The No.1 Reason You Can't Hit Your Driver Straight!

why is it so hard to hit the golf four consistently straight with the driver what you read to watch is a live lesson that we did with Jeff who was struggling with missing it right and missing it left but by the end of the session he was hitting a repeatable draw because we worked at probably the most important thing in the back swing now this was a surprise lesson with Jeff in a Golf Galaxy store wait till the end because we have an amazing surprise for him at the end that you don't want to miss let's get into the lesson okay Jeff this is your first ever golf lesson that's great isn't it yes so we better make it good Pier you're under pressure I'm under pressure we better make it good it'll be the best I've ever had it's going to be the best you've ever had so Jeff said he wants to be more consistent now you've got a great gol swing Jeff and I think there's one thing in your gol swing that we see a lot of golfers do that can really help you when it comes to consistency so um what we see from face on we see that you make a swing on the way back and we get fairly early wrist set in the back swing and don't really get a a big let's say turn of the Torso so by the time your lead arm gets parallel to the ground we've got a lot of angle in the wrists and when there's a lot of angle in the wrists and not enough let's say torso turn we get really out of sink and the club goes long and we get so much angle here that we have to if we were to rotate we're going to leave the face W wide open so what has to happen for you is we have to almost stand up a little bit and then flip the hands on the way through to square the face so the key thing is if we can get you to a point where when your left arm is parallel to the ground we've got less angle in the shaft we've got a little bit more rotation in the body that's going to enable you to really stay down through it and turn onto the shot and that's something that you mentioned sort of in the feedback earlier that you feel like you you sort of right got to do this and you you sort of lift up which is exactly what's happening but there's always a reason and generally it's always in the back swing you jump in there Jeff and I want to take you through a couple of swings and I want you to just tell me how this feels differently okay so if you take your setup for me and I'm going to take you through to this sort of halfway back point so as we do this I want you to feel as if you you turn you allow the body to turn with me keep turning keep turning keep turning keep turning good so at this point now what feels different more turn more turn wrist anything different yeah well there's not as cocked there you go perfect so two ingredients there that are really important more turn of the Torso a little bit less wrist set I'm just going to come in actually and just I'm just going to put my club here to sort of stop you at halfway back nice and slow nice and slow slow hold it beautiful now that's a big exaggeration but I really like that because now you've got the Torso is doing the motion as opposed to your hands and arms let's do another couple of these hold there beautiful that's it really really nice he's going to change easy P how about this don't worry too much where you are there is good to that again where you are there is good it's pretty much at the Target line just here same feeling just do a half swinging through good okay nice and slow on this first move away so really feel the Torso there you go beautiful then through love it that swing that you did there is exactly the swing that we want you to do okay exactly it was a little shorter it was a great synchronized back swing did that feel short yes perfect but now what we've got is we've got a nice big turn of the body but the club now is actually short of parallel which is I really like that so we've got a big body turn with a short shorter swing so what I'd love you to do if we just swap places quickly for us I'd love you to do a shot I'll hit one and I'll just I want you to do a shot where it's super slow you feel that it's short and then you swing through doesn't really matter where the ball goes so it's going to be super slow look at the the move away shoulders and arms together short and then through but I've really slowed that down there so I can really just feel what's going on and we'll do a couple of those and then see what that's like by the way Jeff that's the best shot he's ever hit there it actually hit the it is I might try that next time on the course the biggest thing that this will help with it will help take this side of the course out of play cuz when you go very long it just means that the the face is going to want to come in late and open this really should take out a lot of this side the shorter and the more in sync we are the less chance we're going to hit it there okay do me a favor yep keep hold of the club for us I'm just going to hold this just do do a slow back swing for me keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going perfect love that so I'm really getting you to feel now you're not letting the club do the work you're really feeling that there you go beautiful okay I love that good and again I don't care where the ball goes really just that was a real good quality motion really really nice that could be really good lovely shot look at that nice little draw from feels like a half do half speed want to show you this body's moving the club now by the time you get to halfway back yeah we've got 90 Dees really good body turn from here it just means now you can start to turn through and you don't have to rely on the hands to work as much I mean that's really good in in a short