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0:00as you watch this video i want you to
0:02get some aha moments aha moments that
0:04are going to improve your ball striking
0:05with your driver
0:07and your irons and in order to do that i
0:09need to help you in this video become
0:11your own coach i'm not going to be with
0:13you out on the golf course every second
0:15of every day your coach isn't going to
0:17be with you every second of every day so
0:19you need to learn how to coach yourself
0:21i'm going to show you how to do that
0:23because this is the defining difference
0:25between the great players and amateurs
0:28great players when they're out playing
0:29they're able to fix their problems
0:30quickly why because they have feels
0:33they're able to kind of connect with
0:35their own swings they own their swings
0:37by this end of this session i want you
0:39to do the same before i get into it
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0:57okay so there's one skill that all great
1:00players have and i want you to have and
1:02learn this and it is the ability to
1:04coach themselves not rely on people like
1:06me not rely on youtubers or other
1:08coaches too much they become
1:10self-reliant on a golf course now by the
1:12end of this session i'm going to be a
1:13three-step process on how you can coach
1:16yourself into better ball striking more
1:18consistency more club head speed with
1:20every single club in your bag now let's
1:23start with basically the first stage
1:25if you're off your game and you're
1:27struggling it's usually a timing issue
1:28it's usually initially you've just lost
1:30your timing either the club is arriving
1:32way too early you start hitting the
1:34ground behind the golf ball or it's
1:35alive and too late and you're too steep
1:37on the ball whatever it might be but
1:39it's a timing issue and a lack of
1:41awareness so what i want you to do
1:43simple exercise here and kids are great
1:44at this is i want you to kind of
1:46visualize the perfect swing what you see
1:49is the perfect scene your favorite
1:50golfer just take a look at them and just
1:52watch them swing backwards and forwards
1:54okay and as you're doing this what i
1:56want you to do is this
1:57to improve your timing you need to be
2:00able to kind of take that picture
2:02and connect it with the club head so you
2:04want to ultimately in a sense build a
2:06relationship between your body
2:08and the club and the one of the simplest
2:10ways to do this is add an orgy cue to
2:13this so
2:14da da da is what i'm going to use
2:22okay now by doing this you're building a
2:25rhythm in your swing and you're building
2:28a kind of sense of coordination without
2:30cluttering your head with a load of
2:32things so then what you did you get to a
2:34golf ball and you might think well i've
2:35got to do this this this this this no
2:38can all of that for now
2:40and all i want you to do is say the
2:42words out loud initially
2:45da
2:46da da
2:48da
2:50and those words are trying to match
2:52wherever that club is is make some
2:55swings keeping those words
2:57and the feeling
2:58in your mind
3:03nice and simple
3:05all right
3:06now all i'm doing here is building that
3:08connection
3:10with
3:11those words okay i'm building a feel
3:14i want you to hit some golf balls doing
3:15that as stage number one now it sounds
3:18simple doesn't it right but what will
3:20happen is when you're over that golf
3:21ball you'll probably have a million or
3:22one things going on all my grip i've got
3:24to do this go do that you've got to
3:26block all that out and what great
3:28players do they don't flip their head
3:29with a load of stuff they are able to
3:32connect and feel their golf swing that's
3:34what i want you to spend time doing can
3:36you connect with this golf club it may
3:39take a few balls
3:40once you've finally done it on the full
3:42swings then test yourself by maybe going
3:45on a few half swings so it becomes
3:47da
3:48da da okay so i'm now going to kind of
3:50just cut it down a fraction
3:56few small swings just
3:58building that timing in right once
4:01you've done that you're now starting to
4:03build timing you're starting to get a
4:04connection with a club head now we start
4:06to look work on direction this is easier
4:10than it sounds so all we have to do now
4:12is now you have a sense of where the
4:13club head is all we then do is this i
4:16want you to ask yourself here when
4:18you're swinging okay
4:19is your club head
4:21moving away from the body through impact
4:25or is your club head moving towards the
4:27body through impact
4:30if it moves too far away from the body
4:32you might be in the kind of the hook
4:34family okay if it's moving towards the
4:37body it's in the slice family
4:40all i want you to do is simply this
4:41don't try and stop anything from
4:43happening all i want to do is make a few
4:44swings and ask yourself okay in fact why
4:47not initially where is your club head do
4:49you feel it's heading yeah then what i
4:52want you to do is this make some swings
4:54feeling the clubhead maybe moves away
4:56from the body yeah like this see what
4:58happens to your shots
5:00and then maybe make some swings where
5:01the clubbing moves more towards the body
5:03and see what happens
5:05by doing this what you're doing is
5:06you're getting a sense of ultimately how
5:09to control the club path through impact
5:12but you're doing it through feel you're
5:14not giving you're doing it through an
5:16instruction like make sure you swing
5:18into out none of that makes sense
5:20because these are all major instructions
5:22that are flooding your head with too
5:23much information you need to be able to
5:26experience the club head if you want to
5:28be able to change it so where is your
5:30head swinging is it swinging away from
5:33the body or is it swinging towards the
5:35body
5:36the second thing with direction is this
5:38i want you to be able to control the
5:40club face so a simple thing to do this
5:42okay you can actually use your lead
5:44wrist if you want look at my lead hand
5:46here okay all i'm gonna do is this
5:49are your knuckles facing the sky
5:52through impact or are they facing down
5:55from impact all right so what i want you
5:57to do is make some swings and what i'm
6:00going to do here is look i'm going to
6:01get my sense are my knuckles facing down
6:04or up they felt very very down there
6:08watch this
6:09so i hit a big hook yeah my knuckles are
6:12very very down i might hit a massive
6:15hook
6:16if i feel like my knuckles are very very
6:18up to the sky what do you think i will
6:20hit now
