The Drills That Changed My Golf Swing FOREVER?! CUT THE HANDICAP Ep.3

Episode 3 of Cut The Cap is here!
After a solo range grind, I’m back with the pro to tackle the mess I made… and it gets real. From setup to grip and everything in between, this session dives into the actual drills and swing thoughts that could finally change my game.

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• Range session solo recap 🎯
• Pro breakdown and analysis 📹
• Set-up + grip correction 🤚
• Swing drills you can try TODAY ⛳
• Can I finally hit it straight?

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Hi guys, welcome back to the channel. So this is episode three of Cut the Cap. We’re going to be having a look at how we got on in episode two. We’re going to be seeing if we’ve made any improvements. If that back swing’s got any shorter, striking the ball better, see if we can get a better swing path, see if we’re staying on plane. That’s a big one. Um, and yeah, so we’re just going to work our way through the bag and see what’s what. First episode I was trying to set a benchmark round. I’m an 18 handicapper. So I was aiming for a 90 around this course. Didn’t go so well. So you can check that out. The second episode is working with an exour pro giving me my first lesson. Basically how bad my swing is and what I need to improve. Yeah, you can see the progress that we made through that episode. It’s about half an hour is really insightful. Uh there might be something for you there that will help with your swing. I’m giving myself four or five lessons and then I’m just going to go for it. It’s a 71 power 71 at Stratford Oaks. That’s the course I’m trying to do this challenge at. I need to be breaking 80 to to do it basically. So, good luck for me. [Music] So, as you can see, to begin with, I’m using the training made that Tom recommended to me. I’ll put a link in the description for that, actually, cuz it’s really useful if anyone’s suffering with a long back swing or they’re folding their arm, their right arm at the top of the swing. Yeah, it just basically keeps it at 90°. You can’t really go wrong with it. [Music] [Music] there. I’m hitting a couple of a couple of nice ones. I flushed a few of them and that was happening when I felt like honestly when I felt like I was doing a a third of my swing, maybe even like a half swing, that’s when I was hitting it. Well, when I look back at this video, when I was thinking I was doing half swings, I’m like nearly parallel at the top. So maybe that’s the feel for me. half swing long again thinking that I wasn’t. Um and when I was up here and club face was sort of not there. Okay. It was open. It was like that almost I think. Yeah. Um okay. Quite interesting actually that because interestingly with that a lot of the time when you see a golf swing where the face kind of rotates and they get a bit open. Yeah. Tends to lead to a longer swing. Okay. Very rarely when you get the face kind of shut you get long. Yeah. Usually get quite short swing, shorter back swings with with a shutting club face. Yeah. I suppose that’s because of the sort of wrist angles if you like and the the sort of how the joints work. It doesn’t really allow you to swing very far where if you open the face allows you to move your joints loads more. Sure. So you end up maybe they go hand in hand is what I’m saying. I think I was in the end I started just thinking about as if I’m doing a half swing. Look back at the video and I was Yeah. Too far back. Yeah. Um All right. Yeah. I just Well, we got we got the concept sort of outlined last time, didn’t we? Yeah. That where the poor shots come from. Yeah. the fact that we take the club back that little bit too far. We lose control of it. Yeah. But also the sequence in the timing goes, doesn’t it? Because you make such a long arm swing. Yeah. That then your body then engages in the down swing, your arms are almost stuck behind your turn. Yeah. They’re left behind, if you like. And then by the time you get to the golf ball, squaring that up is quite difficult. I think if we can get the club a bit more in front of us. And when I say in front of us, I don’t mean necessarily in front of our body. What I do mean is in front of you in sequencing. So as you’re coming down, the arms working more and then the body rather than the arm, you know, the body’s having to wait so long for these arms to catch us up. Yeah. And if it does engage early, we’re going to hit a bit of a poor shot. Generally, mist time it. