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Thanks Steve! Appreciate the comment.

Agreed. I have most of my students swinging a PW or 9 iron for drills until they get a good feel for them. Thanks for watching and for the comment.

I put out at least one a week. Subscribe and hit notify.

Yes... You don't need to hit the ground hard. but you want to get used to the feel of the club descending on the irons. Driver is the only club that we don't contact the ground. Thanks for the question and for watching.

Great idea! Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks. My student named it! Thanks for watching.

You're welcome. I use many drills for my students, but this one usually has the biggest and quickest results since it involves the entire (abbreviated) swing. Thanks for watching.

Thanks Tripp. Appreciate the comment.

Had to look that up... but very similar. Thanks for watching and for the comment.

Thanks. Appreciate the feedback.

Thanks for watching.

Good question. Drills are always meant to be exaggerated. Once you can do this drill and feels ridiculously easy... move on to hitting some balls with just slightly less of a handle drag on the takeaway. Eventually, it should become a bit like swinging a bat or throwing a ball... we've done it so many times it just feels simple. For most of my students we move from this right into half swing punch shots. I've got a video named "best ball striking drill" You can watch that.. Thanks for the question and for watching.

@ Thank you for the explanation.

Not sure what you mean by "push off". The proper swing has weight transfer just before the downswing begins and then hip rotation. Many of my students struggle to do this drill with both hands at first. Spend some time with just your trail arm (right arm for right handed) and get the loose sloppy feel with that first. Look at the 10 secs mark of this video and try to emulate that. Once that feels simple... move to both arms. Thanks for watching.

Hitting behind the ball and topping the ball are both symptoms of bad sequence. If you video your swing, face on, I would bet that you would see the club extending early on the downswing. That's almost always due to a lack of lower body movement early in the downswing. This drill is exaggerated to help us feel the lower body get engaged early on the downswing and the arms and specifically the wrists release much later. I'll put up a short video to illustrate the downswing positions that all elite players have. Thanks for watching.

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Slightly edited. Just swing the club the right way (without the ball more than) several times a day until you can swing the club the right way (with a ball, on the course, when it counts.) Got it!

Thanks for the support. I'd be happy to do a free swing eval for you. Hit me up if you're interested.

@@SouthernUtahGolfAcademy yes, I would absolutely be interested! How do we proceed?

Send two videos of you hitting a 7 iron. One face on and one down the line. Send them to my email address on my website. Same name as the channel.

@@SouthernUtahGolfAcademy Thank you so much! I will film them in the next day or so and get them sent to you.

​@@keplertssounds good

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You're welcome! Hope it helps.

Give it a try. Thanks for watching

You're 100% correct. And throwing a ball is a great example. I use that feeling a lot when I teach. Thanks for the comment.

It's amazing how few golfers will have the discipline to do this drill WITHOUT the ball. Good for you. Thanks for the feedback.

OK? Thanks for watching.

There is a short! Thanks for watching

I hit the ground pretty hard on this demo but the fairway was really firm. That being said... you can make a nice practice swing and still swing just above the ground. The rehearsal is to feel good tempo and make sure you hold the balanced finish. Don't need a divot fot that. Good question. Thanks for watching.

It's a drill designed to help us "feel" the proper movement of the golf swing. That being said, yes, the sequence is the same but there are differences in ball position and body position between short irons, long irons fairway woods and the driver. Watch my video titled, "Driver vs Irons"

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You're welcome! Hope it helps! Thanks for watching.

Sure... I need a swing with a 7 iron face on and one down the line hitting a ball. Send it to me at kevin@southernutahgolfacademy.com

Thanks for watching. You'll hit it much farther and straighter if you hit it with the bigger muscles.

Thanks for the feedback and good question. Sequence is the same for every club in the bag. (except putting and certain chips shots) however, ball position, and weight distribution changes as the clubs get longer. Watch my "Drivers vs Irons" video. That will help you. Hard for me to convince many students to practice without a ball. The original feedback for most people needs to be about the proper sequence (movement) of a swing. I need a camera for that... not a golf ball.

