Use This Incredible Drill To Master Your Golf Swing
Nov 25, 2024Transcript Summary- Here’s what I want to share with you today: if you’re struggling to hit your driver straight, strike your irons cleanly, or improve your fairway woods, this is the perfect place to start. Once my students understand this simple concept, they often have that “aha” moment. Suddenly, they realize why they slice or struggle with clean ball striking, and the best part is—it’s something we can fix instantly. This is one of the most important lessons you can learn, and I’m really excited to share it with you. Before we dive in, if you’re new here, please consider subscribing. I release videos like this every week to help you improve your game, and there’s always a free practice guide linked in the description to make it easy to follow along.
To start, I’ve drawn a couple of lines on the ground—something I use with golfers of all levels, from scratch players to complete beginners. These lines help simplify the swing into a circle or an arc, which is how the golf club naturally moves. A lot of golfers don’t realize this and try to swing straight back and through. Instead, your hands and club should work inward on the backswing, then back out toward the ball, and finally in again as you follow through. If you slice, it’s often because your hands or club don’t follow this path—they might lift straight up or cut across the ball. Mastering this arc is the foundation of a more consistent and powerful swing.
Now, let’s talk about the center of your swing. The golf swing has a fixed center point, which is aligned with your lead shoulder. Your ability to rotate and return the club to this point consistently will determine your ball striking. If you move excessively, you’ll struggle with consistency, as one of my recent students, John, experienced. I taught him to visualize staying stacked, with his chest and pelvis dots aligned, and to pivot around that center. This helps keep everything stable and ensures the club returns to the correct position at impact.
Finally, ball position is critical for clean strikes. When hitting an iron or hybrid off the ground, the club should hit the ball first, then the ground. To do this, the ball should be slightly behind the center point of your swing. However, moving the ball back also means the club will naturally travel to the right after impact. This is normal and expected. Many golfers mistakenly try to fix this by coming over the top or manipulating the clubface, which leads to poor strikes. Instead, embrace this natural arc and slightly close the clubface at setup to create a beautiful draw that starts right and curves back to target.
To summarize, visualize the club and hands working inward on an arc, maintain the center of your swing for consistency, and adjust your ball position for proper strikes. Don’t fight the natural motion—work with it. I’ll cover this in more detail for hybrids and drivers in future videos, but for now, give this a try and let me know how it goes in the comments. If you found this helpful, subscribe here or visit dannymaude.com for more lessons. Until next time, have a great golfing week!
Full Transcript- so I'm really looking forward to sharing this lesson with you today because if you are looking to hit driver straight strike your irons or your Fairy Woods better this is the place to start once my students understand the concept I'm going to share with you today they finally it get they get that aha moment that's why I struggle slicing and it's we can change it in an instant that's why I struggle to strike the ball cleanly off the off the ground right now I get it this for me is one of the most important lessons you can learn and I'm really really excited to share it with you but before I do look if you're new to the Channel first lessons of mine please consider subscribing release videos just like this one every single week to try and help you improve your game plus you never have to remember a thing I'll always put a free download practice guide in the description box below so as you can see I've drawn some lines on the ground here and I give this to my scratch golfers right through to my beginner golfers and it helps them immensely every single one of them so let's start with in a sense the outside line here and then the inside line so golf swing is not a straight back and straight through motion we swing the golf club look on an ark or I like to call a circle yeah now what this line here and this line represent is this one is the where your club path is going to go so when we swing back your Club is going to travel on an a back around the body back around and on the way through but so as your hands so your hands look are also working look inwards on the arc to and they keep working inwards behind you when they come down they work back down look out towards the golf ball and then they gradually work inwards towards the body but I don't see this with a lot of golfers if you slice what tends to happen is this a lot of golfers kind of pick the club straight up they don't work it on an arc then they drop it inside or they swing in here and then they move the hands outwards first and then across the ball what they don't do is follow this simple path look of the hands working inwards Club working inwards here back inwards look back inwards but out towards the golf ball and then look we don't go out here we come back in and then look back around so my students first of all use this simple visual to really really help them get there first of all the Simplicity of the circle before we work on striking it so I get themselves