Golf Drills

Understanding The Gear Effect

by

Drivers over the past couple years have all been touting terms like “optimized flight” “low center of gravity” and “more stable on off-center hits”.  In an engineers quest to achieve perfection in a driver, we’ve seen quite a variety of designs, including square heads (Callaway FTi), triangular (Titleist 907 D1), and now even cavity back … Read more

Pull Slice? Try a The Sidehill Drill

by

The fault being demonstrated by the lines in this picture is called coming over-the-top. This classic fault is very common with slicers, and is most often characterized by a big looping slice that starts left of the target line (right-handers anyway). This move, of hacking down at the ball from a vertical position with the … Read more

Golf Body Rotation 101: Creating Tension

by

You see it on every range and course you play – someone with a swing where their front heel lifts off the ground at the top of the backswing.  And while for some players, this is a necessary swing adjustment in order to produce a solid turn, for most, its actually hindering the creation of tension and coil between the upper and lower body.   This same resistance is what helps generate and create power in the downswing.  In the video below we look a little closer into this swing fault, but with a focus on the weak lower body, characterized by your knees being very close together at the top of your backswing. We call it over-rotation, and it often leads to over-swinging at the top. Both faults tend to produce similar swing results – a lack of power, distance and consistency at impact.

This drill is designed to help you feel the proper tension/resistance at the top of your backswing.  By simply turning your lead foot towards the target, you make it all but impossible to have a weak lower body, or over-turn at the top.  Your torso muscles will resist the movement.  For those of you who lift your front foot at the top – try this drill for awhile, and then swing normally focusing on keeping your front heel on the ground — take notice of the similarities in feel. For those of you who tend to rotate your lower body too much, focus on keeping your knees equidistant to each other throughout the swing, and facing perpendicular to your target line until impact.

With a little practice you should see a big difference in the amount of power you can create, and distance the ball will travel. See the video below.

Read more

Slicers, Don’t Aim Left

by
Slicing golf Tips 101

Let me ask you something… how many of you slicers out there have tried to counteract it by aiming further left? Does it help? To be honest this ‘tip’ does as much good as telling someone to just swing faster in order to gain extra yards. On the rare occasion you do make solid, square … Read more

How To Hook The Crap Out Of The Ball

by

The hook is just awesome. It’s one of the few shots in golf where you can make the ball turn over very severely with some element of control. Take Bubba’s shot in this year’s Masters.  There is no way he could have pulled that shot off if he was right handed. You simply cannot slice a ball and make it turn hard 50 yards after impact. I’d need a physics expert to explain why, but there are certain shots you can only pull off with a hook – and I’m going to teach you how to perform one today.  Learning this shot takes a ton of practice, so be sure to hit the range and test it out.  I highly suggest you practice this shot considering two targets — one, where you want the ball to start it’s turn, and two, where you want the ball to end up.

Alright, lets snap to it (ha).

Read more

Extension Through Impact Drill

by
Golf club extension

Today we’re going to share with you a great drill to help fight the dreaded follow-through chicken wing, or pull-up at impact fault that plagues many people. This fault is characterized by top and thinned shots that lack distance, consistency and accuracy. This fault is surprisingly common, despite how awkward it looks in the video below. Even if you’re not routinely thinning your shots, this specific drill can really help people hit down and through the ball on their follow-through by encouraging a solid arm extension through impact. This drill is a great way to encourage a downward angle of attack as well as a solid release.

Like the video below shows, the trick is to setup in your impact body position, swing back to about 10 o’clock, hit the ball and hold your follow-through position without breaking your wrists. You’ll notice in the video that this drill looks very similar to a knockdown position – and you’d be right. This drill is effectively asking you to hit a modified knockdown to really feel the proper positioning of your arms and body post impact. The benefits of this new position include a downward angle of attack into impact for better contact, additional power created by more lag and better transfer of power, and finally more accuracy.

Read more

Fix Your All-Arms Golf Swing

by
All Arms

Have you ever been told your golf swing is all arms? Do you often suffer from a lack of distance and consistency? Not to worry, it’s a very common fault, and today we’re going to share with you a great drill to help you feel the proper lower body motion into impact that your swing is missing. For those of you who suffer from this fault, you’re likely thinking that you’re swinging hard, but the ball is not going anywhere. Other’s may be thinking it is in fact a strength issue. The truth is, it’s simply a lack of leveraging your body weight to effectively create power and speed into impact. Here’s a great drill to try to fix this fault.

Read more

The Hip Coil Drill

by
Coil

One of the most common power leaks in the golf swing is an over-active lower body. For some players, instead of coiling their body to generate power, they resort to sliding their hips laterally. This fault is a huge contributor to inconsistency at impact, and often big swooping block slices. If you’ve ever stepped up to a ball and let go a huge block fade – this drill is likely for you. Another term for this fault is called “getting ahead of the ball”. In a nutshell, as you swing back, your lower body slides back with the backswing laterally, and as you swing down into impact you often slide forward and clear your hips too early leaving the club wide open at impact. Some players (with wrists of steel) can even see a snap hook from this fault.

Read more

The Back-Knee Sway Power Leak

by

A weak back knee triggers one of the most common power-leaks in the golf swing. We often see this fault in individuals who, in their search for a bigger turn, have flared out their back foot. Without a stable back knee, as you swing back, your body weight can shift too far towards your back foot, this move will make it very difficult to return to the ball with any consistency and power. A strong back knee allows you to coil properly, while shifting your weight to maximize your power into impact.

Read more