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0:00hey everybody Danny Mort here thanks for
0:02joining us this week I want to discuss
0:04your ball striking specifically your
0:06ball striking related to your ions how
0:09many times you find yourself in the
0:11middle of the fairway
0:12having just hit a brilliant drive only
0:14to mess that pro shop you strike it so
0:18poorly that you strike the ground behind
0:19the ball and the ball doesn't reach the
0:21green or you don't even strike the
0:23ground it's hot and you blade the ball
0:24along the ground with no height
0:27whatsoever it is so frustrating isn't it
0:29well we want to solve that for you I
0:31want to help you get rid of those this
0:34horrible shot seeing start striking your
0:35irons much much more consistently and
0:37you're gonna need one major fundamental
0:40that all great iron players have I'm
0:42gonna share with you what that is in
0:43this week's training plus three ways on
0:46how you can go about achieving it and
0:47I'm gonna share with you why I mean all
0:51right why don't I have any shoes on
0:53right now okay you're gonna learn all
0:55these things in this week training
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1:11the back what one fundamental to all
1:13great ball strikers as our iron players
1:15have it's very simple all great iron
1:18players when they strike their irons the
1:21handle is ahead of the golf ball
1:24Paul ball strikers the handle is behind
1:27the golf ball why why is it important to
1:31have the handle ahead let me show you
1:33watch this when you when I put this club
1:36onto the golf ball here what I'm gonna
1:37exaggerate it just for illustration
1:38purposes but if I move the handle way
1:40behind I move the actual contact the
1:43actual iron face and move it away from
1:45the golf ball so how can we actually
1:47strike the face of the ball if the
1:49handles way behind you can so what we do
1:52is is by moving the by putting the face
1:54on the ball so now we can strike it in
1:56order do that what's happened the
1:57handles moved ahead so that's as simple
1:59as that
2:00the handle has to be ahead in order for
2:02you to strike the face of the ba face of
2:05the club question is how do you go about
2:08achieving it well the first exercise is
2:12this a lot of people don't
2:13have they handle ahead of the golfer
2:16because it feels weird they used to in a
2:18sense having this feeling of striking
2:20the ball with a handle completely level
2:22with a golf ball they this is weird for
2:24them so the first thing I want you doing
2:26and and goal number one is just make
2:28some swings by angling the handle
2:31forward and then practice swinging in an
2:33arc like this keeping the handle ahead
2:37all the time at that clubface at some
2:39stage yes the head will and it says go
2:42past the hands but not because I flicked
2:45it but because I'm literally holding it
2:47so you just want that first stages get
2:48used to the feeling of the handle being
2:50ahead not with any big shots just head
2:53to a driving range make a head a few
2:54shots handle a head small lot of shots
2:58light is just getting the sensation that
3:00the handle is ahead of the ball so hit a
3:03few shots like that nothing fancy just
3:05playing them down the fairway backwards
3:08and forwards so all I'm doing and I
3:14would spend a little bit of time here
3:15most people whenever I try this they
3:17very quickly get up to here we don't
3:20want any full swings you just need to
3:21get the sensation of the handle being
3:23ahead possibly for the first time yes
3:26it's mechanical yes it's exaggerated you
3:28need that an issue just to kind of get
3:30used to that's different it's a
3:32different feeling all right so handle
3:34ahead so once you've got the feeling of
3:39this kind of the sense of the handle
3:41being ahead you got to move on to step
3:43number two which is then how do you
3:46create it naturally I don't know if
3:48you're aware but actually all these
3:50motions that you know one invented the
3:51golf swing okay coaches came along after
3:54there were great players so a lot of
3:57these things were we're noticing one
3:58from the good players there if they did
4:00it naturally they weren't taught this so
4:02it's a natural Martian the question is
4:03how do you create it how do you create
4:06its natural motion well I don't imagine
4:08something if this was a whip and I was
4:11gonna crack it which is a similar to a
4:12golf swing we're gonna drag it back here
4:14as they drag it back there's a whip
4:17through as I do this I create this
4:19motion noise to my hand so the whip the
4:22hand is where either handles the head of
4:25what the final bit which is going to
4:26event
4:27crack you create that Martian how does
4:31that relate to govern how can you create
4:33it the probably most golfers is there
4:35way too static they play golf like this
4:37stuck to the ground swing with their
4:40hands and their arms like this with that
4:42Martian is almost impossible to in a
4:44sense and create or get that handle
4:47ahead what we need to remember is the
4:49swing starts from the ground up so in a
4:53sense the energy in this club on what
4:56goes on with this head is created by
4:58what we do with our feet so watch this
5:00as I step onto my left side here and I
5:04step back so go step onto my left side
5:06my lead side here and as I push off my
5:08knees move my hips move my tosser moves
5:12my shoulder and finally I'm dragging the
5:14club backwards here as they drag it back
5:17it's lagging almost behind it dragging
5:19back here and then watch as I then plant
5:22the foot back down here my knees me my
5:24hip move my chest moves and finally the
5:26club comes in but look by then the
5:28handle is naturally a head it's a very
5:31natural marchia hence they call it the
5:35drag and lag how do you go about
5:38achieving it well the first thing to
5:40realize is look don't hit loads of golf
5:42balls in this with this just simply
5:45spend some time getting used to this
5:48step here drag and lag step drag and lag
5:56feel experienced a club moving in space
6:00feel how it's reacting to the forces
6:02that you're putting on it it's just you
6:05don't have to keep your handle ahead
6:06then it will be natural so stepping
6:08we're dragging and we're lagging one two
6:13once you've got that a few times here
6:15you'll start to see this lovely fluid
6:17it's you'll feel natural then put a golf
6:19ball in play and get yourself set just
