Fixing "Over the Top" with Only a BOX with Michael Breed

you're struggling with over the top, well I'm thinking outside the box, let's do this over the top, one of the biggest problems you struggle with at home, it's time to show it. Presented by Titleist. I've told you over and over again. Again you have to get rid of that over the top, it's one of the reasons you're struggling with consistency, you're losing some distance, you're getting that slice by hitting the ball off center, all of that because the club is coming to the top now what's above way above is this idea that when the club is on the downswing, the head of the golf club is outside and above the top of the golf ball, so when I bring the ball inward Here, the golf club is on top of the ball, not under the ball.

There's another way to look at it above the plane, so let's imagine there's a line right here on the axis of my club as the club comes down above it. is the head of the golf club is on top of this flat line that we have here instead of on it or below it and then what we want to do is solve this problem above now that we have so many different things that we can use one of the best things you can use is a chart and this chart will help you in many different ways.

I'm going to show you how many different ways you can improve using a chart, let's start with images now, what are images? Imagery is this idea that you can visualize what is not in front of you, but you can see it in your mind, so if I asked you to throw in your mind you can do it in an instant or the car you drive or a school bus or a photo of your mother or your father or anything like that, you can bring these images to your mind, well, what I want you to do is to be able to do this exercise long enough so that you can remember it and then you can swing like that.

Now what I have is I have a box here. I'm trying to hit the ball in this direction like this, so what I want to do is set this box for the right-handed player if 12 o'clock is straight towards the target, this right here is around the hours here and What I want to be able to do is do is move the stick from the inside at seven o'clock and I want to move that box at one o'clock. Now I'm setting up and looking at this box you get this image particularly in a Shot from above, you get this image of here's the club face, here's the box line and I want to be able to take this and make this club move to along this line so that the box shoots out to the right side, okay? again above would be if I came in here like this and then hit the top quarter of this box like that, that would spin that box for the right-handed player and in a clockwise rotation, what I want to have is the sensation. that when I come in I'm hitting or impacting this box right here now when I do that by the way my right arm is bent a little bit the front arm is guiding my body my upper body in particular is a little bit a little bit more closed and the club is pushing that box to the right side, so what you're doing is and I don't want you to impale this box, all I want you to do is just touch it so that when it comes in here, you brace yourself, you do this little swing and you feel the box move. move like this now you'll feel a couple different things, one of the things you'll feel is that when you come back here there will be an arm movement where the arms will feel like they're almost curled underneath, you can see that by looping in the view of line, I come back here and now it curls underneath, that's going to give me a little bit of depth in my hands and Lao, this club come from this inside path, boom and I hit that box on that line, that's one of the things you'll feel.

One of the things you may also feel is that your back is not rotating quickly. out of the way, in fact, you can feel your hips start to move and your back stays towards the target and now the club is coming in here and I can get it out that way again, so there's a couple more things that you're going to have. a feeling other than good. I am changing position on the plane. You're going to use your MA I to feel the clubhead move along this path, like this, so one of the great exercises is gripping. this makes this move backwards and then lets the club blur along that line.

The other sensation you may have is that your front shoulder, instead of lowering and opening, actually stays closed and rises, the complete opposite of lowering and opening the club. The shoulder goes up and stays closed and that will allow the club to move down the line, so I've done that drill enough. I visualized the box now, so what I'm seeing in my mind in the top camera here is me. I'm looking at that box set up like this and all I'm going to do is swing the club towards the box. I'm not hitting the ball. I will hit the ball but I don't intend to.

I'm not looking at the ball. I'm seeing the box in my mind, so I prepare like this. Now I see that box right there and now all I'm going to do is take the stick, put it in that box and let it go. Now what are you going to do? Look, Greg. I'd love if you repeat this so we can see the curve of this shot, but what you'll see is the path of this golf club coming out to the right. There's the golf ball spinning. from right to left and if we go up here to the front screen, what you'll see is my horizontal launch, which is the path that the golf ball initially launched on that horizontal launch was six point three degrees to the right of the spin. it was almost 1500 rpm to the left, what does that mean?

It means I got a little bit of a draw there and what I want you to realize is the power of your mind's eye and what you put into it because a lot of times you stand on this and all you see is the bad things, you don't visualize what's happening. in contact and what we want to do in contact is move that path that way, so what I want you to do is use that frame, see it in your mind. Eye, put it on the ground and then all I want you to do is just impact that box, let's see if we can do it again with maybe a little more speed.

