To everyone saying that he needs to slow down haven’t tried to fix their swing with the yips. Normally slowing down is great but with the yips, being fast and athletic is the best way to get through them. Trying to simulate on course swings while also working on technique athletically is the best way. I spent 6 years going through this and this was how I got out of it
My yearly boys golf vacation was this last weekend and I developed a case of the “y” word. Started with shanks and transformed into dead pulls when I tried to slow things down with about a million swing thoughts racing through my brain. Using the tips in this video has already helped things after a quick hitting session. Your story and this video was very timely for myself. Hope Blake gets it all worked out! Cheers!
Brad is definitely right. Most people will swing better at higher speeds vs. slower speeds. There's a reason why very few pros have a slow takeaway and sometimes a pause. Most pros go through their routine, and then the second they reach their trigger, it's grip it and rip it.
@@gymbrah patently false, not a single ounce of truth to this. The fact is that 99% of all people swing worse when swinging faster because their tempo is trashed; there is a reason a good teacher will tell you 80% is all you ever need.
Some people are fast twitch golfers including myself. Everything is just a little quicker. For me, it looks like I’m swinging super hard a lot when it is just normal for me. If I slow down then everything gets out of sync. Blake is the same way
i struggle with the same my hips are really fast and i struggle to get my upper body and arms synced to it so i either get stuck trying to swing from the inside or i could be like blake swining over the top for more space at impact but then i have slices etc
Keeping my take away extended out and aiming at the inside of the ball changed my game. I also like to feel like I’m keeping my lead shoulder pointed at my target just a fraction longer when I’m trying to start the ball right. I hit a lot of pushes though when I start right because my 25+ year old irons are about 2-3 degrees down on lie angle from where I need them.
I'm also a fast twitch golfer. I think the biggest thing I noticed though is he's often off balance. Fast movements are fine as long as they're controlled. If you're losing balance at all in the driver swing, that ball is going to go off course. Would also note that he sometimes overextends at the top of his backswing and struggles to get it back on course (I, also, had that problem for ages largely due to fast and uncontrolled backswing).
Fkn thank you. I've always been a fast swinger, I'm not trying to swing hard, it's just how I swing, and every time I've had a coach tell me to slow it down my swing goes to shit.
Brad does a great job of simplifying what most teachers complicate. Like he said, you don't want a bunch of micro-thoughts going through you're head, like dropping your arms to get shallow. The water bottle (I use a head cover) makes your body do that athletically, without even thinking about it. Good stuff, Brad, you should get back to doing these once a week. Having someone at your level & with your experience (US Open, Masters) doing the teaching, there are a whole lot of viewers that would love to hear *specifically* your advice on a number of things within the golf swing. Great lesson/video, can't wait for more!
Brad is an excellent teacher, and Blake is a great student. He seems humble, eager to learn and willing to change what he’s been doing that hasn’t been working. This was fun to watch.
Props to Brad for doing this solely out of wanting to instill Confidence and Trust into Blake and his swing again! I, like a ton of other viewers, have been one thats quick to judge Blake and wonder where his game is at, but I think this gives a true glimpse into what A LOT of golfers (recreational-pro) struggle with at some point in their time of playing golf. Excited to see the confidence build back up in Blake and it transitioning to the course!
idk how hard it would be to add but tracers would make a massive difference in this video. Seeing the change as the swing is altered would def. add to the quality of the video. Huge fan of GG.
It would be a lot of extra time editing for a video that’s not going to gather as many views so it’s probably not worth it at the price they pay the editors, although I agree it would definitly help.
I agree 100% most of these people hating on this dude are probably the ones that go to the course and play 18 holes and find the fairway maybe 4 or 5 of them holes and the rest of the time they are in the crap.
Like he said, his long game is where he’s struggling. He scrambles like a mad man from 150 in and would beat a lot or people I know. I’m terrible so he would smoke me for sure haha.
@@giovannioquendo6305 yeah, no one gets mad at Steve when he shanks it, but he doesn’t claim to be on the same level as Brad and Sean. Obviously Blake is better than Steve but point stands. But yeah I don’t think he means malice by saying it he seems chill like you say.
You can tell they were butt hurt by the fan call outs on all their handicaps because they got that USGA guy defending their handicap even though they dont play by USGA rules lol
This was excellent to watch and listen to Brad really breakdown these mechanics in Blake's swing in a way that is simple enough to be able to follow coherently. Great work here Brad!🤘🤘
Great timing. I have been struggling with a pull hook for the last month. It came out of nowhere after playing the best golf of my life earlier in the season
I am only a few months into learning golf, I love the format of this video! The raw conversation and problem solving is great for me to listen to! I'd love more of these!
