Bonus Challenge 1 - Curving the Ball
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Bonus Challenge 1 is about learning how to curve the ball in both directions. This challenge will not only teach you how to easily shape your shots, but will also give you a better feel what a straight shot is as well.
The bonus challenges are all for those extra achievers out there, like myself, who want to take it to the next level.
And really be able to refine and master the control of the golf ball because that's what makes golf so fun, is being able to make that ball do exactly what you want.
The first bonus challenge that we're going to talk about is learning how to release the club so that you can start controlling curvature of the ball.
Now many of you may be struggling with a slice out there and think, gosh, I can barely hit it straight.
Why would I want to worry about this?
Because learning how to curve the ball on these release phase will help you learn what a straight shot feels like.
If you don't ever learn how to release the club properly, you're always going to struggle with losing the ball out to the right and slicing.
So this is a, even if you're not hitting the ball perfectly straight just yet, it's okay to attempt the bonus challenge to learn how to feel what a curved ball feels like so that you can learn what a straight shot feels like.
So what I'm going to do first as I'm working through my release is I'm going to hit a few and I'm just going to hit them straight.
And then once I have that feeling, I'm going to start adding some curvature to it.
So the first one I'm going to hit here, just a nice little straight ball going down the ball, down the, the tape line here all as well.
I just want to get that feeling.
So you can do that 10, 15, 20 times, however many you like to get the feeling of, okay, I'm hitting the same shot over and over again.
Now, what would it feel like to alter my release to get some curvature on the ball?
So now I'm going to add a little bit of extra release on this one.
So I may actually aim a little bit to the right if I want, or I can keep it going down the tape line and I'm going to add a little bit more release.
So that one, even though it only flew about 40, 50 yards, it was about five yards left of my target and had a little bit of curvature.
Even on these 40, 50 yard shots, you're going to see that curvature.
So this is a great time as you're learning that release to start to feel how if I alter it just a tiny bit, I can get more curvature on it.
So I would hit five, 10, 15 balls, adding the right to left curvature.
Now I'm going to hit a couple to go to the other way.
So now I may open my stance just a smidge and I'm going to hold the release off.
So now you can see, I held the release off.
The face was open and the ball went to the right and had a tiny little bit of cut on it.
This through the release drill in phase two, gets you that feeling of starting to learn how to curve altering your release.
Learning it in these baby steps versus just trying to do it full speed will make it much easier.
And then you start to move back and forth.
So, okay, I hit two to the right.
Now I'm going to hit one to the left.
You can see now the club face is much more released.
Now I'm going to dial it back.
I'm going to hit one straight.
And that's how you learn club face control.
You have to start getting a feel for what it feels like when it's closed a little bit of impact, open a little bit of impact and square at impact.
And so challenge yourself with this bonus drill to get the feeling of curving the ball in both directions.
So you start learning how to have complete mastery over that golf ball.
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