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Last week, I shared a video on how to strike your fairway woods, and in that lesson I introduced what I call the prop drill. The response has been fantastic. So many of you have said not only has it improved your strike off the fairway, but you’re now launching the ball much higher and with far more consistency. A lot of you then asked, “Does this work for driver and irons too?” So I wanted to put this video together, because honestly, this drill is incredibly powerful across the entire bag. If you’ve been struggling with strike, consistency, or even accuracy, this is something that can really help.

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Let’s start with the irons and build from there. To become a consistent ball striker, there are really two key things we need to get right. First, we need to return the club to the same spot every single time. If that strike location changes, so will your direction and quality of contact. Secondly, we need the club to travel on a consistent arc—so it can naturally fall back into the golf ball without manipulation. If we come off that arc—either too much from the inside or over the top—then we start introducing compensations, and that’s where hooks and slices creep in.

This is exactly where the prop drill comes in—and the beauty of it is how simple it is. I want you to imagine there’s a stake running up through your lead side. What you’re going to do is use your trail foot to “prop” that position in place. Now, why does this help? Well, one of my students recently, Max, was struggling with inconsistent strikes—catching the ground behind the ball or topping it. Like many golfers, he was a bit of a “twister.” On the downswing, his body would rotate aggressively, his lower body would drift, and everything would get out of sync.

Great ball strikers, by contrast, have their lower body stacked more underneath their upper body at impact. That allows them to strike the ball first, then the ground. But when you start drifting or spinning out, not only does your low point move back, you also throw the club path off—often leading to that out-to-in slice motion.

So what we did with Max was very simple. We got him set up, and I asked him to feel like he was pushing his trail foot towards the target—almost bracing or propping that lower body underneath him. From there, I told him to keep his head centred—don’t let everything shift forward—and just make some swings. As he swung back, he maintained that pressure through his trail side. What that did was start to move his trail pocket back, creating space and helping the club fall beautifully back on plane.

Now initially, like most golfers, he struggled to maintain it. As he started down, he’d revert back—his body would spin out, the trail side would collapse, and he’d lose that structure. So I encouraged him to exaggerate the feeling—really feel like he was continuing to push and keeping that trail pocket back even into the downswing. And what that does is create space for the arms to drop in naturally, while also keeping the body in a position to strike ball then turf.

It’s a strange feeling at first, especially if you’re used to twisting, but stick with it—it’s incredibly effective.

Now, how does this apply to the driver? Well, it works brilliantly. Most golfers I see—probably 80 to 85 percent—come over the top with the driver. Again, it’s that same twisting motion. The lower body gets too far ahead, the club gets steep, and the result is that glancing, slicing strike.

With driver, we want to feel like we’re delivering loft and striking the ball on a slightly upward motion. That requires the lower body to be more stable and positioned under the upper body—not racing ahead. So once again, the prop drill comes into play. As you set up, feel like you’re propping that trail side, keeping your lower body centred beneath you.

From there, as you swing, maintain that pressure. Don’t let the hips shoot out or spin early. As you do this, you’ll notice something really powerful—you create space. Space for the arms to drop, space for the club to shallow, and space to deliver the club beautifully into the back of the ball.

Now, if you’re someone who already has a lot of this move, like myself, you might need to balance it with a bit more rotation. But if you’re a slicer—this is gold. This feeling will help you neutralise that out-to-in path and start producing much stronger, more penetrating shots.

So give it a go. Use the prop drill with every club in the bag, and you’ll start to see more consistent strikes, better contact, and improved accuracy.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this one. If you’d like to check out the original fairway wood lesson—the one everyone’s been talking about—you can click the video on screen now. And if you haven’t already, don’t forget to subscribe and hit the bell so you don’t miss future lessons. If you’d like more personalised coaching, head over to the website, and don’t forget to grab your free practice guide below.

Until next time—have a wonderful golfing week.

