Winter/Indoor Practice Setup
 

Wasn't sure which forum to put this in...

As the weather gets cooler and we head into winter, I want to set up a practice area in my basement. In particular, I want to have a way to chip (2 ft back, 2 ft through) to work on impact. (I've got my dowels for flying wedge practice and a homemade impact bag.)

Can I get by with some carpet pieces or do I have to spring for something more elaborate as my "turf"?

I'd also be interested in what other practice setups you all use indoors in the winter to hone your TGM skills...

shhhhh....maybe winter won't see us
 

Usually I have Bagger ban people for talking about winter and snow before Thanksgiving, but I'm starting to come to terms with living up north. You're on the right track with your practice aids. Carpet should be fine. At our local golf show, I was able to find some small pieces of artificial field turf that is really nice to chip off of. Here are a few more ideas...

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ghlight=winter

Thank you for the info and link. I definitely need to add full length mirror to the list, along with Taly device and laser.

I was going to look at the PVC pipe option from the DVD, but plane board would be be easy enough I think.

(Sorry about the pre-Thanksgiving mention of the "w" word -- hope I can reverse psychology the weather...)

no worries
 

I just moved this spring and am now about 1 mile from a year-round practice facility, including golf simulators + full bar, so this is the first winter in a long time I'm not dreading! :golf:

TGM requires a downward strike. Hitting a lot of balls off a hard surface can do serious damage to your body. Be careful.
I have basement full of training aids, mats, mirrors, nets, plane boards,launch monitors, etc. etc. good way to pass time in the long dreary NE winter.

Agreed , the mats of winter get me playing everything nearer low point to take the down out of the strike.........I dont do this intentionally it just happens. And wrecks my impact geometry when I get back on grass for all but shots normally positioned there. It doesnt sound like a big thing but it can be. Say you do play things back in your stance .....you cant go all the way down as you normally would so you start coming up out of it a bit to lessen the blow protect your wrist.

I bought some super thick stuff to hit off but it didnt seem to help when I hit the south in March.

Id be interested in any suggestions people might have to remedy this.......I quite honestly asked the local golf dome owner if I could bring in rolls of bent grass to hit off.... His answer: "Well , thats stupid". Which it probably is.

What Id give for nice grass in winter.

I was actually worried about that. I played a very dry, hard course last Friday and just that much hurt the wrists and had me off when I got back to my home course.

Can't imagine what a whole winter of not hitting down would do to your golf swing. I suspect it would make you a sweeper pretty quickly...

Grip it and rip it
 

Just hit driver all winter :-)

2 feet back, 2 feet through should be pretty low risk for injury.

I thought about that after I posted. Just chipping shouldn't be that much of an issue.

Driver should be swept not hit down like an iron. 2ft back gets pretty boring nothing like a full swing compressed 7 iron!