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0:00oh dude how embarrassing
0:11okay oh geez come on one more
0:26ah
0:30another one how frustrating is the top
0:35particularly with your fairway wood and
0:38your hybrid or in this week training
0:40we're going to cover exactly how you
0:43start to sort out those very woods and
0:45hybrids you can stop topping them so
0:49you've experienced that having you the
0:51ball flying along the ground it's so
0:53frustrating that's the top shot what's
0:55actually happening well in this reach
0:57training I'm gonna go through exactly
0:59what's happening impact to cause the top
1:02some the most common factors that
1:05actually lead to the top and I'm gonna
1:07give you three simple exercises that you
1:09can use to kind of get rid of it
1:11hopefully for good now before we do that
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1:25every week so now what is a top well
1:30we've just seen it it's a ball that goes
1:31along the ground but what's actually
1:33happening well quite simply the ball is
1:37hitting no part of the center of the
1:39faces always hitting right down at the
1:42bottom of the golf club so what's
1:43happening is the club is coming into
1:45impact here and he's starting to come up
1:48and hit the bottom part of the golf club
1:51a the lot is moving away from the golf
1:53ball and we're simply hitting the the
1:56leading edge of the the Fairwood itself
2:00now for those of you who don't have
2:02loads of time to practice one of the
2:04simplest things I can do I give you to
2:06kind of get rid of that is it an
2:08exercise that I can actually give my
2:09wife who's just started playing get
2:11yourself some foot spray
2:13spray it on the face like this and I
2:16believe that sometimes thinking of all
2:19swinging positions and stuff can be very
2:21very complicated look if you're hitting
2:24the bottom part of the club
2:25don't try and hit the top part so give
2:28yourself a challenge so all I'm going to
2:29do now is this if I want to hit closer
2:32to the top part of the post of the
2:34bottom part what am I going to do well
2:36I'm gonna naturally lean the face more
2:38now people who are struggling to get the
2:41ball up in the air that can feel a
2:42little bit strange because the balls
2:44going on the ground why would I be loft
2:46it but you're not really deal off ting
2:49it remember you're hitting the leading
2:51edge you're actually showing the loft to
2:54the ball so by just putting this foot
2:56spray on there get you a target so if I
2:58kind of hit a top shot that will be
3:00literally so I'm just as a pure top
3:04there hit right at top of the ball and
3:05look at this absolutely no mark at all
3:10on the actual golf club if I move back
3:12now and now let's try to hit a shot
3:18where I go Collis leaned up facing let's
3:20see if I can get make a Mac now on this
3:22face that's have a look much better now
3:28look a little bit so but you can see
3:33much higher in the face of the golf club
3:36yep so that immediately gives me more
3:38loft so exercise number one really
3:41really simple just put some foot spray
3:44on and see if you can start to hit the
3:46face of the golf club and let your body
3:49cleverly because your body's a genius
3:51work out how to do that it stops a swing
3:54thoughts but let's now move on to number
3:56two which is one of the main causes of a
3:59top so we said look one of the main
4:02reasons or how do you actually strike a
4:05golf ball to get pure straight you've
4:07got to get that face on the ball that
4:09means the hands all is naturally more
4:10ahead when you're coming into impact
4:12there's more weight on the left side and
4:14you're driving through the bodies more
4:17of the golf ball with a top shot it
4:19tends to be a lot more like this now
4:21that's great but that's very complicated
4:24you can't think of all those things and
4:25how to cure all things in one
4:27five seconds which is the time it takes
4:29to swing a golf club so I've given you
4:31one exercise which is the powder just
4:32have some fun trying to hit the face the
4:35next thing is is I basically see people
4:37who top the vault they just don't have
4:39any rotation through the impact area so
4:42what they end up doing is is when
4:44they're coming through they end up like
4:46this they stand up here and they're
4:49leaning back and they are flicking and
4:51the main reason for this is the club is
4:53coming down very steeply as opposed to
4:56watch this and the hitting position is
5:00here as opposed to here so when you're
5:03coming down the hitting pivot position
5:05should be here because we want to rotate
5:07and almost what I call it catapult or
5:09fling the club through impact in a
