STOP TOPPING YOUR WOODS - Learn to hit a wood off the ground

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another one how frustrating is the top particularly with your fairway wood and your hybrid or in this week training we're going to cover exactly how you start to sort out those very woods and hybrids you can stop topping them so you've experienced that having you the ball flying along the ground it's so frustrating that's the top shot what's actually happening well in this reach training I'm gonna go through exactly what's happening impact to cause the top some the most common factors that actually lead to the top and I'm gonna give you three simple exercises that you can use to kind of get rid of it hopefully for good now before we do that if this is one of your first videos of mine consider subscribing I released videos just like this one every week to try and help you improve your game you press that little Bell button you'll receive videos like this in your inbox every week so now what is a top well we've just seen it it's a ball that goes along the ground but what's actually happening well quite simply the ball is hitting no part of the center of the faces always hitting right down at the bottom of the golf club so what's happening is the club is coming into impact here and he's starting to come up and hit the bottom part of the golf club a the lot is moving away from the golf ball and we're simply hitting the the leading edge of the the Fairwood itself now for those of you who don't have loads of time to practice one of the simplest things I can do I give you to kind of get rid of that is it an exercise that I can actually give my wife who's just started playing get yourself some foot spray spray it on the face like this and I believe that sometimes thinking of all swinging positions and stuff can be very very complicated look if you're hitting the bottom part of the club don't try and hit the top part so give yourself a challenge so all I'm going to do now is this if I want to hit closer to the top part of the post of the bottom part what am I going to do well I'm gonna naturally lean the face more now people who are struggling to get the ball up in the air that can feel a little bit strange because the balls going on the ground why would I be loft it but you're not really deal off ting it remember you're hitting the leading edge you're actually showing the loft to the ball so by just putting this foot spray on there get you a target so if I kind of hit a top shot that will be literally so I'm just as a pure top there hit right at top of the ball and look at this absolutely no mark at all on the actual golf club if I move back now and now let's try to hit a shot where I go Collis leaned up facing let's see if I can get make a Mac now on this face that's have a look much better now look a little bit so but you can see much higher in the face of the golf club yep so that immediately gives me more loft so exercise number one really really simple just put some foot spray on and see if you can start to hit the face of the golf club and let your body cleverly because your body's a genius work out how to do that it stops a swing thoughts but let's now move on to number two which is one of the main causes of a top so we said look one of the main reasons or how do you actually strike a golf ball to get pure straight you've got to get that face on the ball that means the hands all is naturally more ahead when you're coming into impact there's more weight on the left side and you're driving through the bodies more of the golf ball with a top shot it tends to be a lot more like this now that's great but that's very complicated you can't think of all those things and how to cure all things in one five seconds which is the time it takes to swing a golf club so I've given you one exercise which is the powder just have some fun trying to hit the face the next thing is is I basically see people who top the vault they just don't have any rotation through the impact area so what they end up doing is is when they're coming through they end up like this they stand up here and they're leaning back and they are flicking and the main reason for this is the club is coming down very steeply as opposed to watch this and the hitting position is here as opposed to here so when you're coming down the hitting pivot position should be here because we want to rotate and almost what I call it catapult or fling the club through impact in a rotational fashion like is if you were throwing a ball but those people who top down they come down in a hitting position that's here they then come down to the ground the body goes I don't want to hurt myself so stands up now like this leans back and creates a flicking motion that looks a little bit like this with us standing up and flicking I hit a lot of top shots so we need to improve your level of rotation through impact and the simplest way of doing this it's just true feeling so you get yourself set your sweet and make a nice air turn and I want to imagine now just get to about here just feel like the club is behind you a bit and now from here you get the feeling of okay is that powerful to sling the club around sling it from here and I can sling in it around this way so suddenly now the club's coming more on an arc let's have a look at this in action so I'm getting the feeling of from here slinging it around the corner back sling it around the corner completely different I'm bruising the ground and brushing the ground all the way through and I'm starting to hit the center of the face now do it slowly first this is the hit position we don't walk because that gets this motion just keep feeling I've got to be roughly about here maybe do it slowly to start off with just to get a feel for it so you swing it back swing to here and then go right practice

there we go slinging it and when I'm doing that I'm getting this motion so suddenly now because I'm rotating I can stay low to the ground I don't stand up because I'm creating room with rotation not creating room with standing up but the third and final point all that's well and good but there's one thing that does stop that happening and it and it was the major reason why my latest client could not stop his tops and that's alignment so many people who top the ball aim for right handers to the right of their target now if you aim to the right of your target like this there's no way you're gonna rotate your body wolves is a genius he will find its best route to the target if I'm exaggerating here obviously but if you aim to the right you're gonna pick the club up here and it's far easier now just to pick it up and and chop it down and chop it down that hitting position is always gonna be very steep and you're gonna come down and flick the ball or you're gonna do this you're gonna come up your lean back now again same principle creating this flicking action there's no way of getting rotation because if you did get into the correct hitting position you would smash it right and your body won't allow that is clever it knows that it's wrong so you must learn to get a decent alignment for those of you who are still not sure about alignment there are two lines you want to look at your target line which is here this line here like an outside rail of a train track pointing directly down your target line your foot line is parallel left of that that is your inside rail and then all we're doing this is the best where I line up his is I get myself set I get a feel of the clubface see I'm looking down the target line here just get comfortable I know where we go for those of you been aiming right that might feel like you're aiming a little bit left of target don't worry but now you've got the space look to rotate as a poster had needed to create space by standing up that's the two fundamental things I think are the major cause of top shots I hope that really really helps you let's summarize for a second and what have we said well nice and easy sometimes just trust your body get some foot spray spray on the on the club here have a game just see if you can hit higher in the face you hit high in the face you'll simply get more loft you want to get more power with this and get the ball up in the air so you hit it further you're gonna need rotation you want to start to work on a hitting position that's here not here hitting me here will give you more rotation it helps to keep this beautiful angle here as a poster when it's here you always tend to lose the angle because it turns into a flick and finally watch that alignment none of this is impossible if you're aiming right of target hope you enjoyed the video if you do don't forget to give it a thumbs up and please share if some of your friends who you know could help need some help with their tops and their thin shots with their fair words and their hybrids but of course if you use your channel and you enjoyed this video come and subscribe to us so I can give you some more videos next week until next week have a great golfing week