In week four, these daily drills are essential for improving and maintaining your driver swing. Focus on making 10 successful practice swings daily without hitting a ball, using alignment sticks for guidance. The goal is to fine-tune your swing for consistent, straight shots by adjusting your swing path and clubface using feel-based practice. Understand that perfecting this takes time, and incorporating these drills into your routine will lead to continued improvement. The ultimate aim is to make your natural swing straighter by consistently working on these fundamental drills.
What's Covered: Daily practice swing routine using alignment sticks to groove a neutral, consistent swing path and clubface position.
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Hey, it's great to have you here in week four. These are your daily drills, not really only for week four, but really for the rest of your life. If you want to keep on getting better at driver, keep on hitting it straighter and straighter. What we're trying to do is make our completely natural swing where we don't feel like we do anything.
Hit the ball really straight. Now, the way we're gonna do that is by changing always fine tuning and tweaking our feels to be straighter and straighter. So what we're gonna do today is we're just gonna make a few swings here. I want you to get 10 total successful practice swings, not hitting a ball.
We're gonna set up the blue brick, we're gonna put the alignment sticks in the square divot setting. So I basically just get these two nice parallel lines and I wanna make some practice swings swinging my driver between these two lines. Now we're gonna be checking everything we worked on in this course.
We're gonna be, first feeling is the face open. So if I make a practice swing and I feel like, ah, I felt like I would've sliced that, I was trying to hit it dead straight. But for whatever reason, it felt like the face was open, that ball would've tailed off to the right. I'm gonna do a few practice swings to get my hook release.
Maybe just a little bit of that to feel like the club gets inside and closed releases and then comes on here. I'm gonna feel a few practice swings like that, and then I'm gonna go back again, try to make another swing and see if it felt like the face was nice and square. I'm also gonna be checking what we worked on in week two by getting our.
Nice square path. I've done that with these two parallel sticks. The nice thing about swinging between these two sticks is A, it gives you a nice guideline of knowing if I'm swinging straight, but B, I can really easily see it. If I start swinging inside out like this, I can see my club kind of flashing across these sticks.
If I'm outside in, I can see it flashing across these sticks the other way. And then finally, we're gonna be feeling, and again, this is just feeling, if we would've hit it well off the toe or the heel. Now, all of the drills we do in this, or all the practice swings we make are purely feel, and the biggest pushback I get is, "Clay,
I can't feel what's going on in contact. Yes, it's gotten better since we've done this course, but I don't really know. I may think I hit it dead straight and it actually sliced, or I may think I hit it dead straight and solid and actually off the toe." Totally understandable. You'll never get these perfect, but you'll be surprised.
Doing these drills where you're really focused on just feeling the club head as it moves through impact, it'll actually give you better control of how your club moves through impact. And the more we do these, the better we'll get. So I recommend 10 every day as your daily practice. If you want to do 200 of them, right?
You're a mini tour player and you say, Hey, I wanna get as good as I can here. I'm gonna wear this out every five minutes I have free, I'm gonna do this. You'll get better and better and better. So there's no right amount. Don't go crazy with it. Two hundred's, kind of a nuts number, but a few sessions a day of just 10 successful ones.
You start racking those days and weeks up, you'll be amazed at how much feel you get with the driver here. So it's not only for week four, it's really for, for life here. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna set up here and I'm gonna try to make a a practice swing. Relatively good Speed. I don't want to just go like this, but I don't have to try to kill it.
Just a nice normal practice swing. The intent or the picture that I have in my head is hitting a dead straight, perfectly solid shot. Now again, we're not hitting a ball here, we're just focusing on the feel. So I'm gonna set up between these two sticks. I'm gonna try to swing and have a dead solid, perfect shot, and I'll give it a whirl here.
I like the path. I felt like the the club is moving fairly squarely through the ball. I felt like the face was just a hair open. I may have hit that a little off the heel. Now, I could be wrong. I could hit that off the toe. It could have drawn, but usually I'll find the more that I do this, I'm accurate more often than I'm not.
So I felt like I hit a little off the heel. I felt like it probably would've just kind of faded off to the right there a little bit. Not necessarily a bad swing, but not perfect. So what I'm gonna do here between that swing, so that wasn't a success. It didn't feel like it was dead straight and solid. I'm gonna go back and say, okay, off the he and a little too much draw, I'm gonna go back to my hook release.
I'm gonna feel a few of these and really feel like that club is closing down as I'm hitting the golf ball. I'm gonna really feel like it's releasing a ton or a decent amount and just get the sequencing and the timing of that. This is something I'm going slow and I'm feeling it. I'm not just trying to make full reps the whole time.
