- Do you lack control with your irons?
You could be making the exact same mistake
that Ashley's making in his backswing.
In this video, we share with him
a very simple drill that makes him
so much more consistent with his irons,
and we know this can make a big difference to yours too.
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- Hello. Welcome to episode two of Break 100,
where we are taking Ashley through a series of sessions
to hopefully help him break 100.
Now ball striking with your irons is so key
if you want to break 100,
and that's what we're going to do today.
We're going to look at his irons again
to move that to the next level.
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- Last week we worked on body pivot.
- Yeah. - How's it been since then?
- [Ashley] So I played on Tuesday.
I played a lot better.
My ball striking was better,
but I shanked a few shots. - Okay.
- Let me down, but definitely felt better.
- Front nine of 47 though. - Yeah.
With a trip, with the quadruple bogey on the ninth.
- Yeah.
- It's getting there, you know.
- Let's hit a few shots.
Let's get you warmed up again.
And we're going to go here.
That flag on the 14th here at the Asbury.
We've got nine iron in hand.
Very nice.
Good solid strike there.
- Yeah, nice.
- And one thing that we've got down with Ashley
again today is we put this alignment stick down.
Warming up, he was tending to aim a little to the right,
so we said, look, whenever you're practicing,
get yourself a line to the target.
Make sure you take care of that.
So you know if the ball goes offline,
if the swing that's causing the issue.
Beautiful.
Really, really nice.
- That'd be nice on the ninth.
Last week.
(coaches laugh)
- It really would.
- The striking is really important,
'cause warming up, there's a few shorts.
There's a couple of heavy shots.
The consistency of that,
and then if you chip,
and then you have two parts,
it all contributes.
So if we can work at this and advance it today,
it'll be a big help.
Wow.
Let's take a look at the golf swing here.
So if we get you to when your lead arm is
parallel to the ground,
we haven't really quite got any or much wrist set.
So we've got, we haven't really got much wrist set going on
by your time you're here.
So what happens here now is we continue to go on
all the way to the top of the golf swing,
and the hands and the arms disappear behind the head.
And notice the length of the golf swing here.
So when we get the arms out racing the body there,
it's just really hard to sequence on the way down.
The club gets left behind.
The body has to still stall,
and we can't really rotate through,
and you can see there's the heavy shot there, yeah?
So where we'd like to get you today,
and this is what we see a lot of the best ball strikers
with irons are a little shorter on the back swing.
You'll see some of the,
having it slightly longer with the driver is not the,
not too much of an issue,
'cause we want to hit it as long as possible.
But this is all about consistency and strike.
- Yeah.
- So where we're going to go today
is we're going to shorten it down.
We're going to get your arms a little wider on the way back,
and the key to doing that is
actually creating a little bit more wrist set
on the way back. - Okay.
So it's going to feel a little different,
but we're going to go into this shorter, wider position
instead of letting these arms disappear around the back
and getting this right arm actually sort of gets behind
and stuck a little bit. - Yeah.
So just move back just a hair for me.
Just swing back, sorry.
Just good. Okay.
So as we start to swing back now,
what we're going to start to feel is,
okay now notice how that's different.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
So notice now what I'm trying to create
from the face on view on the camera here
is this 90 degree by the time this lead arm is set here.
And if we go to the top of the golf swing now,
there we go.
Now that's as far as I want you to go back here now.
- Okay. - What does that feel like?
Feels very short.
- It feels very short, yeah,
but now we've got the wrist set.
We've sort of sequenced it in a much better way.
- So basically Ashley has got an overswing with his irons.
This is a killer for consistency and strike,
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- So what I'm probably going to do today,
if you take your setup,
so I'm actually going to get Ashley to hit shots.
I'm going to stand here.
Normally your hands will disappear well behind this, yeah?
I'm going to get you to hit.
If you do a backswing for me again now.
I want you to keep the wrist soft.
Hold it, good.
We're going to,
I'm going to get you to be able to swing back to there.
You're still feeling the load in the leg,
which is great. - Yeah.
And then we're going to get you to,
I'll ask you to swing through.
So not necessarily now,
but I'm going to,
this is what we're going to do.
Let's get rid of the ball,
'cause we know we're not going to hit any golf balls yet.
So Pierce, can you check the front on from wrist set?
