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Five golf coaching tips that actually lower scores

Most golf advice is decoration. These five habits — the ones a good coach builds every plan around — are the ones that take strokes off.

1. Practise to targets, not balls per hour

Ten balls at a specific towel is worth fifty at a general fairway. Range sessions that never ask "did that one work?" are exercise, not practice. Every drill in the PrivateGolfCoach library ends with a number to beat — that number is the session.

  • Drill — Landing Spot Towel

    Towel at 50 yards, 15 pitching-wedge balls finishing on it. Cue: same length swing, let the loft do the carrying. Target: 9 of 15 landing within a clubhead of the towel.

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