Hi guys, my name's Aimee Cho, a golf professional!
Today I'm going to show you a super simple drill
to help you hit this driver longer and straighter.
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If you practice with a launch monitor like the flight scope or the Mevo,
it has a data called smash factor on there.
Smash factor is basically the ratio between the golf ball speed
and the club head speed. And it shows you how efficient your strike is.
So there's many different ways to actually get that smash factor to improve.
PGA Tour players usually have 1.50 for their drivers.
A lot of regular golfers are not able to achieve that
because they can't get the golf ball on the sweet spot consistently.
Not as consistently as the pros I should say, right?
So today of all the reasons I'm gonna focus on your lower body!
Lower body, a lot of people actually take it for granted
but it's actually one of the most important points in the golf swing.
If you get this movement down, the rest of your swing is gonna be so much easier.
So let's take a set up. Take a look from the side view, boom!
It's more we call it like the athletic posture
where you have great balance in our lower body.
And you know we're ready to rip the golf ball from here. We have this position.
And if you have great stability and you make a nice turn back and forth,
obviously as you can see my spine angle is maintained nice and low
consistent throughout the whole swing, boom!
That's going to allow your swing plane to stay nice and on plane.
And that's also going to affect the club face orientation to stay nice
and square throughout your golf swing. We like those!
But if you have the wrong movement, the most common thing
we see in the backswing is to sway, boom!
If you sway, now you can't really turn from here.
So what do you do? You have to lift to finish your swing.
You see how upright that backswing looks, right?
Now you're seeing plane comes off line and
that's going to affect the club face orientation.
Because you're going to be compensating improvising every single shot,
so your strike is going to be very inconsistent alright?
Another common fault we see is in the downswing.
Instead of rotating, boom, in athletic posture like this,
a lot of us actually early extend thrusting those hips forward.
You see what happened to my spine angle there? Stood up right away!
If you become far away from the golf ball, what do you do?
You have to chop down at it and your strike becomes very inconsistent.
Alright so I have a super simple drill to help you actually get rid of this sway
or the early extension. You can actually do this at home guys.
So what you're going to do, let me show off my pretty nails here.
What you're going to do is you're going to place your hands on your thighs,
boom like this.
And place your hips on the wall just for guidance
so you don't come off of it too much.
And you're going to just turn like you're going to make a swing,
boom! turn and through!
And from here of course you're gonna turn through all the way
but we're not doing that final movement.
We're just going to go turn & turn to here.
You see how my palms my hands are moving up and down.
I am not moving my hands at all. They're placed on my thighs.
But if you watch in the backswing, my green nails move up and
then in the downswing my yellow nails move up, see that?
So if you take a look at my green nails we like green for golf, right?
So you go up and down, up down.
We don't want to see these. We don't want to see the nails like disappearing.
That's wrong rotation we don't want to see this way.
We don't want to see in the downswing.
We don't want to see early extension, boom this way, see how it's level?
We want this to be down in the downswing.
So it goes up down, up down drill okay guys?
If you work on this indoors a lot, you can actually incorporate
this into your actual swing.
Alright so remember, you go up down. Let's try and put that into the golf swing.
Oh that was a good one guys.
So you could tell that my spine stayed down beautifully
throughout the whole swing.
And my thighs were moving more up and down instead of sideways or forward.
It seems very simple. But if you get this movement in your system guys,
your upper body movements and the swing plane, club face orientation,
those are going to get straightened out so much easier.
You're gonna start hitting the golf ball fantastic, right on the sweet spot,
improving your smash factor and your distance.
Try working on this up-down drill.
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