WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:03.799 Golf Smarter number three hundred and ninety two, published on 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.799 July ninth, twenty thirteen. 3 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:11.160 Welcome to golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 4 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:14.759 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 5 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:20.800 Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets Old. Our 6 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:25.679 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 7 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:29.359 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 8 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:32.960 If you're before kids in career or after kids in career, 9 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:35.679 you've got a chance to practice, and you have to 10 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:38.439 practice a lot. This isn't that bucket of balls before 11 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:41.320 you play. You need to go five six times a 12 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:44.439 week and hit plenty of golf balls. And I've got 13 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:46.200 one story about a guy I used to work with. 14 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.560 He was on the PGA Tour back in the sixties 15 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:50.960 and he was one of the best college players ever 16 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:53.320 at the time of him being on the tour. Ben 17 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:55.920 Hogan said that he was one of the best players 18 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:58.719 on the tour. He just didn't know it, which he 19 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:00.640 didn't know how to take it, whether as a compliment 20 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:02.799 or not. But anyways, he was switching his grip and 21 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:04.599 he was just making a little weaker so for him, 22 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:06.519 he was moving his right hand rotating it to the 23 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:08.280 left a little bit, and he asked Ben Hogan how 24 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:11.040 long it would take for it to be natural, and 25 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:12.319 Ben Hogan told him a year. 26 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:22.359 Your intent will impact ball striking success with Ken Doherty. 27 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:27.760 This is Golf Smarter, sharing tips and insights from golfers 28 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:31.319 and golf professionals to help lower your score. It's worked 29 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:33.040 for your host, Fred Green. 30 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:36.560 Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast. Ken. Thank you, 31 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:39.760 it's good to have you back. I'm glad that you 32 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:41.959 guys are keeping very good care of this golf course. 33 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.079 I appreciate that gives me something to look at. I 34 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:46.560 don't have to criticize anything. 35 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:49.640 That superintendent does a great job. 36 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:52.120 Your superintendent does a very good job. How big is 37 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:54.280 the staff his staff? 38 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:57.480 Superintendent, Yeah, I believe he's got a round fifteen working 39 00:01:57.480 --> 00:01:57.799 for him. 40 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:03.200 Grounds crew. So because I noticed a a about eight o'clock, 41 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:06.159 seven thirty eight o'clock, there are machines running around and 42 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:10.719 there's three or four guys cleaning bunkers, and I got 43 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:12.599 to imagine they're not the only ones doing They must 44 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:14.719 be multiple groups simultaneous. 45 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:16.479 That's right, And it depends on the day too. If 46 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:18.479 we're doing starting times off the first tea, they can 47 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:20.800 start at one and just go and stay ahead. But 48 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:22.639 if we have an event like we did this morning, 49 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:26.520 they've got to go off into different places to because 50 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:28.360 of the shotgun start that starts to day thirty. So 51 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.360 they get multiple groups that go to different holes and 52 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:30.879 go from. 53 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:32.599 There, and they have to stay ahead of those groups. 54 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:34.719 They got to stay ahead. And you know there's also 55 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:37.360 some areas like we have here in a residential area 56 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:41.360 where there's noise ordinance, so we have to stay away 57 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:44.439 from certain areas until seven am. 58 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.400 All right, let's get some questions have come in from 59 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:49.199 various listeners, and I thought it would be fun to 60 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:51.080 talk to you about them. And the first one is 61 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.800 someone who's saying that they hit their woods really well, 62 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:55.759 but they can't hit irons at all. And I'm like, 63 00:02:55.919 --> 00:03:01.680 iron play versus hybrids and woods. Why, I would think 64 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:05.400 that the driver is probably the hardest club to hit. 65 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.919 Not necessarily, I think the hardest clubs to hit are 66 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:12.120 probably the long irons or even the three wood off 67 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:15.319 the ground. Those are probably the most difficult clubs to hit. 68 