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Take Your Wall Drill to the Range — Shawn Koch's Portable Inside Takeaway Fix
Every instructor knows the wall drill. Stand a foot from a wall, swing back without touching it, feel the club work up the plane rather than rolling inside. ...
Line and Pace Putting Drill: Mike Barge's Gate Method for Breaking Putts
Most putting practice focuses on one variable at a time — either start line work with a chalk line or pace work with distance drills. Both are useful in isol...
Stop Swinging Too Far From the Inside — Eric Barlow's "Inside Path" Corrector Drill
It's one of the most common stories in golf instruction: a golfer works hard to shallow the club, fixes their slice, and then starts hitting blocks and snap ...
Too Much Inside? Eric Barlow's "Inside Path" Corrector Drill with pathpal
It's one of the most common stories in golf instruction: a golfer works hard to shallow the club, fixes their slice, and then starts hitting blocks and snap ...
Hit a Draw Every Time — Jason Kuiper's Inside-Out Path Drill with pathpal
The draw is the most sought-after ball flight in amateur golf. Golfers work on release drills, forearm rotation, grip adjustments — all trying to force the f...
Fix Your Chipping Angle of Attack — Brad Pluth's Hit Down Drill with pathpal
Here's the thing most golfers get wrong about chipping: they think the fix is in the hands. Stop scooping. Firm up the lead wrist. Keep the shaft leaning for...
Stop Early Extension for Good — Jacob Tilton's Heel-Drag Exit Drill with pathpal
Early extension is one of the most common faults in amateur golf and one of the hardest to feel while it's happening. The body thrusts toward the ball, the u...
Stop Guessing Your Ball Position — Shawn Koch's Low Point Drill with pathpal
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Match the flaw to the tool.
Every article in this blog links back to a specific swing problem. Here's which PathPal tool fixes which flaw — so you can go from reading to reps in one click.
- Over-the-top swing path (slice)
- Inside-out path (hook / snap)
- Setup & alignment errors
- Inconsistent ball-flight shape
- Fat & thin contact
- Low-point control
- Ball-first strike discipline
- Inconsistent irons
- Gate drills for putting
- Path barriers & visual guides
- Short-game alignment
- Anywhere practice