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title: Golf Practice Drills by Time Available | Infinite Fairway
description: Eight golf practice exercises in 15, 30 and 60 minute versions, plus one that needs no range, each with a baseline to record and a way to measure progress.
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# Eight exercises. Each one produces a number.

Organised by the problem they address, where you can do them, and how experienced you are. Every one is sized for fifteen, thirty or sixty minutes, and every one has a version that works at home with no range at all.

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What gets in the way Everything I do not know where to start Inconsistent contact Putting Chipping near the green Tee shots Giving away strokes Not enough time My equipment Where you can practice Anywhere At home, no range needed A practice green A driving range On the course How much you have played Any experience New to golf Playing already Playing regularly Curriculum pillar All six pillars Golf Foundations First Round Short Game Course Management Equipment Explained

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Counted exercise

### Lag Putting: finish in the zone

Two markers three feet short and three feet past the hole make a six foot finishing zone. Putt ten balls from twenty feet and count how many finish inside it.

- **Counts:** first putts inside the zone, out of 10
- **Needs:** putter, ten balls, two markers
- **Evidence:** reported repeated three-putts

The full record

**15 minutes.** Set a target hole or marker, with two more markers three feet short and three feet past. Putt ten balls from roughly 20 feet and count the zone hits. Repeat from 30 feet if there is time, keeping the counts separate. Write both down.

**30 minutes.** As above from 20 and 30 feet, then ten from 40 feet, then ten with the distance changing every ball.

**60 minutes.** As above, then an uphill set and a downhill set of ten from 30 feet counted separately, since most distance errors live on the slope. Finish with nine holes of single-putt-only.

**At home, 15 minutes.** Mark a six foot zone on carpet with a start point about 15 feet away. Ten balls, count the zone hits, and only ever compare against previous carpet counts.

**Baseline:** your zone count out of 10 from 20 feet on the first session.  
**Measure:** the same count, same distance, each week.  
**If it stalls:** once you are regularly at 7 or more from 20 feet, move out to 30 and 40 feet rather than narrowing the zone.

Plate 07

Inside the zone: 7 of 10

Roll ten more

Seven of ten finishing inside the zone is a good number from twenty feet. The balls that finish short and long are the ones that become three-putts, which is why finishing position is counted rather than holed putts.

PUTT-LAG-001 / reviewed internally, 2026-11-01

Counted exercise

### Contact Ladder: the same strike, three times running

Put a line on the ground and the ball just ahead of it. Hit ten at half effort and count how many strike at or after the line. That is the whole drill.

- **Counts:** clean strikes out of 10
- **Needs:** a 7 or 8 iron, a dozen balls, something that marks
- **Evidence:** reported inconsistent contact

The full record

**15 minutes.** Line on the ground, ball just ahead of it. Ten shots at half your normal effort, watching only whether the club touches the ground at or after the line. Count them. Stop at ten.

**30 minutes.** As above, then ten more at three-quarter effort with a second count, then ten alternating with a full stop between each.

**60 minutes.** As above, then a longer and a shorter club with a count for each, then fifteen shots saying your intended effort out loud before each one.

**At home, 15 minutes.** A folded towel on carpet with a ball just past its near edge. Twenty slow half swings clipping the ball off the carpet. Count how many moved the towel. Fewer is better. No full swings indoors.

**Baseline:** your count out of 10 on the first session.  
**Measure:** the same count each week.  
**If it stalls:** if the count has not moved after three or four sessions, the limit is probably something a lesson would spot in five minutes. Book one rather than repeat this.

This exercise deliberately observes where the club meets the ground and nothing else. It makes no claim about your swing.

Plate 02

Three low points, seen from the side. The pale arc bottoms out before the line, which is a fat shot. The copper arc bottoms out after the ball, taking a divot in front of it, which is the one you are counting.

CONTACT-TEE-001 / awaiting instructor review

Readiness task

### First Nine Readiness: walk through the day before you play it

Not a skill exercise. Read the sequence of the day, decide which tees you will play and which two clubs you actually need, and agree with yourself what happens when you lose a ball.

- **Counts:** finished nine holes without feeling lost
- **Needs:** nothing for the walk-through
- **Evidence:** self-reported first round

The full record

**15 minutes.** Read the check-in sequence once: arrive, pay, find the first tee, start on the time you were given. Decide which tees you will play, and pick the shortest set on the card. Pick two safety clubs, one you can get airborne and one you can putt with. Say out loud what you will do when you lose a ball.

