This One Minute Effortless Golf Drill Beats 5000 Hours On The Range

This One-Minute Golf Drill Can Transform Your Strike Faster Than Years on the Range

Most golfers work incredibly hard on their swing — yet still struggle to strike irons cleanly or hit the driver longer when it matters. In this video, Danny Maude shares a simple golf tip that changes how you practise, not what you try to fix, helping you improve contact, consistency, and confidence without tension or overthinking.

If you’ve been chasing better ball-striking, trying to strike irons more consistently, or looking for a golf tip that actually transfers to the course, this lesson will show you a calmer, more effective way to learn.

This isn’t about adding swing thoughts or forcing positions. Instead, Danny explains how awareness, balance, and a relaxed approach can dramatically improve your golf swing — whether you’re working on iron contact, a short backswing, or trying to hit driver longer and straighter.

00:01 – Why most golfers practice hard but improve slowly
00:26 – The learning mistake that creates tension and frustration
01:31 – The key to striking irons: ball first, then turf
02:50 – Stop trying to “hit down” — what to do instead
03:12 – The awareness drill that improves strike naturally
04:12 – Why balance (not effort) controls contact
05:11 – How adding variability accelerates learning
06:08 – The body position that helps you strike irons cleanly
08:27 – How the same idea helps you hit driver longer and straighter
09:26 – Trail shoulder awareness to reduce slices and hooks
12:24 – How to practise without tension and speed up improvement

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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

