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New Drill: Stop Guessing Your Ball Position — Shawn Koch's Two-Rod Drill for Consistent Iron Contact
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New Drill: Stop Guessing Your Ball Position — Shawn Koch's Two-Rod Drill for Consistent Iron Contact

If your iron contact feels like a coin flip — sometimes crisp, sometimes chunked, sometimes thin — there's a good chance ball position is the variable you've been ignoring. Most golfers set up by f...

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Steven Blubaugh · Jun 2, 2026
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New dril: You're Not Chunking Because of Your Swing. Eric Barlow's Low Point Drill Proves It.
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New dril: You're Not Chunking Because of Your Swing. Eric Barlow's Low Point Drill Proves It.

Fat shots feel like a technique problem — the club digs, the ball goes nowhere, the ground wins. But the root cause isn't usually a swing flaw. It's a low po...

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Steven Blubaugh · Jun 2, 2026
New Drill: Even Elite Teachers Have Swing Faults. Shawn Koch's 55-Degree Drill Fixes Both Sides of the Plane.
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New Drill: Even Elite Teachers Have Swing Faults. Shawn Koch's 55-Degree Drill Fixes Both Sides of the Plane.

Golfers often assume that elite instructors have solved their own swings. Shawn Koch — Golf Digest #7 Best Teacher in Georgia, Georgia PGA Teacher of the Yea...

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Steven Blubaugh · Jun 2, 2026
New drill: Kevin Sprecher's 3-Point Path Corridor Drill: The Complete In-to-Out Swing Fix
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New drill: Kevin Sprecher's 3-Point Path Corridor Drill: The Complete In-to-Out Swing Fix

A slice doesn't start at impact. It starts on the backswing — when the club gets too far inside and then has no choice but to go over the top on the way down...

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Steven Blubaugh · Jun 2, 2026
New drill: The Wedding China Drill: Jacob Tilton's TrueStrike Fix for an Over-the-Top Slice
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New drill: The Wedding China Drill: Jacob Tilton's TrueStrike Fix for an Over-the-Top Slice

Golf instructors have used the Wedding China Drill for decades. The concept is simple — put something valuable on the ground just outside the ball, and sudde...

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Steven Blubaugh · Jun 2, 2026
New Drill: Stop Three-Putting: Jacob Tilton's TrueStrike Putting Isolation Drill for a Repeatable Stroke
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New Drill: Stop Three-Putting: Jacob Tilton's TrueStrike Putting Isolation Drill for a Repeatable Stroke

Most golfers spend the majority of their practice time on the range — full swings, wedges, driver — and then wonder why their scores don't drop. The math is ...

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Steven Blubaugh · Jun 1, 2026
New Drill: Stop Blocking and Hooking: Jacob Tilton's TrueStrike Fade Drill for an Overcorrected Slice
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New Drill: Stop Blocking and Hooking: Jacob Tilton's TrueStrike Fade Drill for an Overcorrected Slice

Golf instruction is heavily focused on the over-the-top move — and for good reason. But Jacob Tilton teaches a category of golfer that rarely gets addressed:...

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Steven Blubaugh · Jun 1, 2026
New Drill: Fix Your Shank, Slice, and Early Extension at Once: Jacob Tilton's Dual-Barrier Drill
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New Drill: Fix Your Shank, Slice, and Early Extension at Once: Jacob Tilton's Dual-Barrier Drill

If you've ever hit a shank, you know the specific horror of it — that violent deflection off the hosel that sends the ball shooting 45 degrees right. What mo...

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Steven Blubaugh · Jun 1, 2026
New Drill: The TrueStrike Precision Gate Drill: Fix Both Path Faults with Jacob Tilton's 9-to-3 Method
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New Drill: The TrueStrike Precision Gate Drill: Fix Both Path Faults with Jacob Tilton's 9-to-3 Method

Tommy Fleetwood has been seen doing it. Elite instructors build entire lesson plans around it. And Jacob Tilton uses it as the capstone of his entire path co...

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Steven Blubaugh · Jun 1, 2026
New Drill: The Shaft Plane Match Drill: Club-Specific Plane Training with Janean Murphy | pathpal
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New Drill: The Shaft Plane Match Drill: Club-Specific Plane Training with Janean Murphy | pathpal

Most swing plane drills use a fixed angle. One rod, one setting, applied to every club in the bag — driver, irons, wedges. The problem is that every club in ...

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Steven Blubaugh · Jun 1, 2026
New Drill: The Slapshot Rotation Drill: Why Hockey Players Stripe It and How You Can Too | Brad Pluth
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New Drill: The Slapshot Rotation Drill: Why Hockey Players Stripe It and How You Can Too | Brad Pluth

Ask any hockey player to pick up a golf club and there's a decent chance they'll flush it on the first swing. It's not luck. It's physics — and it's the same...

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Steven Blubaugh · Jun 1, 2026
New Drill: The Kneecap Setup Drill: Find Your Athletic Stance for Every Club | Brad Pluth
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New Drill: The Kneecap Setup Drill: Find Your Athletic Stance for Every Club | Brad Pluth

Most golfers set up the same way regardless of what they're hitting — same spine tilt, same knee flex, same forward lean for a pitching wedge as for a 5-iron...

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Steven Blubaugh · Jun 1, 2026