Why You Need This: Today you'll discover "How to Hit the Ball Then the Turf With Your Irons | Magic Drill"

If you want to become a fantastic iron player...

...you'll need to hit the ball first, and then the turf.

Today's drill will equip you with the 3 keys you need to make this happen with every swing you take!

So, if you're ready to become an elite ball striker...

...discover your path right now!

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:15

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: If you want to be a fantastic iron player, there’s really just three things you need to do.

Number one, I need to get my weight shifting to my left so that I can hit the ground at the same time, every single time, hit the ball first, and then make my divot in front of, what we’ll do later here, is in front of this line.

So the first key is, I’ve got to get my weight to the left. You can see that if I’m falling back to the right like many players do, I’m wanting to ground out here.

My right shoulder’s getting lower to the ground, I’m going to hit behind this line. There’s really no way for me to get my hands and arms up in front of that line. That’s piece number one.

Number two, I have to get my hands leading the way. I have to get my hands in front of the club head and in front of this line at contact by a good four or five inches. That way, my divot is always in front of that line.

I’m taking loft off the club like the tour pros, I’m really compressing that ball, I’m getting that nice, tight, solid draw.

Then number there, I need to make sure I come from the inside. It doesn’t matter if I hit this ground every single time I hit the ball first, if I’m kind of chopping down steep, I’m coming across the ball, and I get that weak slice, or that weak shot that just kind of floats up the face and goes really high.

If you want to learn how to do that, I have an absolutely simple drill, really easy. You follow the steps on this, it’s going to be very easy to go ahead and do all those things that I mentioned.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so let’s jump right into the drill. The first piece is I’ve got to get my weight to the left. The easiest way that I’ve found to feel this, is as you go to the top make sure that your weight shifts to the right very early, or as you make your backswing.

As soon as I’m starting my backswing, I even like to pre-set maybe a 60 percent of my weight in my right side at address, that way I get my weight to the right early.

I want my weight almost fully loaded up on my right side by the time my club gets to parallel with the ground.

From there, I’m going to feel like I get my weight to my left. I’m pushing my left foot into the ground, then I swing down.

What almost every single player does, is they wait way too late in their backswing to get their weight going to the right.

What ends up happening is now everything is late when I’m shifting down. I keep my weight on my right, and I end up falling back and hitting behind the line like we talked about.

The easiest way to do, just like I said, start with your weight on your right. Have my weight feeling like it’s on the inside of my right foot.

So from my toe all the way to my ankle, I want to feel some pressure there when the club is here. Then I’m going to shift left and swing down.

That shift to the left has to happen before I swing down, just like if I was going to throw a pitch, I’m going to step forward, I’m going to shift my weight, open my body, then I throw the ball. I don’t throw the ball then shift to the left. That’s an easy way to do it.

So a great little drill here is to feel like, what I like to do if I’m putting this line on the ground, I’ll put a tee, or even let’s grab a golf ball to make it more severe here.

I’m going to put a golf ball under my left ankle and have under my left foot, kind of in the middle of my foot right around there, under my sole.

Then I’m going to feel like I push that ball into the ground, so I transfer right early, I push that ball or start to drive that ball into the ground, then I swing down.

Now the second piece is the forward shaft lean. How do I get those hands in front? This is a big one.

When I get players that do this little drill I’m going to teach you, they start looking like a Tour pro very quickly. It’s just a natural motion.

What I’m going to do is I’m going to take my club and turn it sideways, and I’m going to imagine it’s a hammer or an axe, and I’m going to drive this golf ball onto the ground.

Now when I do that, because there’s so much weight in front of the shaft now, when I feel like I get my hands just a little bit ahead, you’ll see I have tons of shaft lean.

So if you don’t believe me, grab a club and do this. Notice how just easy it feels to get your hands way in front when you’re doing this.

Another great visual that makes this even easier, is you take a little tee and you put it in the ground at an angle.

Now what I’m going to do is I’m going to feel like with this club, or now my new sledge hammer, I’m going to imagine this is a railroad spike or a giant nail, I’m going to have my toe of my club feel like I’m going to drive that into the ground.

So you’ll see there, depending on the shape of your club you may or may not be able to actually do that, but you can see I just drove that right into the ground, that tee into there. It’s really not that hard to do once you get the feel of that axe instead of a golf club.

Now finally, the third piece, none of this does you any good. It doesn’t matter if I go ahead and shift my weight and I make that divot time, after time, after time, right in front of that line.

I hit the ball perfectly clean every single time, if I’m chopping down and coming across this golf ball.

Lots of times I’ll see players do this, they stand up, they’re casting it, losing lag, and they’re kind of flipping and chopping at the ball, just rolls up the face and it doesn’t do any good.

All that’s coming from when I start my downswing, that right arm pushing this club out and getting steep. I want to make sure that I come from the inside, I get from the slot, then I come down.

A great way to visualize that is that same thing. We’re going to put that tee in the ground again, but this time instead of it being straight toward my target – actually I’ll put it in relationship to this alignment stick.

Instead of it being straight toward my target, I’m going to angle that tee, whereas if I were playing baseball, I would feel like that tee’s kind of going out toward right field.

Now I’m going to do that same drill again. I’m going to set up as though that was my golf ball, and instead of hitting it straight down this alignment stick, for those of you who are coming a little steep and over the top, I’m going to feel like I’m going more toward right field.

I’m still getting my weight left, I’m still opening my body, but my club’s coming from the inside and I’m going to drive that tee that way instead of that way. So that will get you coming from the inside.

Now you’ll see as I’m doing this, it’s very easy for me to hit four or five or six shots in a row in front of this line. It’s not that difficult at all.

Once you do these drills, the same thing’s going to happen for you. This makes it so much more fun when hitting your irons.

Now if we get through this drill where we can make that divot in front of this golf ball, there’s still comes down the fact that we have to square up the face the way the pros do.

We have to learn to use these wrists to deloft the club and I teach this in a section or course that I call The Move course.

What I want you to do, if you’re a member of Top Speed Golf, all you need to do is go to the Instruction tab, go to the Top Speed Golf System, and click on The Move.

I go over two key pieces here. Number one, how to get that club in the slot in the downswing, and number two, how to really de-loft and square that face up from the inside so you hit those nice, penetrating, well-compressed golf shots, those irons.

You maybe even stumbled into that feeling before. Have you ever felt like you’ve hit a ball and the ball just melted into the club face? It was really, really soft, and then all of a sudden it just exploded and went 10 or 15 yards farther than normal?

Well, that happens when you square the face up the right way. Make sure you check out the Tennis Racket Drill, which is a big one in there, I really talk about these wrists squaring up.

Then I just walk you through the whole thing.

So once you’ve done this drill, you’ve gotten used to hitting the ball and then the turf, let’s learn to square that face up so that now not only is it clean contact, it’s also the most compressed, the most solid contact you’ve had.

It just makes it so much more fun and so much easier to play. I can’t wait to help you in The Move, show you some of those secrets, and I’ll see you there next.