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I want to go over my top three drills that I use to get rid of topped shots as a follow-up to our previous video about not lifting your head in the swing (
if you watch a slow motion video of good golfers and how their club interacts with the ball, the club head will hit the ball first and strike the ground second. If you’re hitting topped shots, you don’t have that equation. You are striking the ball, but you are not hitting any ground anywhere. So the importance of the club head hitting the ground would be part number one of this.
In this video, I have a mat down here that conveniently has a little line right in the middle. The importance of the line is you need to understand where your club head bottoms out, where your club had strikes the ground. I put a golf ball right in front of the line as a reference of where it would be. Put the line straight in line with where the golf ball would be normally in your stance. My goal is going to be to get the club head to strike the ground in front of the line – ideally somewhere between one to three or four inches. I want you to learn this relatively organically before we do the other drills, whatever you need to feel to do this club head in front of the line. As soon as you can do it, I would start with little chip shot swings and work your way up to longer swings. Then once you can work your way up into a full swing, you will hit some balls with the same feels.
That’s drill/skill number one. That’s not going to solve everyone’s topped shots, but that’s the first thing I always do. I will not talk about any sort of mechanical thing with anyone until they understand my club head needs to hit in front of the ball.
If I wanted to give myself the highest likelihood of hitting the ground, which means no topped shots and second hitting the ground in front of the line, I would have my body moving towards the target. There’d be some weight transfer to the left simultaneously – not two separate events. So that brings us to the second drill, which in the beginning is I just want you to have a reference point.
Start making half swings and I want you to notice two things. Number one, did I finish with basically all of my weight – like ninety to 100 percent – on my left leg. And am I fully turned towards the target belt buckle, hips, chest, shoulders, all the way towards the target? If I do those two body motions combined with my ability to hit the ground I practiced previously, the odds of me hitting top shots are extremely low.
There’s one more piece to getting rid of topped shots and a drill I want you to work on, arm and wrist structure.
What you’ll see really good players do is have their arms extremely straight past the ball. The straighter the arms are the higher the likelihood of good contact. In the beginning I would just make some swings with that and feel my arms straightening past impact. I want butt of the club far away from my body and I want elbows tight. That’s the arm structure that’ll help on the solidness of contact.
Then I would do the same thing with practice swings. I’d start small and I’d hit some little swings and I would reference my arm structure. For whatever reason, if you can’t feel that or understand that, there’s a bunch of different practice devices you can use. I’ll use e a ball or something for similar reference about halfway up your forearms. Keep the elbows close together. If your elbows stay close together, your arms won’t bend. Feeling the same pieces – arms extremely straight into the follow through.
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