Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to Hit The Ball Then The Turf With Your Irons Every Time"

And we’ve all had a round derailed by those frustrating chunked or thinned shots.

Today, I’ll share with you an unusual, but highly effective grip tweak that will make you hit the ball first, then the ground… every single time.

And you don't want to miss the "squish and twist" drill at the end…

…which will help you with your downswing weight shift and increase your consistency.

This will unlock the power of your perfect golf grip…

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 12:30

Video Transcription:

Now if you're struggling to hit the ball first and then the ground. It's actually your grip that could be the number one culprit. I'm gonna walk you through this interesting grip tweak that you may not be aware of at all, probably never heard before. That's gonna allow you to hit the ball first and then the the turf.

And then we're gonna really bring it home with something I call they squish and twist drill. So that's gonna help you to make sure that you hit the ball first every single time. Get those divots in front and get rid of those pesky, chunked and thin golf shots. Alright, so first, let's start off here with.

The grip, as I mentioned. Well, as we come into this shot, if I'm gonna hit the ball first and then the ground, I need to have my hands leading the way. And what that means is if you look at my club head at impact as it was hitting the golf ball, if my hands were directly over top of that, that would be like this shaft vertical.

My hands would be here. Well, that would be the low point of the swing. And the low point of the swing isn't the golf ball. That would be the bottom of the arc. The low point of the swing is the bottom of your divot, so if you want the divot in front, the hands have to be leading the way as you hit the golf ball, and then the club releases.

And the bottom of the divot is when the club shaft is more straight up and down this way. So I wanna make sure that I have my hands leading the way. Well, unfortunately, most people have a grip that makes this nearly impossible, and I want you to try this out. Take your normal grip set up to the golf ball.

And then go ahead and simulate an impact. Position, weight, left, hips open, hands in front. And what most people that I see when they do this, they do this little move to get the hands in front. But notice when I do that, watch what happens to the club face. It opens up, the club face, does this little motion here, and that ball is gonna sail way out to the right.

So in order to get your hands in front and hit those good clean divots, you can do that. But then you start hitting shots way over that way and you just don't wanna do it anymore. Cause it's a terrible way to play golf. What we need to do is get this face square, go ahead and go back to the dress again.

Get your hands in or weight left. So let's say about 70% of your weight on your left foot. Open up your hips about 30 or 45 degrees, and then put your hands a good five or six inches in front of the golf ball. So I want my hands almost up here when my club head has an impact. And then finally, I want you to square the face.

And what I want you to do here specifically is look at the leading edge of the club, and I bet you'll feel like the face is square. But when you look at that leading edge of that bottom groove on the club, it's gonna be pointing somewhere out there to the right. And when you do square up that leading edge to the target, it may feel really close to you.

Now, here's where the grip comes in. A lot of people have a neutral grip, meaning that this ha left hand. It is roughly flat when the leading edge of the club is facing up to the sky. Now, most players don't need to be playing this grip because when I have this neutral grip, if I get my weight left hands in front and I square up the face, my left wrist has to be really flat or even a little bit bow, and that's just a tough position for most players to get into.

I want you to find what's really good for you. Get in that good impact position. Again, square face. And then take a grip that feels comfortable to you, where does it feel like your left hand is most relaxed and most comfortable? For me, it's right here where the wrist is a little bit cupped even. And then on my right hand, I'm either gonna put it more underneath, meaning that it's more under this way or more over like that.

Fi figure out what's comfortable to you. And that's gonna be the grip that matters. That's gonna be the grip you use at impact, which is the only place that hits the golf ball, right? So let's build our grip around impact. Versus the other way around. I don't want you to pick your grip first and then try to make a good impact.

Find good impact. Take your grip that feels comfortable there. Then let's go back to address. So I've done my impact grip square face. This feels really comfortable to me. And then when I go back to address now as I relax, I know I have the good grip. So that's the first key I have to be able to get my hands in front.

If I'm gonna get the divot in front, so let's go ahead and start one out there. For most players, this may even be a little bit of a stronger, or the hands may be turned this way more than it used to, is what I found. And if you look at great players, there's so many good players that have a grip more like that.

Uh, so many, like a Sergio Garcia has his hand turned way over here like this. Uh, it doesn't have to be anything extreme to feel comfortable, just find what's comfortable and go from there. All right, so let's go ahead and hit one here and try to get that divot in front.

There we go. Had a really nice solid shot there. I gotta tell you, I got these new Ping I two 30 irons. These are pretty sweet 195 yards with my seven iron, probably even a little farther than I want to hit it. Well, when I finished there, so not only did I get that good grip and now it was comfortable for me to get my hands in front and still get that draw.

If I had a grip that was too weak, when I get my hands in front again, that shot is gonna kind of fly out to the right. So just keep playing around with it until you feel like you can get that face square and it's a nice, comfortable grip. Once you've done that and you've hit some assemblance of it, some straight shots, if they keep on going to the right, meaning if my shot keeps on going that way, go back to impact and turn the hand more this way, get this left hand more on top.

I'm really exaggerating there, but. Turn it this way on top of the grip like that, turn the right hand more underneath if the ball's going too far left. When you get in that good impact position and you're pausing, turn the hand more to the left, turn the right hand more to the left. So really use a grip for you that allows you to get in good impact position.

And then when you swing with that grip, The ball flies nice and straight and test it out until you can find what's the most comfortable. Now, the second thing I did here is when I made that swing, I felt like I got my weight left and then I swung down, which for some people can be a hard. Uh, feeling to get, I got a couple easy tricks for you on this.

So we're gonna do a squished drill, meaning I'm gonna get my weight into my left heel, and then the twist is I'm gonna rotate, I'm gonna turn around. I'm imagining this left heel as being my pivot point of the downswing. So many times we get so focused on the ball, we hit at the golf ball and we fall back.

