Why You Need This: In this video, you'll discover how to break 90 in golf.

You'll get 3 great tips to help you bust through this elusive barrier.

Now, there's endless instruction out there that covers every minute detail of the swing.

The goal of this video is to tackle the 3 most common issues that affect golfers who score in the 90s and 100s.

Tip #1...

Nearly all golfers that struggle to break 90 are coming down too steeply in the downswing.

You need to get your club to shallow out in the downswing...

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

This will eliminate your slice and you'll start to hit a draw.

I recommend a cool training aid called the Impact Snap.

This training aid will help you bow your left wrist and flatten your club in the downswing.

Also, this aid will help you get a ton of forward shaft lean at impact.

Practice hitting some balls, focusing on flattening out your club...

And coming in on an in-to-out swing path.

Feel free to overdo it and hook the ball.

You can easily straighten it out later.

The goal here is to get rid of coming in too steep and slicing the ball.

Tip #2...

Now, I want you to work on your feel and distance control.

Grab a sand wedge and layout a beach towel about 20 yards in front of you.

Try to bounce a few balls and have the ball rest on the towel.

Then try to hit the towel on the fly.

Then try to hit a ball to the previous ball.

This drill will help you get a better feel for your distance.

Note that you should swing with a longer backswing for longer shots.

Tip #3...

Finally, let's work on your putting.

For golfers that struggle to break 90...

3-putts are a killer!

Try this drill...

Set up 3 balls at different lengths and direction.

(To get a better feel for your putts, don't hit balls from the same exact spot.)

Hit all the balls within 8 inches of your mark.

For the short putts, try hitting them with your right hand only.

Develop feel for your putts and your distance control will improve greatly.

Summary...

Watch this video now to find out how to break 90 in golf and focus on improving the 3 most common areas that torment golfers.

Have fun...

Work hard...

And break 90!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:51

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, welcome back. I’ve got an awesome video for you, going over three of my best tips for breaking 90.

I know a lot of you guys out there that are beginning to intermediate players, you’re looking to break 90 for the very first time. There’s tons of golf instruction out there, there’s thousands of things that you could be working on.

We boil it down to the five most important keys in our Top Speed Golf System, but even more boiled down that that, what is the most important thing that I can do to really combat the problems that I see with players that are shooting above 90 or in the hundreds.

So the first thing is, almost every single player I’d venture to say pretty much 100 percent of the golfers, 99 percent of the golfers out there that are struggling to break 90 are coming down a little step in the downswing.

So we have a video series call The Move section, and in The Move section what we work on here, is getting that club to shallow out like you see wit all the Tour players, this left wrist starts to go flat or a little bit bowed, and then we can release this club to hit a little bit of a draw.

So we’re coming from the inside, letting that club roll on over, and we’re getting that ball to curve from right to left.

In order to do this one of the best training aids that I’ve seen out there is called the Impact Snap. This little training aid you just grip it like you would a normal golf club. It’s got a small, yellow ball there. If I started to flip – let’s actually, let me grab both of these at the same time, see if I can do this.

If I started to flip my club, notice how that ball comes outside my right forearm. Now if I went ahead and did this correctly where I get some forward shaft lean, some bow, and I get that ball to touch on the inside of my forearm like that, just like this.

Try that again, shallow it out, get that to roll through there, notice how my left wrist is bowed, my right wrist is angled back, and now that’s hitting the inside of my forearm.

If I really wanted to exaggerate that, I could even have that pop through the inside of my forearms and roll up this way, which a flip would be that way. The opposite of a flip would be on the inside there. So I wanted to hit the inside of my forearm right on the back of my forearm as I’m making this shot here.

I’d do so reps with this and then try to recreate that same feeling in your golf swing. Again, we’re letting this lead wrist bow, we’re letting this handle turn on down, now you can see how I really have a lot of forward shaft lean.

I’m letting that club go out in front, and I’m really rolling that over to get around the outside of the ball. I’m really going to feel like I’m letting those hands roll around outside of the ball to get that ball to curve from right to left.

I’m just going to go ahead and take some mini shots here, shallowing the club, left wrist bowed, and then I’m going to feel like I’m coming around drawing this golf ball getting a little bit of a hook as I’m doing that.

I really got that ball to turn over from right to left. Then I’m gradually going to speed that up. Most of you out there that are having trouble breaking 90, you’ve got that ball that’s shooting up in the air, maybe it’s fading off, big slice, we’ve got to get that ball compressed and hooking.

Let’s exaggerate that, get it over-hooking a little bit, we can always tone that down later. But let’s get the hook fast, that’s a good player’s problem to have.

That’s going to get you breaking 90, get you hitting some really good shots. If you over-hook a few, that’s completely fine. We can work on that a little bit later on in the game.

