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In this concept video, we're going to discuss heel contact recipe.

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So the heel contact can be a debilitating miss.

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While toe contact is annoying because you lose out on distance, heel contact,

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if the

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extreme version when you're getting shanks, it's unplayable because you can't

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really aim

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for it.

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It's going 90 degrees or 60 degrees offline.

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So if you're struggling with heel contact, you have to have a quick way of

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getting that

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miss out of the realm of possibilities.

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So I usually break it down into a two-step process.

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The first thing you want to look at is, are you hitting heel contact because of

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geometry?

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And so that's going to be looking at comparing your setup and impact.

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Typically from the down the line camera, you're going to be looking at a couple

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major things.

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One, you're going to be looking at the distance you are from the ball and how

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it relates to

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your arm hang.

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If your arms are hanging really close, then basically with a heel contact shot,

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you're

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going to have the club getting further away from you than where it started,

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assuming that

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you're not setting up on the heel.

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That is one of the things that we'll look at at setup.

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But if you're getting set up with the ball, most players will be slightly

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towards the

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heel and then they'll make contact to the ground slightly closer.

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But if we're getting set up with the club in the right position or close to the

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center

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of the club, then we have to figure out, is there a geometry reason?

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Most common would be if I was standing too close so that then the hands were

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really close

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to my body underneath or inside the shoulder position.

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Then when they swing back, they're going to come further away and they're going

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to make

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contact on the heel because they're getting further away.

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One option would be looking at weight distribution.

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If I'm a good distance from the ball, but I set up way into my heels, then what

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will

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usually happen is I'll move into my toes as I start swinging and rebalancing

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and that

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will move me closer to the golf ball.

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That can either happen during the backswing or during the downswing.

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So you want to check that on your down the line video.

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And then third thing would be looking at big posture changes that would get me

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closer to

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the golf ball.

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So that would be my chest moving down or again, my hips and my weight moving

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into the golf

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ball.

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Any one of those is a quick fix, a quick cause for why you would be getting it

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on the heel.

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Those are more just like geometry and comparing set up to impact.

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If you try one of those, so let's say the first easiest option is you're

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hitting it

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on the heel and you just stand a little bit further away.

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If you then continue to hit it on your heel, then it's more of a perception or

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more of

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a skill training where I have to work on where am I making contact on the club.

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And that boils down to am I feeling the shaft of the club or am I feeling the

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club head?

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So I've got a bunch of videos related to training, contact location and kind of

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playing

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around with impact and feeling like I can hit the ground closer to me or

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further away.

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Now if you're a really high handicap golfer, you're probably not even aware of

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where the

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club hits the ground.

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You might want to experiment with a few of the kind of low point drills to get

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at least

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the assessment of where the club is hitting the ground.

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Start paying attention to that.

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If you're having more of a perception issue, then I usually do, we're going to

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increase

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the feedback, we're going to slow down the swing and kind of get more awareness

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of the

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club or we're going to do kind of some of the rhythm swings where we can feel

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the club

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head a little bit earlier or easier.

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So first step is look at geometry.

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If that doesn't work, then you have to look at skills or perception and

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awareness.

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I'm confident most of the times I will get the solution relatively quick with

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those two

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problems because I have a tendency of getting my students to hit it more on the

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heel.

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Often times because most of the classic swings, like the classic amateur

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pattern, the stand

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up, either tilt back or bend the arms, cause people to hit it more on the toe.

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And so when you fix that, when you stay down, turn your body, extend your arms,

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you can get

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more heel contact and if you're not prepared, it quickly becomes a shank.

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So I've gotten pretty good at fixing the shank and I use this little process,

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first focus

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on the geometry, second focus on the awareness.

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So if I want to deliberately hit a shank, which is one of the things that we

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would occasionally

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practice in college, if I stand a little close, and if I was to just shift into

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my toes as

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I'm swinging, that's going to move me into the golf ball.

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Potentially I can move a little bit more down.

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That will also make me hit it off the heel.

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And lastly, if I was just going to have my arms really close and then feel like

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they extend

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back normally, that was so much on the heel that I almost missed the ball.

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So if I get comfortable with hitting it on the heel, from doing any of those

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kind of

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geometry problems, then I can get more comfortable hitting it on the toe.

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So if I get set up and I can make some toe contact, kind of like that, now I'm

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feeling

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the club, I'm in my, I'm got a little bit better geometry, I am on my way to

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solving

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my heel contact once and for all.