7 BEST BALL STRIKING TIPS... EVER!!

Hello

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yone, Neil Tapin from Golf Monthly, and welcome to this video where we're going to look at the seven

best

tips

for hitting the

ball

, so if you're having trouble hitting the

ball

with your irons or driver, you should do it. something in this video to help you now the

tips

and hints come from alex elliot he is a pga professional and his tips are really simple and effective and should help you find the middle of the clubface a little more often guys , yes If you're new to the Monthly Golf Channel, hit the subscribe button to make sure you don't miss any of our videos.

Hit the like button if you like what you're seeing, but let's now get to the countryside here on West Hill. and look at the seven

best

tips for hitting the ball, then the first one to look at on our list, Alex, is understanding the downswing, so with an iron in your hand, most golfers know that you should hit the ball slightly, the question is how much and how you do it, it all depends on what I'm using, so if we use a general rule, the more loft we have, the more generally we want to hit it, the less loft we have, the more We still want to hit it, but the less We want to hit it, okay, so I guess the question is, since almost

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y shot you make is going to be with a slightly different club, how do you make sure that we're making those compensations correctly so that you can hit the right shot.

I think, first of all, it's understanding the concept of "okay," imagine, if I hold this alignment club up here with a golf ball, it's understanding that we're looking for that contact between the ball and the grass. Now that's the first hurdle, many golfers feel like they want to brush the turf most of the time or even with the longer irons help it get up in the air, if we can avoid that with everything it's a real game changer. because? That's such a big mistake because every time we try to get the ball in the air we expose the bottom of the golf club, the leading edge, so we can get fat, we can get thin and ultimately we don't hit the middle, so that our efficiency is not going to be as good, so the question is how do we get that downward blow that you are talking about, so I would do very well, simple journalists, the first thing we can try is to focus on a brand right in front of the golf ball because this is something that you can do on a mat on the course, you can have a little impression, you can feel like there is something on the golf course or even on a grass field like we have here.

You're something to look towards so I'm concentrating on trying to get through this area here right in front and maybe pretend I've done that a little impression yeah just to work so your question was before is it well, how can I do it? I distinguish between a four iron and a pitching wedge. In general, and without getting too complicated with people, I would just have it a half inch or an inch in front of the golf ball. I think if most people focus on hitting it, it will improve their hitting. in general, instead of saying okay, I have to hit more with a pitching wedge because that could open up a catalog and almost a world.

You can do that with your ball position exactly, that's going to make a difference, yeah, and then Don't do it and then don't focus on that definitely because as the ball goes up in position, like if you have a driver that's in the tee, it is higher in the position and less likely to lower it, think if we are batting. On a lower shot we would move the ball back into our position to hit it further down, yes, so the position of the ball will tend to help us. Definitely okay go and hit one for us so I have my seven iron here I kind of throw a Lottery here I use one length iron so it's a little different for me but I tend to feel my seven iron and how I normally work on it.

My jewels toss starts in the middle, half ball forward, works as far as it leads. That's how I like to feel it, so I have it right between my buttons and my logo. I'm concentrating on that impression right in front of the golf ball, that's what I'm looking for, lovely, yes, you'll notice that well. Hopefully, you can see through the camera how the patch of grass the ball landed on is still intact. The patch of grass after the ball is gone, that's exactly the contact you're looking for, so next we have a drill that doesn't just go. to help you get that downswing that we talked about, but it will also help you find the center of the clubface a little more often, yeah, so we've talked about how we lower the golf ball, which gives us a center . hitting up and down, this is a great exercise to get both of you right, so it can get quite claustrophobic with the golf club on the ground here, so I finally made a door wide enough for my golf club to will pass by. the golf ball, yeah, so what we're looking to do here is place the golf ball right behind it.

Can we divot along the line after the tees, but can we also go through it? Yeah, what I really like about this is just having those two tees down there, you really focus your mind on hitting the club right outside, hitting the ball right in the center of the club face, which is something that I think many times you are thinking about other things. the golf swing and maybe you don't focus as much on a centered shot, this definitely does it and if I ask you to hammer a nail into the wall, you don't mind too much resting, what's going on, yeah, you've drilled it. the right nail, yeah, so this is really nice and simple, so if I told you this is out of bounds, this is in bounds, I just want you to do a divot on the entry side and go through the door, yeah, okay, come in, let's see what.

