Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Slicers MUST Watch This Video! | Logo Over Toes Drill"

In today’s lesson…

…you’ll discover how to use Top Speed Golf instructor Quentin Patterson’s “logo over the toes” drill…

…so you can finally turn that nasty slice into a beautiful baby draw!

Give it a try and send me an email when you get a chance to give it a try!

To Nice Baby Draws,

Clay Ballard

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 6:20

Video Transcription:

It's nearly impossible to stop slicing the ball if you don't get the swing started correctly. I have a great and simple drill for that's going to make it very easy to get rid of these two issues that I see. So let's talk about those issues first. Number one is I see a lot of people bringing the hands very much to the inside on the backswing.

Now, I suppose the reason why a lot of people do that is because they feel like, well, if I bring the club way inside on the backswing, I can bring back the same way in the downswing. But that's not usually what happens. The reason for that is that when we bring the hands really far to the inside, in the backswing, our arm really gets pinned to our chest.

And when we start to open up in the start of the downswing, our body, our body opening up forces our hands in the club to come over the top. And as we all know, if you come over the top and you cut across the ball, you're typically going to hit a slice. If you have the face open, the other face closed, you're going to hit a big pull to the left for a right handed golfer.

So what we want to do is actually create space between our chest and our arm here so that way we can keep our hands in our club back here as we turn into our chest and we're able to get that club shallowing out. So that's the first thing that I see. The second thing that I see and sometimes these two are combined together.

The second thing is the rolling of the face open. So the face gets very, very open as we bring this club up to the top. And it just makes it very, very hard to recover from that open face. And people will tend to instinctually swing over the top to compensate for that. And that gets the path going to the left with an open face.

There's your weak slice again. So if we want to start hitting some stronger draws that go farther and are much more controllable, what we want to do is we want to get that face a little bit more close in the back swing. So when we're rolling the face open what's happening is our arms, our lead arm here is rotating inward like this.

And a lot of times our wrist is cupping like that. So you can see if I really rotate my forearm and I cut my wrist. If I do that to the extreme here, you can see how that face is very, very open there. Just makes it really difficult to get that face back. Back close. There's just so much that has to happen in such a short amount of time that you're just going to tend to swing over the top and hit that big slice.

So this great drill really makes it easy to accomplish both of those things really with one thought. And I really like drills like that. They kind of kill two birds with one stone. So I call this the logo over the toes drill. And what we want to do is when we bring this club to first parallel, we want to have this logo of the glove pointing out over the toes I don't want to see the logo of the glove.

And if I don't see the logo of the glove, that means that I'm rotating my forearm. Right. If I just rotate my forearm like that and point my elbow kind of down toward the ground, you can see how that gets the emblem to where I can't see it. And that gets the clubface very close. What I can also do in combination of that is bow my wrist.

So if I just have it like this and I bow my wrist now, I can't see the logo of my glove, and you can see how close that face is. And when I bring it back like that, we don't need to have it that close. But it's really good to go kind of extreme in the beginning. Hit some big snap hooks in the beginning with that face really closed, and then you'll start to be able to get that path going from in to out and starting.

some really powerful draw. So in the initial stages here, I actually want you to start hitting some big snap hooks to really get the feel for this. So get that really angled down and get the logo is not only to where you can't see it, but I also want that logo kind of out over the toes here.

And what that allows you to do is allows you to create that space between your chest and your arm. So that way, when we get up to the top here, now I can turn into my chest or I can turn into my arm with my chest. Now I can rotate in the downswing and still have that club behind me shallowing out and be able to hit a nice, beautiful draw.

So again, we're going to go right here. We're going to pause. We don't want to see the logo on the of the glove. We want that logo of the glove pointing straight down over the toes. We're going to go up to the top and then swing through and to the full finish. I really want you to imagine when you're doing these practice swings that you're seeing this ball start to the right and slinging from right to left for right handed golfer.

Obviously be different for opposite for a left handed golfer. But that's why I want you to imagine when you're doing this. All right. So do some more pausing ones up to the top. Really swing out to the right feeling like that Clubface is very close as you're coming through impact as you get more comfortable with that I want you to inch this more toward a fluid swing.

So there's no pause right here. Halfway back, I want you to go really nice and slow and fluid. So if I did that, that would look something like this where I'm really feeling nice and slow and fluid now, feeling that club swing from the inside with a very close face again, imagining that ball almost like the imagine the ball was a beach ball and it had all those sections on it.

There were different colors that you would see those sections spinning like draw, spin in the air. That's what I want you to imagine is happening as you're hitting this ball. You're just spinning that ball from right to left in the air as you get more comfortable with that, I want you to ease it up to faster and faster and faster swings and then work toward hitting a golf ball.

So this is going to allow you in the takeaway to get the club in a really great position at the top of the swing. That's going to allow you to swing it from the inside and be able to get that Clubface Square and be able to get some really good compression on the ball with a nice, powerful draw.

All right. So after you've worked on this drill and you've gotten the takeaway going back correctly, you've got that face more square, even close coming back and you've got space to be able to turn into your chest and the start of the downswing. The next place I want you to go is the move. The move is what we're doing to start the downswing and come in impact to get that club shallowing out, getting that face square so that we can hit these really powerful draw shots, specifically the tennis racket draw.

If we can do this first part boy, that makes that tennis racket drill in the start of the downswing so much easier. So 1.3 is a tennis racket drill from the move course. Go there now. Start working through the move course along with the drill here to get you started. You're starting hitting some powerful draw soon. Play well and I'll talk to you soon.