Nick Stec Golf

Most golfers can’t pass this 6-shot distance test.

Introducing the GSPro Ladder Challenge

This might be the simplest drill I’ve found for actually lowering your scores.

Start at 50 yards and work up in 50-yard increments:

50
100
150
200
250
300

The goal at each distance is to land the ball on the fly inside the yellow circle around the pin before moving on.

Sounds easy.

Until you try it.

The brilliance of this drill is its simplicity and accountability. You quickly find out if you can actually control your distances. — one of the biggest separators between good golfers and great golfers.

If you can reliably hit your numbers like this, your scores will plummet.

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Basic Rules

• Start at 50 yards
• 10 attempts per distance
• Ball must land in the yellow circle
• Complete it before moving on

Once you improve, reduce it to 5 attempts per distance.

Today it took me 9 total shots to complete all 6 distances — my current personal record.

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If your driver carries around 200 yards, try running the ladder in 25-yard increments instead.

Example:

50
75
100
125
150
175
200

Same rules. Same yellow circle.

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Hard Mode – The Consecutive Rule

Miss a distance and you move back one level.

Example:
50 ✅
100 ✅
150 ❌

Now you go back to 100 yards before trying 150 again.

This turns it into a serious pressure test.

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If you run GSPro, try the GSPro Ladder Challenge and tag me.

Also tagging because this is one of the coolest ways I’ve found to use the software.

Current record: 9 shots.
Let’s see if anyone can beat it.

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FREE SWING ANALYSIS

Send me two videos and I’ll take a look:

Down The Line: camera behind hands looking down target line
Face On: camera facing your chest

Tips: slow motion, club + body in frame, camera around hand height.

Let’s get better.

Left: Current
Right: 2022

This is what happens when you fully commit to the process, not the payoff. I went down to see two winters ago. And it was the best lesson I’d ever taken. But I’m a dad with two young ones, so getting the reps in hasn’t been easy.

Real swing change isn’t about chasing perfect positions — it’s about understanding the laws that actually control ball flight, and building a motion that matches them. That takes time, patience, and a lot of uncomfortable reps.

The swing you see on the right came from sharpening fundamentals, training intention, and staying disciplined through months where the progress was invisible.

If you’re working on your own swing, remember this:

You can’t skip the time it takes for new patterns to become natural.
But if you stay consistent and trust the work… the transformation will come.

Shoutout for holding me accountable this winter with my body. You definitely should invest in some time with him.

finally looks nicey at the top. Thanks pro.

Looking to work on your game or just play a quick nine this off-season? We have a spot!⛳️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♂️🏌️

The Takeaway. Those first couple of feet the club and your hands move are essential. This student is already a good ball striker, with his miss being a slight pull hook (ball starts left and curves left)

Every move has a cause and effect. Here the right hand was taking over a little too much in the takeaway, rotating that face towards the sky. Once we got the club in a new position with the club face square to the players spine angle on the takeaway, everything changed.
Notice in the last pictures what that right hand is doing….

The right hand was not applying downward force… and now it is.

A couple minutes later I was yelling “we have a ball striker on our hands” down the driving range 😂 you gotta love it!

Most of the right handed golfers I teach are also right hand dominant. A couple simple things going on here that clearly make a huge difference.

When we apply torque (twist) to the right hand in the downswing it tends to lead to an early extension of your right arm. If that arm twists and extends, it tends to lead to a hook, and if it does nothing, the club face will be left wide open. The right hands job is to apply a downward force (push) not twist.

This is fairly typical of the right hand dominant person as their strong arm is wanting to take over the swing. This causes the right shoulder to rotate and “Come over the top”

By getting this player to place his lead hand on his chest and feeling like that hand is the first thing to move in the downswing, a little magic happened. It taught him what the true responsibility of that right hand is while also helping him move his ankles,knees, hips, chest and shoulders in unison. ✅✅✅✅