Place your golf bag (or other object) in line with the ball. Take your normal setup with a mid-iron, placing your left butt cheek against the bag.  Take slow practice swings. Allow yourself to lose contact in the backswing. In your downswing, try to push the bag backward as hard as you can with your hip and butt cheek.  Exaggerate this move as much as you can.

Without hitting a ball, and the bag moved

Hit a ball within 30ft of a target, and the bag moved

Early extension bag drill

Take your normal stance with a mid iron.  Without hitting a balll, take smooth practice swings; in your downsing, exaggerate the feels of (1) moving your left hip behind you; and (2) your chest moving down towards the ball as you rotate your hips.

Self-assessment - the most exaggerated feeling you can achieve

Exaggerated early extension move

With the clubs you would typically use from the tee, pick a target in the distance which is fairway width.  Hit shots from a tee at this target.

Peter Finch - Fairway finder

Hit balls towards a target.  Change clubs after every shot.  Begin with the shorter clubs, and transition towards the longer clubs.

Peter Finch Warm Up - Through the bag

Setup a camera behind you, and a training aid to help you identify the original plane of the club (if you have one).  Make slow practice swings to feel the club staying on the right plane back and through.  When comfortable, hit a ball towards a target.  Use a camera for additional feedback to check you are doing it correctly.

Peter Finch Technique - Shallowing

Setup to the ball without a club.  Place your hands across your chest and adopt your normal posture.  Make a big turn back and through, as if making a swing.  After each completed turn, bend from the hips to try to touch your toes.

Peter Finch Warm Up - Turn and Toe-tap

Using a different wedge each time, hit balls towards different targets

Peter Finch Warm Up - 50-100y wedges

Grab your wedge...and swing it as fast as you can.  Literally, swing yourself off your feet - go to the limit of your capacity.  Feel loose, feel the ground, hear a massive SWWWIIIIISSSSSHHHHHH

Swing off your feet

During the backswing, try to stay tall and fully extended.  At the start of the downswing, feel pressure into your lead foot - push down and back with your lead foot as if you were to jump behind where you rear foot is (i.e. away from the target).

Hit the shot with these feelings at speed.

Ground up speed

Without a club, stand still, tall and relaxed with your eyes closed.

Imagine you are taking an extremely slow swing.  Feel your muscles firing across your body as you swing the club back and through in one continuous motion, while remaining completely still and relaxed.

Credit: Ian Highfield (@iainGLT)

Vizualise change

Using a different club each time, set up to a ball in your normal stance.

Take a swing in SUPER-SLOW MOTION.  Feel the movements and changes you are trying to make in your swing.  This should be one continuous motion - NO STOPPING.

Super slow swing

Using a different club each time, set up to a ball in your normal stance.

In slow motion, take three swings; the first should represent your best swing, including all of the movements and feelings which you are working on with your coach.  The second should represent your worst swing, including all of your usual faults and issues you are trying to get away from.  The final swing should once again be your best swing.

GOOD SWING - BAD SWING - GOOD SWING

Slow scissor swing

RELAAAXXX!!!

Feeling really loose, set up to a 10y chip aimed at a target.  Relax your grip as much possible so it feels like a 1 on a 1-10 scale.

Step into the ball, get comfortable and hit the ball with a SLLLOOOOOOWWWW swing where your grip remains loose for the whole swing.


Slow & loose chipping

Setup over a normal putt on the putting green.  Aim for the ball to finish in one of three zones beyond the hole.  The first zone is 1 foot beyond the hole, and the next two zones are each 1 foot further beyond, so you have a landing zone of approximately 3 feet.  Success is the ball finishing in the right zone or in the hole.

Lag putting zones

Setup to a 10-20y chip shot. Place a towel 4-6 inches behind the ball. Hit shots at the target with various clubs aiming to miss the towel.

Chipping strike

Set up to a normal shot aimed at a target.  Take your backswing as normal.  In the transition, do a deep squat while turning.  Hit the ball with the feeling of your body and the club handle being very low and open.   Extend up into the follow-through.