@@SouthernUtahGolfAcademy I agree, learning the proper sequence of the swing is something I never did. I was more focused on just "hitting" that ball! The ball was getting in the way of me improving my swing and contact. This "Stupid Little Drill" has been amazing. I can feel an A+ swing sequence vs a D- swing sequence now. Thanks so much for offering this great drill. It is a back to basics kind of thing that most golfers should be incorporating in their training. I will check out your "Drivers and Irons" video. Thanks, Kevin, and have great day!

I love it when my in-person students train like you. Thanks for the feedback.

I agree. Not much can go wrong with his move. Thanks for watching

Thanks for watching. Hope it helps!

Ha... His name is Maverick and he's the self appointed channel mascot. Thanks for watching.

See 4:35 of the video. Watch my "2 simple things" video and combine that info with this and you can build a swing that has everything that every elite player has. Consistency requires 2 things, a square face and good angle of attack. Face angle combined with club path give us direction. Impact angle gives us consistent contact. The absolute only way to accomplish both of those consistently, is to learn proper sequence and also learn how to square the face either on the backswing or early on the downswing. Thanks for the comment.

Maybe my favorite comment to date. Thanks for watching.

It'll help. Remember... it's a drill to help us relax so we can feel the proper sequence of the swing. Particularly the arms and wrists. Hit me up if you have questions. Thanks for watching.

I agree. I have a lot of drills for students to delay the release. But, the risk is that they then start to hold off the release artificially, which is really bad. When swinging a bat, we have a significant wrist release. It's just late because it happens after most of the body rotation. Thanks for watching and for the comment.

2nd comment about that. I never actually thought about it but you're right.

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2nd comment about that. I never actually thought about it but you're right.

Thanks. I'm all about helping students find the proper sequence of a golf swing. And you're right... without that consistency will not happen.

Yes, this is exactly the correct way to learn to hit the ball. The whole swing key is what happens from waist high (back) to waist high (thru). Bravo! No ball, whiffle ball and finally real ball.

100%

Takes a lot of time. And once it feels good on the range it still takes a while before I can get it to the course. Thanks for the comment.

Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for commenting.

I'm all about sequence and this drll is designed to help you feel what parts of the body should be moving and when. Swing a bat and you'll feel something similar. With very few exceptions... all golf swings should have the same sequence. Length of the swing and speed of the rotation changes but not the sequence.

@ Thank you. I’m new to golf (under 2 years) but baseball is even more of a mystery to me, so it doesn’t help. Sorry. Personally I’ve been drawing parallels with tennis but it doesn’t work because in golf there is no stepping forward

True... but for shorter irons there is a move into the lead foot like tennis and you also lead with your body on a tennis swing. Lower body, then chest and shoulders and then arms. At least on a forehand. And that is the sequence I'm talking about with the golf swing. Thanks for watching.

Good question. We have several courses here in Southern Utah that have hard packed sand. If your courses have shallow sand, I would advise you to have a sand wedge with less bounce... maybe 6 to 8 degrees and then I don't open the face as much and I don't aim as far left. You need to get a little more leading edge involved. It's definitely a little harder than soft sand.

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I thought he made it pretty clear that this is an exaggerated drill to develop a feel and not the swing you take out on the course. Rewatch from 4:00 to 4:30. What I would like to have seen is the before and after swing of the guy he was helping. I did this drill for 2 minutes and can feel the benefits. Too much tension in my swing and hitting at the ball are two of my big faults. This video and the response above about transitioning to hitting the ball makes great sense. He's not on the range but I assume he is a good golfer who already incorporates these fundamentals in his swing so all you would be watching would be a good golfer hit 5 good shots.

Thanks for the response and it's spot on. I'll hit a couple of shots using the drill and put up a short. This DRILL is designed to get golfers to lose the tension in their swings. Not all golfers need this drill but many do. I rarely use this for a junior golfer or for most of my female students. They don't seem to have as much tension. Men tend to try and control the club with thier arms too often.

I can hit a few but it'll look the same and the ball will go about 60 yards. It's meant to create a feel of less tension and you may have missed the part where we discussed taking the ball away to do this drill.

@@glennsmith8390 hmm, the lesson was to relax the tension and shallow the follow through-this is a universal truth in golf..no need to prove it

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