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Rory McIlroy shares tips to improve your drive | GOLFPASS: Lessons with a Champion Golfer

Feb 27, 2020
Martin Hall here with the great Rory McIlroy and their long-time coach Michael Bannon has guided them since childhood. Thank you very much for allowing us to do this is to truly be with one of you. Look, this will be like a flight in the air. -Wall, let's see how you two work together and let's get started, well, it's the

drive

r, you have the big dog, but let's talk about the basics, what did you two do from the first days until now? What do they work on? Michael with the fundamentals with the

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r for Rory I guess for me it's when we start, Rory would choose an intermediate target and we would set it up and match the ball inside

your

left foot, yeah, yeah, inside the left foot, especially with the driver.
rory mcilroy shares tips to improve your drive golfpass lessons with a champion golfer
I mean no, sometimes I have a tendency to push the ball too far forward trying to lean back and make you know, have a little lunch, but anywhere, yeah, you know, on the left heel there's a decent place to Me to establish with the driver Where would you choose that intermediate objective? I think that would be my first question for you to try to establish with any club, but especially with the driver. You know, I think I'm prepared somewhere. this blue flag in front of me here I mean, I'm looking, I'm trying to pick something in the groin maybe two feet in front of me and I pick a spot there and then I see it and then I just try it and the first one, I'm always trying to align myself on this spot, which is basically this little greenery on this pebble that I can see here and I set it up there and I know that once I look at my target, I know. that I am, I'm a man exactly where I need him to be and that's how I feel, it's much easier to see him at a point that's right in front of you than at the M, he's 200 yards away, Michael is than something that Rory always has done or something that you encouraged him to do when he was young, well, it's going to be hard for him to remember that it's been so long ago, but that would have been what we would have done, you know, try to align him. that way and I think with the body alignment that Rory has, he always feels more comfortable a little bit open a little bit open sometimes with the driver I could go a little bit open with my upper body and a little bit close to my bottom so that the two lines Not like that, I mean there are many times that I use an alignment stick and I put it on the ground just as a reference to know that where my feet, my knees, my shoulders, are aligned in the right direction.
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Did you ever use any images with Rory for setup? I mean, some people talk about train tracks. Anything you would have known in the first few days would have been that we were on train tracks. Yeah, you know, we would say the Oder. train track on the ball points on the target and then the inside is where the alignment of the false knees, hips and shoulders are all line two and hopefully without them you can measure and have that parallel ground feeling Harley. I was the The big word parallel is a big word, but also for me those train tracks are a great visual image for someone, but sometimes for me, as I was saying, with my tendency to be open with the upper part of my body and maybe a little bit close as my bottom is, I try to feel like that train track the ball is on is parallel to the target, but even it just moves forward a little bit, it's a little bit to the left with my lower body , so sometimes I feel like that encourages me especially with the driver and I feel like my impact position.
rory mcilroy shares tips to improve your drive golfpass lessons with a champion golfer
It's a little sad, you know, I think it allows my left to have to clear a little more. You do not know. I think with golf swing setup if you have a very solid setup and a very good foundation. fundamentals, makes the motion of swinging a club much easier. Well, I can't wait any longer. I'm here with Rory McIlroy Michael Bannon, you have to hit a Rory, we have more to talk about with the fundamentals, but I. I'm going to make the most of this, so let's watch you crush one in true Rory McIlroy style. I'm sure, yes.
rory mcilroy shares tips to improve your drive golfpass lessons with a champion golfer
Michael said good shot, he was certainly an absolute blocker, as Henri would have already said now he looks. Michael, you told me something right before the cameras were rolling. I wonder if Rory remembers you telling me something you did with his grip early on because, as a teacher, I'm fascinated by this wonderful journey that you two have been on and there's that Beethoven that you got a genius for when you were young, obviously, but he speaks a little about the grip and what you did with the grip. I think he's fascinating and in the early days, whenever Rory started playing golf, his grip was very, very strong.
I've been as far as left hand as far as knuckles go, yeah, so I explained to him that you know that's good for him for a while, but once he got stronger, the right hand would take over and he'd end up having the ball, so I left it to him, I knew I had to change that at some point and it was interesting because he actually came to me when I was 11 or 12 and said: I think it's time to change my grip, remember? clearly? I mean, I've always been one of the, I mean, and that goes back to those days.
I have always taken responsibility for my own game and you know I always will be. I still know it. I'm trying to think of ways that I can get better and better and still, I mean, we came back in mid-2016, so not too long ago we made a little adjustment to my grip and I actually changed the grips on my clubs that I had. . I had reminders or rib grips and I felt like the grip I had, I was gripping it too much with the fingers of my left hand, was getting a little strong again, so I went back to the Reyn grips so I couldn't get a little weaker. but a little bit more neutral and in my left hand and member of the French Open in 2016, I feel very uncomfortable with my grip all week because I was just trying to make a little change to it and obviously you grip the club.
In a way for so long, any little difference is going to feel quite uncomfortable for the first week, so I'm always trying to change things and as I try to

