How to hit a golf ball in 10 minutes | a beginner golfer’s 1st lesson

In this video, a beginner golfer learns how to strike a golf ball!

All right guys just soaking up some before we head on to the range here now today we have a very special episode we’re going to be coaching a good friend of ours that we met out here in morb David Mahoney now he’s very interesting character going to be really great in in

Our Golf Show so we’re going to go down coach him he hasn’t played much golf so we’re going to get him ready for a tournament that he has coming up in June so I think he’s going to win the thing he’s not he’s a bit he’s not as

Optimistic as I am but I think he’s going to do it so let’s hop in the car and uh go and see him let’s show him how it’s done what are we doing today then well we’re going to go back to basics they go no but they look like them where are we

We’re at the PG Golf Academy here in benav is that how you benav I know the golf course but this seems to be very high-tech M this is class I prefer uh old school you know putting coins in a machine rather than a card look even he

Doesn’t know how to do it now I actually haven’t even hit a golf ball in at least at least 12 months at least and then even at that it’s you know 50% of the time I don’t hit it and now you’re going to go win a tournament in June yeah win

Yeah I like your optimism yeah you not got a different color white is that all you got you serious no no here it is here you go you hop here yeah I like that one better okay you go stinking like sure no give me the white one

Now golf glove I’ll take this one see we’re still getting to know each other how we don’t know if it’s a joke or not what we’re saying what’s that are you hitting with a n99 no less than that fiveo eight number eight during all of this I’m

Going to be putting things in the sentences it make me sound like I know what I’m talking about but I have no idea how long is it going to take me to do that a month a month yeah I’d say a month I like these optimism and that

Depends on the practice time then that’s my problem right so what should we do tell me what’s the first thing right so here we go the first thing which hand does the club go on yellow what connects you to the club the grip exactly so that’s where we start

Right so we’ve got to make sure we hold it right so that we can control our club face all right so what we want to see if you come on in set up to a ball first of all if you take this hand off we start

With the left this is your an important hand so it runs through the fingertips yeah and that’s going to feel different yeah that’s like I’m pushing my hand over feel how locked you are here oh I see yeah yeah and then when this one comes on you got that overlap and it’s

Got to be more here so we’re trying to cover perfect so we’ve got opposite forces yeah that feels really weird it does all I want you to do now is just cuz we’re just initially focused on getting used to this grip yeah so all I

Want you to do is just swing kind of to here yeah and hit the ball so let’s take a couple of practice swings all right backing the three no further than here good that’s it nice shot that’s actually straight down the middle yeah and that’s the grip I’ll

Tell you what I’m impressed I have to say let’s get some of that there that’s a good start good see that I’m amazed right that’s it I’m I’m entering that’s why I said a month that’s why I said a month that’s why you’re going to win this

Thing that is amazing yeah I’m truly impressed with that well that was a little bit hooked no we’re really good with this and this is why you get the hook yeah you’ve got to make sure that’s over you sure you want to sit I’m all right Brave man no man’s land here

Shot on the grip there I’m noticing that my thumb is hitting there yeah so that’s key good good good question so you’ve got this wrapped all the way around yeah you need to have it out in front so you’re trying to keep that close to the

A right okay shap in there yeah well there we go now you’ve got good control give it a go that’s okay little low that was better oh that really felt prop F this one yet as well I need to get this now you want this one now you want

This one that’s exactly the yeah the feeling I could feel it hit it exactly right there that’s the tingle feeling I was talking about now you got me in that hang on a second is this that really just happened after yeah now you’re going to be addicted one quick lesson

Like that well done finished see the way you’re getting kind of some of those like thin shots in the middle we need to get rid of those now and that comes down to your setup your posture a lot of people go like this like about to take a big dump you know

What I mean and this stops the hips from being able to turn whereas if we go over slightly bend the knees our balance goes here on the balls of the feet now we can open the hip up now we can create some width with the arms cuz what we want to

See is this arm stays nice and straight but this all it sounds like a lot but this all happens through good fundamentals yeah good setup we’ll get you this so here’s your drill right the Gap in your feet is the alignment stick all right from there there standing leg

