– Hi, Adam Bazalgette here,
founder of Scratch Golf Academy. Today's subject how to
improve your impact in golf. Gonna show you a couple of things. Couple of references
when you film yourself with your cell phone you should check for and then a couple of drills that will help you put it all into practice
and build a better impact. (upbeat music) Okay, very quickly if
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those in the comments box. We'll get to that. Let's get started. So in this video we're gonna assume that you have a reasonable grip and that your swing
playing is pretty good. You can't cover everything
in one of these videos it'd be too boring anyway if we did. So we're gonna focus on what happens from this view the all
important moments of impact. How you can improve that position.
Now remember a golf ball even though it's rock hard when you pick it up does compress, it's like
a tennis ball that way. Just takes a lot of
force to get it to happen and the more effectively you compress it. Certainly speed is an element of that, but the more effectively you compress it the farther it goes. So you've got to put pressure
on the ball to do that and having angle between the trail arm that's my non-target arm and having angle between that and the club shaft is crucial if you're
going to apply pressure. Let's have a quick look at how
that works in other sports. Two handed tennis shot there angle between trail arm and racket. Two handed baseball shot angle there between trail arm and bat. This is crucial if you're really going to be able to apply
pressure to the ball. So angle between the trailing arm and the shaft and that pretty much means the shaft is leaning forward.
That is very much preferable at impact. It allows me to hit the
ball before the ground. There's the little divot I took a minute ago on that shot I hit. Now bear in mind you're
gonna hit the divot you're gonna hit the
ground if you hit it at all when the swing is at it's widest, basically when the shaft is vertical. So you want to hit that golf
ball a little before that. So you hit the ball
first, tilt the sweet spot then push into the divot. Then you're gonna start
having solid contact. This does not mean however that the club overall is crashing down
it's moving very level at the bottom that it
needs that forward tilt. Now not every player does this. Not every great player let's
say does this the same.
Some have more lag, more
shaft lean then others. Some have a little bit different body motion to account for that. Let's have a look at a couple of examples. Rory McIlroy on the left,
Sergio Garcia on the right both just bombers of the ball,
great, great ball strikers. Let's back him right to impact. There's that angle between his
trail arm and the golf club. Let's look at Sergio here. Tremendous, tremendous lag handle way past the golf
ball when he hits it. That is a lot of shaft lean and a lot of angle between
trail arm and club, but not every great player
does it the same way. Let's have a look at say Brandt Snedeker. He certainly shot 59 last year.
He's won his share of tournaments. There's nothing wrong
with his game for sure. There's some distortion in the filming of the shaft there, but you can see hey there's forward lean for sure there is not as much
as there is with Sergio in terms of either forward lean or angle between trailing arm and club. Both are okay though. Let's have a look at one more example and I'm not sure I belong in
the great player category, but let's see how I do it
here in the hitting bay. There's a little bit of leg drive, medium lag I would say at best, but sufficient to do the job. There's the angle we're talking about. Two check points you're
gonna want to look at when you film yourself your glove hand your lead hand should be approximately in line with the front or the
inside of that front pant leg. There's some great players
are a little more over here, but it should be more or
less the front pant leg and secondly the hip joint that's not at the edge of the pants it's right over the top of the knee there should be about over that front angle.
So if you get those two check points right you are doing it well. Now I have a free course down in the description box for you. Solid Strike Formula if you want to hit solid, crisp iron shots just go down there and pick it up it's free for you. Okay, let's see our first drill. I'm gonna use an alignment rod something that offers
resistance to the golf club. Could be the bucket of range balls you're hitting or the
bag stand or what not, but get the club up against it and then apply pressure
to it in other words create an impact with no swing.
Use your abs, glutes, etc. Don't just push your hands forward, but get some pressure
and hold it for a second or two to find that feeling,
then just back up here and see if you can get that same feeling there through he ball at whatever scale of shot you want to do it on. That was a little punch shot there. Try it on some big ones
and go back to that. Once you've felt it you have
a decent chance to repeat it. Let's look at another drill. In this drill we have a short iron. I'm gonna pre-set my impact again that's hands up by the
front leg, hip over ankle. Here's the key to the drill
once you've pre-set it hold it for a couple of seconds then just a small swing and pow right back in that impact position that you've just been holding. It is a great way to start
to familiarize yourself with what a quality impact feels like. Hope that helps you with a
better impact position in golf.
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solid contact there soon. Thanks so much. (upbeat music).