improve

them and try to

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them, I think. you use a word there and I would like

your

comments please on that, you said you were uncomfortable, you played the French Open with an uncomfortable. I think a lot of people who would be watching this want to know what

rory

mcilroy

is. He must always be comfortable with the ball, are you always comfortable? Oh no, not at all, because I really believe in process and I believe in improvement.
There will always be that little period of change that will be uncomfortable, you know, even. Although with some of the things I'm working on in my swing it's not 100 percent natural for me to do it, but I know in the long run it will be good for me and make me a better

golfer

. I think that's very vital for people looking at this piece, so I think you've worked on what's right rather than what's comfortable, which I think is great for both of us. We also talked to Michael about the difference between a bit between alignment and aiming.
Can you just talk about those two things please, the two things are connected alignment is aligning all the parts of your body from your toes, knees, hips and shoulders and trying to get them parallel and then what What we do is that we are not on the train track. So you know you could have a train track, but you could have your alignment perfect but pointing in the wrong direction, so you try to align your body parts, first of all, get good posture and then you align your toes here in your whole body parallel to the train track that the balls in that's the other little attack now that we're in position and you've made at least one wonderful shot this morning.
I'm sure you'll get many more. Can we talk a little? a little bit about ball position, yeah right, and obviously we're using the driver, so we want to encourage Roy to hit the driver a little bit. Michael. I mean, Rory knows that he's a very sensory player, a field player, and he knows. He does what he has to do and he will place that ball there in the position he needs to make a certain shot. I mean, Rory can make all the shots. I mean, he'll tell you himself that he can take any shot he wants, for example. we can play a shot, which is very interesting to call it, we call it a bullet and we see it, yeah, sure, consider what the bullet is, the board is basically, you know if it's a windy day against the wind, did you grow up with the wind?
Kinda you wouldn't think it with how high I hit it sometimes, but it's basically me going into my setup and knowing that I need to hit a driver low into the wind and I don't really do it much different. I mean, I don't have the balls in my stance yet, but basically all I'm trying to do here is let you know that when I get to the top with my normal Drive, there's a little bit of right wing and I do it. head towards the ball and this, I'm trying to even out my angle of attack so you know it's a much shallower ball flight and a much more penetrating ball flight, so I'll see if I can do one here, but if they say everything, I'm trying to do all I think about is trying to maintain my height on the downswing and not coming in so much on my right side, here comes the bullet, ladies and gentlemen, well it was probably less than half the height of the previous shot.
Aware of what I'm doing, but I'm still a fielder and all I feel during that shot is that from above I maintain my height a little more and reduce my angle of attack and the ball comes out. a little bit further down, yeah, I think it's interesting that the tee height hasn't changed there because I know it did and I realized I can ask you just one more thing. I have a feeling you two have worked on the width. in takeaway artificial width too much with little talking about width in takeout please Michael, well I think width in takeout is created in the initial stage of the swing where you get that connection between the term of the body and arm movement. coming back together sometimes people can try to create too much width on the back and the body doesn't turn it off and they're here, it's the wrong way to do it, you have to get that connection from the beginning of your left arm. and your body spinning together is that yes, it's because I like the feeling of spaciousness.
I like to feel like that when, especially with the driver, I take a buck and have a nice wide turn, but if you don't. If everything doesn't work out and all of a sudden you do this, you're so out of sync in your disconnects and then you're going to have to compensate at some point during your swing, so yeah, for me, I love that. feeling of width but everything has to come back together as a unit, we can see that yes, we get to one, yes, going through the process here, you are choosing your intermediate level, since you said the grip is good, the train lines , a train track is good here. we're going well, good urn to carry, a little bit of width that was correct, that would still find the edge of the street, gentlemen, that was fantastic.
Michael, join me in the middle here please, to get the takeaways there for you at home you need to get the alignment right. train tracks that's really important ball position certainly matters intermediate goal yes that absolutely matters and then some width on the takeaway it's interesting to me that player of your caliber still works on what many would think are The simple things will be easier, but it is vital that That's me, if you do the simple things well in the golf swing, everything else is much easier.

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