If you’re struggling to compress your irons or make solid contact, this drill will change your feel instantly. Too many golfers get the classic chicken wing in their arms, leading with that and neglecting the body rotation, causing thin and inconsistent strikes. Try the push ball drill — keeping the arms straight and rotating your body through.
This teaches proper rotation, better extension, and that pure, ball-then-turf compression you see from great ball strikers.
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So, simply push the ball towards the target. But notice when I’m doing this, I’m not doing this with just my arms like this. Because often times we’ll see chicken wing, not a lot of rotation, no real compression on the golf ball. What we’re after when we’re pushing the ball is you’re feeling it’s coming from your body. So, it’s going to start in your feet, your knees, your hips, everything’s going to be rotating and moving towards the target. And it’s almost like the last thing to go is the handle of the club, which then pushes the ball out in front of you. So, real simple exercise. It shows you how to be efficient. That is how we want to move. It’s worth sticking your finish here as well. And understanding, have I got the extension, the arms? Have I rotated the body? The last thing you want to do when you’re doing that drill and when a golf shot is move it like that. We’ve got to get that body involved.
