Four Square Drill

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This drill video is called "Four Square" and it's the help you work on your

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swing path.

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So, as you can see, I've got two alignment sticks, one orange and one white,

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laid down on the ground.

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And just like the old "Four Square" game, this creates a nice little grid.

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We're going to number these just for common language.

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So, this one that my right foot is in is going to be square one, and we have

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square two, square three, and square four.

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So, if we imagine that I'm hitting straight down the orange line or my target

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is straight down the orange stick,

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then the club going from square one to three, or staying in the odd numbers, is

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going to tend to hit a draw.

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Or at least have a path that's inside out and have the potential to hit a draw.

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A club that is going more from squares two to four, or evens, is going to tend

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to hit more of a pole, or a pole fade.

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So, this is a fun little visual where you can practice making different body

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movements to alter the path.

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So, this is a great little visual for understanding the path.

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But the problem is these sticks stick up, so it's not very practical as far as

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hitting on a real shot.

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So, what I recommend is to take some teas and create a little grid instead.

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So, here I've created the user or the usable four square model.

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So, I've got a couple teas, two brown and two white, and they create the grid

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that we were just talking about.

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So, we've got square one, two, three, four, right?

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As long as the club is moving from square one to three, the path is going to be

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mostly in and out.

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As long as I am moving from squares two to four, the path will be outside to in

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.

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So, this is a great way to play around with understanding some of your ball

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flight.

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As a drill, what I like to have people try to do is to try to get the club

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pointed more or less at the target,

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and to do whatever they can with their body to get the club almost coming from

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this tea here to that tea there,

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because that'd be as much in the out as I can.

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Then I'll have them do the opposite, going from this tea here towards this tea.

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And I'll demonstrate from the down the line so you can kind of visualize that.

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So, in the first version, I'm going to go from this white tea in close to me to

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that white tea out there.

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So, that's an exaggeration of an in-the-out path, and then I'm going to exagger

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ate the out to in,

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and it gives me a good little visual, because sometimes what'll happen is I

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will feel like I am really swinging into out,

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but the blur of the club will go from square two to square four.

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So, this gives you a good little visual for seeing what the club is doing

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differently than just putting a club on the ground,

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and I think it can be helpful for working on your ball shaping.