Why You Need This: In this video, you’ll discover how to get control of your golf game.

Often you’ll get on the course and hit a dead solid shot...

Or so you thought...

...because what actually happened is that you hit a nasty hook into the rough.

Hey, don’t let it bother you; it happens to all of us.

All that matters is how you bounce back from a bad shot.

Even the pros have their off days and need to make tweaks to their swings.

Pros like Ben Hogan, Bubba Watson, and Lee Trevino are well known for practicing shots with different curvatures and trajectories.

All that practice pays off when they get into trouble; they know instantly what they need to do to get back on track.

In this video, you’ll learn how to shape your shots and get back on track as quickly as possible.

First, you’ll get a few cheats that you can use to work your balls left to right and right to left.

Finally, you’ll learn how to work the trajectory of your shots.

Watch this video now to learn how to tweak your swing so you can quickly fix any problems you’re having on the course...

And get total control of your golf game!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:46

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, so welcome back here. Now in this video we’re going to talk about how we can control our ball flight.

Sometimes you get to the course and you’re just not going to play very well. You’re going to make a swing, you’re going to hit the ball, it’s going to feel like it’s going to be dead straight and it’s going to slice 30 or 40 yards.

Sometimes it’s going to hook out of control, and really when we talk about having control of our golf game, what we mean here is that we’re going to be able to control not only the face angle to get the type of shot we want, but also the path; more inside out, more right to left, to be able to change the type of shot whenever we get off line.

It’s not really going to be perfect the very first swing of the day. You’re going to get off track time and time again. We’ve got to learn how to get back on track.

I’m going to grab a few golf balls here, and some of the best ball strikers of all time, if you listen to Hogan, if you read his book, he talks about he’ll have the caddy, this is back when they had caddies out in the fairway, he would hit to the caddy and he would work on the trajectory of his shot.

He would work on getting the curvature just like he wanted, and then he would go through the bag. Starting out with lower irons, working up into the longer irons, and getting that shot shape just like he wanted, tweaking things until it was perfect.

I just watched an interview with Bubba Watson yesterday, and he was talking about how he always worked on hitting different types of shots. He only had one club when he started out.

He was hitting whiffle balls in his back yard, and he’s trying to see can I hit it lower to make it go a little farther? Higher to get the ball to curve right, curve left? Same thing with Trevino. That’s exactly what we’re going to do here today.

Now in order to do this, what I really want you to be able to do is to really get that ball to turn over right to left and get it to turn over left to right. I’m going to give you a couple little cheat things that you can do here to be able to get that right away.

Let’s start out with the one I think gives people the most amount of trouble, is getting that ball to kind of curve right to left and turn on over. So I have my normal setup – let’s go ahead and grab an alignment rod out of my bag – let’s say this is going to be pretty much straight ahead, down the middle of the fairway.

That should be about right. Now if I want to get this ball to turnover from right to left, I’m going to hit some little mini, almost like chip shots here. I’m going to first line up my feet a little bit more to the right. I’m going to go ahead and cheat a little bit here, make it easier.

I’m going to close my face a little bit. Then I’m going to put my ball slightly back in my stance, that’s going to help me to get this swing path going out to what’s going to be towards those trees. That’s what it’s going to feel like to me.

Then I want to make sure that my face is very closed. Instead of it being square like that, I’m going to feel like my face is very closed and pointing over to the left.

When I do those things together, that’s going to get that ball to curve. When you’re practicing this, take over a bucket of balls, drop down about 20 or 30 of them, and see if you can get just a nice little – we’ll go with a 6 iron here – a nice little 30 or 40-yard shot, and get that ball to turn on over a good 4 to 5 yards.

More than that if you can, if you can get it to turn over 10 or 15 yards, that would be fine too. I’m going to try and hit a nice, easy one so you can still see this on the camera. We’ll notice this one really starts to curve from right to left.

So hopefully you could see that. That ball curved probably 10 or 15 yards right to left.

Now once we’ve done that, we’re starting to get a feel – again we’re going to that 15-20 times – get to feel that ball turning over. Now we’re going to go the opposite direction. I want to get that ball to turn over left to right 10 or 15 yards if I can.

