Why You Need This: In this video, you'll discover the 3 rings of golf improvement.

Now, we all know that you need to practice if you want any chance of improving your golf game.

However, the key is how you practice.

Let's say you have 2 options to improve your swing...

1. Spend 5 hours at the range and improve your game marginally, or
2. Spend 2 hours at the range and make big improvements to your game.

If you can improve more with 2 hours of practice, then heck yeah, option #2 is the way to go.

But how can you possibly improve your game with less time practicing?

To answer that question, let's start by explaining at how you DO NOT want to practice.

There are tons of players that go to the driving range and pound hundreds, if not thousands, of balls every week, yet they don't improve much.

Why?

Haven't we all been told that we need to work insanely hard in order to achieve our goals?

The problem is that most players that spend all day at the range ("range rats") often practice shots that they're already good at.

If you hit a nice high draw and you go to the range and practice high draw shots, that won't do much to improve your fade.

The point is that you need to practice smarter with variability training.

Your goal should be to add more shots to your bag so when you need to hit a fade, you'll think to yourself...

"No problem" and hit a good fade and stick it close to the pin.

Learning more shots will also help you develop more feel for your clubs.

Over time, you'll get more control than you ever thought possible.

Ever wonder how top pros can hit just about any shot?

Well, they've practiced just about every shot possible.

They've hit tons of balls from divots.

They've hit tons of balls from uphill and downhill lies.

And practicing all these different shots has helped them develop unreal control of their clubs so that if they ever run into a truly rare shot, they can adapt quickly and pull off the "impossible" (remember some of Phil Mickelson's crazy saves?).

This video will help you create a plan to bring more shots into your game.

You'll learn about the 3 rings of golf improvement...

• Comfort
• Learning
• Chaos

... and practice with a plan.

Watch this video now to bring more shots into your comfort zone and make huge improvements fast!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:04

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, welcome back. In this video we’re going to talk about how you can improve your game much faster and the proper philosophy to improve your game. We’re calling it the 3 Rings of Improvement.

Now this is really important. This is one of the most important things there is out there. You think about two different players, one player that’s practicing the correct way, he’s improving very quickly, and then another player who’s practicing hard, but really not getting the improvement.

I see tons of these, driving ranges are packed with players hitting a lot of range balls, but they’re not getting a lot better.

If you’re the player that knows how to improve, you’re following the right philosophy, you can improve 5 or even 10 times faster than that player.

If you fast forward a year from now, you’ve dropped tons more strokes off your handicap, you’re driving it farther, you’re driving it straighter, and you’re hitting the ball a lot more solid simply because we’re following the right principles, the right ideas.

Let’s start out with these 3 rings and think about it from a beginner’s standpoint. So the inner ring is what I’m comfortable with.

If I’m very first starting out for golf and I’ve never even held a club, everything’s uncomfortable. I don’t have a comfort zone or my inner ring.

Maybe I’m working on my grip, and it takes me several weeks or a month just to get comfortable with the proper grip.

Now from there, I’m putting that piece in my comfort zone. So I can imagine jut millions of pieces of things that I could possibly learn in golf, I’m taking one piece and I’m putting that in my comfort zone.

Right outside my comfort zone we have the learning zone. So there’s a lot of things we can learn in the beginning, but we don’t want to get too advanced. If we get to the third ring which is a little farther out than that, that’s chaos.

Again, if we’re a beginning player and we’re trying to hit that nice, high draw 320 yards right down the middle with the driver, it’s not going to happen. We just don’t have enough experience, we don’t have enough things in our comfort zone to make that happen.

When we’re starting out, very few things are in our comfort zone. We have learning zone there, we’re really picking up things fast and then we have chaos which is a lot of things there.

Now as you get a little bit more advanced, you’re taking pieces like grip, you’re taking stance, you’re taking alignment, and you’re putting those in your comfort zone and you’re getting better and better.

It’s not about having one thing and doing it perfect, it’s about trying out tons and tons of different stuff to be able to get that learning process happening.

I’ll give you a great example of something I see players do wrong when we’re in this intermediate-type zone.

One of the things you’ll hear me talk about a lot is playing a fade. So I’m going to try to play a cut, have that ball turn over from left to right, and I’m going to play a draw, come more inside and have that ball turn over from right to left.

Even if you play one shot 90 percent of the time out on the course, I want you to practice hitting fades, hitting draws, hitting high shots, hitting low shots.

What that’s doing is that’s pulling more pieces into my comfort zone. I’m learning how to hit those types of shots, and I’m learning how to control this golf club.

Now when I get out there on the course, even if I’m not hitting, if I don’t want to hit a fade the majority of the time.

Let’s say I start to hit a couple snap hooks that are turning over too much right to left, I know the feeling to get a little bit more of a fade-type swing and I’m going to work on getting a little bit more of that to straighten that out to counteract that bad result that I’m getting.

If I’m hitting a fade, or let’s say if I’m hitting a draw, this is a great example for those of you, something a lot of you guys are working on.

If I’m going to hit a draw, I’m going to line up a little bit to the right. I’m going to go ahead and feel like when I’m coming through contact, I’m swinging out a little bit more to the right also.

My shoulders are going to come in a little bit more closed, my club is working out, and if I’m going toward the camera, I’m going to take my left wrist and I’m going to turn it down toward the ground. You can see how that closes the club face.

So I’m coming from the inside and I’m closing that club face to get that to release, and to hit that draw. In that intermediate zone, again, I’m working on all different types of shots and the goal here is to pull as many different pieces as I can into my comfort zone by specifically trying out different things.

Instead of trying to do the same again and again. If I’m just saying I’m going to do the same thing over and over again, I’m not pulling new pieces into my comfort zone, and I’m not learning. I’m not expanding my learning.

The final step here would be a more advanced player. If we’re looking at a PGA Tour player, he has thousands of pieces in his comfort zone.

If he gets a ball that’s sitting down in a divot, he’s hit that shot hundreds of times, thousands of times. He can pull from that information and hit that type of shot.

If he’s in thick, tall rough, if he’s on an uphill slope, where he’s got a really big slope, or a downhill slope where he’s hitting down, all these things have been pulled into the comfort zone.

We can learn quickly if we’re specifically trying those different types of things and we’re trying t get as big of a comfort zone as possible with as many little pieces in it as possible.

Then we’re also every day trying to expand that in our learning zone.

To recap on there, golf isn’t about doing the same thing over and over, that’s probably the biggest misconception that I see with players trying to learn.

We don’t want to do the exact same thing every single time. We want to vary it up. We want to hit different types of shot shapes, different heights, different lies, different angles, all that. Even right from the beginning.

As soon as you get your stance and your setup, we’ve got to work on those variances, that way we can pull as many things into our comfort zone as possible.

Stay in your learning zone, that’s just outside of what you can do. I don’t want to be trying to do things that are way outside of my skill set. Let’s say I can make pretty consistent contact.

Now I’m going to try to make contact on a certain part of the face. Maybe a little bit more toward the toe or the heel, just to try that out and to learn how to do that.

So we’re staying in our learning zone, and we’re staying away from chaos which is too many variabilities.

So pick something that you don’t know how to do. Figure out a specific way that you can measure if you’re being successful or not, and then go out there today and practice that until you can make that happen.

You’re going to stay in the learning zone, you’re going to improve day after day, year after year, and you’re going to start hitting some great shots.

So go out there, practice in your learning zone, and you guys are going to play the best golf of your life.

I’ll see you guys soon.