I don’t know how people can’t see that Blake is very good and if he is hitting everything well, he can put up great scores. He clearly has things to work on and is clearly trying to improve on those things. Excited to see him figure it out, which I know he will
I was having swing issues as well and did 2 things that truly helped me. 1 was to slow my swing down once I did that I was consistently hitting ball better and had a 2yard fade(what I wanted) when I go to fast I can instantly tell and remind myself. The second thing was extension like brad was saying. It’s all muscle memory but been doing it last 3 weeks been swinging so much better. Now I can swing my driver I wasn’t using it until my last 3 weeks. Used have the ball positioned in front of my left ft to help square my face and not slice now it’s inside my left foot goes straight to small fade.. i believe slowing of the swing which Blake might want to try goes just as far and extension really changed my game
I love this good good labs video. Good productive back and forth. Good talk about setting up drills. Longer video. As a new player just hearing people who are way better than me at golf speak candidly about what they are working on and then showing it as well really helps build a knowledge base and humanize the game. More of this style labs video would be much appreciated
I have taken lessons and my instructor taught hands close to the body but the explanation of extension clicked in my brain a lot better. I have also seen tips to feel like you are swinging right at contact, in to out that for some reason made more sense to me. Everyone computes differently.
I made this same change this year and it’s been tremendous for the game. Staying wide vs having your arms collapse automatically will get the club shallower. Great tips!
Finally a video on a batter player with this issue, been struggling with the same move for over 5 years, it is so hard to stop this slight OTT move and it is definitely worse on the long clubs
Love how Brad said that about needing it to be athletic. I’ve always felt like that, nothing works for me unless it’s athletic. Extremely helpful hearing that from a pro like brad
Brad and Blake…..loved this video. Brad gave some real practical tips that don’t require a lot of thought because thoughts were substituted with tools (water bottle, alignment sticks, etc.) Aligning my feet and body is perhaps my biggest challenge. One observation: I understand you’re making a video and it is for the viewers but if you spoke more directly to Blake and we were just a fly on the wall, it might keep the video moving a little better / more naturally.
A few suggestions for Blake and also Brad for “teaching”. Specifically for Blake’s struggles, the towel drill would be very helpful (towel under arms ). He has a lot of lift/separation. Towel drill will definitely help. For path, feet alignment stick can stay the same but the path stick should be slightly tilted/slanted to visually promote the in to out path. Start there. There are a few more but this is a good start. God speed
Blake I'm working on something similar right now, what's helping me the most is lining up my feet and shoulders left of the target a good 20-40yds, then you'll figure out how to make the ball hit your target more athletically.
I have the exact same issues from time to time. I started pausing just a little and it keeps me from coming over the top. I also put a ball behind the club to keep me from coming inside on the take away. Great video
I am back to say, i thought i had this big secret of aiming at a blade of grass in front of the ball to strike the ball solid, and here it is Brad was already using this technique
Love these lab videos. But add some tracers so we can also see the changes. Good luck Blake! I have a similar move when I star missing. Been trying to correct it so much this last year that I have been missing it right more and I’m happy for it.
Fixing Blake's driver would be a good ongoing series. A lot of what he is struggling with is very common with most amateurs, and hearing from Blake what is really helpin/working might give people some insight.
Since you guys film such high quality videos I would love to see a bodycam PoV as well as a top down drone angle on some swings. I think the top down one would especially be helpful
This is the way instructional videos should be. Usually it's just a highly skilled golfer explaining how to make highly skilled swings. Those guys never feature a real golfer having real problems, and the (usually) difficult process of trying to move towards better golf. This is REAL golf instruction.
I lived with a snap hook for a couple of years. My golf life got so much better when I finally got those issues resolved. Ironically, now I am better at moving the ball around b/c I know the bounds of the swing better.
This is what I struggle with currently. Either the driver is on or it’s unpredictable. Pull lefts or high rights.. My old swing coach use to have me swing to “first” base to try and keep from coming over the top and get to a inside out swing Great video!
The mindset I was given during a lesson is imagine there’s a baseball catcher squatting behind you and when you bring the club back put it in the catcher’s mitt.
Brad is 100% correct he put the motion and process of hitting the ball in very good words, and the feeling of when you align you forget your a golfer, and you have to trust what someone is telling you. In our case its Brad and we can trust him.
This is the problem I keep having. Every time I start using more extension I play better but then keep going back to old habits and taking it way in side with little extension then start hitting pull hooks. Gotta try ingrain this in my muscle memory!
Also, @Blake I had the exact same issue as you when I was your age. I closed my feet down which closed my hips off, so the only way I could hit the ball was to come over the top and down. That eventually messes with your minds eye bc it feels like your body being behind the ball generates your power. When you opened your stance up, you were cash money!
BLAKE!!! Quick/Easy fix for you!!! It's your feet, brother! I work with a ton of guys on their snap hook or massive slice...it's ALWAYS the same 2 things. Your feel make the biggest difference...You're setting up with an "open" stance (aka your left foot is dropped). SWITCH YOUR FEET! It will change your life. When your open, it soooo much more difficult to swing out to the right because you're always going to catch your right hip, so you'll default to the over the top/yank to the left. Just switch your feet and drop your RIGHT foot. Now clearing that right hip and swinging out to the right will feel WAY more natural, and its damn near impossible to yank hard to left. This will also promote more of a draw. Let me know if you try it! Promise it will work, pal. Good luck!
