Hi golfers Nick here from Nick Taylor golf it's Friday so welcome to another lesson on golf tips in today's video I'm going to
show you golfers out there 5 of my favorite drills to help you when you're
learning the stack and tilt golf swing trying to keep my head steady in the
backswing to try and stop me from swaying so we call this Umbrella drill it looks
like I'm holding an umbrella so key checkpoints these 5 drills will
help you golfers out there improve your contact your power and controlling
the curve of the golf ball the first drill that going to show you golfers
today is going to help you control your contact and the low point of the golf
swing the head movement is so important in the stack and tilt golf swing if
you're swaying your head around your going to make it very difficult for
yourself to control that low point so behind me here I have a really cool
training aid set up you'll see here I'll have a golf bag with a alignment rod
sticking out and a foam noodle just to put in position to place my head so
we're gonna hit some shots here and you can see here how I've set this up the
idea is that we just have something there resting against their head to keep
our head steady in the golf swing so when I set up to
this golf ball here this foam noodle was just resting against the right side
of my head this is a really good drill to help you not sway in your head in
the backswing a lot of golfers are teach would sort of
sway and hit into this noodle as they swing so having something there as a
guide will help you keep your head centered in the backswing now you can
position this however you like you can have it on the the left side of your
head if you tend to lean too much in towards the target and you can have it
on the right side if you tend to move way too much away you can even place it
on your forehead to keep your head steady throughout the golf swing and
stop it from dropping down which is quite a common question a lot of golfers
are asking how do they stop dipping in the golf swing so I'm here to show here
we're gonna take a look at a swing from a couple of different angles but
let's first of all place it on the right side of my head I'm gonna try and stop
and try and keep my head steady in the backswing to try and stop it from
swaying I just want to show you golfers here
from the face on view if your video and your golf swing I'm going to show you
some check points to look for with the head position if you don't have a way to
set something like this up even if you can get someone to just hold a club
against your right ear standing at a safe distance or a noodle will be even
better it just gives you that feeling of not
swaying to the right in the backswing or even into the downswing
now the key Check Point for the finish position is to actually be moving
forward towards the target so there should be a gap here between your head
and the noodle in the finish position you shouldn't be staying against it all the
way through to the finish so let's say a shot here so in the backswing and I try
and keep my head against this noodle but in the finish position I'm gonna be
moving slightly towards a target as you can see there in the finish I've moved a
few inches towards the target with my head position I haven't kept it against that
noodle all the way through into the finish the next training aid is one of my
favorites this is called the tour striker smart ball very simple easy training
to use and one of the most effective you place through the tour striker onyour
neck and then you place the ball between the arms you see this being used by some
of the best golfers in the world the idea of the tour striker smart ball is
to try and keep your arms the same distance apart throughout the course of
the golf swing one of the biggest issues I see of golfers that stops flexing the
arms in the backswing and then the ball would fall well that also affects the
way the wrists work so if you stop flexing these arms it starts to break
down your wrist position can make it very hard to create power and hit the
golf ball consistently golfers that start flexing the arms they're pulling
the club away from the ground it's very hard then to strike the ground in the
correct spot the best golfers will keep the structure of their arms all the way
through now I'm not asking you to keep your arms dead straight all the way
through the golf swing but the point being that you're not bending and
flexing these elbows and pulling them apart if you're able to hit shots
keeping this ball here you're going to control the low point of the swing which
is one of the key areas in hitting the golf ball consistently
– keeping these arms straight not pulling the elbows apart is going to
help you control that low point some golfers that i teach have actually sort
of manufactured their own version of this just with a ball between their arms
and it's a great way to practice if you're able to keep this ball there it's
going to help you keep the club on plane It's going to stop you from flexing
losing the angles with your wrists so if you can keep this here throughout the
course of the swing you're really going to improve your technique let's give it
a go and try and keep that ball there throughout the course of my golf swing
ok felt pretty solid here just a little draw so if you can hit shots using this
training aid or something similar it's really gonna improve your ball striking
the third training aid I have here is the Tour striker plane station this is
one my most used training aids and it's great for golfers to train their swing
path whether they're slicing or over drawing there's different settings that
you can place here on the plane station and you get these little rods that stick
in or you can use alignment sticks so I'm going to show you golfers out there
how to set this up if you slice the golf ball so I have the tour striker plane
station here next to the mat here if you're using one of these at home you
place the rod for an iron around about 55º is a good one to use and you'll see
how this angles up from the golf ball the next thing I do is just angle the
noodle it's a hole in the noodle here so place it down the rod and this will set
you a good obstacle to help with your swing path the important thing when
you're using the noodle here is to get this angled on your right shoulder when
you've got the camera in line with your hands this is the check point this is
going to help you keep that Club path inside and stop you from coming over the
top if you slice the golf ball this is one of the best training aids to use so
I've got this angled on the right shoulder at 55º and I was going to make
some swings to start with because if you go for that this might be difficult to