5:12rotational fashion like is if you were
5:15throwing a ball but those people who top
5:17down they come down in a hitting
5:19position that's here they then come down
5:21to the ground the body goes I don't want
5:23to hurt myself so stands up now like
5:26this leans back and creates a flicking
5:28motion that looks a little bit like this
5:32with us standing up and flicking I hit a
5:35lot of top shots so we need to improve
5:38your level of rotation through impact
5:40and the simplest way of doing this it's
5:42just true feeling so you get yourself
5:44set your sweet and make a nice air turn
5:47and I want to imagine now just get to
5:48about here just feel like the club is
5:50behind you a bit and now from here you
5:52get the feeling of okay is that powerful
5:54to sling the club around sling it from
5:58here and I can sling in it around this
6:02way so suddenly now the club's coming
6:03more on an arc let's have a look at this
6:05in action so I'm getting the feeling of
6:07from here slinging it around the corner
6:10back sling it around the corner
6:15completely different I'm bruising the
6:18ground and brushing the ground all the
6:19way through and I'm starting to hit the
6:21center of the face now do it slowly
6:25first this is the hit position we don't
6:27walk because that gets this motion just
6:30keep feeling I've got to be roughly
6:33about here maybe do it slowly to start
6:36off with just to get a feel for it so
6:37you swing it back swing to here and then
6:39go right
6:40practice
6:46there we go slinging it and when I'm
6:50doing that I'm getting this motion so
6:52suddenly now because I'm rotating
6:54I can stay low to the ground I don't
6:56stand up because I'm creating room with
6:59rotation not creating room with standing
7:03up but the third and final point all
7:07that's well and good but there's one
7:10thing that does stop that happening and
7:12it and it was the major reason why my
7:14latest client could not stop his tops
7:17and that's alignment so many people who
7:21top the ball aim for right handers to
7:24the right of their target now if you aim
7:27to the right of your target like this
7:28there's no way you're gonna rotate your
7:32body wolves is a genius he will find its
7:34best route to the target if I'm
7:36exaggerating here obviously but if you
7:37aim to the right you're gonna pick the
7:39club up here and it's far easier now
7:41just to pick it up and and chop it down
7:44and chop it down that hitting position
7:47is always gonna be very steep and you're
7:49gonna come down and flick the ball or
7:52you're gonna do this you're gonna come
7:53up your lean back now again same
7:56principle creating this flicking action
7:58there's no way of getting rotation
8:00because if you did get into the correct
8:02hitting position you would smash it
8:04right and your body won't allow that is
8:06clever it knows that it's wrong so you
8:08must learn to get a decent alignment for
8:11those of you who are still not sure
8:14about alignment there are two lines you
8:15want to look at your target line which
8:18is here this line here like an outside
8:20rail of a train track pointing directly
8:22down your target line your foot line is
8:25parallel left of that that is your
8:28inside rail and then all we're doing
8:30this is the best where I line up his is
8:32I get myself set I get a feel of the
8:33clubface see I'm looking down the target
8:35line here just get comfortable I know
8:38where we go for those of you been aiming
8:40right that might feel like you're aiming
8:42a little bit left of target don't worry
8:44but now you've got the space look to
8:47rotate as a poster had needed to create
8:50space by standing up that's the two
8:54fundamental things I think are the major
8:56cause of top shots
8:58I hope that really really helps you
9:00let's summarize for a second and what
9:02have we said well
9:04nice and easy sometimes just trust your
9:07body get some foot spray spray on the on
9:10the club here have a game just see if
9:13you can hit higher in the face you hit
9:14high in the face you'll simply get more
9:16loft you want to get more power with
9:19this and get the ball up in the air so
9:21you hit it further
9:21you're gonna need rotation you want to
9:24start to work on a hitting position
9:26that's here not here hitting me here
9:29will give you more rotation it helps to
9:32keep this beautiful angle here as a
9:35poster when it's here you always tend to
9:37lose the angle because it turns into a
9:39flick and finally watch that alignment
9:42none of this is impossible if you're
9:44aiming right of target hope you enjoyed
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9:55thin shots with their fair words and
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