Mastering Hybrids & Woods for a Better Long Game

Thank you for tuning in! Hit that subscribe button so you’ll never miss a video! Drop your thoughts in the comment box. We can’t wait to hear from you!

▶ FOR BUSINESS INQUIRES EMAIL US: info@AylexTV.com

FOLLOW US:
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aylexthunder
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aylexthunder/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AylexThunder
Stream My Music: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/aylexthunder/ive-done-it-again-feat-bo-henrik–adewolf

SUBSCRIBE TO MY OTHER CHANNELS:

Aylex Thunder
https://www.youtube.com/@AylexThunder

Aylex Badminton Academy
https://www.youtube.com/@AylexBadmintonAcademy

Aylex Golf Academy
https://www.youtube.com/@AylexGolfAcademy

Aylex Culinary Academy
https://www.youtube.com/@AylexCulinaryAcademy

Aylex Piano Academy
https://www.youtube.com/@aylexpianoacadem

Aylex Real Estate Academy
https://www.youtube.com/@aylexrealestateacademy

now that we hit our drivers and our irons it’s time to learn the missing middle our hybrids and our woods so today we’re here with cpj Coach James E to learn how so hybrids and woods this is uh clubs that I would say beginner golfers probably don’t use very often except for the golfers that just want to feel really good cuz it feels really good to hit these clubs well if you had a good shot yeah it feels really good hybrid is uh slightly easier than the wood especially the three wood but if you know how to hit those shots hit those hybrid it’s going to be so much easier right all right so why don’t we start with the hybrid then all right so I got the four hybrids here main problem with people hitting hybrid and wood and main issue they have is they usually top the ball which means they try to scoop the ball in the air so what I mean by scooping is when you’re getting into impact position you kind of lean back and you trying to get the ball in the air and you your spine angle start to tilt back and you start flipping your wrist so that’s the main issue so usually they top the ball or they hit it slightly behind the ball and hit the ball main reason is because the target is usually pretty far away right when you’re hitting a wood and a hybrid it’s usually from 180 to 250 so when the target is very far away what a lot of people do is they only focus on the Target and they want to hit the ball hard and when they a lot of people they struggle to get the ball in the air with hybrid and the woods so they trying to scoop the ball also at the same time and they trying to swing hard as they can but faster you swing obviously your chance of hitting the middle of the club base is going to be very low that’s why they’re hitting it really bad so well why don’t we give it a try oh okay set up more like a longer iron setup right oh yeah setup wise longer iron so if your seven iron is this wide your shoulder width then we’re going to go one more feet mhm then ball this is four hybrids so ball position around two ball left of the middle so one this is the middle one two mhm okay not bad okay so that was a little bit high but oh that’s that’s not bad so did but did you notice that most of your balls were going pretty low mhm so we need to get we need a little bit more height right so so we want the balls to land on the green and land softly yeah and the reason it was going low is what you were saying earlier cuz many people mistake this kind of for like a driver right they try to sweep it yes and you’re supposed to sweep it but when you swing a hyb and wood I want you to actually feel like you’re going to make a divot M hit down on it really hard so we can get the ball how do you get out of that mentality cuz it’s just like when we look at this club it feels like I need to sweep this oh it’s you just need a lot of practice soer practice just have to force yourself and say okay I’m going to make a divot with this shot yes yes so let me show you an example so how I teach my client with wood and hybrid we start with the drow so legs slightly close together and we want the bottom of the club to brush the ground every single time not the Leading Edge Leading Edge is this part and bottom so good thing about hybrid is the Leading Edge is not too sharp as an iron it’s kind of Round Here Right so you have a little less chance of your Club getting stuck to the ground so leg slightly narrower and start with the takeaway and make sure the bottom of the club touches the ground every single time like this you see the bottom of my club is touching mhm and we start from here and then once this becomes very easy we go up to half swing and same thing brush the ground see I’m always brushing the ground with the not just rushing like hitting the ground with the bottom of the car when this becomes easy that’s when you start doing a full back swing and doing a brushing so I