Transition squat

Setup a ball from a clean lie approximately 10 yards from the hole. Hit balls towards the hole aiming to finish as close as you can. 

Chip it close 10

Setup to a ball at the edge of a bed as if you were going to hit a chip. As you go ahead and hit the shot, aim to clip the edge of the bed covers hanging over. This will ensure that the club head is not travelling inside the preferred path on the way back. 

Bedtime chipping plane

Pick an imaginary fairway 30y wide.  Hit tee shots alternating between draw and fade shapes.

Shapes from the tee

Setup to a chip shot of 20-30 yards in distance, aiming at a target from a clean lie.

Focusing on a clean, crisp contact with the ball, pick a landing spot and execute towards this target.

Solid chipping contact

Setup up for a standard 20y chip shot. Rehearse swings with your right arm only. Feel the club hinge up and outside in the backswing, and swing past the body in the downswing. Feel as if your hand is staying in front of your midriff, with the club moving around the fulcrum of a soft right wrist. 

Right arm chips

Setup for a normal chip shot. Rehearse swings with your left arm only. Feel the club hinge up in he backswing, and swing through past the ball and body in the downswing. Focus on allowing your left wrist to go into extension through the hitting area. 

Left arm chips

Setup for a standard 20y chip shot. Rehearse a move away from the ball where the wrists hinge the club head up not back, encouraging a more outside path. 

Outside the hands

Hit shots towards different targets between 30-50y. Aim to hit the ball straight but as low as possible. 

Low and left pitching

Hit shots to different targets between 30-80 yards at 10 yard increments. 

Pitching distances

Set three ball positions - (1) level with left heel, (2) one ball inside this line, and (3) two balls inside this line. 

With a mid-iron, hit shots alternating between the three positions. Before each shot, call the shot shape. 

Ball position experiment

Setup to hit a ball in good posture, aiming at a target. In transition to the downswing, feel the front knee, hip and shoulder rotate backwards so that hips and shoulders are open and behind the heel line as the club comes into the ball. 

Exaggerate the feeling of moving away from the ball, getting lower and creating lots of space to swing the club. 

Call whether or not you succeeded before checking on video. 

Rotation release

Address a ball, taking a good posture.  Hit the ball, focusing on getting the toe of the club pointing straight up by the time the club reaches hip height.  From a down-the-line view, the clubhead should appear to be still outside of the hands.

Toe-up takeaway

Step inside a theraband, placing it around the legs just above the knees.  Feel the tension of the knees against the band - push the knees against the band to make them feel wide.  On the backswing and downswing, feel that the tension in the band is maintained.  On the downswing in particular, feel that the stretch is increased as the right knee stays back through transition.

Leg action w. theraband

Stand up tall.  Hang an iron vertically in front of you, such that the shaft is touching your chest and stomach.  The grip should be just in front of your nose.  Bend from the hips, maintaining contact with the club, until you are in posture at address, then grip the club and address the ball.  Pause for a moment to get register what this position feels like.

Go ahead and hit the shot towards a target.

Clean lines posture drill

With a short to mid-iron, set up to a ball and take long, slow swings.  Focus on keeping the grip pressure very loose, shallowing the club through the transition,  and hitting the ball very low.  This can be done indoors with half swings.

Loose, shallow and low

Do a set of deep overhead squats, ensuring that you flex from the hips.  Do not cheat and flex from the knees!

Deep overhead squat

Setup to the ball with a mid-iron such that an object (e.g. a club or alignment stick) is touching your rear hip.  Take backswings in slow motion, looking at the ball in the normal way (do not cheat, and look at your hip).  Feel that your hip remains in constant contact with the ball throughout as you turn back to the to of the backswing.

Feel the stretch in your hip at the top of the backswing, then go ahead and hit the ball towards a target.

Rear hip stability

Adopt a normal setup and ball position with a mid-long iron. Aiming at a different target each time, hit full shots as low as you can. Any shots which fly at normal height or above represent a fail. 

