Bryson DeChambeau’s tip may help amateurs keep their swing sharp indoors during winter

DeChambeau’s drill does not require much – just a mat and some tape will do the job.

In a video on his YouTube channel, he explained how you can adapt a bunker drill he once shared with Rick Shiels for indoor use. Back then, the two-time US Open champion drew a line in the sand and focused on striking it consistently.

The idea behind the drill is to improve ball-striking consistency by ensuring the lowest point of your swing comes just after contact. If you cannot get to a bunker or want to stay inside, DeChambeau explained how you can easily adapt the exercise.

“I saw comments saying it’s too cold out, it’s not the right time of year, all I have is a hitting net, all I got is a mat. I’m here to answer your questions. All you need is masking tape.

“The first thing we’re going to do is go over what Rick Shiels and I went over. After that lesson, most people were like ‘How do I write on turf? How do I put a line in turf?’ Well, you can put masking tape on turf.

“You get a piece of tape, tape it down. Or put a sharpie line in if you want to draw it into your turf. You can spray paint it, you can do whatever way you want but whatever way works for you.

“You’ll see if you’re striking in front of it or not. This is a great way right here to start out. Get your 60°, set your line down so it’s like a starting line. If you chunk it, you’re immediately going to pull up that tape, and if you hit in front of it, you’re not going to hit the tape.

“The goal here is to feel like you fractionally just clip the front edge of that tape and make sure that your divot is in front of that line, and you’re going to see on the astro turf will barely start peeking up, and then there’s a lot of turf coming up, so I know that I’m hitting it after the line.

“It’s a great visual aid, and it’s also a way to practice if you’re not in the sand. If you don’t have sand, and it’s too cold out, you don’t need a simulator for this. All you need is just a piece of turf.”

How consistent you should be at Bryson DeChambeau’s drill depending on your handicap

DeChambeau also explained how your consistency with this drill should match up with your handicap. While any golfer can hit the tape once, he said it is about how often you can repeat it that really matters.

“I would say a good metric to go off of if you want to be consistent up to let’s say a 10 handicap level, you’ve got to be able to hit this thing, I’d say five times in a row. If you can do five times in a row, you’re well on your way to breaking the 10 handicap level,” he began by saying.

“If you want to be a scratch golfer, I’d say you’ve got to hit this about 10 times, probably. 10 to 12 times is when you can start feeling like you’re close to becoming a scratch golfer with the consistency that you can produce.

“And then a tour player can do it 20 times pretty easily without making a mistake. I think that’s something that a lot of people miss, is that they focus on, ‘I did it once, and that’s good enough. I know how to do it.’ No, golf is not a game of, ‘Oh I can do it once.’

“It just goes to show you it’s not about what you can do, it’s about how many you can do. I think that’s a huge key that most people don’t realise and in order to be one of the best golfers in the world that’s the level of thought that you have get too in order maintain that level of ball striking consistency in your game.

“To play at the highest level, you’ve got to be able to do this once, twice, three times, and as you get better at it, you’re going to start seeing your ball striking improving over the course of time.

“Lowering your handicap, getting to a place where you can consistently hit good shot, after good shot, which is the key to the game. It’s not about how good your good shots are, it’s about how good your bad shots are. That’s the most important thing in the game of golf.”