If you go to the range and don’t really know how to practice then here is a handy range session plan to help you optimise your sessions.

*Technical work at home - 10 minutes rehearsing your ideal swing in the mirror as slow as you can. Once you get your desired position, exaggerate that feeling and go too far. Keep swapping between these feelings to create more awareness of your movements.

*Technical work: 20 balls using the same club and without a target. Focus on creating the desired movement patterns performing shots slowly and adding any drills that will give you feedback if you are doing it correctly or not. You may want to video your swing for better feedback of your desired motion.

*Transition training - 10 balls with different clubs to different targets. Go through your full routine each shot.

*Performance training - First to 10 points. Play against a friend on the range going to different targets and score points for who gets the ball closest.

Tempo Training - 10 balls varying tempo of your swing from crazy smooth to pushing yourself to crazy fast.

*Driving accuracy test - 10 shots varying the fairway with each shot. The average fairway is 32 yards wide and the average tour player hits 57% of fairways.

*Shot shaping - 10 balls shot shaping and trajectory variation. Work on your ability to vary trajectory and curvature.

*Chipping - Median leave game. 9 balls from 20 yards off a good lie.

100 shooter 11 foot

90 shooter 10 foot

80 shooter 7 foot

Average Pro 6 foot

Kick away the 4 closest and 4 furthest away to reveal your median leave

*Putting - work from home focussing on start line. Get a 1 meter ruler and place upon a fat floor. Your goal is to putt your ball down the ruler without it falling off the side 3 times in a row.

It’s with a heavy heart to announce that I’ll be leaving The Belfry but it’s with immense excitement that I reveal that I’m joining Bromsgrove Golf Academy from March 29th. Bromsgrove has one of the finest junior programmes in the U.K with over 200 children in weekly lessons and I'll be heading up their elite development pathway. I’m so excited to start working with their team of passionate coaches and implement our joint vision to become the best talent development pathway in the U.K.

My time at The Belfry has introduced me to so many amazing people and it gave me a fantastic opportunity to build something I’m truly proud of. The Belfry juniors have grown from 4 to 112 in weekly classes, 23 of the juniors have gone on to represent their counties and 4 now represent their countries. I’ll truly miss all of the kids I have taught and I look forward to welcoming many of you over to my new home.

Although junior development has been my main focus, I’ve loved teaming up with fellow pros and the initiatives we started together such as Start Golf, Progress Golf, Advanced Golf, and This Girl Can Golf has introduced hundreds of newcomers to the game and has led to some friendships with coaches and pupils which I know will last a lifetime.

I’m grateful for my time at The Belfry but the time has come to move on and start a new chapter in my career.

I will be in contact with all clients shortly about diary availability, outstanding packages etc but should you have any questions or queries please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Thanks

Phil :-)

Weekly Practice Plan

Bye-Bye Belfry