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This is the four-club practice circuit. So this is one of my favorite ways to add

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random practice into a golf program that where golfers tend to struggle with

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hitting more blocks though. So basically if you fall into the pattern of hitting

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10, 7 irons, 15, 7 irons in a row, I'd recommend adopting the four-club

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practice session. So basically it's a really simple game or a really simple

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strategy you work on any mechanics that you want, but the rule is you're going to

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have four clubs from different parts of your bag. For example I've got a driver

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and then I've got a 7-8 iron I've got something in between those, so whether

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it's a four iron, five iron or in this case a hybrid and then I've got a wedge. So I've

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got a pretty broad spectrum and one from each of kind of the four quadrants.

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Now the rule is I can't hit the same one twice and the more advanced I'm playing

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I've got a very some of my backswing lengths, my tempos, the shot shape I'm

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hitting, I've got to create more variety. But simply by having these four different

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clubs you'll avoid falling into the self-hip noises and thinking that you've got

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it or that you've owned your swing just from hitting a handful of good 7 irons in

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a row. So there's a couple of different ways that you can benefit from doing this

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type of training. One would be by using yourself to your swing miss. And what I

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mean that by that is let's say you're a very good driver of the golf ball

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but you struggle with wedges. So you hit let's say you know 10 or a dozen wedges and

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kind of towards the end you get into a pretty good groove where you're having

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more of a cast pivot and less of a real drive of a club, right, less of a real

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body pull. So you're making solid contacts but really because you've just found

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this rhythm. So then what you can do is you can hit the longer end of the club

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and you can go back and forth a few times because I said you can't hit the same

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one twice but that doesn't mean you have to hit hit each one in succession. So

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maybe you'll go driver hybrid, driver hybrid, driver hybrid wedge. And just by

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doing that what you'll find is that if you naturally have more of a driver based

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swing where you get more of that arm pull on or the pull along the grip you

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get more of this access tilt by hitting a handful of these longer clubs in a row

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you're going to buy yourself to make your swing miss with your scoring club

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and it's going to force you to use a good pre shot routine and a clear focus

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to overcome that. The opposite can happen. If you're really good with your wedges

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you can do wedge 7 Iron wedge 7 Iron wedge 7 Iron Driver and it'll prevent you

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from just getting into a good groove. Now if you struggle mightily with just

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making solid contacts or hitting a solid driver I would recommend doing more

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block practice until you have that kind of as part of your repertoire but as

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soon as you get it you want to start testing it by doing these four club

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challenges. This will help you prepare for getting on to the course. Okay so we'll

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go through it one or two times. As you know I'm a big believer that there's some

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differences between the driver and the iron swing so I'm just going to start

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with a 7 Iron and I'm going to try and kind of groove my low point control by

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staying a little bit more on top. I'm going to take it pretty good swing there and

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now I'm going to work my way up one notch at a time so I'm going to do a

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hybrid and see if my iron swing if I can make a little adaption to what's going

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on. So now I've got to get a little bit more behind it maybe a touch wider

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stance make my hybrid adjustments and then see if I can get them to hold up.

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Now I'm going to step up one more notch so we'll go to the driver. Now with the

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driver I'm trying to avoid getting spinny contacts so I'm going to try to get a

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little bit more of that kind of falling back style weight shift maybe a touch more

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shafferitation whatever your driver keys are you'll go through it with your

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pre-shot routine. Got my target. Now all along I've been gearing myself and

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setting myself up for testing the wedges. It's pretty good one there. So by

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starting in the middle and then coming to the wedge last now I'm setting myself

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up because my body wants to get into that driver pattern and I'm going to have

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to do a little bit more of a good cast wedge pattern. So it was a little bit I

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can feel myself hanging back so it launched a little higher than I wanted but

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overall pretty good clear you know 15 feet short I can take that. So then I would jump

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back and forth I can pretend I'm playing on the course but adding this style of

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random practice to whatever mechanics you're working on whether it's

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transition release set up will ultimately help you transfer it from the range to

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the course faster.