This is some of the best advice I've ever heard. This should be lesson #1 for every golfer on earth, required knowledge before being allowed on any range or course. I've been taking 3 damaging practice swings before striking the ball for ... DECADES now. I went to the range and started focusing on the clubface for every practice swing, and my practice swings CHANGED immediately and dramatically. I automagically committed more to my left leg and increased my hip rotation dramatically - and the consistency of my strikes immediately improved, to the degree they matched my practice swings. I've created a new playlist: "Golf - Critical Videos" with this the first (of two). Lord, let me never take another "faceless" practice swing again. Thanks, Mike, you do great work.
Great video Brendon - Mike is spot on - how you learn is sometimes the difference when we all plateau - I have been a lifetime flipper got to a 5 h.cap but it was not to last because club face control was not good enough it shows up with long irons especially that 3 degrees adds up to not enough short grass and back to 9.h.cap so your videos are a lifeline - keep up the good work.
Thanks again for doing more videos with Mike. The season is at an end here in north central Illinois but i am looking forward to spring when i can start to really work on all the stuff you've put out with Mike and the tips from his page as well.
On one of his videos he talks about slow motion swings. He said something like one slow motion swing is worth more that hitting several balls . It ingrains muscle memory if you do it right.
never really made a conscious effort to get the club face square. always thought it occurred naturally if swing plane, weight transfer and maintaining the angle of the wrist were correct. gotta see how this works.
I understand the importance of face position at impact but what about other aspects of the full practice swing vs full actual swing? For instance, my actual swing is much shorter, quicker, earlier release, etc. It's like two drastically different swings. Any tips to help that?
Really like your channel, and the content created with Mike is great! I really like his concept „over the top from the inside“, and I think it really helped me in the full swing. I am not sure though if and how it can be applied to half swings or even chipping. And that is where I need the most help at the moment, cause I am shanking every second pitch. Would be great if you guys could spend a few minutes on this topic. Keep up the good work!
Great video and topic, always wondered this myself. I've often heard (as Mike also said) it was likely because the clubface on the practice swing is a way open and you'd it a mile right so your body fights to correct when the ball is there. Understood. However, my next question is, how come when I address the ball, and close my eyes and / or don't look at the ball, I hit a beautiful soft draw at my target? Grip pressure and tightening up at impact??
Would you say you swing ball as hard with eyes closed, if you swing harder with eyes open then it could be head movement the problem or is it you focus on your hand awareness with eyes closed
Brandon, you gotta give Malaska the respect he deserves. Listen to him without making practice swings, talking over him, and teeing up your ball. It feels as if you are not listening, and only thinking about what you are going to tell him or ask him next.
Absolutely the best pairing, thank you both! Do you think you could get Malaska to eloborate on the M move, tip the club feeling, when you’re actually coming from an across or laid off back swing position. To me it seems that from an across position you’re allready tipped and just need to stay passive with hands. Thanks and good luck!
thx B and M ...Ques: HOW do we control the face thru impact ??...I end up flipping the handle thru impact when I try ...aren't the correct mechanics / grip supposed to get the face square ? ...I've had some success angling my left knuckles at the ground in the DS ...and then the left palm diagonally skyward at the release ...maybe that'll help some people
Strange nearly every time I watch your videos it’s right where my golf game is at! Just purchased new set of irons and it’s a different feel all together. Finding my range time a little longer than normal. Thanks for the video Brandon! And when are you going to bring that swing to Texas?
it's too bad that our brain tries to square the clubface then by making all sorts of compensations because it means that we end up working on all of the wrong things. Spending time trying to figure out how to make your practice swing your real swing, when in reality all you need to be doing is learning to square the club face during the so called 'perfect practice swing'. I used to badly struggle with this problem as well, and for a long time I speculated on the issue. was it nerves? was I focusing too much on hitting the ball, and not swinging and letting the ball get in the way? My real swing is so much closer now to my practice swing from doing a lot of pump and pre set drills and pausing my body in the impact position so i can really feel where the hands and hips need to be at impact. great video
Really like watching your videos. I know you have been experimenting/introducing to your viewers a lot of different swing theories. Having said that, I was wondering if you have noticed when watching YOUR swing on video that you tend to raise up (watch your head) on your backswing?
