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- Hi Adam Bazalgette here, founder of scratch gold academy.
Today's subject, golf drills to stop over swinging.
It's a common problem, affects a lot of people.
I'll show you three things and if you do these three
you will not have that problem any more.
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So the first key to a reasonably short,
in other words a not over swing kind of a swing,
to me is this trail arm.
That's the thing I see most people do wrong.
For the right hander it's the right arm,
you've got to keep some pressure out there,
some resistance there if you're going to do this properly.
Let's have a look at a great player or two.
Then we'll come back out and I'll show you a drill.
- [Commentator] So there's Jason Day on the left
hitting a driver.
And that is certainly not an over swing
but there is definitely a little give in that left arm.
What you see though is you see plenty of space
between his body and that golf club up there.
Now look at Justin Rose on the right.
I'd say that's a pretty darn straight arm again,
beautiful look in that right arm.
I have an old film of Justin back in his Leadbetter days,
there he is from the rear view.
And here's where you'll really get a chance to see it.
The right arm folds, it's by no means stuck
into the body though at that point.
But watch it at the top.
It really has a great angle there and
it is pushed to really a full right angle.
It hasn't squashed any more than that.
So it's that pressure out there that you
need to keep with that right hand.
And you'll feel it pushing up against that left,
that you're going to make sure you do.
- Okay here's a drill I would recommend
to start you on the way, getting you the right feel.
Go to the top of a backswing and
take the butt of this right hand and
push it against the left thumb for the right handed golfer.
Big key here, we're not trying to push
the club away from the body that way,
trying to push it so there's a wrist hinge.
Trying to push a bent position.
Now here's how the drill would work,
go up there, medium kind of tension level,
push it out, hold it, push it out again, hold it.
And on the third time, hold it, then swing through.
You can do it with a ball eventually,
and probably off a tee.
I wouldn't do it initially with a ball.
The idea is to start to familiarize yourself with
that feel where there's that pressure
and then to get a feel for what does it feel like
to swing through from that position
and not the collapsed position.
All right the second key I'd give you for shortening your
backswing and that's some resistance in your lower body.
Let me put that aside, get a long club like a driver.
I would practice one of these pivots.
Now, bear in mind not all
great players do this the same way.
You look at Jack Nicholas there's
quite a bit of movement in his left knee
and there's certainly his left heel raises.
There's been some modern day players, I know hardly any,
but you've got to work this out for yourself.
So take a club, put it behind your back.
The key is the lower body has to play the role of
supporter really, it has to play the role of stabilizers.
So you want to feel like you can freely
get your back to the target but by the time you get there
you're starting to feel some decent stretch.
Don't try to resist with the knees too much.
Let them move just a little bit,
the right one will go back and up slightly,
the left one will poke out.
You just have to fool around with it to get the right blend
where you can get back there but
by the time your back's to the target
it's starting to feel a certain amount of stretch.
Now I promise you, before I give you this third key
which is probably one you wouldn't guess.
I promise you if you can keep reasonable resistance
in your lower body, and you can keep that right arm
where there's some pressure and some push out there.
You're going to feel enough stretch and talk in your body.
You're going to keep enough space out there.
You've got the battle mostly won.
Let's have a look at this last one though,
probably not something you'd guess.
- [Commentator] Okay we have Adam Scott on the left,
I realize he's hitting and iron and
John Daly there on the right's hitting a driver
but you'll get the picture here.
You need a pretty on plane simple swing
if you're going to shorten it.
Watch John, that's perfect there.
Now watch John Daly, look how far behind him,
look how flat that takeaway is,
I mean that's about as off plane as a great player can get.
Now he certainly has the flexibility and the talent to
make that work, as evidence by what he's done in the game.
But if you look at how flat that golf club is there.
We'll take Adam a wee bit further back,
that's perfect right there.
He doesn't need to compensate for that and over swing.
But for Daly, he's got to lift this club up to get it
in position, as I say he's certainly capable of it but,
it's a rare bird that gets that flat and
has all this lift that doesn't run off
and over swing quite a bit.
But when you're on this sort of a plane here,
it doesn't need the over swing.
It's so simple on plane, you've still got
to do the other two things, but
that is critical if you're going to shorten your backswing.
It's nice and simple.
I've got a brand new course on solid strike form,
if you want to hit solid irons and work on that,
a three part video course just down
in the description box, help yourself.
- So remember a good takeaway,
a nice clean start to the backswing.
That's the key to an efficient on plane sort of a move.
And when it's efficient, when it's on plane,
the first two things are a lot easier to put into practice.
Let's give it a go here.
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Hope these golf drills are helpful to stop that over swing,
I promise you they're not that difficult.
Put them into practice if you have
an over swing and you'll be sorted out.
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