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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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00:02oh 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
00:16all 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 going to break this up
00:33into three 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
01:23flag that's
01:23just to the right of the 100 marker I'm going to put this club just running parallel to the left
01:29of
01:29that line I'm then going to make sure this club is at perfect right angles to the club on the
01:36ground
01:36because we're going to use I'm just going to use something quite lofted to start things off like a
01:41pitching 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
01:54and 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
02:12where you aim or where your ball position is going to be so what I would do from here then
02:17is hit a few
02:19shots to warm up and also just to get your eye in so I've got my alignment I've got my
02:23ball 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
02:38for
02:38so that gives me a lot of confidence that my alignment is absolutely spot on and each time
02:44when you address the ball almost step out of that mold and come back in again don't get lazy
02:49so I'm going to hit about 10 shots doing this making sure this drill is absolutely nailed on to start
02:56things off
03:18okay so I'm really happy with that I feel like I've got my eye in from my ball position and
03:24my alignment
03:25the next thing to work on is your technique again I'll be honest with you the slightly
03:31boring stuff but we want to get out of a practice session we want to improve even if it's by
03:35one percent even less than one percent as long as every time we go to the range we improve by
03:41that
03:41little amount now the best way is in person lessons go and see a coach work on techniques that
03:47you need to work on or there's a few youtube channels out there obviously golf month Liz or my own
03:53where you can pick up on some golf tips and what I'd also recommend to get hold of
03:58is something like this this is a basically try a monopod with a little stand on the end
04:04and you can attach your phone to this handle I'm going to set my phone up and just take a
04:08few videos
04:08of my swing so I can have a look at my technique in slow motion top tips have the camera
04:13placed at
04:14waist height and have the angle of the phone in between where your feet are going to sit
04:19and where the ball is going to sit the reason why we have that positioning is because if the angle
04:24of the phone is too far to the right or too far behind you the actual path of your club
04:30coming down
04:30will look totally different almost the aspect ratio just will look totally wrong so making sure that
04:36phone position is at waist height and in between your feet and the ball pretty much in line with
04:41your hands is the perfect location and this is where I'm going to get a little bit more technical
04:46so for myself I'm working on keeping that clubface more closed going back so this is my main focus
04:52right now I'm almost forgetting result for a minute and focusing solely on this point in my golf swing
04:59exaggerating that feeling
05:03I'm not too worried about where the shot's going to go this is the the technique element of your practice
05:13session
05:15exaggerating 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 clubface being more closed or more square which is exactly what I'm working on
05:40you know I love about this as well I'll often send this to a friend or I'll post it online
05:44or even send it to
05:45the golf coach I've been working with just to get that kind of feedback or sometimes I don't know if
05:50it's a
05:51real true practice session if you've not actually shared it on social media makes you just feel a little
05:55bit better about yourself that everyone's not practicing and you are you're getting better this is
06:00invaluable 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 you start your
06:13practice session off well I mentioned earlier a little boring stuff but very very important stuff
06:20right next up it's time to test yourself I've got a few really simple games here that you can do
06:26this
06:26with so the phone goes away the monopod goes away these clubs get put back in the bag because now
06:32it's time if you'd start getting in the zone of doing some testing yourself games I've got three
06:38really good ones the first one is a distance challenge game so start off with one of your irons now
06:44what I want you to do is think about when you practice you want to improve on your weaknesses
06:48you don't want to just practice all the time your strengths because there's no massive value in that
06:53you'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
07:03simply I'm going to grab my sand wedge you're quite a lofty golf club and I'm going to set myself
07:07a task
