(swinging whoosh) – All right, driver versus an iron. Well, there's a lot of little similarities I'm gonna go over in this video, but there's one very specific thing that you need to get
right, it's very different. If you get that right, super easy to hit these. Now, with the driver, what am I trying to do? Well, I'm trying to get the ball to launch high up in the air with the least amount of spin as possible. So I'm gonna play this
ball on my front foot. Anywhere in this general vicinity is fine. Every player can have
a little bit different based on your swing, but somewhere in this front
foot is where you want it. Now, what that means is as
I make my normal golf swing, I'm gonna reach my low point, kind of in the middle of the stance, so about where this ball
is, my six iron would be. And then I'm gonna start
to swing up into the ball that I'm hitting with my driver. Now, that allows it to
launch higher and spin less. If I was to play the driver
in the middle of my stance, I would either be hitting
slightly down on the golf ball or level with the golf ball, which is not what you'd want.
It'll get that ball that launches lower and starts to spin up. Now, with my six iron, you can imagine I can take the same setup, and the only difference is I'm gonna have a little
bit narrower of a stance. So I'm gonna bring both feet in together. Now, my six iron, kind of the back of the ball
is in the middle of my stance. Again, depending on your swing, it can be a little bit farther
forward or farther back and it'd be fine, but I really don't wanna put
the six iron way back here in the back of my stance
and chop down on it.
I can do some bad things, like start to cast to compensate for that.
(bell dings) I don't want it up here because it gets very difficult
to compress the golf ball. Now, if you're looking at this again, I'm gonna go ahead and take a stance. It's kind of somewhere
in the middle of that. With the driver, I like to go ahead and have the inside of
my feet on my shoulders, or almost the outside of my shoulders. I like it nice and wide. When you look at the
most powerful hitters, this is what they're doing. So if I was to draw a vertical line from the inside of my heel, you would see that basically we come to the outside of my shoulder from standing straight up and down.
I can do that with both feet. For my irons, I like to be a little bit narrower. I don't mind having a slightly wide stance even with my irons. So if I took that same line
from the inside of my heel, I drew it straight up. Now it's hitting more in
the middle of my shoulders or just slightly outside of
the middle of my shoulders. Right around in here would be great. Now, you'll see that if I put
my hands in the same spot, because of these ball differences, the placement of the ball is different.
If I put my hand in the
same spot and grab the club, with this iron, I have tons
of what's called shaft lean and the leaning in front. Now, the pros, what they're doing is they're taking the
normal amount of loft where the club would be
straight up and down, and they're taking about 30%
of that off with an iron. So you can see now, that's
basically what's happening. My hands are in the same spot, but the clubs shaft
angle is very different based on my ball position. Now, those things, really
you're making the same swing. You're gonna have lag in the down swing. You're gonna have a
weight shift to the left. You're gonna release the club out in front with both of those swings, very, very similar golf swings. There is one small difference when you're hitting a
driver versus an iron. Now, with the driver, I wanna have what I
call my compression line angled away from the target. So when I come down to impact here, when I studied 50 major
winners on the PGA Tour.
I looked at all the slow motion video, and I measure these things. What I found is that their left ankle to their left shoulder, the left shoulder was behind the ankle. So the hip and the shoulder
were both behind this ankle. If you imagine again, a
vertical line like this, my shoulder is behind it to
help me launch the ball higher and hit it nice and high and powerful. So let me go ahead and try that out here. And a good key for this is
when you hit your driver, feel like your nose is
staying behind the golf ball and your belt buckle is
staying behind the golf ball, and you're swinging from the inside. So I'm coming down in the slot, and I'm releasing from the
inside when that happens. That's gonna help it to launch
at a pretty good angle here.
Anything over 10 degrees launch is fantastic when you're hitting a driver. So let's go ahead and
give one a wall here. (swing whoosh) There we go. We'll see that that one, I may have the driver's settings a little bit too low, actually. 294, only the second swing of the day. That one launched around eight degrees. So I'm either gonna turn
the loft up on my driver or play it a little bit farther up and stay a little bit farther behind it.