This is terrible advice. I promise you that I can hit huge snap hooks closing my stance. And didn't Brad say he was aiming right? How can his stance be open then? If he was "aiming right" with an open stance he would be lined up pretty much at the target unless his shoulders were way closed relative to his feet. Not only that, Nick Faldo has a drill to stop hooking that is the exact opposite of what you say. It's to open up the stance in an exaggerated fashion and practice the feel of holding off the face. Look at Trevino, one of the greatest ball strikers of all time - open stance, and he could work it both ways with that stance. The root cause of most hooks - even left to left ones - is hanging back on the right side and flipping, not the position of the feet. Making sure the right lower body is firing to clear the hips and transfer the weight to the left is key.
idk about anyone else, but I finally put a lid on my slices and fades when I drilled in the feeling of keeping a small ball between my elbows on the setup and then keeping the towel under my right armpit until I loose it right after ball impact. This has altered my swing, feels and my thoughts dramatically. And the result is alter-universal. My shots go straight w/o spin and I can actually produce a draw. And I added compression galore.
Brad fixed my over the top swing a couple videos ago when he told blake on the course to hit up on the ball. I put a little more weight on my back foot and thought about hitting up on the ball and it fixed my swing cause me hitting up on the ball instead of steep is more like almost a neutral swing through the ball. The day i started doing that i was hitting my 7 iron 200 when my 4 iron prob didnt go that far and it was about as high as a pw. And my new irons are a cheat code. They come off the face so hot. They are the Ping G730’s.
Blake's problem is the same one I struggled with for years. He has a tendency to get quick coming down from the top of the swing. It took me making what looks like a full pause to fix it ala Ben Kruper 10 years ago. It lets me get extension, make sure I turn, and get my lower body/weight shift started before my hands get out ahead. The ones where hes a bit more patient at the top looks much better. Doesnt require the full pause for Blake but hes making progress for sure and couldnt have a better teacher in Brad.
Love this, thank you. Can you give some instructions on how to stop chicken winging the shot. I cannot figure out how to get this out of my swing. I’ve filmed my swing several times and I’m not rotating my hips fast enough, like it’s delayed and as such my follow through chicken wings. Any suggestions on how to time your hip turn?
With a driver, I used to have a baby cut, now all of a sudden within the last few weeks I have the Pull hooks as well. If I could recommend should incorporate a shot tracer with the next lesson to so we can see the trajectory and the progression.
Love your labs stuff. If I may - can you include some video with shot tracker to show before and after - so we can see the shots paths you are talking about - you assume we all know the “hook” / “slice” etc means but be good to show it
For the last 2 years, I have been slicing the bejesus out of my driver. I tried everything with hand position, ball position, wider and narrower stance. Literally everything and finally got it dialed to where im finally shooting in the 80s consistently now. The calm over-ball mental space is what fixed everything. Blake is a much better golfer than, and he'll get it sorted out in no time. Just gotta chill the mind, dawg. The hell with the jabronis in the comments talking shit. You got it!
Special request - please create some repeating loops of Brad's driver swing and a compilation of 'best shots'. Similar to the Ben Hogan loops that can be found on the internets. (It is OK to ignore Brad's objections to being compared to Ben Hogen :) )
Great video! Dealing with the dreaded Y-word is an awful experience for any golfer. It’s also impossible to explain to those who’ve never suffered from it.
@Blake, everything was great from Brad. The only thing he didn’t point out is where your shoulders are in the setup…….. left. It’s hard to swing to the right until that is corrected. Keep working kid!!
Have you tried externally rotating your back just above your right hip, obviously it's more of a feeling but I feel it helps keep you on plane. I learned it's a trick to not think about your backswing and attack the ball
I like how simple Brad explains these concepts. Now I just need to figure out how to convince them to add a 50yo to the crew so i can get some of those lessons…
Suggestion for a video. Can someone please talk about spin, and how the different lies affect the ball. Specifically flyer lies and what you see to know. Thanks, and stick with it Blake! That timing will get there.
I’ve been struggling with this same thing. Thought I had it fixed then it happened again mid round last weekend. First 4 holes I scored par (as a 20 hcp I was so excited.) Then on hole 5 I’m hitting everything low and left. Shanking balls in the woods. Couldn’t stop it.
I think the death of many people with their irons, is coming way to far in their back swing and then they immediately throw the club out over the top. If you stop in line with your shoulders, nice and wide, you create all the space needed to naturally shallow. I’ve been struggling with driver for the last 6 months. I finally realized I was coming back way inside and my ball would start dead straight for 150 then rip right and fall outta the sky at 200. Plus my alignment was way right, which made it even worse. Finally fixed it and now I have a slight fade and 280. Now I need to work on getting my speed back with my new swing
Tons of this content would be awesome. This is heat. Especially if we can get the tracer at some point and maybe a smidge more instruction from Brad on doing these things at home. And kudos to Blake. Gotta be impossibly hard to golf on camera, let alone hear all the BS in the comments. Mfs need to realize any GG player would smoke you 1:1 and complaining about handicaps and shit is stupid. Who cares. They make dope content and do it consistently. Just appreciate it and take videos like this to realize their earnestness. Keyboard warriors be doing the most.