So it’s not a quick fix, it’s just doing a little too much of a good thing. Go ahead and exaggerate that and we can tone it down really, really easily.

Once we’ve done that, the second key here is we’ve got to get used to having some touch and feel around the greens, and being able to control our distance.

So this is a great one to practice just in your yard. I’m going to grab my sand wedge and I’ll lay a beach towel in the back of my yard here. If I have a little small mat, or if I had some pretty decent turf in my back yard, I’m going to do two different things here, three different shots. Excuse me.

The first one is going to be just me chipping, and I’m going to try to see if I can get this ball to bounce and roll up to the towel. You can do this at the golf course to, it’s a great way to practice. I’m just going to have a nice little easy shot. I’m going to try to get it to roll out and get to the towel.

So barely got on the towel there, that’s good. Now the next shot, I’m going to try to get it to land on the towel. I’m going a little bit harder, and I’m going to be getting it to actually fly onto the towel at contact. There we go, right on the middle of the towel, and then it rolled out farther.

Now wherever that ball rolls out to, I’m going to try to land my third ball there. So now I’m going to go ahead and try to carry it all the way to that third ball. There we go. It went a little too far on that one, and I’d just restart the process again.

I’m going to land one short and get it to roll. Maybe I’m just going nice and soft, letting it roll up to the towel. Then I’m going to try to land one on the towel. As I’m doing that, little bit longer backswing, little bit longer coming through.

I’m just controlling the distance of my swing to control my tempo. I’m keeping my tempo the same every time. You can visualize kind of swoosh, swoosh as you’re coming back and through. Nice and smooth both ways. I don’t want to get jerking quick in there.

I’m getting that first one nice and soft to roll. Second one to land on the towel, third one to go even farther. So I’m used to controlling my distance and getting a different feel for how long I’m going to carry those shots.

I’m keeping that same tempo every single time, I’m just controlling. I want to hit longer, I swing a little farther back and a little bit farther through, that’s all I’m going to change. Tempo’s the same on every single one.

Then finally, we’re going to do a really nice putting drill, it’s going to help you to get the speed and tempo of your putts, and get you getting rid of those 3-putts and making a lot more of the short ones.

All right guys, so when we’re breaking 90 the most important thing that we have is we have to develop a lot of touch and feel around the greens. That’s great, people say that all the time, but what does that mean and how do we do that?

We have to make things harder. We have to actually make it a lot harder than it’s going to be when we’re really putting. What I’ve done is I’ve set up three different balls here.

I never want to putt balls from the same spot over and over again, because it just kind of gets almost like a zombie, I’m just over the ball putting, and putting, and putting, and there’s really not anything I’m doing.

There is a time for building that, if I’m trying to build just true repetition, and true muscle memory, but if I want to develop feel, that comes from varying the situation.

What I’m going to do is I’m going to stick this tee in the ground about eight feet from one of these balls, and I’m going to start out just with my right hand only. Now my right hand’s going to grip the putter, my left hand’s going to be on my left thigh.

With my left hand on my left thigh, I can sense that I don’t want to move my body at all, I just want to get a nice little roll to it. I want to make sure that I get these balls within eight inches of that tee before I can move on to the next one.

So this is right hand only, I’m obviously going to try to hit the tee. Barely missed it, let’s pretend that’s eight inches, maybe a little bit farther. We’re just kind of guesstimating here.

Now once I’ve done that, I’m going to set up and do the exact opposite, left hand only, right hand on the leg, and I’m going to do the same thing. Again, I’m going to try to make it, but even if I don’t, I have to be within eight inches to move on to the next one.

So pushed that one just a little bit, what within eight inches, that’s an acceptable range. Now I’m going to move on to the third ball where I’m using both hands, and I’m going to try to make this one and leave it within eight inches if I do miss.

So there we go, knocked the tee, good speed control. So I actually made it harder. Putting with just one hand is much more difficult than putting with two hands.

With leaving the ball within eight inches of the cup, that’s really difficult to do. A lot of times we’d be happy if we’re leaving it within two feet of the cup, but if we putt to this tee we’re getting rid of also the anxiety of trying to make the ball. We’re concentrating on what we’re doing versus concentration on the result.

If we just focus on what w do, we stick to the process, we develop good feel, the results will come. So we’ve just got to keep on practicing with those.

So work on those drills. Start out at eight feet, eight inches. Move to 10 feet, 12 feet, 14 feet, as far as you can go. It’s left hand only, right hand only, both hands at once. They’ve got to all three be in a row.

We can’t just do one here, miss the next one, and then go on to the third one. We have to do three all in a row, all three from different spots within eight inches of the cup.

Good luck to you guys, develop that feel. These are tough drills, going to take a little bit of time, but it’s going to pay dividends in your game. Good luck.