REAL REASON You Can’t Hit SOLID SHOTS!

Are you over-rotating and still hitting it fat, thin, or off the toe? You’ve been told to “use more body” — but that advice could be ruining your contact.

In this lesson, I’ll show you why too much hip and body motion is wrecking your consistency — and give you the feet-together drill to reset your swing and reconnect to the clubface through your hands and arms.

✅ Better contact
✅ More center-face strikes
✅ Instantly feel what real control is like

This drill has helped hundreds of my students — and it’ll help you too.

– About Dana DeSarle:
Dana is a PGA and TPI Certified Golf Coach helping players unlock real consistency and confidence in their game. His drills and coaching methods are trusted by players at every level—from beginners to competitive amateurs.
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Timestamps:
0:00 – Why shallow swings lead to mis-hits
0:20 – The real problem: too much body, not enough arm control
0:50 – Common issues: jumping, lifting, losing posture
1:14 – Game-changing drill: feet-together swing for better feel
1:53 – Tiger’s arm-swing example at Pebble Beach
2:11 – Controlling wedges with arms + ball position
2:53 – TPI-backed model for solid contact
3:18 – Arm connection = better clubface control
4:15 – Real reason you’re missing center contact
5:13 – Summary + down-the-line swing view
6:08 – Demo: adjustments with narrow stance
7:07 – Final recap: PGA concepts, arm hinge, and wrist control
7:57 – Outro: Subscribe & online lesson info

Whether you’re struggling with control or chasing that pro-level feel, this is your fix. Stop doing what doesn’t work—and swing like Scheffler.

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Hey there. I don’t care what you’ve been told or what you’ve been watching. With everything about swinging with the body and hip bumping and shallowing and all this stuff on the body is causing you to mis hit the ball. All week long I’ve had students come to me overly focused on the body, losing their connection to their arms and hands and they’re just hitting the ball over the place. No solid contact. We’re all susceptible to it. If I’m out there and I’m trying to get more speed or more hip and jumping off the floor and all that, center contact becomes extremely difficult. So, I’m going to talk about the connection of the hands and arms and just how important that is to club face awareness, control, and solid contact. Hey there, I’m Dana Darly, PGA TPI certified, and we all know golf is effing hard, so I’m trying to keep it simple by sticking to the fundamentals. All right, let’s get into it. Okay, so I’ve got a pitching wedge here. All week long, like I say, students would come to me working on their body and they’re moving all over this way and their spine angle since they’re like trying to jump and get more power, they’re doing the standup motion. So all over the place. So just with arms only just feet together motion getting a feel for hand and arm connection. So with this pitching wedge my full wedge here in Vegas is probably around 135 140 arms only. This thing’s going about 120. So still you can see the importance of keeping that connection for solid contact. So we’ll go ahead and full swing one of course and watch the body flow and then of course full swing. And that’s one of the ways I’ll hit the in between shot and how Tiger like at that Pebble Beach event where he tells Stevie, “All right, I’m going to hit a little arm swing here and take some off of it.” That’s the easiest way to hit the in between wedges for me. Okay. So, if I’m actually in between wedges and taking some off, notice the ball position does go further back when the stance gets really narrow. And I’m just mainly arm swinging it. And that takes enough off on the in between wedge where instead of that going 135 140 or whatever, it’s probably going about 130. But, you know, watching all the stuff, I think it’s really important if you’re out there and you’re mhitting the ball to restore your feeling and your connection with your hands and arms. And back in the of course the TPI kinematic sequence model most people are moving their body properly as in it’s athletic motion where they get off is when they’re trying to do it too much and they really get out of sync. So I find still going back to this lead arm drill is getting that connection of the hands and arms to the club. And then of course both arms and hands are working together. The purpose of this lead arm drill building that motor pattern so that the trail arm is doing its role as the support character best supporting actor here and then extending through impact. So continuing to build on this building that strength in the lead arm is extremely important and that gives you your club face control back of the lead wrist in our PGA teaching and coaching model. That’s what they call principle 11. And wherever this is going, that club face is following and then the trail arm extension through supporting it together. So continuing to do that. Don’t get way off track with all the latest different YouTube videos on jumping and overswinging it with the body and everything like that. So, yes, it’s important to keep the body moving athletically, but if you lose feel with your connection to the club, you’re going to struggle with center impact because everybody’s moving their spine angle way out of whack. They’re either standing up or dropping down, and then they’re also moving too far laterally and forward with all this crazy body motion. So solid contact is always a direct correlation of this center line staying on top of it and then spine angle, chest covering it. And then you heard like a couple weeks ago Darren Clark was really talking about, you know, him covering the ball, tiger covering the ball, everybody staying right on top of it in that spine angle. It also helps you with your compression and you know ball first contact, hands ahead, forward shaft and everything. So regain that connection to the club face. It’s all in the arms and hands. So get that going again and you’ll start to get that feeling again and get dialed in. Okay. So here you’ll see this down the line view and some ball flight. Feet together, arms only. Still a great drill to restore your connection with your arms and hams here. Not bad. Say probably about 120ish. So this is just completely together. That was a little more solid. So now, like I said, if I’m hitting that in between wedge though, now we just get narrow still. And then that ball position does move back for me as I get narrow. So stance is pretty narrow, but body’s still going to move, but this is going to take some off. Not bad little pull. Sometimes when feet get narrow, it can be a little bit of a pull. Just got to practice that. But now we’ll go full swing and then the body will work fully keeping the spine angle really stable. That’s pretty good there. All right. So, there’s kind of the down the line view to see spine angle stability, a little bit of ball flight, and just how far you can hit it with just arms only, feet together. Just getting used to like in that lead arm drill, feeling this lead arm extend, get into that hinged position. Read arm pulls down, back of the left wrist rotates through, releases, trail arm extends down the line, staying in sequence. Okay, so to summarize, we talked about in our PGA teaching and coaching models, center contact is a direct correlation to spine angle stability, center line, and pan arm connection to the club. talking about, you know, principle eight there, arm swing, slotting, principle 11, back of lead wrist. Making sure you understand wherever that back of the lead wrist goes, the club face follows. So, all right. Well, hope you like that one. Like, subscribe, you know the drill. Uh, online session available. Just go to the home screen on YouTube and you’re good to go there. All right. Thanks again.