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This drill video is the shank gate.

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So the shank gate is a really quick and easy way for you to help yourself get reconnected

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to where this club head is swinging.

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If you're battling the shanks, possibly just as part of your swing because you're

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late then, straight in that trail arm to early, get the club face to open for whatever

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reason, or if you're working on some shallowing pieces and getting out of these patterns,

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sometimes the shanks can creep in.

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So this is a very simple way that you can do it either on the course or on the range.

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Just to reconnect with where the club is and help you find kind of a band-aid to get

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through it until you can reassess why you're having trouble with the shank.

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So the shank gate is much easier to do outside, but I'll show you that you can do it

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indoors as well.

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Basically, I put two tees in the ground and I can make this as challenging or as easy as

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I want.

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And if I was doing this outside, I would probably put these tees a little bit further

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into the ground.

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But basically, I'm putting them about a half inch outside of the hazel and the one on the

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inside and putting on the kind of the hazel angle over the lying angle and then the wooden

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teel on the outside straight up and down and it's about a half inch away.

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So basically what I can do is I can practice as slow as I want and kind of start building

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up speed, getting the club to swing and brush the ground in the middle of the gate.

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So hopefully I can take some full swings and get the club to brush right through the middle.

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If I am shanking the ball, then or if I'm having shanks when I'm taking my swings,

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what it means is that quite simply the club is moving out towards this wooden teer

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the one further away from me.

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So if I had a golf ball here in the middle just like so and I moved out like so, I would

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shank the ball and I would just clip that wooden teer.

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So a couple things you can do is once you've got four or five swings where you're right

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in the middle of the gate, then you can actually try and purposefully hit the inside teer.

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So can I set up here and then hit the inside teer?

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Can I set up here?

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Get hit the inside teer.

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Once I make it past that challenge, I'm going to put a club where I'm going to put a golf

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ball in the middle of the two tees and now I'm going to try and do my best and not focus

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on the golf ball and just try and make it through this gate.

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So if you do it right, it should be just like the practice swings that you have been

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working on and you shouldn't hit either of these two tees.

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Now again you can challenge it and you can start yourself setting up closer to this

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wooden teer.

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So we'll put the ball close to the pink teer and I'm going to set up close to the wooden

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teer.

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All I'm trying to do is get used to what it's like to have these arms or have the club

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even or slightly closer to me than where it started.

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So even though my arms are extending through the shot, I need to make sure that I'm not

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swinging the club too much out which is part of what drives this a hazzle shot or the

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shank.

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So if you have to play right away, this is one that you can do on the course.

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You can just put up two tees assuming you're not playing in tournament or if you're

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on the range this is a really quick and easy way to see where your path is going and

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get you a temporary solution to fix your shanks.