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0:00nine out of the ten students i was
0:01coaching this week struggled not just
0:03with their direction of their iron shots
0:05but also their ball striking too now the
0:07great thing is is we managed to
0:08transform every single one of them in
0:10slightly different ways in fact today
0:12what i want to do is i want to share
0:13with you five simple ways that you can
0:16start to instantly improve the ball
0:18striking the distance and the direction
0:20with your irons and you know what you
0:22might not need in them all but at least
0:24you might need to do the combination of
0:25one or two but i promise you they will
0:27make a huge huge difference now tip
0:30number one involved colin now colin was
0:32striking the ground behind the golf ball
0:35which was causing some fats huge losses
0:37distance but he would also sometimes get
0:39a big slice as well not just with his
0:40eyes but his driver too so let's deal
0:43with the strike first why was colin
0:45striking it poorly well anybody can
0:47benefit from this i see this all the
0:49time the first thing i noticed it was in
0:51simple setup his sternum here was
0:54hanging without him realizing behind the
0:56golf ball now the problem is if your
0:58sternum hangs behind the golf ball when
1:00you come down you're going to end up
1:02striking the ground behind the golf ball
1:04it's never going to be any good you're
1:06going to strike down on it you might
1:07strike up on it so you might fat it or
1:08even thin it along the ground you've got
1:10to get your sternum lined over the top
1:12of the golf ball when that happens
1:14you then come down on the golf ball so
1:16we strike the ball then the ground
1:18naturally yeah so there's the first
1:20thing we call him i said look get a
1:23sense of where your sternum is just
1:24simply hold the club hang it from your
1:27sternum here notice if it's here or here
1:29now but don't get me wrong i don't want
1:31you over here that's too much yeah
1:32you'll end up hitting the ground too
1:34firmly we want it over the ball so i
1:37made him make some swings just paying
1:38attention to where that sternum is
1:41relative to the golf ball now as he did
1:44this
1:45naturally the ball striking improved but
1:49it didn't instantly get rid of the slice
1:52although he started to strike it better
1:54he still had a bit of a slice which
1:56moves us on to tip number two
1:59forearm alivement have you ever checked
2:01your forearm alignment this is a big one
2:03for accuracy now with colin his forearm
2:06alignment when he was set up here
2:09was actually aiming to the left now what
2:11do i mean by four arm alignment well if
2:13i was to put a club along like this
2:15and i did tilt it so my trail arm goes
2:17higher than my lead arm it'll point to
2:19left if it's lower than my lead arm it
2:21starts pointing to the right now with
2:22colin i'm going to exaggerate just for
2:24camera his was turned here without him
2:26realizing so even if he did get his
2:29stern over the golf ball he could strike
2:30it but he'd come across the line of the
2:32golf ball and hit a big slice this is
2:34the simplest thing for you to change all
2:36i did was said look pay attention look
2:39at them look at where they're lined up
2:40just simply move them around until you
2:42feel like they're lined up now you may
2:44feel if you're used to this angle you
2:46may feel like you need to kind of aim a
2:49little bit to the right-hand side for a
2:51right-handed gopher and that's what i
2:52did with kotlin i said look yes it feels
2:54a bit strange calling but look now
2:55they're perfectly aligned now you've got
2:57the sternum of the golf ball you're
2:59going to strike it but also now you're
3:01shifting the path to an area where we
3:03can actually look maybe even create a
3:05beautifully struck draw shot as opposed
3:08to a slice shot that you were doing
3:11which brought us into the swing element
3:12of this i said now you can visually as
3:14you're swinging like your sternums of
3:16the golf ball but you can also visualize
3:18are your forearms lined up in a way
3:20that's going to get that ball setting
3:21off in the direction that you want not
3:24in the direction that you don't want and
3:26that's all we did make some swings
3:29and start to rip
3:31beautiful draw shots
3:32like that so tip number three involved
3:35brian now
3:36what i'm gonna show you now is gonna
3:38look strange but i see this over and
3:40over again on the lesson t and it ruins
3:43your ball striking okay it really ruins
3:44your ball striking but i'm going to have
3:46to show you my back side to do this so
3:47what i want to do look at this
3:49this is how brian was set up when he
3:51setups like this he's literally without
3:54him realizing he's spying he's turned
3:56this way slightly now this is normal
3:58because often when you're trying to aim
4:00towards a target you actually turn more
4:02this way without realizing now the
4:05problem is is when you get your spine
4:07turned this way without realizing okay
4:09as a poster here here we can come into
4:12the back of the golf ball
4:14here you're actually leaning back well
4:16based on tips one and two what's that
4:18going to do it's going to send your
4:19sternum back and then you're going to
4:21start flicking it so many golfers get
4:24this right so what i want you to do is
4:27take your bum just gently not huge just
4:30shift make sure you're in a position
4:32it's almost like here you're going to
4:34smack something here
4:37not
4:38turn towards you tight the more you
4:39start to do this here the more you're
4:42shifting that swing to eventually
4:45hang back here and start to get sternum
4:47behind the golf ball so it's as simple
4:49as that all we did with brian was this
4:51got him to shift it over here just a
4:54fraction
4:55now he was he could make a much much
4:57better turn in the backswing here he
5:00could come into the back of the golf
5:01ball just think of it this way
5:03if you're set up now
5:05i can turn back and i can hit down to
5:07the golf ball if i without realizing got
5:10my spine this way
5:11i'm already restrict him or he turned
5:13the wrong direction
5:15never any good so all we did