So if I was doing that, I'd make a few swings to get loosened up. See if I just happened to be hitting it a little bit low today, or if I could make some
tweaks in my set up there. Now, with an iron, you're
gonna be doing the opposite. Instead of staying behind this golf ball to help get a more
positive angle of attack, now I'm gonna be stacked. So as I make my swing. Let's go ahead and get this to where it'll read it on
the launch monitor here. So as I go ahead and make this swing now, instead of my left shoulder
being behind my left heel, it's gonna be over top of my left heel. From there, that allows me to hit down on the golf ball easier.
And that allows me to take a divot in front of this golf ball. So now when you watch this swing, you're gonna see, it looks very different. (swing whoosh) So even though the mechanics
of the swing were very similar. Good shot there. 197 yards with a six iron, not too bad. The mechanics were the same, meaning that I felt like I had lag. I felt like I shifted
my weight to the left. I felt like I released this
club in front of the golf ball.
Because my weight
shifted a little bit more and my left shoulder was over my ankle, it made it to where I could hit down into it a little bit more, which is exactly what I
wanna do with an iron. So for the swing keys here, I'm gonna feel like I get my nose just on the backside of the golf ball, but my belt buckle is gonna feel like it's in front of the golf ball now. With the driver, it felt
like it was behind it. So I'm letting my weight
shift over my left side. Belt buckle is in front
of the golf ball here and nose behind the golf ball. That's gonna allow me to be really consistent with these irons. (swing whoosh) There you go, nice, straight one there. That allow me to hit the ground after the golf ball every single time. Now, what I mentioned there is that, I had to shallow it
out with both of these. So the swing technique
is nearly identical. It's just a little more
or less weight shift. The problem I see with a lot of players is they get this club steeper.
And now from here, I can't hit
that driver on the up swing because everything's gonna
wanna chop down into the ground. No matter how far I stay behind it, I'm still gonna be coming over the top and chopping down into it. Now, there's one move that I see virtually
every single player make that makes this nearly impossible. Now, I'm gonna share that with you in a preview video here in a second. I call it the anti-roll method. I'll play a preview of what that movie is, why it's causing you to get steep, and it makes it nearly impossible
to get in these positions, whether we're trying to
hit a driver or an iron.
If I'm coming down here versus here, I'm not gonna be able to be consistent no matter what else I do with my swing. So that preview play
here in just one second, go ahead and click the card
that pops up on your screen. If you don't see that card, don't worry. Just go down to the description below, click the link there and you'll
get instant access to this. So I'll go over the one move
that makes it nearly impossible to shallow out your club
and get from the inside, and it will be a big game changer for you. I'll see you there. So here's the bottom line. If you've been taught to roll the club in the early down swing that
causes the shaft to get steep, and that steep club
causes all your problems.
Causes you to hit it way
behind the big hitters and way inconsistent with
your quality of strikes. So you're in the tall grass and the trees and the
hazards all day long. Now the great news is this, there's really only two
pieces that you need to know to fix all these problems. The first one is we need
to learn the proper way to square up the club face. Instead of rolling the
forearms and getting steep, there's another way that the pros do this. Once you learn this right way
to square up the club face, then you can shallow out from the inside, and everything starts to fit together. Now, I'm gonna teach you this right now in what I call the anti-roll method. You may also hear this
called the motorcycle move or the tour twist, but let's walk through
exactly how to do that. Now, what I want you to do is go ahead and go kind of in the last
parallel in the downswing. So here, I want my hips to
go ahead and be opening up.
I want my club to be
parallel with the ground and I want my hands to be
in front of my right thigh. Now, when I take my grip, you're gonna notice that when I do this, the club face is basically
straight up and down. So if I'm looking at it from this angle, you'll see the face is
straight up and down, and my logo of my glove is
pointed out in front of me. Now, from there..