6:22massive open face it's going to get out
6:25to the right now i actively put them
6:28there for video but i want you to not do
6:30that i want you to be able to feel first
6:33what your knuckles in your lead hand are
6:36doing
6:37through the impact area are they down or
6:40are they up
6:41that will often determine what is going
6:44on with that club face and give you
6:46therefore the power and the feel to make
6:48small alterations that will help you hit
6:50the ball much much straighter as well as
6:53direction what about ball striking how
6:55do you improve your ball striking well
6:57you know it's different for your woods
6:59to your irons with your driver and stuff
7:01you want to hit up on the ball and with
7:03your eye and you want to hit down on the
7:04golf ball so a simple thing i want you
7:06to do now is this okay we know that the
7:09club swings up and it always comes down
7:11to a low point in the bottom here and
7:13then starts to swing up again yeah so
7:16what i want you to do is ask yourself
7:18this
7:19where and what is your club doing
7:22are you in a sense striking the ball
7:24before it reaches the bottom of its arc
7:27or are you striking it
7:29after it's hit in the bottom part of the
7:31ack
7:32now i say spend some time feeling this
7:34because what most of us are doing when
7:36we've seen it on camera you've seen oh i
7:38know i'm hitting up on the ball danny
7:39you know you're hitting up on it because
7:40you've seen it on camera but the problem
7:42is have you actually felt it have you
7:45experienced it real time because that's
7:47what is going to make the biggest
7:48difference to your game how many times
7:50have you seen yourself coming over the
7:52top or flicking your wrist you still
7:54can't get rid of it the reason being is
7:56you haven't gone through exercises that
7:58are helping you experience yourself
8:00doing these things once you do almost
8:03there instantly they're curative so do
8:05this get yourself set
8:07and close your eyes with this if you
8:08want but make some swings
8:10get a feel of the arc of the club going
8:13up it reaches a low point and then comes
8:16up again okay now make some swings and
8:19look i strike the ground there
8:21just before i then
8:23come up again okay watch this now i'm
8:26hitting up on the ball i'm getting a
8:28feel of where my low point is and my
8:30body naturally as a byproduct is already
8:33look adjusting does that make sense your
8:36body is super super smart if you trust
8:38it yeah so spend some time doing that
8:41get yourself over a couple of shots
8:43let me hit shot here and what i'm going
8:45to do here is i'm going to ask myself
8:46here where my low point is so follow the
8:49club and it's not easy to start with
8:50particularly if you've got a load of
8:51stuff running through your head you've
8:53got to quieten that down
8:56and i felt it was all there my club face
8:58was closed and watch this
9:00i felt as though my club face was closed
9:02and what happened to my shot
9:04that is the difference between someone
9:05like myself as professional why i have
9:07those feelings because i've developed
9:09that feel that's told me look where this
9:12ball is going right that's what i want
9:14you to get from these exercises so one
9:17bonus tip okay
9:19once you've done this so spend some time
9:21literally feeling where your low point
9:23is with i end up down with driver it's
9:26up okay spend some time doing that
9:28then once you've done it you've got a
9:30feel of direction you've got to feel the
9:31low point okay the final bit
9:34is speed well how can you feel speed
9:37well you can feel it and you can also
9:40hear it so what i want you to do is this
9:43most people are trying to kind of hit
9:44the ball really really hard
9:46but you don't need to do that you've
9:48seen how far i can hit it with what
9:49feels like an f or looks like an
9:51effortless swing but listen to the sound
9:53of the club whooshing listen
9:56now what i want you to do is have almost
9:59like five levels listen to this
10:02level one
10:04level two
10:07level three
10:09level four
10:12level five
10:14hear those noises increasing each and
10:16every single time
10:18notice that sound and then start to
10:21apply that ask yourself here what feels
10:24right to you experiment once you've got
10:27a feel of that sound
10:28feel of the speed then start to apply it
10:31to your shots i'm gonna feel like i'm
10:33gonna be around about level three for
10:35this one okay
10:40so that's around about level three
10:42and
10:43all i do then is i can then push that if
10:45i want i felt that was level three i
10:47could then feel like i'm gonna push it
10:49to level four but my point is is i'm in
10:53control of this pace yeah i'm not
10:56telling myself to slow down or speed up
10:57what does that mean it's too general
10:59i've got my i've got my speeds i can
11:01feel where they are and that's what i
11:02want you to do too so let's summarize
11:06four major things i want you to focus on
11:08timing get your timing first apply
11:11orders requeues da
11:16try and match get that relationship
11:17between you and the golf club get that
11:19timing then literally start to get feel
11:22of direction how do you do that two
11:24elements the way you swing the path that
11:26you're swinging on yeah are you is the
11:28club moving away from your body is it
11:30moving towards your body what shots are
11:32you getting right one through those
11:34fields most of the time they're moving
11:36away from your body you're gonna be in
11:37hook territory moving towards your body
11:39too much you're gonna be in slice
11:40territory use those fields to tune your
11:43swing tune your direction
11:45club face
11:46are your knuckles down
11:48or up
11:49what shot do you get when you feel your
11:51knuckles are down are you hitting it
11:53straight are you hooking it whatever it
11:54doesn't matter but use these feels
11:56because they're gonna control your club
11:58face
11:59and finally in terms of speed how can
12:03you improve the overall consistency of
12:05your swing well we know that sometimes
12:06we get rushed don't we right so play
12:09around with your speed give it levels
12:12you and do that with sound listen to the
12:15sound all right so i really really hope
12:17this uh helps it's going to be part of a
12:19series of videos designed to help you
12:21become your own best coach you don't
12:24have to rely on people like me or not
12:25every week for that matter but i really
12:27really believe this could help you
12:28become a great great golfer so if you
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