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:15.759 Why. 69 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:21.520 Well, there's several factors for one. Sometimes somebody's swing type 70 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.960 or shape can determine whether they are better at irons 71 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:27.240 or better at woods. If you have a very descending 72 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:31.159 blow on your swing descending angle, well, irons might be 73 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.080 better for you. You might a wood needs to be 74 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:38.520 more of a shallow approach, a sweeping type swing. You 75 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.439 also have a hozzle that's on that iron, and you 76 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:44.159 can hit a golf ball on the heel of a 77 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.919 golf club and a wood you're going to be fine, 78 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:49.599 and an iron you're going to be in some trouble. 79 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:54.120 So you know, there's again there's different factors. I think 80 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:56.960 a lot of people. I think you only find that 81 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.120 the better golfers really descend into the ball the way 82 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:04.759 they should, So the higher the handicap, the better, or 83 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:07.840 I think they're happier they'll be with their woods because 84 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:10.000 you don't have to descend. It's more of a sweeping 85 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:12.280 People tend to jump up and look up and try 86 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:13.879 to lift the ball up. Well, you can kind of 87 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:15.840 get away with that with a wood, so I think 88 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:18.279 you know, when you tee it up with a driver, 89 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:22.399 it's funny. Some people have a more difficult time with 90 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:25.199 a driver because it's so long and it's so cumbersome 91 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:27.319 that they have a hard time getting through it and 92 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.680 they slice the ball where others the balls teed up. 93 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:34.160 So it is easier for them because there's they don't 94 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:36.920 worry about hitting the ground. They feel free to swing. 95 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:42.120 So it really depends on an individual and sometimes what 96 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.199 those individual flaws are in their swing it can determine it. 97 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:51.160 So you really need to develop different swings for your irons, 98 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:52.120 as you do have with you. 99 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:55.480 Yeah, and here's a perfect example. When I first started 100 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:59.319 started hitting at hybrid, I didn't hit it very well 101 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.759 and I kept one why And it wasn't until I 102 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:04.639 figured out that it was it was an iron. It 103 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:06.319 was more like an iron. You've got to hit this 104 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:09.439 on a descending blow that I you know, I moved 105 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:11.319 the ball back a little bit my stands to create 106 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:14.759 more of an iron type hit and my intent, which 107 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:17.199 I think is a very important thing in golf, is 108 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:20.000 your intent. My intent was to swing and hit down 109 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.199 on the ball instead of trimating and committing to my intent. 110 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:28.000 Once I did that, I've it's my favorite club in 111 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:30.800 the bag. I love hybrids because of that. Yeah, So 112 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:34.439 it's a I think a lot of times it's intent. 113 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:38.680 I've actually considered. Recently, I've been struggling with my five 114 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.959 iron because I have a hybrid for my four and 115 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.319 my three iron, so and I love them. Guess what's 116 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:47.959 coming and I'm I'm really considering getting rid of my 117 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:53.439 uh so right now I have driver three wood, two hybrids, 118 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:54.759 then five, six, seven. 119 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:56.959 Let me ask you a question before you go on. 120 00:05:57.600 --> 00:05:58.680 Why do you have a three wood? 121 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:02.120 Do you like your three I love my three wood? Okay, so, 122 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:06.199 but here's the interesting point. So Jesse Ortiz of Bobby 123 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:10.199 Jones Golf, he was, I went down. It's about an 124 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:13.279 hour away, and hey where his shop is. And he 125 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:16.720 made me these clubs, and he said, I'm gonna I'm 126 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:19.079 gonna make this club for you, but based on your 127 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:23.360 numbers that you provided me once you got fitted, I'm 128 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:25.439 going to make it more like a four wood, but 129 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:27.000 you can tell everyone it's a three wood. 130 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:31.839 Good for him, And so he answered, you answered my question. 