Does anyone else practice there golf inside there homes? Due to the crappy weather i have found myself doing this alot recently. The urge to pick up clubs and swing them is too great. I feel its pretty beneficial to my game. I work out alot of faults just by practicing in my room or something. For example i worked out i was pulling my right shoulder through on my puts ever so slightly therefore leaving them all just left of the cup. I practice my takeaway alot at home also and weight transfer.... I even figured out a genius way to practice bunker shots  What you do is get a sock, fold it in 4 and then put the ball ontop of it. All you need now is a creative imagination to imagine the sock is sand and something like a washing basket as your target? Anyone else get upto cooky things like this?
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I keep a 60* wedge in the sitting room and one of those stripey foam balls. The challenge is to chip the ball from the sitting room, through the doorway, across the hall and get it to land on the mat in the dining room behond. If I open the face a tad I can get the ball to stop on the mat. The follow through is a bit restricted because of a badly sited tele, but so far it has survived. If I get really bored I attemp to putt whislt balancing(seated) on an exercise ball. You never know, they might change the rules one day.
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 I practise mi chipping indoors using the sofa as a backstop. Place the ball about six feet from the sofa and practise chipping the ball just hard enough to get it over the front edge of the sofa. If you hit it too hard it will hit the back cushion, to soft and it wont get over the front edge - not to be recommended if someone is sitting on said sofa 
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haha. I unfortunately don't have practical balls so i been using real golf balls. I thinned a shot yesterday and put a nice dent in my radiator.
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 Can't tell you how many lightbulbs I've had to replace after I've forgotten to slow down the practice swing in the lounge!
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 Similar to Reckless. I use a 60* lob wedge, and simply practice my swing on the rug in my living room. I don't hit balls with it at all, but like Ben D I have made contact with the lampshade when forgetting to stop the follow through. Not yet managed to smash a lightbulb though!
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I practice with the Leadbetter swingsetter in the hallway. If I stand underneath and just to the side of the lights, then I have plenty of room and club goes no where near them. However, my son picked the swingsetter up and one light bulb and shade has now gone! 
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Wife's got me on a lifetime ban from swinging indoors, "several little accidents some of which were expensive",now banned to the garden which is beginning to look like the tee on a par 3 at the local municipal and wife's complaining again 
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 can you not just get a wee mat? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Go-Golf-Driving-Mat/dp/B000V08F4W/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=sports&qid=1223308359&sr=8-3
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Nifty I use that method of practise, Sad arnt we? I have 3 or 4 little round indentations in the wall behind my sofa with what look suspiciously like dimples in them wonder how they got there??  A couple of my mates have had operations recently and cant play for about 8 weeks they are going crazy. They went private so that they could have the work done in the autumn then they would be OK for the spring, now thats dedication!!
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Thanks for the link Slugger , might just do that , although I don't like hitting of range mats especially when swinging at invisible balls, hard to tell if you have hit it well , cant beat smashing a nice square cut divot over the neighbours fence, you just know that invisible ball has gone miles , yes I know it's socially irresponsible ... I'll buy the mat 
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 If you have a carpet that is similar speed to a green, practice putting at something resembling the size/shape of a golf hole. Amazing how many times you will hit the target, I've been doing this for years and when I have those 3 foot wrinkle-makers on the course, all I think about is that I never miss the ashtray. Definitely works, dread to think how many more wrinkles I'd have if I kept missing!
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Agreed BW - Even just a few minutes a week on the lounge carpet hitting putts has paid off. I regularly practise 4fters to the leg of our coffee table and it's fairly easy to hit. So now if I have a tricky one on the course I just imagine I'm knocking one to the coffee table. It does work.
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 I have a 60* wedge in the House and some Foam Balls to chip with, I use an indoor mat and try to chip the balls through the Serving Hatch into the kitchen! I Also have a Spare Putter, Putting Carpet and ball return and spend many hours putting away in front of the Telly!
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 I'd love to but my house's SSI is to high!
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