This One Move Takes You from Amateur to Pro Ball Striking in 5 minutes

How do you hit your driver straight, strike your irons pure, and finally stop hitting fat or thin shots?In this golf lesson by Danny Maude, he reveals how it all comes down to controlling the bottom of your swing arc — the #1 skill of every great ball striker.

In this golf lesson video, Danny Maude shows you how to fix your strike and improve your ball striking with two simple moves that work for every club in the bag. You’ll learn why your pelvis position at impact is the key to both distance and accuracy, and how to train it with easy golf swing drills you can use straight away.

You’ll discover:

* How to hit driver straight without losing distance
* How to strike irons pure and compress the golf ball every time
* Why your golf impact position matters more than your backswing positions
* How to stop slicing driver and fix your swing path
* The secret to low point control in golf — and why it instantly improves consistency

Timestamps:
00:00 How to stop wasting time with too many tips
01:34 Where the bottom of your swing arc *should* be
02:46 Pelvis position at impact explained
03:47 Drill #1 – Yoga wedge for early pelvis shift
06:55 Drill #2 – Pocket move for perfect low point
09:18 The chest movement mistake to avoid
11:44 Feel drill with a bag for natural rhythm
13:30 How this works for the driver
15:38 Setup tips for more distance and accuracy

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This golf lesson provides a couple of wonderful drills to help you hit your driver straight.If you are a beginner golfer and are looking for some golf driver tips that are simple and easy to do then you are going to love this.

I will show you the golf swing slow motion so that you can see what you need to do to improve.

We look at 3 things:

1. How to stop slicing your driver
2. How to swing more in to out or how to swing more inside out
3, How to get the correct impact position with driver

and I hope to do all this with simple golf tips so you can create an effortless golf swing

