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Thanks for the support. I'd be happy to do a free swing eval for you. Hit me up if you're interested.

@@SouthernUtahGolfAcademy yes, I would absolutely be interested! How do we proceed?

Send two videos of you hitting a 7 iron. One face on and one down the line. Send them to my email address on my website. Same name as the channel.

@@SouthernUtahGolfAcademy Thank you so much! I will film them in the next day or so and get them sent to you.

​@@keplertssounds good

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You're welcome! Hope it helps.

Give it a try. Thanks for watching

You're 100% correct. And throwing a ball is a great example. I use that feeling a lot when I teach. Thanks for the comment.

It's amazing how few golfers will have the discipline to do this drill WITHOUT the ball. Good for you. Thanks for the feedback.

OK? Thanks for watching.

There is a short! Thanks for watching

I hit the ground pretty hard on this demo but the fairway was really firm. That being said... you can make a nice practice swing and still swing just above the ground. The rehearsal is to feel good tempo and make sure you hold the balanced finish. Don't need a divot fot that. Good question. Thanks for watching.

It's a drill designed to help us "feel" the proper movement of the golf swing. That being said, yes, the sequence is the same but there are differences in ball position and body position between short irons, long irons fairway woods and the driver. Watch my video titled, "Driver vs Irons"

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You're welcome! Hope it helps! Thanks for watching.

Sure... I need a swing with a 7 iron face on and one down the line hitting a ball. Send it to me at kevin@southernutahgolfacademy.com

Thanks for watching. You'll hit it much farther and straighter if you hit it with the bigger muscles.

Thanks for the feedback and good question. Sequence is the same for every club in the bag. (except putting and certain chips shots) however, ball position, and weight distribution changes as the clubs get longer. Watch my "Drivers vs Irons" video. That will help you. Hard for me to convince many students to practice without a ball. The original feedback for most people needs to be about the proper sequence (movement) of a swing. I need a camera for that... not a golf ball.

@@SouthernUtahGolfAcademy I agree, learning the proper sequence of the swing is something I never did. I was more focused on just "hitting" that ball! The ball was getting in the way of me improving my swing and contact. This "Stupid Little Drill" has been amazing. I can feel an A+ swing sequence vs a D- swing sequence now. Thanks so much for offering this great drill. It is a back to basics kind of thing that most golfers should be incorporating in their training. I will check out your "Drivers and Irons" video. Thanks, Kevin, and have great day!

I love it when my in-person students train like you. Thanks for the feedback.

I agree. Not much can go wrong with his move. Thanks for watching

Thanks for watching. Hope it helps!

Ha... His name is Maverick and he's the self appointed channel mascot. Thanks for watching.

See 4:35 of the video. Watch my "2 simple things" video and combine that info with this and you can build a swing that has everything that every elite player has. Consistency requires 2 things, a square face and good angle of attack. Face angle combined with club path give us direction. Impact angle gives us consistent contact. The absolute only way to accomplish both of those consistently, is to learn proper sequence and also learn how to square the face either on the backswing or early on the downswing. Thanks for the comment.

Maybe my favorite comment to date. Thanks for watching.

It'll help. Remember... it's a drill to help us relax so we can feel the proper sequence of the swing. Particularly the arms and wrists. Hit me up if you have questions. Thanks for watching.

I agree. I have a lot of drills for students to delay the release. But, the risk is that they then start to hold off the release artificially, which is really bad. When swinging a bat, we have a significant wrist release. It's just late because it happens after most of the body rotation. Thanks for watching and for the comment.

2nd comment about that. I never actually thought about it but you're right.

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2nd comment about that. I never actually thought about it but you're right.

Thanks. I'm all about helping students find the proper sequence of a golf swing. And you're right... without that consistency will not happen.

Yes, this is exactly the correct way to learn to hit the ball. The whole swing key is what happens from waist high (back) to waist high (thru). Bravo! No ball, whiffle ball and finally real ball.

100%

Takes a lot of time. And once it feels good on the range it still takes a while before I can get it to the course. Thanks for the comment.

Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for commenting.

I'm all about sequence and this drll is designed to help you feel what parts of the body should be moving and when. Swing a bat and you'll feel something similar. With very few exceptions... all golf swings should have the same sequence. Length of the swing and speed of the rotation changes but not the sequence.

