58particularly very good from 100 yards and in so that's what I'm going to practice here and dead
07:02simply I'm going to grab my sand wedge quite a lofty golf club and I'm going to set myself a task
07:08I want to hit 10 shots in a row and each shot I want to gradually be further than the last shot
07:16if I fail in that task and I hit a shot that's too short
07:20I've got to start again now there's two ways of doing this you can do this visually at driving
07:25range or a practice ground down here at the driving range we've got the technology here of top tracer
07:31so I'm going to reset all that and I'm going to work on the carry distances each time being a little
07:37bit further than the last let's see if we can get 10 in a row that accomplishes that feat so the first shot
07:44I'm going to hit about 25 yards is the goal and 25 yards is the shot I hit so I'm really happy with
07:56that start so the next shot I want to hit past 25 yards but I don't hit it too long something in
08:03the 30s low 30s would be an incredible start to this challenge
08:12it should be good 31 okay so really strong start I'm going to go kind of 40 yards for the next one
08:19oh a bit heavy
08:28oh I got away with it 33 yards we've done three in a row so far let's see if we can get 10.
08:43that's strong
09:01oh right we failed we managed to get one two three four five six seven eight oh we almost got up to
09:10nine and then we failed but that's good because it means now I've got something to work on
09:16the big thing is as well is track your result get your phone have a little notepad in your golf bag
09:22and say this time I managed to do eight out of ten because next time you've got something to work on
09:28right next challenge is all about controlling trajectory starting off low and aiming to try
09:34and hit it higher so again similar to last time you can either use your visual perspective of how high
09:39these shots are going to go or using technology like top tracer I'm going to now move up to my seven
09:44iron and the minimum yards I've got to hit this is 100 yards so I can't just chip it 50 yards in front
09:50of me but I'm going to start off by doing is hitting it super super low as low as I can possibly hit a
09:55seven iron and then each time just trying to change the trajectory a little bit until we finish actually
10:01trying to hit it super super high again a bit like the last challenge if we can do 10 in a row
10:07it's an amazing achievement so let's see how we get on it's got to go minimum 100 yards I'm going to
10:12start really low so there's a couple of things you can do here from a technique standpoint as well
10:17to hit a seven iron lower ball position further back in the stance hands further forward and one
10:23thing that creates height is speed speed and loft increase height so we're going to decrease the loft
10:30and hit it softer slower and let's start off nice and low then try and hit a little low 100 yard seven iron
10:42that's a really really low flight
10:46it's gone a bit longer than 100 yards 125 yards and it went 48 feet in the air the next shot we're going
10:53to go slightly higher but again it's got to go over 100 yards so this time i'm going to hit the ball a
10:58tiny bit faster than the last shot just to get that height that's a nice strike there we go we've
11:11elevated the shot by 10 feet so now we're going to go a little bit higher similar ball position a tiny bit
11:17faster
11:22so the first three i've done very good so far and we just tweak this a little bit change the trajectory
11:27i'm going to put the ball position slightly more towards the middle of my stance because that's
11:31going to bring the loft back to its more natural setting but i'm still going to hit this super soft
11:43might be higher though yeah 52
11:48okay middle of stance i'm going to go a little bit faster this time
11:52so i've done six so far and successfully got to this stage i'm now going to move the ball position
12:01a little bit further up in my stance again to increase the loft this is going to be interesting
12:07i'm going to hit this over 90 feet it's starting to get quite high now
12:11that should be good this is good in practice because i've got to shot number seven now i'm starting
12:24to feel the pressure i want to get to number 10 and it's good to practice under pressure keep the ball
12:29position forward and we go a little bit more speed we've got to try and get over 104 feet in the air
12:35there easy okay two more to go 118 to beat ball position forward almost maximum speed
12:52okay last shot in the 10 ball position forward maximum speed as hard as and fast as i can hit it
13:00and the last little sprinkle of magic finish with really really high hands because it keeps a loft on
13:07the face i've got to beat 132 feet i'm going to send this to the moon
