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The video is discussing hybrids.

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So, I've had a couple of questions about specifically, like, you know, I always pull hook

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my hybrids or I always hit them on the toe.

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What's going on?

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Do I play them more like an iron?

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Do I play them more like a wood, off the ground?

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So hybrids have a little bit of kind of some challenge to it, but they're also really beneficial

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for most golfers.

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So we're going to talk a little bit about their design and the swing patterns that I think

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work best with them.

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So I've got my six iron and my four hybrids and what I want to show you is that there

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are a handful of hybrids that are a little bit flatter, but in general hybrids are steep.

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And part of the problem is hybrids were made for the hybrids golfer.

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The average golfer isn't really the one who looks to take lessons.

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So they're going to try and fit the average golfer, which means golfer's who come over

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the top and are a little bit more upright.

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So hybrids and the way I was explained, that's how they got evolved to be a little bit

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more upright compared to the regular irons.

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And the other thing is with irons, you can adjust the eye angle, usually if you get four

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inch clubs.

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Hybrids typically are tougher to adjust the eye angles.

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I believe PXG is a little flatter and I believe Adams has a little flatter as well, but

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trying to get the flatest hybrids you can is a good idea.

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So if I were to get into my normal position with my six iron, and then so I'll show

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you a little bit about the line.

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It's what I got.

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I got a little hotel key card from my last seminar.

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So if I get into my normal address position with my six iron and I just kind of freeze

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it there, what you'll see is if I took a business card, I could slide it about a third

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of the way in.

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That's a few degrees which is usually what gets accounted for with droop and what I've

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been constructed is closer to a proper fitting.

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So basically if it's sitting there and I can get the club in through that way, then if

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I were to return the club to about the same height the natural droop in the shaft would

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level that up.

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Now if I do the same thing with my hybrid, if I get into my comfortable setup position,

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hopefully you can almost see what's going on.

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By the time I get in there it's almost halfway.

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It's there just much more upright.

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So upright clubs is almost like having the ball slightly above your feet.

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Slightly above your feet is going to tend to close the club face.

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And so if I have more of an outside in path, I'm going to tend to hit more poles.

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If my brain is aware that I'm going to hit more poles, it may try to scoop a little bit

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more and I'll hit it off the toe because the arm's bending on the way through it.

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That's why a lot of aimotors tend to have those challenges with Thomas and Pulse with

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the hybrid.

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Now the good thing is that with a hybrid, it's built with a big wide soul so that I can

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actually hit behind it and hit a little fat and the club will just slide through the

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ground and won't necessarily dig.

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But the cool thing about hybrids is they are hybrid.

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They can be hit like an iron where you're making more leading edge contact or they could

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be hit more like a wood where you're using the bounce and kind of sliding the club through

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impact.

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They have a fairly broad margin of air with low point but the face control is going

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to be a little bit more challenging because they're extra, they're more upright than

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your normal clubs.

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So when your swinging clubs that are more upright, I tend to challenge golfers to swing

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a little bit easier with their hybrids.

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I'm not a huge fan of going after your hybrid as hard as you can.

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The other thing is I actually coach golfers, you can do your normal pattern but I'll coach

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golfers to make a little bit more of a controlled fadeswing and know that it'll usually

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be a little bit more of a pole.

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So aiming just to touch right and then playing for the ball to start a little more left

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compared to your normal swing with an iron.

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Again one of the challenges with golf is we have 14 different implements.

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I can't think of another sport where you have 14 different objects that you have to learn

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to develop skill with.

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And so understanding that the hybrids are just biased that way can help take away some

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of the frustration with some of the common misses.

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So we'll give it a go with the hybrids wing.

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Pretty much making the same swing except I'm trying to get the bottom of the swing at the golf

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ball instead of a little bit more ahead.

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So it's going to be hit with a little bit more of my upper body behind it say compared

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to if I were hitting the equivalent four iron.

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Kind of like that.

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And again I'm not a big fan of trying to swing hard especially when you've got these things

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teed up because when you have it teed up it it'll it pretty much encourages the club swinging

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a little bit higher which with an upright lying goal imagine having the ball more above your feet

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that can make the pole aspect of the club or the closed face aspect of the club a little bit

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more exaggerated.

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So now with it here I'm going to swing a little bit more with more of a fade bias not really

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coming quite as inside as if I were hitting a four iron or three wood I can swing a little bit

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steeper.

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And like I said I like to err on the side of playing a little bit more of a fade with the hybrids.

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I think that's how they're best designed.

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I would err on playing them a little bit more like a wood unless you have a severe iron bias

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to your swing in which case you can get away with playing the hybrids but in that case you may be

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if you have a lot of clubets be it in the severe iron bias swing you may be better just off playing

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the longer irons.

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One quick point if you do struggle with let's say you hit more of the poles and you're

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tired of that you can always choke up a little bit more on the hybrid compared to the regular

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clubs that will essentially flatten the lion go you might lose a little bit of distance but

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it might what you lose in distance you may gain in not hitting it on the toe and being able to

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make your normal swing.

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So you can see there by choking up a little bit to flatten out that lion go I was able to make

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a little bit more of my natural swing and actually hit a little bit of a draw.

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Still a little pole because the lion go but I know to play that with my hybrids.