Webinar 3 - Compression & Clubface Control

Control & compression, that's the name of the game in ball striking and when you follow the GOAT Code, you will learn how to properly compress the ball with absolute control over the flight just like The GOAT.

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Hey, is it Priyan?

Priyan?

Sorry, I don't want to mispronounce your name.

I think it's Priyan.

How are you?

Andy, hello.

Stan, hello.

How are you guys doing this fine Saturday night?

We got snow down here in Colorado.

Montana was interesting.

Uh, yeah, I'll talk about that later.

Um, I just want to get back to JR's question here.

Uh, bring the lead hand back on that.

Uh, Jr.

Let me I'll talk about that in a second.

I think you're talking about covering it here.

Um, 80 degrees in Pennsylvania.

Holy Cow.

Yeah, we got, uh, not, not where I live, I'm at 8 000 feet, but up in the mountains we got probably six or eight inches up above, you know, up above, let's say maybe 11 ,000 feet.

So yeah, we got quite a bit of snow already.

So let's see.

One more minute, 80s in Chicago.

Wow.

Yeah, it was actually nice here today.

It was actually in the low 70s, but it snowed up above.

And now at my house, it's probably 50 degrees and raining right now.

Kind of got some Seattle weather, weather, some doom gloom.

Okay, so let's get rocking and rolling here.

So I want to answer JR's question there and just kind of explain the sequence of how we're going through things.

So just to be clear, these webinars are not going through every single thing.

Uh, that's in the program, this is more high level, covering new stuff, helping you guys out live, answering questions.

But I am in by no means going through this step by step.

We will do a boot camp to do exactly that once the program is completely flushed out, which I'm still working on.

But I'm going to talk about that, too in a minute.

Um, so, but this is not.

I'm not here to, like, guide you through every single thing.

That's what your instructors are for, ask questions on the site.

Or, again, when we do a boot camp.

That's when you're going to be able to get, you know, your hand held and walk through every single single, every single part of this.

So yeah, we, you know, the putting stuff, we covered a little bit, but I didn't cover adding lead hand.

That's all in the videos, right?

So if you have specific questions on something you're struggling with, we'll, I'll cover that.

But what I want to talk about today is the newest video.

Because I know a lot of you are advancing through things quickly, some of you are a little bit taking more time.

But what I want to talk about is this understanding how to create compression?

Because compressing the ball is what golf is really all about.

To me, I, I, you guys know, I'm obsessed with ball striking.

Um, And I just played today just to give you guys a little brief note about my little journey through this.

I'm going through this program exactly like you guys are, because I've always been a lead side dominant.

Now, of course, I've been using the trail hand for years, but not to this degree and so a lot of this stuff that I've been going.

I'm now taking out onto the course and testing it and seeing what happens in the real world.

I played today as a matter of fact, in a little tournament, I shot the lowest score, which is pretty nice.

But it was a team event, so I didn't win anything because my teammates, They didn't play so great, but I won quite a few skins, so we'll take that.

But what's really interesting about this is that my brain has truly just transferred right here.

My entire golf swing, I feel in my middle finger, which I talked about before on the site, But it's really coming in through the short game stuff that I've been putting out there lately because it's.

Very, very interesting when you start really learning how to train this trail hand.

And I've talked to a lot of you who are having, you know, crazy experiences about how much more consistent, how much more confident you feel with the putter and your short clubs.

And it's even automatically transferring into your full swing, which is a which is the idea, right?

But obviously I'm going to get more in depth into the full swing.

And I'm going to talk about moving into the next step tonight after we get past the compression stuff.

But what I want you to realize is this.

Controlling the clubface is everything.

Golf, if you were to define it, is all about clubface control.

It's precision and power.

We need both.

But there's no point in having a ton of power if you can't control where that ball is going.

And so what you're learning to do with this putting work may seem like, how's this going to help me with my driver?

Trust me.

It does, and I know many of you have had this experience already, but as you're working through this, understand that.

Training this middle finger of your right, of your trail hand, and that first joint right there is so important.

Because that is what you're going to start associating with club.

Face control and once you start understanding how to control that face and how to use your hand correctly.

Then all of a sudden that you're going to start to realize that.

Chipping and pitching and wedge play and iron play and driver play, it's all the same thing.

It's controlling the club face with this.

And until you develop that sensitivity and get this into your brain, Where that club face is at all times, in space, with that middle finger and both middle fingers, really, but the middle one in particular, you're going to start to realize that you can have.

absolute control over the clubface.

And as you start moving into these next series of drills, for those of you that didn't catch it this week, we haven't emailed them out.

I'm just putting them out and then we're emailing them out over time.

But I put in some new videos this week that are self, basically skills assessment tests.

One of the most important things to know is A, are you doing this correctly?

Because that's the only way you're going to improve.

If you're doing it wrong, it's not going to help you, of course.

But B, How do you know when you're ready?

Like, okay, have I hit enough putts?

Am I good enough to like start chipping?

Am I good enough to start hitting shots and so on?

So there's three new videos in there.

One for putting.

There's a skills assessment test there that tests your putting to see if you're ready.

And then there's one for chipping and then there's one for pitching.

And then I'm working on the next sequence, which is wedge play that is in the next phase of the program that really is full iron play.

And what you're going to see is that you can have insane control over the club face.

stuff that you never even thought possible, quite frankly.

Even for me, now I've been playing competitive golf since I was 14 years old.

So I'm 48 now.

So whoever wants to do that math, a long time, 34 years, I've been hitting a ball with a stick and doing it for money.

Well, I didn't do it for money as a 14 year old.

But as soon as I got out of college, I did because I wanted to make some money at this.

And at this stage in my life at 48, I have never.

had this level of precise control over the club face consistently.

Now, of course, I've shot lots of rounds in the low 60s, you know, but those weren't something that I, now nobody can shoot 64 every day.

What I mean by that is when I've had those really, really great rounds, they were really great rounds.

I made a bunch of putts.

Everything was just kind of clicking.

Now I feel like I can regularly do that.

I can regulate, I'm not going to say I'm going to go out and shoot 64 every day, but you know, I shot 34, 33 today.

That's 67.

That's not bad.

But the more thing is it's playing golf in a way that I didn't even think I could play at.

Because I've spent so much time over the last two months working on this short game material that I have such a complete different understanding of.

Club.

Face control.

Again, really training my trail hand.

But it will carry over into every single aspect of your game that you'll be able to hit shots that you didn't even dream possible.

And it really is important that this next phase, if you're working up to the pitching and you're working on this compression stuff, that you get this right.

It's so important because this is exactly how you're going to hit every single club in the bag.

And learning how to do it with this smaller stroke, where you're really controlling the face and really trying to be precise.

When you go to that skills assessment test for pitching, you're going to see it's a challenge at first for most anybody.

I've had my instructors working on this as well.

And even though they're great players, they are having a challenge with getting through these skills assessment tests.

And it's because they're having to go back and really refine face control.

And that's what we're going to talk about right now.

So when you're working on this compression movement, there's a couple things that I want you to really pay attention to when you're doing these drills.

The first one is obviously, where is that club face pointing at impact?

Now, that seems obviously simple enough.

But if you put this goat arm with this trail hand correctly together, this impact position, I'm going to scoot up to the camera so it's a little bit easier to see.

This is what you're trying to do at impact every time.

Note that my arm is supinated, right?

I got my elbow pit out.

Now, obviously, I can't hold my hand that supinated.

So because it's obviously going to start to work back.

But when you get this feeling where this wrist is still feeling supinated because your arm is.

And as it, obviously, as it comes into impact, it's going to have to start to release and you're going to start to lose some of that angle.

But this, this supinated arm with this arched back wrist, with the strong grip and the club face being square every single time, That is how you hit the driver.