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And we lose control of the face. So let’s get a bit of a warm up. Get a few swings in. The fact that you’re tight might help you swing a bit short. Okay. Okay, it’s better. Yeah. Look, that’s the whole point of this process is we chip away at getting it a little bit better every time. Yeah. It’s definitely shorter than it was. Yeah. Okay. As I say last time, I don’t think this is going to be a very quick fix. No. Put a plaster on it. We’re all good. This is a long-term hard build. Yeah. Uh it will take a bit of effort. Okay. Definitely. So, I’m going to take a little bit of camera, bit of a footage. Cool. I will film this way just for, you know, to get a really good look, but I’m more interested from that first view. Yeah. So, yeah, the good I say the good the good part the good part is that your better swings are better shots. Yeah. you know, when you don’t make as good a swing, you are not getting to at least your feedback from your shots is pretty relevant to what you’re doing. Yeah, that one was nowhere near as good as the one before. No. In movement, nowhere near. Um, okay. So, we’d mentioned last time about our aiming with our body and it was still a little bit that way. So, the shoulders are still open to the feet line. So the feet line is kind of sort of that way going, but the shoulders definitely going a little bit more the opposite way. So just get those squared up. The other thing that that then affects for me is you set up it from face on. So when you zoom in here, look a little bit, okay, let’s say a different way. I’d rather you tilt a little bit more that way. Okay. Than I would that way. Yeah, if that makes sense. And we just look I think that’s because your shoulders are open. Which means this shoulder comes forward, this shoulder goes back and makes you look like you’re tilted. I actually think if you push this shoulder away from the camera. Yeah. And square up. It would look a little bit more that way, which I think is the right thing. So I don’t think it’s so much how you’re setting up, it’s your alignment. Okay. So get your body alignments right. push stick down. Get get your feet, knees, hips, and shoulders all lined up. Okay. Um parallel to your target. That will definitely help. Straighter for a bit longer. Definitely. Yeah. And then we kind of get a little bit longer. Yeah. And we’ve just lost that little bit of structure in that arm, haven’t we? That left arm here is just got a little bent which has allowed that right arm to over flex the club to go past parallel almost as well. It almost pulls your top half with it. That makes sense. So as you’re turning back, if you got the camera on me, y as you turn to the top, this shoulder’s got to come across over here. Yeah. Not necessarily sort of down. It’s almost coming more across and we’re staying up in our turn. Now, when you see we’re going all right for quite some time. Yeah. And then almost the weight and the flex in the arms, the weight of the club almost starts to pull us toward the target and we end up losing our sort of our lovely look here when we’re in behind the golf ball. We start to look a little bit on top of it. Yeah. Okay. And I think that’s just the weight of your arms and the club pulling you almost into the ground. Okay. So, we It’s the same stuff. Yeah. It’s not changed. It’s not at all. It’s the same stuff, but we’re better at it. We’re just not quite there. Yeah. We’ve done about 85 80% of it. Just that last 10 20% now where we just got to hold on a bit better. Got to hold the structure. This has got to stay straighter. This has got to stay straighter. Yeah. And this has got to stop getting toppled towards the target. So, we’ve got to try to drop this back at the start to get ourselves square. Let this left shoulder come across nice and strong, but ultimately we’ve got to try and almost push the club away from ourselves. The grip getting closer to us is causing us the trouble. Okay. Okay. It’s got a bit of an idea of feel today on how you’re going to push this up. Okay. Okay. So, let’s do that. Cool. Yeah. So, okay. So, you’ll have seen Mroy do a a similar kind of drill to this. Yeah. His is used in a different kind of way, but so you split the hands on the grip. Okay. And I just want you to kind of put it like that. Okay. To the side like that. Okay. Now, Maroy uses it as a down swing theory. We’re going to use it as a a back swing. Okay. Okay. So, now as you push the club back, you take the club into your back swing. What I want you to do at this point is I want you to push or pull the club up towards the sky with your right hand. Okay. Okay. So, you’re going to swing it back and as you get to about here, I want you to really pull the club skywards that way as much as you can. Yeah. So, you get the feeling of your there at the top rather than letting it fall in. Okay. Yeah. So, you’re just going to push it up. Okay. So, you’re going to use your right hand to push it up. So, square. So, put the club side up here. So, lift it up. You can relax. Yeah. Go on. You grab it the bottom of the club. That’s it. Put it there. That’s it. Lovely. That’s all I want you to do. From here, I want you to use that hand to push it that way. