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Coin flip ladder is a drill for adding random distance to your stock swing practice. The game is simple. Flip a coin, and if the coin lands heads, then you add yardage to your next shot (3,5,10 yard increments work well). If the coin lands tails up, then you subtract the yardage(-3,-5,-10). Perform with a set number of clubs to challenge the subtle changes between your long and short game. The better your sequencing and path, the more you will be able to handle less than full swings.
- Ways to take off yardage.
- Choke up on the grip
- Take a slightly shorter swing, but keep the same tempo
- Take the same length swing but slow down the tempo
Tags: Practice Strategies, Intermediate
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This game is coin flip ladder. So we're going to use the coin to apply a little bit of
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randomness to our practice. We're going to use the coin to adjust distances. So here
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we've got my seven iron, let's say that my stock seven iron goes about 165. Now I'm going to
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use the coin to adjust how far I'm going to hit the next one or how far I'm going to try.
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So let's say because 165 is my kind of full, I'm going to dial it back to 155 as kind of the
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midpoint for this game. I'm going to flip a coin if it ends up heads, I'm going to add
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yardage, if it ends up tails I'm going to subtract yardage and I'm just going to repeat this
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five to ten times for each club. Now the more experience the golfer you are, the more advanced
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golfer you are, the smaller you want to make the yardages. So if let's say I'm starting at 155,
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maybe a head is only going to be worth two yards. So I've got to get really good at making
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small adjustments by either choking up a little, dialing in my tempo, dialing in the distance
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my swing, any of the above. If I'm a more of a novice golfer, that's going to be a little
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bit too challenging. So I want to make larger gaps like five or even ten yard gaps. Where if I
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get heads, I add 10, if I get heads again, I add 10 until I get to the point where I'm not going
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to be able to hit it that far. So hopefully I get a tails otherwise I'm just going to stand there
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swinging as hard as I can. So there's a great way to add some partial shots. This is a great
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way to work on dialing in your distance and making small adjustments to your stocks full swing
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to control distance with each club through your bag.