How many days, weeks, and months have you put 
in to trying to hit driver straight or improve the contact with your irons? And how’s that 
working out for you? Are you improving fast enough? Because for many of my students 
that come and see me for the first time, they say that despite putting so much effort 
and sweat and tears, they just don’t seem to be getting the improvement that they feel like 
they deserve. What I often notice is that most of the time they’re choosing a way of learning 
that is unbelievably slow and frustrating. It can often fill you with anxiety too, but there’s 
a way of learning that is backed with science that is proven to be one more enjoyable but 
it accelerates your rate of improvement. In this golf lesson video I want to share with you 
what that is because it will help you hit driver straighter. It will help you improve the contact 
with your irons, but it will do it in a way that is relaxing. It’s fun and just so much more 
enjoyable, right? More importantly, faster. So, in this golf lesson thats what I’m going to 
share that with you. Before I do the look, if you’re new to the channel, it’s one of your first 
golf videos of mine, please consider subscribing. I release videos like this one every single week 
to try and help you improve your game. Plus, you never have to remember a thing. Everything I do 
here, I’ll put into a free downloadable practice guide in the description box below. So whether 
you’re looking at maybe hitting the ball a little bit straighter with your irons, your driver, or 
whether you’re looking at improving your contact, maybe even your distance too, this session, 
what I’m going to do is I’m going to show you how you can accelerate that process in a really 
fun, natural, and relaxing way. So let’s start initially just with contact, right? So I think 
if you’re have been around golf enough now to strike a ball solidly, certainly off the ground, 
we want to strike the ball then the ground, right? And you know, if you’ve watched any of my videos, 
the swings an arc like this. It’s always like a a circle and the club is coming down. It reaches a 
bottom to the circle, bottom edge of the circle, and it starts to rise up again. And the bottom 
of that circle is directly underneath my lead shoulder. This would be class as maybe the 
center of the circle, the center of the golf swing. Right? So, that’s the point where the club 
should strike the ground. Now, notice here where my ball position is, it’s a good two, three balls 
back of that. So, we strike that ball look first. then we strike the ground. So now here’s how 
you accelerate that and make it happen a lot faster. So a lot of times people may have heard 
me say something like this and they go right Danny says I’ve got to strike the ground after the golf 
ball. So now they’re staring at the ground after the golf ball and they’re trying really hard to 
achieve that. And that’s the trying mode. That’s the trying way of learning. What do you think 
that breeds? Tension. a fear of doing it right, wrong, whatever. It’s not relaxing. Here’s a 
slightly more accelerated way of doing this to start with. So, you’ve got the guiding principle 
that you’ve got to strike after the golf ball. The ball then the ground. Here’s step one. The first 
thing I want you to do is not try. Forget about that completely. All I want you to do is make 
some swings and notice where you are striking the ground relative to the golf ball. Just pay 
attention. People don’t do that. Just make some of your normal swings and simply notice where your 
club is grounding out. What happens is this. The body and your body is unbelievably smart. It has 
a guiding principle. It knows where it should be now. And just the mere fact that it starts to 
notice where your club is striking the ground, it will start to move in such a way that starts 
to move that club further and further forward of the golf ball without even trying. When 
my students question this, I say to them, it’s like riding a bike. When you’re riding a 
bike, the guiding principle is what? Balance. When you fall to the left, you don’t go, “Oh, 
I need to force it to the right.” No, your body has a guiding principle. And what it does is it 
falls left and it falls right and over time it finds the balance, right? Well, the same principle 
is true here. The balance of your swing needs to be over this side of the golf ball. Most people 
have a who are struggle or higher handicappers, they tend to have their balance over this side of 
the golf ball and they wonder why they’re striking it fat and thin. We’ve got to improve your 
balance. We know it’s not going to be instant, but just simply paying attention to 
where that club is striking the ground, you will start to find the balance of your golf 
swing and your body will start to move. It won’t move straight away. It’s like balance. You don’t 
learn balance straight away, but you will start to get the balance of your swing and over time 
that divot will start to be over on this side of the golf ball. So that’s step one. Don’t try, just 
notice first. Become aware of what you’re actually doing. So before we look at maybe learning how 
to hit driver straight or hit hit driver longer, let’s just stay with contact just for a second and 
introduce you to the second step of accelerating your learning, which is adding variability to 
the way you play and practice. What do I mean by that? Well, a lot of players, they look, we’ve 
just said, “Look, we want to strike the ball uh the ground after the golf ball.” And they’re 
trying to get it right and they’re trying to fix themselves and that’s what they’re trying to 
do. And it adds, what do you think? Again, way too much tension. We want to treat this again like 
riding a bike. Riding a bike for the first time, there’s massive variability. You fall left and you 
fall right. And then because of that variability, your body starts to find balance. Yeah. 
We don’t stand on the bike and go, “Oh, let’s try and get this right.” We adjust. We work 
with that balance, right? It’s the same in golf. Now, the key with striking, we want to get look 
striking that ground ahead of the golf ball. So, notice where my body is. The further my body, my 
middle, my pelvis, and my body here is over this side of the golf ball, the more chance, look, I’ve 
got of striking the ball than the ground. The more my body is over this side of the golf ball, the 
more chance I’ve got of striking the ground behind the golf ball. that will lead to those horrible 
fats and thins. But how do you find it? Well, it’s a balance. So, what I want you to do now is 
when you’re practicing, just really exaggerate it. See how far forward this way you can get 
your body and the far and just play hit some shots from that place and then hit some shots from 
