– Everybody wants to hit, wants
to hit their iron straight. And I don't blame you. It's very frustrating when
your arms are going left and right to the green. There's two parts of this really. Number one is getting your
ground contact correct. It doesn't do me any
good to hit it straight, if I'm chucking them and thinning them. And that comes from momentum of your hips. I want to talk about how you should use the momentum of your hips, you can almost imagine
there's a grandfather clock kind of hanging from
your belt buckle here, and I'm going to use the momentum of that, swinging back and through
to out my low point. And once I get this rhythm, it gets really easy to hit the ground in a consistent spot over and over. And number two I'm going to talk about how to get the momentum of this face to release so that you can square it up.
Let's jump right into
the ground contact piece. And like I said, most people, if they have consistent ground contact or using the momentum of their hips and their
body to make that happen, let me give you a great example of this. I can just take with one
hand my left hand only, and I can swing and use the
momentum of my body and I can consistently hit the
ground in the same spot. So I'm exaggerating hitting
down a little bit more than I probably would
with a normal iron shot, but you can see four or
five, six swings in a row.
I'm hitting the ground, they
all started right there. The divot was in front every single time. It's really not very difficult, once you get down that proper momentum. So let's get into it here. I want you to imagine that
you have a grandfather clock, a pendulum hanging from your belt buckle, and we're going to start this pendulum, swinging to the right
and then to the left, through the shot, to get
all the momentum moving down and through making
that ground contact in front and your entire body's momentum
working down the fairway. Now when I see players, that struggle with round
talk ground contact. When I see players that
struggle with that, they're usually not using
the body momentum correctly.
A lot of times I'll see players, again imagine you have this
grandfather clock pendulum, this big pendulum, five,
10, 15 pound pendulum, hanging from your belt buckle. A lot of players will try to
stay left in the back swing, not really get a shift
to the right at all. And then they'll fall back to the right. So there's no real momentum of this, moving through the shot. The best players what they do is they start with a very
early shift to the right. So as my hands get to here,
that's as far to the right, as my weight is going to shift. So it's very early. Some players may even start with about 60% of their weight on their right foot that makes things easier.
So imagine as soon as
you start your swing, you're going to get those hips
and the momentum of the hips going to the right very early. It's not going to happen
late the time I'm here, it's completely to the right
that's as far to the right as it's going to go. Then from there, I'm going to begin my
weight shift to the left, to start that clock kind of that pendulum moving back to the left. Then I'm going to make my down swing. As I make my down swing
and hit through the ball, all of the momentum, of this pendulum or my
hips should be moving through the ball down toward the target like this pendulum is getting
slung out toward the target. So it's that early shift to the right. Then I begin my shift to the left to make all the momentum
start moving to the left, then everything swings through together and flies out toward the target. Here's another way to feel that, if you can't quite visualize
the pendulum right away.
Imagine my hips, you're
just looking at my hips, my belt here. In the back swing, I'm going
to start my belt buckle and my momentum moving
to the right very early. From there, I'm actually going
to have a little swing down is that pendulum would be swinging down and back to the left. I'm actually going to squat
down with my legs a little bit. Let my knees bend slightly,
that's all really good. And then I'm going to
post up to my front leg. You'll notice when I finish here, I have all that momentum
moving through the shot. My belt buckle is now facing the target. That pendulum would be
thrown out toward the target, for my hips, and my right
foot is off the ground. If you finish and you're here and your right foot is
still on the ground, you'll know that you're going
to have trouble with this.
Because what that's
telling me is you're not getting that momentum
through the golf ball. You're cutting the momentum off and kind of falling
back and your, your body and your arms are going to be working against each other. It's gonna be really difficult to create that consistent ground contact. So now that we have this
idea let's grab a club here, and I want you to just to
visualize that momentum to the right, and then everything's being, the momentum is being
slung from your hips, down to the left. If I had that tied to my belt buckle, there's an early shift to the right.
And then as I let that
momentum swing on through, it's almost like if
this was that pendulum, it's going to be thrown
down toward the target. And I'll talk about with
those two sticks are here in one second. That's going to be our face contact, to get that nice and square. So 10, 15 practice swings
get the feeling for that, and then from there, we're
going to let that momentum carry this ball clear carry
this club in our body, in synchronization down toward the target line. So I'm going to split
these two orange sticks, and then we're going to talk
about how to get the face squared up every single time. (whipping sound) All right hit that one nice and solid You can see the divot was coming down in front of the golf ball and again, all that momentum moving through the shot. If I go left and then fall back right, that grandfather clock is wanting to swing away from the
target, as I'm trying to swing toward the target. if go less and try to stay left, there's just no momentum there.
