Top 10 Practice Drills You Can Do with a Towel
No matter what time of the year it is you can put your beach towel to work with Erika Larkin’s ten great skill building towel drills.
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Erika Larkin is PGA Director of Instruction at The Club at Creighton Farms in Aldie, Virginia. She is the owner of Larkin Golf LLC and author of A True Swing. Erika was named Middle Atlantic PGA Teacher of the Year 2012, has been ranked the number 1 teacher in Virginia by her peers and Golf Digest since 2014. She is also has been recognized as one of America’s Best Young Teachers by Golf Digest since 2012. She has been featured many times and magazine and appeared on The Golf Channel. Erika is a certified SwingAI Coach where she gives online lessons through the “Play with the Pros” App.
For more information, please visit www.ErikaLarkin.com and follow Erika on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Twitter.
No matter what time of the year it is you can put your beach towel to work with Erika Larkin’s ten great skill building towel drills.
Erika Larkin shows you how to fix your golf slice by waving your trail arm with palm facing down and across the ball. Use this same action in your swing to improve your contact and straighten your shots.
Erika Larkin shows the cause and a cure for the dreaded shank where the ball hits the hosel (where the shaft is connected to the clubhead) rather than the clubface.
Here’s a great drill from Erika Larkin to test if you have the proper timing of the release in your driver swing.
PGA Instructor Erika Larkin has a great drill to help if you are really handsy with your putting. Stop steering it in!
Improve your backswing and follow through with Erika Larkin’s Shadow Drill You can do this anywhere there is sun… the course, the backyard, or even the beach.
Erika Larkin shows how your driver swing is different from your iron swing where you want hit down on the ball and take a divot. With your drives you should setup to hit the ball on the upswing.
Use Erika Larkin’s Lawnmower Drill to really help you create some explosive power through impact so that you’re not leaving any distance on the table.
Erika Larkin shows how you should aim for equal amounts of body rotation and club release for better contact and more distance.
Erika Larkin shows how to get two critical setup elements right. Having your ball position and clubshaft lean correct at address will help you hit the perfect shot.
Erika Larkin demonstrates the five different types of shot you can play with your wedges to get the ball close to the hole including low, medium, and high trajectory options to suit every situation.
If you want more power you have to load the backswing properly. Here’s a great drill from Erika Larkin you can do at home to work on that key motion.
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