Hi golfers, Nick here from Nick Taylor golf it's Friday so welcome to another lesson on golf tips this week on golf tips
we're gonna start a 3 part series covering learning the stack and tilt
golf swing so the 1st thing that controls where the club hits the ground is
the body weight. We measure that from the center of the hips and the center of the
shoulders it's a question I get asked quite a lot how do I learn the Stack and
Tilt golf swing and always reply to the particular person say go and see an
authorized stack and tilt instructor it's the best way to learn the stack and
tilt system I know there's a lot of golfers that I work with online and I've
really recommend that as well it's a really good way for someone to give you
an idea of what you need to work on how to practice I do a lot of videos where
analyze golfers swings tell them how to practice and we set up a video call and
we can go through these different changes that we're making and kind of
have a step by step process for you to improve your golf swing so this series
is for you golfers out there that can learn stack and tilt and they can have
some sort of access to a practice area or even just swinging a club in the
garden outside on the mat would be good enough to help you improve your golf for you golfers out there want to learn a little bit more about the system make sure you
check out this playlist but in the meantime let's go on with part 1 of
how you can learn the stack and tilt golf swing in part 1 of learning the Stack and Tilt golf swing we're going to focus on first of all the 1st key
fundamental of playing good golf and this is the 1st key fundamental of
what all the best players do now suggest when you're practicing to set up a
camera your phone is good enough for this just need one setup down the line
and I would try and get this one set up in line with your hands and roughly
about chest height and the same thing from a face on viewpoint we want the
camera to be in line with the center of the body and roughly about chest height
it's very important when you analyze in your golf swing that you get the same
viewpoint if I set up with the camera in the wrong place the golf swing is going
to look different from these two viewpoints we're going to get a good
idea of how you need to improve your swing so in part one we're going to
cover the things that control where the club hits the ground now the first thing
you need to do is measure where you club hits the ground you don't even need a
golf ball for this so I can set up on this mat here literally just hit the mat
and I can see where my clubs hitting the ground and its
the same if your able to hit shots off grass or even at a golf range
you can lay down an alignment stick you can line down a piece of tape which I've
done in other videos but really just the first thing you need to be able to do is
work out where your club is hitting the ground it's the 1st key fundamental of
playing good golf so if you start to measure where your club hits the ground, I would suggest doing 10 swings set up make a swing see when your club hits the
mat and I could see there my club hit just forward of where it started that's
what we're trying to do on this mat here I do have a grid system which we're
going to talk about in part 3 but on this grid here I can see where the club
started which is on this back tee claw and I hit in line with the center point
on my left shoulder as I came down and that's kind of where we're trying to hit
we're trying to hit a couple of inches in front of where your club starts, if I
make ten swings I'll expect that all of them would hit roughly in that same spot
so if you'll find your clubs bottoming out in different places and you really
need to work on your low point control and it's quite often the case that when I test golfers in the bay here and even outside on the grass you'll see
that the club will tend to hit the ground in different places and more
often not will be behind or even the golfer will miss the ground and may hit
some good ones but generally their consistency of doing that varies, so in
today's video we're going to talk about the 3 things that control where the
club hits the ground so the 1st thing that controls where the club hits the
ground is the body weight we measure that from the center of the hips and the
center of the shoulders at setup we want to be slightly forward with the lower body
weight and then in the backswing we want no shift away from the ball and then
into the finish the hips moving forward of where they started
now the next thing that controls the low point are what the hands do so if I take
my set up on the mat here I could move my body in the perfect way to get into
impact however I could still hit behind the golf ball here and that's because
there's another piece involved and that's where the position of my hands
are as they hit the golf ball if I set up to the ground here and push my handle
forward and then make a swing and keep them forward keep that same relationship
of the handle forward I'm gonna hit forward on the ground however if I have
the handle slightly forward and in for whatever reason let my club over take my
hands even though I have my weight forward I
can still hit behind the ground once the shaft and the club form a straight line
they've reached the furthest point away from the body if I push the handle
forward that clubs gonna be moving closer towards me so as I set up if I
put the handle slightly forward and then unhinge as I go through I'm gonna hit
behind the golf ball the 2nd thing that controls where the club hits the
ground is where the handle is and as you come through to hit the golf ball we
want that handle forward so you have some shaft lean as you hit the golf ball
so the first 2 things that control where the club hits the ground is the body
weight and the hand position so you want the weight on the left and the handle
forward the next piece which gets often missed in the system is a swing
direction and this is something I work with a lot of golfers and it's a really
big key part of controlling where the club hits the ground best way to explain
swing direction is using a noodle I'm going to angle this like I would do in
the golf swing so you can see this pen mark here on the
noodle I'm going to put that at the bottom or the low point of the swing now if i
angle this noodle too much to the right I actually hit behind the golf ball so
the more my swing direction moves to the right the more behind I'm gonna hit the
more I swing left more forward on the ground i hit so the swing direction
has a big bearing on where the club hits the ground so a good way to measure this
we have a line for the shaft we want that Club to track that line in a
takeaway however coming into impact if your club drops below that line that
clubs going to be coming too much on the inside your swings gonna be going too
much out to the right it's gonna move the swing direction too much to the
right and move that low point further behind the golf ball so the angle the
club comes in has a big bearing on where the club hits the ground a lot of
golfers when they first learn the Stack and Tilt system I get a lot of golfers on
line working with this is they will actually
be swinging too much to the right because they're trying to swing more
around their body by having the weight forward and swinging the hands in and
moving the shoulder down it makes it easier to swing around your body however
you can do it too much so the swing direction would be the third piece so
try and make sure when you're swinging into impact the club isn't dropping
below the shaft line where it started and then as you go through on the exit
