Goal 1: Solid Contact Overview

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Welcome back, golfers.

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So now let's dig into some of the details.

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We're going to talk about goal number one, which is solid contact.

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So in this, we're going to cover the basics of the stroke.

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So we've got videos in this section that help us with either the stack centers,

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constant

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radius, or smooth force.

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Back centers comes down to really looking at your setup position and then

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making sure

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that when you pivot, you stay in that stacked environment.

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So this covers making sure that you're not shifting off the ball.

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So having a little bit of almost a reverse feeling of a reverse weight shift,

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we actually

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see the upper body move towards the target in the backswing and then really

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just kind

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of post up in the downswing.

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So we have one of the easiest classic drills for this for working on the stack

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centers

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is hitting shots in a stroke position, basically, off of that front foot.

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That will help you figure out if you have any big wobbles where your upper body

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is moving

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too far off the ball in the backswing or through the ball in the downswing or

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tilting during

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transition.

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Those are the kind of the most common ones.

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In order to have that stack center, we'll talk about grip.

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In this scenario, in order to get the shoulders level, it's a lot easier to

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have a grip that's

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a little bit more on top, rather than if I have too strong of a grip, if I'm

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more on

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the side, you can see that if I try to get my shoulders on top, I end up having

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to put

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my arms in a pretty awkward position.

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So too strong of a grip will put me behind the ball and it will really only let

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me hit

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kind of a low running kind of chip shot where I have more of kind of an

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extending radius

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or straightening those arms on the way through.

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If you fall into that category, I can almost guarantee you're going to struggle

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off of

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the high pitch shot, you're going to struggle out of thick rough and you're

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really going

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to struggle out of the bunkers.

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That's going to be the worst case scenario.

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And we have other drills where we talk about keeping the triangle.

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So the constant radius is looking at the space between the grip and your upper

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body and that's

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largely controlled by, we say, arm straight, but that's largely controlled by

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the amount

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of shoulder blade movement and the shoulder movement kind of in front of or

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behind my

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body.

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If I tend to keep my arms more in front of my body and the shoulders having a

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little bit

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of stability, then the grip tends to stay more of the same distance away.

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A lot of bad golfers or bad wedge players, I should say, not necessarily bad

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golfers,

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but bad wedge players tend to have the shoulders kind of pull this way or reach

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that way, especially

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on the way through.

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If this gets loaded like this, it will have a big lengthening movement with the

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shoulder

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blades kind of like this, usually accompanied with a narrowing movement from

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the arms like

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that.

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And that causes us a whole timing issue down at the bottom.

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It's really hard to consistently make that good brushing contact when we do

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that.

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In addition, we got to have a little bit of arm rotation.

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So in order to get the club staying in front and to help expose the bounce and

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to compliment

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some of the body driven rotation on the way through, we want to have a little

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bit of an

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arm rotation kind of like this.

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I use the analogy of if I was holding onto a steering wheel and I was going to

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make a

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little bit of a right turn just like that.

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It doesn't have to be a lot, but if it stays too close like this, you'll have a

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tendency

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to not use the bounce very well, again, which makes it harder to then slide the

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club along

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the ground.

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So we have a few drills and we'll break down the release movements with the

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arms that tend

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to compliment this constant radius as well as the smooth brushing.

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And then lastly, we'll have pivot drills, things that help kind of put it all

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together.

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So we already talked about one that Stork drill is really helpful for learning

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to be on that

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stack center.

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And then it helps to kind of understand using your obliques and using your abs

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as the dominant

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power source and then through the coast feeling a little bit of extension or

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lengthening those

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abs as you're turning with them.

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So it's often a weird feeling that I'll describe where normally if I'm going to

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use my bicep,

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I'm going to pull in this way, but it's kind of feeling like almost tightening

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my bicep

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as it's lengthening away or more of a resisting type movement.

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So that ab obliques back will be one of the discussions that we'll get in order

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to keep

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our centers stacked while applying a smooth force to the club.

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Really helpful for controlling touch.

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And part of this pivot is working on getting your shoulders and your wrist to

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feel a little

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bit more stable, a little less slacky and floppy.

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Sometimes that feels a little stiff at first, but ultimately it feels like it

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has more control.

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And then the last one here is the unhinged.

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I find that a lot of golfers who tend to have more of this action on the way

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through are

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basically doing more of a pull across their body as opposed to a soft kind of

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guiding

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of the club out away.

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The guiding of the club out away, again, helps expose the bounce and helps

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control the distance

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or the radius.

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So feeling, for most golfers, feeling a little bit more ulnar deviation on the

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way through

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or through impact and on the way through is very helpful.

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So in the next class, we're going to talk about distance control.

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Level number two.