You sure about that lil pup? Steve, Matt and Blake would struggle to beat a 10 hcp with the way they are playing rn. it's their job lmao, Matt n Steve been full time youtube golfers for atleast 4-5 years. Bring a normal 15hcp golfer and let him work on his game full time for a year and he'd smoke all 3 in a 1v3 scramble.
Brad you should have Blake do the feet together drill. It's hard to not rotate your hips when your feet are together. if the arms are too fast you'll fall over
The “athletic” fix resonates. Had a lesson and instructor tried to change so many things, I left the lesson unable to hit the ball. For weeks. It was awful.
Blake if you see this. I had this same issue. You are turning your shoulders more than rotating properly in the backswing. Causing you to be in a poor position and struggling to shallow. Feel like your NOT turning your shoulder and your just trying to turn to the right with your arms in front of you and feel like your facing your back to the target. This should give you a ton more time and room to drop the club. People that turn shoulders too much get inside and stuck. When Brad is showing you how to be wide at 18min in, notice your rotation looks very different than your swing.
I have a warm up drill before playing, that helped me to stop casting. Swing the driver, slowly at first, ten to fifteen times, with the right hand, and watch the path of the club head, and slowly increase the speed. Now, swing the driver, same way, with left hand only. And finally, swing the club ten to fifteen more times, with both hands. Not only does it get you to see and feel the path the club should be taking, It warms you up before your first tee shot. Tip: when you get to the top, smooth and graceful, like a ballerina. Don't snap at the top your swing, and go into " kill it" mode. Mr Short Hitter has a great swing Smooth and easy, all the way through, and accelerate. Not snap. Smooth equals control Snap, no control? The woods are full of long hitters?
He doesn’t have the yips, he’s Gotten into a bad habit and does work on fixing it. Yips is when you go to bed, wake up, and absolutely cannot remember how to do what you used to do
Brad all he's gotta do is start his down swing tucking his right elbow into his side. That's it. Line him up and tell him the start of his down swings first move is pull right elbow into his side and that's it. He will shallow out. I had to do that myself and my iron striking got 10x better cause I chicken wing over the top with em
I had a pull hook and when checked path I was into out was as simple as hands feeling higher and forward setting up with them higher and forward they were too low .. bosh flighted straight balls
Would the towel drill not be incredibly beneficial for blake? I've struggled with snap hooks for a long time, putting a towel under the armpits help sync the upper body with the lower.
To everyone saying that he needs to slow down haven’t tried to fix their swing with the yips. Normally slowing down is great but with the yips, being fast and athletic is the best way to get through them. Trying to simulate on course swings while also working on technique athletically is the best way. I spent 6 years going through this and this was how I got out of it
My yearly boys golf vacation was this last weekend and I developed a case of the “y” word. Started with shanks and transformed into dead pulls when I tried to slow things down with about a million swing thoughts racing through my brain. Using the tips in this video has already helped things after a quick hitting session. Your story and this video was very timely for myself. Hope Blake gets it all worked out! Cheers!
Brad is definitely right. Most people will swing better at higher speeds vs. slower speeds. There's a reason why very few pros have a slow takeaway and sometimes a pause. Most pros go through their routine, and then the second they reach their trigger, it's grip it and rip it.
Plus if you practice slowing down to much you can literally go into limbo and have to retrain speed.
Am gonna be 68 ,old Ball Player and I swing Hard . Shot 71 -1 under 10 Days ago and next time out 82 ,comes and goes.
@@gymbrah patently false, not a single ounce of truth to this. The fact is that 99% of all people swing worse when swinging faster because their tempo is trashed; there is a reason a good teacher will tell you 80% is all you ever need.
Some people are fast twitch golfers including myself. Everything is just a little quicker. For me, it looks like I’m swinging super hard a lot when it is just normal for me. If I slow down then everything gets out of sync. Blake is the same way
i struggle with the same my hips are really fast and i struggle to get my upper body and arms synced to it so i either get stuck trying to swing from the inside or i could be like blake swining over the top for more space at impact but then i have slices etc
I am also like this! Great to hear this coming from someone who has been in the Masters 😁
Keeping my take away extended out and aiming at the inside of the ball changed my game. I also like to feel like I’m keeping my lead shoulder pointed at my target just a fraction longer when I’m trying to start the ball right. I hit a lot of pushes though when I start right because my 25+ year old irons are about 2-3 degrees down on lie angle from where I need them.
