This was a fun lesson, and one which I think could help so many of you with your ball striking. I was helping Matty with his game on the golf course, he is a relatively new golfer and explained that he was struggling with his ball striking.
Watching a few swings I could see why. he was trying to get his weight forwards to help strike, but this was where the issues were arising, so I was able to give him a pretty simple sequence of drills that completely changed the way he swung the club and struck the golf ball.
With just a few rehearsals, some drills and some simple explanations he hit in his own words, ‘The best shot of his life’, into the 17th hole, fun to watch.
Hope you enjoy and as always just drop into the comments and let me know if you have any questions, I try my best to get back to everyone
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00:00 Introduction
00:50 The Fault
04:05 Step Drill
05:47 Wall Drill
07:17 Driver
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Brilliant – I can't wait to get to the range with these thoughts on the weight set up and movement for my irons. I know I've been staying too much on my lead foot.
Hope you enjoy the video, let me know if you have any questions 🙏🏻
Lifting leg helps me get to the left and turn
Brilliant Chris, I think most amateurs can relate to this one. Always helpful, thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Thank you Chris, the sliding up the wall idea for driver might really help me. I think I’ve been shifting too much forward and skying the ball high as the driver slides under the ball. I was destroying tees for a bit until I figured out the problem. That was a clue. This swing thought should help, thanks!
Great info Chris. Can you please comment on how this applies to fairway woods and hybrids? Thanks
Well done Chris 👏 😊
Struggling maintaining right hand grip on club during swing. Have seen your tip using tee with loose left hand grip. Do you have something similar for right hand ?
A video on keeping posture throughout the swing for both driver and irons
I'm a bit confused. There have been a lot of golf instructors on you tube, possibly even you, who have pointed out or shown that touring pros actually start moving pressure into their lead foot as early as half way back in there backswing. Certainly during their backswing and not on the way down. This video seems to contradict that concept…or like I said maybe Im confused and you can clarify. Because I've worked a lot on shifting pressure starting before transition at the top.
Please wipe the lens. 🙂
A blob on 3 vlogs now.
Thanks Chris for the insightful iron striking tips for creating the proper ball compression effect upon impact. What would you recommend for correcting a severe slice? Would a shallow swing be an important factor? I seemed to be making some progress with a shallow swing, gripping down on the shaft for more control and simulating an effortless 9 iron shot…if that makes sense?
Great great video and demonstration. I'm a 3 handicap and really took some significant takeaways. Thanks much! Hopefully this helps me get to 0
Great video Chris. I have always struggled with my irons and have balance issues, so will definitely try this. Many thanks.
great swing thought. potential future topics: difference in tee height for hybrid versus 5 wood/3 wood? why some people have positive angle of attack using 5 wood/3 wood off the tee while others have negative angle of attack off the tee for 5 wood/3 wood? bag set up with preferred gapping between longest iron to driver?
Great explanation.and drills
Thank you for clarifying the difference between driver and irons. What should I do when I want to hit with my hybrids on the ground? Does this differ if I were to put them on a tee?
Your videos, the way you explain, and your drills are great. I’d love to see you some more short game content like shots 100 yards and in.
what a great video to show the differences in the swing. I have been looking for this info forever….yippee yaya
Great video Chris and simple drill to work on. I feel as if I break the wall with my driver so need to practise sliding up the wall more to gain the right flight. Thanks.
Awesome. Never really considered this but obviously you need to get this correct. Thanks for the videos.
great instruction as usual. Maybe a little help for a pusher. Even stronger grip hasn't worked.
Hi Chris been watching your videos since i lived in Canada . I retired to France and i still enjoy your instruction. Especially your shoulder move to the wall in the iron striking downswing drill. Simple move simple thought great results. Keep up the good work !!!
One of your best videos in some time, Chris. Thank you for the content!
Chris – would lifting the lead heel in the backswing and slamming it down to start the downswing help to shift pressure to the trail side going back and into the lead side coming down?
Just what the doctor ordered 🙂
Thanks Chris, nice tutorial. Being a senior golfer I would like to know if lifting the lead heel on the backswing would assist in better body rotation and hence more power? A video on this would be very interesting.
It seems to me a key question one has to ask one self is where is the sternum in relation to the ball at impact? If the sternum is behind the ball at impact with an iron, you will hit the ground before the ball. You want the position of the sternum to be ahead of the ball at impact for ball turf contact.
Thanks Chris. Couldn’t agree more. I have the benefit of have the tee of a par 3 basically as my backyard so I see heaps of people teeing off at the home of PGA Australia (Sandhurst in Melbourne). I get to see some great shots however most are hitting as described and practice this before address so their chances of landing on the green is 1 in 1000. It’s not a cheap course and being the home of PGA the clubhouse is full of tech with some great couches. Never understood why peps spend money on good gear, yet would play better with a cheap set and spend the balance on learning. All show, no go I guess.
Hi Chris, on another topic (my current set is basically Taylormade). P790 irons, mill grind 3 wedges, GT spider putter and I’ve finally upgraded my woods/rescue clubs to Stealth 2. My biggest problem with this particular driver is I can’t shape the direction as well as previously. I like it as distance has improved slightly, just can’t seem to draw or fade with any confidence. Any thoughts and advice? My natural shot is a baby draw and without radically altering swing path I’m finding that I’m playing safer with this particular driver. The head coach commented last weekend when I was paired with him in a competition that he also had the same issue when he first tested it and as a result it’s not in his bag.
Excellent instructions and we'll explained
I'm struggling with active hands and sometimes releasing early causing a hook