So, yesterday a student of mine, Rich, asked me a question that I think you might be able to relate to. He said, “Danny, with the thousands of YouTube bits, uh, videos out there, how do I know which one is truly going to improve my stripe, my irons, and my drive and get me hitting a bit more accurately?” Because they all promise to get rid of my slice, they all promise to improve my contact, but how do I know which one is actually going to do it? It’s a great question, isn’t it? So I said to him really simply, there are two things I work on day in day out with my students that are the primary causes of all poor contact and direction. In this video, I want to show you what they are because if you work on these and only these for the time being, it will save you potentially thousands of hours worth of practice and trolling the internet to try and find the tip that’s going to work for you. Right? Can’t wait to share with you. Before I do though, if you’re new to the channel, your first lessons of mine, please consider subscribing. I release videos just like this one every single week to try and help you improve your game. Plus, you never have to remember a thing. Everything we do here, I’ll put into a free download or practice guide in that description box below. So, my goal for you in this lesson is to give you something that is going to make the biggest improvements to your game with the least amount of work, least amount of effort. We’ll start with the eyes and we’ll work to the driver. So you just like all the best players in the world have an arc to your golf swing. The question is is where is the bottom of the arc and that’s super super important because when you create an arc like this there is always going to be a bottom to the ax somewhere right and that bottom is directly underneath or should be directly underneath where your lead shoulder is here. So the best players they bottom out their golf swing their arc right opposite their lead heel like this every single time. in fact within about half an inch. What I see, and this is pretty much between handicaps, is this. If you’re a five handicap, 10, 15, 20, 25, the worse a player you are, the more inconsistent you bottom it out. So, sometimes the the high handicap players are bottoming the club out here. Sometimes it’s here, but it’s unbelievably inconsistent. My job for you here in this video is to give you a way to bottom out your uh club in the same spot time and time again because if you do that, look, the data shows us you will hugely improve as a golfer. Your handicaps will start to flood down because your ball striking will massively improve. So, if you came to see me on the lesson team, the first place I’m going to look at your goal swing, if you are struggling, you’re struggling with contact, direction, distance, the first place I’m going to look is at the moment of impact. Where is your pelvis? Because with great players, it’s always pretty much in the same spot. This pelvis at the moment of impact is directly over the lead heel. Why? Because this gives them a better opportunity, look, to bottom out the club where that lead heel is. Right? If the further the pelvis is away from that, the harder it is to do that. Then the problem is what happens with players is when the pelvis is in the wrong place and they start fatting it and thinning it. They know they’re they’re supposed to strike the ball. So what they do is they move their chest over like this to strike the ball. But when you do that, you strike it, but now you cut across the golf ball. Make sense? So in theory, what you’ve done is look, you’ve moved your pelvis further away and now you’re doing this. We don’t want that. It becomes an unfunctional swing. So how then can we work together to try and help you get your pelvis in the same spot every single time? Well, let me give you a couple of drills that have really worked for my students. The first exercise is this. Now, a lot of people when they’re trying to strike the ball better, they focus on impact. They’re trying to almost try and get it right around here. It’s way too late. I never really focus on impact with players. I focus on what creates great impact, which is generally somewhere early in the back swing or very very up here up here in the back swing, but never down here. It’s way too late. So, we want to get that pelvis forward. So, I’ve just got a yoga wedge here. You don’t need one. You can use feel. I didn’t use this with a recent tune of mine, Rich, and it worked a tree. But, so just for a great visual, this yoga wedge is angled this way. And what it’s doing is this. By me angling here, it’s giving me a feeling of pushing away from the target. So, I’m pushing this way. And that’s a way of getting my pelvis forward. This is what you’ll see with great players is how they get forward. But how I’m getting forward and when I get forward is a lot earlier than most people realize. So, what I got get Rich to do is this. I got him to make some swings. And as he’s swinging back here, I got him to about when he got about halfway. Push, push, push. And as he’s pushing, it’s not just pushing his pelvis forward, he’s actually pushing his right pocket towards the target, which is also helping him make a bigger turn. If you’re at the top of your golf swing, your pelvis is more over your lead heel, you now have a great opportunity to just simply just come back down to the golf ball and land the club in the correct spot. I just don’t see this with players. I see players swinging very carefully all the way up to the top. Now, the problem is in half a second, they’ve got to somehow get that pelvis forward. No one ever does. They turn from here. They come over the top. They start swiping it. They lunge their torso to try and get to the golf ball. They do a whole host of things just to try and strike that golf ball. This drill, just make some swings. Push. Push. If you’re indoors, grab a club like this. Just put it over your shoulders. As I’m turning here, there. So, as I finish, look at this. I’m turning and just before I as I’m completing my swing, I push back towards the target. Anything like this to get that pelvis over forward and early is going to give you the best chance of making sure the bottom of your swing is opposite your lead heel. Right? So, let’s have a look at this in action. So, I get myself set here. And all I’m doing here is this is I’m going I feel the pressure going into my trail foot here, but then I’m pushing back forward. So, I’m next and I’m much further forward to strike that ball. Let’s have a look at this. So you’ll notice here, look at this there. Look, 3.8 in after the golf ball. That is where we want to be. Now I That’s a great exercise. That’s the first place I will look. The second thing I will do, um, I love this one because it’s a wonderful feeling, but it also helps the player at distance, is I will just get a stick holder like this. And again, we said, look, if you want to get that bottom of the swing in the right spot every time, you got to make sure your pelvis is forward and forward early. So, I get myself set here. Get the stick just going up the center of my spine. And what I’m going to do here is as I make a swing, I’m going to get my trail pocket here. When he gets to the top, I am forward. Can you see this? Because I’m forward now, all I’m going to do is just simply just move back to the golf ball. And look, I’m in a great place now. Look to strike that ground in the same spot every single time. What I see with a lot of players here is is they’re simply what happened to Rich earlier. He was simply there’s no movement here. He’s in he’s not in a spot where he’s got any opportunity of of of one generating any power but two striking that ball consistently. He’s going to have to slide so excessively in half a second. It’s so unlikely to happen. Yeah. So just taking that pocket, sliding it around this side gives me great feedback. I could just let the club free flow on the way through. Simple as that. And again what I love about this one, it’s such a great feel you can take straight to the golf course. So, I get myself set here. And as I’m making a swing, I’m just going to picture where that trail pocket is and where the center of my pelvis is relative to my stance. Get it forward and give it a crack. Let’s have a look at this. So, 4.8 in after the golf ball. Now, what’s interesting there is this, and this is a this is a cool one. So, you’ll see here, I’m after the golf ball here, which is great, but my swing direction, my swing circle has actually gone a little bit left