Low ball long ball

Hit balls towards different targets with a mid-iron.  Focus on shallowing the club in transition while swinging back towards the ball.  Aim to hit full shots aiming for a good strike.

Shallowing

Take a backswing while tapping your front foot.  Feel the weight move back into your trail heel.  Hold the top of the backswing, then step through and hit the shot.

Stepping back weight shift

As you make changes and build your technical capabilities, you should take things slowly and practice deliberately to get the movements correct.  So, take your time and practice your technical changes at low speed, building up the pace as you become more comfortable.   Remember, always aim at a target, and change the target where you can...even though the ball won't go very far

Speed variability

On a scale of 1 --> 10, grip the club at a 10...so hard that your whole body tenses up to the maximum.  Then slowly release the tension down to a 1.  Once you have a good sense of what a 10 and a 1 feels like, go ahead and hit the ball with your level of tension and grip pressure at a '1'

Loose as a goose

Draw a line in the sand at 90 degrees to the target line.  Place a ball on the line.  Hit shots towards a target, each time varying the position of the golf ball relative to your stance - front, back, middle.

Sand strike variability

Draw a line in the sand at 90 degrees to the target line.  Place balls onto the line, and proceed to hit.  Following each shot, check where the divot in the sand started, and where the low point of the divot is.

Sand low point

Draw a line in the sand at 90 degrees to your stance.  Make normal swings with a mid-iron, trying to make contact with the sand on or slightly after the line (target-side).  Vary each shot by the depth of divot made - shallow, deep, medium.

Sand strike differential

From the same spot and with the same club, chip towards a hole 10-20y away, varying the flight of the shot each time (standard, low runner, high and soft).  Aim for the ball to finish inside 5 ft for each shot.

Chipping traj

Starting from 3ft away from the hole, hit a putt aiming to hole it.  If successful, place another ball further back on the same line.  When you miss, the challenge is over and you automatically fail all other attempts.

Putting death ladder

Pick a target in the distance in line with the hole. From 30y hit pitches at the hole, aiming to land the ball in line with the target area (even if short or long).

Pitching direction

Place a tee 6 inches in front of your ball, and 2 inches to the left.  From 30y away and a fairway lie, aim to pitch the ball to the hole ensuring that you sweep the tee away.

Low point pitching

Place balls at 30y, 40y and 50y from the hole.  At each station, hit shots of different trajectories (low/medium/high) alternately, aiming to get the ball as close to the hole ad possible.

Pitching traj

Setup green side around 10-20y from the hole. With the same club, hit shots with different trajectories (low, medium, high) alternately.  Aim to get each ball as close to the hole as you can.

Place three pennies at 2ft, 3ft and 5ft from the ball, each on a different lines.  Aim to roll the ball over each of the pennies alternately, at varying speeds.

Penny putting

Pick a single target 175y away.  Hit balls at this target, each time hitting a different shot shape (low/high, draw/fade).  This will require hitting different clubs.

All the options

Pick a target fairway in the distance, approximately 35y wide.  Hit shots towards this target, alternately aiming to finish in the right and left half of this target. The minimum distance the ball must travel is 220y.

Best side

Hit shots towards a target.  Place tees either side of the ball, a clubhead width apart.  Set up to the ball alternately outside of the heel and toe of the club.  Aim to hit the ball squarely in the middle of the club face.

Around the world

Aiming at a target, hit a set of 3 shots.  Hit the first shot with a full swing, the second with a 3/4 swing. Aim to hit the third shot in between the distance for the first two shots.

Hopscotch - approach

With a mid-iron, hit shots towards a target.  For each shot, vary swing length, grip position and tempo.  Aim to hit each shot slightly shorter than the previous shot.

Down the ladder - approach

The ultimate strike test! Place a towel 6 inches behind the ball, and tees either side of the ball a club head width apart. Hit shots towards a target, aiming to miss the towel and the tees.

Strike station

Place tees to the left and right of the ball, one clubhead width apart. Hit shots towards a target aiming to pass through the gate without touching the tees, then hit the ball and right hand tee, then the ball and the remaining left hand tee.

