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School of Golf: Dead solid contact (3:03)
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'School of Golf' host Martin Hall shares drills for fixing shots that are fat, thin, off the toe and off the heel. Watch 'School of Golf' Wednesdays 7PM ET.
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-I'm Martin Hall. You're watching Extra Credit, dead solid contact,
had hit it right to the middle. Well, if you
don't hit it on the middle, it has only 4
miss hits. It's either too much off the toe, too
much off the heel, too much off the bottom, or
too much off the top. So, 1 drill to fix
each of those. Let's stay with the nasty, the shank,
the German tank as we used to call it in
England, the shank. What that happen there. When you do
the reach on the downswing as good the drill as
I know to stop the shank is just to practice
very near to a 2 x 4 and I mean
very near. Now, as long as you put the ball
at the front of the 2 x 4, and you
give yourself just a tiny bit of margin perhaps quarter
of an inch between the toe of the club and
the ball, you should be able to his the ball
without hitting the 2 x 4. Don't put it back
here because if you hit the 2 x 4, will
help back there, but put it up here. If you're
shanking, you're probably going to move the wood too much.
That's a great drill to stop the shank, to stop
the heel shift. What about the evil brother of the
heel shot? Well, that would be the toe shot and
a lot of times, the tow shot is going to
occur when people sort of lift the upper body away
from the ball and of course then that stretches everything
away from the ball and you can't reach it. One
of my favorites to that is when you finish your
swing as a good finish start to avoid this upper
body lift away is what I call lay your head
on the pillow. When I finish the swing, I want
to lay my head as it where on a pillow.
That's going to keep me my golf posture through the
swing. Luke Donald would be a magnificent example of that.
I'm going to swing and lay my head on the
pillow. At the finish, I lay the head pillow, very
difficult to hit off the toe if you do that.
You don't hit on the heel. You don't hit off
the toe. Maybe you hit it fat. A very simple
drill to hit it-- to correct that fat hitting is
this. Put the ball on a very high tee. Take
a mid iron. I've got a 6 here. Difficult to
do, but see if you can clip the ball off
the tee without knocking the tee off the ground. Now,
that's not easy to do if you just clip there
like that. It's not [unk]. The point would be you're
not gonna go right underneath. It great sort of develops
skill drill that one. And finally, that leads us with
the thin. And the thing usually is when the club
is coming up too quickly. Well, I don't get much
sample of this, really doesn't get much better than this.
Put a tee a couple of inches in front of
the ball, trying and the ball and make sure you
move the tee because research would say, my experience would
say, I manage to hit the ball and hit that
tee, there's no way that I can hit the ball
thin. So, 4 drills to getting rid of the 4
evil miss hits. Thanks for joining here on golfchannel.com for
the best in golf instruction. For more tips like these,
tune to school of golf every Wednesday at 7 p.m.
eastern.
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