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Happy belated New Year everybody I know that we’re well into January now and I haven’t made a few videos for a while but I’m back took a couple of weeks off I’ve got some personal things going on and honestly I could just use the break

But I’m back I’m here to make some new videos for you and as I said this is going to be a new year and a new start for GTD I want to get into a little bit of the basics today introduce you to some of the things that I’m going to be

Talking about this year also I got something that I want to share with you let’s uh let’s get into this video hey everybody and welcome back to golf test dummy the channel where I use my game to help your game that’s not going to change in 2024 I’m still sticking

With that my goal and My Hope what I talked about at the end of last year what I want to do this year and moving forward for the foreseeable future is to try and help beginning golfers High handicap golfers and mid-handicappers who are trying to get down to single

Digits now obviously I’m not going to be able to help a PGA tour pro shave an extra half a stroke off of their four round tournament average that’s not going to happen but for everybody that is struggling with the game or just starting out or doesn’t play enough and

Wants to get more serious about their game I believe I can help you and before we get too deep into this one I want you to see I’ve got some new golf grips these are the Golf Pride CPX jumbo grips they kind of have a a little bit of a

Blended texture some of this is reminiscent of the tour velvet and there’s this new sort of diamond quilted pattern on the side and of course I went with the jumbo grips because the stock grips that they put on clubs noway just feel like I’m holding on to a number two

Pencil and also I had a half an inch added to my shaft length I’m 6’1 tried some 1/ in extensions some 1-in extensions and kind of found the sweet spot at the extra half an inch plus I’m trying to get a little bit more distance and I’ve also changed to Steel shafts

Mainly because I’ve got some new irons five through approach wedge the Tommy armor 845 Max Irons now these came out in 2021 you can see on the hosle there it’s stamped mm21 which is two Roman numerals m and m is a th000 a piece 221 haha anyway if you know your GTD

History you know that I had the Tommy armor 2019 Edition 845s which were a hollow body construction whereas these are are just an undercut cavity okay uh but those hollow body irons I really really enjoyed those irons in these versions this seven iron in this set is

Now 31° which is exactly the same as the Srixon zx5 and ZX7 Blended set that I had prior the difference is that I’m getting probably about 8 to 10 more yards per Club out of these and there’s a lot more forgiveness built into these clubs than with those players distance

Sirons all right let’s warm up hit a few shots all right I’ve got the approach wedge in my hand here and and starting to get into some of the things that I’m talking about the things that I’ve learned over the last several years in studying from a lot of these different

Coaches and instructors out there reading everything I get my hands on watching everything I can get my hands on trying all these different techniques uh I’ve put together some thoughts that have taken a while to become clear but now I believe I have them pretty clear

In my head and I can tell you the number one thing that I think that I’ve discovered is that at least for me and I think for a lot of you out there we need to be focused more on what the club is doing and how it’s

Interacting with the golf ball what are the club’s movements rather than what are our movements we need to be more Club focused rather than biomechanics focused now that’s not to say that biomechanics are not important they are but I feel like that is trying to put a

Sharper Edge on the knife that is already pretty sharp but if you’re going from a really dull knife or a raw piece of Steel just trying to create something that can cut through and be practical that needs to be focused around the club mainly because when the golf ball is

Sitting on the turf for instance with any iron or even a Hybrid Club your low Point must be on the Target side of the golf ball to some extent you may get by with it sometimes with having the low Point directly underneath the ball but

The majority of the time we need it to be somewhere between 1 and 4 in in front of the golf ball depending on what club you’re hitting so if you can’t do that if you can’t get that low point to be consistently consistently in front of

The golf ball you’re not going to have consistency of strike and you’re not going to find power your Lofts and your how you present the club to the golf ball you’re going to struggle with some of that let me let me just warm up and

Hit a few shots here but I’m trying to get the low point after the golf ball if it’s behind the golf ball you’re going to do one of two things you’re either going to hit it fat and slide right underneath it and the ball’s going to go nowhere or you’re

Actually going to hit the ground so far behind it that it’s going to bounce off of the turf a little bit and then come up off the ground and skid into the equator of the ball causing a thin shot so one thing that you’ve got to have in

Any system with any swing on any level professional or beginner you’ve got to be working on getting that low Point consistently after the golf ball now I’m just making some little swings here but that’s how it needs to start you need to start with easy clubs and

You need to start with small swings and the basics slow speeds small swings easy clubs lofted clubs just pull a pitching wedge a nine iron and approach wedge hella Sand Wedge out and just try and think about the low point being after the golf ball and trying to get the club face to

Interact with the golf ball in the correct way now when I say the correct way I firmly believe this this is another thing that I’ve kind of come across in all of my travels I think that so many not all but a vast majority of the issues that most average

Amateur golfers find themselves having most of those issues can be traced back to a real lack of understanding of how the golf Club is supposed to interact with the golf ball mainly I’m talking about here irons with the golf ball sitting on the turf there’s a real lack

Of understanding and how that’s supposed to happen take beginners for instance you’ve all seen this beginners get out there they put a club in their hand they really they don’t know how to hold it they kind of they they don’t know how to set up they might even set up like this

Kind of facing the target like a hockey stick and and they’re trying to to hit up and Flip Flip The Club at it because this is a wedge shape and so they’re thinking I’m going to have to wedge it into the air but that’s that’s actually that’s illogical because a wedge has to

Drive under you think about a door and you have a wedge of wood a door stop that you want to stop that door with that wedge has got to plow under and down to that door so that it actually causes upward force on that door and stops it from moving that’s the same

Concept here so when you start out if your low point is behind the ball and you’re trying to help it up into the air you might have some decent contact from time to time and you think oh boy I’m really getting the hang of this that’s that’s not correct the correct

Interaction is for this club to be traveling on its way down and contacting the golf ball before it reaches its low point so that it can drive the golf ball up just a little bit and then rebound It Forward you’re literally trying to drive this club into the golf

Ball on its way down now that gets you into a very common tip that you see both sides of the argument on hit down on the golf ball or never hit down on the golf ball this confusion is caused because you literally have top level instructors telling you both sides of the argument

They’re saying hit down on the golf ball and then others who are well-respected professionals as well are telling you never hit down on the golf ball count Yogi said he always hit up on the golf ball Marcus edblad who hits the ball oh I don’t know 17 miles with a driver he’s

Saying hit down on the golf ball I mean it’s it’s very confusing so it may not be that you have to make an effort to swing down the golf ball or maybe you do but regardless of what your thoughts are what your feels are or what your body is

Doing this golf club has to be traveling at least slightly down on its way to impact to make proper impact conditions with that golf ball if you look at Pros or amateurs who hit the ball well that two foot one foot before the ball and one foot after the ball you took a

Snapshot of that it’s going to look the same it has to because golf clubs are designed a certain way physics Works a certain way and this club is the only thing that has to do certain things but you your body it can do a multitude of different things and

Still hit consistent well struck golf shots so if you’re a beginner or you’re just struggling with your contact after playing the game for 10 years and you feel like I’ve lost my swing start small start with an easy Club start with trying to get your low point after the

Golf ball and in a consistent place after the golf ball consistent after the golf ball if you’re really struggling and you’re like man I feel like my low point is still at the golf ball try making your low point a foot in front of the golf ball go to the extreme

But whatever you do start small get these fundamentals down get the low Point down and then everything can build off of there you can always build speed and build through the bag after you get that skill down but get that down first it’s going to save you a lot of headache

Guys thanks for watching I look forward to 2024 more videos coming I’m actually going to do a review of these clubs so that everybody can check them out even though they’re a couple of years old thanks for the support see you in the next video