Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The One Thing That Makes Hitting Your Hybrid Easy"

In today's lesson...

I'll show you the ONE key move that makes a huge difference in whether or not you hit your hybrids solid.

And then I'll show you why your lead leg could be keeping every hybrid tip or trick you've ever seen from working.

You'll be amazed at how much easier it will be to hit your hybrids after this.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:11

Video Transcription:

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Alright, I've got an awesome video on how to really hit your hybrid solid. There's one key move that makes all the difference in the world, but I was online recently and I happened to check out a lot of different videos on how to hit your hybrids, and most of 'em talk about how to stop thinning and chunking those hybrids.

And if you wanna watch a hundred videos, then feel free to be my guess. But if you don't feel like doing that, I'm gonna cut to the chase here and tell you exactly what most of those said. Now, pretty much every one of those videos said that people are having their low point, too far behind the golf. And then the club comes up into the golf ball, which causes you to thin it.

They solve this by putting the ball back in the stance. So a lot of people will play their hybrid up here by their three wood or driver position to feel like they need to lift it in the air. So we're gonna play it more like an iron in the middle of the stance. And I agree with this too, because we're gonna hit down into hybrids just like we would with irons, play 'em just like we would an iron.

It's really designed to be, uh, the same design as an iron just with a woodhead. And now that's gonna allow you to hit down and through this golf ball and get the divot out in front. Um, getting your weight a little bit more to your left side is also gonna help with that. And that's mostly what these videos we're talking about now.

That's all well and good. I've even brought up those points many times. But there's one thing that if you don't fix this, all that's gonna go out the window, no matter how hard you try, it just won't work. And that is your left leg in particular. What's happening, what's causing you to hit behind it is the lower body or the left leg in particular, is pushing into the ground and pushing your upper body back this way.

And then we stand up out of our posture and we kind of throw the arms and all of a sudden the low point is here. We can barely even reach the ball and we get that top. Or because our low point is too far back, maybe we get tired of topping it. We try to hit down a little bit more, but now we're hitting five or six strings behind.

Because that's the low point of our swing. So if you kind of imagine the golf swing is a pendulum, the bottom of that would be the bottom of the divot. And when I push this left leg and it makes my upper body go back, the bottom of that pendulum is behind the golf ball and it's gonna be all chunks and thins from there.

Now, most people would say that that's in an effort to get the ball up in the air, but I haven't found that to be. I found that people want to hit it hard. They wanna get more distance out of it. So this pushing with the legs makes it feel like you can throw it harder and you can actually throw it a little harder.

So if I push with my left leg, stand up outta my posture and fall back, I can feel like I really throw the club at the golf ball. I generate some decent speed, but we have all those problems that we just talked about. So we need to be able to use the body and get that speed, but do it in a more efficient way.

And it all comes down to this left leg here. So what I want you to feel like you're. Is instead of throwing at the golf ball, what we're gonna do is in this transition, the left leg is gonna pop forward toward the target a little bit. Now that's gonna get me to make sure that I get my low point and my divot farther in front.

You see, if I do this move, I'm going away from the target. If I let this knee go toward the target, it automatically pulls my entire body. It's impossible for me to fall to the right and get my knee going to left. It's not gonna. If I can get my knee going to the left, that ensures that not only do I move my weight left, but I get everything going to the left.

And if I keep it flexed like this with some bend in it, that ensures I stay down to my posture and I get that nice dividend front. Now, from there, I can go ahead and release the club as hard as I want, but toward the target. So instead of throwing at the golf ball, I'm gonna keep that knee. And only drive through and let that knee straighten up as I'm going toward the target this way.

So the key move there is flexing the leg and pointing the knee out. And then from there, just feel like you throw the club down the fairway, throw it as hard as you want, just make sure you throw it that way and not that way. That'll allow you to get that dividend front that'll allow you to hit it more like an iron, get clean contact, all that stuff that we want to have.

So yes, do play it more like an iron ball. I do feel like you hit down on it more, but this knee is gonna be the key in actually making that happen instead of falling back that way. All right, let's go ahead and try it out.

There we go. Couldn't hit one. Much better than that. Hadn't hit to me today. Nice path to the right. Just need to go ahead and release the face a little bit more. So this is very common when people get warm. I'll go over this too. Sometimes we tend to leave the face a little bit more open, especially if we're trying to release more toward the target.

Sometimes we feel like we want to release and throw the club this way and the face of the club stays more toward the sky. We want to release that club and throw it toward the target, but at the same time, the face can go ahead and and turn more over like that if we want a little bit more draw. So on this one I'm gonna do the exact same thing, knee.

And as I throw it toward the target, I'm just gonna let it release or turn on over a little bit more. If I want a slight bit more draw in my swing, let's go ahead and try that out.

There we go. And that one's started to the right, little bit more release of the face, and now all of a sudden it's turning back toward the target. Now what we're talking about here is this, another way of describing the straight line. You see everybody that struggles with consistent contact, it doesn't matter if it's your hybrid or any other club in your bag, you're throwing at the golf ball and the body tends to back up here.

But once you learn that the release is actually in front, then it makes sense to get these knees to flex and then then release everything. Let the knee drive to there, let the hands release to there, and now all of a sudden the golf ball just gets in the. Well, that's why it's one of the five real fundamentals, and that's why every single good player, doesn't matter where they're from, your local club or winners on the PJ Tour does that same motion.

You're not gonna see anybody on the PJ tour doing this as they hit the golf ball. But if I go to the local course virtually, everybody is doing it. So what I want you to do is get that outta your game. I wanna make it easy for you to where you walk up to the golf course and you don't even think, and you automatically release that.

Well, that's what you're gonna get in the straight line release section, the top speed golf system. So go to the instruction tab, top speed golf system, then go to the straight line release section. And as you work through level one, you're gonna start to get the hang of this. You're gonna start to build on what we talked about here today and ingrain it.

You get to level two, it gets even easier, and by the time you finish level three, you don't even have to think about it at all. You just grab a club, you swing it, and it releases up there. The golf ball gets in the way and you hit not only your hybrid's good, but all the clubs. But it starts here today. Do the very first video in the straight line release section.

It's the perfect matchup for what we did here today. And then I'd challenge you to just do those one drills. Once you do it, you're gonna start to get hooked because you're gonna be hitting the golf ball better and you're gonna keep on repeating it. And that's the only way that you're gonna get your swing to be consistent and dead solid contact every single time.

Is this by working through that system. So head on over the top speed golf system into the straight line release through the very first video right now, and I'll see you there. Let's go and get started.