Stop Trying To Hit The Golf Ball - Do This Instead

I want you to stop trying to hit the golf ball. This might be the reason that you're struggling. This might be the very thing that's causing you to miss hit golf shots and cause you to have not the energy to transport into the golf ball like we want. Most golfers see the ball as the destination to the golf swing. We want to make sure the golf ball is not the bottom of your golf swing. We want the destination of your golf swing to be very much the target. We want to very much have our focus on not hitting at the golf ball, but more hitting through the golf ball the right way. Let me share with you exactly how you can do this instantly. The first thing I'd like you to do is if you take a circle, we've got a towel here on the grass. The idea is we're going to start to focus more on objects in front of the golf ball rather than the golf ball. What we see with a lot of golfers, the whole intention is on the ground to make contact with the ball and the golf swing kind of either decelerates far too early or has no destination going through the golf ball. We very much want the destination to be through the golf ball. The bottom of the swing arc definitely wants to be more the towel than the golf ball, so the golf ball would be situated somewhere like here. So very much wants to be more the towel but intentionally we want to mentally think much more about throwing into this location here. Again, if we were going to throw a punch, throw a ball, anything, we'd very much be focusing on this area here to create speed and the impact before that. Pretty natural when we're doing things that are not golf. When the golf ball's there, obviously the whole focus and attention becomes much more on that golf ball. As I said, we see so many golfers that will go head down, destination is the golf ball. We want it to be through the golf ball. So the better players very much have a destination that is not the golf ball, and they get into that fourth finish with nice balance. So what I'm going to get you to do initially is we're going to focus on the towel and take the towel into the full finish. So we set up where the ball would be. From that position, then we make a backswing and then try and get the club to land on that towel every time. Now, we might have to smarten this towel up after we do it a few times because we should be disturbing it. So again, golf ball and try and hit that towel down the range. Now, if we can do that consistently, you're kind of ready to move on. And when we're moving on, we might well still put the towel there when we're hitting golf shots to have it as the focus of ball, then towel. But we very much want the destination to be in that full finish. Let me go through that. We've got the ball in the situation now, and the idea is now for me to try and hit the golf ball and try and brush that towel. Now I've got that towel kind of one, two, three club head widths roughly past where the ball is. So it's quite a big stretch. So again, you might even put it in a position where you're not actually gonna make contact with it, but it's more the intention, so then you're not rearranging the towel every time. It can become quite annoying. If we take our setup now, and the objective now is for me to try and hit the ball and towel in one go. I just ruffled it up. So again, we're looking for consistency. Can we do that repeatedly? When we can, then how do we take that to the next level, which will be then finishing with style? So again, if I can go then from the same feeling of hitting the ball and towel, And then start then to feel my chest works up and back and the club works kind of just behind my head, left arm into L-shape. And then when I'm hitting normal golf shots the focus wants to be very much on the finish position, not the ball. So in this shot now I'm going to really focus on can I get into that smart finish every single time. Hold it till the ball pretty much lands and reset yourself and you want to be in that finish position each time. Chest looking left of where we want to go, pointing up. Golf club in the kind of sternum wants to be up in the air above the tree line but also wants to be rotated just left of where we want to go. Ideally I like to see the head have some tilt in it so try and be what I call on the pillow but it's more important if at this moment in time to feel can we finish forward and up forward and up with the club after the golf ball in our head. Obviously you should hit the ball then turf but we want to feel like everything's moving forward but without creating a rotation motion with the shoulders to land in that towel. Very important that the club's journey is on the correct arc or plane. So again we're here, we shift, land and throw into that position. Let's talk about how we take this to the golf course. So on the golf course what I'd encourage you to do is do a practice swing Swing behind the golf ball, where you'd feel again, ball towel. Big finish, doesn't have to necessarily be a huge speed, but it's that kind of motion forward and up. Then we go to the golf ball, set the golf ball, stare at the target, get comfortable. Back swing thoughts can be the same as you've always had. Then the follow through needs to be commitment, full throttle to that finish position. If you can hit every single golf shot with that very simple mantra of being comfortable, being committed and getting to that full finish position in balance, you will play better golf, I guarantee it. If you're new to the channel, please hit subscribe, hit the notifications and also post any comments or questions you have down below. 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