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, as we turn back, you’re going to push it away. That’s your feeling in your back swing. Right. Okay. As we do that, just let me come across that camera. I want you to feel like your left shoulder’s going to your right shoe, across to your right shoe. Okay. Okay. So what we’re avoiding is this point here, this folding, this folding. Yeah. This toppling. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So this shoulder gets across and we push that right hand up and away. That’s it. Deeper. Lovely. Okay. Now put both hands on the golf club for me and give me a similar feel. Just a practice back swing. There we go. Good. Okay. Okay. So, you’re going to push your right hand as far towards me over here as you can. Yeah. Okay. So, go there. Push it. Okay. Try not to lift it. Try and push it that way. Okay. This way. Okay. Okay. Not that way. Okay. Okay. One more time. Push it away there. Lovely. Perfect. That’s going to be the top of our back swing basically. Stop. There you go. Good. Okay. Now, what I want you to do is go to the golf ball. Yeah. And imagine you’re in a Formula 1 race and you’re going for a pit stop. You’ve got a speedometer in that section where you come to the track. Yeah. You got to you got to slow lane. All right. Yeah. You’ve got to slow lane it at 20 mph until you hit the track, then you can hit the speed. Okay. But in the pit lane, can’t break that speed limit. Okay. So, I want your back swing to feel like the pit lane. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Your speed limit and the pit lane. And then as soon as you get to the track, that’s the top of your back swing, you can apply the speed. Okay. Okay. So, snail pace kind of thing. Right. Firstly, square you up. Drop this shoulder back. Right now, pit lane to the top. Slow. Good. There’s beautiful. What you just did there was great. So, work it to the top and go. Nice. Well done. Good effort. Good effort. Yeah. So, one of the things that Butch loves is width in golf swings, which is one of the things we don’t have. Yeah. So, one of the things he does intends to do in his lessons is if you set up to the golf ball. Mhm. And this is sort of drawn on a video camera, but imagine he drew a line outside of your right foot to the sky like that. Yeah. Now, your job is to swing it back normally, but your hands at the top of this back swing have to be this side of that line. Okay. Okay. Yeah. You cannot let your hands get anywhere near the line. Okay. You’ve got to stay outside that line. Okay. So, I’m going to give you the feeling that that is about there. Lovely. Good. Okay. Keep your head watching the golf ball. Yeah. Keep your hands outside. Through line. And through. Well done. Good man. That was nice. Okay. Got the sensation for that. Yeah. We’re trying to get the mechanics right. It’s not about scoring today, is it? No. Okay. So, okay. And again, we’re going to try and really try and feel push it out. Push the elbow down a touch. Push it away from you. That’s what I want to feel like. So, regardless of the shot, that’s where I want to be at the top of this back swing. Okay. Right. Slowly shoulder back to the top. Push it slowly. Go. Nice. Okay. because you’re so used to taking such a long back swing. Yeah. And having so much excessive movement that to create power from what feels such a short back lift if you like. Yeah. It’s sequencing takes a little bit of time. Okay. I said this in the last about John Ram. Yeah. Learning to hit as far as he could from a short back swing. It’s kind of what that’s the kind of thing we’re having to do. But as we’re starting back now, she’s jumping a little bit today. We’re starting to look more That’s the top of your back. Yeah. Now we got a chance. Yeah. But also, you haven’t dropped down. You haven’t gone onto your left side. You haven’t sort of toppled over. You’ve got every reason now to want to work down and through the ball where before you didn’t really. You were having to wait for the club. You having to almost lean back a bit. Yeah. Now you’re in a good place. You can go now. Just drive through. You can start to drive down. Perfect. Travel to more to your left side for me if you wanted. Okay. As you hit the ball, no bother. I think we’re still a little bit on your right side. Yeah. Coming in. Definitely. We could be more on the left