00:00The fat, the thin and the top, the most destructive shots in golf. Jed, please help us fix these.
00:08They 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
00:27place
00:28or it's just way too far back from the golf ball, you're always going to struggle.
00:34And then from there, that's where we start to sort of cast, release, scoop, all those
00:40sort of knock on effects all come from golfers who struggle to control where the low point is.
00:46So the low point, where should it be? Well, I mean, I've got a six iron in my hands here,
00:52but even if I had a driver in my hands, there is still a bottom to the circle and it
00:58would be
01:00over here, it will be forward. As a reference point, you could think about it as being not a
01:06million miles away from being in line with your front heel. Yeah. Because when we're making our
01:14downswing, we are moving the pressure of the body towards our target. So that is shifting where the
01:19bottom of the circle is going to be. So that's going to move it over here. So if we think
01:24about
01:25those golfers who hit fats and thins, a lot of them keep the pressure on their trail side.
01:30So we can career into the ground back here, or we keep the club moving away from the ground to
01:36avoid
01:36that. And that's where the thins and the tops come into it. So the bottom of the circle of the
01:40golf
01:40swing is back here where the club wants to meet the ground. We want to shift it and move it
01:45more
01:45towards the target. So it's more on this side over here. And as you can see, as I keep doing
01:51that and brushing and hitting that part of the ground, it is on the target side of the golf club.
01:56So a little drill that you can do to practice it is if you're on a grass range like we
02:01are here,
02:02just get two T-pegs to create a gate and put the golf ball right in the middle. Your task
02:06is to hit
02:06the golf ball and the ground on the left hand side of the gate. If you're on a normal driving
02:11range
02:12where you're on a mat, get some chalk, just chalk a line and then put the golf ball behind it
02:17so that
02:18if you move the golf ball, nice strike, brush the chalk away, then you'll have the chalk dust
02:22on the bottom of the golf club. So you're getting constant feedback on whether or not you are or are
02:27not controlling where the low point of your swing is. Jed, do you mind, let's have a look at this
02:34drill
02:35in action? So taking your normal setup and then we just want to focus and you can rather than looking
02:42at the golf ball, keep your focus on the ground that's over here. So all you've got to make sure
02:47you do is when you get to the top of the backswing is you are moving the pressure of the
02:51body towards
02:52the target. Some people will start to do that and then they'll sort of back themselves up. Some people
02:58will just be way over on this side. Just try and keep that focus on moving towards your target.
03:05and 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
03:18the top,
03:19your thin and your fat. No excuses now to go out and hit that perfect golf shot. And finally,
03:25we're going to be looking at probably the most expensive destructive golf shot and that is the sky,
03:30skying your driver. Now, can you tell us why this happens and how we can go about fixing that?
03:38It's painful to watch. It's one of those where you cringe when you see it happen, you know
03:43the dread that the golfer's going to have to look down on forever until he can afford to buy a
03:47new one.
03:49It's a sort of two pronged attack of what's happening. When we get the club traveling down
03:56too much and it can travel down too much from both in to out as well as out to in.
04:05A lot of people think
04:06it's just going to travel down steeply and then come down and across and we get this sort of contact
04:11here. But there are golfers who travel too much from the inside, but they've got too much forward
04:18handle. So the club head is still traveling down at the point of contact and the face is now this
04:25way.
04:26So it's exposing the top of the golf club. But yes, down being the big key. If we're hitting down
04:32on it,
04:33then the club has not reached the bottom of its circle before it's made contact. And with the
04:40driver, ideally for most of you, you need to be hitting up. And hitting up on the ball, is there
04:45any drills or anything we can do that you can take home to your driving range to help fix this
04:50guy?
04:50There is. I've got a head cover here. You could use, you know, an empty box of balls. You buy
04:57your box
04:57of balls, take the sleeves out, use the empty box that it comes in. And really all you want to
05:02do,
05:02depending on how much down and how quickly it pops up into the air. You could probably look,
05:08I mean, if I was to put my foot here, I would say, well, if you were to put your
05:14head cover,
05:15your driver, about there. So it's probably about then 18 inches in front of the golf ball,
05:22then you just want both golf ball and club head to avoid hitting the head cover.
05:30Anyone who's hitting down, the ball will go up, but the head of the driver will just career into
05:38whatever you've got there. So if it's the empty box, it'll just obliterate the box. If it's the
05:42head cover, it'll just move the head cover out of the way. It won't damage the club, but you'll get
05:47your feedback on whereabouts your contact is. So what we want to be thinking of is when we're making our
05:53swing here, we want the club head to feel like it passes the hands a little bit more and it
06:00travels
06:00a little bit more on the up as we go through the shot. So the whole focus is not so
06:06much on trying
06:07to hit your fairway, stop your slice. It's about making sure that you avoid the object that you've
06:12put in front of the golf ball. So nice visual representation. Yeah. So hopefully it should
06:19look like this. That's a great drive. So the ball's been hit on the up and as you can see,
06:27head cover is still in place, missed by both ball and club face. Perfect. A nice,
06:33easy drill for you to take back to your driving range.
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