Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Perfect Setup To Hit a Draw | Why Setting Up 'Square' Isn't Actually Square"

And everyone wants to hit that elusive draw…

But did you know it could be your setup that’s keeping you from doing it?

I’ll fix that for you today.

This could be the missing link to unlocking your full potential on the fairway.

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:17

Video Transcription:

What if I told you that the correct way to address the ball, to hit that nice tight draw, like the pros consistent divots, consistent contact, isn't to set up square to the club like this or square to the ball with it in front of you, but it's actually to set up over here, almost 15 degrees to your right.

Now, in addition to that, we're going to work on this draw by using the correct grip. Now, most likely you've been told to use a grip that's neutral and unless you're a super flexible. So, uh, freak of nature athlete, you don't need to be using that grip. We want to get the impact grip and not the setup grip.

Once you find that you're going to know how to perfectly set up to the golf ball. And then finally, I'm going to give you one last trick on the angle of the shaft. And there's a correct angle here at address is going to help us to promote those draws also. All right. So let's jump into the first piece there.

Now, most of the time we've been told to set up the golf balls in front of us. We simply take our grip. The leading edge is straight up and down. We address the golf ball, and this looks like a pretty good posture. Well, the problem with this is our right hand is not beside our left hand on the grip. So if my right hand and left hand were beside each other, my knees would be square, my hips would be square, my shoulders would be square, my palms and my forearms would all be square to the target if I'm using this straight in front of you setup position with everything aligned to the target.

Unfortunately, the right hand is farther down the shaft. And you'll notice as I move this right hand, I'm exaggerating here so you can see it. As I move this right hand further down the shaft, that's going to kick the entire right side of my body farther this way. Now I'm really exaggerating there so you can see it from this down the line perspective.

But look how the right knee, right hip, right shoulder, right forearm, everything goes further and further down. So if I was to simply separate my grip by say, Having the hands right down here. Well, you could see how open I would be. That's happening to a small degree as your right hand just goes down another five or six inches.

to be below the left hand on the grip. So if I set up square, I slide my right hand slightly down, what would be a normal golf grip. And I feel like I'm square. Notice how my forearms are actually pointed to the left over here. Notice how my knees are actually slightly to the left, my hips and my right shoulder has started to kick out.

That's going to promote a steeper downswing and a more over the top motion, which you can overcome that. But you're going to have to fight it. You're really going to have to fight to feel like you get from the inside. Now, here's a solution to that. Go ahead and take your normal grip, this standard square setup.

I'm going to put the ball in the middle of my stance. And then from here, I'm simply going to rotate my entire body. So I'm going to keep my elbows attached to my ribcage, the side of my body. And I'm going to rotate my entire body. Knees, hips, shoulders, arms, club, everything. About 15 degrees to the right.

Now from there, I'm going to go ahead and bend down until my club would be on the ground. My hips are a little forward. You'll see how that puts my upper body a little bit back. You'll notice how pros do that all the time. You'll hear me talk about how that's one of the five real fundamentals of golf is getting that spine slightly tilted away.

But as I do that, that gets me tilted into position over here to the right. And if all I do from there is go ahead and set the club. back up to the golf ball. Now look how knees, hips, shoulders, forearms, everything is nice and lined up toward the target when you're looking from that down the line view. So it's that little tilt to the right that squares everything back up in the golf swing.

So that's how I want to set up if I'm going to be nice and powerful. It also allows me to get behind the golf ball so that I can come from the inside, have that great angle of lag. Like we always talk about now, the second piece here is that does us no good. If we go down to contact and the face is wide open.

We did a giant slice. So what I want you to do here is instead of taking your grip based on where you're at at address, this is nothing like you're at when you're at impact. So at impact, my weight's going to be more left. My hips are going to be open and my hands are going to be in front of the golf ball at impact.

Now, when you do these motions, open the hips, put the hands in front that typically opens the face. I got to square that back up. So I want to go ahead, bump a little bit forward, open up to where I'd be at impact. Then I want to take the leading edge of the bottom edge of this club and square it back up to the target.

So I don't want the face to be open like this. I want to get it square. And then from there, I'm going to re grip the club to whatever feels natural. It feels natural to you to be way over to the right, get to the right. It feels natural to you to be more to the left, whatever feels comfortable where you'll be at impact.