6:22hover the club above the ball initially
6:23just get soft settings go step on to
6:25your lead foot step back and then away
6:29we go now some of you out there might
6:31think if I start moving around like this
6:34I'll probably even miss the golf ball
6:36you may feel like you're moving a lot
6:38but you won't be you'll still be in
6:40balance this is why
6:41Bethy what's happening here is this I'm
6:43able to experience my toes gripping into
6:46the ground here as I drag back my right
6:49foot is gripping into the ground one of
6:51the biggest problems I think we golf
6:53shoes they allow you to do this and roll
6:55if you're in bare feet you're not going
6:57to do that so it's a great way to
6:59experience the real motion you start to
7:01feel your feet are really working so
7:03let's have a look at this again I'm
7:04stepping as a mood dragged back my right
7:07foot is gripping with my toes into the
7:08ground here and as I step back in I get
7:11this lagging effect naturally so again
7:14just do it one at a time get the
7:17sensation one drag and lag simple as
7:23that feel that Martian in time you'll
7:26start to see how the swing can be really
7:28really natural try and Beth you'll start
7:31to feel how the feet really really help
7:33you experience this natural swinging
7:36motion let's have a look at number three
7:39so drill number three involves just
7:41stick ahead cover it in the ground what
7:43we want to try and do is this by
7:45learning to miss the head cover on the
7:47way down it will encourage the handle to
7:50stay more ahead how does it do that so
7:53first of all I put the head cover
7:54probably a couple of feet behind the
7:56ball well how does it do that well watch
7:58this if I don't if I start to release
8:00the club from here if I start to release
8:01the club here and there release it too
8:04early I'm going to strike the head cover
8:05on the way down comfortably what I want
8:07to be able to do is this by missing the
8:09head cover
8:10I will naturally have to keep this Club
8:12shorter stays shorter because I haven't
8:14released I've shorter here the handle
8:16stays that little bit ahead one thing to
8:19watch out for however is this people try
8:22and miss the head cover by doing this
8:24pick it up and shop down I don't want
8:27you to visualize that okay what I want
8:29you to visualize want to imagine this I
8:30want to imagine an aircraft coming in
8:33like this and then it's coming in to
8:36land it doesn't come in a ball it comes
8:40in and it lands so I want you to land
8:42the aircraft once you've missed the head
8:44cover what do I mean by that and how can
8:46you kind of play attention to it ignore
8:47the balls to start with your miss head
8:49go on the way back you missed up the way
8:51down and as you're coming down here
8:52watch this the handle still ahead but
8:54I'm
8:54and in the airplane and now or it's
8:56happened I'm grazing the ground how does
8:58it happen well match the technically the
9:00shoulder starts to move up the handle
9:02moves up and I'm landing the plane if
9:04I'd stayed down here I just chop in and
9:06take a great big chunk cut the ground
9:07that would be Paul ball striking to all
9:10great iron players have a very shallow
9:12divot after the golf ball so let's have
9:14a look at this in action we're gonna
9:16miss the head cover on the way down on
9:18the way back on the way down we're gonna
9:20miss it but then we're gonna land the
9:21plane by creating this gliding or
9:24skimming effect watch this back and
9:28throw pretty good I probably hit down
9:32maybe a fraction too much on what I
9:34tried to demonstrate there but the
9:36strike was still pretty good so the
9:37margin of error is greater with it but
9:39your job you can do on a driving range
9:41I'll either here try to take almost the
9:43minimal divots to scrape the ground
9:45initially as long as you've got the
9:47handle ahead you will still be a great
9:48ball striker it's a myth that you have
9:50to strike good deep divots to get great
9:53ball striking you don't have to do that
9:55at all so we're going to miss the head
9:57cover on the way back on the way down to
9:58miss it handle head and then we're going
10:00to land the plane by gliding through not
10:03this the shoulder raises the handle
10:05raises through to land that plane down
10:08beautiful strike okay so that is it
10:12three things
10:13the main fundamental you need to have is
10:15get a handle a head at all times how do
10:18you do that the very first thing you do
10:20summary you've got to learn the feeling
10:23of what it feels like to have a handle
10:24head for some of you out there you
10:25probably I don't know it's gonna feel
10:27strange so he always likes gonna feel
10:30weird go with it hit some balls just in
10:32the Reg small little shots be aware that
10:35you do not want to be kind of innocent
10:37stood here like this hitting big long
10:39shots is the small shots handle a head
10:42get the feeling first of that sensation
10:45once you've done that then move on to
10:50the bare foot you when I say barefoot
10:53because I like to kind of feel the feet
10:55working in the ground the feet lead the
10:57like just as if you're kind of in a
10:59sense whipping this motion here there's
11:01a drag and there's a lag it creates the
11:04whipping effect how do you create it
11:06well you don't do this with
11:07through the torso you'd do it with the
11:10feet so you want to incense step onto
11:12your lead foot you step back here and as
11:15you do that you drag in the club back
11:16here and as you step back down look
11:18you'd actually drag it through the
11:20handle leads and then you create this
11:22flowing Martian is it easy it strike
11:25straight away
11:25not really but you'll certainly see
11:27you'll feel more rhythm you'll feel the
11:29natural motion and in time you'll start
11:31to get this natural lag and the handle
11:34will match you start to stay your head
11:35so it's stepping here step back and away
11:38we go
11:39and then the third and final one was
11:41simply put a head cover two feet behind
11:44the ball miss it on the way back miss it
11:47on the way through
11:48and when you come through land the plane
11:50land it by allowing the left shoulder
11:52and the handle to work upwards you do
11:55this three things or try one at a time
11:57you will start to see a massive
11:59improvement in your ball striking hope
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