Why You Need This: In this video, you’ll learn a perfect golf strike drill to help you eliminate chunking the ball.

Are you sick and tired of chunking the ball?

Do you always hate hitting behind the ball and watching massive divots fly almost as far as your ball?

Well, eliminating your chunked shots is easier than you think.

In this video, you’ll discover a great drill to start making better, more solid contact.

And all you need is two tees!

As you’ll see in the video, there are several checkpoints for this drill and the goal is for you to come into the hitting zone with a shallower club path.

Here’s what you’ll get with this drill:

• hit with more forward shaft lean
• compress the heck out of the ball
• finish with a full extension

Watch this video now to stop chunking the ball and hit dead solid shots!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:18

Video Transcription:

All right guys, if you’re sick and tired of chunking the ball, you’re constantly hitting behind the ball, laying the sod over. It’s so frustrating. I’ve got a great drill for you that’s really going to help you to ingrain this.

First off, let’s start out by grabbing some golf tees, and what I’m going to do is I’m going to set up the golf ball that I’m going to hit on the ground. Let’s say it’s going to be right here. I’m going to set a tee about five or six inches in front of that golf ball, and really low and close to the ground.

So I’m really going to have to come through, make contact with my golf ball here, and then keep that nice shallow angle of attack, that shallow divot coming through the ball, and my club is going to cut through the turf and clip that tee. I should at least barely touch that tee if not knock it completely out of the ground.

So you’re going to tee this one up to where you’re starting out about a half inch, and then you can go down to about a quarter inch after that.

In a perfect world, if we’re going to really make clean contact, we’re going to come down, hit that golf ball, and our club is going to continue down into the turf on a very shallow angle.

Imagine the leading edge of your club is kind of like a razor blade, and we’re going to slice the top layer of turf off without getting really deep into the ground.

So a lot of times what I see people do is the want to hit down in front of the golf ball, and bam, I start hitting down even harder into the ground which can make me inconsistent if I’m not catching the ball perfectly. This should be nice and shallow.

There’s a couple things I’m going to walk you through that are going to help you to get this shallow angle, and also to get the forward shaft lean.

So as I’m coming in to the ball, the only way I’m going to be able to take that divot in front of the golf ball is if I have my forward shaft lean, meaning the hands are in front of the club head through contact. I’m going to lead you through a couple drills that are going to help with this.

Number one, I need to feel like I’m coming shallow into the ball in general. Let’s go ahead and take this out of the frame and let’s imagine I’m going to go this way.

If I’m coming down over the top, meaning my club’s coming kind of right to left across the ball, this is going to be very steep. I’m going to have a tendency to hit down behind the ball.

I want to have my club coming down to where my club, if we’re looking at a video from down the line, my club should be coming kind of right down my forearm, if you look at that on camera. So it’s traveling down my forearm.

At the same time, I’m letting my left wrist start to bow out a little bit. If you had a wrist watch, it would be going out this way, there’s that bowing, you can see that starting to close my club face a little bit.

If I had the logo of my glove, I want to imagine that I’m turning it down toward the ground. So my club is coming in pretty nice and shallow with the turf slightly from the inside, if you can call it that.

My wrists at this time are bowing to make sure that I’m closing that club face, I’m going to be able to square up the club face at that point to come in nice and shallow as I’m coming through the shot.

So number one, make sure we’re coming in shallow, I don’t want to be coming in steep like this. Nice and shallow. Number two, I’m bowing my left wrist to be able to compress that golf ball and hit it nice, and crisp, and clean.

Number two, I’m going to make sure that I’m coming through the shot with that bowed wrist still intact. So now I’m coming down nice and shallow, I want to pause at impact here. My hips are going to go ahead and open up about 45°.

I want to make sure that my wrist still bowed out in front slightly, and that I’m taking loft off the club. So now you can see the butt end of the club is a good six or eight inches in front of the head of the club.

Then finally to make sure that we actually reach that tee, now we’re going to let this wrist go ahead and go back to neutral.

So here’s the bowed position, there’s neutral, and now I’m in my straight line release, meaning that my club’s about 45° in front and this club shaft is now splitting my forearms and I’ve released that club.

That’s what allows it to come down and through, and it to really extend through the ball nice and shallow.

Let’s go ahead and try a couple practice swings, where I’ll just practice clipping the turf, and then hitting that tee out in front. Again, nice and shallow, wrist is bowing.

Number two, hips are open, forward shaft lean. Then number three, I’ve released the club. Good straight arms, I’m in my straight line release position like we talk about on the website, and I’ve really extended out so I’d be clipping that tee.

Again, I’m going to set that tee in the ground. Imagine my golf ball here, do those check points. You can see that I’m clipping that tee every time, so I know I’m doing great. Once we’ve done that about 20 or 30 times and we really feel good with it, now we can set this golf ball up.

We’re starting out we’ll get about a half inch off the ground with that tee. As we get a little more advanced we may get a quarter inch off the ground.

I’m really going to have to extend through there – let me go here so I’ll be lined up with the camera, I’m really going to have to extend through there to reach that tee and clip it out of the ground. Let’s go ahead and give it a shot.

There we go, nice, solid shot, got the tee. You can see it sitting up about an inch and a half of the ground now, meaning that I came down and through that shot. Sometimes it’ll pop out of the ground, sometimes they won’t.

But I recommend also when I’m doing this drill I get these good plastic tees, that way you can hit them 40 or 50 times before they break. That’s going to help you to not run through and break 100 tees when you’re practicing, gets a little bit expensive doing that.

So good luck to you guys, work hard on those drills. Follow those check points, you guys will be compressing that golf ball like never before.