I'm also a fast twitch golfer. I think the biggest thing I noticed though is he's often off balance. Fast movements are fine as long as they're controlled. If you're losing balance at all in the driver swing, that ball is going to go off course. Would also note that he sometimes overextends at the top of his backswing and struggles to get it back on course (I, also, had that problem for ages largely due to fast and uncontrolled backswing).
Fkn thank you. I've always been a fast swinger, I'm not trying to swing hard, it's just how I swing, and every time I've had a coach tell me to slow it down my swing goes to shit.
Blake’s such a good guy.
Brad does a great job of simplifying what most teachers complicate. Like he said, you don't want a bunch of micro-thoughts going through you're head, like dropping your arms to get shallow. The water bottle (I use a head cover) makes your body do that athletically, without even thinking about it. Good stuff, Brad, you should get back to doing these once a week. Having someone at your level & with your experience (US Open, Masters) doing the teaching, there are a whole lot of viewers that would love to hear *specifically* your advice on a number of things within the golf swing. Great lesson/video, can't wait for more!
Impressed with Brad's coaching ability actually. He said a lot of things that really made sense as far as feel and simplifying swing thoughts.
Brad is an excellent teacher, and Blake is a great student. He seems humble, eager to learn and willing to change what he’s been doing that hasn’t been working. This was fun to watch.
Props to Brad for doing this solely out of wanting to instill Confidence and Trust into Blake and his swing again! I, like a ton of other viewers, have been one thats quick to judge Blake and wonder where his game is at, but I think this gives a true glimpse into what A LOT of golfers (recreational-pro) struggle with at some point in their time of playing golf. Excited to see the confidence build back up in Blake and it transitioning to the course!
idk how hard it would be to add but tracers would make a massive difference in this video. Seeing the change as the swing is altered would def. add to the quality of the video. Huge fan of GG.
It would be a lot of extra time editing for a video that’s not going to gather as many views so it’s probably not worth it at the price they pay the editors, although I agree it would definitly help.
@@dannygoldsmith4987I feel like you could just get some sort of AI to do it honestly
People try to blast Blake but he’s still smoking 95% of golfers in the comments in a match. And he’s chill asf I like the kid man y’all need to chill
I agree 100% most of these people hating on this dude are probably the ones that go to the course and play 18 holes and find the fairway maybe 4 or 5 of them holes and the rest of the time they are in the crap.
Like he said, his long game is where he’s struggling. He scrambles like a mad man from 150 in and would beat a lot or people I know. I’m terrible so he would smoke me for sure haha.
100%. Blake's attitude is SO REFRESHING! Love this dude.
Kid's a natural swinger. Look how much it changed in that session. Great fluidity. Keep it up, Blake!
The timing of this is hilarious after Blake was getting blasted in the comments of the last GG video
Only because he claims to be a plus handicap.
@@robbie154he probably was but not rn
@@robbie154I agree and I feel bad because Blake seems like one of the nicest guys around but there’s just no way he’s a plus handicap
@@giovannioquendo6305 yeah, no one gets mad at Steve when he shanks it, but he doesn’t claim to be on the same level as Brad and Sean. Obviously Blake is better than Steve but point stands. But yeah I don’t think he means malice by saying it he seems chill like you say.
You can tell they were butt hurt by the fan call outs on all their handicaps because they got that USGA guy defending their handicap even though they dont play by USGA rules lol
This was excellent to watch and listen to Brad really breakdown these mechanics in Blake's swing in a way that is simple enough to be able to follow coherently. Great work here Brad!🤘🤘
I know Blake can smash his drives. Keep up the practice Blake. We got your back. Great coaching Brad! Keep up the great work.
Please do more video like this brad, really love it.
been playing for a couple months and these videos really help. Good drives feel like a warm hug from the person you love lol.
Love the bit about making the change as atheletic as possible. My current swing coach has taken this approach and its made all the difference
This is exactly what I needed to watch to help me with my swing. Y’all are awesome!
Always rooting for Blake!
Great timing. I have been struggling with a pull hook for the last month. It came out of nowhere after playing the best golf of my life earlier in the season
Would love to hear about Sean’s swing thoughts on a video. His accuracy with his shots is really impressive.
I am only a few months into learning golf, I love the format of this video! The raw conversation and problem solving is great for me to listen to! I'd love more of these!
I don’t know how people can’t see that Blake is very good and if he is hitting everything well, he can put up great scores. He clearly has things to work on and is clearly trying to improve on those things. Excited to see him figure it out, which I know he will
I was having swing issues as well and did 2 things that truly helped me. 1 was to slow my swing down once I did that I was consistently hitting ball better and had a 2yard fade(what I wanted) when I go to fast I can instantly tell and remind myself. The second thing was extension like brad was saying. It’s all muscle memory but been doing it last 3 weeks been swinging so much better. Now I can swing my driver I wasn’t using it until my last 3 weeks. Used have the ball positioned in front of my left ft to help square my face and not slice now it’s inside my left foot goes straight to small fade.. i believe slowing of the swing which Blake might want to try goes just as far and extension really changed my game
Great work Blake! Brad does a great job of explaining everything.
