The 5 BEST Tips To Help YOU Play Your Best Golf

Are you a frustrated golfer just like me that gets really really wound up when you hit a poor golf shot? Let me explain to you what you're doing that will make that happen. If you're new to the channel please subscribe and like, it helps me make more content that will improve your golf. So we're going to look really at head movement, lateral movement with the body, arm positions and depth, and body positions, the key things that can make you kind of create poor golf shots consistently. Okay the first thing that can make you hit these pretty poor golf shots is your head movement. What I tend to see with a lot of golfers is too much movement off the golf ball and too much movement up. So what I want to do is give you a very simple way of thinking about your eyes today that will change that. What I want you to do is when you're practicing and hitting practice swings is just close your left eye. Now when you close your left eye you have to then try and keep vision on the golf ball. Now if you move your head off the golf ball too much you will lose sight of the golf ball pretty quickly. If you rotate your head too much you'll tend to find that your nose gets in the way of the golf ball. So we want to close that left eye, make sure we can keep vision on that golf ball and feel that we really kind of tilt and turn in a way that keeps us very much centered. Now your head can move for me about an inch with an iron, about two to three inches with a driver. So there is some head movement so don't think you can't move your head but what we're trying to do is just keep it within a decent boundary and organization of being able to make contact with the golf ball. In terms of the head if anything feeling that you're almost feeling that you're going again ribcage down for me, shoulder down towards the golf ball to keep us again at the right level. I have a tendency of slightly standing up so for me feeling I'm almost dipping and tilting and pushing my backside back is a great feel for me to stay at the right posture height to be able to be consistent with my contact. So left eye closed and hit a few shots, let's try that initially and try and feel that we're keeping our chest to the ground. Left eye closed and I felt very kind of centered on that for me and again it's about what it is for you. How do we improve this by a few millimeters, centimeters or degrees to make us play a little bit better golf. Second thing I want to look at is arm depth. So with a lot of golfers what we tend to see is these arms go too deep too early and sometimes lift or sometimes stay deep and very short. So trying to keep the arms what we feel is to the side of our body and stretched away is the key thing for this second point. When you're making swings if you put your hand in the middle of your chest here as you swing back your left arm should not hit that hand. In transition I would want you to just touch that with your bicep. That would give you the right kind of arm direction to your swing again to keep your arc and plane of the swing organized to deliver that golf club in a neutral fashion to hit straight golf shots. So the key thing would be initially just with this practice swings. Once you've made practice swings by all means then you can actually put an object if you want in the middle of the chest. I've got my microphone here today it's not quite big enough but if you put like a head cover there or something like that and put it on with an elasticated belt something that was a little bit chunkier a bit of foam you can certainly hit golf shots then and feel that thing. But conceptually what we're trying to do obviously is keep our left arm in front of us. Don't be scared to let it work behind us as we change direction but keep our left arm in front of us certainly for the backswing is the initial feeling we want. Next thing I want to talk about is clubface and clubface is huge. I've got a little rubber T here on an older golf club and what I want to focus on here already is the clubface in takeaway and delivery. So in takeaway I want this to point slight towards the ground what we tend to see with a lot of golfers is it's rolled and pointing up so we get a lot of this movement with the club working inside. I want this to be pointing much more down towards the ground and as you swing down into delivery I also want it pointing to the ground. Again I wouldn't mind you know even exaggerating this so it points as much to the ground as you possibly can. When the clubface is open on the way down we will find a way to get that clubface back on the golf ball by normally using our wrist this way and as soon as that wrist starts to point towards the right side of our body at impact we're going to bring into play fat contacts, thin contacts, top shots and if we do make contact shots will go very high and very kind of hooky because we get this huge overtaking going on. So the idea is can we get this clubface what we feel is in a strong position, can we then turn to the golf ball and almost feel like it's almost held off a little bit more from the golf ball then to deliver again a square clubface. I'm a big believer in feeding what we need so if the clubface generally is too close in the golf swing we can obviously try and feel it more open but most golfers the clubface is going to be too open. Most of us if we're a poor player will hit fades and slices too much rather than hooks. The hookers of the world again getting this clubface stronger here and holding it more with better shaft lean, better release through the golf ball will help fix that also. What we're looking at really is head movement, arm positions, clubface positions and then we also want to look at basically landing the club the right way, we'll get to that in a second. So practice for this would be swing back, bring it down, feel our lead wrist points more towards the ground, the club points more to the ground in this strong delivery position if we can every single time. That is what we're trying to achieve with this particular part of the tip and again subtle differences, subtle changes, blending that with our normal swing is what we're trying to do. We're trying to make a tiny difference all the time. The next point we're looking at is trying to land this golf club after the golf ball every time. The low point should be about four to five inches after the golf ball with a mid iron. The key when we're doing this is trying to make sure our head doesn't go massively forward to achieve this because that obviously brings our shoulders too forward and creates that sequent issues. So what I want you to feel you do is you're trying to feel like your head stays in the kind of center of your stance but we try and feel our hands stretch the way forward as far as they can and inward if they can. So to help that I would take a rod, now you can put it out of a golf bag and make this a bit more in your face, but if we just take a golf bag and put it on the front edge of the golf ball sticking out like so. What I'm going to try and do now when I hit this golf ball and even the practice swings, I'm trying to get my golf club to land after the golf ball but I'm trying to keep my head roughly in that yellow zone in the finish. I want my hips to be forward of that, I want the lateral movement of the hips to be forward so I ideally want to see all of my right pocket past this rod. I want to try and feel my head is on that rod line. So that is the idea, let's see if we can achieve that. It's a bit difficult but let's see if we can achieve it. Definitely feel a bit more of a stretch there doing that. It's about again pushing yourself to what you can do. So just trying to get this closer to these parameters will help you deliver that consistent low point with the correct arc direction, with the correct pivot through the golf ball every time. It gives us quite a few things, quite a long bang for our buck. But this is a nice little simple drill, again if you have a longer rod you can put it up here at your head, maybe a little bit more forward and make sure your head doesn't hit that and again push and try and tuck the pelvis through and rotate the pelvis through as much as you can in that finish. Landing the club late and rotating and tucking that pelvis in the finish is key. So we look at all the things we've kind of talked about so far. We've looked at kind of the head, head not moving laterally too much, not climbing up too much. We've looked at basically the arm direction of the swing, both in backswing and downswing. The clubface position, trying to get the clubface in that strong place so we don't use our wrists excessively through the impact and then we've looked at kind of landing the golf club with the right lateral movement and pivot every time to give us that low point. So that covers pretty much everything we'd want to look at to make you this robotical fantastic golfing genius on the golf course. So striking the ball with the correct arc, the correct kind of play, the correct kind of pivot and being consistent within that. So this, I said you might not need to work with all these things, there might be one of these things that stands out for you that is the most important for you to work on and change and again it's about influencing it, making it five percent better will make you five percent better and if we all get better every single week then we will play great golf, no doubt about that. Thanks for checking out the video and see you back here soon.