Movement Changes To Affect Ball Flight
Shot Shaping/Adjustments
- Movement Changes
At this point, you should have a fairly established “stock” swing. But unfortunately, that stock swing is all you need for the driving range. Your stock swing with each club will produce a certain distance shot with a certain predictable curve. The bias for this swing is a slight draw to a straight shot. When you start talking about playing golf, then, on occasion you must learn to adjust your stock shot to hit different distances and account for different lies.
If that’s not enough, and you’re just hitting pulls or pull hooks, then you are going to have to make some movement changes to make the ball curve back to the right. Remember, the more that you spin, the more the path will go to the left, the more that you slide, the more that it will go to the left. The more that you side bend, the more that the path goes right, the more you stay vertical, the more it goes left. So you are going to want to keep your spine tall (not side bend), keep your weight back, and spin.
If you are more comfortable making changes of release with your hands, then to hit a fade you can allow your arms to fully straighten when you hit the ball and even feel like they come in slightly
As a summary, this video helps you learn how to hit draws and fades on command.
Shot Shaping/Adjustments
- Movement Changes
At this point, you should have a fairly established “stock” swing. But unfortunately, that stock swing is all you need for the driving range. Your stock swing with each club will produce a certain distance shot with a certain predictable curve. The bias for this swing is a slight draw to a straight shot. When you start talking about playing golf, then, on occasion you must learn to adjust your stock shot to hit different distances and account for different lies.
If that’s not enough, and you’re just hitting pulls or pull hooks, then you are going to have to make some movement changes to make the ball curve back to the right. Remember, the more that you spin, the more the path will go to the left, the more that you slide, the more that it will go to the left. The more that you side bend, the more that the path goes right, the more you stay vertical, the more it goes left. So you are going to want to keep your spine tall (not side bend), keep your weight back, and spin.
If you are more comfortable making changes of release with your hands, then to hit a fade you can allow your arms to fully straighten when you hit the ball and even feel like they come in slightly
As a summary, this video helps you learn how to hit draws and fades on command.
Video Transcript
1
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In this concept video we're going to go over how to deliberately change your
2
00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:07.120
stock full
3
00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:14.520
swing to cause curve to the ball.
4
00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:17.390
Just like in the setup we'll start with as a right hand golfer if I want to hit
5
00:00:17.390 --> 00:00:17.680
more
6
00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:20.680
of a slice or curve it right to left.
7
00:00:20.680 --> 00:00:22.320
So I've got the sticks on the ground.
8
00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:24.720
This is my target line.
9
00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:29.720
This is going to be my path and then this is going to be my face.
10
00:00:29.720 --> 00:00:34.570
The greater difference I can make between the path and the face, the greater
11
00:00:34.570 --> 00:00:35.320
the amount
12
00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.260
of curve I can create.
13
00:00:37.260 --> 00:00:40.680
So that's why we're limited.
14
00:00:40.680 --> 00:00:45.190
Hitting a shot like this is going to be relatively weak and I'm not going to be
15
00:00:45.190 --> 00:00:46.000
able to hit it
16
00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:51.560
very far and the club face is fairly open and is actually going to hit it
17
00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:52.920
fairly high.
18
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The movements will make it so that we can hit the low slice that many amateurs
19
00:00:57.490 --> 00:00:58.800
do instinctively.
20
00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:04.050
So in order to kind of get the path to swing along the orange and still have
21
00:01:04.050 --> 00:01:05.000
the club pointed
22
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at the yellow there's a few movements that we can make.
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First one will be more body rotation, a more vertical arm movement and less
24
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axis tilt or
25
00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:16.440
less weight shift.
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Those are going to be the big movements that we can use to create this slice
27
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pattern.
28
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So I'm just going to set up relatively square and then as I go to the top of my
29
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swing the
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first movement I'm going to do instead of having this big shift which gets my
31
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upper body
32
00:01:32.800 --> 00:01:36.590
behind and shifts the path out to the right I'm going to try and stay level or
33
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even get
34
00:01:37.160 --> 00:01:38.960
my upper body ahead.
35
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Then I'm going to spin without letting a lot of my weight or pressure get onto
36
00:01:43.550 --> 00:01:44.280
that front
37
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foot.
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When I do that you can see that the club is now traveling closer to this orange
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stick.
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Or if I did it from this direction so you can see I go up that's more vertical
41
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and then
42
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I spin like so.
43
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It'll have the feeling of the arms kind of coming more straight across straight
44
00:02:01.490 --> 00:02:03.400
at you.