Grant is really great at teaching. Miss that guy
I love this good good labs video. Good productive back and forth. Good talk about setting up drills. Longer video. As a new player just hearing people who are way better than me at golf speak candidly about what they are working on and then showing it as well really helps build a knowledge base and humanize the game. More of this style labs video would be much appreciated
This is one of my favorite good good videos in a while. It makes you guys so much more relatable
I have taken lessons and my instructor taught hands close to the body but the explanation of extension clicked in my brain a lot better. I have also seen tips to feel like you are swinging right at contact, in to out that for some reason made more sense to me. Everyone computes differently.
I love the importance you stressed of extension in the backswing. I forget to have good extension on many swings. Extension and width.
You really helped him get aligned , now he just has to do it consistently.
I made this same change this year and it’s been tremendous for the game. Staying wide vs having your arms collapse automatically will get the club shallower. Great tips!
Finally a video on a batter player with this issue, been struggling with the same move for over 5 years, it is so hard to stop this slight OTT move and it is definitely worse on the long clubs
Love how Brad said that about needing it to be athletic. I’ve always felt like that, nothing works for me unless it’s athletic. Extremely helpful hearing that from a pro like brad
Brad and Blake…..loved this video. Brad gave some real practical tips that don’t require a lot of thought because thoughts were substituted with tools (water bottle, alignment sticks, etc.) Aligning my feet and body is perhaps my biggest challenge. One observation: I understand you’re making a video and it is for the viewers but if you spoke more directly to Blake and we were just a fly on the wall, it might keep the video moving a little better / more naturally.
This video was made for me. I really struggle with low/left drives. Great timing guys.
One thing that I noticed helped me out a lot was my lead shoulder pointing left. When I close it out I’m less likely to hit left.
brad is awesome and gained a lot of respect for blake's willingness to learn, suck up his pride, and get better.
A few suggestions for Blake and also Brad for “teaching”. Specifically for Blake’s struggles, the towel drill would be very helpful (towel under arms ). He has a lot of lift/separation. Towel drill will definitely help. For path, feet alignment stick can stay the same but the path stick should be slightly tilted/slanted to visually promote the in to out path. Start there. There are a few more but this is a good start. God speed
Blake I'm working on something similar right now, what's helping me the most is lining up my feet and shoulders left of the target a good 20-40yds, then you'll figure out how to make the ball hit your target more athletically.
I have the exact same issues from time to time. I started pausing just a little and it keeps me from coming over the top. I also put a ball behind the club to keep me from coming inside on the take away. Great video
I have a very similar build to Blake, have a lot of the same issues, an effortless fluid swing, letting the club do the work was a big help for me
I am back to say, i thought i had this big secret of aiming at a blade of grass in front of the ball to strike the ball solid, and here it is Brad was already using this technique
Love these lab videos. But add some tracers so we can also see the changes. Good luck Blake! I have a similar move when I star missing. Been trying to correct it so much this last year that I have been missing it right more and I’m happy for it.
Fixing Blake's driver would be a good ongoing series. A lot of what he is struggling with is very common with most amateurs, and hearing from Blake what is really helpin/working might give people some insight.
Since you guys film such high quality videos I would love to see a bodycam PoV as well as a top down drone angle on some swings. I think the top down one would especially be helpful
This is the way instructional videos should be. Usually it's just a highly skilled golfer explaining how to make highly skilled swings. Those guys never feature a real golfer having real problems, and the (usually) difficult process of trying to move towards better golf. This is REAL golf instruction.
I lived with a snap hook for a couple of years. My golf life got so much better when I finally got those issues resolved. Ironically, now I am better at moving the ball around b/c I know the bounds of the swing better.
new respect for Brad, he is a great player, but this is a great lesson.
This is what I struggle with currently. Either the driver is on or it’s unpredictable. Pull lefts or high rights..
My old swing coach use to have me swing to “first” base to try and keep from coming over the top and get to a inside out swing
Great video!
The mindset I was given during a lesson is imagine there’s a baseball catcher squatting behind you and when you bring the club back put it in the catcher’s mitt.
Brad is 100% correct he put the motion and process of hitting the ball in very good words, and the feeling of when you align you forget your a golfer, and you have to trust what someone is telling you. In our case its Brad and we can trust him.
I've struggled with this for years. Thanks guys.
This is the problem I keep having. Every time I start using more extension I play better but then keep going back to old habits and taking it way in side with little extension then start hitting pull hooks. Gotta try ingrain this in my muscle memory!
Also, @Blake I had the exact same issue as you when I was your age. I closed my feet down which closed my hips off, so the only way I could hit the ball was to come over the top and down. That eventually messes with your minds eye bc it feels like your body being behind the ball generates your power. When you opened your stance up, you were cash money!
