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If you had to pick one aspect of your disc golf game to improve on, what would it be?
Wait. Before you answer that.
What aspect of your game could you improve on to get the greatest ROI on the time and energy spent improving it?
That’s a different question but also a more important one.
The most effective way to improve your disc golf game and lower your scores out on the course has to be improving your putting.
The great thing about this is it’s not that hard. You need to practice over and over to get great a putting. And I’m going to give you some great disc golf putting practice drills to help you do that.
Another great thing about practicing your putting is you don’t have to have a lot of space to do it.
If you wanted to practice your driving, you’d have to go to a course or field to accommodate the distance but you can practice putting just about anywhere. In your yard, garage or inside your house even, all you need is a target and some discs.
Now that you are sold on the idea, let’s get into the list of disc golf practice drills to help improve your putting.
1. Overload Drill
Start at a comfortable distance from the basket and attempt two putts. If both putts go in, take a step back and attempt four putts. If those all go in, take another step back and attempt six putts. Keep going like this and increasing the number of putts by two. If you don’t make all your putts, move forward a step but still increase your putting by two.
Change it up: You can add more variation to this drill by changing the number of putts you increase by at each stop. Increasing by one or three would work well for this drill. You could also move back if you make most of your putts instead of making them all to give yourself more looks at the basket at different distances.
2. Five’s Drill
Start at a comfortable distance from the basket and attempt five putts. If all your putts go in, take a step back and attempt five more putts. If you miss any of your putts move forward a step and attempt five more putts.
Change it up: You can add variation to this drill by changing up the number. You could do two putts at each position or all the way up to twenty. I generally stick with five or ten putts at each position.
3. 50/50 Drill
Start at a comfortable distance from the basket and attempt two putts. If you make at least one putt, move back a step and attempt two more putts. If you miss both of your putts stay at the same distance and try two more putts.
Change it up: To add variation to this drill, you could attempt four or six putts and each stop and only move back if you hit 50% of your putts.
4. The Line Drill
Start at a comfortable distance from the basket and attempt one putt. If you make the putt, move back a step and attempt another putt. If you miss a putt, move forward a step.
Change it up: To add variation to this drill you could step back two steps instead of one each time you make a putt. Also, instead of stepping forward if a putt is missed, stay at the same stop until you sink your putt.
5. Pure Random Drill
Start at a random distance from the basket and attempt two putts. If you make at least of the putts move to another random distance from the basket.
Change it up: You can add variation to this drill by changing the putting style used at each location. Push, spin, straddle, turbo or anyone out styles you might want to practice.
6. Around the World Drill
Start at a comfortable distance from the basket and attempt a putt. If the putt goes in, take one step to the side and one step away from the basket. Attempt another putt, if that putt goes it takes another step to the side and another step back. Continue this way around the basket. If you miss a putt, stay in the same position and try again.
Change it up: To add variation to this drill, attempt two putts at each location instead of one. If you make both then move back and to the side. If you miss one putt, only move to the side. If you miss both putts, move forward one and to the side one.
7. Push Your Luck Drill
Start at a comfortable distance from the basket and attempt a putt. If the put goes in, take a step back and attempt another putt. Continue this way until you miss a putt. When you miss a putt go back to your starting position.
Change it up: You can add variation to this drill by attempting two putts at each location and only moving back if you make both of them. If you miss any, go back to the beginning.
8. Putt Horse Drill
This drill is played just like the game of horse with a basketball. One player picks a spot to putt from. If they make the putt, all other players most attempt a putt from the same spot as this player. If a player misses the putt, they receive a letter and if they make the putt they do not get a letter. Players are eliminated when they spell out the word horse.
Change it up: To add variation to this drill, you could pick another word to spell instead of horse. For shorter games, try pig or for longer games try elephant. Another variation to this drill might be that every player has to use the same putting style as the player who hit the first shot.
9. The Obstacle Drill
Start at a comfortable distance from the basket with an obstacle between you and the basket. A tree or a bush are good examples. Attempt two putts and if at least one putt goes in, move the basket one step away from the obstacle and attempt two more putts. If you miss both putts, leave the basket where it is and attempt two more putts.
Change it up: You can add variation to this drill by attempting two different putts behind the obstacle instead of one. For instance, if you are behind a tree attempt two putts stretched out to the right of the tree and then attempt two more putts stretched out to the left of the tree.
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