position the club should be exiting here just below the shoulder so we have 3
things there that control where the club hits the ground we've got the body
weight the handle location and the swing direction so I'm gonna hit a shot here
then we gonna sit down afterwards take a look at my swing just give you guys an
idea how to measure it so we've got the camera set up from face on and from down
the line just before we take a look at my swing guys want to just point out at
the end of this video I'm going to explain to you a drill that you can go
away and practice to help your low point control now we're gonna take a
look at my swing we're gonna take a look at those 3 pieces just to show you
guys what it should look like on the camera when we analyze my swing here
we're gonna use some circles and lines to help reference your golf
swing now the app I use is analyzr golf which is downloadable in the Mac I
think it's fantastic bit of software for me to analyze myself and to analyze my
students so I'll definitely recommend it there's a couple of different options as
a student version and a pro option I'll link in description some links for the
app which is downloadable and also a product code so if you want to put in my
product code you actually get a discount on the app as well the 1st thing you
need to do is measure your swing from face on so I got a circle for the head
and the line for the hip so if you just watch my swing in the backswing here now
a lot of golfers by this stage here would be starting to sway off the golf
ball they'd be moving through the line the
head would be moving away from the target out of that circle what you'll
notice as I make my swing my head just tilts a little bit to the left and I
stay inside of that line for my hip to see if you're hitting behind the golf
ball the first thing would be to look at your sway as we move into the downswing
what you'll notice is as I get to just before impact here my weight is starting
to move left with my lower body and my head staying pretty much in that circle
and was it getting to impact there you can see my weight continues to move
forward my head's pretty stable now it's turning and tilting into the finish
position so you can see how far forward my hips are now from where they started
so that's me moving my weight through my lower body and you can see those wasn't
much sway or movement with my head where head movement just tilts to the left and
the backswing and tilts to the right in the follow-through and my lower body
moves through so that would be the first thing I'd look at when you're measuring
your golf swing the second thing that controls where the club hits the ground
is the club shaft and the arm if you take a look at my setup here if I drew a line
down my left arm and the shaft it's pretty much a straight line and you
would see how my shoulder there would be in front of the golf ball which is the
center point of the swing the measurement we want here is to try and
keep that handle forward as we come through impact and not let that club
shaft overtake the arm which I see in a lot of high handicaper golfers so just
as I come into impact here I've drawn a line down my left arm you can see it's
just in front of where the shaft is and that would be the check point in there
to make sure your handles forward as it comes through now if I just wind this
back a couple of frames another check point here would be when the shafts at
parallel position you can see there the butt of the club is almost on the golf ball there
now I teach a lot of golfers that actually have the hands too wide here
and there's actually daylight between their hand and their body so that'd be
another checkpoint at P6 where the shaft is and where the hands are just to help
with keeping the handle forward and you can see through impact here
my arms are staying pretty straight the handle staying forward and you can
actually see where the the club sort of catches the the mat here just see where
the mat scuffs up it goes through so you can clearly see I'm hitting forward, I've got more weight forward and handle forward 2 massive key things to
get that low point in front of the ball a 3rd key thing that helps you hit the
ground in front of the golf ball and get that low point in a consistent spot is a
swing direction and as I talked about earlier if you have a line for the shaft
this is the measurements I use I use a line on the shaft and another one
through the top of the elbow this forms like a cone it's kind of like the swing
plane for the golf club we don't want that club to drop either side if it goes outside you would slice the ball you don't want it to drop underneath where you
might hook the golf ball or swing too much to the right and move the low point
back so the check point here would be in the takeaway you can see my club head on
my hands pretty much trace that shaft plane they're in the backswing now in
Part 2 we're going to get into the body movement but today is really just
showing you guys how you can measure your swing as it gets the top you can see my arm doesn't lift above that elbow plane and then my club shaft finds the
middle of that cone coming down so like I said to you earlier on the video if my club
was swinging underneath that shaft plane then I'm going to be swinging too much
out to the right moving the swing direction too much
to right and the low point back and then as you can see in the finish here my
shaft exits just below my left shoulder and then my hands exit on the elbow
plane so there the check points that I've been looking at from the side view
you can video your swing and you can slow it down and take a look at it in
detail it's going to give you a really good indication of what you need to work
on in practice just to finish up here I'm gonna give you guys something you
can practice your low point control this is the best drill that I've found
that you can use when you're practicing either in the mats or outside on the
grass ideally on the grass because you can see where the contacts and the low
point is where the club's hitting the ground and taking the divot I think
that's it would be even better but if not you can see on the mat and even just
like I said you earlier if you just have alignment stick in line or a bit of tape
you can really clearly see where the club hits the ground so let's take a
look at this drill now to help you guys improve your low point control so for
this drill when you set up have your lower body weight on the left
keep it there in the backswing by flexing that left knee when you come
into hit the golf ball you want that handle as forward as you can I teach
a lot of golfers that let that club pass the hands and once you do that you're
adding loft and you're moving that low point behind the golf ball we're just
going to start off going some half swings and just punching the ball so as
you saw that as I went through I kept the handle forward and then I just went
through and just stopped there if you keep the bend in that right wrist it's
going to help you keep the handle forward as you go through also as you
notice as I went through there I make sure I have my weight on the left so you
can see how I'm extending my body here as I go through keeping that handle
forward I just do one more so weight on the left handle forward keep that handle
forward just do half swing punch it out there that's a really good way to
practice the low point just doing half swings keeping the weight on the left
keeping the handle forward shorter finishes that's going to help you
compress the golf ball like the best players do thanks for watching golfers
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