We were contacted by Mike through our Search 4 Scratch Program.
And Mike is an 18 handicapper with a goal of getting to 9.
And Mike believes that he has a weight shift problem that leads
to increased loft on the golf club,
hitting the ball too high and not far enough. And what Mike would like would be
a lower trajectory and a stronger trajectory.
So there's two things going on here. We've got to address.
And the first one is the improper weight shift.
So we're going to talk a little bit about that to start with, it
might give you some ideas on what you can do.
And the second part of the lesson is to describe
how to hit more solid shots that are on a trajectory that's lower
and obviously further down the fairway. Okay.
So first and foremost,
when a lot of golfers swing the golf club and they swing their backswing,
what happens is the right side,
the right knee for a right-hand golfer.
The knee moves to the right of the ball. If the ball was on the ground here,
they'll go up to the top.
And the heel moves in the air and the knee moves forward.
And then they pivot from that back leg this way.
So their weight staying on this hip, the heel comes off the ground,
the knee's moving this way and they come this way at it.
And the club accelerates out in front too quickly.
And as the club's coming down,
their left wrist is breaking down and that's adding loft to the face.
So I've got a 7 iron here, which turns into a 9 iron..
And so the golf shot is hit, not very solidly. It's a thin type of a shot,
goes very high in the air and doesn't have a lot on it.
The other thing that happens is,
because of this club releasing quickly out in front,
the bottom of the swing arc tends to be behind the ball. So,
shots can be hit thin or fat. What we want to be able to do here, is
change the way that works. So let's talk about footwork to start with.
When the golf club goes back to the top of the swing,
the easiest thing to understand about this,
and I'll do it from this side to show you,
is I go back to the top and whether your leg is completely straight or got a
little bit of flex in it doesn't really matter, but here's the master move.
Where the heel would normally come up in this fashion and the knee would move
forward this way, what we're going to do is roll the ankle,
the right foot, roll it in. Now by rolling the foot this way,
the heel stays on the ground for longer.
Plus we're getting pressure moving from the right leg into the left leg.
So top of the swing, and we're going to go this way,
not this way. Because this way you can see the motion of the body.
What happens is as the knee goes, this way, the pelvis moves up and forward.
And from here, I have to throw early because my hip's in the way, if however,
I get to the top of the golf swing and I move this right leg and keep it behind
the left leg. So I'm shifting this way first,
the golf club stays in a stable position,
which means the path of the swing is a little bit more down the line,
instead of what can happen as it gets too much this way and this way down the
line, which is going to be helpful. That's part one.
So from this angle it would look like this. I'm over into my right leg.
And then I roll this inside part of the shoe towards
the target this way. Now, soon as I do that, I've got no choice,
but to move pressure from this leg to here, like that.
So that's the first move in the golf swing, right. Here's the second part.
The second part is that I'm holding the golf club and I would
suggest that the grip is probably a little bit with the lead hand.
The target hand is probably a little bit too much on top of the golf
club like this. So the thumb's a little bit more on top of the golf club. Now,
what happens when we do that as the golf club travels away from the ball in the
backswing, the shaft rotates too much. And when the shaft rotates too much,
the face of the club rotates too much. So as it goes back,
it's opening up too much at the top of the swing. Now,
when you combine this motion here and the open face,
and you throw the club to square the clubface up, you add loft.
As I said earlier,
and you get a thin strike or you hit the ground behind the ball.
So we're going to do it a little bit differently. So number one,
we know about the motion of the lower body we bank or roll the right foot
inwards this way. Now, these, you got to work on this a little bit,
but there's only two parts through. Here's part number two.
What I want to see on this side is left hand, your lead hand, target hand,
to be rotated around the grip a little bit more so you can see more knuckles of
the left hand.
Now this is important because what's going to happen when we do this and we fit
the right hand into that.
So we don't have to manipulate left hands rotated around much,
not on top of the club like this anymore. It's rotated around in
a clockwise way. So, round to the side.
And then we fit the right hand into that. Now, when we swing back, the clubface,
won't rotate open anymore.
It's going to stay relatively square through the swing.
The wrist is going to be a lot flatter at the top.
And the clubface is going to be a little more closed. Now,
the combination of this closed face and this new shift of
pressure from the right leg or the trail leg to the target leg is going to lead
to a much more solid clubface. That's traveling down through the ball,
hitting the ball first and getting a lower trajectory.
So let me show you what that will look like.
So I'm going to go through that process. I'm going to hit a shot,
rotate my hand in a clockwise fashion.
As I look at it to the side of the golf club. And now I can see,
as I look at it here, I can see three knuckles in this situation.
Fit my right hand into it, set up to the golf ball.
Now I've got that set up and it'll feel a little weird.
You'll need to do this for a while. When the club gets it,
we're just going to swing to the side. When the club gets to the side,
I'm going to push from the inside of this right shoe,
roll it this way to hit this shot. All right.
So let's do that and see what happens,
swing to the side and then shift the weight the right way.
Now, I got great contact on that.
So I've gone ball first and you can see a divot has started directly after it.
The feeling was from the top that the ankle rolled this way,
that kept my hips tilted in this position. So I'm more over the golf ball,
as opposed to this way of coming in, where I'm going to throw,
because my hip is in the way.
So you're going to get much more solid shots doing that Robin.
It's going to make a big difference to you. So there're two things here,
we've got the pressure moving from the right leg or the real leg to the front
leg is a rolling motion of the ankle this way. Number one. Number two, if
you like a stronger left hand grip so that the clubface doesn't rotate
open as much, which means it'll stay squarer through the swing.
The combination of those two is going to create a much stronger bottom of the
swing for you.
You get a much better golf shot and it's going to lead to lower scores.
And we really appreciate you contacting us at Search 4 Scratch.
Hope that information helps you.
And we'd love some feedback from you once you've done a bit of practice.
Thanks for sending it in.
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