Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Best Drill to Get Ball First Contact Every Time"

Do you ever wonder why getting that divot just in front of the ball feels like solving a Rubik's cube?

If you’re struggling with this, it could be because when you shift your weight, you’re actually messing up your swing path…

…leading to inconsistent ball flight and chunks, among other things.

Today, I’ll show you a tweak to a popular drill you might have seen before…

…which’ll allow you to not only correct your swing path…

…but get that beautiful divot placement right in front of the ball.

This could be a game-changer for you!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:57

Video Transcription:

It is great to have you here today. I'm finally going to get to the bottom of two things that really make everyone's golf game a lot tougher than it has to be. Number one is getting that divot in front of the golf ball. Now, when we do this, where a lot of players struggle is when you get your weight more to your left so that you can hit that golf ball first every time and take that divot in front of the golf ball.

What happens naturally as, as you get more weight left, you tend to open the shoulders up and get this club steeper. and coming down a little bit more to the outside like that. So naturally, the more left I get, the more steep I'm going to get with the club, the more over the top. I'm typically going to have a little bit more of a fade bias.

Let me explain the reason to this. You see, as I get my weight to the left, let's say I went all the way to the left, I got 100% of my weight on my left foot. Notice how that naturally closes my shoulders. It'd actually be impossible for me to get all of my weight on my left and keep my shoulders very closed.

It's just really a stretch to make that happen. It's much more natural to let the shoulders open up as I get on my front foot, and that's going to get my path. Again, my club getting steep and this path going across the golf ball. Obviously, I'm really exaggerating there. That's happening to a small degree every time we get our weight more to the left.

Now, if I get my weight on the right, that's going to allow me to have my shoulders more closed. So, left, your shoulders naturally want to open. Right, your shoulders naturally want to close. Yeah, I can get that inside out path. I can get this club to shallow out from the inside, but that's going to bring my divot farther behind.

So the real trick in golf is how do I get this club to shallow out from the inside, but then also do the opposite of what it naturally wants to do, or what most people want to do when they're doing this. How do I get it from the inside, but get the divot in front of the golf ball? And that's the real secret here.

Now you've probably seen a drill that looks something like this. I set up to a golf ball. I hold my club out. And then from here, I can throw under this club and that gets me shallowed out from the inside. Now I love that drill, but there's a small variation that when you add it to this drill, it takes your low point from behind the golf ball to in front of the golf ball.

Let's go ahead and give it a try here. I want you to grab a few golf balls with your right hand. Grab a middle iron with your left hand. I'm gonna set up to this golf ball just like I would in a normal stance ball in the middle of my stance. And then from there, I'm going to go ahead and put this golf club in front of my left foot.

So if it was in line with my left foot, it would be here. And it's a little bit outside of the golf ball. So basically it's going to be here in line with my left foot and about four to five inches on this side of the golf ball. And that's going to feel like a real stretch. Now what you're going to notice when you do that is you're naturally going to close your shoulders a little bit to be able to get more from the inside and to throw that golf ball.

You're also going to notice, which is a great thing, that your right shoulder will naturally start to work under or tucked, which is big for coming from the inside, getting that inside out tight path. So again, I'm going to throw golf balls to the right. as though they're going to the right of my target.

And I can do about five or six of those. Now, another key here, when I'm doing this, I don't want to have my hips really closed also. It's really easy to cheat, get your hips closed and throw it over there. Well, that's great for this drill, but it doesn't translate to a golf swing. I want my hips to go ahead and open up, let those rotate toward the target as I'm going under this club.

And if I can do that, you'll notice my right heel. starts to come off the ground. Now I'm gonna do about five or six of those. And again, the problem is my divots going to be a little bit behind. So yes, you will get that path out to the right, but you might hit some chunk shots kind of like this. So that was a good swing.

Theoretically, a good swing. My path was nine degrees out to the right, which is a bit of an over exaggeration for this drill, but I hit about five or six inches behind the golf ball, which is obviously when I get out to turf. That's going to be a huge problem. Here's the small tweak you need to make to get this drill to work.

I want to take that same thing, same setup. Club, line with my left foot outside the ball. Now I'm really closed with my shoulders. I'm letting my weight open and my hips open. I'm getting from the inside. But I want to do a slight variation. Take your right foot and pull it back where it's almost in line with your left foot.

So basically what I'm doing here is I'm forcing myself to get almost all my weight on my left foot. And then from there, I'm going to go ahead and do the same drill again. So what's happening here is I'm getting used to throwing this golf ball to the inside while getting my weight to the left, which when I add a club to that is going to pull my divot in front of the golf ball.

So I'm just going to go ahead and pull this foot back, do the same drill. And now all of a sudden I can rotate my hips open, get that chucking it through there. I'm going to have that inside out path, that shallowed out swing, but it pulled my divot in front of the golf ball. So when I repeat that same feeling, so I'm going to do five or six of those, just like that.

And I'm going to set back up to the golf ball. I'm going to feel the same feelings that I had in my left leg at impact. And you're going to see that that's going to straighten this ball flight out. And it's also going to help me to get that divot in front. There we go. And I hit that one about as good as I can hit a golf shot, seven iron, one 88.

I'm going to have to do this drill every day, but that's going to really help you to finally get those two pieces together. Now there is one more piece of this I want you to add. And if you're a member of Top Speed Golf, click the instruction tab, Top Speed Golf system, the 20 minute shallowing fix. And the reason is a lot of times when players first do this drill, you get it shallowed out.

You get from the inside. You even get that divot in front. but you may be hanging balls out to the right meaning that they're starting to the right they want to draw back but they just kind of hang out there or worse than that they may even fade a little bit and the reason for this is you haven't been shown The right way to square up this face, like tour players are doing it.

And I'm going to teach you a way that is completely natural. I call it the natural wrist position. And once you figure this out, you're going to get every single one of those balls to draw back toward the target. So imagine how much better that feels when you know a shot is going to turn from right to left.

And you know that you can eliminate one side of the course. And you know that no matter how much pressure gets on you, You're going to be able to get that divot in front and get that ball turning the correct position. Makes it really difficult to hit it way offline. You see, the big misses only come from when you swing out to the right and the ball doesn't come back.

It stays out to the right or even fades. Well, that's not going to be good. Or that ball really snap hooks to the left. Well, I want to get rid of both of those. I want to get in the 20 minute shallowing fix. What I'm going to teach you to do is start every single shot to the right. and get it to draw back toward the target.

I actually guarantee you're going to hit some of the most solid shots of your life in just a single range session and shallow it out on every single swing. So if you haven't done that yet, and there's been thousands of players that have hope you're already one of them and having some great success, but if you haven't done it, don't miss out, head on over to the 20 minute showering fix right now.

And I'll see you there.