- [Pierce] I can.
- All I'm really controlling here is the length,
and how short your arms are going to swing here.
So soft hands, swing to the top and hold it.
- Nice.
- Okay, and through for me.
Good. See if you can stay short of this.
There you go, and through.
Beautiful.
- This is so hard to do, by the way.
When people ask, when we say to people,
"Did you shorten it,"
and we'll do it in a a minute.
It'll be like, it'll go long and you go,
"Oh, I didn't think it was going to go that long."
- And what would,
what this is really going to enable you to do, Ashley,
and for the guys at home,
shortening the iron swing is really important.
When we get short and wide here,
we can then start to really open up
and engage the body.
When the arms get long,
what we're always going to see is this catch up
and throw from the top
where we don't sequence that.
So being short and wide here with a good rotation
just enables us to engage the body, turn on,
create the shaft lean,
which we, is just massively important for the irons.
Can you do a swing back and through for me
without stopping now,
and a little bit of a brush of the grass,
but don't hit the alignment stick.
Good.
- [Pierce] You actually did it.
Yeah. (laughs)
I was like, "That was a lot to ask, Andy."
Come on.
- He's got some brain space.
There you go.
Lovely. - That's good.
What does this feel like, Ashley?
- It feels okay.
- Excellent.
Should we give it a shot, yeah?
- Why not see what happens?
Cameraman might want to move.
- I'm just going to just,
this is the important thing here.
So at home in the mirror,
I want you to see that nice L shape.
- That's probably not a bad place
to feel like you actually swing to.
- Exactly. - A shot, to be honest.
- Yeah.
- That was actually really good,
considering that was your first attempt.
- That was beautiful, by the way.
- Yeah, that was good.
- Really, really good.
We combine this with the body pivot.
Unbelievable change.
Massively different in consistency of ball striking,
if we get this right.
Good.
- Hard, isn't it?
- Hard strike, but I'll tell you what, it was really good.
- It was hard. - It was good.
It's hard.
Practice swinging again for us.
We'll get the brush.
Maybe swing back once and stop.
Hold it. That's where you want to feel.
That's it.
Now start from the beginning again,
and now let's blend it into a motion.
Beautiful, right?
Straight to it, I love that.
So one practice swing where we want to be,
blend it into a motion, and then we go.
- Oh yeah.
- Beautiful.
- Andy, just out of curiosity for you there.
that's 4.6 down.
- Really, yeah? - Okay.
- That's how we would hit a nine iron.
That's what it needs to do.
- That's exactly what is the difference
between you hitting it consistent of the yardage,
or patting it short.
- Little bit ground before.
- Tiny bit ground before.
- It is interesting though, isn't it on this one here?
That generally when Ashley hits a divot,
it's not to be a great shot,
other than the shot previous to that.
So if we can get the club traveling down a little bit more,
which is essential for irons,
it's going to transform him.
It's going to make it so much easier to be predictable
on the distance that he hits the golf ball,
but he's obviously going to be more
consistent with it as well.
- Okay. Love, love that.
And that was even a little short,
but really nice.
Okay, let's have a little look at that then.
So this here is a little short.
- Yeah. - But now we can start to see
that you sequence the club in a good way.
The body's working good.
We hold onto a lot of the angle in the shaft.
- [Ashley] Such a different motion, nice.
- Now I want to see if you can do that without me there.
'Cause unfortunately I can't come round with you each round,
but I want you to go through that same habit if we can.
- [Pierce] Again, how far?
How far do you think you went there?
- About there.
- About there, so about three quarters?
- Three quarters, I'd say.
- Okay, have a look.
- That's where I want to be, isn't it?
- Yeah.
- I'm guessing you'd tell me I wasn't.
- Okay, let's have a little look.
You'll see on screen here, guys,
maybe we could do with a little more set in wrist.
It's not too bad there.
I'm okay with that, you being there.
- Yeah. - That's good.
It's shorter parallel, look.
- [Ashley] Yeah.
- I'm actually good with it being there.
That is going to make the biggest difference
on Ash designs there.
It's going to be crucial to his ball striking,
as we saw four or five degrees down
from one degree down.
The consistency of you doing that
is naturally going to get you on more greens,
and if you're on more greens,
obviously you're going to have some low scores there.
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