Water Bottle — Golf Drill

Learn the water bottle drill with step-by-step video demonstrations from expert golf instructors.

How each of them teaches it

Coaches who demonstrate the water bottle drill, each linked at the second they start.

  1. Face First Golf: 90% of Senior Golfers Turn Their Hips Too Early (And It’s Killing Their Power) (from 4:12). Grip a water bottle with your lead hand and rotate your forearm and wrist to simulate throwing water out of the cap through impact.
  2. Matt Fryer Golf: PERFECT Iron STRIKES With This Simple Drill! Simple Golf Tips #golftips #swingtips (from 0:11). Place a water bottle a club head's width behind your trail heel to ensure your weight shifts toward the lead leg during the downswing.
  3. Giles Gill Golf: The ONLY Hybrid Lesson You’ll Ever Need! (MUST WATCH) (from 8:08). Place a water bottle just outside your trail heel; if you 'back away' or hang back during the swing, you'll knock it over. This encourages forward weight shift.
  4. ChrisRyanGolf: His Strike Was Poor… This One Lower Body Move Fixed It (from 6:09). Placing a water bottle outside the lead foot and attempting to knock it over with the lead hip/knee during the downswing.
  5. AlexElliottGolf: The Easiest Way to Draw Your Driver (Even If You’ve Always Sliced It) (from 3:08). Place a water bottle inside the target line and slightly ahead of the ball to force an in-to-out swing path, preventing an over-the-top slice.
  6. Athletic Motion Golf: Move Your Trail Foot LIKE THIS for Speed & Compression (from 9:20). Place a water bottle behind the trail heel to ensure the foot moves forward and up rather than spinning out backward during the downswing.