00:00Now Scotty Scheffler is playing some most incredible and most consistent golf
00:03we've seen for many many years. Now there's a lot to like about his game but
00:07the thing I've really noticed and stands out to me the most is his driving. One of
00:12the most creative drivers of the golf ball in the game, not afraid to move it
00:15left to right, right to left and varied trajectory to make things a little bit
00:18easier for himself. I want to know how he does it so I've come to the magnificent
00:23Royal Liverpool Golf Club host of last year's Open to find out and give you
00:27some tips and pointers on how you can drive the ball more like Scotty
00:30Scheffler. One of the things that impresses me most about Scheffler is the
00:34bang for his buck he gets out of his speed. Now he's by no means slow but he's not
00:38the quickest on tour and he's disproportionately high up those
00:41distance standings and how I believe he does that is he factors in
00:45conditions and he alters his trajectory to maximize that the most. So for example
00:49I'm on the driving range here at Royal Liverpool and we've got a nice helping
00:53breeze so one of the first things Scheffler would do is try and increase that
00:57launch angle, increase the peak height, get the ball in the air for longer and
01:00maximize that assistance from the wind. That sounds really easy but how does he
01:04do it? It's as simple as a ball position change he's very much manipulates that
01:09ball position to create the flights he wants. For example if I'm just making my
01:13normal swing here I might be kind of just inside my left heel might be my
01:18standard ball position and generally speaking that gets me hitting up on it
01:22slightly which is great and that gives me the nice neutral flight that I want but I
01:25want to launch this into the stratosphere so I'm going to alter that at least half a
01:30ball to a ball further forward in my stance so I want to see that more off my
01:34left toe so what that does straightaway is it puts me my stern and my head more
01:39behind the golf ball and increases that attack angle which will help me launch
01:44the ball up into the air. Now the other thing you want to do here as well as
01:47changing that ball position is don't be afraid to give it a good whack we need
01:52speed to be able to generate height and distance and we've got a forgiving wind
01:56here we slightly miscue it and it goes left or right that wind downwind tends to
02:01help to straighten the ball flight up rather than accentuate any miss so don't
02:05be afraid to put some extra oomph into these ones when you're trying to launch it
02:08into the air so like I said ball position forward feel like it's off that left toe
02:13for a right-hander sets me up behind the ball and then I'm in a good position to
02:18just give it a ride so that's exactly what I was hoping for staying behind the
02:27ball increasing that launch angle and really giving it a good whack has really
02:31increased that peak height and that can be a really strong weapon downwind now
02:36conversely to downwind obviously for every hole you play down when you might play
02:40one back into the wind and not only in windy conditions when the ground's firmer
02:44I've seen Scheffler bring that ball flight down that peak height comes right
02:47down to maximize that forward momentum and that run so again how does he do
02:52that similar but opposite to the high shot so the ball goes fractionally back in
02:57the stance but not too far back a lot of people make that mistake of thinking I'm
03:01going to keep this ball down get the ball right back in the stance and that
03:04brings the attack angle right down which actually increases the spin so it's a
03:08very subtle move back maybe half a ball in the stance so again from my normal
03:13position which might be inside my left heel maybe half a ball closer to the
03:18center of the stance that just reduces that attack angle slightly without it
03:22becoming excessive and the next thing you need to do which might be
03:25counterintuitive when you're trying to maximize your distance just slow that
03:29swing down to a more comfortable pace the less momentum we put into that the
03:33less spin we're likely to generate this is all about taking spin off so a nice
03:38comfortable smooth motion with the ball half a ball back should all things being
03:42equal just come out a little bit flatter less spin when it hits the deck it just
03:46wants to go forward so again got a slightly lower t-peg as well than the
03:51last one because we don't need that launch we're trying to encourage a flatter
03:55launch angle so instead of being off the left heel I'm going to move it back in
03:59my stance just a fraction and all I'm going to do is make my normal swing but just
04:06to the slightly smoother what feels like 80% motion to me
04:14exactly again as I was hoping for just taking that pace off the swing having the