07:08I want to hit 10 shots in a row and each shot I want to gradually be further than the
07:15last shot
07:16if I fail in that task and I hit a shot that's too short I've got to start again now
07:22there's two
07:23ways of doing this you can do this visually at driving range or a practice ground down here at
07:28the driving range we've got the technology here of top tracer so I'm going to reset all that and
07:33I'm going to work on the carry distances each time being a little bit further than the last
07:39let's see if we can get 10 in a row that accomplishes that feat so the first shot I'm going
07:45to hit about
07:4625 yards is the goal
07:52and 25 yards is the shot I hit so I'm really happy with that start so the next shot I
07:58want to hit past
07:5925 yards but I don't hit it too long something in the 30s low 30s would be an incredible start
08:06to
08:06this challenge should be good 31 okay so really strong start I'm going to go kind of 40 yards for
08:19the next one oh 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
08:35can get 10
08:45that's strong
09:01oh right we failed we managed to get one two three four five six seven eight oh we almost got
09:10up to
09:10nine and then we failed but that's good because it means now I've got something to work on the big
09:17thing is as well is track your result get your phone have a little notepad in your golf bag
09:21and say this time I managed to do eight out of ten because next time you've got something to work
09:27on
09:28right next challenge is all about controlling trajectory starting off low and aiming to try and hit it higher
09:34so again similar to last time you can either use your visual perspective of how high these shots are going
09:40to go or using technology like top tracer
09:43I'm going to now move up to my seven iron and the minimum yards I've got to hit this is
09:47100 yards so I can't just chip it 50 yards in front of me
09:51what I'm going to start off by doing is hitting it super super low as low as I can possibly
09:55hit a seven iron
09:56and then each time just trying to change the trajectory a little bit until we finish actually trying to hit
10:02it super super high
10:03again a bit like the last challenge if we can do 10 in a row it's an amazing achievement so
10:09let's see how we get on
10:10it's got to go minimum 100 yards I'm going to start really low so there's a couple of things
10:14you can do here from a technique standpoint as well to hit a seven iron lower ball position further back
10:20in
10:20the stance hands further forward and one thing that creates height is speed speed and loft increase height
10:28so we're going to decrease the loft and hit it softer slower and let's start off nice and low
10:34then try and hit a little low 100 yard seven iron
10:42that's a really really low flight
10:46gone a bit longer than 100 yards 125 yards and it went 48 feet in the air
10:51the next shot we're going to go slightly higher but again it's got to go over 100 yards
10:56so this time I'm going to hit the ball a tiny bit faster than the last shot just to get
11:01that height
11:08that's a nice strike there we go we've elevated the shot by 10 feet so now we're going to go
11:14a little
11:14bit higher similar ball position a tiny bit faster so the first three I've done very good so far and
11:25we
11:25just tweak this a little bit change the trajectory I'm going to put the ball position slightly more
11:29towards the middle of my stance because that's going to bring the loft back to its more natural
11:34setting but I'm still going to hit this super soft
11:43might be higher though yeah 52
11:49okay middle of the stance I'm going to go a little bit faster this time
11:56so 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
12:06this is going to be interesting I'm going to hit this over 90 feet
12:10it's starting to get quite high now
12:16that should be good
12:20this is good in practice because I've got to shot number seven now
12:23I'm starting to feel the pressure I want to get to number 10
12:26and it's good to practice under pressure
12:28keep the ball position forward and we go a little bit more speed
12:31we've got to try and get over a hundred and four feet in the air
12:37easy
12:39okay two more to go
12:41118 to beat
12:43ball position forward
12:45almost maximum speed
12:52okay last shot in the 10
12:54ball position forward
12:57maximum speed as hard as
12:59as fast as I can hit it
13:00and our last little sprinkle of magic
13:02finish with really really high hands
13:06because it keeps a loft on the face
13:08I've got to beat 132 feet
13:11I'm going to send this to the moon
13:18and that is 10 successful shots each going higher than the last
13:24last challenge to test yourself
13:26the driver
13:28it's going to be so simple this
13:3010 shots
13:30and you're going to picture a fairway
13:32how many times can you hit the fairway
13:34and again
13:35great ways of doing this
13:36out in the golf driving range here
13:38you can pick a couple of flags
13:39there's two flags
