Improve Your Ball Striking in Golf [Golf Tips]

We see a lot on the range when we’re teaching our students that the ball contact just isn’t solid. And you’re not getting the distance that you should.

That comes from more than likely a lack of shaft leans into the ball. To improve your ball striking I’m going to give you two simple drills to help you square the face, hit the ball lower, and be more solid.

The first drill is just a pure shaft. Lean drill where you put the ball off your right toe, and this helps you feel that shaft lean.

So, what you want to do is get lined up here and put your left hand on the club if you’re a right-handed golfer over your left knee. We’re going to really try and get that shaft lean happening.

So, you get an almost 45-degree angle on the shaft. You’re going to take nice small hammer-like strokes. So, if I’m swinging a hammer, it’s going to be kind of a whipping motion to get the most out of it. The same is true with a golf club to improve your ball striking.

So, we’re going to take it back just a little bit. We’re going to feel this motion and we’re going to hold and turn down the face. If you can see the face is turned down towards the golf ball, that’s how you get solid contact and improve your ball striking.

We want to see the ball come out low and we want to see it go left if anything.

So, I turn the face down, and the ball came out left and went very low.

You should probably do three or four or five of those to get the feel. But you want the club coming down into the ground and stopping abruptly. You don’t want to fall finished.

Once you get that down, I would expand a little bit. I would still have it back in your stance, and I would do a half-backswing, maybe two-thirds. And I want you to work on getting that shaft and get your hands way ahead and turning down that shaft towards a ball.

Turn it down. And I want you to do an abrupt stop. So the club should not go any further than that.

This should help you improve your ball striking and contact and have you hit the ball further.

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