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Improve Your Impact Position with the Famous Line Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify the correct bottom of your swing for improved ball striking
  • Use visual markers to monitor your impact position during practice
  • Feel the difference in contact quality when hitting down on the ball

In this video, you'll learn how to use the Famous Line Drill to enhance your impact position, ensuring better ball contact and consistent strikes. This simple drill provides a clear visual reference to help you identify your swing's bottom point.

Video Transcript
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This drill is the famous line drill, and this is to help you work on your

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impact

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position. So basically what you may or may not have seen before is a common

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theme is to take either a string or some white tape or something on the

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ground just to have an indicator on the ground somewhere between your stands,

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usually a little bit forward of center. If you remember from the contact video

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with every club except for a driver we're trying to hit slightly down on the

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ball so that we can get the sweet spot to be on the back of the ball as opposed

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to hitting it low on the face if we had the shafts right up and down. So to

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make

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sure that that's happening that means that the bottom of the swing is going to

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be

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moving closer and closer towards the target where poor handicaps, high handic

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aps

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tend to have the bottom of their swing way back more towards the right foot. So

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having a little bit of feedback makes this a little bit easier to monitor. So

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you can either use string tape, you know spray paint is one of the common ones.

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I

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like to just take a T every once in a while and you take a T and you just kind

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of carve a line in the ground and all the grass will kind of go forward and you

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'll

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see this little brown line little brown trench that just gives you a really

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clear reference point. So then you're going to set up as if that line were the

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golf ball and you're going to take your full swing and you're going to look

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down

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and sure enough the divot right there started just after the line so if I had

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a golf ball there I would have hit a solid ball. So the line drill is just a

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way for you to start seeing if you're getting in this good impact position and

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then extending the club down the divot will happen after the golf ball. The

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line

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drill just gives you a really good way of monitoring that or having feedback

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for

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it so you can draw a line stack until it uses this a lot and if you've never

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seen the demonstration where they go down the line and hit 17 golf balls never

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having the club bottoming out behind the line it's pretty impressive and it's

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something to definitely strive for. So use the T, carve a line, take some

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practice swings and just make sure that your the bottom of your swing is

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getting

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ahead of where you set up. So you'll notice every single time that's making

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contact just to have a line because I got some of those impact keys working in

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that little swing. So draw a line, pay attention, we'll get into more details

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as

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we get into the movements in the next layer.
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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 Your Impact Position with the Famous Line Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify the correct bottom of your swing for improved ball striking
  • Use visual markers to monitor your impact position during practice
  • Feel the difference in contact quality when hitting down on the ball

In this video, you'll learn how to use the Famous Line Drill to enhance your impact position, ensuring better ball contact and consistent strikes. This simple drill provides a clear visual reference to help you identify your swing's bottom point.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.080
This drill is the famous line drill, and this is to help you work on your

2
00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:04.520
impact

3
00:00:04.520 --> 00:00:11.480
position. So basically what you may or may not have seen before is a common

4
00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:16.480
theme is to take either a string or some white tape or something on the

5
00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:20.960
ground just to have an indicator on the ground somewhere between your stands,

6
00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:25.840
usually a little bit forward of center. If you remember from the contact video

7
00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:30.480
with every club except for a driver we're trying to hit slightly down on the

8
00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:35.680
ball so that we can get the sweet spot to be on the back of the ball as opposed

9
00:00:35.680 --> 00:00:39.560
to hitting it low on the face if we had the shafts right up and down. So to

10
00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:39.760
make

11
00:00:39.760 --> 00:00:42.560
sure that that's happening that means that the bottom of the swing is going to

12
00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:42.680
be

13
00:00:42.680 --> 00:00:48.610
moving closer and closer towards the target where poor handicaps, high handic

14
00:00:48.610 --> 00:00:48.800
aps

15
00:00:48.800 --> 00:00:53.600
tend to have the bottom of their swing way back more towards the right foot. So

16
00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:58.220
having a little bit of feedback makes this a little bit easier to monitor. So

17
00:00:58.220 --> 00:01:04.190
you can either use string tape, you know spray paint is one of the common ones.

18
00:01:04.190 --> 00:01:04.240
I

19
00:01:04.240 --> 00:01:10.040
like to just take a T every once in a while and you take a T and you just kind

20
00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:15.880
of carve a line in the ground and all the grass will kind of go forward and you

21
00:01:15.880 --> 00:01:15.920
'll

22
00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:19.800
see this little brown line little brown trench that just gives you a really

23
00:01:19.800 --> 00:01:24.800
clear reference point. So then you're going to set up as if that line were the

24
00:01:24.800 --> 00:01:29.240
golf ball and you're going to take your full swing and you're going to look

25
00:01:29.240 --> 00:01:29.480
down

26
00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:34.520
and sure enough the divot right there started just after the line so if I had

27
00:01:34.520 --> 00:01:39.680
a golf ball there I would have hit a solid ball. So the line drill is just a

28
00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:43.800
way for you to start seeing if you're getting in this good impact position and

29
00:01:43.800 --> 00:01:48.560
then extending the club down the divot will happen after the golf ball. The

30
00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:48.760
line

31
00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.760
drill just gives you a really good way of monitoring that or having feedback

32
00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:52.000
for

33
00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:57.000
it so you can draw a line stack until it uses this a lot and if you've never

34
00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:02.120
seen the demonstration where they go down the line and hit 17 golf balls never

35
00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:06.120
having the club bottoming out behind the line it's pretty impressive and it's

36
00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:11.080
something to definitely strive for. So use the T, carve a line, take some

37
00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:14.560
practice swings and just make sure that your the bottom of your swing is

38
00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:15.360
getting

39
00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:21.200
ahead of where you set up. So you'll notice every single time that's making

40
00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:26.600
contact just to have a line because I got some of those impact keys working in

41
00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:31.680
that little swing. So draw a line, pay attention, we'll get into more details

42
00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:31.840
as

43
00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:35.240
we get into the movements in the next layer.
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