space of time there that's really really nice all right so what would you like this time exactly the same I really want you to tell me what you feel when you do this Motion beautiful really really feel the shoulders engaging much faster beautiful almost feels like the first move is the left shoulder turns perfect or both shoulders but love it really nice that's nice one one thing that's obviously it's a great drill what Andy's doing there holding the club there but you've got to get someone to go to the driveing range with you to do that so just we'll show you another one so you are going to hit this golf ball with the same feeling yeah of everything you've just been doing I'm going going yeah we're going to drag that ball out of the way so as you swing back you're just going to push that ball behind you keep the tempo nice and smooth and nice and slow we'll make sure you do a good job beautiful that was really really nice I think the one thing I want to mention here yes is just every single shot notice the curve yeah every single one so now this is going to be predictable now the the one thing that I want to mention if you just swap places with me I can't hold a Callaway driver I come out in a r um one thing I want to mention because this is so important I see elements of this in your golf swing you mentioned that sometimes you'll focus on maybe or you you felt like your head's been coming up what's really key now for you is I actually would really want you to see notice when I'm swinging here what what do you notice about my head and eyes hey stay po are you sure well show the bad one or show the exaggerated one that one what's the difference well it's fluid as compared to the other and there's an element of your golfing at the moment because of your your old habits that's more because the hands have to be active but now they don't anymore based on this swing so what the only thing I would just encourage there only this is only sort of a one added bonus is that when you hit a shot I want you really allow the head to to just move and and sort of almost watch that ball flight early cuz because now you haven't got any problem with hitting it to the right now we want to encourage the body to move through with the hands and and the head and everything and it just it almost this head movement unlocks the body motion so let's just do a practice swing again for me now beautiful there you go and it'll feel totally wrong that will like no I've been told that I need to the head down and still let that head free up but that looked reasonable yes okay let's give it a shot nice hit beautiful that's all I see you sh you doing now is just playing a nice little control draw but you having it one shot that's gone to the right yeah club path four degrees to the right pretty much pretty much two degrees left of that is the face that is the dream scenario for that ball flight to playing a draw so biggest thing for you guys watching this look at the before and after with the goal swing now you've got this nice synchronized move away less wrist set shorter at the top and the just the shortness at the top is what changes those numbers with that body turn so it's more more body less arms great work and it's it's best ever lesson that is p it is I we can say it is as well but so we have actually got another surprise for you oh as long as you've got the time okay so Harley is waiting for you over there Harley's one of the club Fitters here oh at Golf Galaxy okay what we'd love to do is to now get the right driver for you speced out and we're going to go and give one of these a try cuz I think this is going to suit really well we're going to get tail made stealth to okay go and get it fitted for you we are basically giving you a brand new stealth dri for for free for you oh really yeah but they're going to these guys are going to fit you now for it so it's tailored to your golf swing and then you're ready to go absolutely free we will then get it delivered to you well not free we got to pay for it we got to pay for it but it's free to Jeff fre to you fre to you thank you but that's not it we've also got one more surprise for you so we need to just go over there so we're going to head over there so we have as we said got one more surprise so we actually about a year ago now we started developing our own training AIDS oh and we've got 18 of them 18 and some of them are in this store and they're right there and we are going to give you all 18 of them you're kidding not today you're going to post them out to you but you're going to get all 18 of those training AIDS we've got aesome breaking balls putting mat so you can practice your breaking balls uh putting at home so this is brilliant this is the only thing the only thing on the market that you can do that with this is going to help you get those divots after the ball on the ball stri to we've got a putting stroke trainer there's there's so much in there we've got a scorecard holder with some weighted Club to help with the move away there you go so you get that core engaged and this is good cuz this is going to help you write down lower scores as well I like that je fantastic thank you guys so much this has been very informative very helpful good glad it was and I can't wait to get it on the course brilliant guys thank you so much for watching hope you enjoyed that amazing to see Jeff make some progress and he's now got he's now going to have a brand new driver and he's now got all these training aids to help his game thank you for watching and we'll see you again soon

Channel: Meandmygolf

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Length: 10min 48sec (648 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 14 2023