00:00Hello and welcome to The London Club. Now this video is all about how you use
00:04these things, your alignment sticks. This is our 10 top tips for using them not only in your long
00:10game but also in your short game as well. Now the tips in this video come courtesy of PGA Pro
00:15Alex Elliott. He'll give you everything you need to know. Right, let's get started.
00:22So number 10 on our list is the alignment stick on the ground here for swing playing.
00:29Now I like to use this if you're not on the grass, just simply place this through a basket.
00:33I like to use this for this reason. Now most of us as club golfers have that real worry of
00:38under
00:39and over, cutting across the golf ball. I like this for a perfect match. So I've roughly got my alignment
00:45stick set at 45 to the ground. I'm going to address the golf ball over it and match it on
00:53the way back
00:53and then feeling as though I'm swinging under it on the way through. It's a great way of getting
00:59yourself back to neutral.
01:06Definitely a great one to give yourself a better swing play.
01:13Now I love this drill for two reasons. This is great for getting club face alignment but also
01:19committing to our start line. Now you've probably seen Jordan Spieth do this drill and he's known as
01:25one of the best putters in the world, right? So what I want you to do here is have a
01:30few puts,
01:30work out the terrain where you are, then get this alignment stick running exactly where you think
01:36you have to aim to start this putt for it to break into the hole. So that's the first area.
01:43Second
01:44area all we're looking for is you to make a 90 degree angle between your club face and the alignment
01:49stick to make sure you've got square club face alignment address. The final thing is having to
01:55commit to our line and hit the putt away. Next on our list is the bunker shot. Now I think
02:07where most
02:08club golfers go wrong with this is that concept of we're not actually hitting the golf ball here.
02:14We're looking to hit the sand and cushion the sand onto the ball to throw it onto the green. Now
02:19grab
02:20two alignment sticks and what I've done here is I've placed them both in the ground. The blue would
02:25highlight my ball position. The yellow highlights where I want to feel as though the club's going
02:30to go into the sand. Now this is great about this drill we almost get a few practice goes getting
02:36used
02:36to taking some sand before the ball. So push them down get a bit of an imprint with both move
02:44them to
02:44the side and all I want you to do is just have two practice goes looking to take the back
02:49line
02:49and then the forward line. So one, two, readjust if you've got a little bit ahead or a little bit
03:00before.
03:01Move in looking for the line club head inside a left heel hit the shot.
03:13Next on our list is alignment. Now there's nothing worse than aiming in the wrong direction,
03:19hitting a beautiful swing and finding our ball is sailing out of bounds or into water. So I think
03:26you've got to use your range sessions as a great reset. I get two alignment sticks down. Now I do
03:31this
03:32in an order. Firstly set your ball to target line out and then a little bit of a trick here
03:37use the
03:38logo of your golf ball to point directly down your ball to target line. Now because this is a reset
03:44all
03:44I'm looking for you to do is get your feet running parallel to your ball to target line. So actually
03:50your shoulders will be aiming what you perceive is a little bit left. Now this is interesting you'll find
03:56maybe a lot of golfers wow I feel like I'm aiming really right of target or actually I'm aiming a
04:02little bit left. Use this as a reset get two lines that run parallel your ball to target line and
04:09your feet.
04:12Next on our list is the one I call the golf swing checker. This is one that you can do
04:17at the range but
04:18I think it's great for you to do at home as just something to do with good reps. So grab
04:22the alignment
04:23stick grab a golf club place a golf ball on the ground or whatever you feel appropriate at home
04:28place that alignment stick just up your left hand side and it should be touching at this address
04:32position. I want you then to follow this process I think this is absolutely great for making sure
04:38that you're actually doing some good reps on your golf swing. So number one keep the alignment stick on
04:45the side of the body encourages more of a one-piece takeaway putting the alignment stick to the ground
04:52behind you. We're now looking for this move now this is the key point most of us swing a little
04:57bit
04:57over the top think of your target line in front of you in this direction we're looking for this alignment
05:03stick to point just to the right of target encouraging an into out path into impact back up your left
05:09hand
05:10side don't let it touch the body to pose it you know you're making some good reps in your golf
05:16swing so
05:16you get to the range you can make things flow just that little bit better.
