Today I get a golf lesson from the Hall of Fame Coach Chris Smeal and we talk about mistakes as a beginner golfer. He teaches how tips and drills to help me properly rotate my hips, and how to actually clear my hips. I have had problems with my golf swing around takeaway and clearing hips and today we talk more about how to do all that. Enjoy!
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
01:12 Golf Swing Warmup
03:17 Swing Review PART 1
05:55 Problems with Swing
07:08 Quick Lower Body Drill for Golf Swing
08:50 Back Swing Practice
10:37 Trail Leg Movement
13:54 My Club Head Speed Beats PGA Pros?!
15:16 Chip Shot Practice
17:24 Slope Drill & Feel
22:47 Amazing Golf Tip
24:35 Putting Drill
25:38 Swing Review PART 2
26:51 Looking at Tiger’s Swing
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43 Comments
Woops one of the ball tracers at the beginning when I say I pulled it went right instead. I swear one of these days I'm going to just build a better shot tracer app for everyone in the golf world 🙂
Thanks again, another awesome one!!!
LOL, 17:42 ouch, I'd be in surgery if I bent my leg like that..
Great series. What is your background athletically and why are you doing this?
Coach is great. You are focusing going 40 ft on 4 things instead of spinning your wheels going 4 inches on 40 things. Great stuff
Really great to see how far you've come. Just be careful about thinking you've figured something out. I've had a lot of those moments and hear it from others too. Keep writing down the little keys that help you the most or you might forget when things go wrong on the course.
swing is looking great. the fact you do not come outside to in means youre avoiding a mistake 90 percent of amateur golfers probably have. that swing plane looks money inside to out. great job!
great content
You are really coming along. Great stuff.
Things are really coming together for you. When are you getting back on the course? Need to see how this stuff applies to an actual round.
Dude, your swing is really coming into form. You're in very good hands!
Nice, good lesson!
Can't wait to see him teach you short game techniques! Thank you for sharing your journey with us!
love those light bulb moments!
Get to the driver so I can shoot my age (81). I just don't know how much more time the good Lord is going to give me before He calls me home. Thanks.
Chris, you are a wonderful coach. And Jerome is so much better than he understands. Fun to watch and helping a lot.
Thanks?
That question mark is a mistake, not some kind of sarcastic nonsense.
Need to come to SD and get some lessons from this coach
Well done. Real success is converting information into understanding, understanding into feelings and finally feelings into non-conscious actions. That journey is a lifelong pursuit. Good luck.
great job Jerome. I think there are a lot of seasoned golfers out there watching your channel and thinking to themselves… 'Hmm…So that's what I've been doing wrong all this time!' Fantastic channel for beginner golfers too. The exercise workout vids bring a new dimension to the channel most/maybe all other golf channels miss.
Pass along the message to Chris that getting these lessons for free through your channel is awesome and completely appreciated. My consistency with my irons has improved dramatically from watching these lessons. I love the dirty ankle tip from Nicklaus he passed on and it has been my only swing thought with my irons the last couple times I've played. That tip has got me consistently compressing the ball with irons. Again pass along my thanks to Chris for allowing everyone to get in on his teaching for free. What an awesome gift to golfers
Rolling (thanks Jack) is not the same as a slide to the left!
Was trying to find an instructor in San Diego and realized where this was… I think I found my new coach lol. Thanks for the content man! Struggle with a lot of the same things
Jerome has a video short about the block drill, which he references at 21:56: https://youtube.com/shorts/5Df2g3hdDRE?feature=share
Your hands are what operate the golf club. No other part of you even touches the golf club. When does the "HOF" coach teach you how to operate your hands? Oh, right. They never taught him that in golf teacher school. Maybe that's why nobody who takes golf lessons gets better at golf.
good stuff from Chris. keep grindin.
3 months into it, still no base score on a real 18 hole field
Coach, are you ever in Denver? Youve done an amaziing job with this kid. Jerome, Im 62, that's why I called you a kid, lol. Keep up the good work.
Practise without gloves, helps you to max swing at 75-80%. Stick with Chris as he has what it takes to keep you on straight path to being a good ball striker
You’re swing is looking nice my friend
Oh man that is Woody's just above Mission Valley off of the 15. I use to go there all the time when I lived in SD and always use to hit on that part that is above the bottom hitting bays, right where you are. Boy do I miss it there. I'm a 6 and talked w/ this SAME coach. I told him I wanted to try and get down to a 2 or better. We talked for a bit, he gave me his card but I never got a lesson. He looks like a really good coach. I have to move back there one day. I miss it.
If I could give you one piece of advice, I've been playing golf for a long time. Do not fall into the trap of getting too technical. I use to play w/ this guy who was a + 2 but he sadly passed away. He told me that the most important thing is to nail everything BEFORE you hit the ball. So many problems in golf w/ us weekend warriors happen BEFORE we hit the ball, in other words nail your grip, posture and the big one is alignment. Bad alignment can cause so many issues! Good luck, you do a lot of good things in your swing.
Chris seems like a nice guy but I got more value out of 5 minutes of Mike's coaching than all of Chris' coaching combined
If you have ever seen Ben Hogan swing, he starts the back swing with his right bent and moves to his inseam.
That ankle move sounds so dangerous, but I wish I know how to do it
How much does it cost for this coach? He is amazing with you!
Good teacher with a phlegmatic attitude.
Being a golfer who has only been playing for about 4 years, this was an "eye opening" video for me. I have a lot of the same issues that you have throughout your series and the video's have definitely helped me gradually improve. Keep up the good work!
Did you find that the ankle roll kept you swinging more from the inside?
Are you aware that every coach/pro has a differnt idea of how to swing a club? Coaches/Pros are like snowflakes; no two are the same.
You have a long way to go bro! Keep at i
Teacher and student were great, and I learned why I was trying to get "on plane".
Cash money.
Is there somewhere we can get a live handicap from graph over time, from you? Or any handicap stats, which can give us an idea of how you're improving over time, please?