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0:00so how to strike your irons and and how to strike your fairway woods off the ground if you struggle
0:05to make consistent contact don't worry you're not alone in fact I've just had a lot of golfers this
0:10week and probably about 90% of them were really struggling to strike make consistent contact off
0:15the ground and the usual thing they were trying to keep their handle forward trying get their weight
0:19forward but none of it was really working because all of it was very unnatural in this golf video
0:25I'm going to show you an effortless golf swing an easy golf swing that will help you make consistent
0:29contact time and time again with every single Club you have in your golf bag I'm super excited
0:35to share that with you before I do though look if you're new to the channel your first golf videos
0:38of mine please consider subscribing I release golf videos just like this every single week
0:42to try and help you improve your game plus you never have to remember a thing I'll always put
0:45a downloadable practice guide in the description box below so let's give you a very simple process
0:50to achieve a great strike with every Club off the ground so your golf swing starts with some simple
0:55understanding the first step is to realise that great ball striking happens when you hit the ball
1:10then the turf with your irons this is achieved by learning to create a natural downward angle
1:13of attack so if I put an alignment stick here just opposite inside my trail foot and I get myself set
1:19here my golf swing should comfortably miss that alignment stick on the way down and strike this
1:25ball however when I get people even with just a club and a half gap between that alignment stick
1:33here what the average golfer would come down here and they would hit the ground roughly where the
1:39ball is and likely clatter into the cane as they're doing it okay this is what we've got
1:46to stop this is where the inconsistencies lie so I'm going to show you naturally how you can strike
1:50the ball then the turf with your golf swing it starts with a great golf swing setup so what I'd
1:56love you to do now if you can is maybe just pause the video take a moment get yourself set up and
2:02grab two balls so take your normal setup here once you set up and I feel comfortable what I want you
2:09to do now is this take a ball and simply hold it in the middle of your sternum now from here very
2:16calmly just drop it where did my ball actually hit the ground right over the top of the golf
2:22ball why is that important well if my sternum is over the top of the ball when I make a pivot from
2:28here I'm pivoting over the ball I'm increasing my likelihood that I'm going to strike the ball than
2:34the ground what I saw with many of my students this week when they dropped the ball here they
2:40were back here and the ball was dropping way too far behind they're already in a position to hit
2:45where up on the ball and ground that club Behind the golf ball so simple simple thing that anyone
2:51can do okay the second thing that can really help just at setup is this get yourself set here and
2:58we don't want to strike the ball like this we want to strike it with a slight lean of the
3:04shaft only slight okay opposite inside lead leg so why not just start there if you put the club
3:10there put it on the inside lead leg simply start in a place where you sternum of the ball and the
3:14lead handle on the inside thigh and you're already in a place look to strike that ball great setup is
3:21your foundation this is Step number one so step number two and I promised you an effortless way
3:27to achieve great ball striking so don't fall for this real misinterpretation too many golfers are
3:33trying so hard to improve the quality of the strike and it should be effortless so let me
3:38explain so this golf CP if you want to hit the ball long as well you want ultimately clever
3:44speed and you want this to be effortless so look at this here my club now is Swinging with complete
3:49momentum okay I am not trying to hold an angle I'm not trying to push my hands ahead I'm simply
3:55swinging the club with momentum now what gets the handle natur naturally at the correct place
4:01is simply The Way You Move Your Body okay at no stage and I'm hanging onto this club and trying
4:06to hold the angle it ruins your speed robs you at all the speed and ruins your strike so I want
4:12this club to swing as freely as possible let me just show you an example so when I'm swinging
4:16here if I don't move my body correctly you can see here look the club will flick and the club
4:20head very quickly will pass the butt end and that's your flicky horrible strike but if I
4:25Mo my body correctly I will naturally create lag and a perfect strip without even trying there's
4:32no effort for me to hold that angle there it's happening beautifully naturally now let me show
4:37you how you do that but obviously under controlled manner you don't want this kind of flicky Club all
4:41over the place that's also weak so get yourself set up and we said look I want you to get this
4:47club Swinging with some momentum now if I just did this with my wrists it would look very risty like
4:53this we don't want that so what I'm doing now is just to look give you that lovely controlled
4:58look effortless look you see with the best play all I'm doing here is is I'm moving my rib cage
5:03basically around and back all I'm doing is as I move my rib cage around and back it looks like I'm
5:10controlling this club I am but the club is still swinging look effortlessly on the way through I'm
5:17going to do the opposite I'm going to use my rib citch and I'm going to unwind it this way
5:23and as I come through look at this it looks like I might be holding the angle but I'm not the club
5:31is swinging beautifully freely and those angles are held naturally so I've still got the club
5:37head speed super important so start really small with this initially just to get the feeling get
5:43yourself set up here and all I'm going to do here is really soften my arms off really feel like that
5:47rib cage is moving around and back and we're going to play a few small shots here and enjoy the rib
5:54cage basically controlling look the entire motion now the one big common fault when I gave this to
6:01a couple of the guys was they felt as though sometimes they were they were moving the club
6:07with momentum but the problem is what they were doing is they were just doing it with their hands
