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Swing Plane Simplified - Working with steeps and shallows
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One of the cornerstones of a good driver of the golf ball is having a shallow sweeping motion through the ball. This is accomplished by having the upper body behind the golf ball and the lower body far enough forward. This combination creates the necessary axis tilt for the driver. A great way to train this is to try and hit balls off a tee with a 7 iron. If your upper body gets on top of the ball, your attack angle will be too steep and you will break the tee.
Playlists: Keys To Transition, Find Your Best Swing Quickly, Swing Plane Simplified - Working with steeps and shallows
Tags: Not Enough Distance, Driver, Drill, Intermediate
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This drill is teed up seven irons for your driver.
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So again, trying to get this more sweeping motion, one of the big problems that I tend
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to see with a lot of players who struggle with the driver is that they tend to get their
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upper body much too much on top of the golf wall.
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So this is a great drill to help you get a sensation of what you must do in order to stay
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back.
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So all you're going to do is you're going to tee up a seven iron, but you're going to
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tee it up so that the tee is tall enough that you could completely swing underneath it
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more or less like so.
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It's hard to do on these mats as much easier to do outside on the grass.
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So you've got it teed up just like so.
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Now what you'll see and what you'll try to do is you're going to try and sweep the ball
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by staying a little bit more back or getting some of this access tilt.
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So if I have this access tilt, you'll see that as I go to release, I very much easily
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just kind of brush or sweep and make contact with the golf wall.
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If I was to get a little bit more on top of the golf ball and do that same motion.
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So if I was to get on top of the golf ball like I was doing with an iron and if the club
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was traveling down it would basically go right underneath it and I would duff those shot.
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So essentially what you're going to try to do and all demonstrate on this one because
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this is actually facing the net.
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You'll be able to stay back a little bit more and if you do it right, you can hit the golf
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shot without actually losing the tee.
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Now this is to give you this sensation of your upper body being much more behind the golf
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wall or kind of even with the right side of your body and this will help with your
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access tilt which is one of the big factors for having more consistency with the longer
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clubs like the driver and three would.
