Winter is the best time to chase distance—because there’s no pressure to score. With fewer rounds and more controlled practice time, you can work on speed without worrying about where the ball finishes. This drill is designed to safely push your swing speed while reinforcing efficient mechanics.

The goal isn’t reckless swinging. It’s teaching your body what fast but organized feels like.

Purpose: Increase clubhead speed while maintaining usable mechanics.

Setup:
Use a driver and a launch monitor or simulator if available. If not, ball speed feedback or even perceived effort still works. Turn off shot tracer or ball-flight visuals if possible. For this drill, direction doesn’t matter.

• Rest 20–30 seconds between swings
• Stop if mechanics completely fall apart
• Perform this drill no more than 2–3 times per week

Overspeed training breaks mental speed limits. The reset swings help your body retain that speed in a playable motion. Over time, your baseline swing gets faster without feeling forced.

Speed gains won’t be linear. Some days jump. Some days stall. Judge progress by trend, not session.

Winter speed isn’t about swinging harder—it’s about swinging faster on purpose. Commit to the drill, trust the process, and let spring golf surprise you.

Most golfers don’t stall because they lack talent. They stall because they don’t follow a system. Real improvement rarely comes from chasing a new swing thought every week. It comes from doing the right things, in the right order, long enough for them to work.

That system can be boiled down to four words: Process, Practice, Patience, and Persistence. Nail these, and improvement becomes predictable instead of accidental.

Process
Improvement starts before the club even moves. A solid process means choosing a clear target, selecting a shot shape you trust, and committing to a repeatable pre-shot routine. The routine matters because it stabilizes decision-making and reduces mental noise. On the course, process also means playing smart. Aim away from trouble, plan for your common miss, and choose clubs that keep big numbers off the card. When your decisions stay consistent, your swing has a better chance to repeat under pressure.
Quick check: Write down your pre-shot routine and use it on every full swing for one entire round.

Practice
Good practice is narrow, not scattered. Instead of bouncing between clubs and skills, pick one focus per session. Work it deliberately using slow swings, checkpoints, and feedback. Only when the move feels repeatable should you test it at full speed. Random reps create fatigue. Focused reps create change.
Quick check: Walk into your next practice session with one written goal and don’t leave it until you’ve made progress.

Patience
Swing changes almost always feel worse before they feel better. That discomfort isn’t failure—it’s rewiring. If you judge progress only by ball flight or score in the short term, you’ll abandon changes that are actually working. Early on, measure success by contact quality and start direction instead.
Quick check: For the first few rounds after a change, ignore score and track strike quality.

Persistence
This is where most golfers quit. Progress lags effort. Scores creep up. Confidence dips. Persistence means sticking with the plan anyway. Improvement demands reps under real pressure, not constant resets after one bad round.
Quick check: Commit to your plan for a fixed window—two weeks, a month, or 10 rounds—before changing anything.

Bottom line: Talent helps. Fundamentals matter. But golfers who improve consistently aren’t guessing. They follow a process—and stick to it.

If distance control starts with vision, this mat gives your eyes a ruler.

The Wellputt 13-Foot Putting Mat is designed around known distances, not guesswork. Clear markings and pace zones teach what proper speed actually looks like, making it a strong fit for this issue’s vision-based drills.

Once you identify whether you tend to see putts as long or short, the mat helps recalibrate that bias with immediate feedback. Every roll has intent, and every miss provides useful information.

Why it works

How to use it
Estimate the distance to a target zone before putting. Roll the ball, then compare feel to reality. Over time, your perception sharpens and misses tighten.

Bottom line:
This isn’t a stroke trainer. It’s a perception trainer—and better perception leads to better putting.