Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to Hit Your Irons Farther and With Deadly Accuracy | Impact Drill"

The pros seem to always make nice, solid, ball-first contact...

...where their divot is in front of the ball.

How do they do that so consistently?

Well, it’s all about being in the right position at impact…

...and if you’re not getting that same divot…

...there are 3 keys that will help you get in the right position at impact.

Today, I’ll show you what those 3 keys are…

...including the crucial move with your hips that, if not made, make consistent ball contact nearly impossible.

Watch today’s video and start making those nice divots out in front of the ball, just like the pros!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:25

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: Most players have never been taught the right way to hit your irons solid, to compress them, to get that divot in front of the golf ball, and to really increase your ball speeds to make it feel really solid.

Now there’s actually something that’s really important to making this happen, that I would say 99 out of 100 golfers don’t get right.

They simply have the club with way too much loft for way too long, and they have the club face way too open, way too long.

Not back here in the swing, I’m not talking about bowing your wrists like Dustin Johnson, I’m not talking about a lot of those things like you’re heard before, I’m talking about through contact.

What I’ve done, is I’ve stuck a magnet here on the end of the club face showing me the direction that the club face is pointing.

What I want you to feel here, is a low left drill. So my goal when I’m coming through contact, if I’m going to hit this ball really solid, is to take as much loft off this face as quickly as possible.

So what I want to do is actually want to get lower to the ground. Most players tend to stand up and then they flip and they add loft.

I want to actually get my butt, if there’s a wall behind me, I want to feel like my butt is slamming through this wall, my legs are bending, and I’m getting very low to the ground.

Now that gets me closer to the golf ball, so that now I could have my hands in front and I could actually touch this golf ball with this arrow that’s coming out of this stick, that’s coming out of the club face.

That’s telling me that there’s actually no loft on this club face now, I have enough shaft lean to where I’ve taken all the loft off there.

What I want to feel like, is I could drive that golf ball down the fairway. So I won’t actually be able to do this, but I can drive that ball down the fairway as long as possible on the ground.

All the way here to contact, my club face would still be touching that golf ball. Now if you do that, that’s going to allow you to take a lot of loft off.

When you take that loft off, it’s like the difference between hitting with a lob wedge where it just slides right under the golf ball or hitting with a driver where it really compresses the golf ball or a sledgehammer, where it’s really compressing into the golf ball. There’s not much loft there.

When you do that it gets you higher ball speeds. So even if you swing your lob wedge 150 miles an hour like the fastest players in the world, it’s not going to go very far, way too much loft on it.

But if you swing your driver with very little loft that fast, it’s going a whole heck of a long way. So that’s what I want to feel like. I get my butt back, I get my legs bent, and I want to keep that face on that golf ball for as long as possible.

Now you’ll notice when I do that, I have to open my hips. If I stand up and lock my hips, I don’t open them very much, then I’m going to not be able to reach the golf ball without adding a lot of loft.

If I sit back and let my legs open, I’m driving that all the way through there.

The next piece you’re going to notice is my weight shift. I need to start to shift my weight to the left as I’m still swinging back, and that’s going to allow me to get down here and hit down and through and actually make that divot in front like I was talking about.

So it’s partially bending your legs and getting close enough to the ground where you can get that shaft lean.

It’s partially opening the hips so that I can get those hands leading in front and I can really compress that golf ball.

Then finally here, what I really want to do, is I want to make sure that I’m not holding on to this angle. Even though I’m keeping that club face square for a long time, I want to go ahead and let the club face turn on over.

So if I grab that magnet one more time here, I want to make sure that my magnet, as I lean my hands forward, never gets pointing to the right like that. I want to make sure as I come through, it’s turning over to the left if anything.

So it’s driving through there, and it’s turning to the left as I make that happen, that way I can really compress it and get that nice draw on there.

So if you get that sensation, squatting, turning, getting my hands in front, that’s going to allow that divot to come in front.

It’s going to allow that ball to turn over from right to left, and you’re going to get a whole heck of a lot of compression, solid shot, and the best part of all, you get rid of those chunks and thins, so it’s going to be really, really consistent.

Let’s go ahead and give it a whirl. I can’t hit a golf ball better than that, I’m going to be honest with you.

Now, there’s another piece to this. There’s a piece that ingrains this forever. So in this video, we’ve gotten started with these key concepts.

Like I said, if we don’t get the body lower, we don’t get that rear end kind of coming back through the wall, we’re not going to be able to get the club compressing the golf ball.

If you do the drills that we did here today, you’re going to hit it a whole heck of a lot more solid, really, really fast.

But that’s actually not what I want for you. I don’t want you to just hit it better today, I want you to hit it better the rest of your life. The way that you can do that, is by ingraining these fundamentals.

One of those fundamentals and what really ties all this in together is the Straight Line Release. So when I’m releasing this club in front, the golf ball’s just getting in the way.

That’s the same thing I’m talking about here, having the hands leaning in front and I’m not release that golf club until up here.

What I want you to do, if you’re a member of Top Speed Golf, go to the Instruction tab at the top of your screen, go to the Top Speed Golf System, and go to that Straight Line Release section.

As you start working through level one, you get familiar with the drills, level two, you really start to ingrain them. Level three, they’ve become completely natural.

What that’s going to allow you to do, is every single iron shot that you hit for the rest of your life, you’re going to find your hands leading in front. You’re going to find yourself releasing that club up here.

You’re going to find yourself really compressing the heck out of it, and you don’t even have to think about it, it’s completely natural.

That’s what the system’s going to give you, that’s what working through those drills is going to give you.

I know we can get a hit better today here, just from this one video, but if I want to hit it better for a lifetime, we have to make it completely natural. By building those drills on each other, that’s where that’s going to happen.

So best of luck, I can’t wait to see you in the Straight Line Release. Go on over there now after trying these drills we did here today, and you’re going to have a blast doing it.

You’re going to be able to step out of the car and that very first swing of the day is going to be compressed.

I can’t wait to work with you in the Straight Line Release, let’s go ahead and get started.