How to do the line drill

Draw a line on the ground and set the ball on it: bottom out behind the line and you hit it fat; strike the ball first and the divot starts past the line.

A 0:28 film by golf.studio, drawn from how the coaches in our index teach the line drill.

Chapters

  1. 0:00 The question
  2. 0:02 Set up
  3. 0:07 The miss
  4. 0:12 The good one
  5. 0:16 What it trains
  6. 0:20 Who teaches it

What the film says

The question
Hitting your irons fat? Try the line drill.
Set up
Draw a line on the ground. Set the ball on it.
The miss
Bottom out behind the line and you hit it fat.
The good one
Ball first — the divot starts past the line.
What it trains
Your low point. Ball-first contact. Divots in front.
Who teaches it
17 coaches we've indexed teach it. Every one of them, timestamped, on the drill page.

17 coaches we've indexed teach the line drill. See every one of them, at the second they demonstrate it.