Been working on shortening my swing.. I don’t start my driver downswing until I see the driver head over my left shoulder.. been working on shortening my swing and it’s very difficult but I feel it’s a requirement for me for better consistency... are there tips to this? I see a lot of training aides to help this but they seem like gimmicks... thanks and great video’s! Wally from Wisconsin
Do you have a link? I watched the video with the noodles and lot cone.. if that’s the noodle drill you mentioned... good stuff.. I was a single digit golfer many years ago but golfed much more... took the game back up bout 5 years ago after being away for 15 years or so.. still have my ping zing 2 irons... still hitting the same distance approximately but no where near as accurate.. very frustrating... I no longer live close to driving ranges so struggle making adjustments on the course... I’ll keep trying,I’ll get it back, hopefully in my lifetime!! Great videos
Great video. What Mike said about Tiger and what Jack told Mike rings very true. Who better than to learn it from them. In my practice I focus on positions in my golf swing, which I should incorporate face control as well. BTW Brandon: I think 3 degrees on a clock is actually 12:00 and 30 seconds.
KILLER VID BUD.....Ive been watchin ur vids for a while and ALL that matters is club face awareness. ...golf is hard enough with 19 teachers telling u 19 diff things......pos 1 through pos 64 blah blah blah....keep that face square malaska style...boom.
I learned a lot listening to my teachers, yet here I see the student making practice swings etc when the teacher is explaining to you about the question you asked?
I've played with some excellent baseball players that can't hit a golf ball to save their lives. I've seen basically non-athletes who have sucked at every other sport in their life...and some can damn dear break par. Golf is just a very unique sport...that's the truth.
My question would be why do you pick club up so quickly? Is this correct? It seems to me you are cupping wrist early? Not being a Nellie just curious what your thought process is? Thanks.
Rick Hearn It’s an idiosyncrasy of mine. I developed it years ago when trying to fix my inside takeaway at an indoor video replay place. It didn’t fix my takeaway just gave me that new move that stuck. Hard to get rid of and I’m not sure I totally need to.
Thanks for that quick reply, my fault is a inside takeaway also which causes hooks if I don’t catch it before it happens. I enjoy your videos with so many instructors. Quick story, I once had Harvey Penick look at my grip and contact hitting a ball, he said don’t change a thing. Sometimes your natural swing is your best. He instilled confidence in me by saying that and I try to remember that every time I play golf.
I get what your saying. Ur practice swing gets you in all the right body positions that lead to quality ball striking. Iv noticed the same thing with my practice swing when filming it. And I get what Mike is saying but if you are trying to get to a really good standard is it not pointless having the club face square and all the wrong body positions?? Because there is going to be a limit to how good you can be. Were as if you are swinging the club correctly and getting all the good body positions and note where your club face is at impact then you could strengthen or weaken your grip to get the clubface square. I think the golf swing is far to mechanical in the way its being taught these days and there has got to be something in the fact your body gets in all the right positions when doing practice swings.
@@factual6591 ? Jim Fuyrk still has his hand ahead of the ball at impact and has all the right body positions on the down swing. The only difference his his back swing.
so guys the saying from tgm put your mind in your hands and also in the clubface. i've heard it before but never had tried but this will be my next study.
I dont feel i use my hands .They are inactive in the golf siwing i use my forearms and wrists .i use my the sensitive of my fingers to tell me what and where my club face is doing in space at a given time .
Julian Steele I think when people talk about the hands they mean rotation of wrists and forearms to place the hands in the right position - I mean your hands without these are just fingers and obviously no one is manipulating the face with their fingers.
Your swing has come long way. Which drill do credit giving you the hands in front of ball feel. I have moments of feeling where my hands are at impact not enduring though!
For some dumb reason I thought I would get the answer for nothing! I’m at the point where my hands are just sneaking in front of the ball, the next step is the golden egg swing. Enjoy your vids with Malaska he makes it look sinfully easy. I suffered a massive stroke left side non functional for a while. Went from right eye dominant to left eye due to blood clot behind the right. My game growing up was football/soccer to the Yanks. Not much hand eye coordination. That’s it for my history, sorry for boring you. Good job on your RUclips channel.
Angela Duckworth's books and talks on grit fit this, She posits that her studies show with successful people it is grit or effort, not talent. Her formula for effort being 2X as important as talent is talent X effort = skill, skill X effort = achievement. First you have to build the skill as Mike says.