That is how you hit your irons.

That's how you hit every club in the bag is like this.

And once you get this motion of this arm feeling supinated and your wrist controlling that face and those two fingers, especially that middle finger, sensing where that sweet spot of the club face is.

And note as I'm coming through, I'm not releasing the face.

This is what you're trying to feel on every single stroke.

And that's what you're going to work on as you're working the putting motion.

Guess what?

It's the same thing.

Obviously, it's releasing.

I'm holding this off purposely because I want you to be able to see the angle that you're trying to create.

And I get in depth on that compression drill video.

If you watch that, you're going to understand that obviously, you know, you're delifting it to a degree, but it does also have to release.

But you can see as you start doing this, how is that ever going to hit you a bad shot?

When you see the club face up the line, what's the club face doing now again, because the club is going slow?

I can hold the release off, but this as I start adding speed turns into this.

Because I'm not going to be able to stop that and I'm going to let the club release.

And that's why Caleb's asking questions does agree with the hack motion?

Yes, the hack motion data is going to show the exact same thing.

It's just that as you're chipping, it doesn't detect chips.

So we can't even use it for that.

I'm working on that with them to be able to detect shorter shots.

It doesn't work yet, but there's an update coming in a couple of months, supposedly that will allow us to start tracking shorter shots, like 10, 20 yard shots with the hack motion, but it doesn't exist yet.

So, so back to this, this is all you're trying to feel.

Do you see what the club face is doing?

Do you see how easy it is for you now to become a great chipper of the ball, a great pitcher of the ball?

a great wedge player, a great iron player, because that motion is the exact same with every club in the bag in a trail side pattern.

And it makes it so easy to control once you really put your brain in this finger and start understanding this arm and this wrist position.

I feel like I'm kind of, you know, as I talked about before, kind of leading with the back part of the pad of my hand.

But then, of course, as the club starts to unhinge and release, it changes to where like my fingers are leading the club through.

And then I'm working on holding that club face square as I'm releasing the club.

Now, again, as we start adding speed, it's going to release more.

But that is what you are trying to learn.

Is your right arm straight?

Does it have to be straight?

It's obviously going to be a little bit bent.

It's going to be pretty close to straight on these shots.

It's not going to be perfectly straight, but it is straightening through the shot.

Uh, and then grip pressure.

I'm holding, I'm doing it one hand only.

I'm holding the thing pretty damn tight because I need control of this face.

If my hands are super soft, what's that face going to do?

It's going to start closing on me.

How do you have, does this look like I have club face control?

No, I probably have very good timing.

I can flip it really well because I've got, you know, tied, you know, good hands, but I don't want to do that.

It's this.

That gives you absolute control.

And this is exactly what you see Tiger doing.

This is why when you watch him chip, he's holding that club face like this.

All right.

So I got a few questions here.

Let me try to jump in here now.

Hit every fairway and longer than before.

That's not too bad.

Nice.

The J release, it's all the same, but you're kind of jumping ahead, David.

The release is all, all the stuff is exactly the same.

We're just backing it way down so that we have control over it first.

Jeff's taking his pitching, putting, chipping to the next level.

That's awesome.

Exactly.

Jeff and Brian, this is exactly what I'm talking about.

When you realize how simple Tiger's game really is, When you realize it was built from learning how to control that club face with those right hand and learning how to chip.

With his right hand, and learning how to pitch with his right hand, and learning how to hit wedge shots with his right hand, it completely changes everything in the game for you because this is so easy to control.

It's kind of like playing cornhole from the side, right?

Like play cornhole, we've all kind of done that.

That's kind of the motion.

It's basically just that, but you've got to do it from the side.

And so now if I'm playing cornhole, I'm not going to do this with my hands.

Now, of course, as we add speed, your hands are going to release over.

But what you've got to realize is you have to learn to control it through the hitting area.

And then once you know, everything takes over and speed takes over.

Then, of course, it's going to release, but this is the most important thing for you to get.

And it starts again with that putter once you have that putter under control, and when I mean under control, I mean, when you're hitting these five foot putts, don't just try and make them, try and make them in the exact center of the hole.

In fact, as a as an example, just course management stuff.

So I was playing today and I had.

I had just hit two great shots and I was on this par five and two.

And I missed the putt.

And I had like a little four footer or three footer coming back.

It was like a little slap in.

You don't really pay much attention to those.

A lot of times, a lot of times people will say, oh, that's good.

Pick it up or whatever.

And it's easy to kind of like, fall out of that habit of, like, really having to concentrate to make those putts.

And today I made it and it's like, you know what?

I'm a really good putter now and I'm going to make this.

So they gave me the putt.

I'm like, no, no, I want to putt it.

And again, it was like three or four feet, but I'm like standing over that putt and saying, why do I need to hit this thing?

Like, this is an easy putt.

I should just step up here and slap at it.

But I really said, you know, I'm going to make this right in the center, like right over this blade of grass.

And having that level of precision and control is now within your grasp, because this is not moving much.

Look how simple this is.

It's just this.

And it's training this, that middle finger to sense that sweet spot of the club face.

Once you have it in your putter, you start going to your chipping.

Once you have it where you can chip really well, you start pitching, you start hitting wedges, you start hitting irons and so on.

But what you realize is it all started with the putter.

It all started with the smallest stroke because many of you have noticed, have gone through this and really taken the time to go through these drills.

And if you've done the skills assessment test, it's not easy at first.

You have to have true control over that clubface to be able to do these drills.

And again, it's not hard.

It's just this.

Look, my clubface is always square.

Just like Mo Norman always talked about.

He really wanted that clubface to never turn over.

This is a big exaggeration because, again, you don't have any power unless you let the club release.

But we need to get the feeling of controlling that release first.

And then that's going to set you up for the next set of drills, which I'm going to show you here in just a second.

I can control the distance of my flesh mostly.

I'm still having trouble reading the greens.

Well, that's something that just takes a little bit of time.

So I'm going to share with you.

So the next series of videos that I'm going to come back and do some questions is, let me share my screen real quick.

All right.

So this is the next series of drills that you're going to be working on.

So you've got to have the chipping rings for this.

We have a link for them.

Brian will throw it up here in just a minute.

But this is 20-yard carry shots.

And this builds on what you learned in your putting stroke.

Let me play this real quick.

So the first, you land it right in the center of the three-foot hole.

And the second, I'm going to land it in the other one just so you can see the difference.

So the second one's going to land in the six-foot ring.

And so the way that you're going to pass this skills test.

That shot that lands in the middle ring is worth five points.

And the next shot, if it lands in the six foot ring, is only worth one point.

This is 20 yards of carries.

You have to carry it in.

It doesn't count if it bounces in there.

So that's only a one point shot.

So now what you're going to have to do to pass the skills assessment is you have to score enough points.

You have to score enough points.

to be able to pass to that next level.

That's when you're going to know that you're good enough, that you've hit enough of these shots to be able to control the face.

And even though it's a 20-yard carry shot, you may think, gosh, there's no way I'm going to hit it inside a three -foot circle all the time.

It's not hard.

It's literally just this.

This is all I'm doing.

I'm using my core, the right side of my core, to turn back, to give my arms a little bit of momentum, and then I'm just controlling that face coming through.

And then you can hit.

20-yard shots right in the middle of that circle all the time.

Once you score enough points, you're going to go to 40 yards.

And once you do that, you're going to go to 60 yards and so on.

That's how the next phase of this program is coming around.

So now, are you still throwing the try?

Yes, exact same thing.

Nothing changes.

It's still a throw.

Everything I talked about in these other webinars, I won't answer that question again.

I've talked about it in the other two.

Everything is the same.

I'm throwing to there.