It seems like I'm feeling under pressure right now, you get through the door with no problem, so I hope everyone understands how important it is to take that downward blow we talked about and also have something to work on in a line on the field to help them create it , but there are also some other drills that will really help improve the quality of your ball

striking

and this is definitely one of them, isn't it? I mean, it's what I call the press drill and the alignment club press is something I do myself because if you look at all the best ball hitters, we're creating pressure, the hands are in front of the golf ball. with an eye on itself and that really helps us impact, yes, directly through the hand. a little bit through impact and if we look at the comments on TV it's something we all talk about so how can we get an idea of ​​that?

I think we have to have an idea for most golfers because it's hard for me to just say it. Well, get your hands off the golf ball. Well, what is that? Yes, we need to have a feeling. Yeah, what I really like here is that I put the alignment stick pretty much on the ground, so the ground may have to be a little bit. a little soft to do that I want you to approach the alignment stick with the stick in the middle I want you to do your backswing to the top I want you to make an impact now we feel like we have our hands in front of the golden ball and I can putting in a lot of resistance, yeah, I can see a little bit of shaft bend there, yeah, and I mean it's a completely extreme guy, but it's a really cool feeling to have one thing that I would say if you're struggling to get it done with a real backswing, is another great way to feel it in this sequence just from the address position, so with the belt buckle, your target hands off the golf ball are really feeling the pressure and that's what's going to really help you. hitting, yes, and I guess anyone could preset the perfect impact, they can't do it, it's a position you can force yourself into and if you can do it more often your ball

striking

should improve, yes, and like I said before.

Having a feel for what you are trying to achieve is key, think about if you are working on a new backswing feeling like you are trying to feel flatter or steeper, whatever it is you would get a feel for it, so this is a true It's a good way and if you integrate it into a range session, maybe two or three reps of feeling like go ahead, get your alignment out and shoot, hopefully that tip will help you so the next tip on our list is focuses specifically on the driver and I think Alex. that when it comes to driver, sometimes people forget about on-center contacts because you know that drivers are so forgiving nowadays that you can get away with those off-center hits so easily, but in reality you know that it's crucial not only for power but also for precision.

Well, I'm definitely talking about how many times now you can hit someone with the toe of a good drive or with the heel and you still find the foul and it's not much shorter, yeah, you forget about everything, you carry on , but actually you might be rooting something not so definitively and if we thought about it with one eye and said okay, our toe wasn't very good and we would be really punished for it, so we should try our best to train a centered stroke, it is the most efficient part of the club and in fact many people who slice the golf ball may even have a heel strike pattern, she will accentuate it anyway, yes, okay, the question arises of how we do it, so what I would say is use a spray or a foot spray. it's really good just to see and spray on the face of the club, let's see why you hit it, I think if you don't know where you're hitting it, which potentially some golfers don't, yeah, we have to know where we are.

You're hitting it to move forward, yes, so most people will have a hitting pattern. You know, the best players in the world will be very, very centered right in the middle of the clubface and as you go up, the handicap will increase. being a little bit further away from the direction that you should notice, I guess a pattern that you should notice if they are more outside the toe or the heel exactly, that's the first part of the call, we have to know what your pattern is. it's or what's my pattern or your pattern when you're watching this video for you to figure out and then a great exercise what we have here is we have a door so if you're a little bit off you live by the heel all we have What to do is try to go through the door, okay, all the benefits that we've seen about being more efficient, hidden at the top, is: can we go through the doors, but above the door? doors in the way, okay, go and then hit one for us and then we'll find out, because you didn't just spray the club, we should be able to see where it hits the ball well, which couldn't be much straighter down the middle. a little bit off high, high, right, middle, but if that were every time, I'd be very happy, okay, so one of the areas where I think a lot of golfers come off is getting the sequence right on the swing. golf swing Everyone knows that you need to move the right way, but you also need to move in the right order, right, Alex?

So what do you have for us here? What do you have that helps you? A simple analogy and I don't want to go into it in too much detail because I think you can almost think that there are too many mechanics that I have to do yes, I know what that feels like yes, yes, yes, I have been there on the golf course too , it's hard to take it to the course is like that, so if I told you that from the top of your backswing, you go into your downswing, in the downswing, can you feel that the hips are always in front of the shoulders or that the top half is chasing the bottom right?

