This KEY Move Is What ALL Great Ball STRIKERS Do

For this video I'm calling mine The Gap and this is going to just transform your ball striking if you struggle with that area of the game. You can see on the screen at the moment there's two images. The image on the right hand side is what we tend to see from the great players, the pros, the elite golfers. And on the left hand side is what you might see in your golfing. So I'd love you to actually video your golfing in slow motion, just use your phone and just stop yourself when the club gets to last parallel with the ground. And what we're looking at is the gap, or with any luck there won't be a gap, but it's the gap between the grip end of the club and your trail thigh. So what we would tend to see from the great players is when that club reaches level with the ground, the butt of the club or the lead hand tends to be over or opposite the thigh. The poorer golfers, those who struggle, would often find that when the club is last parallel, you can see that there's a huge gap between the butt of the club and the thigh or the hand and the thigh. Mind the gap. If you've got a big gap there, you're always going to struggle. We can fix it. So if we look at what the actual issue is, if I put myself into a pretty good delivery position we'd see the best players in the world do. Just look at my lead arm and my chest and my trail arm as I put myself into that poorer position. Notice how I had to move my arms more across my chest to get myself into that poorer position. What happens to the hands? They get higher and they get more out to the right. So actually, it's a syncing issue. The arms and the hands of the club aren't in sync with the body. Therefore, if you want to reduce that gap and improve your ball striking, you need to work on your sync. So the first little exercise or the first thing to be aware of is what you're doing in the first part of the goal sync. So as I take an address, I have a relationship between my lead arm and my chest. So often, the focus is on the club. The focus is on what is that club doing, is my takeaway going straight back, am I taking it on the inside, am I taking it on the outside? We get so focused on the club that when we move the golf club, we move it with the hands and the arms. And look what happens to that relationship straight away, my arm gets too far across my chest. So we've already, in that first two to three feet, increased the chances of that poor move on the way down or that poor delivery where the arms are way too far outside my trail thigh. What the best players will do is they will maintain that relationship as they begin their takeaway. And this is the first little exercise I'd have you do. Take an address to a golf ball, it really doesn't matter what the club is, I've got myself a 7-iron here. Finger goes onto your bicep, thumb goes onto the buttons on your shirt, making that sort of shape with your hand. And I can just sense and feel where those two points are, and I just want to make sure that I'm not kind of changing that relationship. So as I set up, how do I move the club away? Well, it's a complete body movement. I'm supporting the club obviously in my lead hand, but it's a complete body movement. So my lead arm and chest have the same relationship here as they did at the dress. When I place my trail hand on, I've actually got, at this point, I've got a gap. This will be ideal. We want the gap in the takeaway, we don't want it in the down thing. So once I'm in this position, I continue to turn and we don't have what we call any arm overrun. Arm overrun would be when we've got the shoulders in a certain position and the arms overrun, they get too far. Lead arm often bends, trail arm gets very narrow, that's going to make it very difficult on the way down to think your down thing. So exercise little one is just to try and move the golf club and maintain a good connection, a good relationship between the arms and the body as you move the club away. Exercise two, this is a must do, a must do, because this is something that so many golfers get wrong. And the reason they often get it wrong is because they're trying to do the wrong thing. It's concept. They believe that they should be doing something and it's actually the complete opposite. I've got a lima stick here, a golf club would be fine if you haven't got a lima stick. When I get to the top, what happens in transition is that I should start with my legs, that should then mean that my chest moves and my arms get squeezed into my chest as you can see there. That's the correct sequence of events. But almost straight away after that, we need to accelerate the hands and the arms. What we don't want to do is to feel like we're making a down thing and leaving the arms behind. So many golfers think that because they're trying to create lag or they're trying to create some more angles of the down thing and what happens is we make these down things where the legs start, the body starts and the arms get left behind and what do we end up with? That position that we said was terrible where the hands are really high and they're way outside the thigh. A great player at this point would be clear. So their arms have been pulled into the chest in transition but then they accelerate off the chest soon after that. Here's that exercise. This lima stick will bend. I want to make it bend at this last parallel position. So I take an address, I make a backswing and I want to be starting my down swing with my lower body as you can see but I want to be accelerating my hands down over my thigh and breaking as in stopping them super quick. When I stop them super quick, I get some forward bend in this lima stick. So let me show what that looks like. Back to the top, maintain that relationship and what you'll hopefully notice is that I'm always going to arrive in this perfect position because my arm has started to come off my chest. How did I get it off the chest? Well I was trying to accelerate my hands and my arm. We know, I use the blast, we know that via the blast my hands have only got about 20 to 25 miles an hour of speed in the down swing but that peaks in this area here. This exercise is going to help you do that. It's going to be in this area here. We've got weight into the left side, we've got good sequencing and I've got rid of that gap. So those two little exercises are effectively going to give you the movements that you need to get into this perfect delivery. We're also going to use this lima stick as our final piece of the jigsaw to actually hit balls with it and practice it. You're going to take an alignment stick and you're going to place it behind the golf ball. It's going to be better that way so I'm not standing on it and you'll need to experiment a little bit with how far behind the ball this needs to go but I reckon around about two club head widths will be a great guide. Now what I need to do, take a set up and hit some shots and when I hit some shots, if I can get my back swing correct, if I can get my down swing moving correct, I will be able to land the club onto the ground and not hit the alignment stick. That's the goal. The poor movements where the arms go across and they get left behind means that at some point in the down swing those arms have to catch up and then we start to throw the club early and we start to collide with this alignment stick and if we're colliding with the alignment stick in this drill it means that when we're on the court hitting shots we're going to get them heavy, we're going to hit them thin, we're just not going to get that compression that the great players get. So if you want to up your ball striking you need to mind the gap, if you've got a big gap there it's going to be difficult. Now I'm just going to hit this shot over a relatively short distance to begin with, so I'm going to take my set up and I'm actually going to do this in stages early on, so I'm going to maintain that relationship, now I'm going to accelerate the hands as I pitch this ball maybe some 80 to 100 yards. Hit the sign, hit the cart sign, I'd love to say I was going for that cart sign but I wasn't. But there we go, I landed the club in the right place because I was synced up, my arms were talking correctly to my body, everything was in sync, that's how I start to flush the ball, strike it like the best players in the world do. Don't try and hold the arm back, never going to work. So that's how you do it, practice that and you'll soon be flushing those irons.