Practice Hub
Your control room between lessons—post results, get your plan, review how to train, and grab a session when you need it.
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How to Practice
Each practice drill is 10 shots. Every shot that meets the drill’s standard (shown in your recommended drill list) earns one check—your score out of 10 = checks earned.
Determine your target in your improvement plan before beginning. Your target is your highest score in this drill plus 1, up to a maximum of 10. Take ten shots. If you meet or beat your target, proceed to the next drill. Miss the target? Pause and adjust elements such as setup, club, landing spot, or pace. Then, with the new feel, run another 10-shot test.
A perfect 10/10 unlocks the next difficulty level at this distance and also unlocks the next distance at your current difficulty level.
Drills with target scores create real but manageable pressure, help build problem-solving, and keep progress measurable—so practice carries to the course.
How to Play Checks & X’s
Checks & X’s splits every hole into two simple games. If you finish a section of the hole within its target, you earn a check. If you don’t, you mark an X. An X isn’t failure—it’s opportunity. We track X’s to spot patterns worth fixing. Playing for checks also calms the “big number” spiral: miss the first check, refocus and earn the second.
Game 1
Get out of the Control Zone
Your target is two less than par to reach your scoring zone. As your consistency builds, the zone shrinks when you post a perfect 9/9 over a nine-hole round. Progress from 100 → 50 → 20 → 10 yards. The better you get, the tighter the zone.
Game 2
Getting down in the Scoring Zone
Once you’re inside the zone, your job is to hole out within a set allowance. A 9-hole round earning a perfect 9/9 scoring checks, that allowance shrinks: 4 → 3 → 2 → 1 shots. Miss the allowance on a hole and you mark an X.
After each X, ask “Why?”
Tag the scoring key you broke (e.g., missed short putt, penalty, short-sided, under-clubbed, misread lie). Those tags reveal trends and feed your plan, so practice fixes what actually costs you strokes. A full list of reasons will be on your weekly scorecard to help guide you.
Why do we play and practice this way?
Pressure is the element in golf that can affect every shot. But typical practice rarely works on dealing with pressure. Multiple attempts, flat lies, no trouble. Typical practice is less about golf and more about golf swing. And that is why it is so difficult to take your skills from the range to the course.
We have designed our practice drills to create pressure situations so that you are ready when you head out to play.
On the flip side, we play checks and X's to simplify the game and manage the emotions that can derail a round or even a season. Expectations are often tied to those emotions, and that tension can make swinging your swing feel next to impossible.
By splitting the hole into two games and focusing on earning checkmarks, we can alleviate some pressure and refocus when things don't go as planned. By tracking the X's, we have an opportunity to learn our tendencies and build the practice plan to focus attention where it’s needed most.
The Three Pillars of Scoring
Putting
1 Putt Circle
2 Putt Circle
Pillar
Proximity
Greenside
Approach
Pillar
Control
Carry
Check & X’s
Pillar
We train what moves your score. Three pillars—Putting, Proximity, and Control—each with two drills so your work stays focused and measurable.
Progression
Drills advance along Distance and Difficulty—and nothing moves until your results earn it. Each drill has four difficulty levels for each distance.
Distance increases when you’re ready. Post a perfect 10/10, and you unlock the next distance at the same difficulty.
Difficulty tightens the standard. That same 10/10 also unlocks the next level (1 → 2 → 3 → 4) at your current distance.
The rule to remember: 10/10 = two unlocks — next difficulty here and next distance at your current difficulty. If your score is under 10, your target becomes your best +1.
This pacing keeps pressure appropriate, confidence earned, and progress honest—no jumps before you’re ready.
Weekly Rhythm
Balance practice and play. Each week, aim for about 2 hours of drills and at least 9 holes of Checks & X’s. The drills build skill under pressure; the nine holes test it where it counts.
Split the work. Short, focused sessions win—2–4 mini-sessions beat one long grind. Post your results after each block so your plan updates off real data.
Follow the order. Your plan runs short putting → full swing. Finish the top drill before moving to the next. If a drill feels hard, stick it out—that’s a sign you’re in the right challenge.
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When progress stalls—or a goal is close—a quick check-in sharpens the plan and keeps momentum. Small adjustments, big outcomes.