- Are you sick and fed up
of losing your drives out to the right,
often losing your golf ball
and definitely losing distance?
Well the good news is,
in this video, we have three tips
that are really, really simple,
that are gonna make your drives longer and straighter.
And the best part about is,
it's with no extra effort.
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- Hello and welcome to "Golfers Transformed"
our new show
where we transform the golf swings of our members.
So we've just had a great lesson with Jimmy,
a member of team, "Me and My Golf"
and Jimmy, with the driver had a two-way miss.
Now, he was also losing a lot of distance
as a a result of this as well.
So what we had is a natural shot
which wanted to go to the right,
but then a compensation
which would make it go to the left.
But, he was losing a stack of distance as well,
good athlete.
What were the two main things that we were seeing?
- Okay, so yeah, Lee was a good athlete,
really strong,
up to like 117 to 119 miles per hour club head speed,
but not maximizing the distance.
Now the key thing was really
that he had this two-way miss,
but we always start at the basics.
You've gotta look at that first.
And the first thing we noticed with Jimmy
was that his ball position was way back in the stance.
You'll see on screen here
the ball was way back in the stance
closer to the middle than the front heel.
Even though Jimmy knew
it should be more towards the front of the stance,
he still had it there.
And also there was a slight issue with the grip,
the left hand was a little bit too high in the palm
which was causing the club face to be open.
Now, let's just explain that a little more
because this is really important to understand
especially if you've got this big high slice
that you hit.
Well, when the ball is back in the stance too much
a couple of things happen.
First of all you're gonna hit a little bit more down
on the golf ball,
but also the further the ball is back in the stance.
The more the club face wants to point to the right.
You can see here,
look that face now is out to the right.
The more the ball is forward in the stance
the more we will up on the golf ball
we know that's gonna help with yardage,
but also look how square of the face is now
towards the target.
That gives us so much more chance.
Whereas if it's back,
straight away it's bringing that right side into place.
So a quick change in ball position
can make a huge difference.
And it certainly did with Jimmy.
And the reason we changed the grip,
we're just gonna show actually,
Jimmy now impacts to the driver,
you'll see that that club face
when he struck the golf ball
was way open, but also very lofted.
This was causing a real high flight high launch
with a loader spin,
like up towards 5,000 RPM- - Far too much.
Far too much. - No good at all.
So that was robbing him of distance.
Now because of the positioning of his left hand
this was causing the club face
in the downswing to be a little too open.
Then when the club's open,
we have to release early,
we add loft, and that takes out the speed completely.
So, a slight grip change
made a huge difference.
So this is what we did,
first of all, really simple;
and this is key because as we said,
I said to Jimmy,
"Jimmy where should the ball be with a driver?"
He says, "Opposite the left heel."
Well, he knew it, but he still wasn't doing it.
So make sure when you're on the range,
you test,
understand exactly where that ball position is
with the driver.
Generally, golfers have it too far back.
So you can see I've got these cross hairs
in here now, lineman sticks,
and I'm gonna make sure I'm setting up,
and this left heel is right up against that stick.
This for Jimmy was,
"Wow, this feels so different.
This feels quite really strange"-
- (chuckles) But it's interesting
because he knew that it should be there.
So he knew that the alignment stick should be there
and that's how it should look.
But then the feel was so weird, wasn't it?
- Yeah, he was like,
"Well, this feels totally different."
But now this gives him more chance
to square the face.
Now the issue was,
put the ball without changing the grip.
Well now he's gonna hit it even higher.
So this is why we needed to change that grip,
but we also just wanted to take out
the right side of play.
If we could take out that right side,
have a more predictable shot,
we could then start to lower the flight
and hit a little longer.
So first of all, this was the big thing,
and now from this change
the start direction was straight away
a lot straighter.
- Come on Andy, let's see you hit one, then.
- It's gonna be a high bomb,
I'm hitting it well at the moment,
especially with this new driver.
(golf ball whack)
Woah!
- He actually telling the truth for once, look at that.
- Very nice. - That was really good.
- That was very nice.
Strong wind, here at the Grand.
- Let's get into the grip then,
let's see what we've got with this.
- Okay, now the interesting part about this,
I might come in a little closer to you guys here,
Jimmy actually had, you're here,
"Oh, you need to see two to three knuckles."
Well, Jimmy had two to three knuckles visible.
The issue that it was,
was more really where it was in the hand.
It was way too much in the palm.
And when it gets too much in the palm of the hand
it tends to want to open the club face on the way down.
