Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "My Best Slice Fix Ever | Box Drill"

If you know the pain of having to play a slice...

*the inconsistent contact (never hitting flush shots)

*losing tons of distance

*having to aim way left of your target

*the list goes on and on...

Then you're going to LOVE today's lesson...

I'll show you how a simple adjustment with your hips and the help of a cardboard box...

...can take that dreaded slice (and all the pains that go with it)...

...and turn it into a baby draw (and finally have that hope that better golf is right around the corner).

Your personal best rounds will be in danger every time out in the near future!

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 11:22

Video Transcription:

I've got an awesome video that's gonna help cure your slice. Now I got my son one of these little gator, uh, electric cars, and I had the box laying around after I was setting it up and I realized, man, this could be an awesome training aid. There's, it's a fantastic visual for what everybody's mistake is if you're having a little bit of a slice.

So if you start to come down steep or over the top, you're gonna wax so hard into this box and having this huge box in the way, just a, a visual. Object here. Makes it so much easier to visualize how I'm gonna come from the inside as I'm hitting this golf ball. So what I've done is I've set up a little, uh, little, you know, uh, blueprint for how you can recreate this exact same thing at your house.

If you have a big box like this, that's fantastic. If you don't have a big box, you can get away with putting a pool noodle where this line would be. This corner right here. Stick a lime, stick down the ground, put a pool, no noodle over it. It'll work exactly the same as this, just to get something soft that's not gonna hurt you or your club if you accidentally hit into it.

Now what I did is I took a piece of tape going down the target line from the corner of this box, and I went two grip widths forward, and that's how I got to the end of this blue tape. Now, from there, I'm gonna start out where I can fit an entire club head and a little extra, maybe a half inch. When I do the ball placement, and what I wanna do here is I'm gonna set the ball there and I have to figure out a way to come into and hit this golf ball fairly hard from the inside.

And if I do that, my club path is gonna be way inside out. So in order to make this happen, I have to get way from the inside here. As I open up, miss this box, I'm swinging out to the right and really releasing it. , my flight scope tends to show the golf ball taking off, but it's not. The numbers aren't quite right.

This box is messing it up, but let's go ahead and start one out. Now. Immediately, what I realize I have to do is as I bend forward, I have to get my body kind of tilted this way. So my hips are actually gonna go forward a little bit and they bump to where my belt buckle. Instead of being facing like this, my belt buckle's facing like that, it's facing back slightly.

So my hips are a little closed. My shoulders are gonna do the same thing. And that kind of clears a path to where I can swing back to the inside. Now I know it's not perfect that, you know, we normally wanna take the club back where it would hit this box. That's okay. This is an exaggeration. We'll gradually work off this as I'll go through here in a minute.

So my hips bump, my shoulders bump, and from there I'll notice how my right elbow is way lower than my left elbow. If I'm looking from down the line here, now I'm gonna start out hitting little 10 and 15 foot, just little chips pitches. Some of these may register, some of 'em may not. Don't worry about any of this stuff with the the flight scope radar right now.

But I'm just gonna put that golf ball a little more than a clubhead with. And I also notice that I have to get my weight shifting to the left, which means that my divot is gonna be in front of this golf ball. Now this is big if you tend to come over the top. Most of the time your weight is shifting onto this right foot in the downswing and hitting that box.

I have to get my weight shift to the left because you'll notice when my weight is to my right. Look how the distance between me and this box is much. When my weight is shifted to the left, now I've got more space. There's a lot more room here between my body and the box, and that clears out more room in here for me to swing from the inside.

So if you're not able to swing from the inside, it could be your weight shift just as much as it is you being steep or over the top. So let's go ahead and get my weight a little bit more left. I feel like I create, when I start my weight shift to start my downswing. So let's say I'm. I feel like I'm getting farther from this box as I'm doing that to create some more room.

So I'm gonna go really slow. Notice how I do that. So I'm going back, I'm creating more room, and then I'm swinging out to the right big time again. We would be hitting these shots 20 or 30 degrees to the right for now, just because our swing path is so far in that direction now as we get a few more reps of this, and you can consistently hit the ball over in that direct.

Now we need to close the face. So I've angled my body and my hips, I've tucked my elbow, and I've got my weight shift to the left. So I've got all this room in here. Now I don't want to just block shots off to the right. I'm gonna go ahead and release the club face. So instead of holding it open like this to where the club face is just going open the whole way, I'm gonna release the club face on over to where now my grooves in my club.

This is a sandwich. We're pointing straight down to the ground. So let's do a few more practice swings where you can see it from this camera. Little bit of tilt inside, right arm under. And then from there I'm gonna release my forearms until they actually touch each other. And now the club face is pointing down to the ground.

So this would be a good way here, big inside out path club face touching, or the club face pointing to the ground. This would be the wrong. Getting an inside out path and the club face pointing up toward the sky. So we're taking it from here, we're rolling it all the way over to there. That's gonna get that club face to release.

