Stop Slicing and Hit Power Draws with Michael Breed

today in a new Morita golf we are talking about the deviation in the face how that takes away your distance and the importance of pushing and pulling what is the difference how is it going to help you let's do this it is not for testing brought to you by Titleist I know I am enjoying that yellow golf ball and I hope you are too, so get them, well listen, I want to talk to you a little about the face of the golf club, so many times you think at home that the path is what sends the ball on its path and the face is what bends the ball so the path sends it, the face bends it, it's not the way it is, the face of the golf club really has a huge effect on what this golf ball does.

It starts spinning all those other things and I want to show you this so you understand it completely now what I have is a box, I have a little basketball that I borrowed for my kids now What I want you to pay attention to is how this ball bounces on the box, so I roll it inside the box and you can see that the box is practically going to roll, the ball because it has topspin hits the box that rolls. but it bounces almost perpendicular to the path it's coming from and again because of the twist and grip of the box it doesn't necessarily reflect absolutely that way, but that's basically what happens now if I take this box and turn it at an angle like this , so now I'm going to roll the box on this line right here, this box is going to bounce or the ball, rather, it's going to bounce off the box at some angle like that, basically it's going to spin something like that. that you see it bounce there like this now that tells you the deflection that this box provides, that's what we call a horizontal deflection and there is a horizontal deflection that takes place when a golf face hits a ball, there is also a vertical deflection that takes place , so let me take this, I'm going to grab this here, take this, I'm going to tilt it like this, now that's pretty much about a 9 iron, type 8 iron, look now, look when I rolled into this, now it's a ramp. is going to hit this and it's going to deflect up, you see it deflects up, it actually bounces up, so when I take this and I turn it now at an angle, I have an angle vertically, I have an angle horizontal and this ball. bounce up and then kick to the right now why is it important?

Because I see a lot of you trying to figure out what's going on with your golf swing and the last place you look is the face you spend all this time looking at. What is the path doing? It is the path that goes outwards. It is the path that goes towards the face. Focus on the face. I'm telling you as you start to control this face, you will start to understand what is happening with your shot. The other thing is. is that the ball doesn't start at 90 degrees to the trajectory, it just doesn't because of the angle of the face both horizontally and vertically, so when I hit a shot and I want to hit, let's say a little slice, so now I'm going to open up the clubface a little bit.

I'm going to hit this now the golf ball is going to spin to the right side, so come here, leave me alone. To show you what happened, the horizontal launch is 2.7 degrees to the left, which means I just rounded up, it started three degrees left of dead center and the 17.7 vertical launch started at about an 18 angle. degrees up, so it started, let's say three degrees left and 18 degrees up, that's how much deflection the club face was now curved to the right, meaning the golf club face was open to the path at the one we were swinging the club, in other words, the ball started three degrees left of dead center but the path itself was greater than three degrees left of dead center because the ball had turned to the right do you understand that the face deflected the ball to the right and so, although he began to aim?

Seven degrees to the left was still to the right of the path where the club head was swinging and I know that sounds a little complicated for you to understand, but you have to understand it so you know how to do it. Opening or closing the face, you have to understand what the desired line is, right where my target is and then where I'm moving this path so that we start paying attention to what we're doing with the curve of the golf ball. If I want to start the ball to the left and fade it to the right, I have to turn further to the left than I want it to start.

I have to turn further to the left than I want the ball to start, so if I want it to start three degrees. to the left, depending on the club itself, I'll have to turn more than three degrees to the left to get it to curve back to the right, so let's see if we can do that again. I'm going to set up the clubface a little bit. a little bit open I'm going to aim it over here, let's see if I can get this ball to start to the left and bend to the right, so come over here now, let's take a little look at what we have.

This one started four point seven degrees to the left, well, yeah. because as I teach you, I'm going to make sure I do more than what I said I was going to do, so I'm going to turn more to the left and threw it seventeen and a half almost identical years. 17.7 was the one I had before this is seventeen seven, so my vertical launch and my horizontal launch are a little different than what I had before. Now, what happened to the golf ball? Well, he started, he left Gregg. I don't know if you can play with those two. to the left, so here you go, it starts on the left and now it curves back to the right side and falls, and what do we end up doing?