BLAKE!!! Quick/Easy fix for you!!! It's your feet, brother! I work with a ton of guys on their snap hook or massive slice...it's ALWAYS the same 2 things. Your feel make the biggest difference...You're setting up with an "open" stance (aka your left foot is dropped). SWITCH YOUR FEET! It will change your life. When your open, it soooo much more difficult to swing out to the right because you're always going to catch your right hip, so you'll default to the over the top/yank to the left. Just switch your feet and drop your RIGHT foot. Now clearing that right hip and swinging out to the right will feel WAY more natural, and its damn near impossible to yank hard to left. This will also promote more of a draw. Let me know if you try it! Promise it will work, pal. Good luck!
This is terrible advice. I promise you that I can hit huge snap hooks closing my stance. And didn't Brad say he was aiming right? How can his stance be open then? If he was "aiming right" with an open stance he would be lined up pretty much at the target unless his shoulders were way closed relative to his feet. Not only that, Nick Faldo has a drill to stop hooking that is the exact opposite of what you say. It's to open up the stance in an exaggerated fashion and practice the feel of holding off the face. Look at Trevino, one of the greatest ball strikers of all time - open stance, and he could work it both ways with that stance. The root cause of most hooks - even left to left ones - is hanging back on the right side and flipping, not the position of the feet. Making sure the right lower body is firing to clear the hips and transfer the weight to the left is key.
@@cxrap234 you’re wrong. Your opinion, but you’re wrong. 👍
Like this side of Brad. Really good video
idk about anyone else, but I finally put a lid on my slices and fades when I drilled in the feeling of keeping a small ball between my elbows on the setup and then keeping the towel under my right armpit until I loose it right after ball impact. This has altered my swing, feels and my thoughts dramatically. And the result is alter-universal. My shots go straight w/o spin and I can actually produce a draw. And I added compression galore.
Brad fixed my over the top swing a couple videos ago when he told blake on the course to hit up on the ball. I put a little more weight on my back foot and thought about hitting up on the ball and it fixed my swing cause me hitting up on the ball instead of steep is more like almost a neutral swing through the ball. The day i started doing that i was hitting my 7 iron 200 when my 4 iron prob didnt go that far and it was about as high as a pw. And my new irons are a cheat code. They come off the face so hot. They are the Ping G730’s.
Brad seems like a very good coach. He's in intelligent dude.
Great video, would have loved to have seen this done with a launch monitor to see the change In path and aoa etc.
I need this lesson! My dad is starting to get frustrated with my driver lol. I’m 30 and play for fun btw. That’s how competitive my dad is.
I like 'get your hands near your right pocket (on the down swing)' for a swing thought. It's simple and effective (for me).
This is the exact thing Bryson DeChambeau advocates… it works
Get that shot tracer going boys! Great vid!
Blake's problem is the same one I struggled with for years. He has a tendency to get quick coming down from the top of the swing. It took me making what looks like a full pause to fix it ala Ben Kruper 10 years ago. It lets me get extension, make sure I turn, and get my lower body/weight shift started before my hands get out ahead. The ones where hes a bit more patient at the top looks much better. Doesnt require the full pause for Blake but hes making progress for sure and couldnt have a better teacher in Brad.
Bleeping out "Yips" while Matt or Stephen sprint to the outhouse... that could be an amusing bit.
It would be awesome if you guys could do a video about how to launch lower with irons! (it might just be a me problem, but I would be thrilled) 😂
Love this, thank you.
Can you give some instructions on how to stop chicken winging the shot. I cannot figure out how to get this out of my swing. I’ve filmed my swing several times and I’m not rotating my hips fast enough, like it’s delayed and as such my follow through chicken wings. Any suggestions on how to time your hip turn?
With a driver, I used to have a baby cut, now all of a sudden within the last few weeks I have the Pull hooks as well. If I could recommend should incorporate a shot tracer with the next lesson to so we can see the trajectory and the progression.
Love your labs stuff. If I may - can you include some video with shot tracker to show before and after - so we can see the shots paths you are talking about - you assume we all know the “hook” / “slice” etc means but be good to show it
Focusing on the trail shoulder and right side tilt works best for me
For the last 2 years, I have been slicing the bejesus out of my driver. I tried everything with hand position, ball position, wider and narrower stance. Literally everything and finally got it dialed to where im finally shooting in the 80s consistently now. The calm over-ball mental space is what fixed everything. Blake is a much better golfer than, and he'll get it sorted out in no time. Just gotta chill the mind, dawg. The hell with the jabronis in the comments talking shit. You got it!
Special request - please create some repeating loops of Brad's driver swing and a compilation of 'best shots'. Similar to the Ben Hogan loops that can be found on the internets. (It is OK to ignore Brad's objections to being compared to Ben Hogen :) )
Great video! Dealing with the dreaded Y-word is an awful experience for any golfer. It’s also impossible to explain to those who’ve never suffered from it.
brad’s a king
@Blake, everything was great from Brad. The only thing he didn’t point out is where your shoulders are in the setup…….. left. It’s hard to swing to the right until that is corrected. Keep working kid!!