There's my box. I see it there now and it spins back to the left side and again I don't need a shot of that shot. I could explain it to you when you get here to the front screen. Remember I was 6.3 last time, now I'm 6.8, that's pretty consistent. The last one had about 1,500 rpm of left turn, this one has about 1150, so it's almost saying it's not identical, almost the same had a little more speed, so one flew about 174 yards using your mind, It is something very powerful for you. to be able to solve your problems and one of the biggest problems you are going to have is losing distance, getting bad contact, losing the shape of the shot towards the cut side or towards the toe side because you are on top.

I want to catch you. under that plane, get under that golf ball, place that ball starting towards the push side and the way you're going to do it is use that box and use your imagination when you start putting those two together, what you'll find is you're going to Shoot much better, you'll have a much more solid shot, you'll gain some distance, and you'll have a lot more fun. This is demonstrated by Titleist. Well, this week I already showed you how you can use a box. to help you with the hype, I have another drill for you, it's time for a grip tip brought to you by golf pride when you start hitting this shot, you're practicing a little, maybe you're at home and If you want to improve your game, this chart here can be very useful because there are times when we want to hit that box and there are times when we want to skip the box and I want you to miss it, so what are we going to do?

What I do is show you what I mean by that. I'm going to take this painting. I'll set it to this line here now. If I'm out and over, what ends up happening is the golf club head comes out and starts hitting the top corner of this box right here. What I want to do to be able to get a tie and to be able to gain more distance is to have this club come to the ball from the inside like this here and you can see the way the shadow sets this up in the study, that the path of the club of golf is now moving along that shadow that's there that's now going to propel the ball and I'm going to show you this here if I take this and move it this way here on a camera, I go like this, it would make sense for the ball to start at that direction, that would make sense if I wanted to try to get the ball to start over there, I have to get the club to come down like this and this box is going to prevent me from hitting that golf ball there, so what I want to be able to do is just do this little exercise where I feel like this stick is moving along or parallel to that box, so what I'm going to do is bring a ball here just like that and now when we do a camera, what you can see is that now this club is going to come down here and Hit it and you'll see this golf ball is going to start to the right side, Greg, if you could show that one again and show the pitch, you can see now, all I did was tap you could.

See how that starts well to the right of that target that's in the middle of the street, so now what I'm going to do is do the same thing

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this time I'm going to increase the speed a little bit again. The club comes that way a little bit more speed and now what you can see is that one starts well to the right and then it starts to turn towards the target, let's go ahead and play that one again and let everyone see it, yeah. You can see how that started to the right. I wasn't swinging very hard, certainly stronger than I swung before and you can see both golf balls are lined up in a straight line. horizontal launch five point seven degrees to the right, so now what do I feel like I'm doing when I do this movement?

One of the things I feel is that my tracking shoulder is dropping straight down. the ground so when I come in here I do this I drop my shoulder to the ground now the club can have a chance to come from the inside so what I'm going to do is and this is how you're going to do this drill find that they feel. I feel my shoulder go down. Some of you may feel like your hips are sliding parallel to that box, which is fine, but what you want to do is take a swing and see if you can handle that.

I thought the club avoids that box, so I'll try to feel my right shoulder now dropping and missing that box. Add a Redis at a pretty full speed here, let's see what happens, so when that shoulder came down, I felt that stick. go exactly how I wanted it to go again, let's show this on replay and get an idea of ​​how this ball came out to the right, see how it comes out and turn a little, watch it, turn to the left, it's fantastic. Now we come to the front screen and let's look at some of the numbers we got here.

I got a 4.3 horizontal launch to the right, so I know the ball started to the right side, but it had left spin, meaning the clubface was in a closed position and that turned it left to a pretty good distance. I flew to 175 excellent, the first 6 iron extended to about 185, so I didn't have much blowback on that. So now what we're doing is having the feeling that the trail shoulder is working underneath, it's not turning outward and opening up, but it's actually working underneath, which again is the opposite of up, so that Right shoulder feeling down will help me reach. this club to do what I want it to do and ultimately get the ball to do what I wanted to do, so now there's no box, but I've rehearsed this a long time, so let's move on, this is two weeks later, I've been batting. 150 balls every day I'm ready to go to the right shoulder, go under, let's see what we get here and there, turn from right to left at a pretty good speed, they're actually faster than before we flew those 179 yards. my horizontal launch was 4.1 to the right and I had 1600 rpm of spin to the left, so when I do that drill I feel like my right shoulder is sinking down, not out and up.

