all right hope you're having an awesome day today we're going to jump on how to
fix those fat shots I'm gonna give you five keys to fix you up let's go okay
we are at the beautiful Braemar Country Club in case you're wondering where I
shoot everything at well most things at and this course is in a lot of
commercials so actually Dustin Johnson's here today they're shooting a commercial
so a lot of the commercials you see on TV are shot right here it's pretty cool
they just don't tell you of course they're at in the commercial but I'll
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eliminate the fat chunky shot all right so let's do it
stop talking I know here we go okay these tips will work pretty much with
any club in your bag I'm gonna hit an 8-iron right now but just know you can
apply these to just about any iron even your woods too if you if you like and
tip number one is this what we want to do is start moving the ball forward okay
tip 1 move that ball forward so many times you're hitting it fat and you keep
moving it back back back back back that's going to cause a lot of problems
so what I want you to do especially in practice is keep moving that ball
forward and keep moving it forward until you're like ridiculously forward it's a
drill it's practice but you want to keep moving it forward because more forwards
you move that ball the more you're gonna change where you hit it in relation to
the bottom of your swing arc okay the bottom of your swing arc is where you're
going to hit interact with the ground so if you keep moving back back back back
back you're gonna have to change that swing arc
so you hit the ball first but what we want to do is change it the other
direction so just start moving it forward to practice
here's normal start with the ball then go even more forward 8-iron here keep
going get it up there and what you're going to start doing is changing where
you make contact with that ball so you're not gonna keep it there but what
you want to do is you want to practice moving it forward because then you could
put it more Center and you'll be used to hitting it out here and stop hitting
behind the ball that's gonna be your first step then you'll be able to move
it back after you do that a few times and you can move it to a normal position
and then all of a sudden it's just money fixed everything but if that doesn't
work we're gonna go to step two okay step two or key number two in why you're
hitting it fat is could be because your hands are getting too far forward okay
so now what you're going to do is start practicing moving your hands back so
keep the ball in the center of your stance and just start moving your hands
backwards and see what happens most of the time you hit a fat and you start
moving your hands more for more for more forward okay the more forward you go the
steeper you start coming down on that golf ball so we don't want to do that
okay so now start moving your hands backwards and just see how far back you
can go and still hit the ball and see what happens you're trying to develop
your feel and find the right position that works for you because that's gonna
really be the key to your game and you helping yourself get better so start
moving those hands backwards here's where you might be here
go here go in I'm here I'm gonna go here
go more back here oh that's way back try it oh good go more back
oh this is not right that's why
keep backing it up keep backing up until it's like this is totally wrong that's
fine and then what you're going to do is start returning back to a more normal
position but you're gonna find there's certain positions where you make better
contact with the ball and that's where you want to land eventually and so the
more you practice adjusting your hand position the better off you're gonna be
and the better contact you're gonna start making with the ball so start
moving those hands back to see what is a good position for you I know it goes
against kind of conventional thoughts but this is an unconventional game so we
need to do things different the final works that's step two let's move on okay
same camera angle here for this step and this is super important here's what I
want you to start practicing what happens is a lot of times you hit it
back what you do is you sway back off the ball okay and when you do that
you're changing the bottom of your swing arc you're moving it this way and that
is fast okay this way would be thin but what you're doing is you take a back
swing and you move a few inches off the ball and then you don't return there so
you turn and then you you're rotating but you're way back here so now
everything's messed up that's why you move your hands and you do all the other
stuff is mainly because of this problem here is swaying off the ball so for this
drill or this feeling what I want you to do is feel like on your backswing as you
take it back and you're rotating okay I want you to feel like you're moving this
direction okay so you're gonna feel this is what you're gonna feel okay you're
not gonna move that way to be honest but I want you to feel like you do this and
you're not going to you're probably going to be right here and still move a
touch to the right but I want you to feel like you're moving forward what
what's cool about this in geometry and physics and all that good stuff is that
as you rotate your sinner let's say the center
of gravity of your swing is moving okay because your your weight is turning this
way so your center of gravity is kind of up here somewhere but if you sway off
the ball it gets out here and you don't want that because then you come down
behind the ball so if you rotate and feel like you move forward a little bit
your center of gravity's right up here and then you can return it to that ball
right so try this just a drill I really want you to really rotate and move
forward in the drill and see what happens look like this what's awesome
about that is you can actually if you do this you can actually feel like you move
forward on your backswing and then end your downswing you could actually stay
behind the ball and you just because of how everything works you're in a good