I got 822 rpm of right turn, meaning that one turned more to the right. than the one I had before, so my clubface was even more open even though the ball started more to the left, the face was more open and I ended up getting more sidespin to the right side. Now, what is this worth to you? It's valuable is when you start looking at a shot now those were wanted shots shots we don't like are unwanted shots an unwanted shot could be this shot instead of aiming left I aim at the target but I'm I'm going to give the same spin to the ball.

Try to spin the ball the same way. Now what this one did was it jumped to the right and you'll play this one again for me. Greg, this one is going to start to the right. and it's going to curve to the right, so when we get here and look at what we have with this one, what we end up getting is I have a departure line of two point four degrees to the right, that means I probably turned down on the line. but because the clubface was open, it started two and a half degrees to the right and then turned 840 rpm to the right, which is how it ended up curving to the right.

Can you play that one more time, Greg, so everyone can see it? What you will see is that this will start to the right and then curve to the right and when it starts to the right towards Kirstin, guess what is undesirable? Now, which solves that problem well most of you were going to sit here and you'll be fine. I have a problem with my stick. I have the club and it's running underneath me and that's why it's starting to the right. No, it's not because your clubface is open now, what do you do? what you need to do to try to solve that open clubface, it's very simple, you start with the grip, make sure you check your grip and that it's not too weak if I get to where I'm not showing the knuckles of my front hand and many knuckles on the clubface of my trail hand will open if I show the knuckles of my lead hand and not the knuckles on my trail hand, so now I'm here like this and now I make the same swing now that I hit that altered my grip a little bit and now what do we do right Greg, you're going to show us again we're going to come up here and we're going to see that, but show it to us again so we can see what happens with that and maybe you can play those last two.

I don't know if you can or not. You can see that one started at the flag but turned to the left side, so let's look at our numbers and see what we have here. well, we got the launch to 17 - pretty close to 17 five, we got the horizontal launch to start basically at the center line point three degrees to the right, so that's basically on the center line and I got 631 rpm of left turn, oh that was cool, can you show that again, Greg? I don't know, yeah, so you see all those curves. What you will also see particularly in that last one is the apex of the red, which is the last one we reach. there is lower than all the others, why because of that vertical launch when I bring the face a little closer, now all of a sudden it starts to go down a little, it doesn't go up as much the apex of the disk as the only apex at 81. feet, but look at my distance, I have that to travel in the air 174 feet 134 yards extended to 179 so what does it all mean?

It means face face face face face you have control over the face of the club let the face tell you what is happening and realize that the ball is going to deviate both horizontally and vertically off the face, the path does not start the ball where the path is going, it doesn't mean that the face is responsible for all of that and like if you pay attention to the face, you're going to end up understanding the golf swing a lot better, you're going to end up understanding the curve of the ball a lot better and you're going to start getting higher scores. low and that is demonstrated by science. for a grip tip brought to you by golf pride I get so many questions, Michael.

I stand over my putts and feel frozen. I don't know how to get the putter moving right when we start to stand on this ball and start. Thinking about what's going to create action is when we start to get really nervous and we

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making putts, we start to miss putts and when I say make and miss a putt, I mean hitting the target you're aiming for, not necessarily hitting the target. ball to get into the hole, so I see people standing on the ball they are receiving, there is a lot of movement and then suddenly a boom, they are statues and then there is nothing and then they can look because they don't know. what to do and all of a sudden the putter goes out and it has no rhythm no nothing we have to

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that this is what I want you to do I want you to add a little bit of forward pressure to your routine to your swinging so all you go What to do is just jump forward and jump back and then go through something really very very simple to do, just move forward and then let it start and as you add this forward pressure, you're going to have a reaction, in other words, the action is pressing forward, action is forward and then all of a sudden it almost puts the putter head in motion, you get to where you're struggling to get the putter to move. as far as you feel the putter going out and I'll show you what I mean by that let's do it down the line take that close up if I take the putter and I don't do a forward press a lot of you just take the putter and go out like that and when you go out like that now I have to open the putter face to have a chance to get this ball where we want it to go and it ends up taking a little bit of a hook spin, which is wild, but that's what it does when you take forward pressure and you use it in your game, what will suddenly happen is that the putter will tend to move back along the line you want, maybe even slightly inward and as that moves slightly inward, now we have the opportunity to let the putter swing how we want.

