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- Hi Adam Bazalgette founder of Scratch Golf Academy.
Today's subject golf drills with alignment rods.
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So golf drills with alignment rods these can be handy.
Most of them you will need two rods for.
I'll show you five drills that I think will really help you,
not only build a good golf game but maintain it.
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Let's get started.
All right our first two drills are both alignment related.
One's intermediate this one
and the next one the more advanced level.
Just put two sticks down
I've got plenty of space for the bottom of my swing.
Not even that necessarily to hit the ball in reality
but it gives me a very clear target line.
Here's the mistake people make.
They aim themselves too much.
Nobody that's a great player does that.
They all aim the golf club.
Much easier to do with these sticks.
Then all they do is aim themselves toward the golf club,
or parallel to that line, if you like.
Much easier to do of course,
when there's a obvious line there.
So once you've put the club in place
and felt like you're directly aiming at these sticks
then have a look up.
Most chances you'll find you're aimed more to the left
or more to the side of the target
than what you're used to
train your eye that's what you should be doing.
Let's have a look at the advanced version.
All right the more advanced version.
I've put two rods forming a little alleyway there.
Maybe a couple yards in front of the golf ball.
Jack Nicklaus by the way famous for a lot of things
used to pick a spot on the ground about that far ahead
and used it as an intermediate target.
Something for him to aim the club at
and then work his way out.
So its similar to that.
But I like this drill because it does a couple of things.
It forces you,
it doesn't give you all the reminders right by the golf ball
so it forces you to be a little more
in tune with the way you are lining up the club
it creates more of sense that you have on the golf course
where you've really gonna take responsibility
for the club alignment.
Couple of things, step in with your trail foot
when you do this.
You'll always have better vision when you do that
once you put your left shoulder and foot up
your not gonna see so well forward
so trail foot align the club up then place your feet
then you're fairly ready well to go.
Another thing I like about this drill
is if you're hitting range balls
you can hit within a reasonably amount of space
15, 18 shots before you have to move the sticks.
Because you have a decent slot there to hit from.
Great training for your pre-short.
- [Narrator] Our next drill involves take away.
That's Johnston Thomas on the left.
I've drawn the line up the club sharft
one on the target line
beautiful take way just up that line there.
Rory McIlroy here.
He'll just go just a touch above it
which I recommend most people air just too much below
but you can see the same general idea.
Now if you're interested in the in solid strike
I've got a whole course on that
it's fee for you.
Download the in description box help yourself there.
- A word of caution here
many times when people start to risk out their take away
they take these little control muscles
and they start to place the club
you're not gonna do well like that.
You have to feel a certain flow of motion
and just be aware of where the club is if you like.
Now here's how to customize the drill.
I've set this stick in there with the angle.
This is my seven arm and the club I'm gonna use.
What I will do is I'll put it in a little steeper
and then bend it back till you feel like it matches up.
And I place the second rod on what will be the target line.
Now if my problem is taking my club too much to the inside
that's pretty common,
I wanna set up with the club with the imaginary ball
slightly on the outside of this
so my playing will be just above it a little bit.
Now I would caution you against just working a full shot
'cause you can hit yourself
but work your take away a little bit like this.
Conversely if I tend to take
the club too far outside
l'd wanna go a a little bit on the near side
of that so that my take away is gonna be underneath that.
Couple of a little words that might help you here.
If you tend to be too upright in your back swing
the odds are you're probably not using pivot
you're lifting the club too much.
Try to feel your arms stay lower to the ground
calmer more connected use your pivot more
that will draw the club back in.
Conversely if you are the one taking it to the inside
and you're probably using your hands too much
or whipping the club head too much.
Feel that the club head is more passive
and stays more in front of you lagged a little bit more
if you like in your take away.
That will help cure that.
Okay next drill I've got the rod on the ground at an angle
with balls a couple of inch in underneath there.
I can easily hit it and swing here.
What this is great for is for you to be able
to tell whether or not you move
as you start the club back in through out your swing.
Let me show you what that would look like
from the golfers view.
So if you move while you're swinging
you are gonna notice a distinct change in the relationship
of the stick and the golf ball.
Obviously if that doesn't change
you're staying pretty still.
Okay, I use this training lessons all the time.
Here's a word of caution
'cause I see this with a lot of golfers.
By the time they get the ball there
and they wack that thing in there
there's so rare to talk about outcome
on what they are trying to do.
They frankly have no recollection
or no sense on whether they moved or not despite the stick.
If you're gonna get good on golf
you have to be able to put your attention
where you wanna put it regardless of the golf ball
or whatever else is out there.
So have the poise when you do this drill
in order to relax your mind
and just pay attention to what's going on.
It will really help you.
One of the little things for this as well
this is great for little chips and peaches around the greens
so you don't really need to have a green and a target there
set this up on the range
get your wedge, pitch some balls,
wonderful way to keep yourself still.
All right let's have a look at one here for the hip movement
and the back swing.
So I've got this in the ground slightly sloped inwards mode
and I'm gonna get my ankle close to it,
I've got this much room or so
tells me if I'm bumping laterally.
And let me just say I'm not a big fan of putting a golf
ball under the outside of your feet
or wedging your foot in
or something to prevent the knee from sliding.
If you pivot properly you're not gonna have this problem.
In a proper golf pivot is the right side goes back
the right glute actually goes behind you a little bit
so really you should see even a slight increase
of space here and if you're not doing it
if your bumping into the sharft there, work on your pivot
till it's the proper weight.
don't do anything too artificial to your right foot.
One of the little word of caution,
if you wind up having too much space over here
you probably need to pivot a little bit steeper
and not so flat.
And you will see that will reduce that space.
So I hope that helps you with golf drills
and the alignment rods.
Work on this things they'll help your game
Have some fun with them.
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Thank you.
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