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.

Control Your Center of Rotation to Improve Iron Play

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel how to swing around a point in front of your left hip for improved consistency.
  • Understand the importance of bringing the club across your body to enhance your impact position.
  • Reduce thin and fat shots by developing better swing path awareness.

In this drill, you'll learn how to control your center of rotation using the wipe technique, which helps you achieve better low point control and cleaner contact with your irons.

Video Transcript
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This concept video is using the wipe to control the center of rotation. So if I

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00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:11.420
bring the Pula Hoop in here, many golfers who struggle with low point and as a

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result they're not really crisp iron players. The center of their swing tends

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to be more straight up and down like this and so the bottom of their swing is

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right at the golf ball and the club will be at an angle kind of like this, kind

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of

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like this, kind of like this and you'll see it just pass just like that. Golf

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ers

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who tend to be more consistent iron players tend to swing around a point more

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in front of their left hip. So I'm gonna now see the club kind of pass like

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this

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like that and it's swinging around a point more outside here. Well at this

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point here in delivery position it's on the right side of the body so how do I

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get it over to that left side of the body? Basically I'm going to feel, if I'm

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used to, kind of getting this shoulder out away from me and throwing the arms

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more down kind of like this, you can see that that would create the club

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passing

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similar to that first circle that I was showing. But if I get into this

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position

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and then I feel like I was going to bring the club across my body, this is more

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what's happening force-wise from the shoulders, where basically I'm almost

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gonna feel like I'm gonna take this stick and I'm gonna throw it in that

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direction there, kind of like that. If I take the club and I bring it across my

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body like this, now this gets me into that position where the grip is almost

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ahead of the golf ball and then when I release my hands, now the bottom of the

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swing is easily gonna be in front of the golf ball and I'm gonna struggle with

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a lot less of the thin fat Miss combo. So these wipe videos or these wipe

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drills

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are designed to get the force going more that way, kind of pulling across my

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body instead of pivoting it and kind of coupling down or throwing the club kind

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of more like this. So one thing that I'll have people do is a little one two

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three

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drill where you'll bring it in front you're going to, I usually put the stick

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kind of in the direction that we're going to apply it so I'll bring it here

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the grip is gonna go that way to get the hands in front and then I'm gonna let

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it extend down in order to make solid contact with the golf ball. If you do

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that if you get the arms more in front like this then the only ways that you

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could then hit it fat would be if you were coming outside in or if the upper

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body was lunging. If I get this in front but the upper body stays back it's

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gonna

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be very difficult even if I have a flip, if I flip at that time I'm still gonna

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make relatively solid contact. So if you're struggling with your low point and

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your posture is pretty good, your sequence is not too bad but it still has

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this look of the club just swinging around a point just above the golf ball

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start imagining the point out here kind of more in line with that left hip and

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think about the butt end of the club swinging around that. In order to get it

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there before I release it I'm gonna have to feel like I do this white movement

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or

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pull the club a little bit more across my body so that when I release it it's

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swinging around a point in space right around here not right here over the

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off bar.

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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.

Control Your Center of Rotation to Improve Iron Play

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel how to swing around a point in front of your left hip for improved consistency.
  • Understand the importance of bringing the club across your body to enhance your impact position.
  • Reduce thin and fat shots by developing better swing path awareness.

In this drill, you'll learn how to control your center of rotation using the wipe technique, which helps you achieve better low point control and cleaner contact with your irons.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.680
This concept video is using the wipe to control the center of rotation. So if I

2
00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:11.420
bring the Pula Hoop in here, many golfers who struggle with low point and as a

3
00:00:11.420 --> 00:00:17.280
result they're not really crisp iron players. The center of their swing tends

4
00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:21.400
to be more straight up and down like this and so the bottom of their swing is

5
00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:24.720
right at the golf ball and the club will be at an angle kind of like this, kind

6
00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:24.800
of

7
00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:29.360
like this, kind of like this and you'll see it just pass just like that. Golf

8
00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:29.600
ers

9
00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:33.720
who tend to be more consistent iron players tend to swing around a point more

10
00:00:33.720 --> 00:00:40.670
in front of their left hip. So I'm gonna now see the club kind of pass like

11
00:00:40.670 --> 00:00:40.880
this

12
00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:48.440
like that and it's swinging around a point more outside here. Well at this

13
00:00:48.440 --> 00:00:52.040
point here in delivery position it's on the right side of the body so how do I

14
00:00:52.040 --> 00:01:00.160
get it over to that left side of the body? Basically I'm going to feel, if I'm

15
00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:05.040
used to, kind of getting this shoulder out away from me and throwing the arms

16
00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:08.800
more down kind of like this, you can see that that would create the club

17
00:01:08.800 --> 00:01:09.280
passing

18
00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:12.840
similar to that first circle that I was showing. But if I get into this

19
00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:13.360
position

20
00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:19.120
and then I feel like I was going to bring the club across my body, this is more

21
00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:24.680
what's happening force-wise from the shoulders, where basically I'm almost

22
00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:28.800
gonna feel like I'm gonna take this stick and I'm gonna throw it in that

23
00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:35.520
direction there, kind of like that. If I take the club and I bring it across my

24
00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:40.640
body like this, now this gets me into that position where the grip is almost

25
00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:47.040
ahead of the golf ball and then when I release my hands, now the bottom of the

26
00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:51.480
swing is easily gonna be in front of the golf ball and I'm gonna struggle with

27
00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:59.930
a lot less of the thin fat Miss combo. So these wipe videos or these wipe

28
00:01:59.930 --> 00:02:00.320
drills

29
00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:06.240
are designed to get the force going more that way, kind of pulling across my

30
00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:12.040
body instead of pivoting it and kind of coupling down or throwing the club kind

31
00:02:12.040 --> 00:02:16.680
of more like this. So one thing that I'll have people do is a little one two

32
00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:16.960
three

33
00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:21.280
drill where you'll bring it in front you're going to, I usually put the stick

34
00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:25.880
kind of in the direction that we're going to apply it so I'll bring it here

35
00:02:25.880 --> 00:02:31.760
the grip is gonna go that way to get the hands in front and then I'm gonna let

36
00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:36.760
it extend down in order to make solid contact with the golf ball. If you do

37
00:02:36.760 --> 00:02:42.560
that if you get the arms more in front like this then the only ways that you

38
00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:46.280
could then hit it fat would be if you were coming outside in or if the upper

39
00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:50.540
body was lunging. If I get this in front but the upper body stays back it's

40
00:02:50.540 --> 00:02:50.680
gonna

41
00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:56.640
be very difficult even if I have a flip, if I flip at that time I'm still gonna

42
00:02:56.640 --> 00:03:01.000
make relatively solid contact. So if you're struggling with your low point and

43
00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:05.680
your posture is pretty good, your sequence is not too bad but it still has

44
00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.640
this look of the club just swinging around a point just above the golf ball

45
00:03:09.640 --> 00:03:15.520
start imagining the point out here kind of more in line with that left hip and

46
00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:20.440
think about the butt end of the club swinging around that. In order to get it

47
00:03:20.440 --> 00:03:24.450
there before I release it I'm gonna have to feel like I do this white movement

48
00:03:24.450 --> 00:03:24.560
or

49
00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:29.720
pull the club a little bit more across my body so that when I release it it's

50
00:03:29.720 --> 00:03:34.240
swinging around a point in space right around here not right here over the

51
00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:38.080
off bar.

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