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Chris, thank you for joining us.
- No problem.
- We've had an interesting start to the morning,
the batteries have run out.
We've got camera people holding the phones here.
So it's a makeshift day,
but we're still gonna give, hopefully, you a great lesson.
We've had a little look at his golf swing,
but we're gonna hit a couple shots
to sort of get you warmed up.
And then we're gonna go through some simple things
that you can work on over the winter.
That we think will make a massive difference,
sorta, come season.
And it'll hopefully help you guys as well.
So let's hit a few shots here.
We've got seven iron in hand,
here on the 14th at the Astbury.
(golf ball cracking)
So there's that pull that you mentioned,
but lovely strike.
- That's that pull.
(club whooshes)
- There's the thin. - There's the thin.
(club whooshes)
- Nice shot. - That was good.
- That was lovely, that was good.
- Sorry, I let you down.
- The flag. - Over the green.
- I let you down.
- Okay, so before we get into the analysis,
let us know what you would do with Chris's golf swing.
Here is his slow-mo.
Let us know in the comments, down below.
Okay, Chris, before we take a look
at the actual golf swing and break it down,
'cause I'll need the camera that Sean's holding.
Just take your set up for us.
As if you're gonna play a shot for me.
- Yep, no problem.
- Okay, perfect.
So, all I'm gonna do is drop these down parallel.
Tell me when this one's parallel
and when they're parallel to each other.
Yeah, you're about bang on there.
- About bang on, okay,
just come back and take a look at these then.
And this feels reasonably comfortable to you.
(laughter)
But notice that it's a bit off,
slightly off to the right.
And you knew that you were a little out anyway, didn't you?
Yeah?
- Yep.
- So what this is a reaction to,
we often sort talk about this stuff don't we Pierce.
Is that aim is a reaction to the ball flights.
So, if you miss enough shots to the left,
the body's gonna figure out a way
to just hit it straight by aiming in a different way.
- Yeah.
- Now over the winter,
what I want you to do is
I want you to be conditioning,
a more neutral alignment reader.
To work at your golf swing
in conjunction with what we're gonna to do.
So first couple of shots, all we're gonna do,
not even going to work at the golf swing yet.
We're going to look at you hitting
a couple of shots and what it feels like.
Guess where the chances are this ball's gonna go?
- Probably left.
- Yes, exactly.
So let's just hit a few shots.
I wanna just see you hit a couple of shots.
And just tell me how this feels when you look up.
Where do you feel like you're aiming?
- Hey a nice little hill fade, back on the target.
- That's actually worked out really nicely.
So I'm going to just quickly,
I'm gonna do two swings down the line and face on.
So yeah, just a swing yeah?
Yeah, whenever you're ready then for us.
(golf ball cracking)
- Oh, my word.
Scrap that one.
- That's what we want to see.
- Jesus Christ. - That's exactly what we
want to see.
- Come on, Christopher.
(golf ball cracking)
- Fairly nice, and oh yeah, very nice.
- Yeah, both have gone in the same place though.
- Okay, the great thing about this
is that you'll start to just condition
what a neutral alignment looks like.
Okay, so let's have a look at the golf swing then.
Let's go from down the line first.
So now we can have a little look
at what it looks like from a square alignment.
The first thing is the club swinging
above the plane on the way back.
- Yeah.
- And then above the plane on the way down.
So we've got this over the top a little bit across.
That's why it hits the hill.
But we want to see that really,
that's exactly what we want to see.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Okay, face-on.
What I want you to pay attention to here
is look at the tree in the background here
and look at the trail hip.
Notice how your hips move towards the tree.
We've got this little bit of a sway, on the way back.
- Yeah.
- So this is really the work
that we want to do over the winter.
We have more of a move that's almost too straight back.
- Yep.
- But you've been working
a little bit of that as well, yeah?.
- Yeah.
- And we've got a little bit of a sway.
So really what we'd like to see
is things moving more rounded.
So more of a rotation with the hips on the way back.
And the club working more around the body on the way back.
- Cool.
- Only slightly.
- Yeah.
- But combine this, with this,
striking is gonna be so much better as well.
Right, we're gonna start with looking at the hips,
the pivot motion.
- Yeah.