position and your center of gravity never moved to the right so just feel
here and then you it's easier to stay behind the ball if you feel like you're
moving forward on your backswing
and the more exaggerated you feel that the better off you're going to be
because then when you take it to the golf course it's very difficult to take
the range practice to the course but you can take a piece of it and if you just
stop sliding off a little bit it's gonna make a world of difference so that's
step three feel like you're moving this way on your backswing get more huh hello
alright this step number four here is super important and the reason we're
down here is because we're talking about our footwork and I really want to give
you a good illustration of what needs to happen in your footwork and we're really
going to talk about your back foot right now okay and if you want to watch my
footwork video I'll leave a link up here click that it's good for footwork what
you want to do ideally here's how you want your footwork to your feet to work
on the backswing you really want to stay on the inside of this back foot so as
you take it back here you're in here okay now in my video on my drill there's
there's drills you can do a lot of drills you can do to help that shoes are
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that kind of thing they help they're designed to they tilt
in a little bit which is better all around anyways but especially in golf
because it helps you stay more like this by itself so you want to stay on the
inside of that back foot on the backswing and then as you hit the ball
as you come down you want to continue to roll on the inside of that right foot
and then after you hit you rotate up on the toe okay
so a lot of times people just they stay on the inside but then they go straight
to the toe you don't want to go straight to the toe you wanna roll and then go
you see the difference so if I'm here and I go straight to the toe my foot is
just going straight up I don't want my foot to be in that position I want to
roll and then and you've actually moved
forward like an inch or so because of how you've done it you rolled here and
then come up here so if I just start that's where my foot started the center
of my foot started and if I do it wrong I'm right here that's no good
okay you want to roll in here and then roll up here and then look then you're
right here you've moved that far forward and when you do that you got a nice
divot going most people stay here they go straight to their toe and they think
oh I finished on my toe or they're like this that's no good either proper
footwork is key to hitting clean shots so that's why we're down here in the
dirt getting this and this is really critical so practice rolling in and then
up on your toe and give yourself like maybe a thousand balls just focusing on
footwork okay you think I'm joking around I'm serious it's golf it's gonna
take a ton of work like literally a thousand balls on each one of these
drills would be good for you or more but one is gonna be more uh let's say you're
gonna have errors in one area more than the other most of time it's footwork but
there's something else you can do too that's going to help but give this a go
okay number five start about the Sun you know what do you do with California
here's the key what you want to do here and it has to do with shallowing the
club out and there's a couple pieces to it that you should really focus on one
is if you get too long in your backswing okay it's very difficult to then shallow
that Club out because this the more shallow you come into the ball the less
chance you're gonna hit it fatty there's just more room for error
you're more margin for error whereas if you're coming in too steep it's it's
ball or nothing it's either hit the ball clean or thin it or fat it but if you
come in more shallow you have a much better opportunity so I'm going to give
you kind of two to think about and then a little drill
that's gonna help you understand the feeling and how to get it okay so one is
if you're too long as you transition on to your downswing you're just gonna come
straight down and that's that's gonna be very challenging to overcome you're just
gonna hit a lot of inconsistent shots so we want to keep that shorter this is
iron stop keep it shorter okay maybe about shoulder height is fine I
mean look at shoulder height that's a pretty full swing you're in here if you
get a little extra risk cock you're right at parallel so don't worry about
that right here shoulder height that's what
you want to be and then you just want to feel this so it's a combination of
either feeling that hand lay down or you're turning the screw here so you're
you're doing one of the two you're laying down turning that screw there
you're gonna do one of those two things right in there to get that feeling to
get that Club this way so that's gonna look like here short turn the screw lay
the hand down okay
and that's just a feeling a drill just practice it a number of times so you're
here right there that's the feeling and go through and then so those are the two
thoughts the drill I want you to I don't even know if I call it a drill but the
thing I want you to do is practice banging the club off the ground without
using the leading edge okay so it's gonna kind of feel like this you feel
that there you go so that's a divot using the bounce
not the leading edge and that's a difference this will be leading edge you
can still take a nice divot but just feel it thump off the ground just feel
that
and then you could hit a few shots like that and see what happens see the
feeling of thumping this on the ground not the leading edge so I'm feeling
short this and thump the bounce on the ground so that in all of this is by far
the hardest one but and it will take some time but as you get it you'll start
to understand the feeling of the bounce interacting with the ground as opposed
to that leading edge which typically leads to that fat chunky inconsistent
shot that we want to avoid
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