And it's releasing.

What I'm showing you is just a static motion.

But obviously, this is not the golf swing.

The golf swing is this.

So you don't see that I was like that at impact.

So everything is still exactly the same.

So now these skills assessment tests, you are going to need a set of chipping rings or something that you can make, you know, small garden hose if you don't want to buy a set of chipping rings.

I think they're like $59.

They're not crazy expensive at all.

They're very simple.

I kind of, they fold up really small.

So I actually keep them in my golf bag now all the time.

So I go to the course and practice.

I use them actually on the course because it's really, really, it gets me focused to be like, you know, instead of just hitting two of the green, like a practice green, we've got chipping greens out of our course.

I put those out there because nobody ever uses the short game green practice areas.

I have it all to myself.

And then I get focused on landing them in the area.

Because if I know the way that I've practiced to warm up before a round of golf.

I go and putt one-handed.

I start putting one hand.

I start hitting a bunch of putts one-handed.

And then I go to two hands, of course, and then I go over to the chipping green and I start chipping.

And I start making myself hit the flagstick or hit in those chipping rings from all different distances.

And then I back up a little bit more and I go back up a little bit more.

But again, it all starts with that clubface control.

If my putter is kind of doing this kind of stuff, I don't understand what I'm doing.

There's no way to control that clubface.

But once you start understanding this goat arm and this wrist and your core, that that's basically all Tiger's doing.

And everything starts to happen automatically for you from there.

So now let me see if there's any of you that have any questions on putting, chipping, Or pitching and want to come up on stage and get a little bit of help because you're struggling with something.

Post something in the comments now and I'll bring you up and see if we can help you out.

Nobody needs any help.

You guys have all got this stuff dialed in.

That's awesome.

No questions on the compression drill, the putting stuff, the chipping drill, any of those things.

How does the right shoulder help to keep the club square?

I need a little more info on that question.

I don't really.

Think about the right shoulder in any specific way.

I'm just using my core to bring the club back to square.

How do I keep moving it through?

Why would you want to?

Is there a release in the putting stroke?

Yep, absolutely.

I talk about that in the putting videos.

Any recognition on simple software like you mentioned in your compression video?

I use Swing Catalyst.

There's a few different software programs out there now.

I don't know any different ones.

I've been using swing catalyst for years, so I don't have any good recommendations on there to square the club.

You don't square the club with your shoulder.

Do you open your stance a little bit more on the ripper chip?

You can, and that's just kind of a variable.

Just depends kind of how I feel with the lie and how much spin I'm trying to put on it.

I tend to open up a little bit, but sometimes I actually will close my stance a little bit and swing more left on the ripper chip.

So instead of setting up really open, sometimes I will do that.

And that makes it very easy to hold the club face open.

But sometimes on that ripper chip, if you want to set up a little closed, I take the club a little bit more outside and then I cut across it.

And that gives me a little bit more spin.

And I like to set up a little more square because I'm going to pull it a little bit from my line there.

During the putting drill, my lower half moves a bit.

Is that normal to.

No, the lower half is going to move a little bit.

Again, the putting stroke, that's a great question.

The putting stroke is a miniature driver's swing.

That sounds really crazy, right?

Like, oh my God, that has nothing to do with the driver's swing.

But I promise you it has everything to do with the driver's swing and tiger's stroke.

And I've got tons of high speed footage of him, you know, hitting longer putts.

And you'll see weight shift.

You'll see hip turn.

You'll see knees moving.

It's big shoulder turn on, you know, a 40, 50 foot putt.

It's all the same stuff in Tiger's game, and I truly believe that.

It's rotating the core back and really using this right side of the core to move everything back.

If you watch Tiger when he takes the club back, especially on a lot of his chips, This was a challenge for me at first, because most golfers kind of just want to take the club back with their arms and hands.

So, yeah, it's easy to keep the club head outside.

but your hands also go out away from you.

And so then you start wanting to do all sorts of club face manipulation.

If you watch Tiger, his club goes straight to the inside, his hands go straight to the inside, yet the club goes up.

And the way that he's doing that is moving from the right side of his core to move the arms back.

And so, yes, everything's moving in that field.

What is the most important thing in the compression drill?

Center face strike, D-loft in the club.

Can you say more about takeaway in terms of your core feeling?

Yeah, so let me, this is something I'm still wanting to be really more precise about, but I'll explain it the way that I feel it.

So your obliques attach up here, like down your pelvis and up in your rib cage.

And your obliques are, you know, rotators, they do side bend and so on.

And there's more muscles involved, but to keep it simple, if you just think about your obliques, this will kind of give you a really good idea.

One of the keys I was just talking about how your hands have to work inside.

And the club has to stay outside without doing something with, you know, your hands flipping the club and so on.

In order to do that, what I found is moving from right here, right at the base of my rib cage.

So my last floating rib is like right, right down here.

I feel like I'm moving from right here.

So like up my floating, last floating rib and up into my back a little bit.

What I feel like I'm trying to do is get this to move first.

And then that gets my hands to go inside.

And then all I have to do is work the club up with my hands.

But what this really does is it starts to separate my arms from my body.

And now, that may sound like a bad thing, Because a lot of times, People separate their arms from their body like this and pronate their arms and do all kinds of crazy stuff.

But what you really want to realize in tiger swing is it's about hand speed.

And he says that a million times.

If you go back and watch him in those Golf Digest clips about him doing his whole game playing series, he doesn't ever think about his body.

He doesn't ever talk about his body.

And if you ask him to kind of use more body on a shot, he doesn't know what that means, which is kind of interesting.

Hand speed is very different than body speed, obviously.

And when tigers swing, he's really just accelerating that right arm, right hand.

With his body's involved, of course, right?

But a lot of times when people start using their body, their arms kind of get stuck to their body.

And so then your arms and body kind of move together like this.

And there's a lot of people that teach that and swing that way.

And that's one way of doing it.

That's obviously not what Tiger does at all.

Tiger's arms move independent of his body.

And the reason for that is he's not going to put a lot of stress on his body.

He's going to use his arms and hands to create a lot of speed.

And so the way that you're going to get that to work is, I feel it as kind of two separate things a little bit at first.

I feel this kind of triggering my swing to help get my arms and hands to go nice and inside and be moved by my body.

And then I feel that my right arm is just kind of going up where I want it to, to get the club in position.

But I don't feel like my arm is glued to my chest and I'm rotating like this.

That's going to slow my arms and hand speed down.

It's going to only move as fast as I can move my body.

So I move from here, go back, and then it's very easy for me to just get the club to swing up.

And then I feel like from here, what this does is helps get my hip and my body out of the way.

Because the most important thing is getting back down into that GDP position, because that's how you're going to control the face.

Once I'm in GDP and I've got that arm supinated, I got the club face square all day.

This is all I got to do.

It's so simple.

But I have to have room for this.

If my hips, if my body doesn't get back out of the way and I start to rotate, then my arms and hands are always going to come out like this.

And then I'm going to have the club late and I'm going to have to flip my hands.

Or I'm going to come over the top if I'm a high handicap.

Getting this back out of the way quickly and early makes room for me to start bringing my arm back down into GDP.

So this, if you're trying to clear your hips.

Something that I'm gonna say that's probably gonna sound kind of shocking.

In tiger swing, you don't try to clear your hips.

Your hips are going to clear automatically, but if you try and clear them, you're gonna mess everything up and you're gonna put way more effort into the swing than you need.

You don't have to try and fire your hips at all.

You have to use your arm and your body, the right side of your core to swing down, but I'm not trying to turn my hips here.

As I'm trying to bring my right arm down in that GDP position.

Because if I, if I pronate, I don't have to clear my hips at all, but if I supinate.

