Down on the range: Use your smartphone to good effect

Going down the range in the winter months can, at times, seem about as appealing as a trip to a dentist who has shaking hands and a worryingly sadistic attitude towards patients. As a result, all too often, many of us get 100 balls from the machine and fire through them with absolutely no plan of attack. Here, The Bedford’s James Ridyard shows eight ways to make your time more useful.

You may think you’re doing everything right in your swing, but if the ball is disappearing to all parts of the range, there’s probably something wrong.

Chances are, if you’re mad about your golf you might have an inkling about what’s going wrong but the only way to confirm it is to get a mate to video you hitting balls on a mobile phone.

Still not fixed? Send the video to your local pro who should be able to get you back on the straight and narrow.

VIDEO KILLED THE FAULT: Getting your swing on a phone is a great way to highlight your faults and gives you a valuable picture in your own mind of what is going wrong.

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