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Transcript Summary- If you’re struggling with inconsistent contact or just can’t seem to gain any extra distance with your irons or driver—despite working really hard—there’s a good chance you’re making one common mistake in your swing that’s holding you back. A lot of the students I work with, from high to low handicappers, are making this same move without even realizing it. It not only ruins consistent contact but also robs you of power.

In this video, I’m going to show you what that move is—and more importantly, give you the feelings and sensations you can take to the golf course to fix it. Because if you can start controlling the bottom of your swing arc—where the club strikes the ground—just after the golf ball every single time, you’ll see a massive improvement in both your contact and your distance.

I’ll walk you through two simple drills. The first one uses a football against a wall to help you feel a proper pivot around your lead hip. This helps you return the club to the same spot consistently without drifting off the ball. Then, we build on that with a second drill where we move the pelvis over the lead heel and make small chip and punch swings. This trains your body to be in the right position at impact—more over that lead side—so you can start striking the ball first and compressing it better.

Start slowly, feel the movement, and you’ll soon notice how much more solid your strikes become. Plus, it’s stuff you can do right at home. Once you’ve got that down, you can ramp things up and start adding effortless power. If you’re new to the channel, hit that subscribe button—I share videos like this every week, and I’ve put a free downloadable practice guide for this lesson in the description to make it even easier. Hope this helps, and I’ll see you next week—have a wonderful golfing!

