Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to Drive The Golf Ball For Consistency"

In today's lesson...

Discover the couple things you can do with your body...

...that will keep your drives consistently in the fairway regardless of how far you're hitting it!

You'll also get the perfect drills to make sure you have these things in your swing!

Now, you'll understand how even the longest hitters can be so darn consistent.

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:23

Video Transcription:

All right. Hit that one. Pretty dag on. Good. And if you wanna be a consistent driver, it really comes down to a few key things that you need to be able to do with your body to promote consistency. It starts with a setup, give you some real easy things, and then some ways to stay in your posture and a swing on plane.

And these drills are very easy. Grab a club right now and walk right through these drills with me. So first, let's get the stance right. I want my stance, my, my ball position to be anywhere from just inside my left foot to kind of on my left toe. It really depends on how wide your stance is, but I like anywhere kind of in this left inside of the left foot area, that's gonna give me the ability to hit slightly up on the ball and to go ahead and release the club.

As I'm coming on through, if I put the ball too far back in my stance, now I'm having to hit at it with my hands. And really my ball's, my body's just too far in front. So long story short, there, if you're gonna be consistent, you need your body behind the golf ball. Now with that is gonna be your spine tilt.

So I wanna go ahead and get my nose or my upper body. Farther behind the golf ball in my belt buckle. Kind of shifting a little bit to the left. So if I put a club here, I grab my belt buckle, put the bottom of the club on that, I put the top of the club on my nose. I'm gonna shift until my nose is slightly behind my belt buckle and my body's angled away.

Now what this does, and why this is so important is it allows you to swing from the inside much more easily. So to get that inside out swing path. It allows you to get kinda shallowed out more inside and then to be able to release inside out to get that nice little draw. It also is just the natural way your body is gonna want to hit it.

If I'm gonna have lag and then release that club in front, it's almost impossible to have lag. If your upper body shifts in front of the golf ball, there's just no way to make your arms do that position. If I'm behind the golf ball, all of a sudden I can get a lot of lag, so ball on the front foot. Nose behind the belt buckle.

And then number three, make sure that your grip grip isn't too weak. So what I wanna see is if I have my hands flat like this, I wanna see my left hand more on top of the grip, kind of at a a 30 degree angle here or so, like. So this is straight up and down. This is 90 degrees. We're just talking about 30 degrees to the right.

I wanna have my right hand tilted under the club the same direction again, that matches my tilt. So my hands are kind of going this way. And then when I grip the club, that's what it's gonna look like. So V in the thumb toward the right shoulder, V in the right hand, a little bit toward the right shoulder, even slightly outside of it like you'd see with Dustin Johnson or Sergio Garcia, or a lot of players that helps to promote that draw too.

Now let's get into the body work again. Setup's great, but if your body's not working well, you're gonna get armsy. It's gonna go all over the place. So very simple drill here. Drop the club, go ahead and set up what I call a helicopter drill and put your arms out to your side. Now from there, you're just gonna rotate in the back swing.

And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get a little weight shift to the right. My shoulders are gonna be kinda on the inside of my right foot, so I don't want to be here like this. I'm gonna be on the inside. So if I had a, a shirt tie, a tie, like a a, a button up shirt with a tie on, that tie would be hanging down kind of on the inside of my foot or my knee.

I'm gonna be in my posture with my shoulders tilted this way, and these fan blades will kind of ensure that my left arm should be pointing somewhere out, kind of toward the target line down here, and my right arm just kind of extension of my shoulders. Now as I come through, I'm just gonna do the opposite.

My weight shifts to the left. If you struggle shifting your weight to the left, this is a game changer for you. My shoulders are kind of un on the inside of my left foot, right hand toward the golf ball, left hand up here on plane. Now, if I can do that, then I'm staying in my posture. All you need to do from there is to have the club face open and then to release the club face coming on through.

So let's do the same thing with these fan blades, but then let your hands rotate to the right on the way back. It and then release it on the way through. So basically the hands should be doing this as you swing the golf club that would look something like this cuz the club face opens and closes as you hit it.

And that's how you get feel for this. If you try to lock in things tight, restrict 'em, hold 'em straight. Muscle it, you know, all these things that we think are gonna make it go straight. You know, you try to do everything in the world to get the ball just to just please go in the fairway and you just try to guide it and all of a sudden you look up and it's shot off on into the woods.

You gotta give up that control. You gotta just let the body flow. You're an athlete. Be athletic and let the timing and the feel get you the straight shots. So once we've done that, let's do the same thing here. And we're just gonna use a golf club now. So again, helicopter drill. This will get you more familiar with feeling like I am releasing that club Ed.

So the club ed is turning over as I'm hitting this shot, and again, I'm staying in my posture. So that's without getting both hands on it, this is like a good intermediate step to get the feel of what that should be like to stay in your posture and get your body working the right way. So weight shift to the right arms on the target line, weight shift to the left arms on the target line, and that's the basic golf swing.

Once you've done that a little bit, go ahead and put two hands on it and just repeat that same feeling. So again, I'm not trying to guide it. I'm letting the club do the work itself. Now, all that is really good, but the last thing we have to do is get the visualization piece of it right? I want to visualize in my mind, like when I hit this golf ball, Ball, the ball is gonna stick to the face.

It doesn't actually happen that way, but this is the visual that I wanna have. That ball's gonna stick to the face and I'm long through the hitting zone. So if I start to fold up in chicken wing, it's not gonna work. If I'm move my body the way we've been moving it, and I'm long, so I'm letting my arms extend out through the, through the shot, down the target line with the arms.

The club face is traveling down the target line as long as possible. Then that's gonna help me to be much more consistent. If my club hits the ball and then immediately shoots back up over here, very inconsistent. My club face hits the ball and the club stays with it, and I really get that a lot of extension through there with my arms.

It's just a heck of a lot straighter. Now, there is one other piece that we have to get right with us. You see a lot of times when players try to get that long extension through the shot, what'll end up happening is they hold the face open so this face stays open like this, and that's not what we want to have at all.

You see to get that extension, what you really need to do is to shallow out the club from the inside. Get this face squaring up early. Now you're gonna hit a nice little draw as you're coming through there and the face is actually gonna release and turn on over this way. Now most everybody that I see struggles with shallowing out the club and squaring up the face.

Uh, if I have a a thousand lessons that I give, unless it's a professional golfer, a high level college golfer, a scratch golfer, better. You count if you exclude those three kinds of golfers. Everybody else is pretty much too steep in the downswing. The club then kind of saw the falls behind them. The face is wide open and then they have to save it with their hands and arms.

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