– [Pierce] All right. Today, we have a live lesson with Claire and we're gonna work on
her iron ball striking to help her break 80. – [Right] Hopefully by
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the description down below. Claire, how are you doing? – [Claire] (indistinct), thank you. – [Right] Thank you for joining us. We're gonna help you with your eyes today. Ball striking is the most important thing. Good play, we've watched your
warm up in some long shot, longer than us Pierce. – [Pierce] Yes. – [Right] What's the issue
with the ball striking when it comes to for your irons for you? – [Claire] It's just a
little bit inconsistent so I can hit it, and I saw I can hit
like a thin right slice that just kinda kills it. – [Right] Yeah. – [Claire] I'm just that inconsistency. – [Right] And you've not broke 80 before. – [Claire] No. – [Right] That's a goal of yours. – [Claire] Yeah, definitely. – [Right] Claire has coaching
as well, which is great. She's a member of the website,
so she's very educated. And some of the things
that you're trying to do, which is good. But the ball striking
seems to be the issue. We've done some swings already. So you've got a little bit of an idea of what we're gonna be working on.
So let's hit a few shots. – [Claire] Yes. – [Right] We may look at
some of the FlightScope data as well- – [Claire] Yeah. – [Right] And let's just get
an idea of what we're gonna do and see some of the shots as well. Just hit as normal. – [Claire] Okay, yeah. – [Right] Straight from
the middle of the green here on the 14th at the (indistinct), it's one
of my favorite holes place, this one. – [Pierce] Yeah, it's cool, isn't it? (golf club swooshing) – [Right] Okay, nice, very nice.
(Claire laughs) (golf club swooshing) – [Right] That's a good example of the, sort of the low poor strike that, that sort of slides off to the
right go lower than that as well. Okay. Do we want to see those? That's good. We want to correct those today.
That's the important thing. Okay. Lovely shot. I mean,
that's right at the flag.
What yardage have we got here Pierce? – [Pierce] I've gone about
three feet away from the flag. It could be an almost 10. That's lovely. Very nice. Okay. – [Right] I just want
to have a quick look at some of the numbers. I just want to say the path
Pierce for me on this average. – [Pierce] Path pass by one more. Second. That last one was 1.3
degrees to the left. Okay. I will tell you what it
is as a consistency. Yeah. 1.8 degrees.
– [Right] Too. Okay. So generally we're seeing a
slightly over the top swing. We're just gonna take a
look at this Clare as well. And this is something that
you've seen a lot of in the past, and we'll show the guys
at home here. Great setup. Really nice as we go
through the swing here. What we're gonna notice
is that club face very, very good.
We can see the
face is nice and strong. It gets a little bit behind the hands. And you've probably seen this
before in the past as well. Not too much of an issue there, but we'll have a little look
further on from here as we continue to go up. Now
club's place is still strong, but on the way down now,
we're gonna see this move. This is the one that
you're trying to correct. And this is the thing that's
causing you. The poor strikes. It just hits the heel every now and again, and then sort of squirts
over to the right, really. So if we can get your swing in
somewhat closer to the plane on the way down today. Yep. That's what's gonna make
all the difference. Okay, Claire, so set up and
everything looks great. One of the things that
you're we see you do in your, in your routine is you're
very aware of this. Now, when you're doing this, what I notice is that the
hands and arms do a lot of movement, but we don't
really use any of the hips.
– [Claire] Okay. – [Right] So what I would
like to see in the way back is that this is great, really like what you're doing here, but I'd love to see it linked
more with a rotation of the hips. Yeah. Now from the, from the front, some of you, if I just get you to stand
sorta just where roughly where Pierce is here, if I swing back and don't really use the hips, what tends to happen is now we, we ended up going more this way, where the upper body is leaning
towards the target reverse spine, we call this. But then from here, the
only way we're gonna go is, is steep. Yeah. So if we can get you today to
move the hips in a better way, really encouraged this
motion on the way back, that's gonna help us stack
the upper body more over the lower body in a better way.
