Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Don't Make This Big Mistake | SIMPLE Golf Tips"

In today's lesson...

You'll discover the single mistake making nearly every recreational golfer inconsistent...

...plus you'll get the perfect drill to fix this mistake and start striking the ball consistently pure.

Once you know what you're doing, it's not difficult to correct it.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 12:11

Video Transcription:

Now there is one single mistake that gives all recreational golfers. I see extreme inconsistency chunks and thin shots. I have a little station set up here and if I do this mistake, I'm gonna end up hitting this towel and getting a lot of chunks and thins. There we go. So we can see. That would've been a big time chunk.

The ball just kind of dribbles out there. It makes you wanna take your club and just snap it into a thousand little pieces. It's so frustrating chunking one. And then once you hit a couple of those chunks, We do the same motion with a little bit of adjustment. We start to stand up out of our posture slightly so we don't hit as much ground and then we thin one and it's even worse.

Right? So let's talk about how we set this up and how this one drill can give you a ton of consistency. What I've done here is I've rolled a towel in half. I'll just set this on the ground like that. I don't want it to be too high there. So just rolling a, a thin towel like this, this is kind of the kind of towel they usually put in the back of your golf or in your golf cart when you play around.

So this is nice cuz you can use it. The same drill the way I have it set up here at most golf courses. Now I'm gonna put this golf ball about five to six inches in front of that towel You see, pros are having their club come down. It would miss this towel. My weight is getting to my left. I'm driving some pressure into my left foot and my left knee, and I'm hitting down on this golf ball slightly, so I'd be missing this towel hitting the ground in the golf ball roughly at the same time.

And then the bottom of my divot would be about four inches in front of the golf ball. So I kind of mark that with this T. If you're doing this on turf, I should see that exact same thing. I should see missing the towel hitting the golf ball, a divot from the front of the golf ball all the way up through here.

And that would be what the pros are doing. So let's go ahead and take a look at the wrong way to doing this. What I just showed most players, what ends up happening is we throw the club to release the club with our arms. This means that the club shaft will be straight up and down at impact and my arms will be releasing at my body.

Now you can tell you're doing this if you tend to stand up outta your posture. So in the downswing, your hips move toward the golf ball and your upper body goes back away from the golf ball you're doing this move that I'm talking about. Now the problem with that is that puts your low point slightly behind the golf ball.

Cause I'm throwing at the golf ball. My club gets straight up and down just behind the golf ball. So if I imagine this is a hula hoop, this is the, the arc of my swing. So my club comes down and then goes back up. The low point would be just behind the golf ball like that. Yes. Now, that low point would be the bottom of your divot.

Remember I said pros have the bottom of their divot at this tee up here, four inches in front. We're having our divot back here slightly behind the golf ball. So that means that if I hit down and take a divot, this would be the bottom of my divot, and it would be a massive chunk like we saw on the last one.

I would be hitting this towel when that's happening. Now you say, okay, I don't like chunking it. That's a pain in the butt. I don't wanna do that again. So now we start to raise up outta that shot slightly and all we're doing is pulling our hula hoop higher. The bottom of the divot is still behind it, but now we're missing the ground and we're gonna thin the ball most times.

Now if I have the ball setting up in a little bit of grass, I can go ahead and make that higher like that. I can hit some grass behind the golf ball and still hit it fairly clean. But the problem is the lie has to be perfect anytime. We're not on a perfect lie, it's a disaster. So all of these inconsistencies are coming from having that low point behind, and then we adjust it up.

We thin it, we adjust it down. We chunk it up, down, up, down. Very inconsistent. I have to get the low point of my swing up here, like the pros have it four inches in front of that golf ball. That has to be the low point of my swing. That's exactly what we're gonna do in this drill. So step one, towel rolled over once.

It's a thin towel. If you have a thicker towel, just put it in there Once or roll, don't even roll it over. Four to six inches or five to six inches behind the golf ball. The width of a club head is about four inches most club heads. Now the first move we're gonna do here is I'm gonna start to shift my weight to the left as I'm still making a backswing.

So we're gonna do a little practice swing like this, go to here, and then I want you to feel like you get your weight to the left and then swing down. That looks like this as I make my back swing. I'm gonna go to about right here. I'm gonna let my left knee. Kick out like that. So if I have a, an arrow shooting outta my knee, it's starting to get some pressure in my left knee, and my left knee is turned out, it doesn't look like this on my downswing of my knees like that, I'm not gonna be able to get my weight on the left.

I want to kick that leg out to start my downswing, put pressure in the left leg, and then I swing through. So we're gonna make a few small swings doing that, and then we're gonna, we're gonna build from there. So this is a little. Half swing. Probably only gonna hit it barely over a hundred yards. Got this little small swing.

It's showing it fast on the screen today. I have no idea why that's happening. I actually had pretty good club head speed there, even though I don't feel like I was swinging very hard. And with the six iron that still went 188 yards. So to me, that felt like I was barely swinging. But because my technique was good, I had a lot of speed and I was able to contact that ball fairly solidly.

So, That's piece number one. Get the knee out, weight left. Then you swing down. I don't wanna throw my weight back. As I'm swinging down, weight goes left first. That's the first move. Weight's left. Then I make my downs swing. Now, piece number two, I'm gonna go ahead and let my right leg kick forward. So here's how we're gonna do this.

