If I Only Had 5 Minutes With Most Golfers I d Change This

If we only had five minutes with most golfers with their driver there's one thing that we'd change and it's not their golf swing. And after delivering literally thousands of golf lessons we see patterns and common mistakes that golfers are making. And often golfers know how to get the setup right with the driver, wide stance, ball forward, but this quietly puts them in trouble. In this video we're going to share with you one simple change that makes everything with the driver feel way easier. Now you know that the driver is a specialist golf club, it's about getting Obviously we're on control but we know that we're teeing the golf ball up and we're looking to hit that golf ball on the way up. We're not doing that with any other club in the bag. You also know in order to do that we need a wide stance and we need the golf ball further forward. But we've been coaching for nearly 30 years and we're seeing a lot of golfers unfortunately getting this wrong. They get into this position here where they have the nice wide stance and the ball is forward but they'll do this. They'll reach for the golf ball so they're kind of looking at it and it looks like it's a long way away from there. They're reaching for it which means as we can see shoulders very much open. And golfers aren't necessarily aware of this. They think they're in a good position and look Pierce is exaggerating. It's exaggerated this is. But notice what's happening here. The shoulders and the forearms are way left here. What we often like to do when we're coaching somebody is to draw a box around the body and we'll often see when someone's in a poor setup they're too close to this side of the box. Which means there's sometimes a little bit of weight on this lead leg. The shoulders and the tilts of the spine are also the wrong way that we want for a driver. And this leads then to really a knock-on effect in the golf swing Pierce doesn't it? I mean we're going to see all sorts of bad things happen. You're probably aware what is going to happen from here but the direction the club is going to swing in is going to be very poor from here. We'll often find that golfers don't really get behind the golf ball well from here. And even if they do they're more likely to swing the club down so it means that our club path is going to be a lot to the left. It means our attack angle is going to be very steep. We're going to lose distance and we're probably going to slice it out to the right when we do this. It's amazing how important this is and how much it actually changes impacts. And we've got full swing here. We're going to show you how impactful this is here. Pierce just hit a shot doing this and what we'll do is we'll just take a look at some of the numbers and then we'll show you guys one thing that Pierce is doing that we coach that we that we get the majority of you guys to do. And the good thing is it actually can do it really quickly as well can't you? So from here again I'm not going to exaggerate it as much but I am going to go open. I am going to have the weight left. Let's hit a shot. Okay there's that slice. We could be in a bit of trouble there. That's a cart path ball. Let's just take a look at the numbers on this here. So if we have a look at first of all 212. That's gone a long way for you. 212 yards. I've been in the gym Andy. 2.2 degrees attack angle. We have the club path 3.5 degrees left. And that's on the way down as well. So that angle there is on the way down and as you say club path is very much to the left. 3.5 left there. So that's what we don't want. We'd ideally to get the maximum distance. We want to be having an attack angle that's up and we don't really necessarily for you Pierce want to see that path that far left either. No. We'd like to see a bit more neutral. For sure. So let's show you what we would do if we only had five minutes with you to help you improve your driving. Now if this is helpful then make sure you hit that subscribe button. We release videos every single week to help you improve your game and leave us any comments down in the comment section below. Pierce this is something that you've been doing for a while now. Three years I reckon. And I think you introduced this to your students because it had success with you. Let's talk through this. Well as you said and as I said earlier we've seen so many golfers fall into the same pattern. So there's got to be something real simple that can actually really help with this. So it just so happens a golf ball box. I always have one of these in my pocket when I'm golfing. It's always a good idea for me. But ultimately we're just going to drop that golf ball box down there to the side of the golf ball. Now instead of addressing the golf ball we're going to address the golf ball box instead. So the ball is still forward. I've still got my wide stance but as I put my hands on the golf club now it's a lot easier for my alignments to be a lot more where I want them. Let's just exaggerate this. If we went and put the golf club over here back the shoulders are now closed. The weight's more back here. We've got more tilt but obviously this is too much. So all this does by placing it here it just aligns everything exactly how we want it. So I'm just going to drop this here. You can see Piers's forearms and shoulders are now parallel to his feet and his hips. If we draw that box around Piers now, Piers doesn't have any trouble with this. He's always closer to the right side of the box which means his head's further behind the golf ball. He is now ready behind the golf ball. Nothing else changes but everything else improves because of this one setup change. It's and I've taught golfers this who are 15 years of age and 72 years of age so it didn't really matter if they are doing this in their setup and I want to get them behind then this is exactly where I get them. And then from here just make sure you've got slightly more weight on this back leg. So just get a little bit more weight on this back leg. This will allow you now to look at the back of the golf ball and you can see as Andy said my alignments are good but I'm very much tilted up in the air. Now as I hit a golf shot from here it's going to be so much easier for my club to swing down on a plane which is a lot more neutral which is great and I can definitely have more chance now of hitting that golf ball on the way up. So when I hit a shot in a moment my club path numbers should go more neutral and my attack angle it has to go up from here. So if you're somebody who swings over the top and a path that's left this is the first place to start. Do this drill and I guarantee if you are somebody who does what Piers demonstrated earlier you're going to see a big difference here and we'll show you the numbers when you hit this shot. And the theme of this video don't forget is do this for five minutes. The amount of golf lessons or the opportunities where we've only had five minutes to fix somebody because of an event we're at this is one of the go-to things that we'll do. Ball position can change pretty much everything in the golf shot not the golf swing in the golf shot. I am teeing it higher because as soon as I get behind and have that gap there it's a little bit easier to hit low on the club so I just want to make sure I'm teeing as high as I can. There's that gap there behind the golf ball well it's definitely gone further. Take a look at these numbers now first one let's look at the attack angle 6.1 up obviously Piers is really working hard on that one. Club path now is 2.1 degrees to the right carried it 264 and spin right there 2169. That shows you the difference of that one simple thing changes nothing else changes but everything else improves. We hope that helps. Now if you're like most golfers who come to us for coaching they're guessing on what to work on and often working at the wrong things. We created a coaching plan for every single part of your game so you don't have to guess on what to work on. We coach you through step by step and completely take out the guesswork so if you've had enough of guessing what to work on check out our coaching plans the link is down in the description and we'll see in the next video.