Call Your Carry
Why this drill
A tracked range bay grades the one skill a plain range cannot: do you know your numbers before the screen does? Predicting every carry out loud, then scoring the error, converts ball-tracing entertainment into the most useful feedback in golf — calibrated self-knowledge.
Setup
A tracked bay (Toptracer, Trackman Range, or similar) showing carry distance per shot. Three or four clubs from wedge to mid iron, fifteen balls, somewhere to note scores.
The drill
Before every ball: name the club and call your carry out loud — "pitching wedge, 118." Swing with a full routine, then check the screen. Within five yards of the call scores two points; within ten scores one; further is zero — and so is any shot you forgot to call. Change club every ball, never repeating, cycling short to long and back. Fifteen balls, thirty points possible; eighteen is well-calibrated club golf. The misses matter more than the score: chronic over-calling by ten yards explains most of the approaches you leave short on the course.
One thought to take with you
Commit to the number you called — a called shot swings freer than a hopeful one.