Full Transcript- So last week I introduced a video on how to hit fairwoods. And in that video I brought to people a drill called the prop drill. The feedback has been incredible. People have been saying that it's massively improved their ball striking off the fairway. But more importantly, they're now launching these fairwoods up in the air, but they did ask how does it apply to driver and your irions. Well, I thought I'd bring you this video because it really works incredibly well. If you've been struggling with your ball striking with any golf club for that matter, the prop drill will help with that. But it also helps with accuracy, too. I really can't wait to share it with you. Before I do, though, look, if you're new to the channel, your first lessons of mine, please consider subscribing. I release videos just like this one every single week to try and help you improve your game. Plus, as always, you never have to remember a thing. Everything I do here, I'll put into a free download practice guide that I'll pin to the top comment below this video, or you can simply scan the QR code right there. So, we're going to start with the irons and then move to the driver. But to be consistent at bowl striking with any golf club in the bag, you need to be great at a couple of things. You need to be great at returning the club to the same spot every single time. So the club needs to land in the same spot time and time again. If that changes, so will your ball striking and your direction. The second thing is is we need to make sure that that club is tracking on a pretty consistent act. So the club can naturally just fall down to the ground effortlessly and strike that golf ball. If for instance we go off the arc and we go in here, now suddenly the hands have to manipulate and that becomes the hook. Or this way now suddenly we're over the top. That becomes the slice. So we need to have a fairly consistent arc as well as land the club in the correct spot. Which brings me to the prop drill. And the great thing about it is it's super simple to set up. You can take this to the golf course. What you do is simply this. Remember, we want to try and land the club in the same spot. So, I want you to imagine just for a second here that there's almost like a stake running through your lead side. And what you're going to use is your trail foot is going to prop up that stake. Now, how does this help? Well, one of my students, Max, this week often caught the ground behind the golf ball. Sometimes he would top his shot off the ground. Now the reason being is like a lot of players he was part of the slice family and he was a bit of a twister. So what he would do was he would from here look he would twist in his downstroke. When you twist in your downstroke can you see what starts to happen here? My lower body and my upper body start to get misaligned. This lower body starts to drift this way. Now, great ball strikers, their lower body at impact stays a long way forward and it's basically stacked right underneath their upper body. And this allows them to strike the ground after the golf ball. But if I start to move that around, not only am I moving the low point on hitting the ground behind the golf ball, can you see what it's also doing to the path? It start to sl shift that path out to him. And that's kind of what Max was doing. And we wanted to kind of kill two birds in one stone. So I said to him, "Look, get yourself set up here. Push that lower body underneath your upper body here. Really feel like you're kind of pushing that right leg this way. Now from here, what we don't do is push our torso, our head this way. We keep the head right in the middle of our stance. Now from this position here, what I want you to do, this what Max, what I want you to do now is make a few swings. And I want you to notice as you're swinging back, keep pushing that right leg this way towards the target. And what it will do is it actually pushes your trail pocket around. So it really helps you also create an arc, which is super valuable because what what happens now if we've created an arc and somebody's used to being twisting, we've got all this space. Look, to do what? Come beautifully back into the golf ball. Yeah. to deliver it here as opposed to this way. The second thing it's done as I'm pushing here, my body is much much more over the ball. So now when I come into impact, I'm going to strike the ball than the ground all from one simple drill. Now Max, like a lot of students who do this drill for the first time, do you think he's stuck to it during the swing? So you kind of prop himself there and the eagerness to kind of turn to the target there. This would kind of move this way. It would collapse. And you can see here it would swap around. And before you know it, look, look, turn the screen on for a second. He would start to kind of go this way and then start to kind of spin around and really really miss striking. So, in order to kind of resist that kind of motion, I said to, you know, Max, so look, you're going to really have to feel like you're pushing and you're almost imagine you're keeping the trail pocket back and it's as you're coming down, you're still pushing and you're keeping the trail pocket back. That allows space, look, for the arms to move into. And because you're forward, you naturally are going to strike the ball then the ground. Compare that to this. Does it make sense? So, super super simple. It's just a very strange feeling at first. So, let's show you this again one more time. Then we'll show you how we adapt it for drivers. So, push that underneath there. So, there's now right underneath my upper body. Make a few swings. Keep pushing that trail foot as I'm swinging backwards here. Keep it pushing back. Don't let it spin. Keep that trail pocket back and allow that club to swing straight back into that ball. Now, that felt beautiful. Yeah. So, very simple. It feels strange for a lot of people, particularly if you're used to being twisting. This is going to really change that motion for you. It's going to really get you pushing forward and it'll be a very different feeling. So, how does it work for driver? So, how does it work for driver? Well, brilliant actually to be fair. So, think of it this way. Most of the time I would say 80% 85% of students that come and see me will generally be students that will come over the top and come down and chop down on the golf ball. What's happening here? Look again, same principle. Most golfers are twisters. As they're twisters, the lower body gets ahead. We get steep on it and loads of horrendous things start to happen. So what we want to see roughly impact here with driver, we want to make sure that we're delivering a really good amount of loft onto this golf club here. Notice to do that, where's my lower body rel relative to my upper body? It's slightly ahead, isn't it? And because of that, how's the prop drill going to help that? Well, if I'm propping myself up here like this against here, I'm keeping my lower body underneath my upper body as opposed to letting it pop out this way. If I do this, I'm going to create this kind of slice tile style swing, which starts to kind of curve out to the right. We don't want that. What we want to do is is we want to kind of keep that lower body look pushed under the upper body. Now suddenly as I'm pushing here and I'm still pushing this way here. Suddenly I've created all this space. Look the eagerness for a lot of golfers is then to lose it. Oh look bums popping out. But no no no look at this. I'm basically keep pushing and I've got all this space. Look for my arms to move into. And yes, of course, I'm going to be pushing and turning to impact, but you're probably going to get that for free, particularly if you are a natural twister. Keep that lower body underneath the upper body. So, let's exaggerate this with driver. I might even turn my foot out a little bit here. Push that underneath and away we go. Now, someone like me doesn't need too much of this because I already have a lot of it. Let's have a look.

So really solid strike there. Little bit kind of for me. This a good example for me there. For instance, I really exaggerated that for you and someone like myself who if anything has too much of this lower body underneath here. That's what it would create. So if you're a slicer, this is a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant feel. What I would do for me here, I would make sure that what I'm doing here is is making sure that I'm rotating through the shot and I would add some twist. So for me, I probably have too much of this going on. Um, but if you're a slicer, that's the shape you kind of want to be looking for. It's absolutely brilliant at maintain. I mean, the strike was amazing, but it's amazing at keeping the ar going right into the back of that golf ball. So, prop yourself up with every club in the bag and you're going to start to see much, much more consistency with all your clubs. So, I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did want to see the Fairywood video, absolutely people have been raving about it. Click this video or this link right here. Of course, look, if you're new to the channel, press that subscribe button and the bell. If you'd like to see more personalized lessons from myself, head on over to dannymaude.com where I'll also put the practice plan down below, too. But until next week, have a wonderful golfing week.