The length of the putt obviously has something to do with it. This putt here is about 10 to 12 feet, so this is not a gift from anyone. It's a stretch of the imagination, but what we want is for this putter to have some freedom and so what I want you to do when your practice routine is just get used to hitting, go, go, so that you're literally stand and look. on the target, then you go, you hit, you go, and when you start doing that, what you're going to get is you're going to get a real freedom in your putting stroke, there's going to be fluidity and the transition, which is one of the most important parts of putting. the transition from the backswing to the straight swing will be smooth, it won't be aggressive, it won't be abrupt as you start to get a little more abrupt, all of a sudden the heel of the putter starts working way before the toe and the next thing you know, You're starting to miss putts again, so what I want you to do is beat the practice shot.

I want you to just press forward a little bit. and let it move and I don't want you to worry about the mark as much as the freedom of the putter going back to the motion, you want the freedom of the stroke and what you can see is okay, I've made a I've missed a few putts, but the distance the ball is great and the reason is that now I have fluidity and my putting stroke doesn't make me feel like I'm hitting the ball. It's like you're stroking the ball, it's almost like a paintbrush, so when you're like this, you jump back and forth and the other thing I'll tell you as you start to get comfortable with this is that you want to have the feeling that you want. . having the feeling that there is no effort in the punch and where there is no effort is where you succeed in making it a punch instead of a punch.

Many of us get there, we're stuck, we don't move and then it hits and it's abrupt, it's not fluid, we don't do what we want to do now.same, here's the Moneyball, all the pressure for you to be able to stand on that really important putt, it's 10 12 feet. this is not this is not a putt you should make this is a putt you hope to make and what ends up happening when you wait do is you start to create a little bit of stress a little bit of movement that I want You gotta have some freedom, so let's go in here like this, we practice doing arm presses and forward so it's 1 2 3 punch, punch, punch, you feel that rhythm, you feel the tempo of that hit, hit, hit, hit, good hit for all the marbles, yeah, I got it.

Then what do you want to do? Want to add that forward press? When you achieve this, you will have fluidity in your putting stroke. Now all I want to tell you is that I don't want too much. I just want a little hit. I don't want you to be there putting your hands almost in the hole. I want you to give a little push forward and then step back and all it does is get things moving. I've seen this used effectively for a long time, in fact, Phil Mickelson has one of the best forward presses, a very, very good putter and also Jordan Spieth, another guy who uses a forward press.

As he uses this forward press, you will find your flow. You will improve your putting stroke a lot, you will start to feel like you are doing an action, I mean a reaction not an action, and that ball will start to spin the way you want it to land, that is a grip tip brought to you by gossamer time. for proving that it was presented by Titleist as the number one ball in golf for a reason and that is because of that consistency in that speed. Now I want to talk to you today about how you can get a little bit more speed out of the golf ball. a little more distance, it hits the ball a little further and it's very simple to understand, it's what I call width, but I want to show you how width can change the distance the ball travels and how the ball gets to its final destination .

This is what we are going to do. I have a 5 iron in my hand. Here I'm going to hit this shot, but what I'm going to do is create a very steep angle of attack and then as I create this steep angle attack, I'm going to explain some things to you about why the golf ball doesn't go as far as it could go. and you're going to see some really interesting things, so I'm going to create a steep angle attack and this is one of the things that I see in you tend to get the club up in the air, there's a lot of swings of the golf club against the ball and even though you're generating good clubhead speed, you're not generating good ball speed and I'll explain it to you here in a second, so here we go with a bit of a steep angle of attack, see what happens, so obviously I hit that ball of golf with great force.

Now I want you to take a look at what we have. Here and again close the face, so take it out and it just comes out like a jerk. Can you replay that shot for me, Gregg, so everyone can see that shot? Because this is going to be very interesting as you look at that look at the apex. the curve of the ball the clubface is a little closed starts to the left and goes to the left that is a steep angle of attack attacking the golf ball down now let's take a look at what our numbers say launch angle of the apex 53 9.6 degrees so we have a club head speed, which is just a guess because I don't have a ball speed marked that is one twenty-two point five, so that is enough speed for the ball to come out and land approximately one seventy-seven. but all of a sudden it ends up going 185 and because the ball is so low and it gets caught like this with 5.200 backspin, all of a sudden that golf ball hits the ground and starts moving, now what we've done What we have to do is get this golf ball to have a little bit of a higher apex.