6:10and their arms and their shoulders why I love the rib kid as a guide with this is when you move your
6:16rib cage you're kind of moving the shoulders as well so it's just a great way to kind of direct
6:21and guide the momentum of this golf club if you don't move your rib kage you can start to throw
6:25the weight around and then you've really lost control of the club completely so the rib cage
6:29is a great guide one of them asked me well Dan bit when do you naturally bend the wrist well if you
6:34look at this here look when I swing the club with momentum all of that happens naturally so what we
6:39call is passive wrist you don't force them to to bend so as I simply work on that rib cage
6:45working backwards and forwards I'm now creating momentum in that Golf Club okay but there's one
6:52thing that stop still would stop you striking that ball than the ground even with this so
6:58you've got momentum you've got set up you've got momentum but you really need step three to kind
7:03of finish the job off and pure those strikes so step number three and none of the first two
7:09steps will work unless you answer these first two questions correctly okay so first question
7:15is this when you're over the golf ball what is your target what is your target now most of my
7:22students said well Dan of course it's just out there straight down the middle of fairy or the
7:26middle of the green I said great so then and answer me this next question you're over the
7:32golf ball here you get to the top of the back swing here and you're coming down what's your
7:36target every single one of them said something like the ball Danny or a few of them said look
7:45I've been trying to hit ahead of the golf ball so I'm focusing on hitting ahead of the golf ball all
7:50of those things will completely and utterly ruin what you do why because here's the thing your job
7:57is to direct the momentum of your golf swing in this this club right so when your target starts
8:03to become too much down here down where the golf ball is here this is what happens look at this if
8:09I start to let this club swing up with momentum and my body starts to stop because somewhere in
8:14this vicinity becomes my intention my focal point suddenly the club will automatically look without
8:21me trying release but as soon as I connect to my Target and I maintain some form of intention out
8:28there watch the difference now you get the perfect movement forward you get body rotation forward why
8:35because the target is drawing out your mechanics it draws out your mechanics when your intentions
8:42down here which C creates the flick and it will draw out great mechanics if your intention is to
8:47go in this direction so how can you train this so this is the simplest exercise I know to achieve
8:54this okay now I'm going to with your right-handed playing golf left-handed or vice versa will cover
8:58you both hands right so when you're playing we said look we want to have some momentum
9:03you start to create that now by controlling it with the rib cage now what I want you to do is
9:08real realize this there are two Targets in golf that Target and this target how do you merge the
9:13two together well if we just threw a ball out here forward your body without even thinking if we do
9:19an underarm throw your body naturally wouldn't do this it would naturally flow through this forward
9:24momentum of the body creates beautiful angles and beautiful compression on your strike but it's not
9:31quite an underarm throwing golf we want to hit down here so what here's what I want to do grab
9:34a ball and I've got my pal facing the ground I'm going to now do two things I'm going to bounce the
9:40golf ball right there just ahead of this this ball here but I want that bounce to then bounce and go
9:46over the basket in front of us so it's going to look something like this like that now what I love
9:52about this is this I've got a down pressure going there but I've all got the intention of not just
9:57bouncing it there but also flying it directly over this basket now you could do that also if you're
10:03left-handed playing golf right-handed just hold it in the back of your hand here slightly tricky
10:08for me I'm not being left-handed but I'm going to imagine throwing the ball down here I'm not
10:13left-handed let's try that one again good for good practice though so I'm going to throw it
10:17back at my hand here bang okay and I want to try I would try and get that lined up here to throw
10:23directly over that basket here brilliant exercise because what it does now is this it brings in two
10:29Targets our Target is not the golf ball right our Target is out there but we need to have an eye on
10:36this one so what I'm going to now is this I've got my momentum swinging here right now all I'm
10:40going to do is Imagine in a sense tossing that ball look or in this case the club down there
10:47while simultaneously going towards my target so look at this it looks like this if I throwing
10:53one-handed like this one two yeah can does that make sense great exercises to really get momentum
11:02going forward but also letting the club come down so you get a beautiful compression and again we
11:08start small with this so I'm just picturing my tag out there I'm going to throw the club down while
11:14simultaneously moving through and just rip that one straight down the middle of that Fairway so
11:22three steps get yourself set up first of all feel some momentum Don't Force these angles you don't
11:28need to that just ruins the effortless look in your goal swing feel the momentum of the club then
11:34look connect that momentum not to just stay down here this will just lead to that flicky impact
11:39position to keep that handle ahead we're going to connect this to this so I'm throwing the club down
11:47while simultaneously throwing it bouncing it on the ground and towards my target I start really
11:53small with this with all my students one Ripper simple as that three steps that will lead you to
12:02a much more effortless flowing motion start small get the strike then gradually Build It Up hope you
12:09enjoyed the video if you did give it a thumbs up maybe share it with one of your friends and if you
12:12want to keep advancing this strike maybe moving on to things like your Fairway Woods check this video
12:18out right here if you want to see a live lesson of me giving this kind of momentum check Adam's
12:22lesson out right here it's an absolute belter but until next week have a wonderful golfing week