131 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:34.079 You don't really hit a three wood. Three woods are 132 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:36.639 very difficult to hit. And bye, by the makeup of 133 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:39.839 your set, I'm thinking if you like all those clubs, 134 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.120 there's gonna be a big difference between your three wood 135 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:44.600 and your hybrid. So there's got to be something in 136 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.199 the middle. So that forwood helps that it moves it 137 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:49.480 a little closer. So two things are going to happen. 138 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:51.399 You may not hit it as far as the three wood, 139 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:53.480 but I guarantee you're going to be more consistent. And 140 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:54.720 that's much more important. 141 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:59.360 And I'll tell you that I recently have put the 142 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:02.319 driver in the bag for the first four or five 143 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:05.000 holes because I'm so much more confident with my three 144 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:10.079 four wood four three wood, and and and it just 145 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:12.199 gives me more confidences that go on. And then as 146 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:13.800 I feel like I've got my swing and I know 147 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.560 where I'm going, I'll pull out the driver. Smart play, 148 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:21.199 thank you, but golf smarter. So but I don't you know, obviously, 149 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:23.199 on my driver, I'm going to tee it up very high. 150 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:27.360 And my and my my hybrid, my three four wood, okay, 151 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:31.720 give me crazy. On on the wood, you know, I'll 152 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:33.680 tee them up very low. Like if I'm going to 153 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:34.199 tee up. 154 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:38.319 Where's your driver go right, left, high, low? What's proba? 155 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:41.600 Well, if I start with it, it's gonna it's gonna 156 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:44.879 go right. Okay, it's gonna go right. Sometimes a nice 157 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:48.360 fade my ball has a tendency to fade to the right. 158 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:51.879 You're the instructor, I'm asking you. I've never given you 159 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:57.600 a lesson. Have you taken lessons? Well kind of yeah, yeah, 160 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.240 So you don't have that answer. 161 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:05.639 Why it goes to the right is because I I 162 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:11.839 don't know. I I think that it's because I'm going inside. 163 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.480 Out, outside in. You're most likely swinging to the left 164 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:17.240 of your target and your club face is open. So 165 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:17.800 now you got to. 166 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:20.240 Determine with my wrists breaking too, you. 167 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:22.560 Got to determine why you're not closing that club face 168 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.800 and why you're swinging what they call over the top 169 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:27.279 or you know, to the left of your target. 170 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:30.000 The lessons that I've been working on recently, I'm just 171 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.159 learning how to roll my hands over for the impact. 172 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:35.159 That's like wow, And that's a hard one because then 173 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.279 I'm able to keep the right angle on the club 174 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:40.919 farther down and then make the roll. 175 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:45.519 Just remember this, tend to call me. Let's give you 176 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:48.720 a lesson intent anytime we have at our We have 177 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.960 a hitting bay at our facility with with video and 178 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.320 a flight scope which is a launch monitor and it's 179 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:56.559 radar base and it gives you all the details of 180 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:00.879 club face angle and and uh uh swing path and 181 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:04.000 ball speed, clubhead speed, you name it, spin rate. So 182 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:06.360 it's it's a great tool to have. But I can 183 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:09.559 tell you without even seeing in your swing, most slicers, 184 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:12.399 and I'm gonna put you in a general category, most 185 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:15.720 slicers turn rotate their chest too quickly through the ball, 186 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:19.360 and not their wrists and forearms, their hands and forearms. 187 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:21.879 Well, that's the other thing I've been working on is 188 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:24.279 my hip turn on the back swing. 189 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:25.240 Okay, and then. 190 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:27.440 Increasingly having one. 191 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:32.600 Okay, right, where do your shoulders aim at impact? 192 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:39.000 At impact? Probably left? Yeah, it probably should that's right, 193 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:41.919 and that should be at They should be square square. 194 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:44.799 This is so much fun, and that would that would 195 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:46.919 hopefully allow you to turn your hands over. Once you 196 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.840 turn your shoulders way too past your your target line 197 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:54.080 or left of your target line, you are not going 198 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:56.960 left unless you will with a short iron, because it's 199 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:59.519 easy to keep the clubhead of the short club up 200 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:03.360 with your rotation, but because the club is so long 201 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:06.840 for the driver, your your body will turn much quicker 202 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:09.840 than your hands can get the club head squared up. 203 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:14.000 So there's a good there's a good drill to feel 204 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:15.000 the right motion. 