How To Practice Using The Gate Drill
Our highest priority in short game practice is learning how to convert more up and down attempts. Most golfers use the same method of practice in the short game area. They dump a pile of balls and rapidly work thru the pile hitting a variety of shots to one or multiple targets without any effort at attempting to convert those shots with a putter.
How can we measure our success if we do not calculate our conversion percentage?
Practice Like The Pros … Learn To Convert
Your ability to shoot lower scores is dependent upon how well you convert your scoring opportunities. The way you convert more shots is by hitting shots that finish close to the hole or go in. Actually we want the ball to end up past the hole if it does not go in.
We need to approach short game shots with a conservatively aggressive strategy…meaning, we need to hit crisp shots that get to or beyond the hole with the correct read of the slope and break of the shot. The gate drill can help us learn this skill better than any other practice technique.