Obviously people who just don`t agree with his method, or they like playing golf the hard way. Okay its not for everybody i know but Mike has helped my golf no end. Mike really knows his stuff, one of the best golf instructors out there.
Seve had as good of hands as anyone who ever played the game but he had real trouble hitting fairways his whole career. Hands are everything but they're not the only thing. If you're transition and arms are out of sync with your body it doesn't matter how good your hands are. You still have to have a swing that gets your hands to the right place at the right time so the hands can actually make a difference.
Mr Be Better your problem is that you don't turn your left shoulder down before you turn. You are simply sliding to the right. You often also lift up your upper body as you slide. Look at Lydia Ko or simply look at Mike's left shoulder turn.
Seems to me its a trade off. I can hit my 7 iron around 100yds in a pretty decent repeatable line and length. Thing is I will not play golf if I can only hit my 7 iron 100yds. Would completely destroy any fun for me. So I hit my 7 iron to the best of my ability as far as I can but lose accuracy. BUT the times I do hit it far and straight outweigh the thought of steering it round the course like an old lady. My point is, yeah you need to learn face control but you need to learn it at high speed and this is where it breaks down for a good chunk of players. And I think thats why theres so many theories on how to hit a ball. Its coordinating face control with very athletic motion to obtain the required distance. And unless (for most men I know) you are devoid of any testosterone, you aint gonna wanna play golf like grandma.
Mr Kipling, I understand where you are coming from. But I ask you this. If you could play in the US Open and hit your 7 iron 100 yards and score well and win, wouldn't that be fine? The game is about the number you put on the score card. Yes, it is a lot of fun to step up on the tee and rip driver 300+ yards. At the end of the day, if you dial it back and hit it 250 and shoot 68 versus hitting it 300+ and shoot 78, which is better? The game is so much more than hitting the ball far. I have seen improvement with the full swing by practicing some of the time with a pitching wedge, using a full swing and trying to hit it maybe 60% of my normal distance. Hit some balls like that, if you are hitting it well then speed it up to 80%. Then 100%. If you wanted to make a change to your baseball swing you wouldn't try to do it against a pitcher throwing 100 mph. You would start out in batting practice against 65 mph then work your way up. I think this is a major barrier for teen age boys. All of them are flexible and many can generate a lot of clubhead speed and want to hit it like Dustin Johnson. That's great. Maybe they have some distance and can shoot 80. If 1/3 of their tee shots are 60 yards off line they will have a tough time improving their SCORE.
I agree with what ur saying. And nobody is going to win the is open hitting 100yrd 7 irons so that is irrelevant. But what is relevent is that all brilliant ball strikers hand are a head of the ball at impact. In my practice swing my hand are ahead of where the ball would be. So surely there is a way to train these body positions in first the alter your grip stronger or weaker to square your clubface.
@@stephenbell4937 Ok so this came across wrong. All I was saying is that the major breakdown in swings (my swing anyway), is that in drills and half swings etc the game is easy but the barrier is when you step up the speed and all the body parts that get involved under pressure on the course. Yeah I'm sure it can be trained and speed built up but its getting that recipe of speed and accuracy thats the holy grail.
The golf swing is mostly the arms,(with body rotation of course) how else are you supposed to hit the freaking ball. I`m sorry i just don`t understand what you mean? The arms go up then they go down or am i missing something?.
The number of videos I have watched where a a top coach is providing great coaching and Mr Better Golf is not even watching the coach when specific points are being made. He is too wrapped up in his own ‘positions’ of his swing .
This is such BS. There is no way the arms control how the body moves, have you seen a baseball pitcher in slow motion, look at that and tell me their arm is moving there body.
their arm is not moving their body. they are feeling the weight and momentum of the ball (through their arm), and manipulating that, and their brain is turning that intention into a full body motion for their body to carry out. same way you look at cameron champ’s swing and ask yourself how tf anyone gets in those positions - the answer is by trying to do pretty extreme things with the weight of the clubhead.
This is some of the best advice I've ever heard. This should be lesson #1 for every golfer on earth, required knowledge before being allowed on any range or course.
I've been taking 3 damaging practice swings before striking the ball for ... DECADES now.
I went to the range and started focusing on the clubface for every practice swing, and my practice swings CHANGED immediately and dramatically.