45
00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:08.570
Now because I'm going to do a little bit more of a hold off release to get this
46
00:02:08.570 --> 00:02:09.920
to curve
47
00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:13.360
I actually want to strengthen my grip which is the opposite of what I told you
48
00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:13.880
for doing
49
00:02:13.880 --> 00:02:15.760
the simple setup changes.
50
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This is the more advanced version and if you look at a lot of the guys on tour
51
00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:19.320
who've
52
00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:22.860
had the strongest grips they tend to play more of a fade with more of this
53
00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:23.360
block and
54
00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:25.320
hold style release.
55
00:02:25.320 --> 00:02:28.940
So I'm going to have a little stronger grip go up to the top come straight down
56
00:02:28.940 --> 00:02:29.440
across
57
00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:34.330
the ball kind of like so into a hold off and you'll tend to see in order to
58
00:02:34.330 --> 00:02:35.000
keep the
59
00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.320
face from closing down to the path because I want to have a big difference
60
00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:38.800
between the
61
00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:39.800
face and the path.
62
00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:44.370
We'll tend to have this kind of loopy finish that you might have seen Tiger or
63
00:02:44.370 --> 00:02:44.960
some of
64
00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:49.280
the famous ball strikers do when they're in these trouble shots.
65
00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.790
So one last time it would be arms more vertical coming more down straight
66
00:02:53.790 --> 00:02:54.880
across with more
67
00:02:54.880 --> 00:02:59.500
resistance in the left side than my upper body and my lower body right on top
68
00:02:59.500 --> 00:02:59.960
of the
69
00:02:59.960 --> 00:03:00.960
top.
70
00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:05.800
Now let's look at how much I want to get everybody to hit a massive draw.
71
00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:12.030
In this case we're now going to get these paths of the club going way into out
72
00:03:12.030 --> 00:03:12.320
and
73
00:03:12.320 --> 00:03:14.320
the face lessened out.
74
00:03:14.320 --> 00:03:17.540
So the greater the distance or the greater the difference I can do between the
75
00:03:17.540 --> 00:03:18.120
two.
76
00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:22.440
There's more curvature I'm going to have.
77
00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:28.800
So to hit the great big draw I'm going to do opposite move into the slice.
78
00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:34.410
I'm going to have as much axis tilt as I can with my upper body behind the ball
79
00:03:34.410 --> 00:03:34.800
and
80
00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:36.840
carry little rotation.
81
00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:40.980
Remember that rotation of the body actually gets the path to move more to the
82
00:03:40.980 --> 00:03:41.520
left.
83
00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:45.270
The other thing that I'm going to do is instead of having my arms pull in I'm
84
00:03:45.270 --> 00:03:45.880
going to have
85
00:03:45.880 --> 00:03:51.000
my arms lift up and out like so and keep that handle very high compared to the
86
00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:52.400
club head.
87
00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:57.810
So it would be more of an exaggeration like so which would give me more of
88
00:03:57.810 --> 00:03:59.640
these 40, 50,
89
00:03:59.640 --> 00:04:05.870
60 yard shots kind of the way that bubble Watson hit that hooking wedge off the
90
00:04:05.870 --> 00:04:08.960
line.
91
00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:13.720
So the body movement is going to be much more exaggerated than the set of
92
00:04:13.720 --> 00:04:14.880
pitches but that's
93
00:04:14.880 --> 00:04:18.360
what you're going to have to do if you want to hit the big 40 yard curves where
94
00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:18.880
the set
95
00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:22.750
up changes may be only good for 10, 20 yards at the most depending on your
96
00:04:22.750 --> 00:04:23.600
swing speed.
97
00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.140
So mess around with those when you're playing with the nine shot drill because
98
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going from
99
00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:33.440
one extreme to the other will help you fine tune exactly how much is your ideal
100
00:04:33.440 --> 00:04:34.160
because
101
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if I know that a ton of slide creates a hook and no slide creates a slice well
102
00:04:39.900 --> 00:04:41.240
then somewhere
103
00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:45.800
in the middle is my magic number on how my stock full swing should feel and use
104
00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:46.160
this
105
00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:50.970
drill of the nine shot drill to effectively practice where your normals or
106
00:04:50.970 --> 00:04:51.760
where your
107
00:04:51.760 --> 00:04:53.080
neutral pattern is going to be.
Have questions?
Ask Mulligan for helpMovement Changes To Affect Ball Flight
Shot Shaping/Adjustments
- Movement Changes
At this point, you should have a fairly established “stock” swing. But unfortunately, that stock swing is all you need for the driving range. Your stock swing with each club will produce a certain distance shot with a certain predictable curve. The bias for this swing is a slight draw to a straight shot. When you start talking about playing golf, then, on occasion you must learn to adjust your stock shot to hit different distances and account for different lies.
