Johnny contacted us at the Search 4 Scratch Program. Johnny is a good player,
plays a 5. Wants to get to scratch. And he has a problem.
He hits a lot of golf shots out on the toe, hitting weak shots to the right.
A very common shot actually for a lot of good players like Johnny.
So not getting the ball coming out of the center of the face a lot and losing
direction; hitting it more out to the right,
and would be losing distance as well. Now, the first thing that comes to mind,
I always say this when that happens, and believe it or not,
for the audience that's watching this,
even good players like Johnny sometimes don't have properly fitted
clubs. So the first thing I'm going to say, Johnny,
I'm hoping you've got your clubs fitted,
but what you tend to find with people that hit it and have marks that tend to be
more to the toe and hit the ball to the right,
is that the golf club sits too flat on the ground. That is,
the toe end is in the ground. And the heel end is up in the air.
And what happens is the center of the cashion here, the center of the face,
the sweet spot moves towards here. And this becomes the center of the club.
Trouble is here,
you get a lot more torque on the face and ball carves off to the right more so
you lose distance and it makes it quite challenging to hit.
As Johnny to get to scratch, he's going to have to be a better ball striker,
to be able to hit more greens and regulation,
and also hit the ball closer to the hole.
So he wants solid ball-striking to be able to do those things.
And he also wants the ball to start on line a lot more. So Johnny,
first thing I would say is make sure that the lie angle all of your golf club is
sitting on the ground correctly and most fitters,
are going to tell you that they just want a little bit of daylight under the toe
of the club,
because the club is going to naturally flatten out a little bit like this when
the ball is struck, but if you're on the toe already,
then it's going to come up like this and look something like this.
And then the club is going to turn this way. So Johnny, get that checked out.
If you haven't already got your clubs fitted,
but assuming you have got your clubs fitted Johnny,
then you need some sort of routine that you practice on the practice range or
the driving range that's going to help you.
And I've always found a simple prop for players that do this.
It's just a little box like this. It can be a bigger box,
but I've got a golf ball box here like this.
And I've got just enough space for the golf club to strike the ball without
knocking the box too much out of the way. But if I do hit the box,
it's not anything that's going to hurt me. There's no balls in it.
So if I hit it, I just, break the box.
But I don't do any harm to myself. So Johnny, by doing this,
what you can focus on is getting the golf club to come down and not be too much
out in front of you because a lot of toe striking is also the golf club getting
too much in front of the person coming down;
the golfer coming down and swinging too much to the left.
And so because the club is over here more,
you can see where it is in relation to the golf ball here.
It moves this way through the ball.
And ofcourse the toe is what gets in the way with the contact. So Johnny,
pretty simple one for you. When you do this exercise with the box there,
just swing to the side when you're doing exercises like this and what you'll be
looking for. A couple of checkpoints for you Johnny,
is when your hands are at the side of your body here.
So between your hip and your right shoulder, if your right-hand golfer,
just through here, your hands are sort of in the middle of your body.
The golf club angle is down about where the box is, not at the box,
but on a line of the box, going to the target.
And then you just swing down and through-strike the golf ball, release the club,
and match it up on this side.
So the more you can get the golf club in plane with the ball,
and the less it's this way or this way,
the easier it is to hit the shot because you're not compensating as much for the
position of the club when it's out of position in relation to the ball.
It's just better to have the shaft in a more common plane with the ball if
that's what you striking. Same in baseball or tennis and things like that.
If the ball is here,
I will want to get the bat into a common plane with the ball to be able to hit
it.
If it's out of position here and it stays out of the position I'm trying to hit
it from, here, I won't be as successful.
So it's just a simple thing to understand. The box there,
little swing to the side,
strike the shot and see if you can do it without hitting the box.
I flushed it. I don't think it hit too much of the box,
but I've hit a data out of the center of the clubface here.
I got a little bit of the corner of the box, but that's great feedback for me.
So, one,
I might've had the box too close because actually got it right out of the
center, but you can just practice that and gauge the distance Johnny,
but you can see instant feedback didn't hurt,
still had a really good shot down the line.
And I think that's going to be an excellent routine for you to get the
directional control you're looking for.
Get the solid face strike and hit better golf shots. So Johnny,
thanks for sending in your question to Search 4 Scratch Program.
We wish you the best with that and send us some feedback once you've done a bit
of work on it.
Even send us a video so we can have a bit of a look at how it's going.
Thanks very much, Johnny, and best of luck to you.
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