completely other extreme. So, your body now has is falling right basically and falling left. it can 
start to find the right balance until you find the correct way to start to strike that ball and 
you start seeing the results. So an example would be this. Let’s start with everything way behind 
the golf ball here. So my body can experience that and that’s the key thing experience. So much 
different to just thinking. That’s me hitting the ground behind the golf ball. I can feel where my 
body is. Then what I’m going to do here now I’m going to imagine now in a flowing way look I’m 
going to move both my feel my pelvis is moving more and more forward of this golf ball here. So 
very naturally I’m not trying to hit the ground. This naturally going to happen because of where my 
body is right. So I now imagine going way ahead of the golf ball. And you’ll notice here look I’m 5.4 
in. Look ahead of the golf ball. Massively ahead of the golf ball. So what I do now is is I don’t 
go oh I’ve got to try and repeat that. No, just like riding a bike, I am just going to play around 
with it. I’m not going to try and be precise. I’m going to play around with and experiment with how 
forward I can get this body this side of the golf ball. Look at that. I’ve gone even further forward 
on that one. 6.3. So, I play around with that. And then what you can do, just like riding a bike, it 
can be cumbersome to start with and a bit wobbly, just like your swing, but in time you’ll find 
balance. And this is what will speed up your process. The other way of trying to be perfect 
and try to get it right. All that does is it gets you stuck in your head. It gets you unbelievably 
tense over the golf ball and you never really find balance. So let’s move now on to the drive. The 
one club that everyone loves to hit well. I want to help you hit driver straighter and gain some 
yardage. And we’re going to use the same analogy of balance again. Right? So if you are a slicer on 
your certainly air on that side, you’re let’s say you’re falling one way. Maybe you hook the golf 
ball, you’re falling the other way. And we want to try and find straight somewhere in between. How 
can you learn this in a really natural way? Well, I want you to focus just for a second just on your 
trail shoulder. What tends to happen with a lot of players, I want you to feel it first. You’ll 
notice if you’re slicing it, the chances are that trail shoulder rotates early in the down swing, 
goes outwards, and it also stays quite high, right? And that gets you coming over the 
top of the golf ball here, add an open face, and you create this big slice uh to the right. If 
you hook the golf ball, what you’ll probably tend, as you see here, is you pay attention to the 
right shoulder, it’ll tend to fall downwards to the ground very, very low. that gets the club 
heading too far to the right or you got left at the end. Either a block to the right or a flip 
of the wrists. Right now, neither’s wrong what you’re doing. It’s a balance between those two. 
So, I want you to feel it. So, the first thing I want you to do is make a few swings and don’t try 
and fix anything initially. Just pay attention to what your right shoulder is doing. First of all, 
can you concentrate on it? Make some swings. This would be over. Feel what that’s like. 
And now imagine you’re going under and just, you know, grade it. Just pay attention to these 
things. You notice here as it goes underneath, if you’re slicing, this is one of the reasons why 
you can you can really gain some distance with this. If that right shoulder starts to work more 
downwards, can you see how the body works this way, the head works almost like stays backwards 
and it acts as almost like a catapult. So this is how you gain more yardage. But when this trail 
shoulder stays high, we start to almost not only slice, but lose power because we’re heaving 
the ball forward. So all I want you to do now is simply pay attention to your trail shoulder. 
Now you know that if you want to stop slicing it, you want that right trail shoulder to be going 
more downwards. Don’t try and fix it. Just get yourself set. Pay attention to what your trail 
shoulder’s doing and allow the body to naturally move into a place. Two seconds. Too much chatting 
and not enough hitting. Track’s getting bored. Allow that trail shoulder to move into a place 
where I’m more likely to maybe draw the ball. Let’s have a look at this in action. So again, 
nice nice gentle one to start with. Just paying attention to what my trail shoulder’s doing. And 
there you go. Little draw, right? No big hits at this stage. All we’re doing is just noticing what 
that shoulder’s doing, right? And like for me, for instance, I, you know, I tend to be in more of 
the hook family. So my trail shoulder will stay, I’ll tend to travel too far laterally for too 
long and then I’ll flip the wrist sometimes. So, my feeling when I’m talking about balance, I’m 
often feeling like I’m actually get releasing this club and we’re rotating a lot earlier going 
through my right shoulder doesn’t feel as as as low as maybe it might feel for you if you’re 
slicing it, right? But the key with it is this. I’m not trying to fix anything. I’m literally 
noticing where that trail shoulder is and thinking that would be a slice. I might even hit a few 
shots doing that. Right? That’s a slice and this is more going towards the hook. Now I need to find 
that balance. And there’s no exact science with this. You just make some swings and allow your 
body over time to kind of really really feel this. And in time, what we’ll start to find is bit 
by bit, we’ll start to get the sense of this. Right? All I want you to do now is spend some 
time developing that awareness in your game. whatever you happen to be working on, try and 
stay a trying mode and fix it mode and start to become aware and experience what’s happening 
in your golf swing. Just like riding a bike, you can’t tell yourself to go right and left. 
You have to allow your body to experience these things. So, when you’re swinging and 
you’re wanting to improve something, give your body a chance to experience it. Let 
it notice what’s actually happening and let it naturally start to adjust for you. It is far 
more it’s much much faster. It’s more relaxing and just fun. It’s just fun to learn like this. 
So, I hope you enjoyed the video. If you did, give it a thumbs up. Maybe share it with a 
friend who you know could do with something like this. And of course, look, if you’d like 
more personalized advice from me, head on over to dannymud.com. If you enjoyed this video and you 
want to see me give a live lesson just like this to a student, click this video out right here. 
But until next week, have a wonderful golfing