you michael yeah i'm here for my lesson put them on the tour this guy's a beast do it again all right guys out here at the range got my boy
john out here going to be giving him a lesson make sure you subscribe if you're new but it should be
interesting really cool lesson out here at sports ohio really nice facility let's see what we're
doing john's fairly new to golf so like what's your experience with it in the game yeah man
so uh when i was younger i took a few lessons i decided to stray away from golf and get into
baseball but uh i played a few rounds the last few years but that's about all the golf experience i
have so looking to get better today so it's gonna be kind of interesting because john's actually a
lefty i'm right-handed but i'm gonna give him a lesson i'm gonna change his life maybe these tips
could actually help you guys so hopefully you'll find this interesting and i'm gonna give them
a nice little lesson with all my lessons i just like to have people take a couple swings just
kind of see what we're working with have them loosen up a little bit so john's got like a seven
iron he's gonna take some swings see what we got ground balls don't put that in there i think you got enough ground balls in there so
john used to play baseball with a lot of people that transition baseball to golf the first thing
that i tend to see is baseball you hang on your back leg you're leaning back so that's kind of
what we got going on for john but super easy fix so what i want to try to do is put a ball in
front of him he's lefty but i'm trying to mimic is that all right it's good yeah so what we're
going to try to do is when we take the club back it looks pretty good i really want you to
feel like you're pushing off your back leg keeping your chest down and finishing with
your chest up instead of leaning back so you want to try a couple just staying
down through the ball and finishing up yeah it's probably gonna feel a little weird for
him just because it's totally different to the baseball swing so i'm just trying to get him used
to the feeling of staying down and compressing it does it feel weird or anything definitely
feels a little weird yeah unnatural almost time to take some full swings a ball i don't
really care where it goes we're just trying to get him that feeling of staying
down and it's okay to hit the ground all right that's right lean back
a little bit there yeah that's all right we're still getting that feeling down that's all right that looked better though
yeah we're getting the slice is gonna be there there we go do like one more all right that's okay but we got that feeling
kind of awkward for him but we're just gonna start working on that all right before we
move on anything else i'm just gonna take a look at john's setup because that's like the most
important thing just to make sure we're set up to the ball correctly what club you got there john
i got a seven iron all right so let's have him set up the ball see what he normally does here
and we're just gonna kind of give him in the right positions so overall not terrible the ball
position is pretty good what we want to try to do is get these hands a little in front of the
belt buckle so you're almost there you go hands are almost in front there we're gonna check his
alignment just make sure the club face is decently square try to make sure the balls are positioned
into the center of the club face so kind of move it toward there you go and i would actually
take a step back there it is all right so now everything's squared up let's see let's have them
take a swing just kind of see what we've got here that's better though we're more square you want
the hands up here a little bit yeah so we want the hands a little bit forward of your belt buckle
backwards that way when you're coming down you're almost eating with your hands yeah if you're like
here okay square it up a little bit all right that's all right cloud face is just a little
open right now we'll fix that though it's all going to feel super awkward just
because brand new to it all right better make it more like consistent contact
is good just to start off just because once you start making consistent contact
the ball flight will come up in here that's all right what i want you to feel here is
going to feel really weird so when you take your whole clip and you're taking it down this is where
you're at right now club face is wide open that's why you're kind of in this low runner so i want
you to feel like you're almost here and you're coming down and you're almost it's almost passing
through so almost like almost like the club it's called releasing i'm just gonna try
to let it pass through like that all right not flipping your wrist just the
natural kind of motion gotcha better that was a lot better felt
better contact there yeah do that again i like that's we're trending though like to see
that yeah so let's set it up more more like more is it gonna feel like it's
really closed right okay yeah but that's that's pretty square so we're starting
with it's square it's gonna come back square it's all right take a couple practice swings take the club back like halfway all right
so what i want you to try to feel is keep keeping your so for me it's my
left arm straight but for you it's going to be your right arm so straight
straight straight here you're turning that's kind of the feeling at the top i'm going
to feel really weird yeah and then we're coming down this arm's still straight and now we're
turning our lower body turn turn turn there you go all right so instead of the wrist going
