Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to Hit Your Irons Pure | Hockey Drill"

In today’s lesson…

…I’ll go over the 3 keys to making solid contact with your irons…

…including a unique “hockey” drill that’ll keep you in posture, so you can start puring your irons!

If you’re struggling with iron consistency, make sure you give these drills a try.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:59

Video Transcription:

All right. In your own soul, it can be really easy once you get a few basic motions. And really what is going to teach you to do is going to teach you to get power and an easy way to where you can go through that shot, get all this great extension like you see the great pros doing and make sure that you hit the ground in the exact same spot every single time.

I've got a few drills. You don't have to have this exact equipment, but just follow right along with me. And so to make a world of difference. So the first one is a hockey stick drill now shows you how much I play hockey. I ordered this off Amazon. It's actually a pretty cool stick carbon fiber and I'll be doing if it's not left handed.

I didn't even notice because that's how little I've ever played hockey. This by the second hockey stick I've ever held in my life. But you can do a cold drill. You do this with a broom, you do it with anything. Take a club. A longer item like this would be best, but I'm going to put this across my shoulders and when I'm going to work on is rotating my body through the shot.

So what I don't want to do is I don't want to stop my body and throw my hands and arms. So that's a kind of stand up flip. If you're losing your posture, this is what's happening. If you find yourself casting or flipping, this is what's happening. I want to go ahead and put something across my shoulders here, and I'm going to rotate my body through the shot to practice moving through that shot and staying in my posture.

Now, you'll see from this angle that I'm perfectly in my posture here, and I have to learn to use my feet to pivot. My feet have to actually move a little bit. Our shoulders have to move to be able to actually hit this golf ball when I'm doing that. So you don't actually have to hit a golf ball to hockey stick.

That's not the point. It's just getting your body to move that way. You can get the same kind of sensation putting a club across your shoulders. You just want to actually be able to hit the golf ball because it's not long enough. Maybe if you have a really long broom at work, so do some reps there and that's going to get you used to turning through the shot.

The cool thing about this is even if you're not flexible at all, you could be the tightest, least flex, flexible person in the world as long as you let your feet open up and pivot. It's very easy to make this happen. One mistake that players will do is they think they need to keep their lead foot square to the ball so if I have my toes pointing forward and I try to do what I just did there, it's absolutely impossible for me to get through that shot for me because I'm not super flexible.

I'm going to go ahead and turn this left foot out and I'm going to let that right foot come up off the ground. Just like in a good golf shot, that right foot comes all the way up. I do that slightly through impact now. If I can't reach the ball, how do I get a little bit more knee then?

And from there it's very easy. Again, I don't have to be flexible at all. Anybody can just rotate through this. If you're having trouble there, open the foot even more. There's actually every single PGA tour player does this in their real swing. Watch a driver swing, even the ones that start with their foot square as I rotate through the feet, open up like this and I'll finish in this kind of a position.

So get that move down. If you do that, you can stay in posture. You can hit through the shot you can get lag Shuffling and get all these great things that we want to have. Now, to build on that, I want to get you the feeling of compressing the golf ball and what I mean by that is if I'm going to hit this ball solid or in other words, if I want to stop chunking it, I'm a stop thinning it and I'm going to consistently hit the ground and the ball at the same time.

I need to get my hands in front. If my hands are behind the golf ball, I have to throw them. And it's a very inconsistent way to make contact you see if my hands are behind the golf ball. My low point is behind the golf ball in my arms. My hands and arms are going to throw in the clubs on a flip past.

And it's like there's a razor thin margin for error. If I'm a little bit too down, I chunk. If I'm a little bit too up, I thin the ball and it's an absolute nightmare for consistency. Now what you're going to see with every single PGA tour player and I can't reiterate that enough, every single great player, there's never been one now or throughout history that didn't have their hands in front of the golf ball at impact.

It's a universal thing. If you don't do that, it's impossible to play golf like you want to. Well, we need to learn to use the wrist in the proper way to make this happen. I want you to walk along here with me. What we're going to feel like is when you make your downswing, you're going to take the logo of your glove.

You're going to face the golf ball with it. So it's almost like if you're going take the logo off your glove and you're going to wipe it on the turf, I want to skin stay in my posture. I'm going to feel like my glove is just wiping on the ground like that. Obviously, it's not way too far away from that, but that's a sensation I want to have that keeps me away from this flipping type motion where now my gloves back out toward me.

Same thing with the palm, my right hand. I'm going to have it brushing the turf. I like to hit the grass with the right hand. Notice how when I do that, it's very easy for me to rotate my body on through those two motions that we're working on here, match up perfectly together, do a few more practice swings of that.

Now you get the feeling of having the shaft lean as you're coming through, contact it's a little bit exaggerated, but that's what you need. You need it to be exaggerated. So it actually happens. Now, finally, this is the move. It's going to make your swing pretty it's going to make you look good on the range. People are going to look over at you and they're going to wish they had a swing like you.

Once we get those two motions down now I need to rotate my body and extend and I really want to feel like my arms are reaching way wide through the shot. I like to feel like when you hear Lee Trevino talk about this all the time, he likes to feel like this ball sticks on the face and you extend all the way through there really long arms.

I don't want to fold up those arms quickly. Very inconsistent I want to get that pet the grass feeling and I want to keep it going down the target line all the way into my finish where my arms are really, really long. You want to feel like the ball sticks to your face, like you got to shake it off there.

It's stuck to the face for so long. So let's go and try that out. Then let my shoulders rotate. I'm going to pet the grass and then I'm really going to keep that ball on the face as long as I can. The feeling of that there we go. I love that one there. And if I ever hit one better than that.

So 203 yard carry with a six hour, 100 miles hour club at speed. And I felt smooth the whole time. I was letting my body action do the work for me rather than trying to hit at it, trying to flip at it with my hands and arms you'd be surprised how much easier it is now. What most players do is they actually square up the face by that flipping motion.

So again, I'm going to stand up, I'm going to flip all of a sudden my hands are behind the golf ball, but my clubface is square and you'll see that the face is straight up and down toward the target there. Now, what the pros are doing is actually this that's where their impact is. And then when they lean the shaft forward, now it's in a square position.

Now, I'll tell you, that is a completely counterintuitive move. I don't really know anybody that's figured that on they're out on their own unless they've played their lifetime growing up around great players in junior golf or great pros that they played with. And they learned at a young age everybody else has had to been taught this type of move.

Now, I'm going to walk you through exactly how to make that happen. And I call this the move to move course. You go to the instruction tab at the top speed golf website you go to the TSG system, you go to the move section there. What that is, the move is two pieces. I'm going to teach you this pro move to square up the face.

And I'm also going to teach you at the same time how to shallow out this club to get it on plain so that you can make a swing just like basically every pro that you see on TV, you get those two moves, right, or you get the move right. Those two things together, you can play some really good golf.

So our challenge is just a handful of videos that you follow along with and you're going to be hitting those nice draws you're going to be comprehensive. You're going to feel like golf is a lot easier. I challenge you to just do one video from that section today. Just go ahead and complete the drills that we did here.

Then head over to the move right now and just do one video from that series. And I promise you you're going to start having a whole heck of a lot more fun. You're going to start getting the contact that you deserve. Let's go and get started I'll see you on the move.