5:17turn him in position got him to feel
5:18like now for him he felt as though he
5:20was like this he really wasn't but now
5:23from if he was like that he's in a
5:24position look to drive down through here
5:28he wasn't that's all we did with brian
5:30nothing but he didn't need anything else
5:32that one small shift here helped not
5:34just with his irons but his driver too
5:40now tip number four and look you've
5:42gotta stay tuned it's raining and that
5:44cloud is on its way will we get this
5:46finished in time
5:47so tip number four this thing involved
5:50tom so basically
5:52this is another common uh issue i want
5:54you to look out for
5:55when you're instead of the golf ball
5:57here are you turning away because a lot
5:59of time when people are turning away
6:01they move off the golf ball now look
6:04what we've just talked about if you move
6:05off the golf ball and you hear at the
6:07top of your swing you have way too much
6:09to do to get back to the golf ball it's
6:11too inconsistent so
6:13what we did with thomas is this it's not
6:14just the case at all do we just stay
6:16still then no that won't work either but
6:19you've got to have a better way of
6:20moving in the backswing so that you can
6:23naturally come down
6:24consistently on that golf ball so what i
6:27did with tom was this
6:28tom misinterpreted the golf swing he
6:30thought i had to swing around or make a
6:33turn here and then a turn i said no no
6:35the arms work
6:37up so all i did was get my simplex size
6:39doing this first so literally
6:41cocking the wrists up
6:43working the club up at pitching it
6:45slightly in angle so there's some
6:46forearm rotation some forearm rotation
6:48in both arms here now i literally lifted
6:51that up going to lift up to one o'clock
6:53and i said right okay good this is the
6:55motion yeah i want you to create not
6:57this motion this motion that's to one
6:59o'clock then now look to two two o'clock
7:03three o'clock
7:05four o'clock
7:06five o'clock now suddenly now we've got
7:08a motion that's working in a spiral up
7:12and down to the golf ball much more
7:14likely to strike down and through the
7:16shot versus the motion which i've seen
7:19too often
7:20working around here off the ball then
7:22you're trying to lunge back to the golf
7:24ball so that's all i want you to do too
7:26real simple exercise
7:28one o'clock two o'clock
7:31three o'clock
7:33four o'clock
7:34five o'clock and i'm looking up there to
7:36help the pivot as well look as i'm doing
7:37this feel what that's like then look
7:40feel i'm chopping i feel like i'm
7:41chopping down to that golf ball
7:44and through
7:45that then gave him some wonderful
7:48strikes not straight away we have to
7:49kind of develop that sensation it felt a
7:51bit uncomfortable initially but it was
7:52so much more consistent
7:56for his ball striking
7:57and listen to that sound
7:59ball turf
8:01let's get on to number five
8:02so before i get into tip number five i'm
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8:20a thing so tip number five i actually
8:22learned from pete cowan and i shared
8:24this with a recent student simon so
8:26simon was doing what i see a lot of
8:27golfers doing who struggled with ball
8:29striking accuracy he was excessively
8:32rolling the face open look at the face
8:34here rolling open on the way back having
8:36an open face coming down it was still
8:39open forcing him then to his body to oh
8:42my god it smiles open now we'd have to
8:44suddenly correct it the problem would
8:46you do this your body has to stall to
8:49allow the club face to kind of correct
8:51that's forces to sternum back and it
8:53causes a whole host of problems okay so
8:56what we needed to do with simon is to
8:58help him get more control of this club
9:00face so that it would arrive square more
9:03consistently
9:04and all i did was this he just needed to
9:06feel what square was so what i want you
9:07to do now is this hot get a golf club
9:09hold it right in front of you here and i
9:11want you to imagine you're holding a
9:13towel and you're going to ring the towel
9:15out when you ring a towel out you're
9:17literally your hands are working in
9:19opposition to each other when you do
9:21this what happens to the club face
9:24nothing
9:25stays completely square so when you
9:27imagine this if you're kind of ringing
9:29the tower all the way to the top and
9:31then all the way back into impact
9:33nothing's going on with the club face
9:34it's staying much much more stable and
9:36that's all i gave simon what he was
9:39doing prior to this is he wasn't
9:40wringing out the towel what he was doing
9:41is he was allowing both hands to work
9:44too much in the same direction they
9:45would work in the same direction on the
9:47way back and then they would either stay
9:49there or then excessively work in the
9:51same direction on the way through
9:52leading to very very inconsistent ball
9:54striking and accuracy now
9:57all i did initially to build this is
10:00it's not going to add loads of tension
10:01to my swing you don't have to do this
10:04you just add that little bit of tension
10:06that's all it is just a tiny bit to feel
10:08what that's like
10:09square face hit a few shots and that's
10:12all i did with someone said feel those
10:13hands feel where the club face is
10:15square is there
10:17that's slightly closed and that's
10:19slightly open okay so i get him to
10:21because he was slicing a little bit i'm
10:23going to feel like it's a little bit
10:24closed
10:25as he's swinging back i feel like it's a
10:27bit more closed on the way down
10:29and then play a few shots like that just
10:30simply paying attention
10:32to that grip pressure nothing more
10:35complicated than that
10:38and that
10:39is how you hit beautifully
10:41straight shots so that's what we did
10:42with simon got him to really sense that
10:45stability made a huge difference so if
10:47you enjoyed this video make sure you
10:48give it a thumbs up check this one out
10:50here i did something to struggle with
10:52driver i did something very very simple
10:54with some students that i know is going
10:55to super super help but until next week
10:58have a great golfing week