When I talk about APEC putting the ball a little higher, now I'm talking about how do I get this golf club into the ball and I want to show you something real quick before we get into this because it's a really important part of how to get this golf ball do what we want to do, so I want you to imagine that we are hitting the ball in that direction. Again, I'm going to draw an arrow like this that is in the same direction that we were hitting the ball and in this camera as well and I have a golf ball that is right here now when I take the club and I create a steep angle of attack .

The club is coming in at this angle right here, the energy is driving in that direction right there or down and because that energy is driving in that direction down, I'm losing a lot of my collision, I'm sending a lot of the energy down. below. forward I want the energy to go in the arrow and in the direction that the arrow is going, which means I want this club to go into this golf ball a little more like this or a little more like this instead of like this and I take out even though the club head speed could be like I said 89 or 90 miles per hour when I drive it this way I only get a ball speed that will be 122 so when I start to get some width in the backswing and What it basically means is to move my arms and hands a little bit further away from my chest, suddenly the arc of the clubhead becomes a little bit wider and as it gets wider it now also moves closer along the ground and so on. . starts to happen.

I don't lose energy going into the ball because it doesn't deflect away from it in that vertical way, it moves along the ground, which means that ball has more energy and is more like a head-on collision. with an auto instead of an indirect hit, so when I start to widen the backswing a little bit more and I start to let this club get into the ground, what's going to happen is I'm going to get a higher launch angle than the launch angle like I said it was nine point six and I'm going to start getting faster ball speeds, bigger monkey It's the part you need.

I understand that you don't have to swing the club faster to generate more distance and I see this distance as a 177 carry distance, which is what I'm trying to achieve with the iron. I want the ball to carry a certain distance. Distance is not how far it goes because if I try to eat 177 and the flags on the back of the green and it lands at 177 and rolls to 185, I have a very difficult little shot or pitch. shot from behind the green, possibly even a bunker shot, so I'm going to get a little bit wider and I'll tell you how to do it here in a second, but now let me get a little bit wider and we'll be I'm going to see what happens with these numbers.

Now look what happens with this shot. First of all, you can see that the ball didn't go very far, in fact, it flew to 189 and rolled to 192, so it only rolled two yards instead of seven. but it flew eleven to twelve yards farther, shallower and shallower, now watch what happens, watch the change in these particular numbers, first of all, apex 110, what was my apex before 61 feet, what was it at the 53 feet, so 50, I doubled. that vertex with that shot over and over again, I don't know if you can get those two shots back up or not, but you will see that the vertex of the second one is off the screen, the blue is fine on the screen, the red is off of the screen because it is duplicated.

Now we start looking at that vertical release. That vertical launch, remember, was previously nine point four degrees. I think that was it. This one has nineteen point seven, so a higher launch angle because. the club comes to the ground this way and notice what happens to the swing speeds, the swing speed of the other one I had was actually higher 5200 but before it was at 4900 because the golf ball was at the highest apex , the angle of descent was steeper and, although there was less spin, it rolled less because normally the ball with less spin will not roll more, but this one, because its vertex is higher, rolls less because the angle of descent now looks at the speed of the ball, the speed of the ball on the other one was 122 0.51 22.5 this one is 123, so it's half a mile per hour, that's all.

I got half a mile an hour. I gained a little bit of all the speed, no less, a little bit of ball speed, a lot of distance, eleven yards, imagine. What happens when you go to that driver and suddenly you get similar club head speeds, similar ball speeds but a lot more distance? And as we start to look at this, we start to see how this golf ball is going to react. Because of what we are doing to reduce this club to depth, what do we do now to reduce the depth of the club? You've probably heard me tell you this a thousand times.

I'm going to keep telling you to do this more and more because you need width in your swing and what you do to gain width is you take your trail arm and keep it straight one of my favorite drills that you set up take off your lead hand do a backswing do like this put your front hand now that you have it Here and now you go down. I'm not worried at all about where the ball goes. I'm just trying to feel what it feels like to have width, so come back here, take it there, get the club down like this and what do you do.

You'll feel a lighter action of the golf club on the ground, if I hit Matz, you'll also hear a lighter sound if I'm cutting, if I'm sweeping, totally different sound and you'll be able to hear it. In that, if you're one of those people who practices on mats because I hate the Singham ATS, my elbow hurts, you know why you hurt your elbow because you're too steep and you have to be a little bit shallower. So you do that drill where you get this back extension with your right arm or your trailing arm and then we're going to put that into action with this club, so feel that right arm reach up there and see if we can get something similar. . what we just got we have a ten I think we got a ten 123 and 189 and this one I hit really well so here we go again let's look at this apex remember before we had it at 110 we started our baseline was at 53 this at about 90 86 foot backspin similar 4,200 I had a little bit of a tie on that one, the ball speed went down to 121, so it was under the ball speed that I was carrying 177.

