Most golfers don't do this... BUT THEY SHOULD! | HowDidiDo Academy

hi everybody Welcome to the how did I do Academy today we're going to talk about compressing the golf ball and this was written in on our app from Robert at Tilly cult golf club and he said Sophie how do I compress the golf ball in order to get more distance well I'm going to tell you Robert and everybody else watching this [Music] video when we talk about a a swing fall on why player does not compress the golf ball it can often be seen if you video your guling that when you make impact your hands are more over your back leg or right thigh in my occasion so the shaft is almost falling backwards instead of leaning towards the target so you get the feeling of like this and actually that can add more Loft rather than that doft feeling that you want that impact everybody would like those hands over the front thigh as you're rotating and you're squeezing so this is what you have to imagine impact as see how I'm up off my back foot I'm rotating round to my Target and here a lot of people don't know that that's impact a lot of people assume that impact is just back where I started it isn't you can actually feel the squeeze on the grip this way and from the right kind of folding over the left the right folds over the left and then we can get that angle of the shaft and you can see quite distinctively how my hands are over my left thigh so that is the impact position that you want to picture in your mind not getting back to where we started so put a TEEG in the ground at this angle and you want to feel that the club is moving in that angle on the way down and through the golf ball so the club is moving this way down and through the golf ball to the point that it'll end up going more into the ground so we're not trying to nail this into the ground like this cuz that'll just make you come choppy and steep on it it has to be more at this angle so grab that tea and put it in more of a angle this way and then feel what you have to do yeah look where I am here like this so that feeling of that left side really pushing down and turning of the right to get the teg into that ground you can leave the teg there now and put the golf ball down and imagine that that club is going to travel at that angle so we're getting some downward attack angles minus 2us 3 if you're going to use trackman and other launch monitors but notice that it's not just down it's down and through keeping that club head traveling from high to low for as long as possible another feeling is to lead with the grip okay feel like you're hitting the golf ball with the grip not the club head rather than so we're getting that drive through if we go back to the te if we get that to go down that's what would happen if we were to go the other way it would flick up okay so once again we're working on what that feeling needs to be down and through you can also switch your grip round put your glove hand low and get this feeling rather than so I'm going to replace the tea so here I am right getting it this way yeah good and then I'm going to hit a shot with my shot what I want to feel is that Tommy Fleet would follow through why does he strike his iron so well that c tailed follow through allows his body and his chest to carry his hands if you lose the lean it's often because your hands take over I want you to feel that you're doing all of these motions and getting your chest through and your hands kind of get left behind the club head is the last thing that hits this golf ball so let's work on all of those together so we have this feeling of nailing that tea into the ground at this angle and then the feeling of the Tommy Fleet would follow through we can get some compression you can see the more C tailed follow through gets the launch angle down and it fizzes off the club face rather than I getting more distance because I've got that zip through the golf ball and just to sign off with this video notice my divot where that t was was where the golf ball is my divot has started at the ball and continued after it so I've carried on with that down and through motion that's something to keep an eye out you don't want your divot to start before the golf ball there's loads to get involved with there so many tips so many ideas for you to use to try and help you compress that golf ball and get some more distance I've been Sophie Walker this is the how did I do Golf Academy thank you all for [Music] watching

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Length: 5min 27sec (327 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 22 2024