04:18ball slightly back in the stance that's come off so much flatter and I would
04:22imagine five to six hundred revs less spin so when that hits the deck it's going
04:26to want to bounce and run and run and run and the wind barely touch that so that's
04:30a really useful weapon just altering tee height ball position and swing pace and
04:35you can create a completely different flight which is really useful another
04:39thing I love about Sheffler's driving is how he's not afraid to start moving the
04:43ball from right to left and left to right at will he's not one of those one
04:46dimensional players who just repeats the same shot and the reasons I like that
04:50twofold it makes fairways wider so all of a sudden if you're shaping the ball with
04:56the contours of a fairway with the curve of a fairway all of a sudden the
05:00angles are much more suitable to hit those fairways and create more accuracy so
05:05you'll see him a lot on right to left right to left dog leg holes like the
05:0810th Augusta for example the hooks he was hitting around there and the
05:12masters were absolutely spot-on similarly 11 you'd see him fading the ball
05:16around the corner so within two holes into completely different shapes of shot
05:20which is to open up the angles and make it easier to hit those fairways but
05:24also on the tour I've seen him do it to maximize distance all of a sudden if
05:27you've got a slope off the right and you've got that ball hitting the deck and
05:31it's coming more down the slope with a right to left shape you're going to get
05:34some more roll out and again you really maximize that distance he really gets the
05:38most out of his output so how does he do it so for the right to left one from my
05:43point of view and for those of you at home it's probably best to keep it really
05:46simple some people like to feel things through impact with rolling of wrists etc I
05:51think most simplistic way to change ball flight is just through setup it's a
05:55simple path and face relationship so if I want the ball to start right and
06:00curve to the left simply put my face needs to be pointing left of my path at
06:04impact so I preset a right path by aiming a little bit further right than I
06:09ordinarily would and I just feel like the club head is towed in a little bit
06:13and then all I want to do is continue to swing out what feels to right field
06:18over there but with my clubface pointing a little bit left of that the
06:21fake the face being left of the path will create the spin axis to turn the
06:25ball right to left so it's as simple as that body aims right face toed in a
06:30little bit swing up your feet line
06:35so perfect my path is out to the right face was a little bit left of it all
06:41started right holding against the wind just turned over slightly and that's
06:44exactly what I was hoping for okay so left to right as opposed to right to left as
06:49you would imagine it's just a mirror image we do the opposite we want the
06:52ball to start left so I'm going to move my feet and my body alignment to the left
06:56and I'm going to have my face slightly open to that target so we're creating the
07:00face-to-path relationships that's going to make the ball spin and do what we need
07:04now another thing Scheffler does on these left to right shots you see really
07:07varies the tee height so he's got kind of a keep the ball in play shot that I see
07:12him using an awful lot where he pegs the ball down quite significantly it just
07:16creates kind of a more squeezy impact that just tightens that dispersion knows
07:21it's going to go left to right so you can be really comfortable with a left
07:24start line so I'm going to do the same way I just peg it down I'm going to open
07:28my stance and my body up down the left hand side about where I want to see it
07:32starting leave the face a little bit open and I'm just going to swing along my
07:36body line as before
07:45so that's exactly what I wanted to see so again similar to the right to left I
07:50preset that path to the left so the ball started left the face being open to that
07:54it's created the spin we needed and it's just bled a little bit to the right at
07:58the top of its flight so all of a sudden if you know what curvature is going to
08:01come you've got a much better idea of where you need to start the ball and
08:05what's going to and you can use it on certain holes to suit the topography to
08:08suit the shape and really open up a whole new world of possibilities there
08:13you have it four really simple ways to dramatically alter ball flights both from
08:17a left to right and a high and low perspective now a lot of people think
08:20that's just for elite golfers but I hope I've shown you just a couple of really
08:24simple alterations to set up can make all the difference and maybe you can start
08:29driving it a little bit more like Scotty Scheffler
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