Need effective surrender practice? Try a watch drill
Posted by Jessica Marksbury, Gia Livsky March 18, 2023
This simple exercise will help you warm up quickly and effectively.
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If you’ve ever been to practice at a professional golf tournament, you’ve probably seen a variant of the popular “clock practice” where the player throws the balls around the hole in a circle (hence the clock) and systematically stuffs them all into the hole, one by one. .
But what makes watch workouts such a favorite, and can they work for amateurs too? Instructor Gia Livsky named the clock exercise one of her favorites for one simple reason.
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“Using a one-hour drill on the practice green, you can work around the hole and really appreciate what’s happening on the green,” she said at the recent GOLF 100 Teacher Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona. some speed. If you keep the same distances for all the balls, you can get a really good idea of reading the greens. It’s a good basic visual.”
If you’ve never tried the clock exercise before, it’s time to start using it as a pre-round warm-up. Livsky recommends keeping the strikes short—three to five feet.
“It gives you something to focus on instead of aimlessly setting tasks,” she said. “Basically you land 12 hits, so don’t overdo it. Work around the clock and give yourself a good pace.”
Another way to use the clock exercise to prepare for a round is to keep the same circle concept but change the distances.
“Do two feet for one punch, 10 feet for another,” Livsky said. “Then, while you’re working, you can start measuring your speed, your target, what the green does and how the ball rolls.”
For more tips from Gia Livsky, click here.
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As a four-year-old member of Columbia University’s first class of collegiate golfers, Jessica can top the match. She can also get ahead of them in the office, where she is primarily responsible for creating both print and online content, as well as overseeing major special projects such as the inaugural GOLF Style Issue, which debuted in February 2018. Her original interview series “A Round With” debuted in November 2015 and appeared both in the magazine and as a video on GOLF.com.