generally to set up okay we'll worryed about ball position kind stuff in a second and I get them to hit shots where they visualize the hands the club all working inwards on an AR now a lot of people have often get one doing the work so they might get the head working inwards but the hands have stayed outwards right that won't work that's going to cause major problems and Loops what we want to have look is the hands working on an KN with the golf club and that keeps everything on line back here back through and then how do we stop all this kind of horrible flick on the way through well same thing look at this here now watch this my hands are going to work inwards on this Ark look at how stable that is through here beautiful through impact and that is how we create a very very simple starting position to your golf swing so you've got step one you've got the hands working in you got the club working in you've got everything working on a beautiful L there's just two more steps to go now the second step is huge for striking it consistently so you've now got a consistent motion to some degree but we're not consistently striking the ball now any golf swing has a center a maximum radius to their Circle and that radius of that circle is directly here it's right on line with your lead shoulder where the lead arm and the club they line up this is the center of your golf swing the center of your golf swing isn't here it's not over here it is right there now your ability to return this club consistently back to there will determine how good a player you become now think about it how do we do that if we start to move around a lot even if we got the hands working in club working in is that going to make life easy no if I have had a recent student fact yesterday John came and see me he had a lot of movement around and occasionally would time it and come back and his strike it but other times he wouldn't and that led to his cons inconsistency what I needed to teach him was to understand that there's a sensor to your golf swing and your ability in a sense to rotate around and then return the Torso back to where it came from will determine how consistent a player you become so I want you to Picture This a dot in the middle of your kind of chest here and then a dot just in the middle of your of your pelvis at the start of your swing you want them kind of completely stacked on top of one another right and think about it this way how should your shoulders and body move in order to kind of keep them on top of one another well look at this if I was to in a sense lunge off the golf ball you know you've just seen that's not going to help so notice this I'm going to move in such a way where I'm working on an axis my lead shoulder's working down my troll shoulder's working up and I'm pivoting look my hands are working in clubs working in can you see now I'm able to stay on the golf ball what I'm not doing is lunging off it right so just picture this this is this line here know there's a center to your circle and your ability look to look after that Center is hugely hugely important with many of my students what I'll do is I'll put a club just on their trailer here just to show them they can move a little bit but I don't want to moveing excessively if they just imagine staying ahead of this shaft which I often put on their ear they're able to Pivot look look with a torso keep that in in the same spot each time and then they're able to come back look into impact where this is almost remaining exactly where it started with and it's going to give you the best opportunity to return that club back to where it came from now let's finish off with step number three which for me is probably the the the one position the one line that I think ruins more goal swings than any other so the lack of understanding of this is what screws up more goal swings than I can care to imagine so it's really really important so what I'm going to show you here is this this as we said before this is here is the center of your go swing this is where you're going to put your lead heel right now when you're striking a ball off the ground with a iron or a hybrid or even a fairywood you want to strike the ball then the ground right so we've just said this is the point where the club gets to its maximum radius in the swing so this here this point is where the club strikes the ground now we don't want to have a hit a golf ball there off the ground we want to make sure we strike the ball first we don't want any ground contact so we push the ball around about a club width back from our lead heel so that means we're going to strike the ball then the ground here but what do you notice when you do that right when you move that ball back if we do our proper golf Ling here where the the club's working in the hands are working in where is the club actually striking the golf ball where is it heading can you see how it's heading look to the right of Target now this is a real it screws people's minds this is what I would say would ruin more GF people don't realize this so what they do is is they and that's what should happen by the way the club should actually head to the right but what people do is is artificially they start to try to correct it by coming over the top or they bend their handle back to square this club face up thus again catching the ball a little bit fat I want to show you now how you integrate this ball position and start to strike every single one of your clubs hybrids irons and fairwoods much much better so what I thought be great for you to really get and understand how to strike your ions hybrids and drive