My right side of my body is going to push my left hip back out of the way and force my leg to straighten.

But I don't try and straighten my leg, I don't try and turn my hips.

I try to bring my arm down very fast with my body, just like again throwing a punch.

And as I'm doing this, all of this stuff that you're trying to do with your body happens automatically.

So hopefully that kind of answers your question there.

Let me try to go back here a little bit.

Cormac had a question about hinging the risk.

You do hinge the wrist, but as you get to a longer swing, it happens later in the swing.

It's going to still happen off the ball a bit, but in a chipping stroke, we need some wrist hinge to have anything to hit with.

And so it sets a little bit earlier, but this is giving you a feel for how to set it, period, and starting to get control of that club face and releasing it.

Practice one-hand chipping.

I'm doing pretty good.

I put two hands on it and start shanking it.

If you're shanking chips.

Your body is probably really static, or you're just using your arms to slap at the ball by themselves.

Your body and your arms have to work together.

So if I just kind of take the club back, let me try and shank one here.

So I put both hands on here and I don't move my body at all.

That's a shank.

And if you look like this, you didn't move your body at all, especially in the backswing.

And that's a really common mistake is not getting this core.

To clear back out of the way now, obviously, in a chipping stroke, it's way more subtle.

We don't need to turn our core that much, but you do need to turn it some.

You've got to make room for your arm, otherwise if you try and bring your arm down, there's no room for it.

And you're going to hit it off the hosel.

So make sure you're using your body to clear your body, to make room for that arm to come down.

If you're not sure what's happening there, have Craig, review your swing and see what's going on there, let's see, Yeah, there's a little bit of wrist cock and hinge.

I'm going to talk more about the wrists in the wedge play stuff because there's not a lot of wrist set in these pitching strokes.

But it's a small amount of wrist hinging and wrist cock.

Tight lies is a problem.

Tight lies shouldn't be a problem at all because if you're compressing the ball properly, you've got shaffling.

And if you've got shaffling, you're not going to hit the ground first.

So if you're hitting the ground first, you don't have enough shaffling.

If you have shaft lean, the ball, the club is still working down and doesn't bottom out to here.

So if you haven't seen that, the video on the compression drill, take a look at that because you will, you won't have any problems off the tight line.

Do your hips lag behind core movement?

Interesting question.

So let me talk about the hips.

This, This, This, This This, This, This, This This, This, This, This, This, This, more but.

The way that I look at Tiger Swing and the chipping stroke and all these things, I don't really try and move my hips.

My hips move, as you've seen, you know, you see my swing side by side with his, but I'm never trying to move my hips.

And when I say hips, I'm really talking about like my pelvis.

So like from here down, right?

Now, the trick is my core has all sorts of muscles that attach to my pelvis and attach to my rib cage.

But in my mind, I'm not trying to move my hips specifically.

I'm moving my core.

And because I'm moving my core, my hips move.

And so I don't think about my hips.

I'm thinking about this.

And then I think about hitting hard with it.

And then my hips turned, but I never tried to move my hips.

I'm moving my core.

And that's why going through a lot of those core activation drills is so important because so many people don't know how to activate their core, can't feel it, haven't used it in many years.

And so if you're trying to use your hips, my hips don't move anything, right?

The golf club's not moving.

I can move my hips all I want, but that golf club ain't gonna do anything, right?

But now I start moving my core, my shoulders and hips and arms and everything get moved together.

That's why the core is so important.

And pitching occasionally got leading edge involved.

How can I ensure that I'm using the bounce better?

If you're kind of digging too much when you're doing that compression drill, it's most likely hand action.

So you're probably coming down too steep with your hand or your arm.

And more commonly, it's the arm, kind of extending that arm and pushing the club down into the dirt.

And your arm is not really involved.

I mean, it is, but it isn't.

You're not trying to actively push the club down.

You're trying to stay in the supinated position because that's what allows you to hold the club face square the longest.

But if you're trying to push the club, You're going to start pronating and that's going to throw the club down, and you're going to stick the club in the dirt.

So that would be what I would think is the thing that's typically happening there.

I think I just answered that.

Any adjustments if the lie is fluffy?

Yeah, if you've got a fluffy lie, I just typically choke up on the club stand taller just to make sure I don't go down into it.

But everything else is the same.

The forward press.

That's an interesting one.

So forward press.

In a lead hand, lead side pattern, I don't like a forward press.

Because your lead side and your body are really working to whip the club through.

And when you forward press with the lead hand, it just dumps the club inside as soon as you take the club back.

In a trail side pattern, it's a very different animal.

And the forward press is actually extremely important because you're starting to get this wrist, your trail wrist, into extension.

And extension, where it's hinged back like this, is how you're able to deloft.

the club face, control the club face, keep it square and hit the ball hard with your right hand.

So the forward press is not just your hand movement.

Now in a chipping stroke or putting stroke, the body's involved, but it's really, really subtle.

So as you start building up to this, you know, into bigger and bigger shots, you're going to find that forward press more and more helpful.

So here's how I would describe what's going on in the forward press and how to do it correctly.

So the first thing is, the first thing I'm trying to move is this back here that I just talked about.

This is going to get everything going back.

And make room for my arms and give my arms momentum and help me keep the club outside my hands, and so on.

So what I'm trying to do first is I'm actually going to rock this forward.

Now, I'm going to exaggerate these things because it's easier to see, but I'm going to kind of rock this forward and then rip this back.

And this is going to happen very quickly in my full swing.

In a chipping stroke, it's a lot more subtle and not as fast of a movement.

But this movement of rocking this forward primes it to go back.

It's very hard to do things from a static position in golf.

It's like trying to jump from like this.

You want to go down and then go back up.

So I go forward and then back.

So that's how I start to prime everything to get my body, my core, and my arms and hands to work together.

As I go forward, what's going to happen to my hand?

It's going to, again, huge exaggeration here, right?

Because my forward press is really like that.

But as I go forward, that starts to move my wrist into extension.

And then as I go back, I'm primed.

These muscles are stretched and then ready to load and go back.

So the forward press, I'm not trying to do this with my arms and hands.

That's silly.

That's just going to get your arms and hands way out of position and out of control.

I use my body.

So I kind of push into my lead foot first.

Do this?

I open my shoulders just a little bit again.

Huge exaggerations here, and then I get everything firing 1000 back, and then I'm able to keep my wrist.

1001 Kind of like, I talked about in that Goat 1002 drill video where you know this motion.

1003 This is what my takeaway feels like in a 1004 full swing.

Now, of course, it's not like 1005 this, it's not to this extreme.

But this 1006 feeling of going forward with my core and 1007 then going back 1008 allows me to not have to do something 1009 with my arms and hands.

That's going to 1010 sling the club way inside.

1011 So getting used to that feeling of 1012 everything going forward and then back 1013 will get the club going straight back and 1014 up on plane for you.

Very easy.

1015 Does not ground move the hips which move 1016 the hips?

Not sure I fully understand 1017 that one.

It should have said hips move 1018 the core.

1019 I answered that one, I think.

1020 With doing these chipping ring tests as 1021 everybody's getting indoors, obviously 1022 there's going to be a limit on how far 1023 you can hit the ball.

You might practice 1024 with like foam balls, 1025 like softer balls that you can hit 1026 inside.

Because then obviously your 1027 stroke is however far, let's say like for 1028 me, My 20-yard chip shot is that if 1029 that's my 20-yard chip shot, and I know 1030 with a real ball, then I know.

As I come 1031 in with a foam ball, I can get kind of 1032 used to that same feeling and start kind 1033 of practicing the same stroke inside.

But 1034 otherwise, yeah, that's going to be 1035 tricky.

