That tiny change is gonna make
all the difference to every shot you hit from green to drive. I talk a lot about your natural instincts
and the more we can tap into it, you're gonna play better golf. You're
gonna have a more free flowing, consistent golf swing, an
effortless power golf swing, throwing a ball is one of those
examples. I'm holding a ball here. I'm throwing it or I'm hitting
a baseball or whatever.
It might be casting a fishing rod.
I am always in motion. This ball, as I'm holding, it is
always slightly emotion. If I was to have this on a table or
something, and I was like, alright, throw, but I've gotta grab this ball
first. Right. As quickly as I can, if I go like that, the whole
thing looks a lot less fluid. So if I'm like this, all right, go, okay. But if I have the ball
here and this is always moving or I'm moving here, okay. The it's more fluid. There's less to think about because
I'm not trying to start something it's already started. And that's
why this tip works so well. And I'm gonna show you how to get
more freedom in your swing and more consistency with this tiny, stupid, easy
tweak. We are gonna start with putting, it might not be sexy, but trust me,
we need to get the principle, right? And it's gonna help your whole more
putts, which is gonna lower your scores. We all want that.
When you have a tendency to freeze, to be rigid at set, that's really gonna hurt all of your
game, but you are putting as well. I don't mean that you have to
always sort of be moving like this, and then you're sort of putt like that.
We don't need it to be quite that way. Mind you, it didn't turn out too bad, but we certainly don't want to be
frozen where we're over the ball, where the putter is just stuck here. And then we have to
initiate the movement. Okay? How do we do it? We get stuck. So the simplest thing is
just to hover your putter, just a hair. And as you
come closer into here, I'm only talking a couple of millimeters. And what that's going to do
is help start the swing with a little bit more ease.
If we are
stuck down, it can get caught. It can snag on the grass and it, when
we do that, the putter face can open. It can close and our tempo goes off. So what we want to do is just float, hover the putter a little bit, and it's gonna help you feel
the weight of the putter. We can still do the same stroke. We still want to feel firm
in our stance, in our core, in our grip, even, but I can
feel the weight of the putter. And there is no restriction
when I make that stroke. Let's find out how it's gonna
help your chippings too.
If we start at the ground
here and are rigid again, the club can sort of snag it can drag. And that makes the takeaway and the
smoothness a little bit trickier because as you see in the grip up here, what happens is the club is sort
of resting and we might not even be applying the, the grip pressure.
But as soon as we start, we might apply that grip pressure
and drag it away and snatch it away. And if you're doing that
on chip shots or putts, it's gonna happen in the full shots as
well. So we want to have smoothness. It's all about smooth tempo, the
whole swing chip shots as well. So take your grip, take your setup, but just raise the club up a hair, just so it's floating. So now you can make a smooth
takeaway and brush that grass with ease. It's gonna help with
some shots out of the rough as well.
And of course the bunker, because
you've gotta float it anyway. But the same thing applies
out of some rough shots. I'm down here to kind of exaggerate
that if you are stuck in the ground and you're trying to brush the club away, when here and you're snatching it away, you're gonna be knocked off course
almost by some blades of grass. But if we hover we're above, it
doesn't mean we're gonna thin it. It's just, we're gonna adjust to it and allow
the momentum to start the swing just a little bit easier. Okay?
So it applies to everything. Let's find out how it's gonna
help your iron Bobby Jones, Sam Sneed, several other
players of days of your display. This so well, there is
movement. There is flow, very little static emphasis at
the start or during the swing. The takeaway is smooth and
the same thing can be for you. When you make this tiny little
adjustment to hover the club. Now we're onto the iron.
The same thing applies. We want to just hover
the club a little bit.
And I want you to just
play this game with me. I want to always have your feet
moving, feeling the ground, moving the club is
always slightly in motion and we are never fully stopping. We are never fully planting
that club into the turf. It is floating just a little bit. And what you'll notice is it's gonna
not only just help your tempo and stuff like that, it's gonna genuinely
help the mechanics of your swing. We want a smooth, consistent takeaway. What happens is if we are
snatching it away, if we are stuck, what can happen? The club head
whips on the inside too much here. And all of a sudden the rest of the
swing becomes that much harder because we're having to, you know,
overcompensate or whatever it might be.
Or we sort of get a bit stuck and
our tempo snatches away and we get too short. But if we are
floating, if we are always in motion, you will be amazed at how much
easier it is to get a little bit more width and smoothness to your golf swing. So just allow the club
to hover and keep moving. Do not stay static. Now we are onto the driver. This is where hovering and floating, whatever you wanna call it is gonna
perhaps show you the most amount of benefits. Now there's a
couple of keys to this one. The hovering is going to really help a smoother, wider takeaway,
which is what we want. We wanna have a nice sort of
wide swing and a wide angle of attack to be able to sweep
up on it. Floating hovering. The club is really going to facilitate
that.
If we're stuck in the ground, we can snatch it away.
And more than anything, we need good tempo with the
driver wide, smooth controlled, hitting it out the center. And that's where floating
is gonna pay a big benefit, because if you have
the driver on the deck, what's going to happen because
we're not hitting it off the deck. You will see that as we're striking
it with the club, you know, an inch off the air, half an inch off. If we raise the club here what's
gonna happen is we are gonna be striking it out of the heel.
And you can see from this angle. So that's, let's say I start here
out the center of the face. Okay. I'm starting there now. As I swing through my club is above the ground,
but my just by raising that, see how it's coming out of the heel.
Now, we don't really want that. And that heel shot is, might be where some of your cut shots
are happening or many other weird things.
However, if we start with the club hovering out of the middle, this is going to be
where we deliver it. Make sense. So not only is this going to
help your tempo and a wide swing, it's gonna help you hit
the center of the face. Just that bit easier, easy peasy. I want you to now go and
check out these videos. They are easy tweaks that you
can make to your setup that have the biggest effect on your
goal, swing and consistency. I'll see you next time..