I automagically committed more to my left leg and increased my hip rotation dramatically - and the consistency of my strikes immediately improved, to the degree they matched my practice swings.
I've created a new playlist: "Golf - Critical Videos" with this the first (of two). Lord, let me never take another "faceless" practice swing again.
Thanks, Mike, you do great work.
I love Malaska, has such a distinct way of explaining what really matters in this game.
The last minute of this video is gold. Do the important things well. Forget the noise.
Finally understand the importance of a discipline practice swing and achieving face control of the golf club. Thanks.
Great video!!! Love these with Mike. Also likes the dialogue after the camera shut off. Mike’s enthusiasm “this is awesome”. Keep it up!
Great video Brendon - Mike is spot on - how you learn is sometimes the difference when we all plateau - I have been a lifetime flipper got to a 5 h.cap but it was not to last because club face control was not good enough it shows up with long irons especially that 3 degrees adds up to not enough short grass and back to 9.h.cap so your videos are a lifeline - keep up the good work.
Thanks again for doing more videos with Mike. The season is at an end here in north central Illinois but i am looking forward to spring when i can start to really work on all the stuff you've put out with Mike and the tips from his page as well.
Greg j thanks Greg
Another great one B. I would love to hear Mikes take on the advantages and the skills that are developed by doing slow motion swings.
Hmmm, I’ll ask
On one of his videos he talks about slow motion swings. He said something like one slow motion swing is worth more that hitting several balls . It ingrains muscle memory if you do it right.
Malaska is a smart coach. When he talks about hands controls the ball, I think he actually means eye hand coordination, not just hands.
@Lee not true. Ever seen a blind person hit a golf ball?
@@jeremymaarman2949 very true, i do a drill where i don`t look at the ball at all.
love that you kept the chit-chat at the end lol
never really made a conscious effort to get the club face square. always thought it occurred naturally if swing plane, weight transfer and maintaining the angle of the wrist were correct. gotta see how this works.
you’re right it does, all those things work together though - it’s really hard to have just one of those wildly off, because it’s one motion.
My game is so bad this year I had to have my ball retriever regripped
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ya, that's a good one kim.
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I'm going to actually put a new grip on it and break that out when im approaching 100
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Mike breaks out the new Taylormade super distance burner 3000 iron. LMAO
What stands out to me at ~2 minutes is the crazy hand action.
I understand the importance of face position at impact but what about other aspects of the full practice swing vs full actual swing? For instance, my actual swing is much shorter, quicker, earlier release, etc. It's like two drastically different swings. Any tips to help that?
Your new swing looks good Be Better Golf! That right elbow in particular!
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Really like your channel, and the content created with Mike is great! I really like his concept „over the top from the inside“, and I think it really helped me in the full swing. I am not sure though if and how it can be applied to half swings or even chipping. And that is where I need the most help at the moment, cause I am shanking every second pitch. Would be great if you guys could spend a few minutes on this topic. Keep up the good work!
Great video and topic, always wondered this myself. I've often heard (as Mike also said) it was likely because the clubface on the practice swing is a way open and you'd it a mile right so your body fights to correct when the ball is there. Understood. However, my next question is, how come when I address the ball, and close my eyes and / or don't look at the ball, I hit a beautiful soft draw at my target? Grip pressure and tightening up at impact??
Would you say you swing ball as hard with eyes closed, if you swing harder with eyes open then it could be head movement the problem or
is it you focus on your hand awareness with eyes closed
this video is one of the best videos I've seen.
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Face control is the game
Brandon, you gotta give Malaska the respect he deserves. Listen to him without making practice swings, talking over him, and teeing up your ball. It feels as if you are not listening, and only thinking about what you are going to tell him or ask him next.
Recommended read; Chris Voss "Never Split the Difference"
Absolutely the best pairing, thank you both!
Do you think you could get Malaska to eloborate on the M move, tip the club feeling, when you’re actually coming from an across or laid off back swing position. To me it seems that from an across position you’re allready tipped and just need to stay passive with hands.
Thanks and good luck!
thx B and M ...Ques: HOW do we control the face thru impact ??...I end up flipping the handle thru impact when I try ...aren't the correct mechanics / grip supposed to get the face square ? ...I've had some success angling my left knuckles at the ground in the DS ...and then the left palm diagonally skyward at the release ...maybe that'll help some people
Strange nearly every time I watch your videos it’s right where my golf game is at!