And now we can hit a draw as we're doing that. Now, you'll notice that when I'm swinging to the right, my club face isn't gonna be pointing toward the target. It's gonna be pointing over here somewhere. You may not even be able to see that with this box. It's gonna be pointing toward the kind of corner of that simulator.

That's completely fine. That's what you want. You want those arms kind of flying away from. Rather than getting that chicken wing type action, so I'm releasing it on out to the right and I get used to letting the hand turn on over. I don't wanna feel like I'm guiding the face at all. I'm going ahead and letting it release as I do that.

So I'm gonna keep on doing these little 10, 15 yard shots and I'm gonna keep working on closing that face more and more. Is there some sir talking to me? I'm gonna close that face more and more until this golf ball starts hitting. what would be straight ahead. So if you see this stripe here, I'm gonna swing out to the right like I have been, but I'm gonna close the face enough to where this club and the ball start hitting this stripe.

So lemme show you what I mean. If I release this enough, no matter how far from the inside I come, if that face closes down, that ball's gonna hit that middle stripe. So let's try that out here for a second. So swing way to the right there, I even got it to go left to the. That's a great exaggeration. So number one, swing right?

Number two, get that face to release until you start seeing shots like this. They start left and they go even farther left with this box in the way. You can't cheat this drill as long as you set up the ball where you're supposed to. This is gonna be the perfect little drill for you. So I'm gonna do a few more of these and I'm really turning that club face on.

There we go. Perfect one. Now again, my, my radar isn't reading this right? That would've been a huge snap hook. Let me go ahead and move this box so my radar can read it now. And I'm gonna take a normal iron, maybe like a six iron, seven iron, somewhere around in there. And I'm gonna hit the exact same shot that we've been working on.

And you're gonna see this is gonna be a huge snap. So let's go ahead and try it out. So tilt my body arm under and I'm just gonna release the heck out of it. There we go. That thing's really curving like that. That's exactly what you want. That is perfect. Hit about 10 or 15 of those and now we're start to, we're ready to start toning this down into being a baby draw.

Here's how you do that. Let's get the box back again. Let's go back to our wedge and let's figure out how to hit a perfectly straight. So instead of taking this golf ball now and having it more than a club head width outside of this blue line, I'm gradually gonna start getting it more and more and more closer to that blue line until I'm about right here.

And that's about where you want your actual swing to be. So if I can miss this box in. And come and hit that golf ball. That's gonna be a pretty daggon dead straight shot. Let's try that out. I may have my line, my radar lined up a little bit longer. It may be reading it cuz wrong cuz of the box. That one should be pretty straight.

Let me try to move this box so it'll read it a little better. So it sends out little radar ways and they don't shoot through that box. Great. But as soon as I get this ball position here and I do, what would be missing that box. You can see that's a pretty daggon. Nice straight shot, nice little tight draw to it.

And as I get more and more comfortable with that, then I just have to go to gradually longer and longer clubs Fuller and Fuller swings. But I get the feel first with the box and then I recreate that with a more full swing. So let's go ahead and try six iron out here.

They just overdrawing that one of hair, but that's fantastic. After working on those draws, you may even have a few that overdraw on you, but you feel like turnover a little bit too much. You can back off of it just a little bit more. I find it's easy for players to straighten it out just by feeling like they hit a little bit of a straighter shot or even a.

and they get rid of those draws. The biggest problem for players that tend to slice, if you struggle with it for a long time is never having the feeling of really getting it inside and releasing, and this box forces that. Now, there is one place I would take it from here. This is the starting block. So what we're doing here is we're forcing, we have to get that club from the inside and we have to release it with this box here.

I guarantee you'll start swinging out to the. Now the next piece of that is, how am I gonna square up the face? Now most people have been to told to roll the forearms over each other. It's actually a little bit different. I teach you the right way and what I call the tennis racket drill, which is a video in the move course.

So the move course builds on this and shows you how to square the club, face up the right way, how to compress the ball, and how to really feel like that draw these shots that we're seeing here that always turn over. Right. Become so instinctual that you don't even have to try to do it. So I wanna challenge you right now after you watch this video here in one second, go to the instruction tab.

If you're a member, top speed golf, click on the top speed golf system, and then the move course. And then I want you to just do one video from that move course. This one is gonna really change your game a lot. If we can pair that up with what we did here. We're really gonna bring it home because we're gonna learn how to square up this face.

We're already coming from the inside now, and it's just gonna become fun to play golf. You're gonna love it because all the shots are gonna feel pretty daggon solid when you do this move that I'm talking about. All the balls are gonna go a little farther when you do the move. So this is piece one.

Completing the the move course is piece two. It's a lot of fun cuz you're gonna start hitting the golf ball better from day one and then it's just a handful of drills. Where you really bring it home and it feels like it's totally natural to you. So best of luck. Head on over to the Move now. Start video 1.1.

I can't wait to see you there.