Once You Understand This Concept, The Golf Swing Becomes Effortless

Do you know what's really surprised me over the last few years working with some of the top players? Their ability to change their golf swing and make improvements is unbelievably fast. Whereas when I'm working with amateur golfers it feels like it takes forever and no matter how much effort they're putting in, sometimes it just doesn't transfer to the golf course. The best players, and very few people talk about this, the way they practice is the key. They practice in a completely different way to amateur golfers. In this video I'm going to share with you a simple habit I want you to get into. You can do it in your garden, it takes like five minutes. That will literally accelerate the way you improve and how you improve. If you've ever wanted to go onto a golf course, super relaxed, with very little swing thoughts going on in your head, this will really, really help. I wish a golf coach had told me this sooner. So if you've ever spent hours and hours practicing and you're not getting better or you're not seeing the improvement that you need quick enough, it builds slightly down to this one thing. You're not creating an environment where your swing and the improvements in your swing naturally emerge. They naturally start to happen. Great players, they build an environment that allows and builds their good technique. Whereas amateur golfers, it's just chaos. They're trying this, they're trying that and there's no consistency. So what I want to share with you, and you've probably seen this drill, you may have seen like Tommy Fleetwood doing this particular drill, but I want to show you why it works and why the best players, they set up an environment every single time. You can do this in your garden, it can take five minutes, but what this environment does is it naturally builds a much better swing, it gives you feelings that you can then take to the golf course and use. So let me show you what I mean. So take a look at this. It looks complicated when you see it, doesn't it? But what have I done? Basically here, look, I've set this shaft at the same angle as my club shaft. Now this is just a standard stick holder, you could just put this into a ground, you can put it into a basket, there's many ways you can do this. Now what this is doing is this, I sometimes have a tendency to tilt the club a little bit inside. Well, if I did, I'd smack this shaft. So what I've done here is I make a swing where I can swing back all the way to the top, I can then, as opposed to maybe sometimes I might drop it inside, I can then map this swing all the way back down, missing the shaft here, and then bring it back into impact. Now you'll notice I've got the Tommy Fleetwood block there as well. What does that do? Well, when I swing back now and I miss this stick, I could cheat it. If I want to avoid that stick, I could just simply swing over the top and miss it, but this block stops me doing that. I've now set up an environment that helps me map the swing all the way down into impact. Now you'll see Tommy Fleetwood doing this drill every single time he practices and he does it, sometimes in slow motion, and he talks about him training the feeling of what his body's doing. He's never, by the way, just a quick caveat here, he's never trying to put the club in a position, that's not what he's doing. He's set an environment up here which allows him, he said actually, to swing completely freely because all I have to do, look, is miss all these obstacles, and my body has to work this out. And he won't do it all the time, sometimes he'll hit this obstacle, but that's instant feedback. So notice the magic there. We've created an environment where your body has to complete and figure out this task. You can start slowly, feeling what it's like and hit a couple of shots like this, so nice and slowly. Oh, there you hear that noise, hit it straight away, so off we go again, back, down, through. Let's map this out, slow, through, makes sense. So as opposed to just randomly hitting golf balls, trying to put the club in positions, which gets you asking questions like, is that right, is it wrong, have I done this right? This, as you saw just a minute ago, gives you instant feedback. Now if you happen to be, for instance, a slicer of a golf ball, or struggle with your ball striking, you could adapt this station really simply by doing this. We're going to move that forward now, here, and now what I've got to do, I'm actually going to grab a towel, now look at this here. With stations like this, I've now got to do a couple of things. I've got the block in place, I've now got a towel look, about a club width behind the golf ball, and now if you happen to be a slicer, I now need to look, swing underneath this all the way down, and I can start to map this swing look all the way down here. That's my feedback. Make sense? So, I've now got, well you might go, how do I strike the ball and not the ground? Well, if I start to stay back here, I might start striking the mat. Well now what? I've got to get forward to miss this towel. I don't have to tell my students how to do that. They have to solve this task themselves, all on their own. And what I love about this is, rather than me tell you what to feel, the station, this task, will give you your feelings that you then take to the golf course, and you can do this for five minutes, just in your garden if you want it. So you set the task up like this, and I go, right, let's make some swings. You might have to start slow motion, because the instinct of your slicer might be to come over the top. So you have to map the motion, notice it's a flowing motion, map the motion down, back into the golf ball. Okay, so I get myself set here, I might not pick this up because of all the tools, but I get myself set, back, and through. And this should be a lovely little draw, because I've come in from the inside. Yeah, it makes sense. A little curve on that shot. Where's my low point? 5.5 inches after the golf ball, yeah? So by setting a station up like this, every single time, this is what stays consistent with all the best players. They keep the same station, that develops the right motion and the right swing that leads to straighter shots, better strikes, but here's what changes. The feelings that you get from doing a drill like this will change every single time. So if you've ever had that sensation where you're out on the golf course, and you get a certain feeling one day, and it's like, yeah, that's the key, I found the answer, I found the answer to hitting the driver straight, but you try two days later, and that feeling doesn't work anymore, that's normal for all of us. Good players don't rely on feelings. They set stations up that are consistent, and they allow the station to tell them what to feel that day, and they take that feeling out onto the golf course, and that is how they stay consistent. So the other thing that I found really helps now is I use my brand new Swing Coach app in most lessons now. It basically instantly gives you an analysis of exactly what you're doing wrong in your golf swing, but more importantly, how to fix it with drills just like this. All you do is you download it, you can try it for 14 days, complete it for your tries, you set it up behind you, it will tell you within two seconds what you're doing wrong, then you can figure out how to set up a station like this to start fixing it. When that station's set up, it will then continue to give you feedback every single swing to make sure that you're staying on track, and that feedback gives you feelings that you then take to the golf course, and it's those that will make you more consistent when you play. So instead of trying to put the swing or the club in all these different positions, create stations that force the club to swing in the correct way, that promotes the correct feelings, you then obviously go and play with that, which is how the best players improve faster and are more consistent. So if you'd like to try the Swing Coach app for 14 days completely free of charge, just scan the QR code right here, and if you'd like to see me conducting a lesson like this live, I think this bunker lesson that I did was pretty damn good, and you'll see how with very little input from me, the golfer goes from struggling in bunkers to getting out first time. So I hope you enjoyed the video, if you did, give it a thumbs up, maybe share it with a few friends, and remember there's a free practice guide somewhere in the description box below, or pin it to the top comment below this video. Until next week, have a wonderful golfing week.