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This drill is picket fence start line training.

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So many golfers struggle on the course partly because they're not picking a really good

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target or a really clear target.

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So oftentimes from conversations I've had with elite level golfers and my playing

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myself, when things are going really well, we're able to control where the ball is starting.

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So one of the ways that I kind of do this in a lazy way is all use one of these two

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different objects to help refine my start line.

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So from the down line you should be able to see I've got alternating white and wooden

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teas kind of forming a little bit of a picket fence there.

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Alternatively I have a ruler with just some colored tape.

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You could you can you can you sharpies you could use whatever.

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It's just to give you lines that are about a half inch apart.

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And then what I'm going to do is for each shot I'm going to pick a different, a slightly

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different target and I'm going to try to use my alignment to control the start line.

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Now when I do this typically I would adjust my alignment stick on the ground just to help

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me calibrate roughly where that target is in my 3D space.

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So on this first one I'm going to try and hit a draw at this right flag so I'm going to

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try and get this to start over the brown tea or the red stripe.

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So now I'm pretty set up to that.

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Hopefully I'll take my swing and we'll be able to see that was probably fairly close

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to my start line.

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So then now the reason I use this station is I don't have to I don't want to keep aiming

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at the exact same target every time that I'm swinging.

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So this allows me to move my target a good 20 degrees or so.

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So now I'm going to go at the red and white pole in the center of the range which puts

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me pretty close to that white flag or that white tea.

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And one way if you're not sure is you can hold the club up in line with your dominant

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eye just like this and put it in line with the target here and your golf ball there.

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And that'll help you pick an intermediate target or one of the spots there.

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You want these intermediate targets to be about 12 to 18 inches in front of you.

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You don't want to have an intermediate target way down there.

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And the reason is I want to be able to pick this up with my peripheral vision so that I'm

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not turning my head or changing my eye line in order to see it.

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When I do that that's typically going to give me a false awareness of where the target

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actually is.

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So I want to be able to get set up without having to turn my head.

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So now if I pick that we'll come back here again.

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So if I pick that second white one from the left we'll adjust the stick just slightly.

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I feel like my alignment's pretty decent there.

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We'll be able to tell from down the line how good I actually do.

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We'll ball pretty much ended up at my target.

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We'll be able to see from the down line how close I was to my start line.

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But this is a great way to be able to add some randomness, choosing different targets,

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choosing different flights.

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But still work on a complementary skill like start line.

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I set this up for a lot of students.

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You can go as wide as you want so that you can hit from the same spot.

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But choose different targets.

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It's a good thing to do when a you're either getting ready for an important tournament.

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Or B, if you have a mechanical thought that's working really well, but it's kind of

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tenuous.

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Like you wouldn't be able to add anything to it without it breaking down.

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It takes a lot of thought.

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This is something that you can do in complement while you're putting in reps and refining

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a specific mechanical skill.

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So use the pick at fence in order to refine your start line to help you take your range

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game to the course.

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All right.

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So we did the demo.

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We'll do a little bit more of a fun one.

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We'll try to get it to start over that white, even though I'm going to hit a big recovery

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pull hook.

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So kind of sweeping draw.

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I feel like I missed my start line just a little bit to the right, but not terrible.