205 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:17.200 And I would love to hear it. 206 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:25.799 There's a good drill to feel the right motion. 207 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:28.000 And I would love to hear it. 208 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.000 What you need to do is put get the distance 209 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:33.320 away from the ball that you want to hit the ball. Okay. 210 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:37.960 Put your feet so they're touching together. Okay, and now 211 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:40.879 take your right foot and move it straight back as 212 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:43.559 if you're in a walking motion. Okay, so you're gonna 213 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:46.360 putting it on the ground. You're putting it on the ground, flat, flat, 214 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:50.639 both feet. Okay. So your feet were together, yep, your 215 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:53.080 feet were together initially. And you move your front your 216 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:55.200 right foot directly back. Now this is for a right 217 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:58.639 handed golfer, okay, okay, and I want you to take 218 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:03.279 a full swing without either foot leaving the ground, especially 219 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:06.679 your right heel. And what that's gonna do is it's 220 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:08.919 gonna lock your hips down on the follow through, so 221 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:11.799 it's gonna be very difficult to rotate your body through. 222 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:14.320 It's going to force you to swing your arms and 223 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:18.639 hands more, which is something that when I get somebody 224 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.200 who who does that, I want them to feel like 225 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:24.840 they're using more arms and hands on the downswing. And 226 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:27.840 I know that you hear about the rotation and rotate, rotate, 227 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:32.000 But I don't think slicers use their hands and forearms enough. 228 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:37.360 They don't snap their their their club head through. Interesting, 229 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.519 So try that drill, and if you're a left hander, 230 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:41.960 the left foot goes back. 231 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:43.039 Okay, all right. 232 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:46.080 So with the The key though, is to keep that 233 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:48.000 right heel down if you're a right hander, and that 234 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:48.799 in that swing. 235 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:51.360 And the goal here is to be square at impact, 236 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:51.960 not having one. 237 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:53.960 Well, you're gonna be forced to You're gonna be forced 238 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.000 to use your arms and hands a lot more. 239 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:57.799 That's what it feels like. I'm doing this. 240 00:11:57.879 --> 00:11:59.960 That's right. And the key you got to keep your 241 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:01.840 when you swing you hit that ball. 242 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:04.080 That's always been a problem to keep your balance on 243 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:06.480 my driver especially, it's always been a problem where I'll 244 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:08.720 take it. You know, I'll finish my swing and I'll 245 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:10.720 be four or five steps in a different direction from 246 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.480 where I started. Well, swing too hard. 247 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:15.759 A drill for that is the same one. Make sure 248 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:18.120 that your feet are together. Put your right foot back, 249 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:21.000 you could even to make it real difficult, put the 250 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:24.759 right foot directly behind the left foot, both on the ground, 251 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:26.840 not touching each other. In the same distance away as 252 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:29.799 if you were walking, and then put both feet down 253 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:31.679 and try to take a golf swing and watch how 254 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:34.679 difficult it is to keep your balance. But if you 255 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:37.120 get to the point where you can take a full swing, 256 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:39.879 hit the ball and keep your balance count to two 257 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:42.679 or three after you swing, watch how much better your 258 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:47.039 swing gets because you're forcing yourself to swing around a center. 259 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:50.720 So it's it's very good. You won't find yourself most 260 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.559 people fall away from it to their back foot and 261 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:57.960 you'll find yourself losing your balance quite a bit initially. 262 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:00.399 But it's a real good drill to feel your head 263 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:02.720 still and have you swing around to around a center. 264 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:04.320 All we got to figure out how we can get 265 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:07.039 a video of this of that drill. Sure, yeah, we're 266 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:07.879 going to have to put that up. 267 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:08.759 We'll put you on it. 268 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:10.840 No, you you're going to be giving. 