So I want all the momentum from my body moving through the shot. So it's working with my hands and my arms. Now piece number two is your club face. This is a great drill
do not skip this part. This is one of the best things you can do to get laser like
accuracy with your irons. I like to put a little stick, I'll do 30 to 40 yards in front. I'm just using that as
a frame of reference, to see where I'm hitting. Ideally, you might have another two sticks and other 40, 50 yards past
that a hundred yards out. And what I'm going to do
is I'm going to start out, hitting some little chip shots with the middle iron toward those sticks. What's going to happen here, is i want to feel the
momentum of this face. And I want to allow the
momentum and the face to roll on over, to get
the ball to go more left or to draw. I want to feel the moment
with a face staying more open or toward the sky tip more of a fade.
Most people don't struggle with this. Most people struggle with this one. So again I'm going to feel
like my hands are rolling over and that club face is going
more down to get it to draw. I'm going to feel like my
hands are staying more open. So what we're going to do here
is we're going to start out with just some little
30 and 40 yard shots. And I'm just going to be aware, was my face a little open.
So let me go ahead and hit
one a little bit to the right. Again I'm going to have
the momentum of my body, but now I hit that shot a good 10, 15 feet to the right of where I was aiming. If I do that, then I have to
get the momentum of the face squaring on up a little bit more. That face was too much this way, it needed to have the
momentum rolling on that way. It doesn't have to be any
more complicated than that. I could go into infinite detail of exactly how every piece
of the body has the move to make that happen.
But I find that most players
is they just feel the momentum of the they can get all
that to happen more easily. So on this one, if I hit one of the right, I'm going to feel that
club rolling on over the momentum of the club, rolling on over. I'm not manipulating
it to roll it on over. I'm letting it release on over, and that's going to straighten that out. So let's go ahead and try one again. There we go, a little chunky and I actually overdid it a
little bit and went to the left. If I do that, I'm just going to gradually
work back and forth, hitting these little shots, until I can hit these
little 40, 50 yard shots with the middle iron and get
them to go pretty straight.
Like that one, right? Let's do the middle of the sticks. At least from my reference,
it was through the sticks. Probably looked like
that from the camera too, but I'm just going to keep on
hitting until that happens. And then I'm going to go one step farther. So if that was a 40 yard shot. I'm going to go 60 or 70
yards on this next one. And every time I miss to
the right or to the left, I'm going to simply let the momentum stay a little bit more open, or I'm going to let the momentum
of the club roll a little bit more close until
I straightened it out. And I just do a ladder drill
here, 40 yards, then 60, 80, a hundred all the way up until
your full swing with this club.
And you're going to get
an awareness of this face, that you've never had
before. And more importantly, you're going to get the
momentum of the club working squarely through the golf ball. Another misconception there is, I want to try to hold this straight. What kills all the momentum. Every single good player
that faces releasing. And if we put this on a tool
that will measure usually anywhere from a thousand degrees a second, all the way up to 2000 degrees a second, everybody's face is releasing
or closing through the shot. That's the momentum I'm talking about. I don't want to hold it and force it straight down the target line. Now there is one piece
that's missing from this. Most players have way too
much loft on their club, meaning that when they let
the momentum roll on over, they're letting the club
shaft be vertical like this.
We need some forward shaft
lane and we need that face to be square. When we
have that shaft lane. Now there's a great drill for this called the tennis racket drill. And I want to talk about
how to square up that face and get this shaft lane
to work with the momentum of the club. So now you can really compress it. Using the momentum of the face
is gonna help you to hit it straight but properly
using the wrist Angles. is gonna help you to really compress it. Get the shackling, get the
ball smashing against the face, where it feels like a million bucks.
I'm going to play a preview that video here in just one second. All you need to do to see the full video, to get that tennis racket drill, and learn how to use the
wrist just like the pros is go ahead and click the card
that pops up on your screen. If you don't see the card, don't worry. Go down to the link below in
the description and that'll give you instant access to that video too. Once we learn how to use
these pro wrist angles and start really compressing it, not only is it going to go straight, not only your divot is going to be good, like we've talked about here, but now you're going to hit it super, super solid at the same time. Let's go and get started. You don't want to miss out
on this tennis racket drill player problems we're going to talk about shallowing that club shaft
out as we're starting down, as we're doing this rotating
of the face that we worked worked on in the last video.
As we start this down swing,
which you'll see with, with basically all of the top
players is instead of coming kind of over the top and
letting the hands come out away from their body, letting the club come out
away from their body. Again, coming down steep into the
ball and then having to open up kind of filet open the
face and add loft to it. The flattening of the shaft should happen as soon as we start down. So as we start this down swing, what we want to have happening here. You can imagine that if I draw a line from the hassle of my club up through my right elbow, that's my swing plane line my elbow plane. As I go to the top of the swing, I'm going to be slightly above that. And then as I start down, I want my hands to start to shallow out.
I want the club to shallow out
inside of this elbow plane. And at the same time, I'm going to be..