00:00The fat, the thin and the top, the most destructive shots in golf. Jed, please help us fix these.
00:09They all live in the same house, they all come from the same issue and that issue is not being
00:14able to control where the lowest point of the golf swing is. So sometimes you might hear the term
00:20low point, it's the bottom of the arc of the swing and if that is either in a real variable place
00:28or it's just way too far back from the golf ball you're always going to struggle and then
00:35from there that's where we start to sort of cast, release, scoop all those sort of knock-on effects
00:41all come from golfers who struggle to control where the low point is. So the low point where should it
00:48be? Well I mean I've got a six iron in my hands here but even if I had a driver in my hands
00:54there is still a bottom to the circle and it would be over here, it would be forward.
01:03As a reference point you could think about it as being not a million miles away from being in line
01:09with your front heel yeah because when we're making our downswing we are moving the pressure of the
01:16body towards our target so that is shifting where the bottom of the circle is going to be so that's
01:21going to move it over here. So if we think about those golfers who hit fats and thins a lot of them
01:27keep the pressure on their trail side so we can career into the ground back here or we keep the club
01:34moving away from the ground to avoid that and that's where the thins and the tops come into it
01:38so the bottom of the circle of the golf swing is back here where the club wants to meet the ground
01:43we want to shift it and move it more towards the target so it's more on this side over here and as
01:49you can see as I keep doing that and brushing and hitting that part of the ground it is on the target
01:55side of the golf club. So a little drill that you can do to practice it is if you're on a grass range
02:00like we are here just get two t-pegs to create a gate and put the golf ball right in the middle
02:05your task is to hit the golf ball and the ground on the left hand side of the gate if you're on a
02:11normal driving range where you're on a mat get some chalk just chalk a line and then put the golf
02:16ball behind it so that if you move the golf ball nice strike brush the chalk away then you'll have the
02:22chalk dust on the bottom of the golf club so you're getting constant feedback on whether or not you are or
02:27or not controlling where the low point of your swing is. Jed if you mind let's have a look at the
02:34at this drill in action. So taking your normal setup and then we just want to focus and you can
02:41rather than looking at the golf ball keep your focus on the ground that's over here so all you've
02:47got to make sure you do is when you get to the top of the backswing is you are moving the pressure
02:51the body towards the target some people will start to do that and then they'll sort of back themselves
02:57up some people will just be way over on this side just try and keep that focus on moving towards your
03:03target and strike your shot and as you can see there the divot starts right where the gate of t's are
03:12and that's where the low point the bottom of my circle is. So there we go an easy fix for the top
03:19you're thin and you're fat no excuses now to go out and hit that perfect golf shot and finally we're
03:25going to be looking at probably the most expensive destructive golf shot and that is the sky skying
03:31your driver now can you tell us why this happens and how we can go about fixing that it's painful to
03:38watch it's one of those where you cringe when you when you see it happen you know the dread that the
03:44golf is going to have to look down on forever until they can afford to buy a new one it's a sort of
03:50two-pronged attack of what's happening when we get the club traveling down too much and it can travel
03:59down too much from both in to out as well as out to in a lot of people think it's just going to travel
04:07down steeply and then come down and across and we get this sort of contact here but there are golfers
04:13who travel too much from the inside but they've got too much forward handle so the club head is still
04:21traveling down at the point of contact and the face is now this way so it's exposing the top of the golf
04:27club but yes down being the the big key if we're hitting down on it then the club has not reached the
04:36bottom of its circle before it's made contact and with the driver ideally for most of you you need
04:41to be hitting and hitting up on the ball is there any drills or anything we can do but you can take
04:48home to your driving range to help fix there is i've got a head cover here you could use you know
04:54an empty box of balls when you buy your box of balls take the sleeves out use the empty box that it
04:59comes in and really all you want to do depends on how much down and how quickly it pops up into
05:06the air you could probably look i mean if i was to put my foot here i would say well if you were to
05:13put your head cover your driver about there so it's probably about then 18 inches in front of the golf ball
05:23then you just want both golf ball and club head to avoid hitting the the head cover um anyone who's
05:31hitting down the ball will go up but the head of the driver will just career into whatever you've
05:39got there so if it's the empty box it'll just obliterate the box if it's the head cover it'll
05:42just move the head cover out the way it won't damage the club but you'll get your feedback on
05:48whereabouts your contact is so what we want to be thinking of is when we're making our swing here
05:55we want the club head to feel like it passes the hands a little bit more and it travels a little
06:00bit more on the up as we go through the shot so the whole focus is not so much on trying to
06:07kick your fairway stop your slice it's about making sure that you avoid the object that you've put in
06:12front of the golf ball so nice visual representation yeah so hopefully it should look like this
06:19so so great drive ball's been hit on the up and as you can see head cover is still in place missed by
06:29both ball and cliff face perfect a nice easy drill for you to take back to your driving range
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