Just purchased new set of irons and it’s a different feel all together.
Finding my range time a little longer than normal.
Thanks for the video Brandon!
And when are you going to bring that swing to Texas?
it's too bad that our brain tries to square the clubface then by making all sorts of compensations because it means that we end up working on all of the wrong things. Spending time trying to figure out how to make your practice swing your real swing, when in reality all you need to be doing is learning to square the club face during the so called 'perfect practice swing'. I used to badly struggle with this problem as well, and for a long time I speculated on the issue. was it nerves? was I focusing too much on hitting the ball, and not swinging and letting the ball get in the way? My real swing is so much closer now to my practice swing from doing a lot of pump and pre set drills and pausing my body in the impact position so i can really feel where the hands and hips need to be at impact. great video
Really like watching your videos. I know you have been experimenting/introducing to your viewers a lot of different swing theories. Having said that, I was wondering if you have noticed when watching YOUR swing on video that you tend to raise up (watch your head) on your backswing?
of course
40,000 subscribers go Brendan!
What about slow motion swings hitting balls and speeding up to full swing to train/test the Hands
BB, Malaskas last words for You, dont focus on details in swing, just go man!
Been working on shortening my swing.. I don’t start my driver downswing until I see the driver head over my left shoulder.. been working on shortening my swing and it’s very difficult but I feel it’s a requirement for me for better consistency... are there tips to this? I see a lot of training aides to help this but they seem like gimmicks... thanks and great video’s!
Wally from Wisconsin
Pool noodles and reps I think
Do you have a link? I watched the video with the noodles and lot cone.. if that’s the noodle drill you mentioned... good stuff.. I was a single digit golfer many years ago but golfed much more... took the game back up bout 5 years ago after being away for 15 years or so.. still have my ping zing 2 irons... still hitting the same distance approximately but no where near as accurate.. very frustrating... I no longer live close to driving ranges so struggle making adjustments on the course... I’ll keep trying,I’ll get it back, hopefully in my lifetime!! Great videos
Great piece of content Brandon!
Thanks ON!
Great video. What Mike said about Tiger and what Jack told Mike rings very true. Who better than to learn it from them. In my practice I focus on positions in my golf swing, which I should incorporate face control as well.
BTW Brandon: I think 3 degrees on a clock is actually 12:00 and 30 seconds.
This guy "Mike" is GOOD...
Where can i get a jumbo club like that? Seriously I feel like that is an amazing training aid and better than my badminton racket taped to a club .
Momentus sells it
you stood up considerably in your hitting a paper cup swing
Brandon: damn! Mike: u hit it thin
KILLER VID BUD.....Ive been watchin ur vids for a while and ALL that matters is club face awareness. ...golf is hard enough with 19 teachers telling u 19 diff things......pos 1 through pos 64 blah blah blah....keep that face square malaska style...boom.
What is the camera app you have ?
iphonEx sony-ax33
Where do you get that oversized club
It would be very helpful if there was a device that would alert the golfer what their face angle was during their practice swing at "impact."
Well done. Thank you
What app are you using when you film your swing?
I learned a lot listening to my teachers, yet here I see the student making practice swings etc when the teacher is explaining to you about the question you asked?
Agreed. This kid has ADD or something. Pretty annoying.
I've played with some excellent baseball players that can't hit a golf ball to save their lives. I've seen basically non-athletes who have sucked at every other sport in their life...and some can damn dear break par. Golf is just a very unique sport...that's the truth.
Very true.
Truth bombs ! 💣
My question would be why do you pick club up so quickly? Is this correct? It seems to me you are cupping wrist early? Not being a Nellie just curious what your thought process is? Thanks.
Rick Hearn It’s an idiosyncrasy of mine. I developed it years ago when trying to fix my inside takeaway at an indoor video replay place. It didn’t fix my takeaway just gave me that new move that stuck. Hard to get rid of and I’m not sure I totally need to.
Thanks for that quick reply, my fault is a inside takeaway also which causes hooks if I don’t catch it before it happens. I enjoy your videos with so many instructors. Quick story, I once had Harvey Penick look at my grip and contact hitting a ball, he said don’t change a thing. Sometimes your natural swing is your best. He instilled confidence in me by saying that and I try to remember that every time I play golf.