I'm gonna let my kneecap come toward imagine a, there was a ball about a foot in front of the golf ball that I'm hitting. My kneecap goes toward that golf ball. So here's how we're gonna do this little back swing shift left. As I swing down that kneecap goes toward that golf ball, and then I hit the golf ball here.

So we're gonna practice it like this. Make a little back swing. Get your weight left as your left arm's about parallel with the ground. Pause there. Go to Impact and let this knee kick forward like that, your heel should be coming up off the ground and that's gonna get it to where you can hit down and through this golf ball.

Now if you wanna go a little fancier than that, we can get rid of the towel and we can put down what's called the speed trap by eyeline Golf. If I do get a little commission, if you buy somewhere on this page, you'll see a link to this. If you don't have to buy this, just use the towel if you want to, but if you want to get nicer than that, use this speed trap on here.

There's three marks, a chipping, a pitching, and a full swing. I actually have found the pros are more along the lines of this red chipping one. So put the golf ball where that red line is there, and now that's that four to six inches or five to six inches behind it is where this. Plexiglass stands there, so I'm gonna go ahead and get my weight left, my knee kicks forward.

I'm doing these practice reps to feel where that is, and then I'm letting my arms go long through the shot. So lemme go ahead and try to make a little half swing again doing that drill. There we go. Hit that one. Fantastic. 200 yards total distance. Again, that's after roll, but man, that felt really solid and I missed this board.

If I start to do this, stand up and fall back, you can hear it hit this board right? I had a big thud on there. I actually can see a little bit of, um, area here where it's scuffed up right there just behind the golf ball, and I know my low point is way too far back now. Finally, there's one drill that really brings this home and I found a lot of people have a tough time getting off that right foot.

If you're having your divot too far back, you're oftentimes falling on that right foot and all the pressures on the right foot and the downswing. What we're gonna do for that is go ahead and bring this towel out again. Again, you can do all this with the towel. You don't even have to have this speed trap here, but it makes it a little bit easier to not have to move the towel around every time.

But I'm gonna roll this towel up a few times, get it nice and thick like this, and I'm gonna put it under. The outside of my right toe. So what I'm trying to do here is on my back swing. I'm gonna load into that and then I'm gonna push off of that in my downswing, get my weight going to the left. What I don't want to have happen is if you're looking at my right foot, I don't wanna sway to the outside of that, get this reverse pivot, and then I stand up and throw it rather than getting to the left.

If I do this motion, it's almost impossible to get back to the left and hit down and through. So this towel under my right foot like that is gonna help me to push off of it. And I never roll to the outside of my foot when I'm setting up like this with this towel, it feels like it's almost impossible that I could hit this plexi glass glass back there.

Feels like I'm gonna have to get that divot down and through the golf ball. There we go, and hit that one. Great. Right down the middle, two 10. Now there's one root problem with all of this. Now what I've mentioned in the beginning of this video is that we're throwing the club and trying to release it at the golf ball.

So if you imagine this again, when you're coming into contact, and I guarantee you're doing this cuz everybody I see is doing this, we're trying to hit this golf ball on the ground here. So we start to throw the club and release the club at the golf ball. That means the shaft is straight up and down. And if I had my.

Forearm or my arms on this club that makes a triangle like this, that club would be splitting the triangle right at contact shaft, straight up and down, running right through my forearms. Well, the pros are doing it wildly different than that. What the pros are doing is just like we did in this drill weight left, right heel starts to come up a little bit.

And the hands at contact are way in front a good six eight inches in front of the golf ball with most irons. Then from there, if we were to grip up on the shaft so you could see it, that would be prior to the release, they're releasing this club, or when does the club shaft split the forearms? It first splits the forearms about 45 degrees in front, and then it doesn't go past the forearms until after that 45 degree point.

Now, what you're doing in your swing. And I guarantee, again, everybody is doing this. This is a huge problem. This will make leaps and bounds changes in your golf game is we're releasing at the golf ball and now the club shaft is splitting my forearms. And when I get up to this 45, the club is already pointing on this side of my forearms.

That creates that low point behind the golf ball, the chunks, the thins inconsistency, the shots that don't have very much power on them. It absolutely drives you. Nuts, and I've been there myself. Once I learned to start to get the shuffling on there, the ball sounded different. It felt different, and it was a whole heck of a lot easier to hit consistently solid shots.

So what I want you to do now is go to the straight line release section. Go as you remember, of top speed golf. Go to the instruction tab, top speed golf system. Go to the straight line release and go to level one. Now in there, I'm gonna teach you exactly how to get this club leaning in front. At impact and releasing in front 45 degrees just like the pros are doing.

And when you pair that up, it's like a light bulb goes off. So we've all been told to get the weight left and to get the hands in front, but if you really have that motion in there where you're trying to hit at it, even if you do what I did in this drill, you'll miss that towel, but you'll still be throwing the club at the golf ball.

It's not until you pair the drills that we did today with the straight line release that everything starts to click. So just do one video from the straight line release that's gonna get you getting your weight left, shifting through it, and then releasing the club in front. Now I can hit divots in front of this golf ball all day long, and it's a blast to play golf.

Do one video from level one, I guarantee you're gonna be hooked. I can't wait to see you there right now. Let's head on over the straight line release and get started helping you play the best golf of your life. Let's go and get started.