haven’t missed hitting the ground yet right right and same feeling when you’re hitting the ball and then bring that to your actual game so brush the ground brush brush okay brush the ground mhm that’s better wow that was clean yeah so did you notice your club was doing all the work there yeah and that one I really felt like I was coming down on the ball mhm so second tip is you got to make sure you have to feel the head weight weight of the head mhm so the another feeling I want you to get besides brushing the ground is is feel the head weight and I want you to loosen up your arms a little bit take the tension out of your arm and I want you to almost swing like this feel the weight of the head and just drop the club m to the ground mhm feel the head weight drop and you want to especially do this with hybrids and wh because there is more weight on the head yeah there’s a little bit more weight cuz your head will do a lot of work for you so with an iron you kind of have to compress the ball and swing hard but with the hybrid you don’t have to as long as you can feel the head weight and just drop the club onto the ground and your club’s going to do all the work did you feel that y like I’m just dropping my hands like this and turning my body so now that we know how to hit our hybrids it’s time to learn how to hit our Woods and Woods is harder to hit than hybrids oh yeah cuz it’s longer the longer the club is harder and loft is loft is lower so you need more speed so what do we need to focus on when we’re hitting this we need speed that’s it yes just speed same exact same as the iron a hybrid we definitely need more speed but what happens when we don’t have enough speed your ball’s you’re not you’re not going to hit the ball far your ball’s going to go low and also it’s going to carry way shorter so your hybrid distance and uh wood distance is not going to vary that much MH cuz you’re going to carry low right carry less so we need more speed let’s just give it a try first yeah that was a good contact see the distance is exactly the same 209 as the hybrid that was a good contact right uhuh so that was exactly the same as a hybrid that’s because my club head speed is not high not fast right my club head speed was 89 on that which is not good for a wood so what should the speed be for wood for um what I notice was you’re lacking wrist rotation so you do a on your back swing you do a wrist hinge right here but at at the impact and follow through you don’t do any wrist hinging so you do a wrist hanging here you have to do it again after the impact but your after the impact position your left arm and the shaft are in a straight line so you’re losing that much of a speed right here and right here so you also notice your most of your ball goes to the right side right cuz you’re lacking that wrist turn wrist rotation and wrist hinging so how much of this do we have to do compared to irons is this we have to do a lot more wrist rotation on the woods oh yeah with the wooden driver and longer club we need more cuz that’s how you can create that extra Club speed too right uh how I want you to do it this get your setup on your back swing I want you to have a little bit of more wrist hinging at the back swing too cuz if you do a little faster wrist hinging at the back you’re eventually going to do a little faster wrist hinging after you hit the ball mhm okay so be a little bit more aggressive with the back swing right here it’s a lot of wrist tinge and a lot of wrist hting here and another feeling I want you to get is after you hit the ball I want you to feel like the club is going to touch your head like this that’s how fast I want you to do your wrist hinge not this well why is it that when we hear a lot of people say at the end of the Swing they have to throw out their swing oh yeah you got to extend your arm you have to extend but only up to this point around 3 ft after the club up to here and then eventually have to release so faster wrist pting at the back swing so we need to at least hit this 220 to 230 okay cuz your hybrid was 210 okay so that was was the wrist hinge but I just miss hit it uh yeah you hit the hit hit that on the heel but problem with that is when you start using your wrist that fast your Club face is going to close a lot that’s another issue so you have to adjust for that H you got to you got to compensate it by turning your hips a little faster mhm oh that was nice little left but distance-wise that was 220 uhhuh good for people can generate speed with three wood I recommend getting a five wood five is so much easier because you don’t need that extra Club speed so little left so that’s a 105 headp speed yeah plus speed wise was faster and that’s how you hit your wood and hybrids if you like this video make sure to comment down below what tutorial you like to see next and of course like comment subscribe and check out this video