foot. Definitely. Yeah. But you’ve got every reason to now. Yeah. from that from that back swing where before you had no you had no business trying to do that from there because you were just in the wrong place. Now that look starts to look quite good. Now if I just quickly give you a comparison. So now when you see those two they start to look very different. Yeah. Okay. So you can see the sort of how your left side starting to topple this way. Long with the club bent with the left arm. This one’s straighter. you’re further from the floor. Y you got every reason to go and turn onto that now. Okay. And I, you know, overall I really like that as a change. That just feels so far from what you do naturally, is it? I know. Unfortunately. Yeah. Look, the feel isn’t real. No. But it doesn’t make it any easier. Unfortunately, but we just need to to do that. Okay. To do that, I’m going to check the club face now. Yeah. just to make sure because even though we made a better swing, we still lost it a little. Right. So, I’m just going to make sure there’s nothing untoward on that. Right. So, you’re better squared up than you were. Perfect. Okay, that’s good. Now, as you take the club back, what you’re starting to see for me is the face kind of opening up. Now, that point there, if I sort of stop you there, kind of zoom a little bit. Your right palm almost faces forwards. Yeah. and and the sky like that. Okay. I’d want to feel like it’s a little bit more on top of the club. So that this leading edge of this iron matched your sort of spine angle. Okay. As you can see, they’re very different. Yeah. So, what that then leads to is as you start to take the club further into the back swing, you start to get the club head visible behind the shaft line up here. Look. Yeah. And I know that then is the face getting a little bit on the open side. So, we’re just taking the face. Like, that’s not just responsible for the direction of the face. It can affect the path a little bit. Most people tend to swing out to in if the face opens because they want to start the ball further left. Yeah. And then finally, it adds to the length of the back swing. Okay. So, we just want to tide that up as well. Okay. Although it’s similar to last time. Yeah. in the setup and the length of the swing. The club face, we need to probably add to that. Okay. Okay. You can do them separately. Yeah. But ultimately, you’re going to have to do them together at some point. Yeah. Okay. So, I’ll do the first one with you. Okay. So, you’re going to get your setup, right? And we’re going to get these shoulders squared up. Okay. Now, from here, you’re seeing this happen. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And I want to feel you go back to the ball for me. Just relax. Let me do it. As you take it away, you’re hinging the right palm to the floor. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Right palms out. The right back of the hands on top. Right. Just let that do that from the wrist as much as you can. Okay. Okay. Then from here, you’re on maintenance. So you can let it keep the width. Yeah. But I want to feel that way. Okay. That will feel very sort of flat and bowed this way for you and arched in the back of your right hand, won’t it? Does that feel like that? Yeah. Good. That’s kind of how I want the structure to be. So that now when you get to the top, I can see the face the other side of that shaft. Yeah. You were there. Yeah. Let’s do that. Feel it? Yeah. Okay. So, let’s try and do that on your own. Bit long. Better with the face, I’d say. Yeah. So it be more in the fingers if you like. Yeah. Just have your thumb on the top of the grip. But you’re going to have your hand like at 45. Yeah. That’s it. Thumb on the top. That’s it. Now try and keep the face a bit better. It’s easier, isn’t it? Yeah. That’s easier. Right. Now do it short on it. [Music] Okay. Got that? Yeah. Yeah. So to give you hand basically. Yeah. To give you a hand at getting the face squarer. I think we go slightly more the fingers of the the left hand. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And then we could go the fingers of the right hand rather than me. Okay. Now it should be easier for you to feel like you can keep this face a bit more like that. That will give you hand. It’ll give you a helping hand. Okay. Now all you got to do is keep it short and you can hit it. As I said to you at the start, when you watch golf swings that are long, generally the face is open. Very rare the face is shut and long. Yeah. Very rare. That’s better, Ly. Go on stunt. Love that. [Applause] That’s it. Guys, if you want to check out the first two episodes of this series, then you can do so here and here.