Straight back straight all we’re doing is bending from the hip like this see the way I’m not dropping the arms down yeah I’m bending from the hip until that hits the grind looks a lot cooler too and then it’s two equal steps KN and then just that see swing

That you were doing right so let’s start like that so even in closer really CL Closer Closer Closer that’s you and then here so start here leg straight back straight and abandon from the hip good so you’re we bit far away you just got to move yeah I could feel that

Okay just a little too long on that swing we don’t need to go that far all right and I could actually feel I was leaping up a bit not staying maybe a slight touch closer to it looks really good that’s really good that was that’s that’s your core swing though I could

Feel you can feel it can’t you when you hit it just right so we got 100 m on carry oh you are we we starting already we’re live look at that that’s great there really good Workman is that grip starting to feel better yeah good straight that’s going that’s so good I

Tell you what the um the confidence it gives you straight away as well yeah this is all we’re doing as well today it’s just your setup and fundamentals grip is great just keep it smooth good I felt like I rushed that one actually just the setup or the the

Swing just the swing okay yeah it doesn’t need to be fast just watch this left hand we got to make sure it’s R enough good that was a good hit it’s still going right though that’s all right longest one yeah 110 M Carri how much would you be able to normally hit with

This club yard mine’s 170 in yards so what’s I’m not a mathematician someone figur it out what is 110 meters in yards oh I don’t know 10% 121 so you’re 50 off the almost 49 off the piss we’ll get there oh man it feels like it’s just all

Part of a slow little dance you’re just yeah there’s a methodology to jogging instead of running we get you hitting it today we spark a bit of Interest getting enjoying striking the golf ball I am enjoying it yeah that’s what we’re after today that seemed good that’s the best

Yet how much was that that’s going to be your best yet 90 mph5 he’s a natural absolutely what what am I actually aiming for though nothing it doesn’t matter oh beautiful that’s your they seem to be pretty consistent now oh yeah well that’s that’s what we’re after right how much do I owe

You you just got to teach me to survive in the wild oh yeah I will filter some water yeah yeah the survival skills I’ve been at that for years and it’s a perfect day as well it’s a beautiful is spring sort of day here isn’t it in the south of Spain so question

Mike all right so it’s day one lesson one I pick up the club you put the grip straight and I hit what 15 consistently good balls maybe i’ say if I hit 15 I hit 10 good ones but that’s very impressive so what’s the I think if

We do a tip at the end of every lesson what would be the the tip on lesson number one this is the most important thing to learn throughout your career in golf and it’s you’ve never got it right so just when you think you got it you

Haven’t got it you can have it there and then but whenever it comes to your next section you know you might take your grip and it’s slightly slightly round and I’ll be going D look at how much action you’ve got in that the flexibility you have on that wrist to be

Able to set that club yeah eventually our next lesson we’ll get into a little more of bit rotation getting you there and then getting you through the shot yeah I really feel the difference let me hit another one just to make sure that I haven’t forgotten it from moving from there to here

Yeah there was a very loud South African talking next to us we couldn’t record anything this Africans you got to watch out for them shout out to Big John die hard yeah pressure’s on good we you bit closer we you bit closer actually that feels better actually

Yeah oh man that is absolutely smok you’re going to hit the tractor 128 but that’s that’s an improvement on the other shots isn’t it oh we just lifted hit him hit him hit him is there a prize for hitting the tractor we just need to give you moving Targets

On the golf course I’ll run around come on what helps me though is putting the club down first then setting the grip against the club so I know that the face is true and straight solid yeah is this right would you think that’s a good way of doing it that’s a great way

To do it make sure the pressure runs through here in the feet yeah really push forward almost like you’re digging your toes into the ground toes in or heels in the toes should feel like they’re kind of clamping you in you like that all right yeah I got it and that

Puts the pressure there nice and smooth short swing good I’m happy with that that’s so good that’s the lesson that I’ve learned today yeah Club Palm fingers grip and you really cannot move it it’s in the right position yeah that’s all you can do very good I have to say when you told

Me that you’re best you are the best yeah I’m beginning to see why you’re such an just get it so quickly it works it’s tried and tested and it works well lesson one is good I’ll put that into practice now my own time thank you very much mate less number one well done