13:18and that is 10 successful shots each going higher than the last last challenge to test yourself the
13:27driver it's going to be so dead simple this 10 shots and you're going to picture a fairway how
13:33many times can you hit the fairway and again great ways of doing this out in the golf driving range here
13:38you can pick a couple of flags there's two flags a yellow one on the right a yellow on the left and
13:42i can picture that as my fairway or using top tracer i've come here on the long drive driving range
13:49fairway effectively i'm gonna hit 10 shots and see how many times consecutively i can hit the fairway
13:55how many out of 10 should i say i can get and again this is great you can note it down on your
14:00phone or in a little notebook and each time try and improve on your previous score right let's go
14:06what i want to try and get out of this as a practice session and for everybody watching is
14:11i want it to feel like nervous i want it to feel like your heart is racing certainly on the last few
14:16shots because that's how you're going to best develop your skills and how taking your game from
14:21the driving range to out on the golf course let's go 10 shots i'm somewhat even nervous on the first
14:27shot feels like a first tee first tee nerves type of vibe because you want to start strong i'm picking
14:33my line i'm really visualizing where i'm going to hit this and let's start off straight down the middle
14:39of the fairway that should be a very good start one out of one
14:58might be a tiny bit right should be good just but we're on the fairway i'm not trying to hit these as
15:05hard as i can but these are all fairway finding drives that was a little bit high and definitely
15:24got affected by the wind but i'm not looking for distance i'm looking for accuracy that's four out of
15:29four so far right this is the point where it starts to feel a bit more nervous i've just hit six
15:44really good drives there straight down the fairway we've got four more to go to get 10 out of 10.
15:51the old heart is pumping this is what we want we want that excitement we want that kind of nerves
15:55can i finish strong this is coming down the straight i've got a good round of golf going can i keep hitting
16:02fairways it's not my best but it's straight down the middle straight down the middle three to go
16:14oh i've leaked it we might have missed the first fairway hang on ball hang on oh god look here that
16:28wasn't my best shot the old nerves started twitching but this is good this is what you want in a practice
16:34session two more to go okay this is it last shot again they've not all been pretty they've not all
16:48been perfect this is the one i'm on for a record score 10 out of 10 can i finish this is walking down
16:56the 18th hole you've got a good round of golf going you just want to finish strong you want to hit that
17:01great tee shot well this hard work on the driving range will help you next time you get in that situation
17:09heart is pumping hands are twitching can i finish with a 10 out of 10
17:19hang on to that right hand side oh it's absolutely perfect that is good that's good practice i feel
17:26motivated with that and next time i get on the golf course i can't imagine hitting it anywhere
17:31else apart from straight down the middle of the fairway right next up let's challenge someone else
17:40right the last section of your practice here at the driving range is to challenge somebody else
17:47whether that's a friend or whether it's actually just someone else at the driving range ask them if
17:50they fancy a bit of a competition this is a way that you can put everything you've just worked on
17:55for the first two sections of this practice session into a more realistic setting so you can do
18:00things like nearest the pin challenges who can hit it closest whether it's at a target at the driving
18:05range or again using top tracer technology or whether it's a longest drive challenge against each
18:11other and you could even finally pretend you're playing a hole again either on the range by using
18:17different targets or why not jump on one of the most famous holes in the world using top tracer and you
18:24know what why not make it a bit spicy as well the loser has to do a forfeit whether that's clean the other
18:30one's golf shoes or even simply carry the other golfers clubs back to the car make it mean something
18:37because then you're going to at least try your best and it matters like you want that bit of nerves you
18:43want that bit of excitement to definitely put you in the right frame of mind that is how you power boost
18:49your practice session ready for a great season get out there work hard in your golf game because
18:55believe me when you're playing well you'll enjoy it a lot more we'll see you next time
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