One-Hour Range Session Free
60 minutes, four blocks, and a score for each
Most range sessions look the same. You buy a large bucket, pull out the 7-iron, and hit balls until the tray is empty. Somewhere around ball forty, the strikes start feeling good. You leave encouraged. Then Saturday comes and none of it shows up.
That gap isn't a talent problem. It's a structure problem. The way most people practice is optimized for feeling good on the range, not for playing better on the course.
This is a 60-minute session, roughly 55 balls, built in four blocks. Every block has a score you write down. The score is the point — it's what turns a bucket of balls into data you can compare against last week.
Why the standard range session fails
Hitting the same club to the same target over and over is called block practice. It's genuinely useful — it's how you groove a new movement, and it's why your strikes improve as the bucket empties.
The problem is that golf is never block practice. On the course you hit one shot, with one club, to one target, and then you don't hit that shot again for twenty minutes. That's random practice, and it's a completely different skill.
Research on motor learning has been consistent about this for decades: block practice produces better performance during practice, and random practice produces better retention and transfer afterward. Practice that feels worse often works better.
So the session below does both, in the right order, and then makes you prove it.
Blocks
Warm-up
Hit 10 warm-up balls: 3 or 4 each with the sand wedge, 9-iron, and 7-iron
- gradually longer swings
- this is loosening up, not practice
- do not skip to the driver; 10 minutes of warm-up protects the other 50
- no score for this block
Block work
Hit 15 balls with one club at one target, with one swing thought (e.g., "slow the takeaway down")
- come to a full stop between balls: set up, hit, and step back off the ball before you set up again
- score the strikes that came off the face flush, out of 15
- flush is a yes or no, and you will know
Interleaved work
Hit 15 shots, never the same club twice in a row
- pick a target and a window around it before you swing (about 20 yards wide for irons, 30 for woods and driver)
- score the shots that finished inside the window, out of 15
- playable shots count, not only perfect ones
Play nine holes
Play nine holes of a course you know, in your head
- tee shot, then approach, with the club you would really hit
- score greens hit out of 9, and be strict
- finish with one last ball that has a real consequence, and write down whether you pulled it off
Content from Range Reps v2.0.0.