How many balls do you hit (full swing) per practice session?

[thejazzmarauder]

I've found that I can't hit more than ~80 full shots without reverting to bad habits and/or my body telling me to stop. I take my time between swings and also hit some half shots and such.

 

Just curious where others are at.

[foijord]

I've found that I can't hit more than ~80 full shots without reverting to bad habits and/or my body telling me to stop. I take my time between swings and also hit some half shots and such.

 

Just curious where others are at.

 

I usually hit 150 balls. When I first started practicing a lot, I could only do 60. But as my technique improved, it became easier and easier to hit balls. 150 seems to be the limit though, I'm tired at the end of it and it's affecting my technique. Not every shot is a full swing, sometimes I hit lots of half shots and 50 yard wedges.

[deathbymuffin]

I usually work through a medium bucket (75 balls). Probably a third are half shots. Then I'll work through my bag until I have 10-15 left. I'll take those over to the short game area for 30-45 minutes to hit chips/pitches/bunker shots and then I'll head back over to the range to hit driver and "play holes" with the last 15 or so balls.

 

I never understood guys who would buy a jumbo bucket of 150+ balls for themselves. Pretty sure that kind of volume would cause harm to my game and/or body.

[Nard_S]

About 100-120, try not to rush it, break it up into 20 ball increments working on something or with a certain objective.

[diehllane]

I never understood guys who would buy a jumbo bucket of 150+ balls for themselves. Pretty sure that kind of volume would cause harm to my game and/or body.

Agreed.

Repetition is good, but if you are repeating a bad swing fault, that isn't.

[Santiago Golf]

Range, no more than 150 for technique practice, no more than 75 for performance practice

 

Short game- 1 hour of practice

Putting- 1 Hour for technique

30 minutes for performance

[thejazzmarauder]

Range, no more than 150 for technique practice, no more than 75 for performance practice

 

I'm interested in how you differentiate these; technique seems self-explanatory, so by "performance" do you mean hitting shots like you would on the course, focusing only on the target?

[Santiago Golf]

Range, no more than 150 for technique practice, no more than 75 for performance practice

 

I'm interested in how you differentiate these; technique seems self-explanatory, so by "performance" do you mean hitting shots like you would on the course, focusing only on the target?

You pretty much nail it. I switch clubs often and hit a variety of shots. Go through my routine, grade each shot, track performance from each session

[thejazzmarauder]

Range, no more than 150 for technique practice, no more than 75 for performance practice

 

I'm interested in how you differentiate these; technique seems self-explanatory, so by "performance" do you mean hitting shots like you would on the course, focusing only on the target?

You pretty much nail it. I switch clubs often and hit a variety of shots. Go through my routine, grade each shot, track performance from each session

 

I like how doing so would provide you with a quantitative way to measure progress over time.

[naval2006]

30 balls up to 6 iron. Never hit driver or fairway woods or hybrids.

 

Usually get a dozen balls to practice wedge shots, hit and pick them up 2 or 3 times.

 

Terribly lazy with putting, old style. It shows during the round ;-P

[Gh05t]

all of them

[Juan73]

I hit 250-300 balls several days a week while on the range.

 

I have been using the outline for Tour25 from the book, "Train for Golf Like an Olympian."

 

I do a drill using 8 balls, then change to a different drill hitting 8 balls, etc. etc. It is all outlined in the book, reps, drills, order of the drills.

 

I can be on the range for 3 plus hours to go through all the drills that are outlined for certain days. I take water, and a few rest breaks.

 

Then I go out to play 9 holes.

 

I have been doing this for almost a month. And my game has definitely improved. The biggest challenge is mental -- staying focused.

[Palauan Hammer]

My practice is split, I'll hit around 150 balls a day now (sometimes more). First half is all drills, I use a few different ones. Lately it's been full swing with either a 9 iron or 7 iron trying to hit it either 60 or 100 yards, with a full swing. The last half is mostly target practice with routine. I alternate full shot, then specified wedge distance, repeat.

 

This is range only obviously, I spend way more time on putting and the short game area.

[deadsolid...shank]

My goodness. If I hit 250 balls, or even150, I'd need a nap afterwards!

 

 

[jgallant415]

I never understood guys who would buy a jumbo bucket of 150+ balls for themselves. Pretty sure that kind of volume would cause harm to my game and/or body.

Agreed.

Repetition is good, but if you are repeating a bad swing fault, that isn't.

 

I've found it is massively helpful to learn when to walk away from the range. If I get 30-40 swings into a range session and my swing just isn't working for whatever reason, I try really hard to walk away and go work on chipping/putting/drinking. It's hard to fight the desire to work out of whatever problem I may be having on that given day, but not ingraining some new swing fault has saved me a lot of pain...

[RBImGuy]

its practice, not a workout.

[Climb&Golf]

When I started I used to hit 100-150 balls at the range, pounding away. Now I find it much more useful to hit 50-70 balls over the same time frame. A solid hour or so. Really concentrating on technique and target selection.

[golfing_penguin]

Range time only (so ignoring the practice chipping green and putting), is 150 balls. But that can take anywhere from 1.5 hours to 3 hours depending on what I´m working on

[tcarrow]

I think if you are swinging correctly the number is limitless. I remember watching KJ Choi and Vijay Singh hit balls for about an hour after their rounds, without any signs of slowing down. Say they hit 50 or so pre-round, shot in the mid 70s, then hit 100+ post-round. That's when I realized I was doing it wrong, because I wanted to pass out after a large bucket.

[David C]

If I'm practising technique I very rarely take full swings. I don't assess practising in terms of balls hit. I also think you have to reject this idea of concern about ingraining bad habits.

[Hateto3Putt]

[QuieTSToRM33]

~75 balls on the range ... then pitching/chipping about another 50 shots or so with my gamers

[i*windows]

I have 2 types of range sessions. Those where I just want to hit balls for the hell of it - I might hit 100 balls and just try and hit different shots. Then I might want to work on some stuff, so I hit fewer balls maybe 50, but I want to make sure each shot means something.