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This drill is feet together, swings for slopes.

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So, uh, there's a certain kind of population of golfers

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who I'll take 'em on the course,

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and they have a lot of trouble with uneven lives,

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and oftentimes their golfers who do too much

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of their swing with their body.

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And so what can happen is,

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on a flat lie on the driving range, you know,

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little maybe wider stance,

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maybe a little bit more arm tension, maybe a little bit kind

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of sway, slide off the ball,

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or, um, kind of a, a, a big leg drive.

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There's, they're using a lot of body.

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And then what happens is you get on a slope

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and your body's kind of outta balance.

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And now you can't just use your body to control the swing.

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So oftentimes I'll give them a little, uh, challenge drill

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to work into their, their regular maintenance routine

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of hitting some shots with the feet together.

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With the feet together, I'm taking away a lot of my,

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my ability to make compensations with my body.

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And so what I have to do is I have to be able

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to make solid contact and control the ball flight.

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So control the path and the face

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and the low point primarily with my arms.

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Um, this is especially challenging for golfers who have kind

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of more of a chicken wing, um, or more of a scoop

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and arm bending on the way through.

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Um, so if I have my feet together

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and I'm doing, let's say 10 to twos, again, my goal is

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to get really good ground contact

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and ball flight just by using my arms.

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Where this becomes extra important is on these especially

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more severe slopes, you want to use your bal your body

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for more balance and stability.

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And so the hit is going to tend

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to feel like it comes more from the arms, more of like a 10

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to two, um, type intensity.

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Uh, but if you have a hard time doing that,

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then you're really gonna struggle with slopes.

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You're typically gonna have contact, um,

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and let's say more dramatic misses.

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Um, this tends to affect kind

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of like a high single digit handicap, like a, like a six to

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to 10 or 12 handicap.

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Um, it hits the ball pretty good,

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but then when they get a slopes, they can like top it

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or shank it or have really poor, uh, contact problems.

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So we're gonna go feet, you know, heels touching,

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you can still have a little bit of flare.

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I don't need your, your toes touching,

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but heels are touching.

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Um, left foot can be turned out a little bit if you need.

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And then we're gonna do more of a 10 to two trying

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to make solid contact.

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Your body will move some, uh, you just won't be able to make

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as many big compensations, especially in,

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in sliding and tilting.

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So I'm gonna stay in line, uh, try to hit this primarily

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with good arm and wrist mechanics.

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Those were both pretty nice ball flights.

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I can, if I want to get advanced with this, I can try

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and hit a little bit of a cut and a little bit of a draw.

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Um, but for most golfers I'll just say, I want you

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to get one, uh, one consistent ball flight,

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unless you're a five handicap

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or below, I would say let's just see if we

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can get one ball flight.

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Um, so since I'm hopefully below a five handicap, we'll try

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and hit a little bit of a fade on that one.

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Little hold off kind of fade.

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But feeling the club primarily in the hands, I wasn't able

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to make my normal body fade type swing.

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So if you struggle with uneven lies,

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don't neglect practicing with your feet together.

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That really helps you dial in your low point

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and get your arms and hands a little bit more educated.