If that’s not enough, and you’re just hitting pulls or pull hooks, then you are going to have to make some movement changes to make the ball curve back to the right. Remember, the more that you spin, the more the path will go to the left, the more that you slide, the more that it will go to the left. The more that you side bend, the more that the path goes right, the more you stay vertical, the more it goes left. So you are going to want to keep your spine tall (not side bend), keep your weight back, and spin.
If you are more comfortable making changes of release with your hands, then to hit a fade you can allow your arms to fully straighten when you hit the ball and even feel like they come in slightly
As a summary, this video helps you learn how to hit draws and fades on command.
Shot Shaping/Adjustments
- Movement Changes
At this point, you should have a fairly established “stock” swing. But unfortunately, that stock swing is all you need for the driving range. Your stock swing with each club will produce a certain distance shot with a certain predictable curve. The bias for this swing is a slight draw to a straight shot. When you start talking about playing golf, then, on occasion you must learn to adjust your stock shot to hit different distances and account for different lies.
If that’s not enough, and you’re just hitting pulls or pull hooks, then you are going to have to make some movement changes to make the ball curve back to the right. Remember, the more that you spin, the more the path will go to the left, the more that you slide, the more that it will go to the left. The more that you side bend, the more that the path goes right, the more you stay vertical, the more it goes left. So you are going to want to keep your spine tall (not side bend), keep your weight back, and spin.
If you are more comfortable making changes of release with your hands, then to hit a fade you can allow your arms to fully straighten when you hit the ball and even feel like they come in slightly
As a summary, this video helps you learn how to hit draws and fades on command.
Video Transcript
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.600
In this concept video we're going to go over how to deliberately change your
2
00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:07.120
stock full
3
00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:14.520
swing to cause curve to the ball.
4
00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:17.390
Just like in the setup we'll start with as a right hand golfer if I want to hit
5
00:00:17.390 --> 00:00:17.680
more
6
00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:20.680
of a slice or curve it right to left.
7
00:00:20.680 --> 00:00:22.320
So I've got the sticks on the ground.
8
00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:24.720
This is my target line.
9
00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:29.720
This is going to be my path and then this is going to be my face.
10
00:00:29.720 --> 00:00:34.570
The greater difference I can make between the path and the face, the greater
11
00:00:34.570 --> 00:00:35.320
the amount
12
00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.260
of curve I can create.
13
00:00:37.260 --> 00:00:40.680
So that's why we're limited.
14
00:00:40.680 --> 00:00:45.190
Hitting a shot like this is going to be relatively weak and I'm not going to be
15
00:00:45.190 --> 00:00:46.000
able to hit it
16
00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:51.560
very far and the club face is fairly open and is actually going to hit it
17
00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:52.920
fairly high.
18
00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:57.490
The movements will make it so that we can hit the low slice that many amateurs
19
00:00:57.490 --> 00:00:58.800
do instinctively.
20
00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:04.050
So in order to kind of get the path to swing along the orange and still have
21
00:01:04.050 --> 00:01:05.000
the club pointed
22
00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:08.160
at the yellow there's a few movements that we can make.
23
00:01:08.160 --> 00:01:14.110
First one will be more body rotation, a more vertical arm movement and less
24
00:01:14.110 --> 00:01:15.040
axis tilt or
25
00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:16.440
less weight shift.
26
00:01:16.440 --> 00:01:21.010
Those are going to be the big movements that we can use to create this slice
27
00:01:21.010 --> 00:01:21.840
pattern.
28
00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:27.100
So I'm just going to set up relatively square and then as I go to the top of my
29
00:01:27.100 --> 00:01:27.920
swing the
30
00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:32.160
first movement I'm going to do instead of having this big shift which gets my
31
00:01:32.160 --> 00:01:32.800
upper body
32
00:01:32.800 --> 00:01:36.590
behind and shifts the path out to the right I'm going to try and stay level or
33
00:01:36.590 --> 00:01:37.160
even get
34
00:01:37.160 --> 00:01:38.960
my upper body ahead.
35
00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:43.550
Then I'm going to spin without letting a lot of my weight or pressure get onto
36
00:01:43.550 --> 00:01:44.280
that front
37
00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:46.120
foot.
38
00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:50.150
When I do that you can see that the club is now traveling closer to this orange
39
00:01:50.150 --> 00:01:50.760
stick.
40
00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:54.790
Or if I did it from this direction so you can see I go up that's more vertical
41
00:01:54.790 --> 00:01:55.760
and then
42
00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.000
I spin like so.
