9 min
What a PGA Tour Practice Day Looks Like - Bud Cauley and Jason Baile
28 min
What does a real PGA Tour practice session actually look like when nothing is staged for the camera? At the Jupiter Hills Club in Jupiter, Florida, Bud Cauley works through a training session with 2025 PGA Teacher of the Year Jason Baile, moving from full-swing mechanics to wedges, putting, and short-game control.
It is a working practice, not a demo - the kind of session where every rep has a purpose and every adjustment is tested in real time. They get into ball flight and face angle, looking at how to get the clubface square to the swing arc earlier and how the arms moving in front of the chest can influence delivery through impact. From there, Bud tests his wedge distance control with 12 balls across six targets from 50 to 100 yards. The session then shifts to putting, with a focus on green reading, pace, and building the full read before the stroke. It wraps with a short game landing-spot drill built around three ways to take speed off the ball: friction, spin, and landing angle.
More than anything, this session shows how a player and coach work together when they are trying to improve. You hear the feedback, see the adjustments, and watch the numbers connect to the shot. For golfers who want a closer look at PGA Tour practice, golf coaching, wedge play, putting strategy, and short-game training, this is a rare look inside the process.
It is a working practice, not a demo - the kind of session where every rep has a purpose and every adjustment is tested in real time. They get into ball flight and face angle, looking at how to get the clubface square to the swing arc earlier and how the arms moving in front of the chest can influence delivery through impact. From there, Bud tests his wedge distance control with 12 balls across six targets from 50 to 100 yards. The session then shifts to putting, with a focus on green reading, pace, and building the full read before the stroke. It wraps with a short game landing-spot drill built around three ways to take speed off the ball: friction, spin, and landing angle.
More than anything, this session shows how a player and coach work together when they are trying to improve. You hear the feedback, see the adjustments, and watch the numbers connect to the shot. For golfers who want a closer look at PGA Tour practice, golf coaching, wedge play, putting strategy, and short-game training, this is a rare look inside the process.
