The Most Reliable DOWNSWING Drill for a Perfect Swing Path

This reliable downswing drill will fix your swing path and get your ball starting on line.

If you struggle with the ball curving away from the target and are hooking or slicing the ball, then there are two possible reasons why this is happening, club face angle and swing path.

In this golf lesson, PGA golf pro Kerrod Gray and Keith Bennett focus on swing path, demonstrating the best downswing drill to get your swing path so you can hit straight shots every time.

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⛳ Chapters
0:00 – Introduction
1:05 – Best drill to fix swing path 👈
2:40 – Club shaft parallel in the downswing
3:20 – The ideal swing path arc
4:50 – How to practice swing path
6:35 – Video takeaway

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if your golf shots are starting offline or curving too much then this video is a mustat because you are going to learn the single best drill to fix that swing path and get your ball back online let’s get stuck in okay Keith we just did a great video talking about how to fix a slice mate but this one here we’re going to talk about the swing path in general yeah two main variables that affect the way the ball flies Club face angle and swing path right and really there’s two main patterns that we would see a player who would tend to come a long way from the inside to out and then the opposite outside to in what is your One Stop Shop to fix either of those yeah so most players never come to me for lessons cuz they’re hitting it too straight right so it’s either one of those two patterns they’re hooking it or they’re slicing it yeah right and you know the more I’ve done this the more i’ i’ I’ve taught lessons helping them find a middle ground like not going too extreme because what I’ll find is like if someone’s slicing it and I teach them to really hook it like if they’re a good student in 3 weeks time they’ll come back with a nasty snap hook and then I’ve got to fix that snap hook so this drill’s become a staple in my in my teaching because it it helps players find a nice neutral ground the ball might fall a little right or a little left the dispersion is going to get tighter because we’re not curving the ball one way or the other too much um and I’ve used a cardboard box if you’ve seen on my Instagram Channel I’ve used a cardboard box that you know something was just delivered into my house and and it’s you know it’s about waste High but and you know on my lesson te I’ll use my my little uh lesson placard here to kind of denote my teaching area and it really serves the same purpose so you can see from the down the line camera here that we’ve got the toe of the golf club you know give or take about quarter of an inch to and half an inch away from this sign right and as as you take that Golf Club back and go to the top of the back swing it becomes pretty obvious if you go out to in that this part of that box is now kind of in Jeopardy right it’s it’s preventing you from delivering the club in that zone which so many players if they’re in the neighborhood of 7 8° out to in which is a very common place for players to come to lessons yeah this would be really tough for them to not hit and then the other end of the spectrum if someone comes in the you know comes me we lesson in the neighborhood of 78 degrees into out which does happen you can see here that you you’re going to contact the golf ball yeah but the club’s going to run into this upper portion of the box kind of past impact and you’re going to need Newan you’re going to need need a new sign yes exactly I’ve gone through about three or four of these a year typically so but it’s good because all I care about is the players getting better I’ll order up a new sign if I have to yeah so we like to see and you see this from all great ball Strikers if you kind of go up to the top of the back swing and come down to shaft parallel prior to impact we’re going to see that club head dang near in relation to your hands pretty much lined up right we’ve got like this nice straight line from the hands to that Golf Club there and this alignment stick is such a great visual I use it all the time we want that club shaft pretty darn close to lined up with that alignment stick prior to impact if it could if it’s a little this way or a little that way you’re still going to hit plenty of really good shots we’re just trying to avoid big diagonals this way or that way and this box really helps that and as that club head comes into impact we want to come from the inside make contact but then we also want this club to Arc back around to the inside over here I think that’s a very important element to note is that the golf swing is an arc it’s a circle it’s not straight back and straight through and we see some sometimes when players do do this drill without the full understanding of it they try and Trace the line of that now for Simplicity sakes if I stand up and Keith jumps at the end of my club here if I was just pivoting around that point you see the golf club is going to work uh in an around my body come back to a point where it wouldn’t strike him and then back in and around myself if I bend down from my hips love that taking that same Circle onto an inclin plane guys and the golf club will naturally Arc around make impact and then around again you don’t need to think about it and try and force it that’s just how naturally happen but this builds a great awareness of that yeah again it’s an external que so it’s kind of an avoidance drill which as you probably get a theme here I’m a big fan of these because players adapt to these really well the research shows it my teachings have proved it not a lot of internal thoughts of like okay how am I going to get that club working from the inside what body parts are going to move to get there right we don’t think about how I’m going to lift a fork into my mouth showing players visually how the arc should work I love that standing up straight drill that you just did it really proves the point that that club’s working around the spine all we do is we tilt forward the club still works around the spine but again this prevents the player or you know what’ll probably end up happening is they’ll end up hitting one side of the box or the other and they’ll go oh wow I thought I was doing what I was trying to do I I need to be you know doing this slower or more methodically love that mate so as we always talk about starting off with no golf ball setting up uh and don’t even make full swings right off the back just the little ones huh so just getting a feel making sure we still have the intent Keith of brushing the ground yes yes exactly yeah and this is a great one for better players because most better players come with a little bit too much curve from right to left right this really shows them hey let’s get that club working more around you to the left keep that keep that club swinging on that Arc yeah perfect so once you’ve done a few little small swings like that then chip a couple out there Keith yeah just a little 3/4 move yeah really nice ball flight there yeah and that builds great awareness there guys just having that down there don’t try and focus on tracing it straight back straight through let the golf club naturally Arc but always kind of like do those little small practice swings first then the small chip shots just getting a feel of exactly what it’s like to get this swing path online with your target it’s a it can Arc but we still want it online with the target so we’ve done the small shots Keith what’s next so we’re just going to build right I mean and and and don’t be impatient when you’re building on these swings sit there and spend 30 shots hitting these small ones it’s only going to help help you but obviously you know somebody who picks it up straight away like you’re doing here we can definitely build and make this a bigger motion but if you start to feel things breaking down if you start to feel old habits creeping in come back down to those smaller swings regain the F regain the confidence and then build your way back up I think the number one place I see players falling into traps is they just try to fix things at their normal speed and normal length of Swing yeah right we are trying to build New Paths from the brain to the body and those Old Paths are very very well entrenched so we need to go slowly methodically for a long time yeah absolutely love that and every coach around the world that I’ve done this collaboration series with we’ll say exactly the same thing all right so we’ve done the small shots we’re built up to little halfers let’s go ahead hit a full shot see how this comes off thanks for watching this video YouTube thinks that you would benefit 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