Full Transcript- If you're struggling with inconsistent contact or despite trying really hard you're not able to hit irons longer or hit driver longer the chances are you're doing this many of my students come and see me and they're making one move in their golf swing that is sabotaging their ability to make great contact every single time this move also robs you of a load of power and most of my players they don't realize they're making it in this golf video what I want to do is I want to share with you what that one move is but more importantly give you the sensations and the feelings that you can take to the golf course that is going to increase the likelihood that you're going to make more consistent contact time and time again out on that golf course which naturally will help you hit the ball a little bit further too before I get in the golf lesson look if you're new to the channel it's one of your first lessons of mine please consider subscribing i release golf 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 we do here I'll put into a free downloadable practice guide in the description box below so really excited to share this one with you because when I see a huge range of people on my on my lesson tee from high handicappers mid- handicappers and the really good players the good players have more of this move the bad players have less of this move right and it ultimately is your ability to control the bottom of your golf swing so as you can see here as I'm swinging we're creating an arc and there's a bottom to this arc right that bottom needs to occur after that golf ball but you need to do it consistently now the bottom of a swing is right under this in the middle of my lead arm here when the lead arm and club form a straight line that is the bottom of the golf swing and I want that after the golf ball a good three or four inches after the golf ball now many of my students depending on their level of handicap sometimes they'll get it there but sometimes it's one inch after sometimes it's before the golf ball but it's really inconsistent and if it's inconsistent you will have a loss of distance you'll have a loss of direction and clearly you are going to be an inconsistent golfer so what I want to do now is share with you exactly how you can start to control the bottom of your golf swing so that you consistently get that club landing in the same spot time and time again so the first thing that's going to help you control the bottom of your swing and therefore your consistency of contact is a drill you can do from the comfort of your own home just grab a football like I've got here and simply place it on a wall preferably a flat wall not like this one and rest your lead hip against that football and all I want you to do now is this make a back swing and allow your hip to roll on that ball like this so my pelvis is moving like this and I'm keeping that lead hip attached to that golf ball why is this such a great drill well it's achieving two things we said look your ability to get that bottom of the swing after the golf ball look every single time so if I look after this lead hip here and it stays pretty constant as I'm pivoting around it I am going to increase the likelihood of striking the ball and returning that club to the same spot time and time again compare that to this if I move off that I now need to somehow find my way back over here in order to try to strike the ground in the same spot every time it's obvious isn't it it's going to be much more difficult but the second thing I love about this exercise and this is important because I gave this to a student recently and he didn't quite do it right and it is really really important it's one of the beauties about the exercise so we get ourselves set up here now it isn't about just staying still so one of my students when I did this he just literally held the ball there and put his lead hip on that and he just stuck there that won't work because there's no natural turn or pivot why I love this and you could feel the ball rolling when the ball rolls what I'm doing here can you see here preferably on a flat surface not like this one when I'm doing this can you see how as I'm rolling here I'm getting a beautiful arc to this golf swing here that arc sends my arms around my body and is going to help me generate the arc necessary to strike that ball with power so this is the first thing I want you to do then you can literally take that sensation imagine yourself pressed against the ball here imagine now pivoting you can see here that's more likely now as I pivot back to get my low point my bottom of the arc right ahead of that golf ball time and time again so before we move on to step two let's just see this in action so I can see here look I've put the bottom of my swing it's going to measure the bottom of my my swing here and all I'm going to do is get myself set up now very very important to have a good setup at the same time so if you notice here my bottom of my swing is under my lead arm so make sure that the ball look is a good two or three balls back of that that point here usually a club width and a bit more inside my lead heel i'm going to put my shaft slightly at an angle why because again it helps with striking that ball first and getting the bottom of the ark after the golf ball so that's setup done now all I'm going to do now is imagine a football is stuck to my lead hip and I'm going to roll that football here keeping that there consistently if I do that I am more likely to return there compared to me sliding off that golf ball so nice and easy to start with make a swing keep it fairly constant and you'll see here watch this here it'll be a after the golf 4.8 in after the golf ball here and I'm hitting a 79 and it comfortably effortlessly goes 100 almost 180 yards now it does that because I am compressing the golf ball i'm delivering less loft when your your bottom of your swing ends up behind the golf ball you start to add too much loft to the club and you're reducing that compression and therefore your distance so spend some time just indoors just getting that sensation of that wonderful pivot there you'll absolutely love it and it's so easy to do once you've done that and you got a feel for that let's work on what you need to do on the way through to enhance this even further so when my students practice that drill they start to see immediate improvement in the consistency of their ball striking but just naturally of course they do they make mistakes in the down swing which brings me on to drill number two once you start to develop a wonderful feel of to the correct pivot on the way back you kind of want to know how do we maintain that beautiful movement on the way down so we can keep the bottom of the outlook ahead of that golf ball well that brings me to drill number two and one that I got from a friend of mine Andreas Kelly now ultimately the position of where your pelvis is is going to make a big difference as to the quality of your ball striking if you can get it over the lead foot at impact on a consistent basis the chances of you hitting the bottom having the bottom of the ark after the golf ball really increase if your pelvis is further and further back you're going to see it's hard to get there and the likelihood is you're going to be very very inconsistent with your ball striking so how do you learn it and how do you learn the feel of it well you're already halfway there in the back swing the second drill is this and it's absolutely brilliant all you do the way they set it up to start with is this you take your pelvis and you move it over the lead heel so you're going to have probably feels like 90% of your weight over on that lead foot remember it's just a drill your head needs to remain in the middle of your stance this is really important and all we're going to do is going to make a little chipping action just to about here you're gonna turn your hips and your chest to face the target and we're not going to have a big long swing up here we're just going to finish just like this right now what this is doing is this it's training the feeling of where you need to be at the moment of impact to make sure the bottom of the swing look is after that golf ball time and time again so you'll learn that first i'm going to show you in a second how we build it up so we get ourselves set you'll notice setup is also very very important once I've got the ball position look a good club and a bit back i've got my handle forward all these are helping me strike that ball first take the pelvis move it over that lead heel so I feel like I've got 90% now I don't want to do this i don't want to move my head over here that would be disaster i'm going to keep my head right in the middle of my stance from here I'm going to make a simple chipping action just like this right so really simple hips chest all facing the target and you can see here I've 5.2 in after the golf ball so my bottom my swing is 5.2 in comfortably after the golf ball now with my students what I do is is I get them learning that sensation learning that actually when we're here they're feeling oh I'm pivoting around that lead hip here i am not going back here pivoting because that's going to get the ball hiking left slicing across the golf ball i need to be there and that's the movement right super consistent now I spend a bit of time doing this they use this for chipping by the way the chipping improves massively when they do this then what we do is we turn this into a little bit of a punch so it starts with a chip and then it moves into a punch so we do the same thing we get ourselves set we push our pelvis over our lead heel we make sure our head is in the middle of our stance and all we're going to do is increase the length just a little bit right but we're going to punch it so we're going to add a little bit more power into this but not power by doing this just still try to stop short but it becomes more of a punch so get myself set pelvis forward head in the middle of a stance i'm just going to imagine turning my hips my chest to face that target

now watch this low point we'll still be after the golf ball but now we've got up to 170 yards with just a simple punch shot why does the distance naturally increase why because you're now making proper contact when you make proper contact you deliver slightly less loft on the golf ball that's going to help the ball go further the strikes loads loads better when you start to kind of get the bottom of the swing too far behind the golf ball like this you start to add loft to the golf shot so you're losing power but you also start to lose strike because you start to strike it down at the bottom of the golf club right so spend some time doing those two drills get the sensation of controlling the pivot on the way back and then on the way through gradually get the sensation this is where I need to be once you've done this second drill you can start to move up a little bit you can start to go back to a normal position imagine you're pivoting with a ball there and now notice I know I need to get my pelvis where somewhere in this vicinity here to guarantee a consistent strike so you've now got the steps in place to start making consistent contact time and time again put in a little bit of practice do this some of this stuff you can do indoors and I promise you you're going to start to love the feeling it gives you and the quality of ball striking is going to spike once you've done that and you want to start to ramp up your power check this video out right here if you enjoy the video give it a thumbs up maybe share it with one of your friends and of course look if you're new to the channel it's one of the first videos of mine click the subscribe button right down here but until next week have a wonderful golfing.