Course Program

Land 2 Feet From Hole

Escape successfully, for a 5-handicap player, ~10 minutes at Scarthingwell Golf Course

Short GameAll teesProgram HCP 4.83 drills66% match to course practice profile

Program Snapshot

Handicap range

3 to 18

Average HCP

4.8

Duration (single session)

1 hr 18 min

1 drill/day: 3 days · 26 min/day

Ideal tee

All

Skill Distribution

Precision27%

Distance Control21%

Aim21%

Dispersion14%

Accuracy7%

Trajectory6%

Scoring5%

Overview

Program Structure

Land 2 Feet From Hole. Land 2 feet away and sand from deep bunkers. Focus on Precision, Distance Control, Aim. For a 5-handicap player, in ~10 minutes.

Shot

Sand

What you will improve

Precision
Distance Control
Aim
Dispersion

Program details

Sessions: 3 focused drills
Recommended: 2–3 sessions / week
Total duration: 1 hr 18 min
1 drill per day: 3 days · 26 min/day

Drill Framework

Program breakdown

Each drill is designed to prepare you for the course. Follow the program or repeat the drills to improve key areas of your game.

Drill 1 Drill 2 Drill 3

Sand | Parallel Ball Lines | 9 Stop Zones

Short Game

Up to 5 players compete to stop a sand shot in the stop zone(s). The player with the most points at the end wins the challenge. Up to 80 balls are needed.

26 minFocus: Short Game

Diagram for Sand | Parallel Ball Lines | 9 Stop Zones

Set up 4 lines of balls in the bunker. Each line has 9 balls. Balls are 1 foot apart.

Mark 9 stop zones on the green. Space them out so there is 1 zone for each shot.

Hit 36 sand shots: 4 balls for each zone.

For each shot, aim to stop the ball inside the zone on the green.

Hit 4 balls for the first zone, then 4 for the second, and keep going until all 9 zones are done.

Count balls that stop inside the right zone as successful.

After all 36 shots, enter your number of successful shots out of 36 attempts in the app.

Scoring benchmarks

Repetitions36

Handicap	+9	+5	+1	5	12	19	27	36	54
Score	32	30	28	25	20	16	12	8	5

Sand | Parallel Piles | Bullseye 2x

Short Game

Align a bucket of balls (avg. bucket is 40 balls) in the sand into 10 equal parallel piles of 4 balls and stop sand shots inside Bullseye. Count the number of balls in the inner and outer Bullseye.

26 minFocus: Short Game

Diagram for Sand | Parallel Piles | Bullseye 2x

Put 40 balls into 2 straight lines. Each line has 5 piles of 4 balls.

Make the lines 6-10 yards apart. Piles in each line should be 2 yards apart.

On the green, mark 2 circles around the hole: one small (6 feet from the hole), one big (15 feet from the hole).

Make 36 sand shots in total. Split them into 3 groups of 12 shots.

In the first group, try to land balls in the small circle.

In the second group, try to land balls in the big circle but not in the small one.

In the third group, try to land balls anywhere in the big circle (small or big both count).

Switch to the next pile every shot, changing between the two lines.

Each time a ball stops in the right circle for that group, count it as a success.

After all shots, add up your successful shots and enter your score in the app, out of 36 attempts.

Scoring benchmarks

Repetitions36

Handicap	+9	+5	+1	5	12	19	27	36	54
Score	30	28	24	20	15	12	8	5	3

Sand | Parallel Piles | 9 Stop Zones

Short Game

Up to 5 players compete to stop a sand shot in the stop zone(s). The player with the most points at the end wins the challenge. One bucket of balls per player is needed.

26 minFocus: Short Game

Diagram for Sand | Parallel Piles | 9 Stop Zones

Set up 10 piles of balls in two lines in a sand bunker. Lines are 3 yards/meters apart, piles in each line are 4 yards/meters apart.

Place the piles 20 to 40 yards/meters from the hole.

On the green, make 9 stop zones in a 3x3 grid using tees, buckets, or string. Space them evenly.

Hit 36 sand shots, with 4 shots aimed at each of the 9 zones.

From a pile, hit 4 balls aiming for the first zone. Repeat for each zone until all 9 are done.

Score 1 point for each ball that stops in the target zone.

Keep the ball setup and distance the same. Only change the target zone.

After 36 shots, count total successful balls in the zones and enter score in the app, out of 36 attempts.

Scoring benchmarks

Repetitions36

Handicap	+9	+5	+1	5	12	19	27	36	54
Score	30	28	25	20	15	12	9	6	3

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