So what we did,
we wanted to put it more
in the base of the fingers here,
base of that four finger
across the base of the little finger.
And now we say this so often
we should be able to rest that club
underneath the heel pad of the hand.
This is so important.
This now, straight away as soon as he held the grip,
he went, "I feel like the club wants to close."
I says, "Great, because you keep hittin it right."
So, this is a good thing,
it was a good feeling to have.
And straight away,
the shots that he started hitting there
started straight or even went left.
- Yeah.
- He couldn't even hit it to the right from there.
- This is something that you need to do right now,
pause the video, get a golf club,
can you hold it up like that?
And give it a test and let us know
whether that's actually what you're doing naturally
or whether you have to change things
to make that happen.
- And don't underestimate the placement of where this is.
It's not just about the knuckles,
it's where this sits in the hand
which really makes a difference to the face.
- It's the most important part
of the lead hand on the golf club.
You can sometimes get away
with a slightly weak grip,
but as soon as you get that club up in the palm there,
high up in the palm into the thumb area,
it's really difficult.
- Okay, let me hit one more
and then we're gonna give you one more thing
that we did actually after the lesson
which made a big difference to him as well.
(golf ball whack)
- Nice. Very good.
And I think, look,
one thing that we mentioned already-
- Big toe on that- - big toe, it was good though,
it was okay.
- A good toe. - A good toe.
One thing we mentioned already,
Jimmy was an athlete, he could move quickly.
Now, the reason he could do this
is because he was actually a really good baseball player,
a good hitter.
So as much as he created
a really good body movement by playing baseball
and created that speed,
unfortunately caused a slight problem
in how he used his hands and his arms,
hasn't he?
- Yeah, and we actually videoed him
in slow-mo doing his baseball swing.
And when you look at his baseball swing
generally we see this with a lot of baseball players.
Is that when you hit the baseball
this face would be wide open like this.
We have this sort of late release.
- There's no release at all already-
- So there's no release.
So we've just hidden it like this
and so there's no release.
And you look at the face,
and if you look at the slow-mo on Jimmy's there,
that face is wide open.
So the final part which we did with him
after the lesson actually was like,
"Look, this is what you need to do moving forward."
We just encouraged him
to actually rotate the toe a little earlier
past the golf ball.
We said, "Look"
I actually grabbed the club
and I just turned the club and says,
"What do you feel?"
He says, "Well, I feel the toes movin over.
I can feel it turnin and that feels different."
He says, "I almost feel like I'm shaking hands
with this right hand."
And this was a great feel for him.
I got him doing one handed swings
without the club
just feeling like he's rotating that palm
more over and down.
And then straight away he hit a couple of shots
down this end of the range.
And he was hitting these low draws
compared to these high weak slices
that were going nowhere.
It was a massive difference.
- And look, the main thing with this was really,
by moving the ball forward and changing the grip,
he hardly hit any to the right.
I think he hit one shot to the right.
The main thing that Andy was doing
by showing how to release the club better,
was really just trying to lower the ball flights
and make it stronger, make the ball speed faster,
and not carry it 260,
he should be carrying it 280, 290.
So he's probably losing 30 yards.
- Yeah, and it was just a nice feel for him.
The only thought that we gave him in the golf swing,
and I said to him,
"Look, make sure now,
just use the golf ball as your guide."
So, if you're hittin it high right
and the ball position's in a good place
and you've got a good grip,
you haven't closed or released
that club face early enough.
If you hit a snap hook
you've probably released it a little bit too early.
So now he's got some feedback to go,
"Well okay, now I've just gotta work on one thing
which is the closure or the release of the club."
And he's gonna be doing it based on what he sees
but also based on him making sure
the ball position's in a good place,
making sure his grips in a good place.
And now he's got that one thought through the golf ball,
and it was amazing to the difference
especially when we finished off
down here as well. - Yeah, absolutely.
And if you think about this,
it's inevitable that we're going to have a miss,
you're going to have a consistent miss.
But when you've got a two-way miss,
it's just a nightmare.
So at least what we did with Jimmy was,
we got rid of the right and said,
"Well look, do you know what,
as Andy said,
you may every now and then get a one
that goes a little bit to the left,
but that's fine,
you just don't feed as much release into that shot."
But look, as soon as you can get rid of the two-way miss
you will save yourself a lot of money in golf balls.
- So there we go.
Hope you enjoyed that.
That was a great lesson with Jimmy
some big results that he got there.
And if you want to check out the whole lesson
it's exclusive to our members over at meandmygolf.com.
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