00:00Hey guys, Trey here, Golf Monthly Top 50 UK Coach.
00:04We're at Hadleywood today.
00:05Just been playing a few holes out at Hadleywood with Rich Wolfenden from BBC Sport.
00:10He plays off 30 handicap, so I'm going to give him a little bit of a lesson and see
00:16if there's any advice I can give him to make his golf a bit better.
00:19If you're around that ability, stick around, watch the video, there's some really top tips
00:23in this video.
00:24So Rich, watching you on the course out there today, I think you do a lot of things really
00:29good considering like how much you play and how you describe like your golf game as well
00:35to me earlier.
00:36But I think like your mid-irons, and you'll probably agree, could do with a little bit
00:41of work.
00:42Yeah, connecting with it, I'm okay connecting with it, getting a clean swing on it, but it
00:49never goes where I want it to.
00:51It'll go off to the right, it'll go off to the left.
00:54Right.
00:55So I think what's really important in this for you is to work on your setup initially,
01:02like how you stand to the ball, how you hold the grip, where things point.
01:06And then after that, I think that's going to have a little bit of influence on how you
01:09move the golf club.
01:11So setup, I think from a starting point of looking for consistency, got to make sure the
01:16setup is consistent in itself.
01:17Okay.
01:18So you just take your setup.
01:20What I usually do.
01:21What's that?
01:21Yeah, you do what you'd usually do if we were going out to play now.
01:24So let's say I've hit a brilliant drive, I'd probably line up the club first.
01:30Okay.
01:30And then just sort my feet out and with a seven iron, I'd have it equidistant between
01:37my feet and then it'll probably be some sort of setup like that if I'm aiming for that
01:40150.
01:41Okay.
01:42And just hit this from here?
01:43Yeah.
01:49And that wasn't the worst one, I think.
01:51That was okay.
01:51Pretty good.
01:52That was all right.
01:53I don't think you need any coaching now.
01:55Nice contact with the floor as well.
01:58I think sometimes you will absolutely find the timing from that.
02:01But sometimes, like we saw on the course at times, that you haven't got the contact and
02:06it's a little bit, like you said, inconsistent.
02:08So I've spotted something straight away there, the ball position, the seven iron way too far
02:14forwards.
02:15Oh really?
02:15Like nearly underneath like left armpit there.
02:18Right.
02:18So again, if the ball position gets too far forwards for you guys listening at home and
02:24I'm trying to make that ball contact and then the ground.
02:27The more I move it in this direction, the more I've actually physically got to move my body
02:32to get over the ball.
02:34And something that I picked up on video from filming you on the course is that sometimes
02:37you hang back as well.
02:39So if you've got a ball that's over there and our body hangs back, we've got a lot of work
02:43to do at the bottom of the swing, hence some of the heavy strikes as well.
02:47So just get yourself set up again for me.
02:50Yeah.
02:50Just as you naturally would if I hadn't said anything.
02:53Yeah.
02:53So I'll probably be about there.
02:55Perfect.
02:56And I want this ball to sit right underneath your sternum here.
02:59Okay.
02:59That's it.
03:00So that one there is actually pretty good.
03:02Okay.
03:02Yeah, great.
03:03And I've seen one last thing on the course and practicing then.
03:07You see how your lead arm there and your lead wrist is kind of bowed this way, forwards.
03:13Okay.
03:13Yeah.
03:13So I want that to sit right down underneath your chest.
03:17So if you just stand a little bit further away.
03:20Further away.
03:20Back.
03:21And then we're just going to press that club down so it sits there.
03:24Okay.
03:24So now you can see this lead wrist and this lead arm.
03:27Right.
03:27Is pretty straight there.
03:28Okay.
03:29Yeah.
03:29Probably feel a little bit uncomfortable.
03:31Yeah.
03:31I feel like I'm really leaning over it quite a lot.
03:33Yeah.
03:33Okay.
03:33So hold that there.
03:36Great.
03:37So you're aiming a little bit right of that 150.
03:40So just bring everything around to your left if you can.
03:43So aim a little bit more in this direction.
03:47Okay.
03:47Yeah.
03:48That's great.
03:49Okay.
03:49And as you've done that, really important.
03:51Just got to check where that ball position is.
03:53That's really good there.
03:55Yeah.
03:55Great.
03:55And what you're looking for, you're looking for feet, knees, hips, and then shoulders all
04:02to be in a line.
04:03So you can see Rich has done a pretty good example of that there.
04:06Yeah.
04:07Right.
04:08So keep them hands really low.
04:10Yeah.
04:11Okay.
04:12Great.
04:12And just try another shot from there for me.
04:14Yeah.
