okay how are you doing today hope you're having an awesome day has that shot been
plaguing you the thin little scholar that you just love so much feels great
in your hands and your arms and your clothes just oh hate that shot
especially when you have a wedge in your hand we're gonna go over why it happens
and how to fix it and I'm gonna give you a drill that's going to cure you from
ever doing that again hopefully it might creep up every now and then then you do
the drill and you fix it again but when you get rid of the thin shots
today let's do it much better they're nice divot nice shot got in the
air that's what we want to have happen when we're hitting our shots we don't
want that you know go for chaser going down the fairway so okay let's talk
about what causes this why why do we do it kind of go over some of those the
main issues of why you thin it so that you can understand what you're doing so
then when we go to the fixes you'll know why you're doing certain things does it
make sense so one of the biggest problems I see in why you're thinning
the ball is you have a lot of face rotation going back okay if you have a
lot of rotation and when I say rotation that mean I just mean you're flailing
that clubface open on the way back okay when you flail it open on the way back
were you gonna flail it on open on the way down toward the ball so
when you do that your spit you're twisting your hands quite a bit and it
creates an atmosphere and environment where there's a lot of movement going
into the ball right before you hit so when there's a ton of movement happening
you run a greater risk of misaligning that motion and therefore you're gonna
hit it thin or fat and most people when they have a lot of face rotation they
start thinning the ball so they take it back here and they're coming in and you
rotate a little late you just kind of pull up a little so then that's why a
lot of times you're hitting those off shots is because of your face rotation
so the first thing we have to do is know that okay if I rotate a lot here rotate
rotate thin as a brand new pro v1 right in the bushes and that's not cool
I was hoping that thin it down in the middle of fairway but that didn't happen
but that's going to happen because you thin it and that face is open it goes
right you thin it the face is shut it goes left you thin its face is square it
goes down the middle so we have to get rid of that face rotation first so this
is going to be no rotation here and a nice pure shot nice height everything's
good so that's going to be kind of key one or reason one why you thin it okay
reason number two why you within it would be you're trying to get a lot of
power into the shot and when you swing hard it starts making your body get out
of position and mostly when you do that you're jumping onto your tippy toes okay
you especially your back foot you're going here you're going onto your tippy
toe if you're on the PGA Tour you could do this but most of us are not so when
you jump up on your tippy toe you get higher well guess what happens when you
get hire you you know your body wants to
stay in a good position but you give them higher and again you're just higher
up by an inch or so or even less and that's why you're gonna thin it so we
don't want to do that that's the thin and a thin shot is millimeters away from
a top shot so it's really the same thing so just know like okay we're trying for
power so we're jumping up on our tippy toes so we can't have that so we've got
to know that okay I want power power is gonna come from not this motion but this
motion feet on the ground and rotation so I really want to stay on the inside
of my back foot as I hit don't get on the tippy toe so that's gonna be the key
don't get on your tippy toes just keep that back foot down but roll it into the
inside is gonna be a big help and that's gonna start getting you power while you
stay down because power is gonna come from compressing that ball and being in
a good position at impact okay so that's the other reason and kind of the final
reason is a it's similar to that although instead of going for power
you're just sticking your butt forward so I'll you think or your interpret
interpreting rotation as this move here okay this move is going to destroy your
golf game so you're not thrusting your hips forward what you want to do is turn
your hips open okay so it's partly you're going for power
partly you're going for rotation but your rotation is just off and you're
throwing this forward which is going to create your spine and your body to stand
up which is gonna cause you to come up out of the shot therefore you're gonna
hit it then so those are the main causes of that so what we need to do now is
work on a drill that's going to help you achieve all these things in one drill
gee when if there's something that exists like that there is and once you
get it you're gonna love it it's gonna be you know drills are difficult but you
do them in every sport you're gonna have to do them in golf if that's only if you
want to take a nice divot and be able to stay in the shot and hit it where you're
looking without getting thin so let's get to the drill piece of the video so
that you can have the greatest success in your life come on okay so here is
what you're going to do for your drill now most people go to the range and they
work on they try to stay down they try to stay down in you need to stay down
for sure okay you need that and you need to stay down for a long time through the
shot so you need that here's what you're gonna do you cannot just go to the range
and think that and try to do it you need to force your body to do it and if you
force your body to do things it will eventually learn to obey but you've got
to twist it and mangle it and get it into position otherwise these things are
not going to work so here's what you're gonna do you're gonna take your setup
you're gonna aim okay you're going to check your ball position here with your
with your foot position so okay here's my ball position and I'm just putting a
tee down on the ball and on my feet right there and they're good okay I just
want to check and see where I'm lined up here because that's going to be a
critical piece so let's see how we're doing
so as you could see here my alignment is good or my position ball position is
pretty good it's kind of just in the center of my stance which is exactly
where I want that 6-iron to be okay great so we've checked my ball position
and we're good right so that's where you would ideally want to be let's say with
the six iron and this drill is going to help you so if I just hit shots like
this with my six iron all day great you know I could learn to stay
down but I could only stay down so much what I'm gonna do is I'm going to take
this six iron and now I've got my stance of everything I'm measured out we're
good I'm gonna move this ball forward like
that would be 1 ball 2 balls 3 balls forward okay so here's my setup and I'm
gonna set up where it should be make sense this work should be where I want
but I'm gonna set up here and I'm going to hit now hit my ball where it is
that's stuff 1 so I'm set up here and I'm gonna hit that in order to hit it
not only do I have to stay down like if I come up I'm gonna miss if you thin it
in its normal position you're gonna swing overtop of it here so if I were to
come up and just thin it from there I'm gonna miss so now I have to stay down to
get it where it is it's pretty easy so that's three balls forward and hit your
hit your shot now oh that's good and I hit it a little thin but a little thin
there is going to be absolutely perfect right here so I want you to work on that
for a while just put a bunch of balls just set up normal then move that three
balls forward and hit your shot you're gonna hit these a little thin and I want
you to keep working it out until you start hitting those pretty good then
then you get to put one back here and see what happens so I've practiced that
shot for a hundred shots where I put the ball way up there now put it here now my
thought process is do just swing the same swing I just swung and say that 100
times fast all right so I'm gonna stay down like I did going for that ball
three balls forward in here oh my gosh that was some of my best ball contact I
didn't take much of a divot again you don't have to take a divot to hit solid
ball contact but your hands are gonna be forward a little bit at impact because
you're just so used to releasing a lot later
now this drill doesn't help you with the face rotation that's on your own you
just got to feel like the club is a little shut going back but this is going
to help you stay in the shot a lot better rotating on the inside of the
back foot and staying down do it all the way because that's really the key why
you're thinning it so I'm thinking about the ball three balls forward and we give
it a go and you really feel that rotation and extension way down in
through there that's going to be your drill to cure your thin shot life when
you're out there on the course you're having trouble you keep doing the same
thing over and over and over and you can't fix it do this drill move that
ball forward stay in it you will fix your thin shots they'll be gone they'll
come back you'll do the drill again they'll be gone again and it'll be an
endless cycle of constantly refining and improving your game that's what we love
about this thing hope you like this video hope it helps your game let me
know in the comments below how it's working for you good luck I love you
guys stay cool out there see you in the next video
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