Uh, you know, just as we get 1036 going outdoors or indoors, for a lot of 1037 people in the winter, maybe foam balls is 1038 kind of a good solution there.

All right.

1039 Hopefully I answered all those questions 1040 for you guys.

Anything else?

1041 Yeah, I don't do the clock thing.

I did a 1042 long time ago, many, many years ago.

1043 I don't have any problem with it if you 1044 want to do it.

I'm all feel.

I don't know 1045 what time of day it is.

When I'm hitting 1046 a 20-yard shot or 40-yard shot, I just 1047 know what it looks like and I know what 1048 it feels like.

And that's just getting 1049 used to doing those shots over and over 1050 again.

Again, I don't have a problem with 1051 it.

To me, it just makes the stroke very 1052 mechanical.

And to me, every single 20 1053 -yard shot I hit is different, at least on 1054 the course.

Obviously, if I'm practicing, 1055 it's not.

But some I want to hit a little 1056 bit higher.

Some I want to hit a little 1057 bit lower.

Some I want more spin.

Some I 1058 want less spin.

1059 And that changes.

1060 How far I'm going to take the club back, 1061 what I'm going to do with my hands and so 1062 on.

But um, you know, that's, that's 1063 really a personal preference thing.

Like 1064 I said, I don't think it's a bad thing 1065 per se.

Um, I just.

I find it better for 1066 me to play by, feel and just hit.

You 1067 know, had enough shots in my lifetime to 1068 know, like, okay, this is 20 yards.

And I 1069 don't want to think about how far I'm 1070 taking the club back.

I want to think 1071 about where I'm going to land it or how 1072 much spin I want to put on it.

1073 Distance is controlled to a large degree 1074 by length of swing, yes.

Obviously, you 1075 can apply more force as well.

1076 Pulling left shoulder back.

1077 I don't know what you mean there, 1078 but I left shoulder.

Okay, I think what 1079 you're talking about.

1080 Lead side pattern.

In a trail side 1081 pattern, definitely not.

You don't want 1082 to be pulling that left shoulder open at 1083 all.

You're going to start hitting 1084 everything off the toe.

1085 In a trailside pattern, this left arm and 1086 left shoulder and left hand don't really 1087 do anything.

Left side of your body, they 1088 don't do anything.

It's this.

1089 That is all you're trying to do, and do 1090 that with some speed.

And because it's 1091 your dominant hand, it's not going to be 1092 difficult to do.

You're going to learn 1093 how to apply force.

You just have to 1094 learn how to control the face first.

1095 But learning how to tone down that left 1096 side in a trailside pattern is one of the 1097 bigger challenges.

1098 Let's see.

1099 If I occasionally hit chips thin, uh, it 1100 could be a lot of things.

Paul.

Uh, it 1101 could be flipping at it with your hands, 1102 uh, could be balls too far back.

Need to 1103 video that and take a look and post that 1104 on the side or get a quick swing review?

1105 Because that's something very simple to 1106 fix.

Look like taking the club back in a 1107 down the line view.

Uh, yeah.

So again, 1108 you know, it depends on the shot that 1109 you're hitting, but like, if it's hitting 1110 a little pitch, shot I, again, I just get 1111 this to go first and then that's it.

1112 And then as you move into longer swings, 1113 of course, all of that stuff is exactly 1114 the same.

So if I just kind of started 1115 moving a little bit longer here, you 1116 know, that's maybe with a 60 degree 1117 wedge, that's maybe like a 60 yard shot, 1118 80 yard shot.

1119 Same thing.

So the motion is exactly the 1120 same.

It just gets a little bit longer, a 1121 little bit faster, and then you go full.

1122 And that's a hundred yard, 60 degree 1123 wedge.

1124 Hopefully that kind of gives you the 1125 look, the feel for that.

1126 Do you spot where you want the ball to 1127 land?

1128 Yes and no.

So good.

These are kind of 1129 personal preference things.

1130 Some people like to look, you know, a 1131 specific spot that they're going to land 1132 on.

For certain shots, I think that's a 1133 great thing.

1134 I personally kind of see the shot as a 1135 whole.

1136 I practice landing it to a spot because I 1137 want to know that I have control of the 1138 spin and the de-lofting, the strike, 1139 hitting in the center of the face, all 1140 that.

And to do that, you need to be able 1141 to control the club face.

And so I 1142 practice hitting to a certain spot over 1143 and over and over again.

So like the 1144 video I showed you earlier, that's a 20 1145 yard shot.

And I practice hitting it 1146 inside that three foot ring over and over 1147 and over again.

1148 I'm not on the course.

I don't 1149 necessarily try to land it in an exact 1150 spot.

I know roughly where I want it to 1151 land, but I really just play that by 1152 feel.

Now that doesn't mean you have to 1153 do it that way.

1154 Everybody's a little bit different.

Some 1155 people kind of find an area.

I think 1156 Tiger's more of a general area chipper, 1157 but I find that if I try to be super 1158 exacting, And try to, like, land it on a 1159 super on one specific spot.

I kind of 1160 miss the forest for the trees a lot of 1161 times.

I don't.

I don't see the whole 1162 shot.

At the end of the day, it's all 1163 about getting it closest to the hole, 1164 right?

So if you feel comfortable with 1165 that and know it's going to roll out a 1166 certain amount, that's great.

I kind of 1167 see the whole shot because every shot to 1168 me again is different.

Depending on how 1169 much spin I want to put on it and how 1170 high I want to hit it, and so on.

But 1171 both both ways are perfectly fine.

Um, 1172 there's not necessarily a wrong or right 1173 way in that way.

Do any of these drills 1174 help you for a lead side dominant?

This 1175 is all trail side dominant stuff.

1176 Core activation.

1177 Activating your core throughout the whole 1178 swing.

I think that's really a 1179 misunderstanding of what you're really 1180 trying to do.

Your core is absolutely 1181 activated.

I'm standing here and my core 1182 is activated.

1183 You're saying you lose consistency when 1184 you're trying to activate your core.

I 1185 don't think you really fully understand 1186 what that really means, because you're 1187 probably just keeping it tight and that 1188 to you is activated.

That's not the right 1189 idea.

1190 Obviously, like just hitting those little 1191 shots that I was hitting here with the 1192 60, my core is activated.

It's activated 1193 right now.

It's activated now.

It's 1194 activated now.

But I'm not thinking about 1195 it.

I'm thinking about moving my hand, 1196 that middle finger, which is controlling 1197 that club face.

And that's.

activating 1198 my core.

I'm using my core to do that.

I 1199 wouldn't just do it with just my arm.

1200 There's no power there.

So I know if I 1201 want to move my hand and club face really 1202 fast, my core has to help that just like 1203 a punch.

Again, that's my favorite.

The 1204 medicine ball, same thing.

I like this 1205 because it gives you all that weight.

So 1206 now I don't have to think about using my 1207 core, activating my core, But it 1208 absolutely is, Because otherwise I'm 1209 going to throw like this and my arm's 1210 going to pronate over and I'm not going 1211 to have any power.

But when I use my body 1212 to do it, I think you're just kind of 1213 overthinking and overdoing what core 1214 activation is.

1215 Do you have a recommendation for the 1216 club?

Yeah, I specifically say use the 60 1217 on all of those.

1218 Can you show your down the line view 1219 using your trowel hand only putt?

Sure.

1220 With a trail hand only putt, the big 1221 thing that I think most people need to 1222 kind of work on is getting their body 1223 involved.

Because what I see a lot is 1224 this.

1225 The club going outside and then coming 1226 across.

And then it's very, very hard to 1227 control the loft at impact.

And 1228 controlling loft is hugely important.

1229 which is what you're learning in that 1230 compression drill.

And I know many of you 1231 probably haven't gotten to it yet, but as 1232 you get in there, controlling loft is 1233 everything.

