Sep 22, 2024

Tour Aim Golf 30-Minute Practice Plan

Ben Hadden is an aspiring TOUR Pro who has a practice routine to match his ambitious goals. He put together a detailed video on how he uses Tour Aim for his 3-hour long practice sessions which you can watch here.

Now, we know most of us are lucky to get in one practice session each week, so we adapted Ben's practice into a 45-shot practice session that should only take about 30 minutes.

PRACTICE FOUNDATION

The core of Ben's practice is hitting quality golf shots and understanding how that positive results were achieved. He does this in a 4-step process for each shot.

1. See the Shot – Visualize the shot you are trying to hit and rehearse the feels in your practice swing to achieve that visualization in your upcoming shot.

2. Hit the Shot – Hit the shot going through your full on-course routine.

3. Analyze the Result – What was good about the shot? What could have been better?

4. Reflect/Connect – Try to look for the positives and focus on what you did well and why you did it well. Carry that into your next shot and repeat the process.

Execute the next 45 shots going through the process above. Again, the purpose of this practice is to focus on the good to condition neurotransmitters to default to good habits on the course.

WARM-UP/WEDGES

This is where you set the tone for your practice session. Not only do we use these shorter shots to loosen-up our bodies, but we also establish our stock shot for the day. A stock shot is crucial for our practice sessions as it will be the baseline for all 45 shots we hit. It is also good to establish this with a wedge because it sets us up for a nice controlled tempo that we should use for every club in our bag.

• 10 Stock Wedge Shots
Setup Tour Aim at a target at your favorite stock wedge yardage (a number between 90-130 yards that has you licking your chops on the course).

• 5 Distance-Control Wedge Shots
Change your Tour Aim to a target that is 50-75% of the distance of your previous target.

MID-RANGE/IRONS
Ben has a brilliant tip where he practices odd irons on odd dates and even irons on even dates. Grab 3 irons that correlate with the odd or even number date you are practicing on and hit 5 good shots with each. Since today is September 22nd, we’ll use even numbers for this example. Align your Tour Aim to an appropriate target for each shot.

• 5 8-irons

• 5 6-irons

• 5 4-irons

TEE SHOTS/DRIVER
Ben is a believer that all good golfers should love hitting their driver, so spend a bulk of your tee practice with the big dog. That said, most golfers use 2-3 clubs for a large majority of their tee shots, so practice what you play on the course.

• 5 Fairways

• 10 Drivers

EXTRA CREDIT

Setup your Tour Aim for putting practice and roll 10 putts. It takes 5-minutes at most and getting your aim, alignment, and start-line calibrated is undoubtably the easiest way to shave a few strokes off your scorecard.

WHY IT MATTERS

Very few golfers practice with focus and intent. That's why very few golfers are low-single digit handicaps or better.

We love Ben's practice strategy as it's all about developing confidence. It's also target oriented which is the easiest way to translate practice to the course. Lastly, using Tour Aim 2.0 during practice is an easy way to ensure proper aim, alignment, and target orientation so you can passively hone those key fundamentals with each swing as well.

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