Why You Need This: In this video, you'll learn how to break 80 in golf.

You see the pros on TV...

...and they make it look so easy.

It almost seems like every hole is a chance for them to make birdie.

Well, for most of us that aren't on the PGA Tour...

Shooting in the 70's can be a real struggle.

If that's you, then you're in the right place.

This video has some great tips for breaking the 80 barrier.

Now, in my breaking 90 video...

The primary goal was to stop coming over the top and start hitting a consistent draw.

To break 80, you'll need to be able to control your ball flight even more.

You'll need to hit draws and fades on command.

For draws...

You need to let your club flatten in the backswing...

And swing through with a slight in-to-out path.

For fades...

Open up your stance a bit with the ball position slightly more forward than usual.

Now, feel like you're still flattening your club in the backswing...

But you'll swing slightly left through contact.

Here's a great drill for you...

Alternate hitting a draw and a fade for about 20 shots.

What's great about this drill is that as you get more feel for draws and fades...

The next time you're on the course and your flight is off a bit...

You'll know exactly how to correct your ball flight to straighten it out.

Next tip to break 80...

Work on your wedge shot height control.

To hit your wedge shots lower...

Move the ball back a bit and narrow your stance.

To hit your wedge shots higher...

Put the ball up in your stance a bit and widen your stance.

Now let's take it to the green...

Set up 3 balls in different spots about 4 feet from the hole.

Put some pressure on yourself by visualizing that the putt really matters.

Take it seriously while practicing so that you're prepared to drain the putt on the course.

Once you can consistently drain 3 putts in a row, move the balls back a foot to make it tougher.

Repeat this drill and you'll start draining longer and longer putts almost like it's automatic.

Watch this video now to discover exactly how to break 80 in golf.

Work hard and drop your scores!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:52

Video Transcription:

Hey guys. Great to have you here today, beautiful day out here. A great day to break 80. We all like to shoot in the 70s, in order to shoot in the 70s we have to have a couple of things that need to be going the right way.

So in our 90s video we talked about how we’ve got to stop coming over the top, getting that club to release, and starting to hit those draws.

Now that we can hit a little bit of a draw, we need to be able to do that consistently, but we also need to have a little bit of control of this club face. So instead of just hitting one shot over and over again, trying to hit that draw every time, we’ve got to be able to hit a fade and a draw.

We’re going to do this in a variety of ways, and the first thing I’m going to do here is let’s imagine that I’m going to set up straight ahead. Let me put an alignment stick down. I’m going to put this right to my target out in the distance.

Actually, let’s do a little bit more to the camera. There we go, that’s probably closer to where the camera’s set up. That should be pointing roughly straight ahead.

Now as I’m hitting my draw, what I’m feeling here is that I’m going to go ahead and let that club shallow out, come from the inside, and then again, roll around the outside of the ball. I’m letting my hands roll on over just like that, and that’s going to let that ball turnover from right to left.

We’ve done that one before, we all need to work on that. If you haven’t mastered that yet, I’d go and work on some of the draw videos that we talk about in our Top Speed Golf System.

Then once we’ve done that, now let’s go ahead and try to fade a few. So what I’m going to do to fade the ball, I’m going to open up my stance a little bit. I’m going to open up my front toe, I’m going to put the ball just a little bit farther forward in my stance.

If this is say my normal ball position, doesn’t have to be here, but this is just kind of a stock ball position, let’s say right there off the logo of the shirt, or the left ear, somewhere in that general vicinity.

If I’m going to play a fade, I’m going to go ahead and open up my stance, and I’m going to put that a little bit farther forward, that way it’s easier to get back in to the left. It’s going to make it easier for that path to move to the left when I do that.

Once I set up like that, now I’m going to feel like that I’m letting the club kind of hold open and the face isn’t going to roll down as much. Now the real key here, for a good powerful fade, is we still have to come from the inside.

We still have to shallow this club out to kind of get this wrist at least flat, and then we’re coming in to the left. A poor fade or a weaker fade is going to come down steeper over the top, and then chop down into the ball this way.

I want to shallow this club out, and then go ahead and have it swing to the left, and the reason that’s good is because I’m still getting compression on the golf ball because I’m getting some forward shaft lean as I’m hitting this fade.

I’m coming down steep, I’m flipping and losing my forward shaft lean. So that’s really going to help with that.

Work on hitting a couple of those fades, along with your draw. So I’m going to line up a little left here, ball up in my stance, still shallowing the club. I’m swinging left and hitting that nice power fade out there into the middle of the fairway.

There we go, that ball turned over a few yards, right where I was aiming. So we’re working on not only hitting that fade, but hitting it with some good power, some good speed as we’re doing that.

Then we’re going to go back and forth and hit the draw. So I’m going to go draw, fade, draw, fade. Start out with some nice, easy swings and then work to where you can aim at your target in the distance, imagine that’s a wall between your ball and the target.