I get what your saying. Ur practice swing gets you in all the right body positions that lead to quality ball striking. Iv noticed the same thing with my practice swing when filming it. And I get what Mike is saying but if you are trying to get to a really good standard is it not pointless having the club face square and all the wrong body positions?? Because there is going to be a limit to how good you can be. Were as if you are swinging the club correctly and getting all the good body positions and note where your club face is at impact then you could strengthen or weaken your grip to get the clubface square. I think the golf swing is far to mechanical in the way its being taught these days and there has got to be something in the fact your body gets in all the right positions when doing practice swings.
No look at Jim Fuyrk
@@factual6591 ? Jim Fuyrk still has his hand ahead of the ball at impact and has all the right body positions on the down swing. The only difference his his back swing.
Impact position is what I meant, all pros look similar here including Fuyrk
so guys the saying from tgm put your mind in your hands and also in the clubface. i've heard it before but never had tried but this will be my next study.
Someone may have mentioned it but 1 minute on a clock face is 6 degrees (360/60=6). So it's even worse than you thought ;-)
Why didn't you make a practice swing with giant club and look at the face through impact on the slow motion?
"It was thin but Im happy with the position".... So are you chasing perfect positions or perfect contact?
Exactly what I thought. I bet Malaska wanted to tear his hair out after hearing that.
I dont feel i use my hands .They are inactive in the golf siwing i use my forearms and wrists .i use my the sensitive of my fingers to tell me what and where my club face is doing in space at a given time .
Julian Steele I think when people talk about the hands they mean rotation of wrists and forearms to place the hands in the right position - I mean your hands without these are just fingers and obviously no one is manipulating the face with their fingers.
Brandon, how long does the discount code work for? Xmas is coming up soon 🎅🏼
Your swing has come long way. Which drill do credit giving you the hands in front of ball feel. I have moments of feeling where my hands are at impact not enduring though!
Yeah I made a long video about this called Beyond Great Impact. Http://www.Bebettergolf.net/bgi
For some dumb reason I thought I would get the answer for nothing! I’m at the point where my hands are just sneaking in front of the ball, the next step is the golden egg swing. Enjoy your vids with Malaska he makes it look sinfully easy. I suffered a massive stroke left side non functional for a while. Went from right eye dominant to left eye due to blood clot behind the right. My game growing up was football/soccer to the Yanks. Not much hand eye coordination. That’s it for my history, sorry for boring you. Good job on your RUclips channel.
Angela Duckworth's books and talks on grit fit this, She posits that her studies show with successful people it is grit or effort, not talent. Her formula for effort being 2X as important as talent is talent X effort = skill, skill X effort = achievement. First you have to build the skill as Mike says.
3 degrees is (driver's length 200 meters) more or less 10 meters off line to the side. No 30m.
Dasa Strakova is that factoring in the fact that the ball will slice off from that starting line if the club was delivered on a neutral path?
I don't know what that huge club is but I want it just to whip it out on the range and watch the other golfers react to it
where's the mention of path...surely the face-to-path is the most important relationship
Face to paff bruh! Let's get stuck in
12:01 would be 6 degrees.
I love that he spotted that the face was open in the practice swing. Keen and wise eyes.
he knew exactly what was going to happen right from when the question was first posed lol
Who downvotes these videos with Mike?
Obviously people who just don`t agree with his method, or they like playing golf the hard way.
Okay its not for everybody i know but Mike has helped my golf no end.
Mike really knows his stuff, one of the best golf instructors out there.
If you look at your practice swing, you hit the top of the cup and that's exactly where you hit the ball. That's why you thinned it.
i literally cannot express how important the last 2-3 minutes are - so much golf coaching just doesn’t get this.
Seve had as good of hands as anyone who ever played the game but he had real trouble hitting fairways his whole career. Hands are everything but they're not the only thing. If you're transition and arms are out of sync with your body it doesn't matter how good your hands are. You still have to have a swing that gets your hands to the right place at the right time so the hands can actually make a difference.
Well my practice swing looks good and my real swing I'm always on my back foot and my face is still not square.
Mr Be Better your problem is that you don't turn your left shoulder down before you turn. You are simply sliding to the right. You often also lift up your upper body as you slide. Look at Lydia Ko or simply look at Mike's left shoulder turn.
