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Drill: Baseball Swing

Here's a great drill if you are experiencing slicing or having trouble hitting your longer golf clubs.

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Fixing The Shanks

Here's a quick drill if you are experiencing the shanks AKA shots off the inside part of the club.

Fixing The Shanks

One of the worst feelings on the golf course is hitting a brilliant tee shot then shanking an approach shot with an iron, consequently ruining a good score and breaking confidence.

Many golfers feel frustrated with their irons shots because they make contact with the inside part of the golf club called the hosel (aka The Shank). When this happens the ball will shoot directly to the right or fail to get in the air, make a high pitched sound off the face, feel horrible in the hands and lack any distance. These shots usually tend to happen when a golfer is making less than a full swing and can even show up in chip shots close to the green.

There are various reasons for a shanked shot, but the focus of this video is on the most common tendency: swinging the club flat in the backswing and off plane.

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Proper Posture

Learning the proper posture ensures that the club smoothly brushes the grass at the ball and is an essential fundamental.

Standing to the golf ball correctly is so important because it determines solid contact and direction.

5 checkpoints for proper posture

1) Be balanced on your feet
2) Bend from the hip
3) Have the arms hang straight down
4) Hands width space between body and club
5) Club should point toward the belt buckle

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Fixing The Slice

The slice is the most common ball flight for amateur golfers. Here are 3 tips to help you hit it far and straight.

Fixing The Slice: The most common complaint that I hear from new students is having a ball curve severely right with their longer clubs (for a right handed player). In this video I give you three tips to help you hit shots straight or slightly left. Here is a checklist to improve your slice:

1) Grip: Left hand on top
2) Being Tension Free: Have a light grip pressure
3) Make a full turn with in backswing, start the downswing with a passive body