If breaking 80’s the objective, you have to be sturdy off the tee first, says this prime trainer.
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Welcome to Shaving Strokes, a GOLF.com sequence during which we’re sharing enhancements, learnings and takeaways from novice golfers similar to you — together with a number of the velocity bumps and challenges they confronted alongside the way in which.
As I proceed on my quest in the direction of breaking 80 for the primary time, I’m continually dissecting my sport and asking as many questions as doable, attempting to grasp the “why” for each shot.
However to be blunt, my journey has hit a wall, and my scores haven’t been all that nice currently.
As a brand new dad, it’s been onerous to get to the driving vary or play 18, which causes me to play catch-up every time I decide up a membership. So as an alternative of implementing new strategies and swing changes, I’m falling again into the identical unhealthy habits I had years in the past.
That doesn’t imply the grind stops, although, so I’m nonetheless slowly working my method in the direction of breaking 80 and celebrating accordingly (most likely with a six-pack of Natty tall boys when it occurs, if I’m being trustworthy).
The most important space of concern for me currently? My driving, which has been so inconsistent that it’s really led me to query, nicely, every thing off the tee.
From my membership choice (ought to I take advantage of 3-wood as an alternative of driver?) to my grip and my setup, I really feel so misplaced standing on the tee field — which isn’t a superb place to be, so I wanted some assist in a giant method!
That’s why I tapped in GOLF High 100 Trainer Jason Birnbaum to get his suggestions — and to clarify why a superb tee shot is so essential when attempting to interrupt 80.
Making an attempt to interrupt 80? Dial in your drives first
Because the video above reveals, Birnbaum and I headed to the driving vary to attempt to determine what the hell has been happening with my driver currently.
“I’m on a quest to interrupt 80,” I inform him. “What’s one shot that each participant has to grasp?”
Birnbaum really responds by describing the shot a participant can’t hit should you’re hoping to interrupt 80 — which is a slice off the tee.
This straightforward anti-slice drill fixes your unhealthy over-the-top behavior
“It’s generally extra concerning the shot you possibly can’t hit, which, on this case, is the slice,” he replies. “In the event you’re a slicer, it’s going to be actually onerous to interrupt 80 as a result of, almost definitely, you’re going to have a pair balls exit of bounds.”
The No. 1 wrongdoer for slicing the ball with a driver? An over-the-top swing sample, which causes the clubface to open up a bit because it impacts the golf ball.
“More often than not, an over-the-top or out-to-in swing path is what causes the golf ball to chop an excessive amount of,” Birnbaum says. “The extra the golfer sees the ball go to the appropriate, the extra they attempt to combat that [swing path] by attempting to swing extra to the left.”
So what can a participant who’s struggling off the tee like I’m do? Birnbaum shares an easy-fix for extra success with the motive force.
“One drill that I’ve discovered actually useful is to attract a line on the golf ball — just like what you’d do for a putt, mainly,” he explains. “As a substitute of pointing this inexperienced line straight on the goal such as you would suppose, I’m really going to level it a little bit out to the appropriate. That is the trail that I need you to swing on.”
The photograph beneath reveals how this could look.
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Birnbaum then walks me by means of how this could really feel as I come by means of impression.
“I need you to really feel such as you’re having your shoulders according to that inexperienced line as you come into the ball,” he says. “That’s going to maintain your higher physique closed to the goal and get you to swing a little bit bit extra to the within.”
Birnbaum then has me take a couple of gradual backswings to get the feeling he described, all with the hope of placing a extra pure draw on my tee shot.
After hitting my shot, he jogs my memory that, with a view to break 80, it’s going to take hitting extra fairways to provide myself a greater strategy shot.
“In the event you get your tee shot in play, it makes life a little bit simpler from there,” he says.
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