**30 minutes.** As above, then ten minutes on a practice green rolling putts from about 20 feet with no target beyond stopping near the hole. Walk one hole if the course allows it.

**60 minutes.** As above, then twenty minutes on a short game area, then three holes at a quiet time if there is a short-format or twilight rate, carrying only four clubs.

**At home, 15 minutes.** Read the sequence and the pace basics once. Choose your two safety clubs from whatever you can borrow or rent. Write down the one question you will ask at the counter. Nobody minds the question.

**Measure:** you finish nine holes, you know what happened at each step, and you did not hold anyone up for long.  
**If it stalls:** if the day felt rushed rather than confusing, the next focus is pace rather than readiness.

Plate 01

Nine holes, with the four moments that actually matter marked on the route: the counter where you check in, the first tee, the turn, and the finish. Everything else on the day follows from those four.

FIRST9-READY-001 / reviewed internally, 2026-11-01

Counted exercise

### Chip Choice: pick the landing spot first

Put a towel three feet onto the green. Play ten balls, saying which club you are using and why before each one. The club you reached for matters more than the count.

- **Counts:** landings on target, out of 10
- **Needs:** putter, mid iron, wedge, ten balls, a towel
- **Evidence:** reported poor results from near the green

The full record

**15 minutes.** From just off the green, towel about three feet onto the putting surface. Ten balls. Before each one, say the club and the reason: putter if the ground is smooth, mid iron to carry the fringe, wedge only if something is in the way. Count the landings on or within a club length. If you reached for the wedge every time, that is the finding.

**30 minutes.** As above, then another ten from a different lie, then five forced with the putter and five forced with the mid iron to feel the difference in roll.

**60 minutes.** As above, plus a third position with rough or uneven ground forcing a genuine carry. Finish with a nine-ball game, one shot from each of nine positions, counting how many finish inside six feet.

**At home, 15 minutes.** Towel on carpet about six feet away. Ten short putting-stroke chips with a mid iron, landing on the towel. Indoors this is a contact and landing drill only. Soft or foam balls.

**Measure:** landings on target out of 10, plus whether you used the lowest-risk club available.  
**If it stalls:** if the count is fine but your scores are not, the problem is probably distance control on longer shots rather than chipping.

Plate 08

Three ways to the same hole. The copper line is the putter, which is usually the right answer and almost never the first one chosen. The pale high arc is the lofted shot, which belongs third in the order rather than first.

CHIP-PICK-001 / reviewed internally, 2026-11-01

Counted comparison

### Playable Width: find the club that keeps you in play

Mark a fairway-width corridor on the range. Hit ten with the driver and count how many finish inside it. Then do the same with a shorter club and compare the two numbers honestly.

- **Counts:** tee shots in play, out of 10, club against club
- **Needs:** driver plus two clubs you can tee up
- **Evidence:** reported penalty or reload shots off the tee

The full record

**15 minutes.** Pick a target and two boundary lines about forty yards apart, as wide as a generous fairway. Ten with the driver, counting how many finish between the lines. Resist changing anything about the swing during the count.

**30 minutes.** As above, then ten with a shorter club you can tee up, counted between the same lines. The club with the higher count is your tee club on tight holes, whatever it says on the sole.

**60 minutes.** Three clubs rather than two, then ten more each with the best two, because ten shots is a small sample. Finish by writing down which club you will use on the three tightest tee shots at the course you play most.

**At home, 15 minutes.** This one needs a landing area, so the home version is the decision rather than the shots. List the holes where you most often lose a ball, and for each write the club and the aiming point. Carry the list.

**Measure:** count out of 10 inside a fairway-width corridor, compared club against club.  
**If it stalls:** if every club gives the same low count, the issue is contact rather than club choice. Switch to the contact ladder.

Plate 05

Ten tee shots from above. Eight finish inside the corridor and two do not, and it is the two that decide the score. A club that gives nine in play and twenty fewer yards is the cheaper club on a tight hole.

TEE-PLAY-001 / awaiting instructor review

On-course exercise

### Margin Check: aim where a miss still works

Before the round, write the one place the ball must not go on each hole, then the spot you will aim at that leaves the most room away from it. Play the round against the card.

- **Counts:** penalty and recovery shots per nine
- **Needs:** a scorecard and a pen
- **Evidence:** reported avoidable strokes, ideally over three rounds

The full record

**15 minutes before a round.** Take the card. On each hole write the one place the ball must not go, then the spot you will aim at that leaves the most room away from it. It will often not be the flag or the middle of the fairway. Play the round against the card.

