The Best Golf Drill to Instantly Improve Ball Striking!

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In this video Rick Shiels chats with LIV Golf Professional Charles Howell III to learn the best tips and drills to ensure you hit your golf shots better than ever before.

So many amateur golfers hit the golf ball fat, hit the golf ball thin, chunk the golf ball and struggle to break 100, break 90 or break 80 because they are struggling to hit greens. These simple tips and drills will help you to hit the golf ball better than ever before!

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all right guys ball striking is one of the most important factors when you want to play great golf i’ve got a guy here with me today who’s one of the best ball strikers in the world he’s got four tips for you to help you strike it pure every single time charles thanks for coming on the channel
what’s going on how are you we need four tips okay
okay simple that the audience at home can follow
love it that will help them get that beautiful compression that every golfer wants that you’re great at
i love it so four tips so I spent a lot of time on the driving range i love ball striking love ball hitting so all right we’ll start with start with the setup so your grip your grip matters to an extent in that it’s just not I don’t like it terribly strong terribly weak so you know we just say something in the middle and that’s kind of like to you that’s your attachments your whatever with the setup though what I find really important is is I see way too many golfers setting up with their feet dead straight okay but yet we’re trying to turn and it’s really hard to turn when your hips are kind of locked in this way and your feet are straight so I like to see the feet flared a bit which that’s just going to help you turn it’s going to take some pressure off your knees and off your hips and the second thing I like to see is the handle in front of the golf ball so now by doing that you’re kind of presetting in a little bit of a draw which I like to play a draw i know most people hate to slice the ball okay so from that we have our feet slightly flared handle slightly in front of the ball then from here I’m going to move the club around
okay so just coming on that one there cuz that it’s that sound like that real
Oh it’s I mean off this turf it’s beautiful interesting question there how how you flare the feet out
i noticed you do that quite like is that was that something you introduced quite early on and do you think a lot of amateur golfers would actually benefit from having slightly flared feet as well so when I was a bit younger it’s not as hard to turn as we all get older it becomes harder and harder and it kind of feeds into a back swing tip which I think is vital for every golfer is from so with with these feet flared okay and this is my huge key on the back swing and I’ve even spoke to Jack Nicholas about this and some other greats is the second that I start moving my club back I want my right hip to turn back and to be where my belt buckle is so if you can envision where your belt buckle is I want to put my right hip there so I want to turn this hip back right to where that belt buckle was now by doing that I’m going to feel a lot of pressure on this lead foot okay so all this is setting pieces in to draw this ball and to compress it okay so we’ve got our feet slightly flared our right hip we’re going to turn this back behind us and replace right where that belt buckle was we’re not ever going to do this we start sliding off this ball we have to get back forward again and it takes too much time when that’s waffling around so for an example here I’m going to take my right hip and turn it straight back behind me we’re not going to have any swaying and moving around
i love that i to you does it almost feel like you’re staying more centered
100% yes
so if you were to draw a line from your almost your chest your belt buckle and down towards the ball you’d almost be rotating on that line
ideally so yes so that’s tip one is set up
set up
tip two is that centered back swing correct get your right hip turning behind you now what I like about this as Charles tells you about tip three tip four is a drill that Charles uses which is unbelievable i love that one let’s go tip three first let’s not jump the gun so okay so tip three is now for a down swing feel way too many golfers and I’m going to set this way so you can see it from the top feel their power by this right leg kicking in this right heel kind of kicking up off the ground early okay and now we’ve lost our inclination to the ground so if we’re from here at the top and this tilts this way it’s really hard to get back down and control the low point okay so this down swing feel which I love is I want to feel like my right leg stays as long as possible and my right foot banks in this way and then extends up i never want my right leg to work flexed and this toe going this way i want this leg long and that right foot banking in that way okay so on that feel I’ll try to really exaggerate what my right leg long and what my foot banking in this way and that was a good one so you can see the foot’s banked in this way it’s not back this way and spun around
well I love that would you say it’s interesting you say that when I feel like I’m actually hitting the ball the best I almost feel like my right knee is moving towards my left knee
always correct
it feels like it when I actually hit my really good ones it almost feels like it’s it’s borderline touching and I love how you said there you almost roll this right foot as opposed to going artificially that way
the two best in the world at that Rory Maroy and Bryson you watch their right feet they roll in this way and then it comes up off the ground
love that so tip one setup tip two was back swing tip three was that down swing getting that right knee to go over towards the left knee and keeping that kind of foot rolling in and then give us that secret tip we always talk about secret tips from professional golfers but is there a drill that you do that just gets this absolutely zoned in 100% so I love to practice and you have to practice with drills
the best drill I’ve ever seen and done for this is I’ll get to my setup i’ll widen my stance and I’ll actually pre-bank my foot in and I’ll pre-lengthen this right leg okay so if my normal setup was here I’m going to bank this in i feel a lot of weight forward i have this foot banked in and I’m going to hit a ball from there oh and I draw every ball and so will you because our your weight’s forward this is banked in now that will teach your brain what that feels like and how that translates back into the through side
i love that i’ve never seen that done
so exactly
i’ve never ever seen that done that’s why we’re here today i I love that idea that you preset
preset it pre-bank it now hit it from there
so you’re you’re almost allow Oh wow
yes so you’re presetting that so you’re letting your brain know okay my right leg can be long my right foot can bank in and then on the other side
so set up slightly flared feet feeling like you’re staying nice and centered
very centered right hip back behind you
moving that right hip behind and then down swing getting the right leg to stay straight and going to the knee going towards the left foot as you roll the foot and then as a drill as a practice drill in driving ranges practice that
preset that
and you want to be listening for that sound you want to be hitting that real compression where you hear the ball first then the ground you want to see your ball being taken then the div after
yes
that was amazing
thank you
amazing and honestly those strikes I wish it were here in person cuz they sounded unbelievable hopefully it came through on the video be sure to check out Charles be sure to check out the Crushers um that was amazing thanks very much for that appreciate it good luck to you all nailed it
thank you
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good