For my draws I’m going to start them to the right of that wall and draw them back in. For my fades, I’m going to start them to the left of that wall, and then fade them back into that.

I’m going to go back and forth until I can hit about 20 shots alternating. Draw, fade, draw, fade. Doesn’t have to be in a row, just 20 total.

Now from there, I’ve got pretty good control of my game. I have enough compression, I have enough control on my ball to where I can go out there and I can shoot in the 70s. Because if I hit a shot that’s a little bit off line, I know kind of how to adjust that a little bit to get it back in the fairway.

The next thing we need to do when we’re breaking 90 or just learning to play, it’s really important to get distance control with our wedges. I’m going to grab my sand wedge here.

We talked about in our Breaking 90 video, that I’m going to go ahead and chip to this towel and I’m really going to work on landing one short, landing one on the towel, landing one longer.

Now in this video, we’re going to go ahead and work on the height control. We’re going to work on the same distance, but three different heights.

I’m going to first chip this low ball, and I’m going to put it back in my stance. So this one’s going to come out lower and land on the towel. I’m going to try to land it on the towel.

If this is my normal, again my normal ball position would be about like that, I’m going to go ahead and put it a little bit back in my stance, about an inch back. I’m going to go ahead and get a little bit more forward shaft lean, and I’m going to feel like I really kind of bow the wrist down.

I also might narrow up my stance a little bit. That’s easier to hit down into the ball if I have a slightly narrower stance. So let’s try those things out.

Ball an inch back, I’m going to go ahead and narrow up my stance, and I’m really feeling like I’m bowing my wrist, delofting that club, and it’s going to come out nice and low. I’m going to want to hit a draw here, and kind of have a slight right to left curve on this ball.

There we go. Landed it right on the towel. So that’s a low runner that landed the towel. Then we go ahead and do the same thing with our normal shots. I’ll spare you the normal pitch shot here, we just do everything we’d normally do, normal trajectory.

Now let’s go ahead and hit a high one to try to land on that towel. So the same club, I’ve hit a low one, I’ve hit a mid-trajectory, here’s my normal setup. I’m going to go ahead and put that a little bit up in my stance, just about an inch up. I’m also going to drop this back foot a little bit wider.

That’s setting me up more behind the ball, easier to get under the ball from there. Then as I come on through, I feel like my back of my logo of my glove is pointing up to the sky. That’s going to allow me to hit it a little bit higher as I’m hitting this shot.

So again, I’m going to try to land it to the towel, ball is up in my stance, stance is a little bit wider, and then I’m going to keep my left wrist just kind of facing up to the sky to a nice little soft high shot.

There we go, a little bit too far. I’d have to practice that a bit more, but now we’re controlling that trajectory. We’ve hit the low shot, the medium shot, the high shot.

We’ve also controlled our distances as we work some of the other drills in the Breaking 90 video. Now we’re ready to take it to the green. I’ve got some great drills there that are going to help you to really fine-tune that game so you can start shooting in the 70s.

Hi guys, welcome back. When it comes to breaking 80, there needs to be a lot of consistency in your game, especially with these short putts.

As we start to get our scores lower and lower, every stroke matters a little bit more. We’ve got to be able to make sure we can concentrate and keep it together, even when there’s a little bit of pressure.

So here I’ve set up three balls, all different spots. I don’t want to putt from the same spot every time. I want to make it more realistic, feel like being out there on the course. I’m going to set up to this four-footer.

I’m going to concentrate here on my legs being really nice and quiet, not much leg movement at all. Nice and smooth with my hands and arms, and a very smooth stroke as I’m coming back and through.

I also want to visualize that this is for something, whether it’s my local skins game, whether it’s the 18^th hole of The Masters, whatever it is. I’ve got to put a little bit of pressure on myself so that I can recreate the feelings that I’m going to have to a smaller degree when I’m out on the course.

Now I’m going to try to make all three of these before I move on to the next one, or before this drill is complete. So I’ve made one, now I’ve got to go to a different area.

Again, I’m really visualizing that this is for something. Maybe this is the 18^th hole, we’ve had five carryovers, and this is for all the skins in my local game. I’m trying to recreate those feelings and really visualize that putt going in.

That’s one of the biggest things I see as you go lower and lower, is we have to visualize a lot better. We have to really see this ball going in, because we can’t afford to drop two or three easy strokes if we want to start breaking 80 very consistently.

So I’ve really got to visualize that stroke before I even start, and I’m going to see that ball right in there.

Do this drill, start out about four feet from the cup, three different balls, you’ve got to make all three in a row. As you get better, pull it back to five feet, six feet, seven feet, and you’re going to get better and better.

Really make that pressure. Try to simulate that pressure the best you can, and you’re really going to pay off for you in the long run. So good luck, I’ll see you guys later.