Strike Your Irons Pure - 3 Great Golf Tips
Nov 04, 2021Full Transcript
Hey everybody Danny Maude head professional at the Canterbury Golf Club in Kent and in this week's training I'm dealing with a question from a recent client of mine who was really struggling to strike his iron shots pure basically he was patting the boys hitting the ground behind the ball now if you've had this as a problem then this week's trainings gonna be really really helpful for you so let's get started what is a fat shot a flat shot is a shot where the club head strikes the ground behind the golf ball simple as that we want to strike the ball ideally then the turf but instead we get it the other way around we actually strike the turf then the ball really really common and it's so frustrating because if you've probably found it loads of distance lost it's an absolute nightmare so what we want to do is let's figure out what's actually happening at that moment so this is the most common thing that I tend to see in it certainly was happening with my client recent client of mine through impact what tends to happen is the torso itself starts to lean backwards so we start to lose our shape now from this position here but with us leaning backwards also our center of gravity's moving backwards and we start to strike the ground behind another way of looking at this if you look at my sternum here we want to keep the sternum reasonably over the golf blahs we swing back and then back through so that the club bottoms out at the golf ball but the problem is with a lot of golfers is their sternum itself here when they're swinging starts to move around a lot and as if the sternum moves back here the club bottoms out so what I want to imagine is the golf swing is similar to a pendulum well when we Club swings back and through there's an arc going on here and you can see here there's a lower point of the golf club okay the club bottoms out somewhere around here now that bottoming out in the golf swing is defined by where our center of gravity is and in this case we're really our sternum is if we shift our sternum over here then the center of gravity or the lower point of the golf club is going to be back here if we shift us turn them over here then the low point of the golf is going to be further ahead so we've got to pay attention to that because if if this is moving around a lot it's gonna make it very difficult to strike those ions pure so with that in mind how do we do it how do we go about improving those factors well the first thing that we talked about that's the understanding understanding that if you're fating it the low point of your golfing is likely to be shifting and that's usually caused by the sternum moving around too much particularly when it comes to impact is hanging backwards now this moves on to the step step two is is well what do we do to go and cure that most of the time I see with this there's a number of things that cause fast but this seems to be the most common a lot of people don't use our legs very well they tend to slide their legs from side to side and then watch what happens to the body our bodies are like counterbalances if you slide your legs this way our body moves this way again look what that's done to the sternum it tends to get the weight back and the bottom of the arc of the low point the golf club back as well so what we need to do is we need to start to work on obviously focus on stainless tiller here but then helping that it's very hard to stay still if you start moving your legs side to side so instead what we want to try and do we want to start to activate the core and the hips so the hips are allowed to rotate backwards and forwards now if you're a senior golf and you've got some flexibility issues and moving the lower back I'm absolutely fine in just allowing maybe the left heel to come up a little bit on the way back just to allow a little bit of pivot and again on the way through allowing a little bit of pivot on the way through what this does now it creates more of a rotational movement which makes it so much easier to stay much more centered side to side makes it everything a bit unstable and thus other stoner but look at this when you stay more set to it to stay more centered if you kind of rotate backwards and forwards it's so much easier so let's give that a try so here I am I'm focused on keeping nice and centered over the golf ball and I'm going to focus now on the second bit which is rotating my lower part my heel a my hips go around the body come back into impact and then through again and there we get a ball turf contact and really it is as simple as that understanding to summarize they understanding that the fight itself is caused because the sternum itself is going backwards usually cause therefore by a side-to-side motion so what I want you to do to try to write that is focus on staying more centered and to improve that start to allow them the the core and the hips to rotate back a bit on the way back and rotate through so that you're rotating much more around the center backwards and forwards simple as that all right try that out if that works please comment in the comments box below I really appreciate it and if you're enjoying these trainings I'd really appreciate if you subscribe to the channel until next week have a great golfing week thanks so much for watching and there's two things you can do right now for me if you're enjoying these videos you enjoying the training subscribe to the channel I really appreciate it and if you want some tips and tricks that I don't share on this channel head over to my website right here and I shall see you on the other side.