I'm making you hit the ball a 1234 certain trajectory, because if you don't 1235 have any control over that clubface 1236 again, what are we doing here?

And 1237 control of the clubface isn't just 1238 clubface angle.

It is loft, right?

So 1239 controlling loft with the putter is 1240 equally important.

So it's very important 1241 that you use your core, the same right 1242 side that I was describing earlier, 1243 because that's going to help the club go 1244 naturally inside.

1245 And as it's inside, as I come back 1246 through, the putter phase is coming back 1247 through with true loft every time.

I'm 1248 going to de-loft it a little bit because 1249 I'm going to have a little bit of wrist 1250 hinge.

And so my wrist is not going to be 1251 fully released by the time I strike the 1252 ball.

1253 But that's the most important thing.

So 1254 when I go trail hand only, I have a 1255 tendency to just kind of get lazy with my 1256 body and just use my arm too.

And that's 1257 obviously going to create the same effect 1258 where the club's going way outside.

So I 1259 try to make sure.

1260 But as I go back, I'm moving it with my 1261 core.

And then that gets the club going 1262 on a nice inside track there.

And then as 1263 I do that, then I just release it with my 1264 right hand.

1265 Obviously, my right hand is hinging a 1266 little bit as I go back.

1267 And that's it.

1268 Does that help?

1269 Is it blade or mallet putter?

Again, 1270 that's kind of personal preference stuff.

1271 It does obviously make a difference 1272 because obviously a putter like I'm using 1273 is going to want to rotate.

I've got 1274 about 45 degrees or something of droop, 1275 how much the toe hangs down there.

Maybe 1276 it's 40 degrees.

I can't remember.

So 1277 this clubface naturally wants to do this 1278 a little bit.

You don't have to putt like 1279 that.

You can putt with more of a.

1280 you know, kind of straight back and 1281 straight through and have a keep, keep 1282 the club face a little bit more square.

1283 To me, this is the most natural way to 1284 putt is with a putter that has this level 1285 of droop or toe hang, because I want it 1286 to naturally want to release for me.

And 1287 most mallet putters are face balanced.

1288 Again, nothing wrong with that.

It's just 1289 going to change the stroke a little bit.

1290 But to me, 1291 I like the feeling of a little bit of 1292 release.

Again, I'm not doing this, but 1293 I'm using my body and then letting the 1294 putter release.

1295 And the toe does turn over a little bit.

1296 With a blade putter or mallet putter, 1297 that doesn't feel very natural with most 1298 face balance putters.

1299 The toe doesn't want to release the same.

1300 It just doesn't feel natural to me.

But 1301 hopefully that helps.

But either one is 1302 perfectly fine.

It's just kind of what 1303 you really prefer to feel.

1304 Yep, Ricky, that's the progression.

It's 1305 the same stuff.

I use the tee drill all 1306 the time with one hand.

It's so great to 1307 be able to get that feeling of the 1308 putter, naturally, going between those 1309 two tees and swinging the putter.

1310 At first, you're probably kind of having 1311 to hold it tight to kind of get it to go 1312 through there.

That's normal.

But as you 1313 get comfortable with this and the putter 1314 just starts naturally swinging through 1315 that gate like nothing.

You're starting 1316 to really get an understanding of how 1317 your body, your core and your right hand 1318 begin to work together to release that 1319 putter.

And then it starts going through 1320 the tees automatically for you, you don't 1321 have to fight going through there, that 1322 takes a little bit.

Yeah, I mean, Ricky 1323 the Tiger uses that tee drill like every 1324 single round of golf, still.

So it's up 1325 to you, right?

But he still uses it every 1326 single day.

Anytime that your stroke gets 1327 off, bust those tees out.

It's, It's, 1328 It's.

It's It's, It's, It's.

It's It's, 1329 It's, It's.

It's, It's, It's.

1330 Like if you're taking the club outside, 1331 you're going to almost always hit one of 1332 those tees.

And so that'll really help 1333 you get the putter to naturally swing 1334 through that gate.

1335 Any other questions?

1336 for what we're covering.

1337 The compression drill, it's going to be 1338 your best friend.

1339 Don't skimp on that.

1340 So first of all, there's two important 1341 drills in that compression drill at the 1342 pitching series.

The first one is the 1343 starting line drill, and that's only a 10 1344 -yard carry shot, but you've only got a 1345 foot width, a landing area.

And you need 1346 to be able to land the ball consistently 1347 in that one foot by three foot long area, 1348 over and over and over again.

And it's 1349 not hard.

Once you learn to do this, it's 1350 hard if you're doing this or this, but if 1351 you start getting the feeling of that, 1352 Then you're going to be able to land that 1353 ball in the exact same spot and hit the 1354 ball in the center of the face over and 1355 over again.

And that is so extremely 1356 important.

1357 Thank you, Mark.

We appreciate that.

When 1358 will we be receiving the testing videos?

1359 They're already up.

They're all on the 1360 side already.

1361 Yeah.

So go to the site.

Now, another 1362 thing that I want to talk to you guys 1363 about is that we're redoing the site.

So 1364 those of you, if there's any of you that 1365 kind of want to test some of this stuff 1366 out, we're redoing the site to make it 1367 way simpler, way, way simpler because 1368 Probably 90% of the videos that are on 1369 the site that have been over there.

I 1370 mean, this site's been up since January 1371 2005.

1372 So 20 years of content.

1373 I want to get rid of so much of it.

I 1374 know it will still be there as a library, 1375 as a resource to go through.

1376 But going into the Goat Code stuff and 1377 doing this stuff exactly the way that 1378 Tiger does, You'll start to see just how 1379 much simpler everything is when you learn 1380 to control that clubface with this right 1381 hand.

1382 And we've boiled it down into a much, 1383 much simpler, smaller, easier to go 1384 through organized fashion.

So we will be 1385 rolling that out to test later this week, 1386 I think, or next week, I guess.

And so 1387 you'll see a little pop-up come up.

If 1388 you want to go in there and check that 1389 out and give us some feedback, that would 1390 be really, really cool.

And then, of 1391 course, at the end of the day, these 1392 drills are so simple.

They're so simple, 1393 right?

I mean, literally, if you can do 1394 this, you can hit the driver a mile down 1395 the fairway dead straight.

But if you're 1396 not doing these little things right and a 1397 truly starting with the putter, Then 1398 you're never going to really understand 1399 what club face control is.

And 1400 understanding it in the way that, like 1401 Tiger does, and other great, truly great 1402 ball strikers, the way that they have 1403 swung the club.

So you get help.

It's 1404 just going to speed things up so much 1405 faster.

And so that's what's up on your 1406 screen now.

If you guys want to work with 1407 Craig to learn how to do this stuff and 1408 get feedback right away.

1409 Rather than just going out there and 1410 hitting a bunch of balls and having no 1411 idea if you're doing it right.

Craig's 1412 being very generous.

He's giving half off 1413 for the first month.

So literally for $3 1414 and like 75 cents a day, you can get a 1415 golf lesson every single day.

And that's 1416 where this stuff really starts to matter.

1417 Because if you're not doing this putting 1418 drill right, then you're not going to be 1419 able to chip.

You're not going to be able 1420 to pass any of these skills assessment 1421 tests that you're going to see on the 1422 site now.

1423 None of them, because if you can't 1424 control that putter face, you're not 1425 going to be able to control it chipping.

1426 You're not going to be able to control it 1427 pitching and so on and so forth.

So 1428 that's what that link is up on the 1429 screen.

I highly recommend, especially as 1430 the winter months come on, to work with 1431 somebody who can guide you through all 1432 this stuff so much simpler, so much 1433 faster, and take advantage of this half 1434 -off offer because you save a ton of 1435 money.