I will watch every lab video that comes out guaranteed
Thankyou blake needs to watch gravity golf so good
Have you tried externally rotating your back just above your right hip, obviously it's more of a feeling but I feel it helps keep you on plane. I learned it's a trick to not think about your backswing and attack the ball
I like how simple Brad explains these concepts. Now I just need to figure out how to convince them to add a 50yo to the crew so i can get some of those lessons…
Suggestion for a video. Can someone please talk about spin, and how the different lies affect the ball. Specifically flyer lies and what you see to know. Thanks, and stick with it Blake! That timing will get there.
Don't listen to the haters Blake, happy you're on GG!
I’ve been struggling with this same thing. Thought I had it fixed then it happened again mid round last weekend. First 4 holes I scored par (as a 20 hcp I was so excited.) Then on hole 5 I’m hitting everything low and left. Shanking balls in the woods. Couldn’t stop it.
I think the death of many people with their irons, is coming way to far in their back swing and then they immediately throw the club out over the top. If you stop in line with your shoulders, nice and wide, you create all the space needed to naturally shallow.
I’ve been struggling with driver for the last 6 months. I finally realized I was coming back way inside and my ball would start dead straight for 150 then rip right and fall outta the sky at 200. Plus my alignment was way right, which made it even worse. Finally fixed it and now I have a slight fade and 280. Now I need to work on getting my speed back with my new swing
woah, i paused it at 7:27, he goes SO FAR INSIDE, SO FAST
his wrists are fully hinged & set WAY BEFORE HIS ARM IS PARALLEL
Gotta fix big mo slice latest good good video big man was slicing it
“Blake, only go shoulder height”.
“Yeah, I can do that.”
Swings higher than normal…
Tons of this content would be awesome. This is heat. Especially if we can get the tracer at some point and maybe a smidge more instruction from Brad on doing these things at home.
And kudos to Blake. Gotta be impossibly hard to golf on camera, let alone hear all the BS in the comments. Mfs need to realize any GG player would smoke you 1:1 and complaining about handicaps and shit is stupid. Who cares. They make dope content and do it consistently. Just appreciate it and take videos like this to realize their earnestness. Keyboard warriors be doing the most.
You sure about that lil pup? Steve, Matt and Blake would struggle to beat a 10 hcp with the way they are playing rn. it's their job lmao, Matt n Steve been full time youtube golfers for atleast 4-5 years. Bring a normal 15hcp golfer and let him work on his game full time for a year and he'd smoke all 3 in a 1v3 scramble.
Brad you should have Blake do the feet together drill. It's hard to not rotate your hips when your feet are together. if the arms are too fast you'll fall over
The “athletic” fix resonates. Had a lesson and instructor tried to change so many things, I left the lesson unable to hit the ball. For weeks. It was awful.
Blake if you see this. I had this same issue. You are turning your shoulders more than rotating properly in the backswing. Causing you to be in a poor position and struggling to shallow.
Feel like your NOT turning your shoulder and your just trying to turn to the right with your arms in front of you and feel like your facing your back to the target. This should give you a ton more time and room to drop the club.
People that turn shoulders too much get inside and stuck.
When Brad is showing you how to be wide at 18min in, notice your rotation looks very different than your swing.
I have a warm up drill before playing, that helped me to stop casting.
Swing the driver, slowly at first, ten to fifteen times, with the right hand, and watch the path of the club head, and slowly increase the speed.
Now, swing the driver, same way, with left hand only.
And finally, swing the club ten to fifteen more times, with both hands.
Not only does it get you to see and feel the path the club should be taking,
It warms you up before your first tee shot.
Tip: when you get to the top, smooth and graceful, like a ballerina.
Don't snap at the top your swing, and go into " kill it" mode.
Mr Short Hitter has a great swing
Smooth and easy, all the way through, and accelerate.
Not snap.
Smooth equals control
Snap, no control?
The woods are full of long hitters?
Unrelated but man I wish I had a friend like Sean
He doesn’t have the yips, he’s
Gotten into a bad habit and does work on fixing it.
Yips is when you go to bed, wake up, and absolutely cannot remember how to do what you used to do
Swings from the top balls out.
Haha yep
Brad all he's gotta do is start his down swing tucking his right elbow into his side. That's it. Line him up and tell him the start of his down swings first move is pull right elbow into his side and that's it. He will shallow out. I had to do that myself and my iron striking got 10x better cause I chicken wing over the top with em
How far behind the ball is the water bottle? Sounds like a break drill, but I want to ensure I’m utilising it be position of the bottle
Could you put a tee a little outside in front of the ball and picture hitting that after the ball
I think he needs to stand a little closer to the ball and slow down his pace and he would hit it so pure.
I had a pull hook and when checked path I was into out was as simple as hands feeling higher and forward setting up with them higher and forward they were too low .. bosh flighted straight balls
Brad I would love to have you give me a lesson to have me gain more speed any tips?!?
Would the towel drill not be incredibly beneficial for blake? I've struggled with snap hooks for a long time, putting a towel under the armpits help sync the upper body with the lower.