269 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:13.080 I'll swing. I do it all the time, and I'll 270 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:15.200 show you how to do it and keep your balance. 271 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.120 Awesome, Oh that's great. So what is it? What does 272 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:25.480 it mean when occasionally I'll just on a driver t shot, Well, 273 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:26.639 I'll just pop the ball up. 274 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:29.480 Well, what happens also when you come over the top 275 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:33.320 is you create a very steep angle of attack. That's right. 276 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:35.799 So you're coming over the top, you create a steep 277 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:38.639 angle of attack, and when you hit basically down on 278 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:41.480 the ball, the ball goes straight up in the air. 279 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:43.559 And how many times have I played with people do 280 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:45.440 the same thing. Oh, I tee it up too high. 281 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.519 That's not the reason, although it's you know, I'm sure 282 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:50.960 it's possible, but for the most part, it's an over 283 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.519 the top move and a steep angle of attack. And 284 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:58.200 what you want when you're hitting a driver, you actually 285 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:02.120 want to be on the upswing that that ball. That's 286 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:03.480 why we put it up by the inside of our 287 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.200 left heel. If you're a right handed golfer, is so 288 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:09.200 you want to hit this thing just as it starts 289 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:11.399 the upswing of your of your arc. 290 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:15.120 Yeah, there is. I do have one video on golf 291 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:20.080 Smarter TV where he's how to hit straight drives a 292 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:22.840 teacher up in Lake Tahoe, and he said, you know, 293 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:25.919 get your feet together at the ball. Address the ball. 294 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.320 Put your feet together, take a very little step to 295 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:30.679 the left with your right your left foot, and then 296 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:31.679 a big step. 297 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:33.399 To the right. That's exactly what you want to do. 298 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:36.039 Yeah. So, if if this is an issue for you. You 299 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:39.320 should definitely look at the video on a golf Smarter 300 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:42.679 TV on our YouTube channel. All right, Ken, now coming 301 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:46.799 to the realization that hybrids are irons, Yes, but they're 302 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:51.039 not playing like like woods, and you have to you 303 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:53.039 have to have a difference. You have to develop two 304 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:56.120 kinds of swings. You can't have the same swing. That's 305 00:14:56.159 --> 00:15:00.279 not easy to do. Now, it's not what is the difference? Well, well, 306 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:03.159 I think a lot of times it's intent. And remember 307 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:05.480 you're putting the ball forward for a wood, so you 308 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:08.879 want to hit a sweeping type motion. And I think 309 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:11.200 the big thing with irons is I think people can 310 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.240 get away from the woods because it is at the 311 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:15.320 bottom the swing's arc or with a driver on the 312 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.440 way up. And I think that the average golfer does 313 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:19.960 not hit down on the ball. 314 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:23.240 They swing up on the ball. So that makes an 315 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:27.279 iron very difficult. So intent has to change. And I 316 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:30.559 think another drill that's very good is if you put 317 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:34.159 a tee in the ground about an inch past the ball, 318 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:35.679 right in front of the ball about an inch and 319 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:40.440 make sure that the tea is about grass light, grass 320 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:43.080 level or even a little lower. And I want you 321 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:45.320 to not only hit the golf ball, but I want 322 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:47.080 you to knock the tea out of the ground, so 323 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:49.039 the t is barely going to be above the ground. 324 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:52.840 And wait, with which club is this any iron? Any iron? 325 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:54.559 Any iron? I want you to make sure that you 326 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:58.039 take it so that the divot goes forward. Now this 327 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:01.519 this what it does is it gives you something visual 328 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:05.440 to go after, and it changes your intent. And I 329 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:10.000 believe wholeheartedly in intent. If you try to lift the ball, 330 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:12.000 that's what you're gonna do. You're going to try to 331 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:13.759 get the ball in the air. Your body's gonna come up, 332 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:16.320 You're going to lift your hands up. If you change 333 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:18.200 your intent and say I'm going to hit the tee 334 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:21.120 beyond the ball, I'm going to make the divot beyond 335 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:24.360 the ball, you can change the mechanics of your swing 336 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:27.320 by changing your intent. I do it a lot in 337 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:29.759 the bunker with people too. I do it with chip shots. 