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0:00so yesterday I played in a golf day and one of my playing Partners Jack was having an absolute
0:04nightmare with his iron shots off the Fairway he'd be topping them he'd be thinning him hitting him
0:08right hitting him left and as the first few holes went on his frustration got more and more and more
0:17he got more frustrated because he was trying so so hard he'd been trying all the things you may
0:20be heard of like strike down on the golf ball or make sure you hit the ball then the turf with your
0:25irons but none of it was working mainly because he was falling for the same trap as
0:30so many golfers do time and time again now by the time we got to the ninth hole he almost quit
0:36I could see him almost thinking I don't want to play this anymore so I need to help now for the
0:41back nine the smile returned I gave him three tips and I'd love to share with you these tips
0:47because step by step they really really helped him get his game back start striking his eyes
0:53solid so let me start now with just tip number one so if you can relate to Jack in any shape or form
1:00do this the first thing I gave Jack was Jack stop trying start to get some swing back what
1:08he'd been doing is he'd been trying to hit down on the golf ball because his balls were going off
1:13in different directions he'd been tensing up and desperately trying to hit the ball straight and
1:19the first thing you've got to do is this there are two parts of the Swing you have a the golf club
1:24head right and then you have your body the golf club head should always be swinging beautifully
1:31freely it should never be controlled what moves it or controls it is what you do with the body right
1:37so if your body's not working effectively that's fine you need to kind of sort that out but what
1:41you don't do is what Jack and I see so many other golfers doing which is trying to hang on or stare
1:46oh it's gone left oh I got to go over here so the very first thing I did with Jack is this Jack
1:52suffers sometimes with a bit of a hook so I said Jack we're going to play it let's play your hook
1:56just let it go right so what we did is I said look make some swings and what I want do is is a golf
2:00swing is this it's a free flowing motion right I'm letting the club swing we do not direct it in any
2:07shape or form so I said to him the way I helped him allow um the club to throw free wasn't by
2:13the way holding it Loosely which a lot of people think you need to do it's not that in fact your
2:17arms want to be loose and and pliable but you you want a nice firm grip what I got him to do was I
2:23said we're going to not going to worry about where the ball finishes I want you to make some swings
2:29and your ball if it curves right to left we're going to let it happen in fact we're going to
2:33aim to do that make that club swing as freely as you can once we've got this club swing freely then
2:39we'll sort out tip two and tip three which is the how the body moves and we'll help you control it
2:44now you can imagine it's a little bit nervous but the first shot he did on that first hway driver he
2:50hadn't come in in his was like a team competition he hadn't come in at all and he actually scored on
2:55that hole and he helped the team out and the first thing we did was literally let him swing the club
3:01as freely as he could and I said Jack allow that draw naturally to happen his own words he said D
3:10it that feels effortless yes that's the starting point that is where you build your foundation from
3:19create a free swinging club and now it gives us time to Now work on your ball striking and your
3:25direction which moves us into tip number two so tip number two and let me put this into cont text
3:30I didn't give him tip number two straight away I needed him to kind of really get the feel of his
3:35swinging Golf Club so we we left it a couple of HS so you got used to it and it was lovely the smile
3:40was returning it just because it just feels so good this it feels effortless but obviously just
3:46doing that alone won't necessarily transform the consistency you're still going to have to
3:51understand how to work the body effectively and unfortunately for Jack he'd been given a little
3:55bit of bad advice he'd been told that he's got to strike the ball than the ground but how he was
4:00doing it was what I see the fault I see with so many other the golfers in that they're trying to
4:05strike the ball then the ground but he was doing it by chopping down on the golf ball and what you
4:09notice here about my torso it's quite forward and ahead so he would also finish quite low sometimes
4:15it was not functional he would strike the ball then the ground but it's not really a goal swing
4:21okay it's certainly not effortless the simplest way to strike the ball then the ground is just to
4:26understand where your pelvis is so look at this if you have a beautifully flowing golf swing so
4:32we keep this and I move my P center of my pelvis eventually through it through impa over the heel
4:38of my My Lead Foot watch where the club strikes the ground much more over here so ball than the
4:47ground right but it's functional now if I have my pelvis too far back which is what I see with
4:52people who don't strike it very well where's the strike point now I'm still swinging the
4:57club freely backwards and forwards now it's over here notice this am I trying to force the club
5:06to strike the ground am I trying to actively do something to get compression absolutely not I have
5:12a free flowing golf swing where all I'm doing is making sure my pelvis is far enough forward so the
5:20club naturally strikes the ball then the ground and that's what I mentioned to Jack so what I gave
5:27him that made it very very easy I said right jack we're going to keep this club head swinging nice
5:31and freely and what's going to really help you get that tailbone much more towards the target look
5:37and not like you were doing over here chopping down on it is when you make a back swing take your
5:42tailbone or this pocket here and start to move it towards the target as you do this as you're
5:49swinging the club freely and this pocket now moves towards the target what you're going to find is is
5:53you're already giving yourself a head start cuz the body now wants to fall this way so what's
5:58happened to the pelvis it's gone forward you now immediately increasing likelihood you're going
6:03to strike the ball then the ground if this pocket doesn't move which I see with so many golfers this
6:10hip stays here I'm too much over this side I've got too much to do to get forward most people now
6:16will just hit from the top this pocket now goes over here and you start striking the ground behind
6:21the golf ball fatting it then you name it so simply put keep the club head swinging backwards
6:26and forwards move the tail uh the the pocket to towards the Target and just get that simple rhythm
6:34in your golf swing and you'll notice as I'm doing this at no stage am I trying to hit down on the
6:40golf barall by moving this bit over here the upper upper Center over here this bit still staying
6:45forward while this bit of my body stays nice and centered it's not moving around too much this is
6:52swinging freely it's my lower body that moves look towards the target this was huge for Jack he kept
7:03the Rhythm he starts to strike the ball then the ground now the third and final thing I mentioned
7:09to him which kind of really starts to enhance this Rhythm but really started to add the power
7:13to his game back back into his game was making him realize that again we're not trying to hit down
7:19in fact when the club gets to the last parallel in the down swing here the only thing that moves down
7:26towards the golf ball here is the actual Club head the hands here and this Lee shoulder everything
7:34now the hands here at their lowest point this is going to work upwards around and the only thing
7:39that comes down to the golf ball is the head this is a really important point because most players
7:45who are struggling with power struggling with strike the hands and the body are still working
7:50down towards impact you lose all speed because the handle and the club are going at the same
7:55speed I want you to catapult the club so you've got a free flowing swing look at this here as
8:03a club comes down my lead shoulder works up and around up and back basically notice this motion
8:11I am working naturally upwards it's rhythmical it's what catapults the club if I do this what
8:20you notice all the speed goes there we go right so all matching this just feels effortless and like
8:30with all my students it's nothing more satisfying than seeing a student at the end of a game of golf
8:35start to smile and have that encouragement to go again go and practice but now practice the
8:41right things so striking the ball in the ground is not that difficult simply make sure you start off
8:47like this make sure you've got a beautifully flowing golf swing make sure the pelvis is
8:52far enough forward on the way down that doesn't mean this goes forward the pelvis is far enough
8:59forward on the way down that's going to increase the likelihood that you're going to strike the
9:03ground and then just remember we aren't going down through impacts the body is actually starting to
9:09work upwards through the shot the only thing that works down is your Club head and you're going to
9:15start to feel that effortless golf swing it'll feel rhythmical and hopefully you will start to
9:20have some more Smiles on that golf course if you enjoy the video give it a thumbs up maybe share
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