Closest-to-Pin, With a Routine
Why this drill
Every tracked range ships a closest-to-the-pin game; almost nobody plays it like golf. Adding a full pre-shot routine to every ball — and scoring the routine as hard as the shot — turns the bay's best game into genuine transfer practice.
Setup
A tracked bay's closest-to-pin or target game, one scoring club per round of the game, fifteen balls.
The drill
Play the game's nine or ten shots, but every ball earns two grades: the screen's distance-to-pin, and your own yes/no on the routine — behind the ball, target picked, rehearsal, commit. A great shot after a skipped routine scores zero; the discipline is the drill. Between balls, step fully out of the stance zone like walking off a tee. Log both scores; watch them converge over weeks, because they do, and that convergence is the whole argument for routines.
One thought to take with you
The routine is aim, and aim is free — spend it on every ball.