Through the gate

Hit flop shots...with a six iron!  The aim is to make good contact with ball and turf, producing a soft, high ball flight.

Aim at a target, and see how close you can get to the hole.

Rahm-flop

Put your left leg in, your left leg out. Hit shots alternating between an open and closed stance.  Hit with different clubs, aiming at a different target each time.  Success is achieving good contact and the desired shape with the shot.

Do The Hokey Cokey

Test your strike!  Place a bag towel behind the ball.  With a mid-iron, aim to contact the ball without touching the towel.

Miss The Towel

Hit 9 balls at a target 150-175 yards away.  Each shot must have a different trajectory (high, low, middle) and shape (draw, fade, shape).  The goal is to hit the green.

Tiger's Nine

Just go wild!  Alternate between hitting hooks and slices at target.  Hit the biggest shapes you can, changing targets every time.

Throwing Shapes

Test your striking skills!  Use a magic marker to place a large dot on the back of the golf ball.  Hit putts at a hole, aiming contact the ball alternately in the heel, toe and center of the clubface.  Success is hitting the right part of the club.

Strike It - Putt

Test your striking skills!  Use a magic marker to place a large dot on the back of the golf ball.  Hit chip shots at a target, aiming contact the ball alternately in the heel, toe and center of the clubface.  Success is hitting the right part of the club.

Nip It - Chip

Test your striking skills!  Use a magic marker to place a large dot on the back of the golf ball.  Hit pitch shots at a target, aiming contact the ball alternately in the heel, toe and center of the clubface.  Success is hitting the right part of the club.

Nip It - Pitch

Test your striking skills!  Use a magic marker to place a large dot on the back of the golf ball.  Hit shots with a mid-iron, aiming contact the ball alternately in the heel, toe and center of the clubface.  Success is hitting the right part of the club.

Strike It - Irons

Test your striking skills!  Use a magic marker to place a large dot on the back of the golf ball.  Hit shots with a driver or 3 wood, aiming contact the ball alternately in the heel, toe and center of the clubface.  Success is hitting the right part of the club.

Strike It - Driver

One target, different clubs - pick a 40 foot target 175-200 yards aware.  Hit balls at it, changing clubs every time.

Club control - long

One target, different clubs - pick a 35 foot target 150-175 yards aware.  Hit balls at it, changing clubs every time.

Club control - mid

One target, different clubs - pick a 20 foot target 100-125 yards aware.  Hit balls at it, changing clubs every time.

Club control - short

Hit ten putts from a variety of distances inside 5 feet from the hole.

No putt can be from the same position.

The goal is to hole as many putts as possible

Ten Putt Drill

Roll two rubber bands either side of the sweet spot of the putter, such that there is a gap of approximately 1" between them.

From a different location each time, putt towards a hole.

Aim to hit the putt out of the centre of the putter, avoiding the rubber bands.

Rubber band putting

Position a ball at each of 6, 12 18, 24 and 30ft from the hole.  Hit putts at the hole.

Aim to hole the putt or finish close to the hole.

Par zone putting

Create three stations in the bunker - (1) On a downslope, (2) On an upslope and (3) on a flat lie.

Alternating between each station, hit to a target approximately 10-15 yards away.

Aim for each shot to finish close to the hole.

Back to front bunker

Aiming at a different hole each time, set up 7-8ft putts. 

Changing location each time, hit putts aiming to get the ball in the hole. 

Clutch putting (7ft)

Place three tees in the ground approximately 3" apart along the target line. Ensure that the tees are totally submerged but are visible. 

Place the ball on the middle tee. 

Alternately focusing on hitting the back, front then middle tee, chip the ball toward the target. 

The goal is to hit the ball and the appropriate tee. 

Chipping ground contact

Draw a line in the sand perpendicular to your target line from just inside your front foot out to where the ball would be.

Aiming to hit the ball different distances, hit consecutive shots.

The goal is to alternate between hitting 3-5" behind the ball, 1-2" behind the ball, then hit the ball clean.

Bunker play - strike test

Take one ball to the putting green.

Hit putts from 15-20ft at the hole.

