This New Technique Makes Hybrids and Long Irons So Easy

Last week, I shared a drill called the wrench drill to help senior golfers hit driver a little bit longer and a little bit straighter. The feedback has been unbelievable. In fact, some comments have been saying that they've been hitting 30 to 40 yards extra, crazy. But they did ask, does it apply to hybrids and long irons? Because they said, look, when I'm on the fairway, Danny, I really struggle to get consistent contact. I don't get the height I want. I don't get the distance to sometimes reach those greens in two. How can I apply it to them? So in this video, I wanna share with you the wrench drill again, but how it applies to these long irons and hybrids. Because if you happen to be a senior golfer and you struggle with some flexibility and you've been told that you can't swing longer and all those kind of things, I'm gonna prove that, one, you can. And you can effortlessly start to swing a little bit longer without hurting your back and generate some effortless yards. More importantly, consistent striking as well. So I can't wait to share it with you. Before I do, though, look, if you're new to the channel, it's one of your first lessons of mine, please consider subscribing. I make videos just like this one every single week to try and help you improve your game, plus you never have to remember a thing. Everything I do here, I'll put into a free downloadable practice guide that I'll pin to the top comment below this video, or you can simply just scan the QR code right there. So by the end of this video, I want you to have something you can take to the golf course that's gonna give you reliable contact and is gonna help you hit the ball just that little bit further without, more importantly, hurting your back. What do those extra yards do? Well, if we can get you hitting the ball further, data from my shop's got what tells me that any golfer that hits the ball further naturally lowers their scores. Super, super important. So what is the wrench drill? Well, the wrench drill came from Andy Plummer, wonderful coach I spent a few days with last week, and I wanna show you how to set it up and how it will improve your strike almost straight away. So what do we try to do? What's the purpose? When we're hitting a hybrid off the ground, we wanna strike the ball first. We don't wanna be striking too much ground behind the golf ball. We wanna be able to land the club in the same spot time and time again. Now, what I see with many students come and see me, and this was certainly the case for Adam this week who came and see me from America, his contact was inconsistent. One minute he was back here, one minute he was here. The main reason, and you'll see from some of these images, was because he was moving off the ball a lot, so there's a lot of movement. If you move off the ball a lot, is that gonna increase or decrease the likelihood of landing the club in the same spot every time? It's kind of obvious, right? So we need something that's gonna help us get to where the best players get to, which is when we're setting up here with a ball position just ahead of center with a hybrid, we wanna make sure that our lower body is always leading. And when it comes through to impact, that lower body look is almost, look, ahead of that golf ball. Super, super important. But if you've moved that lower body way off here, that's gonna make it very difficult to get back on. So how do you create that in a natural way? Well, that's where the wrench drill comes in. So we get ourselves set up here. What I want you to do is put 60, maybe even 65, 70% of your weight over on this lead there. This is pre-setting the wrench. Basically, the wrench is ultimately working and pivoting around this lead side. Why would this be useful based on what we've just said? Well, if you have put more weight over on this lead side, you are giving your hips a head start. Remember, the hips have gotta get in front of that golf ball here to help you strike it. If they are back here, that's gonna compromise your strike. So you're already pre-setting a pretty good strike. So that's the first stage of the wrench drill. The second stage is to draw the trail foot back just a little bit. And we're gonna use this as a prop. It's propping up this left side here, but it's also acting as a power source. I'm gonna come into that later. So let's start with that first. You're gonna prop up this lead side here. You're gonna have 60 or 70% of your weight on this front foot here. And then you're gonna imagine pivoting around this foot. So I'm really pivoting around here versus swaying off the golf ball, okay? So that's the first stage of this drill. And you'll see from some of the images, I gave this to Adam, and within just a couple of balls, his ball striking went from fats, shanks, and all over the place to beautiful strikes. That's an absolute brilliant draw. So that is stage number one. Now, when Adam tried this, the very first thing he said, he said, Dan, it feels restrictive. Strange, isn't it? Because I was saying how this effortlessly should feel. But he said he felt restricted. Why? Well, because he was used to freedom being this, side to side. Now, if you try side to side, we're gonna go on distance now. If you try side to side and put your weight over onto your right side now, we know now it's gonna be a lot harder to get back. You can do that, by the way, but it just makes the challenge of getting forward much trickier. But the other thing it does is this. If you get your weight over onto this right side, notice how little, you can try this. I can't pivot my hip very much. That means I can't turn very much, which means I can't create an arc. I can't complete my swing. But if I now put my weight towards my lead foot, okay, now suddenly look, I can keep pivoting around and around. Now, you will see good players move off the ball sometimes, but by the time they've got to around about here, they're already back over where they should be. So for amateur golfers, I don't see enough people doing that effectively. So this is a great drill to kind of learn the sensation of staying much, much further forward. So how is this gonna help your distance? Well, we've already touched on it a little bit. You're gonna be able to swing a little bit longer. That's huge, right? It's gonna be able to store more energy, more potential power into the shot. But this is something that is unbelievably important. Good players, power comes from this, not only length. The club trails the hands for longer. Some people have called this lag. They trail the hands and then gets naturally released through the impact area. But for the club to trail the hands, the club needs to trail the pivot of the body for longer than most amateurs realize. Now you'll see with Adam, when he's over on his back foot here, you'll see that club as it's coming down, releasing a lot earlier through the impact area. But once we gave him the wrench drill and he started to get more over on his lead side, notice how much extra lag and the club was trailing behind him. So this didn't just improve his ball striking. As a by-product of getting here, it naturally allows the club to trail longer and therefore you create more energy into the back of the golf ball. And you get all of that completely for free in this drill. Now, is there any difference in long irons? Absolutely not. Same principle, get the ball position somewhere in the middle here, middle to forward of your stance here. We wanna strike that ball, then the ground. We're gonna put 60% of our weight over on this lead side. We're gonna draw this trail foot back a little bit. Now with Adam, by the way, once he got the feel of this, we could actually move his stance back. He had already got the feeling now of staying a lot more forward. He'd got the feeling of the pivot being forward. So we gradually moved him back to an ordinary position because now he knew what it's supposed to feel like with his hips much, much further forward. And that's the purpose of the drill. You don't have to kind of fix yourself here all the time. It's okay to have a little move off, but for amateur golfers, what I'm seeing is, is they just don't get back. So you need to get that sensation, staying forward, pivoting, using that wrench drill to develop the correct sensation, using it to develop a much bigger motion on the way back. So you can strike that ball, then the ground. I'm absolutely addicted to this. Lovely little draw. Simple as that. So just set that wrench drill up. Get the sensation of pivoting around that lead leg here, staying there, don't let yourself fall back. Get used to staying further forward with the club trailing, swinging longer, and you'll start to improve the quality ball strike. Then gradually move that back if you want. Some people will probably keep with it, move it back, and then start to take those same feels. Is it okay to move off? Yes, of course it is. But the best players sometimes do that. But you've got to make sure that you get back there, and this is what helps you to feel that. So I really hope you enjoyed this video. If you missed the driver video, it's definitely worth checking out. I'll put that right here. If you have a fellow senior who's struggling with their ball striking, please share this video. And of course, look, if you're new to the channel, press subscribe somewhere around here. I'll pin a free practice plan to the top comment below this video. But until next week, have a wonderful golfing week.