Make this left heel your pivot point. I'm gonna squish into my left heel, and then I'm gonna rotate around this like it's a post all the way into my finish. I'm gonna try to finish with my right shoulder in front of my lead ankle. All right, so what I'm gonna do to help get the feeling of this is grab a tennis ball and we're gonna go ahead and set up to this shot.

So go ahead and set up to a golf ball. Head a dress. Now I know where my heel should be. I'm gonna lift up my heel, put that tennis ball under there. And now all of a sudden I can step into this and I can really fill it. Squish. If you don't have a tennis ball, you can put a golf ball under the left heel.

It could start to hurt your heel. After a while, make sure you're on something fairly soft. If it starts to bother your heel, don't do it on there. I don't want you to get injured or hurt your heel and not be able to play golf, but I wanna have something that's a little bit squishy. Racketball, golf ball, whatever you have.

Now what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna make a little half backswing to where my hands are, just about chest high in the backswing. Before I start down, I'm gonna squish that golf ball or that that tennis ball. This is gonna become my new post, and I'm gonna rotate around this to the finish. So again, if I just remove this golf ball for a second, I wanna make some practice swings here.

Impact square face. Got my comfortable grip. I'm gonna go back to the dress, little half back swing. My weight will shift to the right. During this little back swing, I'm gonna squish the tennis ball. My left leg is my new post and I'm rotating around that post to the good full finish that will pull that divot in front every single time.

Now, if you want some good feedback with this, I like to use. A device like this is a little speed trap from Eyeline Golf. Basically all this does is you put the golf ball up in this gap in the front, and then when I swing, if I'm hitting behind the golf ball at all, I'm gonna smack into this piece of plastic.

Uh, I love this one because you can do it right from home and make some little practice swings like this. So again, I wanna set up, imagine that my golf ball is here. Half back, swing, squish, and then on through to the finish making sure that I get that right shoulder in front. Now you may be thinking, well, who cares about the right shoulder?

What's that have to do with anything if you're falling back? Watch the right shoulder when I fall back. So if I do this, I fall back. Now all of a sudden, the right shoulder never gets forward. If I get my weight on my left, that's my new post, then I can just swing around it. Now the last little trick here, the more left you get, the tendency is gonna be to be more over the top, to be more a fade by swing.

Really feel like when you're coming down, you're coming from the inside, your hands and arms, you're coming from the inside. Letting that club swing out to the right. That's gonna guarantee that when you do this, not only do you get that divot in front, but you have that nice tight draw as it's happening.

So let's go over the drill again. Good impact position halfway back. Squish turn on through until my right shoulder is in front. Now, once you've done about 10 or 15 of those, we don't actually hit golf balls with the tennis ball there. We're just gonna put a golf ball here in front of my speed trap. I'm gonna set up to it, little bump to get the impact hands in front.

Then I'm gonna squish and turn trying to get my hands back in front when I get to impact. Let's give it a whirl.

There we go. Nice little draw again, 190 with the seven iron. I'm pretty impressed with that. These feel pretty nice. Now you don't have to have this speed trap. You can use a piece of a towel or something like that, but this is good for so many more drills. If you want one of these, go ahead and click the link down below.

You should see one in the description on the bottom of this page. Uh, click a link there. I get a few bucks if you buy one from. From there. Again, you don't have to have it, but if you do support the channel and support some more great videos. Now, one thing that makes this a lot easier is visualizing what's really going on with the golf club.

How do you actually release this golf club? So many times when players are doing even this drill that we just walked through, we get the hands in front and then we just think, oh, I'm gonna hold this through there like that. Well, that can work, but it's, it'll get the divot in front, but there's not a lot of speed with it.

You see, we actually want this club to be releasing. To feel like it's flying outta our hands to feel like it's picking up speed as we're coming through contact, and that's what I call the straight line release. So yes, the hands will be in front of the golf ball impact. My hands will be up here, but the the club is releasing to a point out in front, so I'm letting that club go out in front and that straight line release.

All the great pros do it. All the great players at your club do it. Basically everybody that hits the ball really consistently is gonna be doing that straight line release out in front of the golf ball. I want you to build that in your game. I don't want you to just have to sit here in a week or a month or a year from now and be coming back and doing this same daggon lesson again to get the hands in front.

I want it to be baked into your swing to where you couldn't not do that even if you tried, right, you couldn't get your hands behind the golf club head impact, no matter how hard you try to do it. Well, the way you're gonna do that is through the straight line release. If you're a member of the Top Speed Golf.

Uh, website. Go to the instruction tab, go to the TSG system, and then go to the straight line release section. From there, now as you get to level one, you're gonna get very familiar with this straight line release and getting that club to release out in front. That's gonna get your hands in front of impact.

It's gonna do a lot of things we talked about in this video. You're gonna really start to build that into your swing level two. It starts to get comfortable. You start to feel like you don't have to think about it that much, but you gotta remind yourself every once in a while. Once you get to level three, it's in there.

It's in your swing. You don't have to worry about it anymore. You take three months off of golf, you get up, you walk straight to the first tee, you make the very first swing of the day, and all of a sudden the hands are in front. You're releasing out in front. That's what I want you to get to, and that's the only way that you can play kind of mind free thought free golf, and have a great time.

But it starts with just doing one video. Go to the very first section of the straight line Release. Complete the very first video in there. Follow the drills and then move on to level two and level three like I talked about. You're gonna be a brand new golfer and you'll hopefully you'll be thanking me about thanking me for it later, and I can't wait to hear the great successes you have.

So head on over to level one right now and I'll see you there.