04:15And just see how that feels.
04:18Ooh.
04:19Okay.
04:20Not bad.
04:20A little bit heavy.
04:22Yeah.
04:22Yeah.
04:23Dead straight.
04:24It did go straight, which is what we're here to work on.
04:27Let's try another.
04:28Yeah.
04:35The wrists are straight, the forearm.
04:42Great shot.
04:43That's at the 150.
04:44Hit it.
04:46Hit it.
04:48Ooh.
04:49That was pretty good.
04:50It was accurate.
04:50It was accurate.
04:51I'll give you that.
04:52That was pretty good.
04:53Yeah.
04:54I'll give you credit on that one.
04:55you can see set up there when we look at the video I'll film that last swing
04:59yeah dead square to where we wanted to aim yeah hands were sat nice and low so
05:04you're in a place at the start of your swing where there's less to go wrong
05:08right essentially I've seen one last thing and I don't want to give you too
05:12much yeah I want to give you maybe two points maximum right to work on because
05:16this game can be a bit of a minefield at times yeah with a swing thought but if
05:21you just look as your club swings back here yeah so it's over my shoulder yeah
05:26it's over the shoulder as you come down there you can just see right here you
05:34can see how the loft of that golf club so we talk about the club face or the
05:39grooves yeah point backwards towards the camera here right again this is a little
05:45bit of de-lofting so you take loft off the club right so with no loft on a golf
05:50club and you want to try and hit the thing golf ball in the air yeah we're
05:55consciously wanting to lean back and add loft kind of through the ball right so I
06:01want you to as you start to swing back maybe halfway just to feel this lead
06:06wrist is just doing a little bit of hinging like this if you look at yours it
06:11goes back this way right right right due to how you set up before yeah so I want
06:16that lead wrist to feel like it's got a little bit of hinge or cup in the
06:20back of that left wrist okay keeping it firm yeah so try that again just take
06:24your setup same setup points making sure we're square to the target yeah good
06:29and just sit them hands nice and low yeah so then I bring it to hold that there
06:35that'd be the position it's spot-on there where you have it here you can see this
06:39logo on the glove or the wrist has got a bit of a kink in it this is where it
06:43was
06:43before I was more there taking loft off okay keep some on there cool that's it
06:51just try that again then it's a little backswing
06:56good try should I hit it yeah good just remember that same bit further back from
07:04the ball good and make sure them hands are nice and low to be yeah like thumb at
07:08the tip of the rubber part yeah so hands back up yeah back up back up back up yeah
07:13good and then just press the whole oh yeah yeah that's it that's it good nice
07:19relaxed hands and then hit good try it's all right let's have another one oh great
07:29strike yeah I think I was thinking too much about my wrist action okay just just
07:37take that set up again yeah okay and just hit one more come on best one of the day
07:50remember that ball position under the chest yeah good
07:59I thought I did but it went it went straight if you take one thing out of that shot so
08:04this is
08:05something that you can go away with now because I know that's gonna take maybe
08:09a few balls to get used to that yeah think about where you finish that golf
08:13shot so as you hit the ball you hit the ground and both feet were both flat on
08:17the floor like this yeah yeah what does that tell me about my weight it's all it's
08:22stayed back to your back leg so I think for people listening at home what you can
08:26take away and you can take away from this Rich is that the finish of the swing
08:31tells the story for kind of how what you've done prior to that yeah so think
08:36about if I'm in this finished position haven't moved in through enough if I'm
08:41in this finished position I've transferred efficiently through it yeah yeah I
08:46think that wasn't a bad swing at all you just didn't have that finished
08:51position yeah yeah forget that but you know it's multiple things yeah in your head
08:55that you need to work on but you know certainly felt that the the positioning
09:00of mine yeah so bit by bit you've got set up yeah halfway back yeah finish in the
09:04swing yeah work through it in that process homework well done yeah nice one
09:09mate good work cheers try no worries so in summary there for Rich really
09:13important to just check that the setup and everything is in place again a player
09:18that's craving consistency but hasn't quite found the consistency in the setup so
09:23just making sure the symbol things ball position grip hands body alignment all
09:28playing a huge part in his consistency and creating the same shot creating the
09:33same contact moved on to a little bit of talking about how the arms and the
09:37wrists now need to work with the change grip and then after that it was a little
09:41bit more on to okay where we finish in the golf shot because finishing the shot can
09:46tell a lot of the story of kind of the tail of the swing so make sure you're in a
09:50good finish position weight moving forwards nice and stable lower body nice
09:55and nice and stable in balance and often if you can get into that finished
10:00position it can breed some very good golf shots so really good work from Rich there
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