And then from here now create
some room to swing here. So you're doing a really good
job with the arms and the club, the body isn't allowing
you to swing from the inside. Does that make sense? Yeah. So if we can get your body in
your hips doing a better job, this is gonna be really, really easy. – [Claire] Yep. Hopefully. Okay. So let's jump in. So if you take your set up for us, just anywhere that without the ball yep. Show me your old sorta little practice, swing that rehearsal. So
notice when you do that, there's not really any motion
of the, the lower body. Yeah. So if you take your set up there, so what I'd like you to
do here, let me do this. I really want you to feel
as if, as we do this, we allow the belts and
the hips to turn with me. Okay. Now how different is that? Yeah, there you go.
Okay. Yeah. – [Claire] Yeah. The face is still strong. You've still got this in the same place. This is the most important thing, but now we move in the
body in a different way. Feel different. Let's do that again. So instead of just the arms
and putting it in place and allow the hips and the
belt to move with me. Okay. Really, really nice. Okay. Difference. Yeah. Okay, good. Do that again for us. Okay. – [Pierce] Do you know what
this is? So, so important.
If you're swinging over
the top, you're slicing it. Please have a look at
what your hips are doing. Video yourself, get someone to tell you, you got to get a good hit
and turn on the way back. Otherwise it's so easy
to come over the top. Make sure you check that out. – [Right] I'm just swinging
from the inside now. And if we just, the only thing we do today is
just allow the hips to rotate and create some room. We're gonna change your path. Then we're gonna get rid
of the, over the top.
Yeah, let's do that again. I'm gonna take you into a
little bit more of a full swing here. Yep. So as we swing back, we're gonna allow the hips
to turn up the turnips, to turn down where the ball will be. Okay. Now tell me how that feels. Very strange. – [Claire] Very strange. Why does it feel strange? Just. – [Right] Cause it feels
completely different. Okay. Good. Different is good. And strange is good. If it feels strange, that's a good thing. Okay. Let's do that again for us. And how, how different,
where do you feel that. – [Claire] All over? toes. – [Right] First move. Hips. Hips, hips, hips, hips. Keep turning those hips. Okay. Different feeling again? Yeah. Okay. Really nice now, but now Claire, if we start the down swing, now look how much room
we've got in here. Yeah. Now what Claire said
earlier, before we started, you said to me Claire,
I'm trying to get the, I'm trying to swing down in here. I'm trying to swing the club
on plane. But when we're, when we're in this position,
I'll exaggerate it.
You're not there's this this
much over trying to get the club down here is really hard. But when we are turning the
hips and creating the space, all of a sudden I've got all
this freedom to swing from the inside. Yeah. So you understood what you needed to do, but your body wasn't really
allowing you to do it in the right place. And this is what probably a
lot of you guys at home will be doing as well as the hips.
Aren't doing a good job. It's really hard. – [Pierce] And see how much as well. They're working at the movements,
working at the movement. It's not so much about hitting
golf balls at this stage and go straight into it. It's
about creating the movement, understanding it, practicing,
practicing, practicing, check it with some feedback in a mirror.
Don't worry. She'll hit one in a minute, but make sure you have
plenty of practice swings. – [Right] How different
does that look from? The possibility. That's awesome. That's so good. – [Pierce] Okay. It looks
powerful, Andy, as well, like you say creates room,
but it looks powerful. – [Right] She'll be 20
yards past the setup. We've done this test
to be fair. And again, what do you notice when
I do this with you? Keep hold of the club. If I swing back with you, what do you notice when we do this? – [Claire] I could feel my
hands are kind of getting in a different state. – [Right] More in. Yeah. Okay, good. Good. Because you've
been very hands oriented.
Almost trying to push it here. Yeah. I want you to almost be more
body land. If we move the body, look, how's it gonna follow what
you've been doing as being, almost go, almost go and well, I'm gonna put the hands in
and do it with these. Yeah. And more putting in position
instead of from here, allowing things to, to be
more governed by, by this. So let's do a few more
of these. So soft arms, relax the hands. We're gonna let the hips
almost move things away. You have different daddies
and the face look is good. Your face is you haven't really
done anything with either of, you know, we've just allowed things to
move in a more natural way with the body. Relax the hands. – [Pierce] So definitely what
Claire was doing is something that a lot of golfers do when they're
trying to change a move in their golf swing, they seek for a position
as opposed to going well, I know I want the club there, but I've got to make sure I
keep the flow of the golf swing as opposed to, I must position it here and
position it here and forget about moving the rest of the body.