**30 minutes.** As above, then afterwards mark every hole where you went at the aggressive target anyway and what it cost. The total is the size of the opportunity.

**60 minutes across a round and a review.** As above over a full round, with a column for the club used and whether a shorter club would have left the same approach from safer ground. Commit to the two holes where the plan paid most.

**At home, 15 minutes.** Use the card of the course you play most and write the must-miss side and the aiming point for every hole. Keep it in the bag. No swing required.

**Measure:** penalty and recovery strokes per nine, compared across rounds at the same course.  
**If it stalls:** if the plan is sound and you still cannot keep the ball in play, the focus should move to tee playability.

Plate 06

The same approach, played two ways. The copper spread is aimed at a flag tucked near the water, and part of it is in the water. The green spread is aimed at the middle left, and all of it is on grass. Both are the same swing.

MANAGE-TARGET-001 / reviewed internally, 2026-11-01

Session structure

### The Fifteen: one job, one count, once a week

Twelve minutes of work on one drill, then three minutes writing the count and the date down. Stop when the timer goes, even if it is going well.

- **Counts:** the weekly count, same drill, same conditions
- **Needs:** whatever you already have
- **Evidence:** reported limited practice time

The full record

**15 minutes.** Pick one of the counted drills above. One, not three. Twelve minutes on it, then three minutes writing the count and the date somewhere you will find it again.

**30 minutes.** Two twelve minute blocks on the same drill with a real break between. Record both separately, and treat only the first as the week's number.

**60 minutes.** Ten minutes of warm-up with no counting, two fifteen minute counted blocks on the same drill, then fifteen minutes of play-like practice with random targets and no counting. Record only the first counted block.

**At home, 15 minutes.** The at-home version of whichever drill you picked, same shape, compared only against your own previous at-home counts.

**Measure:** four weekly entries is enough to see a direction.  
**If it stalls:** if four weeks show no direction, change the drill rather than adding time.

Plate 10

Twelve minutes and three. The copper block is the work. The green block is writing the number down, which is the part everyone skips and the only part that makes the next session mean anything.

TIME-FIFTEEN-001 / reviewed internally, 2026-11-01

Inventory and measurement

### Bag Audit: what each club actually does for you

Write down every club, its number or type and its stamped loft. Then build a carry ladder from your own shots and look for a step larger than about twenty-five yards.

- **Counts:** clubs with a distinct job
- **Needs:** your clubs, and a range for the second half
- **Evidence:** self-reported bag contents

The full record

**15 minutes.** Lay the clubs out and write down what each one is, with the loft if it is stamped on the head. Mark the slots you do not have, and mark any worn smooth grip or loose head. Those are repairs rather than replacements.

**30 minutes.** As above, then at a range hit five balls with every second club and note the middle landing distance, ignoring the best and the worst. Write the ladder out in order and look for a step larger than about twenty-five yards, and for two clubs landing in the same place.

**60 minutes.** Every club rather than every second one, then ten balls each with the clubs either side of any suspected gap to check it is real and not one bad shot. Only then decide whether a club is missing, and write down the carry distance it would need to cover.

**At home, 15 minutes.** The inventory only. Leave the distance ladder until you can get to a range, because a gap guessed from the loft alone is not a gap. Nothing needs buying at this stage.

**Measure:** every club has a job, no two do the same job, and no step is larger than about twenty-five yards.  
**If it stalls:** a confirmed gap of twenty-five yards or more is worth filling. Anything smaller is not.

Plate 09

Largest step in this bag: 55 yards

7 iron carry Fairway wood carry

A step of about twenty-five yards or more is worth filling. This one is.

A carry ladder with a real gap in it. Change the two carry distances below and the verdict changes with them, which is the point: a gap is a measured number of yards rather than a feeling that something is missing.

EQUIP-AUDIT-001 / reviewed internally, 2026-11-01

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## Every record says what it is based on.

Each exercise lists the evidence it expects before it is worth running, and each one stops short of claiming anything about your swing. Where a record says it is awaiting instructor review, that means it makes specific enough mechanical claims that we want a qualified second opinion printed on it before we stand behind it.

Counts are only ever compared against your own previous counts, under the same conditions. A carpet count and a practice green count are different measurements and should not be put next to each other.

**If something hurts, stop and see a professional.** Pain is not a practice problem, and no exercise here is worth working through it.

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