The FASTEST Way To Hit The Ball Then The Turf

The FASTEST Way To Hit The Ball Then The Turf

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Clay Ballard

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It is fantastic to have you here today I’m going to talk about the number one problem that I hear golfers have drives you nuts is Chunks and thin shots now the sign of a fantastic golfer is can I come down and and make a swing to where

I hit the golf ball first and then take my divot in front of that golf ball so what I’ve done here is I’ve put a piece of tape on the ground and what we’re going to do is hit shots to where I hit this ball that’s just in front of the

Tape and I don’t hit the tape there we go that was a nice swing it felt great about about that one nice little draw one of the first swings of the day hit the seven iron 187 that’s pretty good for me and it was a nice

Straight shot just a little tiny draw so I’m probably going to go downhill from here that’s about as good as I got but you can see that I missed the tape there now what I’ve done is I’ve taken about an inch and a half wide piece of tape if

You’re indoors this is perfect if you’re Outdoors you can take um some spray powder that you spray your Club face with spray a line on the ground take a tea and just scrape a line on the ground whatever you got to do a chalk line doesn’t matter but but I’m going to put

Basically the front of this line my entire golf ball should be on this side of it or the lead side of it so if I put my golf ball right on this line if I hit a good shot yes I’m hitting ball first but I’m going to hit the front half of

This tape I’m going to I’m going to knock it up I want the entire golf ball to be on front of the line so this front edge of the line my whole golf ball is in front of it that’s how you know that you have the correct spacing now if I

Throw it way up here I can still chunk it and not hit the tape so I don’t want to do that I want the back of the golf ball right on that line now from here this video I don’t want to water it down for you you’ve probably seen tons of

Videos on hitting the ball in front most of them in my opinion are just hitting the highlights they’re not really getting into the details it’s not really what you need to actually fix the problem I want to give you the good stuff here so we’re going to break it

Down I’m going show you what you need to do with your body then your arms and the club so you can watch this one video you can fix the problem forever as long as you follow the drills that I’m going to lay out here for you and then we can be

Done with it we can move on to the next thing after we’re making clean contact so first let’s start get rid of the club the reason for this is your Center Mass or where the the low point of my swing is going to be it’s a huge deal where

The center of mass of your body is so if I take roughly if I’m standing straight up and down here the middle of my hips so you imagine this is the outside of my hip this is outside of my hip the middle of my hips right around belt buckle

Height is the center mass of my body it’s not perfect but that’s a good good idea for most golf swings at least now now when I make a swing let’s say I open my hips I’m not saying it’s where the belt buckle is I’m saying imagine the

Outsides of my hips find the middle that’s where the center mass is now if I’m falling back in the center of my mass at when I’m hitting the golf ball is behind the golf ball so if I dropped a line down I held a club and let it

Hung down from the the center of my hips if that’s on this side of that line I’m toast not good going to really struggle to hit it consistently if I get the center mass in front of that line I’m going to be pretty good I’m going to be

Able to hit that divot in front every single time so how do we do that well it’s pretty easy Once you learn the body movements what I’m going to do here is just focus on the hips and you can imagine your femur come up they attach to your hip sockets here and there’s

Kind of like a ball at the head of your hip sockets so imagine there’s two my two fists are my hip sockets as I go back in my back swing my hips are going to rotate like this as I start my down swing they’re going

To drop lower this is a big key here because I got to get my weight shifting down as it goes to the left that’s going to allow me to get my weight shift to move it’s going to allow everything else we need to have happen here it’s only a

Small amount if it drops a/ inch that’s fine if it drops two inches like Rory maoy that’s great I go to the top my hips drop and then they come up the U so you imagine if there’s a a golf swing or my hips they’re making a u type motion

So in the back swing they rotate this way my hips rotate here that’d be like here’s my two Hip sockets they do this and they’re kind of going up the u a little bit in my downswing as I start my transition my hips move to the left they

Drop down and then as I rotate open they’re going to come up the other side of the U so it’s this U type motion that’s what your hips should be doing in the golf swing if we don’t do this U and we think about them being flat with the

Ground it gets real difficult to move your weight because I need to be able to drop to get my weight it’s almost like I’m skiing down a or snowboarding down a hill here I’m getting to drop I’m getting my weight to move to the left

Then I go ahead and turn the corner if I don’t get the dropping motion if I’m immediately kind of standing up I’m going to end up kind of going here and then popping back out of it this way I’m going to have this type of emotion so

Imagine that I like to call it the power U my hips are doing that in the golf swing just take your hands put put them on your hip sockets and make that U type motion and when I finish my swing I should be stacked up over this front leg this is

Critical I got to have all my spikes off the turf I should be able to lift my foot up and I’m barely falling back I’m balanced over my front foot I have rotated my right shoulder all the way over this front foot if my right shoulder stays behind the front foot my

Weight will be going back you’re going to hit behind the golf ball as my right shoulder goes through the shot if it gets even with the front foot or in front of it like this like you see with a lot of tour players it’s going to be