would me for me to demonstrate a few things so let's go through this so my lead here look is on the center of my circle line the point where the club reaches its maximum radius of that Circle and as we said look when you're playing balls on the ground to guarantee strike we move the ball back in our stance but that has an impact so I've moved that ball look one Club width back in my stance now we said because we moved the club back if we m create a beautiful Circle back and come through I'm going to catch that ball as the club is heading where to the right of Target I need to be ready for that so we should expect the ball to be heading over there before it eventually arrives On Target after the golf ball right really really important so let me hit a couple of shots for you and show you this in action and then we can continue having this discussion so I'll get myself set move it slightly away from there let's have a look at this
so let's have a look at this one in action so look at this here what do you see here almost a perfect circle in my swing should be zero but it's almost perfect that ball look has gone out to the right hand side now what you see when people start seeing that ball go out to the right hand side they go oh my God it's going right so what they start to do is start to fix it by either coming over the top not intentionally they go I don't want it to go over there so they start to do this they start to change their swing not realizing that that's the place the ball should start what you should do instead isn't come over the top to try and fix it you shouldn't which is the worst even still I see I thought John in my in the session yesterday was doing this he's trying to hit the ball straight by doing this but if you do this with no handl lean you don't strike it so yes you might hit it straight but now you're fatting it and it's going straight but it's not well struck right what you do to get that ball heading in the right direction is realize that the ball should curve slightly so look at this all I'm good all I do when I'm setting up here is I get my handle there and I make sure I close the face a little smidge how much just use the ball FL I could give you precise amounts but I think this is something you learn to feel so close the face a little bit then then grip it now I know that the club is in my hands when I set up to this now okay I know that I am set up to in a beautiful position to hit a draw that sets off to the right of Target and comes back now if it doesn't do that I know it's nothing to do with my setup it's something that I've done in my golf swing that I need to look maybe I've moved off the golf ball so I could check that but at setup I know now that I've got a perfect setup with a handle opposite my lead thigh the CL is close to the path here and I should set see a ball that sets off now to the right of Target if I this beautiful Circle hands in clubing backing around and then look through here we should see that beautiful flly that sets off right and curves back to the
left have a look at this so almost look at that little draw sets a little bit off to the right hand side club path look opposite number slightly out to the right face the path's closed and that Ball's drifting a little bit right to left this is the starting point be prepared don't change your swing to hit it straight realize the club should be heading look slightly out to the right hand side of Target here and as long as you've closed that club face enough you'll start to hit a perfect draw so I want you to take an image of this put it in your mind imprint it in your mind see these lines the hands and the club work inwards on the way back they work back back out to the golf ball and then when they struck the ball they're gradually working back around here on an ark the other thing for striking we don't just work the club on an arc we also look after the center of this Arc right the center is again this lead shoulder how do we look after it well we have a DOT here and a DOT here we pivot around that dot here look at this I'm pivoting around imagine somebody's got something just resting across your Trail here I'm not banging into it I'm going to pivot around it here right now on the way through yes there'll be a a bunt across here so suddenly now this here gets ahead of this but this is important this does not move there we go so we're in position now here look we're pivoting around and then we'll look back where we came from this is in the same place super super important and finally remember the club is going to feel like it's heading away from you here this is important why well we want need to helping strike it but I want you to picture this it's also for power imagine a speed boat taking a skier well when we work on an arc here well when we come around here the speedboat comes around and is going to sling that skier outwards with Pace this is why we have this in the first place so it's not just for ball striking here but it's also going to really help us generate some serious power very different to what most people doing going straight back back and straight through so imprint this in your mind I'm going to create another video for hybrid and driver and show you the differences here and maybe go into this in more detail if you got any questions whatsoever leave them in the comments box below and even better spill head over to Danny more.com come and sub be a subscriber over there where I'll go into this into more detail too but until next week have a wonderful golfing week check out this video that I did on the driver it'll be super super helpful.