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My SECRET Consistency Routine
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I've read literally thousands of emails from all my members and the one thing people want more than anything else is consistency. This is the exact routine I use that builds on everything you've learned to groove your swing before a round of golf or just when things get a little off. I reinforce the checkpoints and feelings so that you will make better compression, have complete control over the club face and trajectory of each and every shot. Solid and consistent contact will be your reward.
all right RSA members this is the thing that all of you have been asking for so all the feedback I got there was one thing that became very consistent ironically and that was everybody wanted more consistency and I've always had one simple trick one drill or one routine that I've gone through when I'm playing a serious round of golf and I know I need to put my ball striking needs to be on tap I need to hit the ball the way I want and do it consistently over and over again and that's this routine I'm going to share with you today and in fact you're going to see I only have 40 balls out in front of me and that's all it's going to take to get you warmed up and get your game and your swing on track so you can do this every day before you go out and play if your golf ball striking is a little bit off it'll get you back on track and you can do this indoors hitting balls into a net this is a drill unlike many of the other RSA drills I do want you hitting balls so as you go through this stuff you're going to see a lot of stuff that's familiar but also as we're hitting balls there's going to be some things that are going to be challenges for you so I want you to pay close attention to how we go through this it's a perfect drill to get your swing exactly where it needs to be every single round of golf so how we start how I start my routine is always exactly the same and that starts with working through the nine to three drill it is the most important drill for consistency in your game because it teaches you how to make a body oriented lead side dominant golf swing that's controlled with not making this big long unwieldy swing and you'll realize that most golfers when they do this drill they hit the ball further with a swing that they feel is much shorter than their normal swing and there's a reason for that and that's what we're going to go through so for this drill I always start out with my basic nine to three drill and if my swing is really off I'll go all the way back to the beginning and stop there because I need to check my impact position and so I'm not going to hit these balls very hard so the first few balls I'm going to hit I'm going to go right all the way to the beginning and that is just this movement here so halfway back stop I want to make sure that wrist is flat my left ankle my left hip is over the left ankle my hips are slightly open shoulders are square and the club face is de-lofted flat left wrist this one I do not want to hit the ball very far at all these are just little baby chip shots and yes they can help you with your chipping as well but all I'm trying to do right now say I just woke up and I'm going to the golf course I'm trying to get my game ready to go or on the range I know that if I'm hitting this ball straight and all three of those balls are exactly in the exact same spot then my swing my impact position is doing pretty good so that's what I'm really looking for here is are the is the club and the ball and everything doing the exact same thing so I'll hit five balls a whole row of balls like that and each time as long as I do it correctly I'll go to the next one so now I did five balls there my left wrist was flat every single time my impact positions were good my right heel was down shoulders are square all the stuff you go through the nine to three drill from there I'm going to keep stacking on top of that with the release so now the ball goes twice as far but it's still going straight but I'm still going through all my checkpoints left hip right foot left ankle clubface is rotated now shoulders are square hips are slightly open the exact same stuff we've covered in the nine to three drill so I'm not going to go through it over and over and over again and repeat everything but I am going through those checkpoints in my head more specifically I'm checking the things that I know I tend to struggle with so for me my tendency is to kind of want to drive pretty hard off this right foot and so now I kind of get my hips a little bit too open and I chunk it like I did there everything's a little bit off so I kind of those are the things I'm personally monitoring for you it might be monitoring the flip it might be monitoring holding the clubface open whatever it may be this is when you get yourself re-centered and start checking through all those things so now that was a good one and each time I'm doing this I would make sure that all five balls were the way that I wanted them to fly those are all good shots so of course the ones I was talking I chunked them and those wasn't good but you want to make sure you get five in a row like that now I've got a good impact position the ball is going the exact same spot it's coming out de -lofted I've got great contact now is when I add that right hand back in there and do the exact same thing now I'm checking that my right shoulder stays back and the right hand didn't drive the club through the right hand released the club at the ball so that the club can go very fast without me having to move very fast so that was pretty good another good one there same thing just working the sequence this thing is never let me down if I do these movements over and over again the balls come out exactly where I want them to and now I'm starting to hit these nice little baby draws but I'm building the confidence to know that the shots are doing the exact same thing I've hit 15 balls and all 15 are going the same way perfect baby little draws every single time short little low flight balls those were all great now all I need to do is take that same movement because my checkpoints are good I did all the movements correctly and now I'm just going to make it a little bit bigger and that's it that's the whole key so now I have a five iron here so I'm just gonna make a little bit bigger swing so maybe 120 yards in the air same thing though I'm just going through my checkpoints my right foot my chest my shoulders the release backswing movements another good one there everything's good I'm still making sure now that the ball not the ball is going a little bit further I'm watching my ball flight now so if I goof up a little bit now is the time I want to make the correction so if the ball is going a little bit left a little bit right when you're only hitting it 100 yards you should be in complete control of that ball if you're not then you're gonna need to go back a step because something went off early on your impact positions off your release is off your weight shift is off whatever it is that you're personally struggling with went a little bit faster