1436 Let's see.

1437 Are you asking about kind of like these 1438 live sessions that we're talking about 1439 doing right now?

1440 Awesome, David.

Yeah, this stuff is, it 1441 is a game changer when you do it.

No in 1442 -person.

Oh, I do in-person lessons all 1443 the time.

1444 And so does Craig.

So we do them all the 1445 time.

1446 So I'm not sure exactly what you're 1447 doing.

I'm actually flying to Dallas on 1448 Wednesday to go teach for a day.

1449 Can you explain more detail on the hands, 1450 get forward impact?

As I've been trying 1451 to move the hands forward, it doesn't 1452 work because your hand's sitting back and 1453 the body rotating.

I hope that makes 1454 sense.

1455 David, did you go through the compression 1456 drill video?

1457 Okay.

1458 I'm not sure exactly what's going on 1459 there, but literally it's.

1460 As you get here and forward press and 1461 drive with your arm, drive that hand 1462 forward with your body and your core to 1463 move your hand forward.

You should have 1464 shaffling just like this.

1465 So I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, 1466 but literally the whole compression drill 1467 is core back, a little bit of wrist 1468 hinge, 1469 drive that hand forward, drive that goat 1470 arm forward with that wrist.

1471 Use your core, obviously.

Your core has 1472 to help move the arm forward, but that's 1473 1474 Maintain that wrist, and you've got shaft 1475 lean.

1476 Yeah, if you want help, I can help a 1477 couple of you real quick here if you're 1478 struggling with it.

If you've got a 1479 camera set up and a mic, we can hop on 1480 stage real quick, and we can guide you 1481 through it.

1482 Anybody want to come up on stage?

Anybody 1483 need any help with something specific 1484 like that?

1485 Everybody's camera shy.

1486 All right, so last thing, what I want to 1487 emphasize, the same thing you hear Tiger 1488 say all the time, hit the center of the 1489 face.

1490 Doing what you're doing right now with 1491 the putter, the tee drill ensures that.

1492 The chipping drills are coming next.

If 1493 you haven't gone through those yet, but 1494 once you start doing these, don't be 1495 hitting it all over the place.

You should 1496 be hitting it in very much the same place 1497 on the face every single time.

It's very 1498 important that you learn to do that while 1499 you're chipping.

And because when you get 1500 into pitching, It's going to be so 1501 difficult to get to pass these skills 1502 assessment tests if you're not hitting 1503 the center of the face.

But again, 1504 hitting it in the center of the face is 1505 so simple like this.

It's that.

1506 And then everything is so much simpler.

1507 With this stroke pattern that Tiger does 1508 that, you're not going to have any 1509 trouble with that.

1510 But you've got to pay attention to this.

1511 You've got to make sure that your arms 1512 and hands, You're getting the right 1513 technique because technique is what's 1514 going to make your life so much easier.

1515 Unfortunately, I don't.

My student is 1516 flying me out there and I'm just going to 1517 be out there with him for a day and then 1518 flying right back.

1519 My hand's flipping underneath the impact 1520 instead of keeping forward shaft weight.

1521 Well, Then you're missing the entire 1522 point of the drill if your hands are 1523 flipping, because literally I'm making 1524 you hold the club base like this.

So hold 1525 1526 You can't flip if you're holding it.

I'm 1527 holding onto that club firm and driving 1528 it through.

1529 So there's no way that club base is 1530 flipping.

There's no way I'm scooping 1531 because I'm holding it tight and I'm 1532 using my body to drive that hand forward.

1533 There should be no way.

The only way 1534 you're going to scoop is if your hands 1535 and wrists are soft.

You've got to hold 1536 onto that club with some control.

1537 Add lead hand.

It should be even easier.

1538 If you're flipping it with your lead 1539 hand, when your lead hand comes on there, 1540 you're doing something with it.

Your lead 1541 hand doesn't do anything.

1542 Put your lead hand on there.

Here's a 1543 great drill for this.

I do this all the 1544 time.

1545 If I start doing something with my lead 1546 hand, everybody should listen to this for 1547 a sec because it's not on the site, but I 1548 do it all the time.

So I'll take my 1549 normal grip.

1550 With both hands on there, That I take all 1551 my fingers of my left hand off the club 1552 and all I do is squeeze my thumb with my 1553 right hand.

So I literally grip it like 1554 this and then do the same thing.

And so 1555 then I know if my left hand is starting 1556 to botch what I'm doing, because if my 1557 left hand's on there and I'm controlling 1558 it with my right.

1559 nothing should happen.

But if I wrap my 1560 fingers back around and I start doing 1561 this, you're just using your left hand.

1562 Yeah, I should probably put that on the 1563 side.

It's just one of my own personal 1564 drills.

It's really hard when you start 1565 hitting longer shots.

1566 It's something that's very different in a 1567 trail side pattern versus lead side.

1568 Trail side pattern or lead side pattern, 1569 I could keep my, you know, we did this 1570 drill all the time with the VJ drill, let 1571 the right hand come off.

You can still 1572 hit the ball just fine.

1573 Because you've got these last three 1574 fingers, which are a lot of grip strength 1575 in your left hand to be able to hold the 1576 club through.

When I do it with my trail 1577 hand, you really only got your middle two 1578 fingers on there.

And somebody asked me 1579 in the forum this week, under one of the 1580 videos, can you do a reverse overlap?

And 1581 I've actually done that as well.

And 1582 sometimes I chip that way.

But especially 1583 when I was learning to get my left hand 1584 out of my swing, I would actually reverse 1585 overlap.

1586 Just for you guys that don't know that.

1587 So I would have a reverse overlap like 1588 this.

1589 So my left index finger would go over 1590 instead of interlocking.

And this allows 1591 me to get my bright pinky on the club, 1592 which gives me a lot more grip strength 1593 and a lot more control when I have.

And 1594 that's probably what a lot of you guys 1595 are experiencing is that, you know, when 1596 you're going one hand only, you've got 1597 that pinky on there.

It helps complete 1598 the grip and gives you a lot of strength 1599 and control.

And when you.

1600 Interlock or overlap?

You take that pinky 1601 out of it, you really got your middle two 1602 fingers, these middle two fingers have 1603 got to get stronger to be able to control 1604 that club face.

And you should be getting 1605 a callus there, like it should be worn 1606 out, you should have some blisters in 1607 there, some calluses in there on the 1608 middle finger.

Because you have to hold 1609 on to the club firmly enough to be able 1610 to control it, and you've got to be 1611 strong enough to be able to do that.

So 1612 one of the things you can do as you're 1613 kind of transitioning is reverse overlap.

1614 Put that left index finger over your 1615 right pinky and start practicing that way 1616 to add your left hand on there, and 1617 that'll help you kind of transition a 1618 little bit easier.

Yeah, You don't want 1619 to be releasing the club right now that 1620 much when you're doing these drills and 1621 when we're talking about releasing.

One 1622 thing you've got to understand is that 1623 the release.

There obviously is some 1624 release in that pitching stroke.

But you 1625 want to practice until you can control it 1626 and hold that release off and get the 1627 club face to be dead square every time.

1628 Because you really don't need that much 1629 release.

You need like that much, 1630 not this much.

That's way too much unless 1631 you're hitting a bunker shot or a flop 1632 shot or something.

But on most golf 1633 swings, when you think about, and I'm 1634 going to talk more about this in the 1635 wedge play gate series, but all you're 1636 really trying to do is use that much of 1637 your wrist leverage in the golf swing.

1638 That's really it.

1639 A lot of golfers try to use that much.

1640 That's way too much.

So when I'm actually 1641 hitting the ball on a normal shot, as I'm 1642 here, I still have most of my wrist 1643 angle.