So here’s my square set up. I’m going to go ahead, set up to the left. Get crazy with it, get your feet 45° to the left. We’re not trying to get that perfectly fine-tuned, two or three-yard fade right now, we’re trying to really get that ball to move.

Put the ball a little bit up in your stance, what that’s going to do is now I’m going to be able to swing to the left a little bit easier. My face now is going to be wide open. I’m pointing my face over to the tree, and I’m feeling like I’m doing this, holding the face open as I’m coming through.

So if I try this out, I should be able to get these. The fades aren’t typically going to curve as much, but I should be able to get this to fade 5 or 10 yards also.

There we go, so that one turned on over, hopefully it didn’t get too high to get out of the frame, but that one definitely started curving from left to right.

Again, 15-20 balls. Have some fun with it. Play a game, see how much you can get it to curve. Start to make longer swings, I’m trying to swing fairly easy here so you can see them on camera.

Try to see if you can get it to start out in the left rough and curve all the way over into the right rough, and then do the opposite of that.

Now once we’ve done those, we’re trying to learn low and high now. This is going to give you – once I can do left, right, low, and high, now I’ve got control over the club.

Whenever my ball flight starts to do something I don’t like, I can tweak and adapt and hit the different types of shots, just like you see the PGA Tour players do.

When I hit a low shot, I’ll put it slightly back in my stance. So let’s say that normally it’s off the left ear, logo on my shirt. I’m going to put it a little bit back in my stance, and then now as I’m coming through I’m not going to try to chop down into this ball, but I’m going to try to take all the loft off this club.

Make sure first that your hips are open, where it’d be at impact. My hands are well forward, and look at my left wrist. My left wrist is bowed down to where I feel like the back of my glove pointed all the way to the ground, and my right hand is angled back this way.

That’s going to allow me to take all the loft off of this club. Another way to feel this, taking that loft off, if you pause halfway down, really feel like you close that face this way, and that’s going to allow me to get that more forward shaft lean, a lot easier.

The more I close this face, the more forward shaft lean I can get. So I’m going to really exaggerate it here. I’m want to see if I can keep this ball about 3 or 4 feet off the ground as I hit a little 30 or 40-yard shot, see just how low I can go.

There we go, so really low and again, I’m hitting little punch shots here. You can go faster and faster as you get more comfortable. I just want to be able to keep it low so you can see it on the camera, hit some easy shots.

Now I’m going to do the opposite of that. Let’s say I’m behind a tree, I want to hit it higher. Or let’s say I get out there, I’m hitting it too low, I want it to carry a little farther, now I’m going to go ahead and let this club shaft release.

So as in the last one, I had a lot of forward shaft lean, this shaft is really leaned forward. This wrist is bowed, this wrist is angled back. Now I’m going to go ahead and let that shaft release a little bit more so that it feels like it’s more vertical at contact.

I still want a little bit of forward shaft lean, I don’t want to go ahead and take and do a flip like this, but I want to have most of that shaft lean gone to get the ball nice and high.

Again, play a game. See if you can hit it 100 feet up in the air, as high as you can go and as low as you can go, and you’re going to start to develop a feel.

Here I’ll go nice and easy, but you’ll see the difference between that last shot for sure, definitely higher. If I swing harder than that, I can get it way up in the air, but you probably won’t be able to see that one on camera. Once I can do that, now I have complete control of my club.

The last thing here I want to make sure that you guys understand is you’re not going to be able to do this the first day. You’re not going to be able to just jump up there and hit a big draw, hit a big fade, hit it low, hit it high on the first swing.

It takes years to develop that kind of thing, but you’re going to have a pretty good feel for it just after a couple weeks practicing that. After a month of practicing that, if you do it every time you go to the range, you’re going to feel a lot more confident with it.

But after I get the big movements, now I can go ahead and do the fine tuning, the small movements.

Here to end it off, let’s see if I can make a good swing. I’m going to play a nice draw, high draw, turn over from right to left. Hopefully we’ll be able to see this on camera, and I’m going to try and see if I can control my ball flight.

There we go, that ball went right down the middle, turned over about 3 or 4 yards right to left, nice and high, hit that one pretty well. I started to get a feel for the club, learned how to change and adapt the club face to get the type of shot that I want.

Work hard on that, it’s a lot of fun. Play some games, and just have a good time with it, guys. I’ll see you all later.