How to do the towel drill

Lay a folded towel a few inches behind the ball: bottom out early and you hit the towel first; miss it and you strike the ball first, then the turf.

A 0:30 film by golf.studio, drawn from how the coaches in our index teach the towel 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
Chunking your irons? Try the towel drill.
Set up
Lay a folded towel a few inches behind the ball.
The miss
Bottom out early and you hit the towel first.
The good one
Miss the towel — ball first, then turf.
What it trains
Your low point. Ball-first contact. No more fat ones.
Who teaches it
28 coaches we've indexed teach it. Some use the towel for other jobs too — see them all on the drill page.

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