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Hello friends welcome back into the Green Grass Golf Shop and today we’re going to switch it up a little bit. Now lately we’ve been doing a lot of work around stopping me over the top motion, but those aren’t the only swing faults that I see out there. Not every single golfer struggles with that. There are plenty out there that also struggle blocking themselves out, coming too far from the inside, that struggle with snap hooks and drawing everything OB left. But today we have three excellent drills to help you start, that’s right, start coming more over the top to help you learn to stop swinging too far in and out and blocking yourself out. So slicers look away, this is not a video for you. And be sure to stay till the end. I think the last drill is an absolute cheat code for stopping the blocks and snaps. There are plenty out there like myself that it’s struggled taking the club so far in out that sometimes even the S-H-A-N-K-S come into the equation. A lot of that stems from junior golf. If you played growing up and especially took lessons through your early preteen years, you can find this creeping into your swing from time to time. When you’re younger and much much smaller, especially playing competitive junior golf trying to get a lot more distance, a lot will develop a move like this right with the hips thrusting legs moving a lot more laterally than rotationally. This can be a good thing to create power and swing speed when you don’t have the grown body to do so by simply rotating. Younger, smaller players do have to move their body a little bit more, for the most part, to maximize their distance. A 7-15 year old can learn much more quickly and easily how to increase their club head speed, and do it at a much faster rate than a grown adult, so these practices to generate more speed are never discouraged. It doesn’t matter how when you’re younger you need to learn ways to generate clubhead speed however you can because it gets so much harder as you get older. As we get older when we’re fully grown, the way we generate power and maintain control with that power comes from a lot more rotational movement, trying to mitigate any lateral movement that we have in our bodies as we swing to make that motion more repeatable. Or in much simpler terms: turn good, slide bad.

But okay, let’s get into our drills here, and the first one is very simple. All you need aside from your club and a ball is a driver head cover. I’m gonna set this head cover up between myself and the ball here, line it up so maybe about six inches inside my golf ball in line with my target so it rests just underneath my golf shaft. Set up with the curve facing my body, extending about an inch or two past the golf ball. The goal with this drill is to miss that head cover with my swing. We have it set up in a way that if you come from too far inside, you’ll hit that head cover on your downs swing before you get to the golf ball. It’s also in a place that makes it harder to overcorrect. Coming over the top also hit the golf club on the follow-through with it being set up a little bit past the ball. A good swing with a more or less neutral path is necessary to miss that head cover if you have it in the right spot. Now if I were just starting out i’d begin with a pretty big gap between my shaft and the head cover here, a lot of margin for error and as that gets easier, I’ll start inching that closer and closer. Maybe the closest I wanted to get is about an inch or so, maybe half an inch between my shaft and the head cover. That still makes it plenty hard to miss the head cover if you come even a little bit out to in, while still giving you plenty of room to get more shallow right, the way we always want to go if anything, and still miss that head cover.

And next we’ll start dealing in our path even further with the addition of an alignment rod here. So I’m actually going to move that head cover now outside of my golf ball with the ball between my body and the head cover itself. I’m going to line that up with my target line maybe an inch or two outside of the toe of my club, not the ball. Again I’d start with a little bit of a wider gap in your beginning as you’re learning this drill dialing in a new path. Next, we’re going to take our alignment rod. I’m going to set that up about two club head lengths behind the golf ball to start perpendicular to our target line. Now with everything we have set up here, again we have to get very close to neutral with our path in order to miss both the alignment rod and our head cover. The big one for our purposes here is being able to miss that alignment rod, coming too far from the inside and that gets in the way. Then again, something that’s always good for a drill, having the head cover outside makes it hard to overcorrect, not come too far out to in. These are great drills once you start dialing yourself in. But one thing that is very important in improving your swing is to actually feel that overcorrection. Train your body to swing a different way than it’s used to. You saw that a lot, even with Jordan Spieth the past two years. If you’ve watched a lot of golf, he’s always been more in to out and a natural draw hitter, starting the ball to the push side and curving back. Having done that for so long in order to feel what it’s like to swing the opposite way and bring a swing more neutral as you’ve seen, he’s developed that over the top motion in his pre-shot routine, trying to feel that overcorrection, drill that motion into his muscle memory. That’s what we’re going to do with this last drill here, so get ready for the cheat code.

Okay so I’m sure this drill has a name but I like to call it the show off because I used to do it on my high school golf team to try to show off for my teammates. I had no idea what I was even doing, but I would hit shots like this, my back to the target, not even being able to look and see what I’m aiming at. It’s an unbelievable way to feel yourself keeping your hands more outside, keeping them in front of your body on the takeaway and help lot with sequencing, forcing yourself to come over the top to hit the ball like that. Not only that, in order to get yourself back down to the ball here, you’re forcing your upper body into a really, really good impact position. With your hands a lot more in front of your body, pulling your right shoulder just a little lower than your lead shoulder that you need to feel that maintained spine angle at impact. Actually if can keep that upper half, work that into your muscle memory and look what it does if I turn my lower half back down to where it needs to be my hips and keep my chest there. I’m on tour, Johnny Miller breaking down my P7 next to Rory and Joel Dahmen. From this position in order to hit the ball, if you thrust your hips or shift or do anything but turn your hips and get your chest down to the ball, it’s incredibly hard to even get close to it. It’s a really good one to hit two in a row, take a normal swing, two in a row and take a normal swing to really help merge the feeling of the drill with your natural swing motion. It’s a great thing to do with any drill, by the way. If you can do all three of these with regularity, I guarantee that swing will get much less in in to out and way closer than neutral.

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