13:40a yellow one on the right
13:41a yellow on the left
13:42and I can picture that as my fairway
13:44or using top tracer
13:46I've come here on the long drive
13:48driving range fairway effectively
13:51I'm going to hit 10 shots
13:52and see how many times consecutively
13:54I can hit the fairway
13:55how many out of 10 shall I say
13:57I can get
13:57and again this is great
13:59you can note it down on your phone
14:00or in a little notebook
14:02and each time try and improve
14:03on your previous score
14:04right let's go
14:06what I want to try and get out of this
14:08as a practice session
14:09and for everybody watching
14:10is I want it to feel like nervous
14:13I want it to feel like your heart is racing
14:15certainly on the last few shots
14:16because that's how you're going to best develop your skills
14:19and how taking your game from the driving range
14:22to out on the golf course
14:24let's go 10 shots
14:25I'm somewhat even nervous on the first shot
14:27feels like a first tee
14:29first tee nerves type of vibe
14:30because you want to start strong
14:32I'm picking my line
14:34I'm really visualising where I'm going to hit this
14:36and let's start off straight down the middle of the fairway
14:45that should be a very good start
14:50one out of one
14:58might be a tiny bit right
15:00should be good
15:03just
15:04but we're on the fairway
15:05I'm not trying to hit these as hard as I can
15:06these are all fairway finding drives
15:22that was a little bit high and definitely got affected by the wind
15:26but I'm not looking for distance
15:27I'm looking for accuracy
15:28that's four out of four so far
15:40right this is the point where it starts to feel a bit more nervous
15:43I've just hit six really good drives there
15:46straight down the fairway
15:47we've got four more to go to get 10 out of 10
15:50the old heart is pumping
15:52this is what we want
15:53we want that excitement
15:54we want that kind of nerves
15:56can I finish strong
15:58this is coming down the straight
15:59I've got a good round of golf going
16:01can I keep hitting fairways
16:08it's not my best
16:09but it's straight down the middle
16:11straight down the middle
16:13three to go
16:19oh I've leaked it
16:20we might have missed the first fairway
16:23hang on ball
16:25hang on
16:27oh god look here
16:28that wasn't my best shot
16:29the old nerves started twitching
16:32but this is good
16:32this is what you want in a practice session
16:34two more to go
16:42okay this is it
16:45last shot
16:46again they've not all been pretty
16:48they've not all been perfect
16:50but this is the one
16:51I'm on for a record score
16:5410 out of 10
16:54can I finish
16:56this is walking down the 18th hole
16:57you've got a good round of golf going
16:59you just want to finish strong
17:00you want to hit that great tee shot
17:03well this hard work on the driving range
17:05will help you next time you get in that situation
17:09heart is pumping
17:10hands are twitching
17:11can I finish with a 10 out of 10
17:19hang on to that right hand side
17:21oh it's absolutely perfect
17:23perfect
17:24that is good
17:25that's good practice
17:26I feel motivated with that
17:27and next time I get on the golf course
17:29I can't imagine hitting it anywhere else
17:31apart from straight down the middle of the fairway
17:33right next up
17:36let's challenge someone else
17:40right the last section of your practice
17:43here at the driving range
17:44is to challenge somebody else
17:47whether that's a friend
17:48or whether it's actually just someone else
17:49at the driving range
17:50ask them if they fancy a bit of a competition
17:51this is a way that you can put everything you've just worked on
17:54for the first two sections of this practice session
17:57into a more realistic setting
17:59so you can do things like
18:01nearest the pin challenges
18:02who can hit it closest
18:03whether it's at a target at the driving range
18:05or again using top tracer technology
18:07or whether it's a longest drive challenge against each other
18:11and you could even finally pretend you're playing a hole again
18:15either on the range by using different targets
18:18or why not jump on one of the most famous holes in the world
18:22using top tracer
18:23and you know what why not make it a bit spicy as well
18:26the loser has to do a forfeit
18:28whether that's clean the other one's golf shoes
18:31or even simply carry the other golfers clubs back to the car
18:35make it mean something
18:37because then you're going to at least try your best
18:39and it matters
18:41like you want that bit of nerves
18:43you want that bit of excitement
18:44to definitely put you in the right frame of mind
18:47that is how you power boost your practice session
18:50ready for a great season
18:52get out there work hard in your golf game
18:54because believe me when you're playing well
18:57you'll enjoy it a lot more
18:59we'll see you next time
19:33and you'll see you next time
19:33you
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