No everyone knows his problem is that his coccyx is pointed too far left and he's lifting his uvula in the downswing
What turning you left shoulder down too hard for you? Why not pick on the guy who regripped his ball retriever?
'rehearsal swings' i like more than 'practice'
I had never heard anything about Tiger playing baseball....his Dad, but not Tiger.
Easy fix. Make all your practice shots with a ball. Practicing without a ball is like swimming with no water.
have done this this year, unbelievable success compared to last year.
Seems to me its a trade off. I can hit my 7 iron around 100yds in a pretty decent repeatable line and length. Thing is I will not play golf if I can only hit my 7 iron 100yds. Would completely destroy any fun for me. So I hit my 7 iron to the best of my ability as far as I can but lose accuracy. BUT the times I do hit it far and straight outweigh the thought of steering it round the course like an old lady. My point is, yeah you need to learn face control but you need to learn it at high speed and this is where it breaks down for a good chunk of players. And I think
thats why theres so many theories on how to hit a ball. Its coordinating face control with very athletic motion to obtain the required
distance. And unless (for most men I know) you are devoid of any testosterone, you aint gonna wanna play golf like grandma.
Mr Kipling, I understand where you are coming from. But I ask you this. If you could play in the US Open and hit your 7 iron 100 yards and score well and win, wouldn't that be fine? The game is about the number you put on the score card. Yes, it is a lot of fun to step up on the tee and rip driver 300+ yards. At the end of the day, if you dial it back and hit it 250 and shoot 68 versus hitting it 300+ and shoot 78, which is better? The game is so much more than hitting the ball far.
I have seen improvement with the full swing by practicing some of the time with a pitching wedge, using a full swing and trying to hit it maybe 60% of my normal distance. Hit some balls like that, if you are hitting it well then speed it up to 80%. Then 100%. If you wanted to make a change to your baseball swing you wouldn't try to do it against a pitcher throwing 100 mph. You would start out in batting practice against 65 mph then work your way up.
I think this is a major barrier for teen age boys. All of them are flexible and many can generate a lot of clubhead speed and want to hit it like Dustin Johnson. That's great. Maybe they have some distance and can shoot 80. If 1/3 of their tee shots are 60 yards off line they will have a tough time improving their SCORE.
You’re talking like Mike is advocating grandma golf. What a strange post.
I agree with what ur saying. And nobody is going to win the is open hitting 100yrd 7 irons so that is irrelevant. But what is relevent is that all brilliant ball strikers hand are a head of the ball at impact. In my practice swing my hand are ahead of where the ball would be. So surely there is a way to train these body positions in first the alter your grip stronger or weaker to square your clubface.
@@stephenbell4937 Ok so this came across wrong. All I was saying is that the major breakdown in swings (my swing anyway), is that in drills and half swings etc the game is easy but the barrier is when you step up the speed and all the body parts that get involved under pressure on the course. Yeah I'm sure it can be trained and speed built up but its getting that recipe of speed and accuracy thats the holy grail.
@@Melted_Butter Not at all, please read my reply to Stephen above.
You are obsessed with sharft lean . Y ,is that the magic move ?
Julian Steele it’s the magic result. Probably no magic move
One issue you have is the backswing you go up with your arms so you end up having a arm swing.
The golf swing is mostly the arms,(with body rotation of course) how else are you supposed to hit the freaking ball.
I`m sorry i just don`t understand what you mean?
The arms go up then they go down or am i missing something?.
Practice swing? You talking about practice swing?
this is why i dont take practice swings!
The number of videos I have watched where a a top coach is providing great coaching and Mr Better Golf is not even watching the coach when specific points are being made. He is too wrapped up in his own ‘positions’ of his swing .
This is such BS. There is no way the arms control how the body moves, have you seen a baseball pitcher in slow motion, look at that and tell me their arm is moving there body.
their arm is not moving their body. they are feeling the weight and momentum of the ball (through their arm), and manipulating that, and their brain is turning that intention into a full body motion for their body to carry out. same way you look at cameron champ’s swing and ask yourself how tf anyone gets in those positions - the answer is by trying to do pretty extreme things with the weight of the clubhead.
The problem with Brendan's swing has always started with his take away -- he rolls he forearms.