338 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.200 Change their intent and they hit better shots. We didn't 339 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:36.279 talk about the mechanics, but yet their mechanics changed. So 340 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:38.080 I think that's a very good drill. When you're on 341 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:41.039 the ground and you're having trouble making a divot is 342 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.240 to just put that tea. Put that little carrot out 343 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:47.080 there and go after it, and do it until you 344 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.080 start knocking that tea out of the ground, and you 345 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:52.320 watch the difference. You'll compress the ball, You'll hit it farther, 346 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:54.480 you'll hit it more solid. You won't believe how good 347 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:54.919 it feels. 348 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:58.519 It's the whole concept of little ball, big ball versus 349 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:01.320 big ball hitting big ball, ball, big ball being earth. 350 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:02.120 That's right. 351 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:05.279 You need a little ball then the big ball. And 352 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:08.599 it is such a hard thing for the average golfer, 353 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:12.000 from what I witness and from what I experience, uh 354 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:13.759 to to get a good divot. 355 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.119 We don't grow up well. Some obviously, the people that 356 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:18.960 start playing golf early get it. It's easy to learn 357 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:21.720 when you're younger, but when you're older, it's harder to learn. 358 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.079 And also when you're growing up, you don't play any 359 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:27.079 other sport. I guess maybe hockey, but you don't really 360 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:29.079 play any other sport where you're swinging down to make 361 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:32.319 the ball go up. You know, baseball isn't meant to 362 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:34.359 hit that way. You don't play tennis that way. So 363 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:36.680 I think it's very unorthodox. 364 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:39.519 All right now, I want to get back to your 365 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:45.000 You're real high on the word intent. Yeah, okay, intent 366 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.200 is not getting the ball unto the green. That's not 367 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:48.759 what you mean. 368 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:51.000 I think. I think that that's another level of it, 369 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:53.559 if your intent is to get the ball green instead 370 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:55.240 of saying I don't want to go in the bunker. 371 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:58.839 You know, I think that there's also that positive thought too. 372 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:01.440 You know, well, if you're think if you got the 373 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:04.440 bunker in your head at all, that's not a positive thought. 374 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:06.680 Don't even think about it exactly. 375 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:10.599 Yeah, So to find intent in what you mean when 376 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:13.680 you're talking about using your wood versus the hybrid, and 377 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:16.839 you know what your intent is on the swing? You know, 378 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:18.440 you have different types of swings. 379 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:21.759 I do, and when when I have an iron in 380 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:25.400 my hand, I am trying to purposely stay down and 381 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:27.680 take a divit. I can see a blade of grass 382 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:30.799 beyond the ball, and my intent is to swing down 383 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:33.559 through that grass. Do you. 384 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:40.160 Aim when you're addressing when you're at a dress. Are 385 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:41.839 you looking at the front of the ball, the back 386 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:43.960 of the ball, the center of the ball. What are 387 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:46.440 you looking at? What is and is that your end point? 388 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:48.880 It doesn't matter what I'm looking at because I don't 389 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:50.920 see what I'm looking at and you're gonna look at 390 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:54.759 me like what Wait a minute, okay, what Yeah, exactly 391 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:58.119 what I do before I take a swing, as I 392 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:01.680 pick a target. It could be a chimney, it could be. 393 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:04.119 A branch routine. 394 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:07.200 Yes, so I'm building the image that I want to 395 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:11.039 swing at. If that chimney's above my flagstick, or a 396 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.440 tower on the hillside, or a tree branch or sometimes 397 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:17.559 it has to be the flagstick itself, I'm looking at 398 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:19.880 that and I'm building that image in my head. So 399 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:21.839 when I finally look back down to the ball, I'm 400 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:24.839 there for about a second or less and I see 401 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:28.200