- If we can get the body doing a better job,
then we'll match it up with a golf club.
What I wanna do is give you the feeling.
Now you've seen it.
We've got this little bit of a sway.
I wanna give you the feeling of what it is
to rotate instead of sway.
So let's get the golf club,
just place it across the sort of shoulders for me.
That's it, I'm just getting your golf posture.
So what, I just want to take Chris
through what we want to feel.
Now we know that Chris is doing more
of this move on the way back.
We've got this little bit of a sway.
What we wanna see is it's much more of this rotation
on the way back with his lower body.
If we can do this, it's gonna change a lot of things.
So let's swing back for us.
I want you to allow this, the lower body to rotate it a bit.
There you go.
What do you notice there?
- I feel like I've definitely rotated.
- Good, so that again for us, keep going for me.
Just do a few of these.
Rotate for us there now.
Hips, hips, hips, hips, hips.
There you go.
Okay, good.
- Okay.
- Really important, now you see
from the down the line angle,
look how much turn we've got here at the lower body,
crucial to get this delivery in a better place.
'Cause how often do we talk about hips?
If you aren't working,
if you aren't checking your hips there now,
you need to, you need to.
- Do you know what the good thing about this is as well?
Notice how Andy was talking about,
obviously, Chris is swaying.
Hopefully you put that in the comments.
What he has said is turn,
so replace the sway with a turn
and he didn't say stop swaying.
And that's really important because the biggest problem
we see is when someone is swaying,
that they try to stop swaying.
They stop turning and they just use their arms.
So we just want to make sure
that when you're stopping and getting rid of your sway,
you're replacing it with a turn, which is crucial for Chris.
And by the way, if you're swaying,
can you swing over the top?
Yes.
Can you struggle all striking?
Yes.
- Yeah.
- Let's have a few shots.
First couple of shots,
I do not care what happens to the ball.
I just want you to have some awareness of the...
Remember of the feet as well.
The weight's on the feet.
- Yeah.
(golf ball cracking)
- Okay, so it was decent.
And maybe a little bit of sweat on that one.
(golf ball cracking)
Two, but not quite as good as the practice swing.
- You can see how much easier it is
that when you are doing these practice swings
being more deliberate, making sure you're
not just taking shots after shots.
It's so important you have those practice swings.
Let us know if this has been helpful to you as well,
actually hit the like.
And also what other topics
would you like us to cover in these live lessons?
(golf ball cracking)
- So let it sway.
- So again, you look at that one,
it's definitely a better quality of motion,
but now the shot there isn't a million miles
off the way you were aiming.
- Well, and here's the thing,
when every time I say it's swaying.
- Yeah.
- It's probably swaying four to five inches before,
it's now two or three.
So it's definitely changing.
- It was just the interesting
the call Pierce mentioned a minute ago.
Chris went, I'm trying to stop.
So it was in the restrictive mode.
So we were stopping motion instead of improving motion.
- Yeah, yeah.
- This is the important thing
you haven't got to stop your sway.
You've got to improve the rotation.
- Yeah, yeah.
- So don't think stop.
- Think rotate. - Stop, yeah.
(golf ball cracking)
- Oh, there we go.
- Beautiful strike.
- Did I sway?
- No, that was good.
An inch, if anything,
but that's one of the best ones you've done.
(golf ball cracking)
That was the best shot that you've hit.
- Yeah, very nice.
(club swooshing)
And nice shot, very good.
- That's a very different ball flight to what I'm used to.
- Yeah, it definitely is gonna get higher.
Okay guys, let's have a little look on screen here.
We're gonna have a look where that right hip is now.
- Yeah.
- Look at the difference now?
- Yeah.
- It still wants to move, look towards the end.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- It wants to go towards that tree in the background,
but this is so much better.
Now we've got much more of a rounded move
with that lower body, but it can still be there.
This is like I said, it's not overnight.
You're gonna need to do some work
on what this lower body is doing.
This is your swing, now look.
This is now on plane on the way back.
Really, really nice.
It's still a fraction above, but not nowhere near as much.
This actually was that start left toe.
Okay guys, hope you enjoyed that.
Chris, awesome, work that alignment.
Get that body working.
You need to be checking that guys.
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