I'm going down and under and for you it might be a little different, but what you want to do is use this chart to help you get an idea of ​​how to get this club under the plane, send that club to the right and finally make the ball golf course turn from right to left. left in the form of a tie that will help you improve your game that's our grip tip presented by golf bra it's time for a transformative tip presented by Morgan Franklin you want to improve you want to solve this problem of bad contact by cutting the golf ball all these bad shots , the club is entering the ball and in the wrong place, in fact, it is hitting the ground far behind the ball, why well, because we have no control over our body when the club passes and we are out and over. and moving away from the shot, the upper body is working a lot harder than the lower body and we don't have the club driving the way we want, this is what we're going to do, you're going to get a little box just like that, now put this to one side here for just a second, let's say, for the sake of argument, that I'm swinging over the top, the club in the over swing is very far away here like this and now it'sIt's crashing into the terrain and a very steep approach angle, what we want to do is have this club move across the ground like this so we can swing outward, how do we teach ourselves to do it right?

One of the ways we teach ourselves to do this is to take a little bit of pressure off of this push off of the upper body standing on that foot, so that the weight comes up. top of that foot and when that happens that way we get to the top, the other thing that happens is that we have a lot of rotation and there is no lateral movement in other words, the waist of the hip does not slide correctly the pelvis does not slide slide correctly by turning the back foot and we lighten this front foot so much that then turns, we are not pushing off the ground, we are just turning and moving away and that puts us well behind the ball, so what are we going to do?

We're going to bring a box here and this is what we want to do? It sounds really funny, you're just going to put your front foot right on top of that box and now what I want you to do is I just want you to swing and what you're going to find is that when you swing on this box first of all because this knee, the front knee is higher than your tracking knee, you're not going to rotate your hips out of the way, you're just going to freeze them a little. A little bit, you might even hit forward a little bit, but what you'll find is that the shoulders will now roll instead of turning too much and what you'll also find is that the club will now work underneath, so we come in here. like this and we're underneath and that front foot is actually very light, you do that little exercise for a moment and then what you're going to do is do a modified exercise so we're positioned like this. and now all I'm going to do is lift that toe in the air and I'm going to keep it in the air, don't step on it, keep it in the air and what you're doing.

What I will find is that the shoulders will stay much more closed. Now we're going to bring a ball and I'm just going to hit a little one with my heel in the air, so I set up like this, I lift my toe. the air and now I'm swinging from here, what you'll see if we get here to the front, what you'll see is that that horizontal launch that I have there is nine and a half degrees towards the Good, that's a lot more than I would have ever wanted, but it's a start, you get used to that path coming out to the right, so now, after doing that exercise for a while, we get used to what I feel.

I am doing it right. I feel like I'm keeping my back to the target a little bit more okay, so now what we're going to do is feel that heal in the air. Back here and now my back stays. towards the target a little bit, in fact, I feel like I'm moving my arms and hands down and out and the body is left behind, so now we go like this, now I made that shot, now look what happened there, it was really good . one, come up here and what you can see is that I have that horizontal launch to start four degrees to the right, so now I have the club moving the golf ball on the initial tee line that I want and it's just a slight Make a pause keeping that knee in the air, that will help keep the hips a little bit more closed, which will allow the arms to drop and the way in outward so we have that upper body feeling towards the back. stay and look at the target a little bit longer now what we're going to do is sit here and feel the same thing so it's a little rehearsal and now we go and now I make that shot there and I look at this when actually Gregg you I'm going to have They replaced one for me because this one was really good.

Go ahead and let that come to an end and now let's play that again. You can see it starts to the right, turns to the left side. now we have a good one now come here look at our horizontal throw five point two degrees to the right what does that mean that means you're not over that means that this little drill just by standing on that box helping you improve your game and then you do that little drill in the one where you start with your heel in the air and swing from there, that will help you lock your pelvis, lock your hips from rotating too much, it will help calm your top. body so that you're not spinning around, it will also allow you to feel your arms falling down instead of moving out and over all those things because of that box and then do that little exercise that you have to do those things. there and what you are going to find is that the hits are going to improve, the distance is going to come back, you are going to play much better golf and possibly even like those two you will get that little tie, that is our transformational advice presented by Morgan Franklin.