of target. Now, this could be a bit of a problem because me trying to demonstrate hitting the ground after the golf ball for you, I cheated that a little bit. And this is what I see with amateur golfers. It’s worth discussing. I’ve tried to kind of there show you that I can strike the ground out of the golf ball, but I’ve done it a little bit with my chest and I’ve come across the line of golf ball here. If I’m not careful, this could become a bit unfunctional. I see with a lot of players. So, what they tend to do is is they do all this great stuff here, but what they do is they then try to get the bottom of the swing after the golf ball, but then what they’re doing is the center of the chest is working down and across. Yes, it can get the uh the bottom of the swing after, but what it then does is it gets you cutting across the ball. So, you’ll see this often with if you’re slicing it. So, what I really need to make sure of here is this. I don’t get the bottom of the swing with my chest. What I do is I keep my chest and my head in the middle of my stance. I don’t want that kind of going forward. And it’s my pelvis that is the key factor here of me striking that ground where I need to strike it, not me cheating that system here. Super super important. So, if I was fixing this, I would first of all, this is really important, something you can check. It’s going to help us with the driver in a second. I would check setup. Make sure when you’re setting up here that your eyes, your shoulders, your forearms, they’re all square, right? Because watch this. If you have an intention to strike that ground after the golf ball and and you start to do this, your eyes start to move and watch what happens to the pelvis. That starts to go backwards. So, yes, we can strike the ground now, but now we have what’s called an unfunctional motion where we’re going to create those horrible slice shots. I don’t want to be striking the ground in the correct spot with a big slice. I want everything square. Look. And as I move this back to square, that moves my pelvis back in position. Now, I’m in a place look to strike the ground when I want to strike it, but also on the correct line. So, let’s take a look at this. So, what I’m going to do now is just exactly what we’ve just done, but I’m going to make sure I’m set up in a place that gets my swing circle more down the line, not coming across the ball and still getting a beautiful low point. And there we go. Look. So you see here here, look, my swing circle’s now neutralized to a zero, but I’ve still got the low point after the golf ball. I haven’t cheated it. Really, really important. Now, before we move to driver, um I also love to give my students rhythm to to feel this. Again, we want the pelvis forward. We can’t get trying to get the perfect impact position just adds tension to us. So we we do all the work in the back swing really, right? So, getting a bag of shopping or something heavy. If you if you have if you’re not new to my channel, you seen something like this before, but it’s super super valuable. Grab something heavy like a bag of shopping and just start swinging that momentum. As you do this, your pelvis and your body will start to react to the weight. When most people are doing, they’re often trying to control the club too much and they tend to do it trying to be too careful. And when you do this, you have these movements that look a little bit like this where we’re all over here and then we move all over here. That’s when it looks cumbersome. doesn’t look very effortless, but notice what my body does very naturally to this. My pelvis is moving forward really early and then I swing. You see this? So, my pelvis is reacting to the weight of the bag. How can you put this into a golf swing? Well, it’s incredibly straightforward, right? So, if you feel that weight, you can just take the golf club, start swinging it. As I’m swinging, look, can you see how my pelvis is reacting to where that club’s going? It’s as the momentum goes away, my body reacts by going early, which again gives me the best opportunity to strike where there. If I try to be too careful and like this, now we’re in trouble. It’s I’ve lost the whole connection, the whole rhythm. But if I just swing, I’m really naturally getting that pelvis working correctly. Look, to strike that line or create the bottom of the swing in the correct place every time. So, great thing to to work on. Same thing, right? I love that one. So, with my students, with a driver, I, you know, very, very similar. I would say here, most of the problems I see, the same drills apply to driver. Exactly. But the most of the problems I see with driver if you’re struggling is this swing direction, it’s never in the right place. So, we I fix that always first. You can always tell if you’ve got massive curvature on your golf shots, that’s the place to look first. So, what I do here is this. When the ball’s further forward, the bottom of the swing is not changing at all. I’m just going to move this bag out the way so this camera can see it. The ball’s not changing at all. Uh, sorry, the low part’s not changing, just the ball position. But when the ball position starts to get further and further forward in our stance, what we then h tend to do is we tend to go and subtly subtly reach it. And I said earlier when you start to subtly reach it, your ey line starts to move, your shoulders start to move, and this pelvis starts to move backwards. So, we start to move into a place where we’re starting to come across the line of the golf ball. And when we do this without changing very much, watch what happens. We start to create just naturally look these big slices, these big bends on the shot. And we want to try and we try to kind of think, oh, how do I get rid of that big slice? Well, and we try all these complicated things when you don’t really need to. You assess your setup first. That’s always I’m looking for because as I said, look, this is a slice. Now, we’re lining things up. We’re lining the circle up here. Look. Right now, the circle’s in a better spot here. Here. Not here. Now, we’ve got a chance to get into a great impact position. From here, it’s just choose which one of those kind of drills resonates with you. For Rich, it was super simple. He loved the feeling of pushing away early because it pushed his trail hip back which allowed him to turn and create a much bigger motion. So not only did he get his bottom of the swing better so the strike was better, he added more distance too, right? And those they all will, right? So take one of them, take the feeling of it, keep it unbelievably simple. Make sure primarily, please, please, please, these two things. Get set up. None of this works without a wonderful setup. Set yourself up here, point down here. This is a great way of getting everything level. I love to stand as a statue here. Shoulders flat, forearms flat. Come straight down here. And if need be, push your weight forward like this to reach the ball. Don’t go over like this. This keeps everything. Look at my how soft that trail arm is inside my body. That’s pretty much it. If you get great setup, you really are almost there. You’re such a big part of the game. Okay. a little bit fad, but as you can see, pretty consistent. So, do me a favor. Stop wasting hours and hours trying this, that, and the other. Work on controlling the bottom of your swing. It is the number one factor that distinguishes great players from everybody else. This is a great starting point. Look, I’d love to help you personally with this. I’m going to start running over the next few weeks kind of um sessions on dannymore.com. We’re going to start going live every week working with players. Send in your swings, do whatever, right? We’re g I’m super super excited to help with this because there are more factors to this, but this is where you start. All right. Um look, if you know somebody else who’s struggling with this part of their game, please share this video. It’s the place I would start with every golfer who’s wanting to get better. It really, really is. If you want to know how to add distance to your driving once you’ve got this contact, this video is a beltered. There’s only four ways to add distance. Two of them will lose your accuracy. These two will gain you accuracy without too much loss of distance. It’s super, super valuable. Of course, if you’re new to the channel, press that subscribe button and the bell. And remember, there’s a free practice plan in the description box below. But until next week, have a wonderful golfing