Well, then what would it feel like? that was from here on the downhill now the top half is now chasing the bottom half if you look at where the alignment lever is pointing towards my belt buckle or my hip line, yeah so my shoulder line is slightly closed towards where your hips are, yeah, so the top is always chasing the bottom, another really nice way to explain it is: can you get your belt buckle to point before your chest is the target? Ultimately it opens up and it's amazing if you get people moving, better shot quality and efficiency that skyrockets, yes I mean sequencing.

Absolutely crucial in golf swings, one of those things where good rhythm equals good sequence, if you can do it well, you should hit the ball a little better, so as we've talked about, finding the perfect impact position is absolutely key here and this is Another exercise that will help you do it again by pre-establishing the impact position, explains in more detail on television, we have seen our modern version of Jim Furyk Matt Wolfe's unique swing, but with a lot of power and a lot consistency, very, very. good shot too, probably one of the best on tour right now, yeah, so if we look at what he does, the first move of him is very similar to what we said with the drillalignment on the floor and that pressure before each shot, it's having a feeling.

Now we're kind of speculating that he's getting it because of the impact, but we can definitely join in on something we can watch on TV. I think if I look back over the years that I saw a pot, I probably got it from Tiger. right, if you use it as an idol or someone in the media or someone like that, okay, I can see that move, I can imagine doing that move, so what we're looking for is before every shot, maybe try it on the range. practices to get started. but definitely on the golf course feel the pressure of the move and hit it and it's a great move because you can, you can do that, right, right, everyone can feel the pressure on the left side of their body, create that kind of . of sensation that is going to create the downswing that you talked about exactly and the most important thing that helps us hit the downswing is actually that weight transfer, so if we have a feeling of that at impact and right before we do it here go and hit it, now we have some that we can connect to a real impact position, okay, let's see, put me on, let's try this pressure, hit it again and I really like it because it gives me the feeling that I actually know where I want to go.

I was there half a second ago. Let's go there again. and that was perfectly hit with a straight shot, okay, and the last tip is really for those people who have difficulty with the shot, particularly with the driver in their hand and alex. It's about understanding a little bit about how the arc of the golf swing works. more about you know, I guess with the ions it was a downward stroke with the driver, it's actually an upward stroke exactly, there are two ways to look at it, one by trying to train this final stroke but also understanding that this arc works around the body, I guess A lot of people try to fight it and swing it forward or backward, yes, it's understanding that it's on an inclined plane around us, so if we imagine that we have a hula-hoop around us, we just want to spin around the hula. -hoop and back up, but We looked at this a little closer and imagined that I was a little man in here and we had an art going around.

You can see here how the ball is up in our stance, it's closer to our left heel and how the club head. it's just going to travel up and down this rail, so along it on the way back down to hit the bottom just before going back on the path, that's going to help us feel like when we hit the two we trust the natural arch. Any time we can do that, I think a lot more people have more joy, more focused hits and better shots, so the question I have for you, then Alex is, with an iron fist, are you looking for a downswing with the driver on? hand.

Are you looking for a finishing blow? Is the swing different? The swing you need to make with a driver is different from the swing you need to make with an iron. I would say it all comes from your settings. Okay, so we would have the ball higher in the stance for a driver, another peg, it will encourage that upswing with a wild line, for example, it's me further back in our stance, it will encourage a more downswing, other things will be the spine angle The way we set up at address may be a little different between the irons and the driver, but I would tend to go with it and say that for most people with a driver they swing a seven iron in terms of speed, in terms of pace, most people can hit it well. swings with the seven iron, yes, so take that to the drivers too, yes, so you are making the same swing, but with the adjustments that you have made to the address you should be able to create the shot that you are looking for and then the rhythm of the seven iron okay, well done, beautiful straight, very straight, alex and long, and you know these are the things, these are the basics, but we all make mistakes from time to time and it's easy for mistakes to happen, hopefully can affect the hitting of the ball. that helps you if you're having trouble with your driver, so there you have it, that was Alex's list of the top seven tips for hitting the ball, guys, before you go, hit the pause button and let us know what you thought.

Have you tried any of them? these exercises or tips in the past, if so, let us know how it goes. I'd be very interested to hear what you have to say, but for now from West Hill, thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.