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Improve Consistency by Keeping Your Club Low with This Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Practice keeping the club low to the ground for longer during your swing
  • Feel the difference between using your body vs. your arms for power
  • Identify and correct common mistakes that lead to inconsistent driver shots

Learn how to maintain the right club height through your swing to achieve better consistency with your driver. This drill focuses on using tees to guide your practice and enhance your ball striking.

Video Transcript
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This driver drill video is brush all three tees so what we're gonna work on

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here is a concept that I refer to as the club height to the ground. Many golf

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ers

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who struggle with the driver don't have the club low to the ground for a long

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enough period of time to have any level of consistency. They either have the

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club

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low to the ground coming into the ball and then come up very quickly through

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the ball mostly with a flip or chicken wing breakdown in the release or they

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have the club high to the ground coming into the golf ball and then have it

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come

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up on the way through mostly because of upper body lunge or lack of axis tilt

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or a little bit more of a upper body spin and lack of arm shallow. So this

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drill

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video kind of combos working on both of those aspects. So what we're gonna do

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is

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we're gonna take two tees and we're gonna put them in the ground about six

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inches in front and about six inches behind the golf ball. So they're at about

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the height of the golf ball. Now I'm gonna set up to the middle tee or just

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inside of it and my goal is to practice making practice wings where the club

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feels like it stays to the same level to the ground or the same height all the

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way from about right foot through to left foot. So a little bit even wider than

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the tees. Now one of the traits that I see with good drivers of the golf ball

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is

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they tend to use more of their body for the power of the swing. That puts them

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in

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a position where they can get the club low to the ground before the arms really

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get involved and then when the arms extend you'll see that they'll extend

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more towards the target which keeps the club low to the ground. Many amateurs

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who

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struggle with the driver get the arms involved too soon and then they have to

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kind of bend and you'll see that the club doesn't stay low to the ground for a

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very long period of time. So you're gonna set up three tees and you're

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basically going to try and just brush the top of all three tees. It's quite

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hard to do in practice and actually hit a ball but it gives you a little bit

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more

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of a visual of trying to practice getting that club height to the ground to be

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a

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little bit more flat or consistent through there. That should help give you

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more

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high-face contact. When it tends to come up pretty quickly you'll hit it more

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on

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the bottom of the club it'll feel thin and launched really low. So this will

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give

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us high face contact and in order to do so it's going to require a little bit

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better sequencing. Okay so then in demonstrating it's a little hard because

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you can't set up normal because the T would get in the way of your takeaway. So

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you're just going to try and hover a little bit and then clip all three tees on

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a

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little 9 to 3 so the height of the club is low to the ground for a long period

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of time. So as you get better at this drill you can work on having the tees a

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little bit further apart. So six inches is kind of the baseline but I like to

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see

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it close to the ground all the way from right foot through the left foot. So we

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'll

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see if we can get all three tees with a semi-normal swing. So you'll see it was

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a pretty good launch from the down the line. Pretty good flat spot clipping all

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three tees.

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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Improve Consistency by Keeping Your Club Low with This Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Practice keeping the club low to the ground for longer during your swing
  • Feel the difference between using your body vs. your arms for power
  • Identify and correct common mistakes that lead to inconsistent driver shots

Learn how to maintain the right club height through your swing to achieve better consistency with your driver. This drill focuses on using tees to guide your practice and enhance your ball striking.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.920
This driver drill video is brush all three tees so what we're gonna work on

2
00:00:04.920 --> 00:00:10.160
here is a concept that I refer to as the club height to the ground. Many golf

3
00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:10.640
ers

4
00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:15.000
who struggle with the driver don't have the club low to the ground for a long

5
00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:19.720
enough period of time to have any level of consistency. They either have the

6
00:00:19.720 --> 00:00:19.960
club

7
00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:23.480
low to the ground coming into the ball and then come up very quickly through

8
00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:28.640
the ball mostly with a flip or chicken wing breakdown in the release or they

9
00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:33.120
have the club high to the ground coming into the golf ball and then have it

10
00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:33.360
come

11
00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:38.640
up on the way through mostly because of upper body lunge or lack of axis tilt

12
00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:43.160
or a little bit more of a upper body spin and lack of arm shallow. So this

13
00:00:43.160 --> 00:00:43.460
drill

14
00:00:43.460 --> 00:00:48.640
video kind of combos working on both of those aspects. So what we're gonna do

15
00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:48.880
is

16
00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:54.280
we're gonna take two tees and we're gonna put them in the ground about six

17
00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:59.120
inches in front and about six inches behind the golf ball. So they're at about

18
00:00:59.120 --> 00:01:05.280
the height of the golf ball. Now I'm gonna set up to the middle tee or just

19
00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:10.600
inside of it and my goal is to practice making practice wings where the club

20
00:01:10.600 --> 00:01:16.000
feels like it stays to the same level to the ground or the same height all the

21
00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.880
way from about right foot through to left foot. So a little bit even wider than

22
00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:25.440
the tees. Now one of the traits that I see with good drivers of the golf ball

23
00:01:25.440 --> 00:01:25.600
is

24
00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:30.160
they tend to use more of their body for the power of the swing. That puts them

25
00:01:30.160 --> 00:01:30.280
in

26
00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.280
a position where they can get the club low to the ground before the arms really

27
00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:38.280
get involved and then when the arms extend you'll see that they'll extend

28
00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:44.040
more towards the target which keeps the club low to the ground. Many amateurs

29
00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:44.120
who

30
00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:48.040
struggle with the driver get the arms involved too soon and then they have to

31
00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:51.160
kind of bend and you'll see that the club doesn't stay low to the ground for a

32
00:01:51.160 --> 00:01:55.880
very long period of time. So you're gonna set up three tees and you're

33
00:01:55.880 --> 00:02:04.440
basically going to try and just brush the top of all three tees. It's quite

34
00:02:04.440 --> 00:02:09.280
hard to do in practice and actually hit a ball but it gives you a little bit

35
00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:09.480
more

36
00:02:09.480 --> 00:02:15.040
of a visual of trying to practice getting that club height to the ground to be

37
00:02:15.040 --> 00:02:15.080
a

38
00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:19.050
little bit more flat or consistent through there. That should help give you

39
00:02:19.050 --> 00:02:19.440
more

40
00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:23.720
high-face contact. When it tends to come up pretty quickly you'll hit it more

41
00:02:23.720 --> 00:02:23.840
on

42
00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:28.240
the bottom of the club it'll feel thin and launched really low. So this will

43
00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:28.360
give

44
00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:33.520
us high face contact and in order to do so it's going to require a little bit

45
00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:37.880
better sequencing. Okay so then in demonstrating it's a little hard because

46
00:02:37.880 --> 00:02:44.120
you can't set up normal because the T would get in the way of your takeaway. So

47
00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:51.280
you're just going to try and hover a little bit and then clip all three tees on

48
00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:51.360
a

49
00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:55.520
little 9 to 3 so the height of the club is low to the ground for a long period

50
00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:03.560
of time. So as you get better at this drill you can work on having the tees a

51
00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:08.390
little bit further apart. So six inches is kind of the baseline but I like to

52
00:03:08.390 --> 00:03:08.520
see

53
00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:12.220
it close to the ground all the way from right foot through the left foot. So we

54
00:03:12.220 --> 00:03:12.320
'll

55
00:03:12.320 --> 00:03:21.400
see if we can get all three tees with a semi-normal swing. So you'll see it was

56
00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:24.800
a pretty good launch from the down the line. Pretty good flat spot clipping all

57
00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.240
three tees.

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