The Target Selection Practice
The Target Selection Practice is a course strategy drill from The Adaptive Golfer. Hit ten shots into an aim corridor offset from the flag to break the pull of aiming at pins. It trains aim discipline, and your result is measured as Practice Strokes Gained against your handicap band.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Here's the Target Selection drill. It breaks the habit of aiming straight at every pin. Put a flag at a hundred and fifty yards. This is the pin, and it's tempting. Now set alignment sticks to mark an aim corridor about fifteen feet left of the flag. That offset accounts for the danger on the right. Aim at the corridor, not the flag. Land inside it and you score a point. Land near the flag but outside the corridor and you score zero. Even if it finished closer to the pin. Hit the corridor, then make it harder. Narrow it to ten feet and raise your bar to seven of ten. Log every rep in The Adaptive Golfer.
How to do The Target Selection Practice
Place a flag at 150 yards and use alignment sticks to define an aim corridor centered 15 feet left of the flag, simulating a right-miss danger near the pin.
Set your aim point in the corridor and hit ten shots with the explicit goal of landing in the corridor — not near the flag. A corridor shot scores a point regardless of flag proximity; a shot near the flag but outside the corridor scores zero, even if it finishes closer.
Narrow the corridor from 15 feet to 10 and raise the benchmark to 7 of 10.
Aim drifting back toward the flag during address. Use an intermediate target — a spot three feet ahead on the line to your aim point — and set the face to it before the body.
How The Target Selection Practice is scored
Count your successful attempts out of 10 corridor hits.
Log each rep and see whether you are above, at, or below your band — not just the target.
The 5-pillar diagnosis tells you whether this drill is even the thing costing you strokes.
A four-week plan picks your drills and recalculates as your numbers move.
As seen in Chapter 25 — Drill 11 of The Adaptive Golfer. Every drill, benchmark, and plan in the app traces back to the published methodology.
The Target Selection Practice FAQ
Hit ten shots into an aim corridor offset from the flag to break the pull of aiming at pins.
It builds your course strategy, specifically aim discipline.
Related drills
Log The Target Selection Practice in The Adaptive Golfer and see your Practice Strokes Gained against your handicap band.
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