first arm arms first arms first yeah there you go all right let's see put him on the tour put him on the tour jesus this guy's a beast do it again let's do it again that's okay club face is just open but that
feeling there keeping that right arm straight is that a good thought oh yeah i'm not 100 it
feels a lot different but yeah because like the big thing was like changing a swing or giving
a lesson is making it make sense for the person and whatever makes sense to you just feel it
you know right no i definitely understand that that's okay that was just the lean back
there's just a little lean back i feel that though a little bit now we're almost there
we're going to get a couple more like nice strikes better getting there so you're
here so you're finishing here we want you finish up here chest forward
gotcha that's what that good one was ah that's all right felt better just better
open the club face exactly see now see now he's able just to figure out what's going wrong
that's a big thing too just understanding it almost he was this close just pulled up a
little bit i'd rather i what i'd rather see a chunk just stay down stay down on this one
i just want to see you hit the ground gotcha there you go just a little left a little left
but yeah no it felt good so you you see how you hit down yeah it almost feels like you're
gonna go straight in but the loft of the club is gonna it's enough yeah exactly how did that
one feel good man like john's now unable to understand kind of what he's doing and so next
time he comes out and practices he'll at least know how to fix the problem so that's the
main thing like you can come out to the range hit balls the whole day and just really
not get better but i'm just trying to do is get him to understand what he's doing wrong
so that way he can come out here and actually practice and get stuff out of it but we're going
to see a couple more swings here we want to get him a couple more pretty much on that one that he
absolutely knew so we're going to get him there there we go nice little draw there we
go all right let's do it again again it's right golf man it's not it's this is
not a magic fix i don't have a magic touch or anything we're just before this i mean those
last two were never to be seen so we're getting we're getting somewhere all right now we got
john with the driver let's have him set up so the thing with the driver is
it's a totally different swing so it's a little different than the irons instead
of hitting down on the ball we're gonna try to hit up just because we don't have a lot of loft to
work with so we got him with driver i'm gonna get him dialed in we're gonna start like see
we're working with have to take a couple swings all right i'm gonna have him hit one
more shot and then i'll help him out so when we got driver in the hand we tend to
get a little a little uh excited it's playing a little hard so what john's got going on right
now he's just leaning back so much trying to get this thing up there so what we're gonna try to do
so set up to the ball yeah so we're gonna put it up in the stance so move your feet this way there
you go so we want to play it off his front heel so that's kind of a good rule of thumb there um
set up we're going to drop his shoulder down so just the hair just like that and now we got that
good base and we're just trying to hit slightly up we're not leaning back we're just i'm just taking
the swing all right let's see what that does almost kind of went up a little bit alright man
sorry i almost feel like your chest is down here just because he's leaning back so much i kind of
want to feel like he's coming over it and kind of covering the ball so yeah let's let's try
that main thought is that arm straight there we go almost we're close felt a little better
yeah got more solid contact there still hitting the ground so i want you to feel like you're
coming up here instead of like down yeah exactly there we go not bad yeah we'll get it up in
there a little left a little left that's okay right now we're just focusing on getting it up
in the air consistently that's the main thing there we go that's okay we're getting it up
in here yeah i just want it up in the air i'll work on get that slice away later yeah let's
get a couple just get a couple of them here there it is there we go see that's playable though
oh it is just so like left but it's a little left but at least we can play with that like you can
just aim down the right side all day right and you know it's not going to go right so like it's
better than as long as we're just advancing it forward like that's the main thing that's how
does that feel though it feels great i mean i was hitting him into the ground so but like oh no
i mean i'm just starting to feel more natural yeah like keeping the arm straight but i think it's
mainly now just like i'm pulling up and back too much yeah that's okay that's just like repetition
just yeah all right guys i hope you enjoyed this lesson helped my buddy john out do you think it
helped you out yeah no it was a great lesson got a lot of good tips i feel like i'm finally hitting
the ball a little bit better so hopefully to get out here next week and uh get a little bit better
yeah and i'm hoping to do like a little series with john kind of like turn him into a scratch
golfer because he's got the talent i mean already in the first lesson he's getting the ball up in
there so hopefully do a couple more videos with him if you're new make sure you subscribe
and check out for the next one i'll see you
