The Secret to Lee Trevino’s Amazing Accuracy

well we've covered a lot of problem areas but there's one area that we've not covered and that's the full swing hooking and slicing watch these you know what's funny is all the pros are trying to fade the ball and all the amateurs are trying to hook it well almost all the amateurs because some of you can can hook the ball but if you can I'm going to show you what you have to do now you know what you have to do when you draw the ball you've got to pull that right foot back just a little bit and you've got to turn the hands over so the club will close you can hit it from right to left but it's not happening to you and probably the reason why it's not happening to you is you're taking the club back and actually you're moving in front of it you're getting in front of the ball and the hands are never having a chance to get to the ball and to roll over what you have to do here is stay on the right side just a little bit longer when you keep this right foot down longer it makes the right knee stay in back of the left one and it makes the right elbow stay underneath the left one results it gives you a little more time to close the club let let me show you you might try taking the back swing a little bit slower it'll give you time to stay on the right side just a little longer and they said I couldn't hook a golf ball I'm not saying I'm going to lower your handicap but you are going to be able to shoot at those flags on the left of that green from now on I've played in prams all over the world and the most common question is asked to me is Lee why do I slice that golf ball well I think I can help you it's really not that difficult to get out of a slice I think the biggest mistake that you make is actually in the left knee what happens when you get down into the hitting area is that you're locking your left knee what happens here is the right shoulder goes over and you cut across the ball what you have to do here is to make sure that in the hitting area that actually the left knee breaks towards the target keeping the right knee and back of the left this results in laying on off the club and getting underneath it let me show you you can do this in your living room make sure that you watch those knees and that they're flexed through the hitting area muscle memory is what it's all about I think if you can keep that right knee in back of the left one you're going to see the left side of the golf course for the first time in your life I was hitting some practice balls the other day on the driving range and a gentleman walked up to me and he said Lee I've been slicing this ball all my life and I can't get out of it so I brought him over and I said let me look at your swing and the first thing I saw is that when he set up and he got ready to hit the ball his left arm was so fast through the hitting area that the club head never had a chance to catch up here so he was hitting the ball with an open face I teed up another ball and I said said to him look as you're coming down into the hitting area I said right before you get into hitting that ball slow the left shoulder and the left arm down and speed up the right arm this will give the club head a chance to catch up as you're coming down into the hitting area slow it down and hit it with the right hand and he started hitting the prettiest little draw you've ever seen out there in your life so if you've got that real bad slice and you can't get out of it chances are that your left arm it's way too fast through the hitting area and the club head is lagging slow it down into the hitting area let the right arm speed up the club head will catch up and you'll see that ball going out there from right to left and if you like what you see tell all your friends where you got it well I've given you tips on just about everything bunker shots shanking the ball hitting out of Fairways just about everything except I haven't given you the most important one the foundation of the GOL swing which is the back swing how do you get that club away from the ball well a lot of you have a little bad habits and I'm just going to show you three of them real quick one of the bad habits that you have is that you break too soon away from the ball the other one is that you pick the club up and you take it too far outside the third one is you break the right elbow and pull the club back way inside well what you have to do here in the correct back swing is actually it works from the left shoulder to the club head it works away from the ball all in one motion now if you want to take the club back inside you have to close your hips because the club will only follow the alignment of the hips so it'll come inside if you want to go straight down the line you square up your stance and you go straight back if you want to go a little outside the line on the way back you open up your stance and you go a little outside let me show you the correct back swing now there's a perfect back swing don't forget for a good foundation keep that left shoulder and that club head together on the way back

Channel: Trevino Lee Buck

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Length: 5min 14sec (314 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 15 2008