that time 150 yards or so but the whole key again here is building up each step so that you're not going from zero to 100 miles an hour you're taking little baby steps slowly incrementally building up to where you're getting to the point I'm gonna get pretty close to full speed on that last one not quite full speed but it's probably 175 yards or so so I ramped up quite a bit you don't have to ramp up that quick but if you're if the ball flight is doing the same thing over and over again then you can do that you can start adding a little bit more but I try to kind of do it in five ball increments so these next five I'm gonna start going a little bit further but I'm still not ramping up yet that's maybe 60 percent 70 percent ball where I want a little baby draw where I start to make mistakes my body gets a little bit fast the club gets a little bit late so what I'm really watching for on all of these is that each one is just a little tiny baby draw and that it starts on my line if I block one a little bit I know for me personally my hips got out in front and that caused me to stand up and bring the club a little bit too far to the inside so what I want to make sure that I do is that where I make sure I wait and get my right arm to release back out in front of me instead of being late and stuck behind my hip so again these checkpoints are my personal ones you're gonna have different ones but the important thing is we're all working through the exact same steps the exact same sequence if I hit a couple that get a little bit squirrely I'll immediately back it back down go back through my checkpoints I know if I did all this stuff right that ball goes exactly straight exactly where I want every single time so say I hit a couple like that and then I go back a little bit further another good one same thing going through my checkpoints now I have 15 balls left I've got my swing re-centered already up to about a 65 percent club head speed not a hundred percent yet but ironically what I feel my perception of 65 percent is the ball still going about 180 yards with a five iron so I'm really close to my full distance and this is really the key to consistency and why you build up really really slow because you're getting good compression even on these little shots you want to make sure you're making great contact and the ball is going straight because your sixty percent feeling of efficiency will probably translate to a hundred and ten percent of your normal distance because you slowly built up and slowly did all these little movements correctly you don't have to swing nearly as hard as you normally would as if you went to the range and just started wailing away and started re-grooving all your bad habits so now I know that I've just slowly built up to having close to more normal distance but I only feel like I'm working six tenths as hard as normal and that's the whole key to being consistent is if I feel like I'm swinging at sixty percent I'm going to hit it pretty straight and that's what this drill is great for so I'm gonna go up a little bit further ball still went straight a little baby draw happy with that and do this again from the other side or a little bit faster I mean oh now there's a great example my body got out in front the ball cut I was late couldn't get the club release so that is exactly what starts to happen when I start feeling like I ramp up a little bit too quick and my body's not quite synced up yet perfect my hips weighted arms and hands released ball goes straight so anytime I get ramped up too fast that's what's going to tend to happen and so I want to start working on getting my hips back another one that was a little bit off there was not right really where I wanted to be with it so I'm going to back it down again perfect that's where I'm going and so these last 10 or 15 balls you may find as you start ramping up if you ramp up too quickly like I did there then you're a squirrelly shot will come in there that's okay you back it down a step slowly build back up these last 10 balls I'm going to show you from down the line we're going to start I'll go through the whole routine again so you can see the whole thing and see what the ball does but the whole goal with these last 10 balls is they should be getting close to what you're perceiving as maybe 70 80 of your normal speed but the ball should be going 100 of your normal distance all right so now with these last 10 balls we're going to look at it more from down the line I want to show you what you should be looking at looking for and expecting on each of these shots so my little one there goes straight but I didn't release the club I want to see it come out really really low almost rolling along the ground the reason for that is club face control if this left wrist is flat or even slightly bowed into impact you still have control over that club face and so I should be able to hit you know five ten of those in a row and they all go in the same spot as I add the release now things go a little bit further than before that one's a little crummy hit it out to the right it's okay to make a mistake while I'm yammering here there we go so that one came out online released it properly all that stuff was good and then as I add the right arm not trying to swing any harder this is not about a speed this is about learning how to be efficient and hit the ball far without working hard to do it so now as I put the right arm on there I do the same drill not very hard for me to get the ball to fly twice as far I keep doing the same thing over and over and over again now I went a little bit faster little baby draw got five left here I'm gonna kind of ramp up to getting close to full speed here with this drill so that I'd be ready to go out and play so we go a little bit further back the ball there right on line little baby draw still that was maybe 40% speed I'm not in a hurry to speed up now that one I went a little bit to the right and that's where I get my hips out in front a little bit so it wasn't quite didn't quite have my movements down there I'm gonna back it down a little bit better there so again I'm just always paying attention to those things that I struggle with you're gonna have the same thing so it might be pushing off the right foot that way you might be you know throwing your right shoulder at it whatever it is this is the time when you're swinging slow to groove that now let's move up a little faster a little bit out to the right again didn't like that so again if I was you know at the range practicing doing these drills I would back it down right away I'd take 10 or 20 % out of that but I know that I can correct that mistake here on the next one so that's what I'm gonna do here there we go good little missile there and that is the key to consistency each day you start out really small and slowly ramp up doing the nine to three drill left hand only perfect impact position left hand release perfect release position right hand release the club with both hands and then you slowly start making your swing bigger and bigger and that will make you a far more consistent golfer than you've ever been before
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