That's where I want to train in my grip. Then I'm going to keep my hands on the club where they feel comfortable, and I'm going to go back to my address position. Again, that's my new grip. This is the one that's going to help me to square the club at impact, which is the only part that matters. And then I just go through the same thing again.

Go to the right, bend down, put the club behind the ball. All right, now I'm in a great athletic setup. Looks like I'm about to hit the ball pretty daggone hard. All right, now the last piece here, if we're going to promote this draw, again, These are all draw promoting tilting it to the right got that path of the inside that's draw promoting That's what this motion did if we're fading it and this is actually what we should be doing Getting an impact getting the face open that's going to promote a fade We reorganized our grip to square the face and get a nice tight straight shot dead straight to a nice little draw.

Then finally, we're going to look at the shaft angle this way or this way. Now, when I set up, I see a lot of players tend to get the club really high like this. So their setup looks something like this. Well, that gets the toe of the club more down to the ground and the shaft angle, a little bit more vertical.

I can actually grab a little club face alignment tool here and I'll show you exactly what I'm talking about. So here, this is on the club face. As I start to get the shaft more vertical, even if I keep the leading edge in the same spot, as I get the shaft more vertical, look how the face is now pointing out to the right.

If I get the shaft lower, the face is pointing more to the left. So, a lot of people set up with that face more vertical, this direction, without even knowing it, and then again, fighting to get that draw. It's not that you can't draw it from there, it's that you have to work to be able to get that ball to draw.

So, let's go through the progression again. I'm going to go to impact, square up the face, hands in front, and I'm going to take whatever grip feels really comfortable for the only part that matters, which is hitting the ball solid at impact. I'm going to redo my normal setup. Set in front of me. Tilt over to the right, 15 degrees.

Everything moves over there. As I bend down and put the club back to the ball, you'll notice how now forearms, knees, everything is lined up. And then finally, I'm going to set the shaft a little bit lower to allow me to hit that nice little draw. Now, if I've done this correctly, I'm going to hit a little draw here.

If I hit a fade here, it's not going to look very good. I'm going to look like I don't know what I'm talking about. So let's see if I can live up to the pressure here a little bit.

There we go. That was nice and solid. And that's exactly what I was hoping to see there. If you look at the black tracer, the gray tracer on the ground, you can see that ball drew just about three or four yards, which is perfect. One thing I want to be clear on here, a draw doesn't mean it's swinging 20 yards.

A draw can be a few feet, and if you look at the PGA Tour players, When you go to a tour event, if you're lucky enough to do so, you'll notice that that ball is just barely turning over. That's the kind of ball flight that I want you to have. Now, there's one thing that makes this a whole heck of a lot easier.

So we talked about this great setup. That's naturally going to put us in what I call the stable fluid spine. So if you're a member of Top Speed Golf, you know exactly what the stable fluid spine is. You know that I'm tilted away from the target like that. And the reason that we're doing this is we have to shallow out the club.

So in the downswing, we've got to get this club shaft, instead of it being steep this way, you've got to shallow it out from the inside. That's going to allow you to create lag, that's going to allow you to hit that nice little draw like we talked about here today. But if you don't get that right, man, we're just, doesn't matter what your setup's like, doesn't matter what anything else is like, you're really just not going to hit it very well.

Now, the setup video that I gave you today, sets you up in a way that you can shallow out the club easier. Like I said, you're not going to have to fight these. right side of the body on top. It's a lot easier like this, but let me bring it on the rest of the way home. So if you remember top speed golf, go to the instruction tab, click on the 20 minute shallowing fix.

And in a single range session, I'm going to guarantee you that you'll shallow it on every single swing. And you'll be able to hit some of the most solid shots of your life. And it's perfect compliment to what we did here today. See, I got you in the right setup to get that shallowing and that lag. Let's go ahead and bring it the rest of the way home by going through those drills in the 20 minute shallowing fix.

Like I said, it's only one range session. Thousands of thousands of people have commented how much it's helped their game. I want you to be the next one. If you have not yet done that course, you don't want to miss out on it. If it's only course you do, this is the one that you're going to want to want to make sure that you don't miss.

So head on over to the 20 minute shine fix right now, let's go and get started.