use at first if you slice the golf ball keys to look for would be to make sure
you turn make sure the knee flex changes is going to help you swing underneath
the noodle so when you feel like you're ready and you've made some practice
swings and you're missing the noodle they're not suggest placing a ball there
you might want to just make some slower swings to begin with keep that Club
working around on the inside it's definitely stopped you from coming over
the top and slicing okay so that felt pretty good so having
this noodle there for me something I'm quite used to so I'll
swing a little bit from the inside anyway but this is a really great training aid if you slice the golf ball just one more point on the noodle here
because some of you might not have access to a tour strike plane station
but if you do practice and you've got some way of angling a noodle or
alignment stick just angled on your right shoulder it's a really great way
to practice to develop that feel that you need this next year was one of my
favorite drills for golfers that over draw the golf ball and pull their shots
to the left one of the most common things I see at golfers that overdraw
and pull the shots to the left they end up swinging too much out to the right
and have the clubface closing at quite a fast rate and that tends to great pull
draws to the left so one of my favorite drills for this is to help straighten
out the swing into the ball and also take off that curve to the left so this
is going to focus a little bit on the club path but also the clubface as we
exit into the finish position so if I take the club just in one hand here and
just make some a small backswing then go through what I want to try and do is get
this club at a right angle to my left arm does it go through
I'm keeping the left arm low the club face is pointing back towards the camera
and there's roughly a 90º angle there so we call this the umbrella it
looks like I'm holding an umbrella so key checkpoints left arms parallel 90º with the wrist between the forearm and the shaft with the clubface
pointing back towards that camera once you practice that with one hand you can
then start to incorporate two hands so the key is as I hit the golf ball I'm
not raising the handle and my arms aren't getting disconnected as I swing
through it's staying on my chest moving around to the left
staying on these grid lines and the clubface is not excessively rolling or
closing as it goes through if you take a look at the swing from this angle
golfers are overdraw they tend to raise this handle and close the face as it
goes through and the club will tend to move too much out to the right and be
closed to the swing path this line here is where you want that
club to track and when the club face to stay pretty much Square to that as it
goes through so the idea of the umbrella drill is to keep that face Square to the
path as it goes through well not we don't want to shift the path too much
out to the right and have the face excessively closing to the path that's
going to cause that ball to start left and overdraw so having the umbrella
drill will keep that face more open to this swing path line as you go through
so let's give this shot a go I'm expecting this face to stay more open
the ball to go higher and the swing direction pretty straight into the ball
if I can get into that finish with the umbrella as I go through okay pretty
close and that's a pretty straight shot definitely went higher definitely didn't
over the draw so if you're over drawing the golf ball try and feel the umbrella
and that'll take the curve off there one of my favorite drills to help with the
low point and moving the weight better into the finish is a very simple drill
and all you're going to need for this drill is a water bottle if you place the
water bottle just on the outside of your right heel here the idea is that as you
move through it you're getting the correct movement with the right foot in
the downswing and into the finish this right foot should be banking inwards
this way that's going to help you move your weight through you can help you
extend your legs into the finish so if I keep my weight too much on the back foot
and turn too much I'm gonna hit that water bottle and it's going to fall over
so the idea is I'm going to try and extend away from the bottle as I go
through and place the bottle on the outside of your heel now what I'd
suggest you do to start with is just make some swings where you just try and
hit the ground and move forward into the finish if you take a look at my right
foot here it's quite important you'll see from both angles how the foot
banks inwards this way I'm putting the pressure on the inside of my foot as I
extend my legs when you look at it from the face on view you'll see how my foot
almost gets that impression of sliding a little bit forward and that's a really
good feeling if you're putting too much pressure on the outside turning too much
and moving too much weight onto the back leg and the finish then trying to feel
like that foot is moving actually sliding towards the target is a really
good feel once you've done some practice swings
and then you can start to get that feel try and hit some shots and I would start
off in the beginning here and try and stop about here on the finish with the
arms are parallel what we're looking for is that foot banked inwards the leg
straight and in the belt raising the chest pointing backwards facing towards
the sky the belt turned roughly 90º to the target and the shoulders
turn 90º to the target so to start with just some short swings and stop
on that finished position with the arms parallel with the whole body turn 90º the foot extended banked inwards and that should really help you move
that weight through into the finish this is one of my favorite drills to help
with the finish position moving the weight moving the hips forward extending
the body keeping the arm straight and the finish so there you have it golfers
five of my favorite drills to help you out there when you're learning the stack
and tilt golf swing I'll be interested here your thoughts have you practice any
of these drills before they're not all for everyone but certainly some of those
drills will help you golfers out there depending on what issues you have in
your golf swing everyone's different everyone will need to work on different
parts of the system so if you're not really sure which part you need to work
on the best thing to do is get in contact with the stack and tilt coach
either online or in your local area and they'll be able to help you with the
drills that you need to work on to improve your golf thanks for watching
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week for another video on golf tips