Almost. – [Right] There you go. That was so good. Claire. Okay. Now from here and
I just swing down for me. – [Claire] Good. Different. Yeah. – [Right] Different. But does
that, does that make sense? – [Claire] Yeah. Yeah, yeah. – [Right] You do a really good
job of the arms and the club, but because we were maybe not
quite using the body in a good way. Yeah. It's just very hard.
– [Claire] It's interesting as well, because I feel sometimes with
my old swing that when I would get in the top hole kind of a
little bit stiff and it were a bit hard to come into that
down sweater and I couldn't figure out why. – [Right] The thing is
with the majority of majority of amateur golfers like yourself watching this, the backswing is just so important. You can see a lot of the tour pros. They get away with things like
they can have a funky back swing, but they're doing
this day in day out. And you know that and really
highly skilled where the majority of amateurs, if we can position you in a
better place on the way back, it just makes things so much easier.
So if we can and you were working
really hard to try and put it in place, you won't have to, if we get the backswing right. As always what I really
liked to do with this, because it's such a different move, I'm gonna see the golf ball. Okay. Just to, just so you can focus on
the quality of the motion as opposed to the striking. I want you to be not
worried about the ball. I want you to be more conscious
of what the hips are doing. Okay. Let's have a few
swings and then we'll nice. Slightly over the top. – [Pierce] Interesting as
well when we get people to do this as well.
I mean, I'd do this and I've done this
myself with my golf swing. You're almost feeling that
you say to self belt buckle is the only thing that you actually
really want to move in the back swing. Obviously
everything else will move, but if you're used to doing
it so much with your arms, get your belt buckle
involved and it can be, it can be a really big slowly now. Okay. So. Just get the place that I'm
just gonna do a couple of moves with you just to give
you a feed on the body, what the body should do. So, okay. Clip across your shoulders. Perfect. In your setup
for me, lean forward as. – [Right] If you were
playing a shot, really. Like this drill to sort of
give us a feel of what the body should be doing. Let me just, if it's, if I just replace that and
swift pop it over, there we go. Okay. And you pop it, swipe it and swap it
with our lean forward. Just a touch more.
Okay. Good eyes down where the ball would. – Be for me. Yep. Okay. How does that feel? – [Claire] Weird. Yeah. – [Right] This is a really good drill. You'll see. From the face
on here now, Plaza, Baldino, isn't leaning towards a target
and we've got a lot more hip turn. This club is matching that one. This is a really. Good drill to do. I lean forward a bit more. Good. So rotate. There you go. So this is a real good
drill for you here club. This is where we'd love to see
you at the top of the swing. Yeah. Or provider's turn hips have
really created some freedom there and some movement to
that on your own. Now for us, there you go. Hunt again. Why can't this looks easy. This just, it's just a matter of learning
this now flares easily in terms of the motion here,
you can do this quite easily. You've just created a slightly
different movement pattern that you'd normally. Do. So. Yeah. Okay, good. So this is the more you
do this. The easier it is.
Perfect. Nice. – Well, that one felt my high, low. Nice, really good height on that. Wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. That one felt really nice. – I better get an iron.
It it's good enough. Good enough. – Lovely. So good. You can tell is gonna be ready. Yeah. That was the best. – Thing that you've done so
far in terms of changing, changing it. That was really good. – [Claire] Yeah. – [Pierce] Club path
on that is nearly zero. Now Andy gets there on a 0.5
to the left of that was nice. Yeah. It's getting nearer. – [Right] Let me just show
you the difference on this. So this is your first one. Yep. Take a look at the over the top. We can see how the club's sort of, it's sort of chopping through your neck. They support the Pierce,
causes the decapitating, chopping your neck off there. You can see that chef they're
so steep and over the top and in front. And that's when we get that, now ignore the backswing for the moment. Cause the club's a bit more inside.
Yeah. But look at the lower body. Look how look, how much sort of we've got
daylight between the knees now, which is great. Hips are moving more. Now let me start the down swing. Now we've got the shafts coming from now. Now it's coming through the
arm. Not so much over the top, really nicely on playing at
this point here and this one reasonable contact at the
middle of the face on this one.
So the shape of your golf
swing now has changed. It might not look as I'm
playing on the way back, but the most important thing
is where it is on the way down. – [Claire] Yeah. Very nice on that. Go down. That one. That is a good one to finish on. – [Right] Hope that helps
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