Easy to hit that divid in front so do a good 20 reps if that feels easy for you you’re ready to move on if it feels a little more involved a little bit tougher get another 50 60 reps whatever it is it doesn’t have to be strenuous

Anything like that now here’s the next piece I need to feel like my weight when I make impact because I’m going down that slope I’m going down the U and then getting to left I need to feel like my weight is on my left foot so my hips and

My weight should be on my left foot the last body position I want you to get in here my nose just has to be behind the golf ball any Mount that’s the confusing thing people think I have to be behind the golf ball and that must be my

Weight’s behind the golf ball my weight shifts to the left it’s just my nose and my upper body is behind the golf ball that’s what allows me to come from the inside so if I do the first part right I get my weight to the left but I get my

Head up here to the left I’m going to come down over the top I’m going to tend to cut across it and slice it if I get my weight to the left and I keep my nose slightly behind the golf ball at impact I’m going be able to come from the

Inside and hit the ball really nicely now from here it’s not really all that much more complicated than realizing that the bottom of my divot is typically going to be about 4 Ines in front of the golf ball so I’m going to have contact with the golf ball here the low point of

My divot or the lowest point of the of of the the divot that I make after the ball is going to be 4 in in front so it’s way up here so you got to have that visual right of I’m going to hit the golf ball and have it in front if we

Don’t have that visual right and we’re thinking about the low point being at the golf ball we’re going to end up hitting this tape because you imagine if my divot is like this let’s say here’s flat ground here’s the start of my divot here’s the end of my divot this is kind

Of the low Point here well if I imagine that the low point is at the golf ball well I’m starting to hit behind the golf ball it’s no good so I have to to pull my divot in front of the golf ball the low Point’s about 4 in in front with a

Good quality Tour player now to make that happen this is the second most important thing the hands have to be in front of the golf ball to impact that’s that’s really as simple as it has to be if I get my weight to shift to the left

Like we just talked about and I get my hands so this would be my hands or the club shaft straight up and down if my hands are here the low point is going to be at the golf ball and when I swing I’m going to hit this tape I want my hands

To be in front of the golf ball so if you can imagine I’m going shifting to the left I’m pausing an impact I’m going to set my club down there I’m going to have both hands in front of the golf ball so the back of my right hand should

Be in front of that golf ball on this side of it that’s if I how I know I’m doing the right amount that’s a rule of thumb the real number there is going to be about 30% of your loft is the amount of shffl you have so if a six iron I’m

Hitting a seven iron here it should have 32 degrees of Loft something like that I’m going to take 30% of that off so I’m going to take a little over 10 degrees of shaftan or 11 degrees of shaan I’m going to be this is 0 degrees of shaan

This is 10 or 12 degrees of shaan that’s where my hands will be with the six iron if I had a a sand wedge or a lob wedge let say a 60° wedge 30% of that is 20° so as I go higher and higher Loft I have to get

More and more shaelan and that’s why you’re going to see the pros leaning a sand wedge or lob wedge forward 15 to 20 degrees at impact with a six iron or seven iron it’s going to be 10 or 11° with a three iron that only has 20° of

Loft it’s only going to be 5 or 6° but with every single Club every single one of them that you hit off the ground even three wood you’re going to have your hands in front if we hit a three-wood and we try to lift it up in the air we

Get this shaft vertical we get our Center Mass behind it we’re going to be toast the three Woods designed with enough Loft on there to get the ball up in the air so even with my hands in front it’s going to have plenty of Loft to get the the ball launching up in

There so if I do this correctly I should be able to get that power U and I want you to go ahead after you do the power U Get about 15 20 swings where you just put down that piece of tape scrape a line on the driving range with the te

Put a chalk line down whatever you need to do 15 or 20 swings getting the divot in front of that line don’t worry about the hands then another 15 20 swings feeling like my hands get in front of the line as I make impact you’ll see how that makes it even

Easier big key here finishing on this front foot right shoulder has to get in front of that right in front of this lead foot or I’m going to struggle there then we’re ready to hit the golf ball now if we start to slice it a little bit

That can be normal just make sure your head stays back and you’re coming from the inside and you’re going to be able to hit some great shots so here watch my hips watch my hands there we go not going to hit one a whole lot better than that actually picked up

A few yards got loosened up there 192 the seven iron for the carry that’s pretty dag on good and my club path zero .9 de dividend front you can’t over practice this drill you literally couldn’t over practice it put this piece of tape down in your living room make as

Many swings as you can every single day and you’re going to thank me later for this cuz you’re going to hit a lot of good golf shots now the next best step of this is to learn to hit that draw so so again a lot of players if they’re not

Hitting a draw they get that dividend front the tendency is to go a little more fade bias I don’t want that to happen I want you get a nice tight draw with the divid in front of the golf ball I have the perfect video it’s about to

Play for you in a second you’ll see it pop up on a card or an end screen or pop up at the end of this one just stick around watch that video pair it up what I talk about there with what we just learned and you’re going to play some

Awesome golf let’s go and get started