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Improve Your Axis Tilt for Better Ball Striking

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel how to maintain upper body tilt while continuing to turn through impact
  • Identify and correct issues causing fat shots and hooks
  • Practice the drill in 9 to 3 swings for improved consistency with longer clubs

Learn the 'Turn From Behind' drill to enhance your axis tilt and maintain a solid swing. This technique is especially crucial for longer clubs like the driver and three wood.

Video Transcript
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This drill is turned from behind. So turn from behind is a simple drill to help

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you while you're working on your axis tilt. So what can frequently happen is

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00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:16.020
golfers who tend to kind of lunge and early straighten the arms need to work

4
00:00:16.020 --> 00:00:20.500
a little bit more into this axis tilt movement where they get a little hip

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00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:24.300
tilt so that their upper body is tilted more away from the target. This is

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00:00:24.300 --> 00:00:29.980
especially important with the three wood or the driver. So a lot of golf

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00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:34.140
ers who fall into this pattern and start working on keeping the upper body a

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little bit more behind start having the bottom of swing move too far back hit

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fat shots hit blocks hit hooks because they stay behind but they forget to

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continue turning. So I use this little mantra of turn from behind which is

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basically even though my upper body is going to stay behind the golf ball my

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body is going to continue turning through the release. So it ends up looking

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kind

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of something along the lines like that. If I find that in trying to stay behind

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I

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don't turn let's say I early extend or I just continue side bending the bottom

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of my swing clearly moves behind the golf ball and from down the line you'll

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see that I tend to get too much into out where if I simply stay behind but then

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turn so I have that good access to relationship but I continue turning I'm

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able to achieve a little bit more of a neutral path but with a shallow angle

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of attack. So you can do this in either 9 to 3 you can do this in delivery and

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go

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or you can do this in pump style drills but the general concept is pretty easy

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I'm working on continuing turning so I get into a good follow-through position

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00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:51.500
but I'm making sure that I do it with my upper body slightly behind the lower

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00:01:51.500 --> 00:01:54.780
body. This will be more important with the longer clubs so you may want to

27
00:01:54.780 --> 00:01:58.900
practice with those as opposed to doing them with the shorter clubs like seven

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00:01:58.900 --> 00:02:05.020
iron and above. So I can do 9 to 3 basically making sure that I continue

29
00:02:05.020 --> 00:02:10.340
turning as I stay behind that's going to really help me with my solidness of

30
00:02:10.340 --> 00:02:14.740
contact as I'm working on my axis tilt and then I can use the feedback of

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00:02:14.740 --> 00:02:14.900
either

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the turf contact or the ball flight to figure out what I need to adjust as I

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do these drills. So turn from behind if I'm used to getting ahead it'll kind of

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look like that so I start to get behind and it tends the bottom out well behind

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so I have to make sure that even though I'm going to stay behind I'm going to

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continue rotating which moves the bottom of the swing far enough forward.

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I'll be able to use solidness of contact low point control and how well

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I'm getting into my follow-through position to make sure that I'm

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I'm continuing my turn even though I'm staying behind and have good access to

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00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:49.420
it.
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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 Axis Tilt for Better Ball Striking

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel how to maintain upper body tilt while continuing to turn through impact
  • Identify and correct issues causing fat shots and hooks
  • Practice the drill in 9 to 3 swings for improved consistency with longer clubs

Learn the 'Turn From Behind' drill to enhance your axis tilt and maintain a solid swing. This technique is especially crucial for longer clubs like the driver and three wood.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.060
This drill is turned from behind. So turn from behind is a simple drill to help

2
00:00:06.060 --> 00:00:10.560
you while you're working on your axis tilt. So what can frequently happen is

3
00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:16.020
golfers who tend to kind of lunge and early straighten the arms need to work

4
00:00:16.020 --> 00:00:20.500
a little bit more into this axis tilt movement where they get a little hip

5
00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:24.300
tilt so that their upper body is tilted more away from the target. This is

6
00:00:24.300 --> 00:00:29.980
especially important with the three wood or the driver. So a lot of golf

7
00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:34.140
ers who fall into this pattern and start working on keeping the upper body a

8
00:00:34.140 --> 00:00:38.540
little bit more behind start having the bottom of swing move too far back hit

9
00:00:38.540 --> 00:00:44.860
fat shots hit blocks hit hooks because they stay behind but they forget to

10
00:00:44.860 --> 00:00:48.820
continue turning. So I use this little mantra of turn from behind which is

11
00:00:48.820 --> 00:00:52.140
basically even though my upper body is going to stay behind the golf ball my

12
00:00:52.140 --> 00:00:57.620
body is going to continue turning through the release. So it ends up looking

13
00:00:57.620 --> 00:00:58.340
kind

14
00:00:58.340 --> 00:01:02.900
of something along the lines like that. If I find that in trying to stay behind

15
00:01:02.900 --> 00:01:03.260
I

16
00:01:03.260 --> 00:01:08.460
don't turn let's say I early extend or I just continue side bending the bottom

17
00:01:08.460 --> 00:01:14.340
of my swing clearly moves behind the golf ball and from down the line you'll

18
00:01:14.340 --> 00:01:23.780
see that I tend to get too much into out where if I simply stay behind but then

19
00:01:23.780 --> 00:01:28.340
turn so I have that good access to relationship but I continue turning I'm

20
00:01:28.340 --> 00:01:32.420
able to achieve a little bit more of a neutral path but with a shallow angle

21
00:01:32.420 --> 00:01:37.810
of attack. So you can do this in either 9 to 3 you can do this in delivery and

22
00:01:37.810 --> 00:01:37.980
go

23
00:01:37.980 --> 00:01:42.780
or you can do this in pump style drills but the general concept is pretty easy

24
00:01:42.780 --> 00:01:47.340
I'm working on continuing turning so I get into a good follow-through position

25
00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:51.500
but I'm making sure that I do it with my upper body slightly behind the lower

26
00:01:51.500 --> 00:01:54.780
body. This will be more important with the longer clubs so you may want to

27
00:01:54.780 --> 00:01:58.900
practice with those as opposed to doing them with the shorter clubs like seven

28
00:01:58.900 --> 00:02:05.020
iron and above. So I can do 9 to 3 basically making sure that I continue

29
00:02:05.020 --> 00:02:10.340
turning as I stay behind that's going to really help me with my solidness of

30
00:02:10.340 --> 00:02:14.740
contact as I'm working on my axis tilt and then I can use the feedback of

31
00:02:14.740 --> 00:02:14.900
either

32
00:02:14.900 --> 00:02:18.740
the turf contact or the ball flight to figure out what I need to adjust as I

33
00:02:18.740 --> 00:02:23.780
do these drills. So turn from behind if I'm used to getting ahead it'll kind of

34
00:02:23.780 --> 00:02:27.180
look like that so I start to get behind and it tends the bottom out well behind

35
00:02:27.180 --> 00:02:31.100
so I have to make sure that even though I'm going to stay behind I'm going to

36
00:02:31.100 --> 00:02:36.020
continue rotating which moves the bottom of the swing far enough forward.

37
00:02:36.020 --> 00:02:43.020
I'll be able to use solidness of contact low point control and how well

38
00:02:43.020 --> 00:02:45.820
I'm getting into my follow-through position to make sure that I'm

39
00:02:45.820 --> 00:02:49.300
I'm continuing my turn even though I'm staying behind and have good access to

40
00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:49.420
it.
Related topics
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