Once You Understand This Concept, The Golf Swing Becomes Effortless

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One of the things that’s really surprised me over the years working with some of the best players is just how quickly they can change their golf swing and improve. With amateur golfers, it can sometimes feel like it takes forever. They put in hours of practice, but when they get onto the golf course, the improvement just doesn’t seem to transfer.

And I think a huge part of that comes down to the way they practice. The best players don’t just randomly hit golf balls and try to put the club into different positions. They create an environment that encourages the right movement to happen naturally.

One of the simplest ways you can do this is by creating a little practice station. You can do it in your garden, and it only needs to take about five minutes. For example, if you tend to take the club too far inside, you can place a shaft behind you at the correct angle. Now, if you move the club incorrectly, you get instant feedback because you’ll hit the shaft.

But you can also add another obstacle, such as a block, to stop yourself simply coming over the top to avoid the shaft. Suddenly, you’ve created an environment where your body has to solve the problem for you. You’re not thinking about putting the club into a particular position; you’re simply trying to complete the task.

That’s exactly why I love this type of practice. The station gives you instant feedback, and your body starts to figure out the movement itself. You can begin slowly, feel the motion, and gradually build up speed. If you’re a slicer, for example, you can adapt the station with a towel behind the ball, forcing you to swing from the inside and get the low point in the right place.

The important thing is that I don’t have to tell you exactly what you should feel. The task gives you the feedback, and your body creates the feeling for you. Those feelings are then much easier to take onto the golf course.

And this is something I see in the best players. The station stays consistent, but the feelings can change from day to day. We’ve all had that feeling where we think, “That’s it! I’ve found the answer to hitting my driver straight,” only to try the same feeling a few days later and find it doesn’t work.

That’s completely normal. Good players don’t rely on one particular feeling. They rely on consistent environments and tasks that allow the correct movement to emerge.

I’ve also been using my new Swing Coach app in lessons, which gives you instant feedback on what’s happening in your swing and, more importantly, gives you drills to help you fix it. You can then use that information to create a practice station like this and get feedback on every swing.

So rather than spending hours trying to force your swing into different positions, create an environment that encourages the movement you want. Let the station give you the feedback, let your body work out the solution, and then take those feelings onto the golf course.

That’s one of the big differences I’ve seen between how the best players practice and how many amateurs practice—and it’s a really simple habit you can start using straight away.

Full Transcript -Do you know what really surprised me over the last few years working with some of the top players? Their ability to change their golf swing and make improvements is unbelievably fast. Whereas when I'm working with amateur golfers, it feels like it takes forever and no matter how much effort they're putting in, sometimes they just doesn't transfer to the golf course. The best players, and very few people talk about this, the way they practice is the key. They practice in a completely different way to amateur golfers. In this video, I'm going to share with you a simple habit I want you to get into. You can do it in your garden, it takes like 5 minutes, that will literally accelerate the way you improve and how you improve. If you've ever wanted to go onto a golf course super relaxed with very little swing thoughts going on in your head, this will really really help. I wish a golf coach had told me this a long time sooner. So, if you've ever spent hours and hours practicing and you're not getting better or you're not seeing the improvement that you need quick enough, it all's likely down to this one thing. You're not creating an environment where your swing and the improvements in your swing naturally emerge. They naturally start to happen. Great players, they build an environment that allows and builds that good technique. Whereas amateur golfers, it's just chaos. They're trying this, they're trying that, and there's no consistency. So, what I want to share with you, and you've probably seen this drilling me, it seemed like Tommy Fleetwood doing this particular drill. But, I want to show you why it works and why the best players, they set up an environment every single time. You can do this in your garden, it can take 5 minutes. But, what this environment does is it naturally builds a much better swing. It gives you feelings that you can then take to the golf course and use. So, let me show you what I mean. So, take a look at this. It looks complicated when you see it, doesn't it? But, what have I done? Basically, here, look. I set this shaft at the same angle as my club shaft. Now, this is just a standard stick holder. You could just put this into a ground. You can put it into a basket. There's many ways you can do this. Now, what this is doing is this. I sometimes have a tendency to take the club a little bit inside. Well, if I did I'd smack this shaft. So, what I've done here is I make a swing where I can swing back all the way to the top. I can then, as opposed to maybe sometimes I might drop inside, I can then map this swing all the way back down missing the shaft here. And then bring it back into impact. Now, you'll notice I've got the Tommy Fleetwood block there as well. What does that do? Well, when I swing back now and I miss this stick, if I could I could cheat it. If I want to avoid that stick, I could just simply swing over the top and miss it. But, this block stops me doing that. I've now set up an environment that helps me map the swing all the way down into impact. Now, you'll see Tommy Fleetwood doing this drill every single time he practices and he does it sometimes in slow motion. And he talks about him training the feeling of what his body is doing. He's never, by the way, just quick caveat here. He's never trying to put the club in a position. That's not what he's doing. He's set an environment up here which allows him, he said actually, to swing completely freely cuz all I have to do, look, is miss all these obstacles and my body has to work this out. And he won't do all the time. Sometimes he'll hit this obstacle, but that's instant feedback. So, notice the magic there. We've created an environment where your body has to complete and figure out this task. You can start slowly feeling what it's [snorts] like and hit a couple of shots like this on nice and slowly. Oh, did you hear that noise? I hit it straight away. So, off we go again. Back. Down. Through. Let's map this out. Slow.