Each putt must be from a totally different spot, using as many available holes as possible.

The goal is to hole the putt.

Birdie-range putting - Intermediate

Pick an imaginary green at a distance of 150-175 yards away, and approximately 30 feet across.

Hit shots at this target.

Each shot must be a different shot shape (draw or fade).

The goal is for the ball to finish on the imaginary green.

Mid-iron shot-shaping test - Intermediate

Place a bucket next to the hole/target.  Scatter balls randomly around this target inside a radius of 10 yards.

Hit shots attempting to land the ball in the bucket.

Each shot must be hit with a different flight (high, medium, low).  Different clubs may be used.

The goal is to get the ball in the bucket, or land it within 1 foot of the bucket.

Bucket chipping (0-10y)

Pick an imaginary fairway in the distance, approximately 30 yards wide.

Hit shots towards this target.

Each shot must travel at least 200 yards, and must be hit with a different club.

The goal is for the ball to finish inside the boundary of your imaginary fairway.

Find the fairway

Hit shots at different targets from a range of 50-75 yards.

Each shot must be hit at a different target and with a different club.

The goal is to land the ball close to the target.

Mid pitching (50-75y)

Hit the ball with a different part of the clubface for each shot - alternate between heel and toe shots.

Each shot must be hit with a different club (irons and woods).

Each shot must be aimed at a different target.

Strike test - random clubs

Setup to the ball with a mid-iron aiming at a target.

Focus on hitting the ball as low as you can by manipulating the clubface.  The ball can have any shape you like, but must travel towards a target.

The stinger

Setup to the ball with a mid-iron aimed at a target. 

Place an object hip high directly behind your lead foot. 

Hit shots towards the target. 

Try to touch the object with your lead hip during your downswing. 

Cone away from the object in the follow through as you extend upwards. 

Touch the object and make solid contact with the ball

Hit the object and the target within 30ft

Hips back and cleared

Pick a target and set up to the ball with a mid-iron. Take a normal, neutral grip. 

From the top of the backswing, feel the club face squaring up early as the front arm rotates and the lead wrist bows. 

Exaggerate the feel so that it feels as if the club face is extremely shut, and you will hit big pull hooks. 

Peter Finch Warm Up - Turn and Toe-tap

Golf tasks and drills

Golf task and drills library

Early extension bag drill

Exaggerated early extension move

Peter Finch - Fairway finder

Peter Finch Warm Up - Through the bag

Peter Finch Technique - Shallowing

Peter Finch Warm Up - Turn and Toe-tap

Peter Finch Warm Up - 50-100y wedges

Swing off your feet

Ground up speed

Vizualise change

Super slow swing

Slow scissor swing

Slow & loose chipping

Lag putting zones

Chipping strike

Transition squat

Chip it close 10

Bedtime chipping plane

Shapes from the tee

Solid chipping contact

Right arm chips

Left arm chips

Outside the hands

Low and left pitching

Pitching distances

Ball position experiment

Rotation release

Toe-up takeaway

Leg action w. theraband

Clean lines posture drill

Loose, shallow and low

Deep overhead squat

Rear hip stability

Low ball long ball

Shallowing

Stepping back weight shift

Speed variability

Loose as a goose

Sand strike variability

Sand low point

Sand strike differential

Chipping traj

Putting death ladder

Pitching direction

Low point pitching

Pitching traj

Chipping traj

Penny putting

All the options

Best side

Around the world

Hopscotch - approach

Down the ladder - approach

Strike station

Through the gate

Rahm-flop

Do The Hokey Cokey

Miss The Towel

Tiger's Nine

Throwing Shapes

Strike It - Putt

Nip It - Chip

Nip It - Pitch

Strike It - Irons

Strike It - Driver

Club control - long

Club control - mid

Club control - short

Ten Putt Drill

Rubber band putting

Par zone putting

Back to front bunker

Clutch putting (7ft)

Chipping ground contact

Bunker play - strike test

Birdie-range putting - Intermediate

Mid-iron shot-shaping test - Intermediate