I got it to carry 187 and a half, so again more distance. distance more distance more distance more smiles more distance more fun more distance lower scores more distance more friends are jealous of you get that tracking arm I'm going to hit one more before I finish this here so you can really see this and I'm going to try giving this a little more

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. Well, the trailing arm pushing back got it just a fraction of a toe away. It was my biggest hit and still bad contact bad contact great distance 121 in the speed of the ball again less? than what I got with my cut 180 5.4 more than what I got with my cut what does it mean you need some width, you get some width, you don't need to get more club head speed, you can get some, but you don't have to.

The higher the club head speed, what you're going to end up getting is more distance, a greater launch angle, a higher apex, more distance, more fun and it's proven that. It's time for our transformative advice brought to you by Morgan Franklin. You've heard it thousands of times from your friend of yours, I pulled, I pushed, what is pulling and pushing, how does that work? Well, pulling is obviously when the golf ball goes to the inside or to the heel and pushing when the ball comes out to the toe side. it actually means more than that and that means what you're doing with your arms and your hands, pulling is the arms pulling towards the body and pushing is the arms moving away from the body now, why is that an important thing?

I know well that you can gain or lose

power

depending on how you move your arms and hands during the shot, so when I start pulling my hands like this and this is something I was taught when I was a kid, you get down here and pull that handle down I'm going to pull that handle down and when I start pulling the handles what I'm doing is pulling that towards me I'm losing power I'm losing speed this is my 6 iron right here and this is going to be a swing pull, so I did my little pull swing and what do I get.

I get a little cut Greg, let's play that shot again. I get a small cut. The ball only traveled 154. miles and I'm at 154 yards and it was 109 miles per hour, you can see that ball spinning to the right side. I'm going to pull this one even more because of the way the horizontal throw went slightly to the left about a degree, I'm going to pull even more here, so I really pulled that one and missed contact, so my shot was towards the point, but again the ball started, you could see as he shot that ball started 3.2 degrees to the left.

He was pulling very hard. I also got a launch angle that was pretty low at 17 degrees. Now I want to push and what I'm telling you is that if you want more distance, you have a push, come in here with the trailing arm. hand and you push towards that punch and when you start pushing towards the punch you're going to generate a lot of speed, you're going to generate a lot of power and you're going to get a lot more solid contact. The leading side of the body is a pulling side and the advancing side of the body is apush side so I start pushing with my right hand and watch my distance increase here six iron targets at 175 ball speed on that one was 107 the other one was 109 here's my push so I just pushed with my right arm as fast as I could.

I just pushed my hand through that shot come here I want to pull you up so I can show you the push look at the speed of the ball 109. at 121 that distance 183 in the air 183 yards I came out of pushing look I'm going to give another push for you here and see how this one goes again the same thing just to push I'm going to push even harder this time I caught that a little fat a little fat 173 I'm pushing again this time I'm going to push and make solid contact because why not? We have to make sure we make solid contact.

We have to prove the point. Take your time with this push. There is another push. What you will also notice when we do this is that the speed of the ball increases the distance. it goes up but the golf ball is not going to the shooting side I can't get this ball to start left are you one of those guys that is hitting every shot? pull your putts make your little pitches the reason you're putting is because you're pulling, don't pull, push, how do we push right when we get here and you start holding your hand and you push like that?

I don't want you to push down, I want you to push forward when I start to push forward I watch my body move out of the way it's a reaction the instinct to suddenly push my left hip my left shoulder has to move out of the way you have to accommodate the hands that cross and move away you then we push and push and push there is a good push and a very solid contact what did I get from that? We're going to come here one last time because this is important look at the speed of my ball 120 point six We round up 121 distance 183 so I have a lot of distance pushing and what you'll also notice is that it's not going to the left start well Greg can you play that one again?

Watch what happens when this golf ball starts. It starts to the right and then

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. I know you want to draw. I understand. You already know how to draw it. You push. Make sure the trail side is pushing and you'll get that extra distance. That's our transformative advice brought to you by Morgan. franklin