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. 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
01:21so that's going to move it over here. So if we think about those golfers who hit fats and thins
01:27a lot of them keep the pressure on their trail side so we can career into the ground back here or we
01:34keep the club moving away from the ground to avoid that and that's where the thins and the tops come
01:38into it. So the bottom of the circle of the golf swing is back here where the club wants to meet the
01:42ground. We want to shift it and move it more towards the target so it's more on this side over here
01:48here and as you can see as I keep doing that and brushing and hitting that part of the ground
01:53it is on the target side of the golf club. So a little drill that you can do to practice it
01:58is if you're on a grass range like we are here just get two t-pegs to create a gate and put the
02:04golf ball right in the middle your task is to hit the golf ball and the ground on the left hand side of
02:09the gate. If you're on a normal driving range where you're on a mat get some chalk just chalk a line
02:16and then put the golf ball behind it so that if you move the golf ball nice strike brush the chalk
02:21away then you'll have the chalk dust on the bottom of the golf club so you're getting constant feedback
02:25on whether or not you are or are not controlling where the low point of your swing is. Jed if you
02:32mind let's have a look at the uh at this drill in action. So taking your normal setup and then we just
02:39want to focus and you can rather than looking at the golf ball keep your focus on the ground that's over
02:45here so all you've got to make sure you do is when you get to the top of the backswing is you are
02:50moving the pressure of the body towards the target some people will start to do that and then they'll
02:56sort of back themselves up some people will just be way over on this side just try and keep that focus
03:01on moving towards your target and strike your shot and as you can see there the divot starts right
03:10where the gate of t's are and that's where the low point the bottom of my circle is. So there we go
03:17an easy fix for the top your thin and your fat no excuses now to go out and hit that perfect golf shot
03:24and finally we're going to be looking at probably the most expensive destructive golf shot and that
03:29is the sky skying your driver. Now can you tell us why this happens and how we can uh go about fixing
03:37that? It's painful to watch it's one of those where you cringe when you when you see it happen you know
03:43the dread that the golfer's going to have to look down on forever until Lee can afford to buy a new one
03:48um it's a sort of two-pronged attack of what's happening um when we get the club traveling down too much
03:58and it can travel down too much from both in to out as well as out to in a lot of people think it's
04:06just going to travel down steeply and then come down and across and we get this sort of contact here
04:12but there are golfers who travel too much from the inside but they've got too much forward handle
04:20so the club head is still traveling down at the point of contact and the face is now this way so it's
04:26exposed in the top of the golf club but yes down being the the big key if we're hitting down on it
04:33then the club has not reached the bottom of its circle before it's made contact and with the driver
04:40ideally for most of you you need to be hitting and hitting up on the ball is there any drills or
04:46anything we can do or you can take home to your driving range to help fix? There is I've got a
04:51head cover here you could use you know uh an empty box of balls when you buy your box of balls take the
04:58sleeves out use the empty box that it comes in um and really all you want to do depends on how much
05:03down and how quickly it pops up into the air um you could probably look I mean if I was to put my
05:10foot here I would say well if you were to put your head cover your driver about there so it's probably
05:19about then 18 inches in front of the golf ball then you just want both golf ball and club head to avoid
05:28hitting the the head cover um anyone who's hitting down the ball will go up but the head of the driver
05:37will just career into whatever you've got there so if it's the empty box it'll just obliterate the box
05:41if it's the head cover it'll just move the head cover out the way it won't damage the club
05:46but you'll get your feedback on whereabouts your contact is so what we want to be thinking of is
05:52when we're making our swing here we want the club head to feel like it passes the hands a little bit
05:59more and it travels a little bit more on the up as we go through the shot so the whole focus is not
06:06so much on trying to hit your fairway stop your slice it's about making sure that you avoid the object
06:11that you've put in front of the golf ball so nice visual representation yeah so hopefully it should
06:19look like this
06:24it's a great drive so ball's been hit on the up and as you can see head cover is still in place missed
06:29by both ball and cliff face perfect a nice easy drill for you to take back to your driving range
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