Through. Makes sense. So, as opposed to just randomly hitting golf balls trying to put the club in positions, which gets you asking questions like, "Is that right? Is it wrong? Have I done this right?" This, as you saw just a minute ago, gives you instant feedback. Now, if you happen to be, for instance, a slicer of a golf ball or struggle with your ball striking, you could adapt this station really simply by doing this. We're going to move that forward now. Here. And now what I've got to do, I'm actually going to grab a towel. Now, look at this here. Stations like this, I've now got to do a couple of things. I've got the block in place. I've now got a towel look about a club width behind the golf ball. And now if you happen to be a slicer, I now need to look, swing underneath this all the way down, and I can start to map this swing look all the way down here. That's my feedback. Make sense? So, I've now got Well, you might go, "How do I strike the ball and not the ground?" Well, if I start to stay back here, I might start striking the mat. Well, now I've got to get forward to miss this towel. I don't have to tell my students how to do that. They have to solve this task themselves, all on their own. And what I love about this is, rather than me tell you what to feel, the station, this task, will give you your feelings that you then take to the golf course. And you can do this for 5 minutes just in your garden if you want it. Yeah? So, you set the task up like this. And I go, "Right. Let's make some swing." You might have to start slow motion cuz the instinct, if you're slicer, might be to come over the top. So, you have to map the mo- Notice it's a flowing motion. Map the motion down back into the golf ball. Okay. So, I get myself set here. I might I might not pick this up because of all the tools, but get myself set back

and through. And this should be a lovely little draw because I've come in from the inside. Yeah, makes sense. Little curve on that shot. Where's my low point? 5.5 in after the golf ball. Yeah? So, by setting a station up like this every single time, this is what stays consistent with all the best players. They keep the same station that develops the right motion and the right swing that leads to straighter shots, better strikes. But, here's what changes. The feelings that you get from doing a drill like this will change every single time. So, if you've ever had that sensation where you're out on the golf course and you you get a certain feeling one day and it's like, "Yeah, that's the key to I found the answer, Danny. I found the answer to hitting the driver straight." But, you try two days later and then that feeling doesn't work anymore. That's normal for all of us. Good players don't rely on feelings. They set stations up that are consistent and they allow the station to tell them what to feel that day. And they take that feeling out onto the golf course and that is how they stay consistent. So, the other thing that I found really helps now is I use my Swing brand new Swing Coach app in most lessons now. It basically instantly gives you an analysis of exactly what you're doing wrong in your golf swing, but more importantly, how to fix it with drills just like this. All you do is you download it. You can try it for 14 days completely free of charge. You set it up behind you. It will tell you within 2 seconds what you're doing wrong and then you can figure out how to set up a station like this to start fixing it. When that station's set up, it will then continue to give you feedback every single swing to make sure that you're staying on track. And that feedback gives you feelings that you then take to the golf course, and it's those that will make you more consistent when you play. So, instead of try to put the swing or the club in all these different positions, create stations that force the club to swing in the correct way that promotes the correct feelings that you then obviously go and play with. And that is how the best players improve faster and are more consistent. So, if you'd like to try the Swing Coach app for 14 days completely free of charge, just scan the QR code right here. Now, if you'd like to see me conducting a lesson like this live, I think this bunker lesson that I did was pretty damn good. And you'll see how with very little input from me, the golfer goes from struggling in bunkers to getting out first time. So, I hope you enjoyed the video. If you did, give it a thumbs up. Maybe share it with any friends. Remember, there's a free practice guide somewhere in the description box below. I'll pin it to the top comment below this video. Until next week, have a wonderful golfing week.