Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "I Promise You'll BREAK 90 Using These Simple Golf Tips!"

In today's lesson, I'm going to show you how I used the "Ladder Drill" when I first started playing golf (and was shooting in the 90's or higher)...

...to start consistently shooting in the 70's!

All you'll need is a straight line, the proper weight shift focus and a little imagination and you'll be well on your way to kissing those 90+ scores goodbye for good!

Don't miss out on this opportunity to improve your game.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:24

Video Transcription:

All right. This drill works. This is how I, uh, basically broke through and started playing some really great golf and went for shooting in the nineties and the hundreds when I was first starting to play a ton to getting down in the seventies. Even in a consistent basis, this is almost exactly what I did.
I'm gonna lead you through all the feels that I had and how I set up the drills to do that so that you can repeat the exact same thing and get amazing results too. So what I want you to do is go in a driving range and we're gonna imagine what I actually did is I went in my back. And my parents had a mower that was probably about as wide as this mat.
It was about a four five foot wide mower. Doesn't matter the exact width. But what I did is I took uh, one strip of that and I mowed a perfectly straight line. We grew up on a farm, so I just kind of scalped it down. I'm sure they didn't like that, but I just mowed it down to where the grass was super low, almost like dirt even, and it had a stripe that went about 60 or 70 yards.
We can do the same thing on the driving range. So imagine that this center line here is that stripe, and I want all my. To be within that one little track and you say, well, clay, if I could hit it within that track, why in the heck would I need you? I wouldn't even be here on this video. I'd be on the PJ tour.
Well, that is true, but what I want you to do is start on what I call a ladder drill so everybody can imagine. If you imagine this track going out in the distance, everybody can hit one dead straight from here to there. I don't know anybody that's been playing golf more than a couple weeks that can't hit one.
Some distance, five feet, 10. 30 yards, whatever it is for where you're at right now to get it to line in that track, land in that track. What I want you to do from there is as soon as you hit one in the track, we're immediately gonna go a little bit farther and a little bit farther. Now, a big key for this and what I learned as I did this drill, a lot of it is about weight shift, and a lot of it is about getting through the shot, feeling like you extend your arms.
Almost like the, the ball is stuck on the face and you extend your arms, like your arms are going down. That same little striper, that same little track. What I don't want to do is stop my body and have my hands do this and fold up like the chicken wing that comes from me locking my hips and locking my shoulders.
What I want to do is I wanna keep everything rotating and that way I can extend everything on out. If we don't get that piece right, this is gonna be pretty daggon. So I'm gonna try here. I'll go ahead and hit a little, takes about a 30 yard shot for this machine to register. The way I have it set up right now, I'm gonna try to get it right on that line.
There we go. It's the hair left. And what I actually do if I go to the range now and do this drill, is I'll pick something in the distance that is about that width, really skinny, and I can see if my ball lands left of that little tree branch or twig or whatever it is in the distance. A blade of. A flagstick, whatever you wanna pick, then I know 'em with intolerance.
If it's outside of that, I know 'em with outside of the tolerance. So I'm gonna try to get a little bit closer, 46 yards carry, and I would just stay here at around that 46 yards carry until I can get the feel of hitting it right on that line. Maybe a little straighter on that one. So just overdrawing them a little bit and that's completely normal.
A lot of times you can just do a simple adjustment of your. and all of a sudden you're start hitting a little straighter. There we go. That's gonna be right on it. So now doesn't matter the exact yardage, if that was 20 yards, 40, 60, whatever it is, as soon as I hit that line, I'm gonna go a little farther.
If I miss three or four or five in a row, I start to shorten it back up. If I make two in a row, then I start to lengthen it back. So don't get caught up in the numbers. Everybody wants to. , uh, you know, do I move on after one good one or two good ones or whatever? Doesn't matter. What it really is saying is if it gets hard to be straight, make it shorter.
If you can hit it straight enough, then make it a little bit longer and you're gradually just chip away at it. So I actually go back to even a little shorter one here. Now, the second thing that I realized is if I get the club here, impossible to hit straight. I have to get the club here. And what I mean by this is when your club comes.
