so I've just come off a couple of golf schools
and what was really interesting is every single golfer when they were on The Fairway were really
struggling to strike their shots consistently some Were Striking the ground behind the golf ball some
are topping the golf ball along the ground but they could never get a consistent strike sometimes
they're striking great but it was not consistent by the end of the session we'd really improve the
quality and the consistency of their ball striking and the distance they hit every golf club now the
way we did this was kind of by controlling when this club bottomed out the low point of this club
now everyone had their own little problems are not faults and in this video what I do is I want to
share with you five simple ways to improve your ball striking now you won't need them all just
maybe one or two or a combination of them will work a tree but by the end of this session I can
guarantee the consistency of your ball striking will improve just like he did for my students so
let's start with now tip number one so the first thing to do is this you've got to recognize
that if you want to strike a golf ball really really well you've got to strike the ball then the
ground and to do that that the left arm and club only line up after the point of contact too often
golfers are basically this lead arm and golf Club are lining up too early here but so by the time
he gets to the golf ball now we've got almost kind of this flicking motion here and that's going
to give you your fats and your thin golf shots and also your weak hits so a simple golf drill is this
I get people to draw a line in the middle of their stance either with foot spray I sometimes get
to jump into a bunker draw a line in the sand and all I get them to do is do a little test
can they strike the ground ahead of that line and create a shallow divot okay what do you
think happens sometimes they strike it over here sometimes they strike it over here but it's
very very inconsistent other people misinterpret this what they do is they go yep Danny Maude I'm
striking ahead of that line but they come in and they've got this massively deep divots that's
the Shocker too that just is an out to win path we don't want that so we want ahead of that line
and shallow divots your body's super smart and it was for a couple of my students they simply worked
it out they okay Danny they've got a few hit few behind the line then they started to consistently
get it and their body organized itself in a way to get that over here to strike the line or the uh
the divot after that line once they've done that and showed me that in the bunker a couple of times
I then got them to line up some balls like this and hit a few shots and again what they
were able to do is start to look at this and then judge where they were striking the
ground relative to that golf ball thank you simple as that now look at that divot there look
low points after the golf ball I could do this all the time right but for some my students this
simple drill didn't work they needed something more technical let's move on to tip number two
so if you struggle with your ball striking this I see a lot so what happens is this golfers who
know they should be striking the ball then the ground find it very difficult because what happens
is their head moves off the golf ball here now the problem is if you stay there you're going to
strike the ground behind the golf ball if you make a lunge how do you time that's too inconsistent
great ball Strikers off the Fairway have a very very steady head okay so to help you achieve this
what I've got here is I put alignment stick just inside my trail heel now if you've obviously move
back you're going to get close to hitting it you won't really it's more of a visual tool but what I
want you to do is imagine you're keeping your head fairly steady here and what you're going to do is
you're going to come into the golf ball in such a way that misses the alignment stick strikes the
ball then that actually strikes the grounds it's encouraging you naturally to get that weight onto
that lead side here and come through Focus here like you've almost got something holding your head
you'll see in some tall coaches in the past they put stuff on the side of their head here hold a
shaft next to it here and they're simply turning inside that shaft they're not letting themselves
move across so super simple keeps you head nice and steady and really helps you get that ball turf
contact now this worked beautiful for a few of my students but one of them Joe actually although
it really improved his kind of his low point he started to strike the ball better he lost a little
bit of power and the reason being is he fell into the Trap of this yes you want to keep your head
steady makes sense right but you'd still need to move your body now the problem was with Joe
is what he was doing is he was basically kind of not moving at all he was keeping his head now
dead still and not actually getting any movement of the body you've got to be able to turn that
body in such a way that keeps a steady head and nobody does this what I tend to see happening is
this people focus on turning away and if all you do is turn the head's going to move off the golf
ball you've got to make sure that this also looks some form of Sideburn or tilt in here because if
you have a tilt this way now look at this as I'm turning I can stay over that golf ball so here's
what I want you to do this will give Joe I said Joe you need to just feel how the best players
move right so get yourself set and simply just tilt down here now when you do this don't push out
here just keep just side Bend here and turn that lead shoulder toward towards the golf ball down
towards the golf ball here and extend up a little bit here now that way now he's got a sensation
of turning and tilting turning and tilting in a way that's going to keep him steady if I just
turn I'll look like this but if I tilt and turn now suddenly I'm able to keep a steady head and
get power look back into that golf ball now with Joe we didn't hit golf balls to start off with I
actually got going through exercises of going tilt turn extend a little bit here tilt turn extend
then I've got him he was up there got into a great position we looked it we did some mirror
work with him once he got the sensation of this we then applied exactly the same thing again we
put this kind of drill in place and got him very slowly getting that tilt in place here steady
head back to the golf ball steady head with a tilt back to that golf ball and then very
very slowly we wound it really slowly here and played some soft style shots just before until
he got the feel of it okay so yes you want to keep a steady head but you've got to move that body in
such a way to work to treat let's move on to tip number four so a couple of my younger players in
the in the group love this and it really really helped their ball striking off the Fairway I
just basically mentioned some said look don't take a selfie and they were like what let's
don't take a selfie when you're playing golf I said look most of the time you're hitting
the ball bad because what you're doing is this you're taking a selfie and what this is doing
okay is is creating this kind of flicky motion through the impact so what I want you to do is
this I want this angle here at impact I want you to compress the golf ball I don't want you
to take a selfie I want to point the phone you grab your phone point it towards the ground now
look point it away from you and then when you're coming down don't point it towards you point it
away and then when you come in Impact look just imagine it keeping away now that immediately
gets your wrist angle the feeling what the correct wrist angles are and then secondly
I said look most people end up releasing too early why because they're throwing the club down
towards the ground I want you to throw the club basically at an angle like this at this angle if
you throw downwards here the club will straighten but look if you throw the club this way that
angle so my trail arm look is going across my body as such suddenly then the release happens
that little bit later so don't take a selfie get that sensation here in that trail trail hand keep
it there and then throw the club at an angle this way not this way that's going to help you get that
compression let's have a look at this in action thank you beautiful so don't take a selfie enjoy
that lovely compression now before I move on to tip number five which is an absolute Bell to look
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guide in the description box below so you never have to remember a thing so tip number five you're
like if you're struggling with your ball striking a lot of the time as you know you're kind of
flicking those wrists and you just can't stop that flick through impact a lot of times just
through feel all right so what I do my students love this take a collab grip it down here just
like this okay and then what we're going to do is I'm simply going to make a pivot of my body
through impact here I'm going to square up the face look and as I'm coming through what do you
notice this shaft look is away from my lead hip if I start to release this club too early and
immediately you're going to start hitting that shaft on my body okay if I cheat the drill and
I just do this yes the shaft is away but where's the cloth face wide open so we do kill two birds
with one stone we let the club release square but at the same time look we keep it naturally away
from the body build this feeling in okay simple as this go up the shaft bit by bit build
that sensation then go on to the grip here build that sensation in I've still got this kind
of alignment sticking here to encourage a downward strike as you're doing doing this and then I would
do with my students I could do my students I'd start off really really small and gradually build
this up just like that beautifully stroked ball then Turf and it's just a great way of starting
to feel how you get onto that front foot whilst at the same time keeping that handle ahead in a
natural way we're not holding this angle we're just letting it release through but in the
correct way so hope you loved this video if you love this you're going to love this one here
wonderful way on some of the basics on improving that ball striking with not just your iron to put
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but until next week have a great golfing week