43
00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.490
It'll have the feeling of the arms kind of coming more straight across straight
44
00:02:01.490 --> 00:02:03.400
at you.
45
00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:08.570
Now because I'm going to do a little bit more of a hold off release to get this
46
00:02:08.570 --> 00:02:09.920
to curve
47
00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:13.360
I actually want to strengthen my grip which is the opposite of what I told you
48
00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:13.880
for doing
49
00:02:13.880 --> 00:02:15.760
the simple setup changes.
50
00:02:15.760 --> 00:02:19.080
This is the more advanced version and if you look at a lot of the guys on tour
51
00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:19.320
who've
52
00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:22.860
had the strongest grips they tend to play more of a fade with more of this
53
00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:23.360
block and
54
00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:25.320
hold style release.
55
00:02:25.320 --> 00:02:28.940
So I'm going to have a little stronger grip go up to the top come straight down
56
00:02:28.940 --> 00:02:29.440
across
57
00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:34.330
the ball kind of like so into a hold off and you'll tend to see in order to
58
00:02:34.330 --> 00:02:35.000
keep the
59
00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.320
face from closing down to the path because I want to have a big difference
60
00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:38.800
between the
61
00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:39.800
face and the path.
62
00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:44.370
We'll tend to have this kind of loopy finish that you might have seen Tiger or
63
00:02:44.370 --> 00:02:44.960
some of
64
00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:49.280
the famous ball strikers do when they're in these trouble shots.
65
00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.790
So one last time it would be arms more vertical coming more down straight
66
00:02:53.790 --> 00:02:54.880
across with more
67
00:02:54.880 --> 00:02:59.500
resistance in the left side than my upper body and my lower body right on top
68
00:02:59.500 --> 00:02:59.960
of the
69
00:02:59.960 --> 00:03:00.960
top.
70
00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:05.800
Now let's look at how much I want to get everybody to hit a massive draw.
71
00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:12.030
In this case we're now going to get these paths of the club going way into out
72
00:03:12.030 --> 00:03:12.320
and
73
00:03:12.320 --> 00:03:14.320
the face lessened out.
74
00:03:14.320 --> 00:03:17.540
So the greater the distance or the greater the difference I can do between the
75
00:03:17.540 --> 00:03:18.120
two.
76
00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:22.440
There's more curvature I'm going to have.
77
00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:28.800
So to hit the great big draw I'm going to do opposite move into the slice.
78
00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:34.410
I'm going to have as much axis tilt as I can with my upper body behind the ball
79
00:03:34.410 --> 00:03:34.800
and
80
00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:36.840
carry little rotation.
81
00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:40.980
Remember that rotation of the body actually gets the path to move more to the
82
00:03:40.980 --> 00:03:41.520
left.
83
00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:45.270
The other thing that I'm going to do is instead of having my arms pull in I'm
84
00:03:45.270 --> 00:03:45.880
going to have
85
00:03:45.880 --> 00:03:51.000
my arms lift up and out like so and keep that handle very high compared to the
86
00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:52.400
club head.
87
00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:57.810
So it would be more of an exaggeration like so which would give me more of
88
00:03:57.810 --> 00:03:59.640
these 40, 50,
89
00:03:59.640 --> 00:04:05.870
60 yard shots kind of the way that bubble Watson hit that hooking wedge off the
90
00:04:05.870 --> 00:04:08.960
line.
91
00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:13.720
So the body movement is going to be much more exaggerated than the set of
92
00:04:13.720 --> 00:04:14.880
pitches but that's
93
00:04:14.880 --> 00:04:18.360
what you're going to have to do if you want to hit the big 40 yard curves where
94
00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:18.880
the set
95
00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:22.750
up changes may be only good for 10, 20 yards at the most depending on your
96
00:04:22.750 --> 00:04:23.600
swing speed.
97
00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.140
So mess around with those when you're playing with the nine shot drill because
98
00:04:27.140 --> 00:04:27.680
going from
99
00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:33.440
one extreme to the other will help you fine tune exactly how much is your ideal
100
00:04:33.440 --> 00:04:34.160
because
101
00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:39.900
if I know that a ton of slide creates a hook and no slide creates a slice well
102
00:04:39.900 --> 00:04:41.240
then somewhere
103
00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:45.800
in the middle is my magic number on how my stock full swing should feel and use
104
00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:46.160
this
105
00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:50.970
drill of the nine shot drill to effectively practice where your normals or
106
00:04:50.970 --> 00:04:51.760
where your
107
00:04:51.760 --> 00:04:53.080
neutral pattern is going to be.
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