Knuckles Down - Logo Down
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The typical amateur golfer has no idea how to control the trajectory of the golf ball. They hit weak, high floating golf shots that get beat up by the wind and make it harder to control distance. In this video I reveal the SECRETS of how to hit low penetrating missiles with any club in the bag.
- Left hand position controls most aspects of ball flight - shot direction, shape, trajectory, etc.
- Left knuckles roll down into impact
- The logo of the glove feels like it's pointing down at the ground at impact - the left wrist is slightly arched
- To hit a higher shot, the logo should feel like it points at the target
- Let the wrist go slightly to the right for a fade, rotate a little more for a draw
When it comes to controlling ball flight, almost everything that dictates where the ball is going to go, how low or high you're going to hit it, what shot shape you're going to have, is dictated by what you do with your left hand.
And unfortunately, that's kind of one of the frustrating parts of the game is that most golfers are right-handed.
They do everything with their right hand and their left hand's never been trained.
Although it's funny, if you watch a golf instructor who's a skilled player, they typically do everything talking with their left hand.
I'm no different.
Most everything I do is demonstrated by what I'm doing with my left hand.
Although in the real world outside of golf, I can't even brush my teeth left-handed.
It's completely useless.
But in golf, I've taken the time to train it so it at least knows how to hit a golf ball.
That's really about it.
When it comes to controlling trajectory, what you want to start feeling is working on what you're feeling with the last three fingers, the last three knuckles in the left hand, and the logo of your glove.
And so I'm going to give you some points that you can check to start being able to control your ball flight and start being able to hit shots.
That you didn't really think you were able to do just by learning how to train this guy.
So what we're going to do at first is we're just going to check our impact alignment.
So you should be able to simulate this position over and over by now.
I'm going to move back a little bit so you can see the club face.
So now, if I'm in a proper impact position, my left hand, back of my left hand is slightly arched.
So you can see this would be kind of in a wrist neutral position.
This would be in a very cupped position.
This is in a slightly arched position.
This would be really bowed.
So you can see how that is.
What that allows me to do is take this six iron and turn it into a three iron.
And that's why pros hit the ball so far.
It's not necessarily that they swing really fast.
It's that they use the club correctly by de-lofting it.
And so now I'm able to hit the ball a long ways without really doing a lot.
Because I've turned this club into a very strong, lofted club.
Now, what I can do if I take my right hand out of the picture is I can notice some things.
From my perspective, you're going to need to grab a club and stand up to be able to see this.
When I take my right hand out of view, I can see these last three fingers on my left hand.
Now, if I was in a cupped position, I wouldn't really be able to see them.
I could just barely see my pinky position and maybe my ring finger.
I want to be able to see almost all the way to my knuckles.
These guys right here on my left hand.
In order to do that, What I have to feel is that these three knuckles as I come into impact are rolling down.
So that the logo on my glove, from my perspective, is pointing at the ground.
Now, obviously, it's not.
From your perspective, you can see it's pointing slightly at the ground but not straight down at the ground.
What you don't want is for your hand to be either pointing at the sky.
That's terrible.
or pointing necessarily directly at the target.
You always want it to have a slight downward angle, so that that's showing that you've taken Loft off the club, Which is going to help you hit the ball further and get a more flat, penetrating ball flight instead of a weak, high, spinny ball flight.
This will, long story short, help you compress the ball because your hands are always going to be further ahead of the club, which will give you a more negative or steeper angle of attack, which is good for trapping the ball and compressing it properly and getting it to launch correctly.
So I like the ball to launch pretty low.
And then at this point, once you can see those knuckles under there, you can see that if I start rotating it over, this is how I'm going to slowly start teaching myself how to shape shots.
Because I can start equating everything that I do with the golf club to these three fingers and my left hand, these three knuckles, and the logo of my glove.
So as I start working on if I want to hit a high shot, I'm going to take this normal impact position and make it slightly weaker.
So that now my logo of my glove, from my perspective, no longer looks like it's pointing straight at the ground.
It looks to me like it's pointing straight at the target.
Obviously, it's still slightly down.
But again, What you want to pay attention to is what you see from your perspective at impact.
Because that's what you're going to be able to measure when you're on the course.
So now my normal impact position looks like it's pointing at the ground.
Here it's kind of pointing at the sky.
Now, but at all points, it's pointing more or less down the target line.
If I want to hit a fade, I'm going to let that wrist position go slightly to the right.
If I want to hit a draw, I'm going to work on rotating a little bit more through impact.
We'll get more into those details later in other videos.
But this is where all of your clubface control comes from.
So at a bare minimum, What I'd like for you to work on is getting into an impact position where you start rolling these fingers down, Being able to see the knuckles on your fingers and your left hand and feel like you're getting the logo of your glove pointing at the ground.
If you start doing this, you're going to be able to start hitting the ball lower, start compressing it and trapping it.
But it's imperative that you work on it very, very slowly.
Start hitting left-handed shots only.
Just going to here and stopping.
And then as you get better, you're going to start releasing.
But for now, just work on keeping that left wrist in that flat arched position there.
And rolling those knuckles under so that rather than coming in where your logo is facing the sky and you're coming across it, you're going to start trapping it and hitting down on it.
So think knuckles down, Rolling the knuckles down and logo down, and you'll start compressing the ball and start getting the ball to come out much lower and flatter.
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