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School of Golf: Extra Credit: 100 yards and in (2:58)
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'School of Golf' host Martin Hall gives four drills to help you make better contact and improve your distance control with your wedges. Watch 'School of Golf' Wednesdays 7PM ET.
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-I'm Martin Hall and you're watching Extra Credit School of
Golf. We're talking about 100 yards and in. Four drills
to help you make better contact and therefore control the
distance from 100 yards and in. Number one drill, it's
going to be in the set up. When you set
up ever so slightly, lift your right heel perhaps only
quarter of an inch off the ground. You might be
the only one that knows yourself to ground. But, if
you set up and lift your right heel a quarter
of an inch off the ground and you keep it
there through the motion, you can be fairly certain that
you're going to get the ball on the ground that's
about the same time. It would be really difficult to
scoop it. Number two drill, adding from set up to
back swing here. That's the one I got from the
U.S. Open champion here. As you swing back, place your
right index finger down the shaft, back to the shaft
as I've done here. And as you swing up, be
aware of pointing your right index finger up to the
sky. Not much worth with pitching and then get in
that shaft laid off. For the full swing maybe you've
got time to recover but in the pitch, you haven't.
So, we could go right heel up, right index finger
up. Two things putting a bit of steepness in the
swing and making it really lightly that you're going to
make good contact and therefore be able to control the
distance. Can you hit balls with that? Yes, obviously I
did. Our third drill, one used by many, many tournament
winners. Practise with the towel. Take your towel. Put it
under your two armpits. Not for full shots. I want
to stress this. Not for full shots. It's only shots
under about 100 yards. Get used to linking your upper
arms to your chest so there's a definite relationship speed
wise between the speed in your arms and going at
the speed of your-- your body is going there. As
John Jacobs would always say to me, "Martin, nothing independent
through the hit. Absolutely, nothing independent through the hit." And,
the last one, my favorite drill. The last one, I
suppose this is my favorite drill because I seem to
need this one the most. This is-- this is for
those of you who suffer from [unk] like I do.
[unk] being that, you know, you swing the rest of
it. I've taken a driveway marker here and I've stuffed
it in the grip hand of the golf club. When
I set up, it's resting just lightly against my body.
As I swing through, I want to do a good
job of not cracking a rib. So, it should be
up, down and through. So, the shaft doesn't overtake me
too soon. There's our four super drills to improve your
contact which would improve your distance control which will help
you score better from 100 yards and in. Thanks for
joining us on GolfChannel.com for the best in golf instructions.
For more tips like this, tune in to School of
Golf every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Eastern.
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