And then as I go to hit it, I'm 1644 only losing that much.

But look at how 1645 much shaft lean I have.

But the club 1646 still has that much more to go.

So in 1647 terms of percentage of release, I'm using 1648 20% of it.

There's 80% more release still 1649 available to me.

That's what you're 1650 learning to do.

As you're doing these 1651 drills is to only hit with a little bit 1652 of release, because that's how you 1653 maintain shaft lean, which is how you 1654 maintain control over the golf ball.

You 1655 don't want it fully released unless 1656 you're hitting like a bunker shot.

1657 Yeah, there should be absolutely zero 1658 flipping.

None.

1659 And if you're not sure what that's 1660 supposed to feel like, get the old trusty 1661 impact bag out.

One of your best friends 1662 should be like this.

1663 Your hands should never be like this.

So 1664 as soon as you get used to that feeling, 1665 then you know that you're able to control 1666 that face.

But as you're working through 1667 that compression drill, that pitching 1668 drill with compression, video yourself.

1669 If you video yourself, you should look 1670 exactly like me and Tiger in that stroke 1671 because it's a very, very basic stroke.

1672 It's very boring.

It's very simple.

And 1673 it's just not doing much of anything to 1674 get into that right position.

So yeah, 1675 the impact bag, that's so helpful.

If we 1676 have them in the store, they're really, 1677 really, really important if you're not 1678 used to using one.

1679 Yeah, if you're videoing your swing and 1680 you don't understand why you're still 1681 flipping, then get some help because this 1682 is something that should be, again, 1683 that's as basic of a golf stroke as you 1684 can make, right?

So there's no reason 1685 that your hand should ever be breaking 1686 down here.

So have Craig or somebody give 1687 you a quick lesson, do a swing review or 1688 something, and that will change all that.

1689 No, you're still releasing, William.

1690 The club still releases.

1691 Does shot shape affect this?

To a degree, 1692 you're going to, you know, when I'm 1693 hitting a draw, I'm going to get a little 1694 bit more release.

1695 When I'm hitting a cut, I want to hit 1696 down on it a little bit more and come 1697 across a little bit more.

So I'm 1698 releasing a little bit less.

So you're 1699 maybe talking just, you know, a handful 1700 of degrees.

1701 So it's not a huge amount.

But yeah, I 1702 mean, you know, when I'm hitting a draw, 1703 I'm going to, especially if I'm going to 1704 hit a high draw.

Going to stay back on a 1705 little bit more, let my hands release a 1706 little bit more, so I'm not going to hit.

1707 I don't want to de-loft it as much.

And 1708 when I'm hitting a cut, I really like to 1709 hit a low cut and so I like to get on top 1710 of it a little bit more.

And so then I'm 1711 having even I'm releasing the club even 1712 less and then really hitting, kind of 1713 like a flat, penetrating cut shot.

But 1714 um, but yeah, so yeah.

Williams, I talked 1715 about the full release earlier again, 1716 it's it's here, it's going to fully 1717 release out here.

The release of the golf 1718 club isn't done until right about here, 1719 give or take a little bit, when every 1720 single angle of the swing has gotten rid 1721 of.

Your wrist is fully rotated, your 1722 arm's fully extended, your wrist is fully 1723 released, unhinged, uncocked, but you 1724 never want that to happen down here.

1725 You need to be like that here and fully 1726 released out here.

1727 You're not using all of your power in the 1728 golf swing.

You need to leave a bunch in 1729 the tank.

And that's how you're going to 1730 compress the ball properly.

Now, if you 1731 want to hit longer drives, then that's 1732 when you start getting closer to fully 1733 releasing it.

1734 Some guys will fully release it, like Seb 1735 Twaddell, who's one of the longest 1736 drivers on the planet.

But, you know, you 1737 lose control.

They only have to hit one 1738 out of six in the grid that's 80 yards 1739 wide.

I want every single ball in the 1740 fairway, which means I'm willing to give 1741 up some distance in order to be able to 1742 compress it.

Many of you are like, wait a 1743 second, I can't give up any distance.

1744 You can't give up any distance because 1745 you're not swinging the club correctly.

1746 You're not adding power and force 1747 correctly.

You don't understand how to 1748 control the club face yet.

So as you 1749 start learning how to control the club 1750 face, You'll be able to start applying a 1751 lot more force with your trail hand that 1752 you don't know how to do right now 1753 because you can't control it.

Most 1754 people, when they add a lot more right 1755 hand, they just start snipe hooking it 1756 off the planet or swinging over the top 1757 really bad.

That's not going to happen 1758 when you're in the goat position.

When 1759 you're in that GDP position, you can't 1760 swing over the top.

So once you're here 1761 and you're doing this with force, You can 1762 do as hard and fast as you want.

1763 Yeah, the medicine ball, that's still 1764 going to be one of your best friends as 1765 well.

You need to be able to use and 1766 learn how to feel what your core is doing 1767 and how it's moving the body in the golf 1768 swing.

So if you haven't got one of these 1769 or go back and watch one of the other 1770 webinars that I did, this is going to get 1771 your core waking up.

1772 Just a medicine ball with handles like 1773 this.

And then as you start working on 1774 this, you're going to start getting the 1775 feeling of how to throw, how to create 1776 torque, all of those things I talk about 1777 in those core activation drills.

1778 That's going to make your life so much 1779 easier being able to engage this.

It's so 1780 simple.

1781 Thank you.

Thank you, JR.

1782 Yeah, Richard, I have to see it.

You're 1783 probably swinging steep or over the top 1784 or shutting the face down, pronating.

It 1785 could be a million things, right?

So if 1786 you're hitting it left full swing, maybe 1787 you're not turning enough and then you're 1788 swinging down steep or you're letting 1789 this happen.

This arm can't pronate.

As 1790 soon as this arm pronates, the club face 1791 shuts down.

And then as soon as that 1792 happens, you don't have control of the 1793 club face, right?

So you've got to 1794 practice getting here and driving that 1795 through in order to be able to control 1796 the club face so that it's square every 1797 time through the hitting area.

This is 1798 the point of learning these shots.

1799 At slower speed, with smaller strokes, is 1800 to learn how to do that.

All right, guys, 1801 uh, we've been an hour, so it sounds like 1802 I've got all the questions answered.

1803 Hopefully that helps you guys again.

If 1804 you're not sure what you're missing, make 1805 sure.

Oh, yeah, Ricky, I have ridden, uh, 1806 they're actually closing that motocross 1807 track down this year.

It's a bummer, man.

1808 That was a good one, but I've ridden 1809 there a bunch.

You guys are welcome, 1810 All right.

1811 You're welcome, Steve.

1812 I appreciate it, guys.

Thank you.

1813 Yeah, you guys should definitely work 1814 with Craig.

1815 No unhappy customers there, I promise 1816 you.

1817 You guys are welcome.

Thank you.

Thank 1818 you for saying thank you.

1819 All right, guys.

I will catch you guys on 1820 the flip side.

So work through those 1821 drills.

Oh, one last thing.

1822 I would really find it helpful.

1823 On these skills assessment tests, if you 1824 guys could post videos, again, just like 1825 a 30-second video, however long it takes 1826 you to hit those five shots, I would love 1827 to see you guys working through these 1828 skills assessment tests, the putting one, 1829 the chipping one, the pitching one, the 1830 starting line drill.

I'd love to see 1831 that.

So just post those videos up there.

1832 We'd love to see how you guys are working 1833 through this stuff.

1834 And just post it underneath the video.

1835 Thank you guys.

I appreciate it.

All 1836 right.

Super motocross world championship 1837 is on tonight in an hour.

So I'm out of 1838 here.

I'll see you guys.