05:24Next on our list is chipping. Now I think most club golfers find that daunting chip shot with a low
05:31lofted club on such a short distance we're a little bit scared of sometimes hitting that one that sort of
05:37travels way too far and we're left with like a 30 40 footer or even off the green. Now this
05:45comes in
05:45when we have that unwanted acceleration like this right at the bottom so to make this shot a more
05:52one lever motion grab an alignment stick grip it and get it up your left hand side what we're looking
05:59for is that feeling of this alignment stick never touching the left side of our body so let's perform
06:05this shot in here now wait on the left don't let it hit the left side of your body helps
06:11you control
06:12that club head speed much easier which therefore means distance control is much easier too
06:21Next on our list is the frame it drill now this is great if you're a golfer who's struggling to
06:26strike
06:27their irons and more specifically your long iron so your five six and possibly four if you carry this
06:33two alignment sticks needed all we want to do is make sure our first alignment stick our red is set
06:39for
06:39where your ball position is relative to the club that you've got the next one the yellow i want you
06:44to focus that being your low point so when you hit a shot away we're looking to strike the ball
06:50then the
06:51turf so really looking for your divot to start on the back of the ball and then down at its
06:56lowest point
06:57where our low point of our swingers this is really important low point after the ball allows you to strike
07:03down and create a more centered hit bottom to top therefore better struck iron shots
07:12next on our list is a chipping drill now nothing more than strikes fear into a club golfer's heart
07:19is having a tight lie around the green now this is really easy all we're going to need is alignment
07:25stick we're going to place our golf ball a club head ahead of the alignment stick take your normal stance
07:32nice and narrow weight on your left the idea of this is is to control the low point ahead
07:36to guarantee a downwards hit not a scooping kit leaving you open to fats and thins so it's nice
07:44and simple avoid the alignment stick get the strike and then you can have some confidence of tight lines
07:56so next on our list is the tree drill now picture yourself in a scenario you're under the trees you
08:02get a lot more descriptive in what shot you've got to play now we're going to use this slightly
08:07differently we're going to place an alignment stick directly down your ball to target line i want you to
08:13get descriptive not up and down but more right to left or left to right i'm going to encourage you
08:19to hit two
08:20shots here really getting a feeling of one drawing it around the tree reacting to the environment not
08:27necessarily getting loads of swing thoughts and another shot fading it around the tree you will be
08:32able to find a common ground here if you're more of a slicer i'm going to encourage you to work
08:37more
08:37on the draw more of a drawer of the golf ball or a hooker i'm going to encourage you to
08:42get back to
08:43neutral feeling more of a faith so we'll do a bit of the slice one here club facing just the
08:49target
08:49aiming a little bit right picturing that ball working around our tree letting our environment help us
08:56create a shot free up yourself but improve your ball flight not necessarily just your swing
09:11number one on our list and one that's well worth doing before either going out around a golf with your
09:16friends or a big competition day tune yourself into the pace of the greens so place an alignment stick
09:24just wider of a grip behind the hole so all i've done here is place alignment stick just behind now
09:31i
09:32would do this on several puts downhill uphill and across the slope this really gets you dialed in to
09:39the pace of the greens for the day with a bit of a consequence during your warm-up so one
09:44golf ball only
09:45keep rotating around the green can you stop the golf ball between the hole and the alignment stick
09:51a bit of pressure
10:00try that before you go out and play next time and see more ports drop so there you have it
10:06that's alex's
10:06look at the 10 best ways to use alignment sticks to help you swing better and to help you play
10:12better
10:12in the short game as well i hope you found that useful if you've got any other ways in which
10:16you use
10:17alignment sticks out on the golf course or in practice please do leave some comments below we'd
10:21love to hear from you but that's it for now that's all from the london club thanks for watching we'll
10:25see you next time
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