@ Thank you. I’m new to golf (under 2 years) but baseball is even more of a mystery to me, so it doesn’t help. Sorry. Personally I’ve been drawing parallels with tennis but it doesn’t work because in golf there is no stepping forward

True... but for shorter irons there is a move into the lead foot like tennis and you also lead with your body on a tennis swing. Lower body, then chest and shoulders and then arms. At least on a forehand. And that is the sequence I'm talking about with the golf swing. Thanks for watching.

Good question. We have several courses here in Southern Utah that have hard packed sand. If your courses have shallow sand, I would advise you to have a sand wedge with less bounce... maybe 6 to 8 degrees and then I don't open the face as much and I don't aim as far left. You need to get a little more leading edge involved. It's definitely a little harder than soft sand.

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I thought he made it pretty clear that this is an exaggerated drill to develop a feel and not the swing you take out on the course. Rewatch from 4:00 to 4:30. What I would like to have seen is the before and after swing of the guy he was helping. I did this drill for 2 minutes and can feel the benefits. Too much tension in my swing and hitting at the ball are two of my big faults. This video and the response above about transitioning to hitting the ball makes great sense. He's not on the range but I assume he is a good golfer who already incorporates these fundamentals in his swing so all you would be watching would be a good golfer hit 5 good shots.

Thanks for the response and it's spot on. I'll hit a couple of shots using the drill and put up a short. This DRILL is designed to get golfers to lose the tension in their swings. Not all golfers need this drill but many do. I rarely use this for a junior golfer or for most of my female students. They don't seem to have as much tension. Men tend to try and control the club with thier arms too often.

I can hit a few but it'll look the same and the ball will go about 60 yards. It's meant to create a feel of less tension and you may have missed the part where we discussed taking the ball away to do this drill.

@@glennsmith8390 hmm, the lesson was to relax the tension and shallow the follow through-this is a universal truth in golf..no need to prove it

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Good for you. Get the basics right early and you'll progress much faster than most. Grip is a huge problem for most golfers.

I've seen that drill. Same feeling. Thanks for watching.

I use ShotTracerPro. It has a monthly subscription. It works pretty well. I'm editing on a Mac.

Been around golf my whole life... and that's a while! never heard of Count Yogi. Looked him up. Old school baby!! Thanks for watching.

Appreciate the support!

Thank you very much!

Without mentioning crack the whip. Feel it

That's because you're creating a bit more lag which will open the club face. Get a slightly "stronger" grip with your lead hand and that will straighten up your shot. I have several videos on grip. Take a look at one of those. Thanks for watching.

That's an excellent question. Check out my videos on "playing lessons". part of our practice time and all of our course time should be spent trying to make the rehearsal swing feel the exact same as the real swing. All we should ever care about on the course should be swing driven NOT results driven. You can't grade a rehearsal swing on ball contact or ball direction because there isn't a ball. Try not to grade your real swing on anything to do with the ball. Simply try and grade the tempo and the balanced finish of the swing. I actually used to put a letter grade (A,B+, B, B-,C,D...) on the card for each swing I made. And I could only grade the swing. So, if I made a good swing but had bad contact it should still be a grade of A. Golf is always ironic. The more you focus on your ball contact... quite often the worse your swing will be and because of that you'll likely have poor ball contact and direction. The more you focus on making a good swing (Tempo and balanced finish) the better your ball contact and direction will be. Watch those two videos... and I'll put up something tomorrow to explain this further because it's an excellent question.

Exactly! One of the purposes of this drill is to feel the wrist load on the downswing. All really consistent players do that to some degree. Downswing is about 2/10ths of a second. If we can have increase in "lag" on the downswing it's really hard to early extend or throw the club too soon. Thanks for watching and for the comment.

@SouthernUtahGolfAcademy no problem. Thanks for the response. From one instructor to a other 👍

Send me a video of your swing with a 7 iron. One face on and one down the line. I'll see what I can see.

kevin@southernutahgolfacademy.com

@ can I get an email to send it to, also do you mind waiting till tmr so I can send you a swing with me hitting?

Tommorrow iw find. Email is above

It’s sent

Not bad for my age. Thanks for watching.

It can become quite addictive for some.

@@SouthernUtahGolfAcademy I can definitely see its appeal to people. I would also not want to tell people not to play golf when they were looking forward to playing a round. I hope you enjoy very many awesome rounds of golf with friends and, as I understand it, business partners.

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I teach a lot of lessons and bad grip and poor sequence are almost always the areas we have to address first. Good news is fixing those things will help fix many other problems. Thanks for watching.

Your welcome. I added a drill to the description. It's another one that will help you make the change in your swing to add consistency.