To the last parallel in the downswing that it needs to be inside the target line. So if you imagine if this is toward my target, straight ahead toward the target, my club has to be inside of that. So if this is my target line last time, the club is parallel to the ground, this is pointing dead toward the target.
I need that club shaft inside of that, and all great players are gonna do that. If I don't get this club inside, I'm never gonna be able to make it be to go straight. The reason for that is when I get the club inside, I'm gonna exaggerate. I could just grab this club with two fingers and rotate through.
The club automatically gets slung out with momentum and hits the golf ball. If I get the club out here at all and I rotate through, the club doesn't get slung out, it actually goes back in. The momentum of the club is working the wrong way, so I have to get the club a little bit inside if I wanna be consistent.
So I'm gonna try it again. Nice little short, easy swing. Really extend, get the club from the inside. There you go. Another good one, right on the money there. So just a little bit shorter distance. And I felt like from there, All I, all I felt, uh, focused on was having the club come from in here and then as I rotated open, it almost slung it felt like, to me, it slung out to the right.
You can also focus on feeling like the club extends. If you get too far over the top, it's gonna go here with your hands, your hands start to go to the left. I can feel like my club goes from the inside and then my hands, when they extend out, like I talked about, they go a little bit more out to the. , and that really helps.
Now as we start to get a little bit farther and farther, here's the last piece that really glued it all together for me in this ladder drill. When I finished my swing, it was always longer than my backswing. So if I took my hands back to say, nine o'clock or my, if this was a clock, 12, 3, 6, 9, this wheel, if I took my hands back to nine o'clock, they would always swing.
Three o'clock in the finish, and I did this drill to where I actually ingrained every single swing. I didn't care if I took it back to here, here, or here. I would always swing through and split my ears with this club shaft. So as I came through to my finish, I would finish perfectly balanced with that club splitting my ears.
Now I'm gonna admit it looks a little bit goofy. It looks like you're posing for the shot, but what it forces you to do is to learn how to have balance. Through this golf shot. So if I can bring it back to, say, somewhere around nine o'clock and finish in that same position every single time, I know my balance is pretty daggon good, and if I can hold it there, then I know that my weight shift and my tempo and all that was pretty daggon solid too.
So the key to that for me was once I got to here, I felt like I, I did a little weight shift, then I swung. , I don't wanna swing and then have my weight shift through. I put a little pressure in my left leg, then I make my down swing. So it's almost like I'm doing a little step then swinging down. So I step press my foot in the ground, then I swing all the way down.
That's exactly what I felt like every single time. And as long as I got my body rotating through the shot and I finished with that club between my ears, what's that? I knew it was gonna be pretty daggon. and if my balance was good when I'm doing that too, I knew I was gonna hit it really, really well. So I tried to, in my finish, feel like when I ended up here, I didn't have to move and adjust.
I felt like when I swung to my finish, I had it between my ears and it was perfectly still until that ball landed and hit the ground. Now there's one more piece that took me years to figure. It really cinched all this in for me. Got me hitting amazing, much better than I had before. When I get my club inside, I have to square up the club differently than what I was taught to get the, the de lofting and the shaft lane that I wanted.
So if I'm here, so even if my club is inside it, I'm here. It's not gonna be that solid of a shot. If I'm here, it's gonna be a really solid. This is what I call the tennis racket drill, what later became the tennis racket drill, and it's helped a ton of players to hit the ball really dag on solid. So if you're a member of Top Speed Golf, go to the instruction tab, top Speed golf system, then go to the move section and video 1.3.
Don't miss that one. , that's the tennis racket drill. In that section, I'm basically gonna teach you a similar drill to what we did here today, but with a little twist on how to properly use the wrist. You don't wanna miss that one. That one's a very critical one. If you wanna play some great golf, so head over there right now as you finish this video, go to section 1.3 in the move, and I can't wait to see you there.