
Miss Your Putts on the Pro Side
Maria Palozola’s putting drill challenges you to play enough break on every putt, which many amateurs fail to do. Keeping it on the high side will help you hole more putts.
Maria Palozola has been selected as one of the Top 50 LPGA Teachers in the World from 2008 to the present and chosen as LPGA Midwest Section Teacher of the Year in 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 & 2018.
Maria was also selected as a U.S. Kids Top 50 Master Kids Teacher after making the Top 50 list in 2016, 2017 & 2018 and selected a Golf Range Association of America Top 50 Growth of the Game Instructor in 201, 2018 & 2019.
Listed as a Golf Digest Best Teacher in State, Maria was the Lead Instructor for the Golf Channel Academy with Maria Palozola in St. Louis, MO. Maria has appeared on the Golf Channel doing golf tips for the Golf Fix, School of Golf and The Morning Drive.
Maria Palozola instructs online at mygolfinstructor.com and gives lessons and clinics in person at stlouisgolflessons.com and mariapalozola.com.
Maria Palozola’s putting drill challenges you to play enough break on every putt, which many amateurs fail to do. Keeping it on the high side will help you hole more putts.
Distance control on your chip shots can be tricky. Maria Palozola demonstrates how to take the focus away from the flag and on to a landing spot so that you can use the natural contours of the green and get the ball close to the hole.
Check that your swing path isn’t causing pulls and push shots or slices and hooks with this great drill from Maria Palozola.
Maria Palozola demonstrates how to shape your shots from left to right (for right-handers) and helps you turn a slice into a fade.
Maria Palozola demonstrates how hybrids take all the best benefits of fairway woods and irons and morph them together for an easier to hit and more forgiving club.
Do you dig your wedges into the ground with your chips and pitch shots? Maria Palozola shows how to stop chunking in your short game.
Maria Palozola demonstrates how to play from bunkers with soft fluffy sand through to hard or wet packed sand.
Maria Palozola’s forward press drill trains you to get to the proper impact position. This drill will really help if you are hitting the ground behind the ball with your irons.
Where our eyes focus has a significant effect on our hand-eye coordination. Simply put, it just isn’t easy to hit something solidly if you aren’t looking at it. Lesson by Maria Palozola.
Golf would be much more simple if all we had to do was aim for the pin on every approach shot, Maria Palozola and PGA Professional, Gideon Traub explain how to pick the right target on the green.
Maria Palozola’s Level Out Drill teaches you to flatten your swing plane and angle of attack to help prevent hitting down too steeply and hitting the ground behind the ball.
Do you find it difficult to judge how far your bunker shots will go? Maria Palozola covers the three main factors – aim, weight distribution, and ball position.
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