I realize the face is open a little off the heel. I'm just making sure that it's closing down and turning on over. Now, once I think I have the feeling, I'm like, yeah, I think I got it. Now I'm gonna go back and make another swing. I'm gonna try to hit this one a little less off the heel, more off the toe.
So if I'm too far to this inside stick, it's off the toe. If I'm by this outside stick, it's off the heel. If I'm right there in the middle, it's perfect. So I'm just gonna try to swing perfectly between those sticks. Hit a nice straight shot here again. Ooh, that one actually felt like it would've been the center of the face.
Felt like my path is good for whatever reason. I just got the sense that would've been a slight fade again, so I'm gonna really go slow and concentrate. How would I get this to feel like it's definitely gonna draw?
Yeah, that definitely felt like a draw swing. And I'm gonna go back to the drawing board again. Try to get that successful shot. Now that one felt really good. Felt like it would've been nice and straight. I count that as a success, and now I've got one successful practice swing. I'm going for 10 total. Now, one thing I would suggest here, don't box yourself in a lot of the things.
For example, one of the things that I find is if I set up with the face square, it's harder for me to close the face. If I set up with the face a little bit open. I'm really exaggerating here. But if I set up with the face open. It actually feels like it's easier for me to get the momentum of the club releasing and to hit a draw.
I've always felt like that. That's not a, the reason I don't teach things like that in this course is 'cause that's not universal. It's one of the problems you get into when you're watching a lot of pros hit shots. They'll give you the feel. They'll say, Hey, I really like to set up with O open face and that helps me to release it.
That may work well for me, but I could turn around and take another great player, and they may be the exact opposite. I had a guy that I played in college with. It. They would always set up the face closed, so it'd be kind of hooded down like this, and he hit it great. He played better than I did in college.
So there's nothing wrong with setting up the face open if that helps. Setting up with the face closed, everybody's gonna kind of find their own style. Arnold Palmer didn't swing it like Ben Hogan, didn't swing it like Tiger Woods. There's all these different styles that you come up with. The main thing I'm working on is, is the club moving through the ball?
Well, if it is, I'm playing great golf, so I'll find little tricks like that. So me where I've done this before, I know if I'm struggling to release it. I personally feel like I set up with the face a little open. I think subconsciously I know that I have to close it more and it just helps me get it moving in that direction.
But I'll set up with the face a little bit open, and then I'll feel like I release it a bit extra and it really feels like it's easy to hit a draw for me personally. And that one definitely felt like it was gonna draw for me. Another little thing that I like to feel is all the momentum coming through the ball.
Again, this is a constant. Throughout this course, we're constantly talking about how we move through here into the release, but I wanna feel like all my weight, all my momentum's going through the shot. So when I'm swinging, I'm coming through the ball rather than feeling like I'm falling back and kind of pushing the club through.
Something like that. I wanna feel like my body momentum, like if I had a big concrete ball and I was gonna toss it down the fairway, that's what I feel like when I'm doing all these shots. That smooths everything out for me. If I can get my body. And my arms working together. That just makes everything easier.
So I've had two good ones. Let's go for a third one.
That one felt great too. So now I kind of got a roll out, kinda like found it. I've done a lot of these. It's not gonna take me too long to get 10 good ones. If you're just starting out, just be honest with yourself. If it feels like it hooked and you keep on trying, it keeps feeling like it's hooking. Do whatever you can to feel like it's gonna slice.
If it doesn't feel perfect, don't move on. Get 10 successful ones and just repeat this process. What'll happen over time, while I'm saying my natural swing, what'll happen over time is that if I'm fading everything and I keep on ingraining, draw feels, draw feels, hook releases, and I keep on working it that way, over time when I make a normal swing, it will naturally start to draw a bit more.
If I start to feel like I'm drawing it, like let's say I start out slicing it in this course and now I get to the end and I feel like I'm really drawing it well, if I'm drawing it, I'm gonna feel a little bit more of that fade release and I'm gonna kind of straighten that back out. So it's kind of like this, if here's dead straight and I start out over here, it's very easy to swing past it this way and go back here and you're kinda like, ah, I'm just toggling between draws and slices.
I don't know where I'm going on this course. But over time, that'll start to gradually hone in until everything is just kinda like this, a little draw, a little fade, and it really starts to straighten out. This course isn't designed to make your ball striking perfect. It's designed to make it radically better with a driver as you do these drills.
But if you find yourself in week four and it's not where you want to be, as you do these same drills more and more, you do these daily drills. You do the week four drills we talked about. If you struggle with any particular spot, you go back to the earlier drills, you'll just keep getting better. If I have a 20 handicapper that wants to hit it like a Tour Pro, that process is gonna take a little while.
If I have a 10 handicapper that wants hit it like a five, you may already be there just by doing this course one time. So I really wanna hear about how great success you had. I know it's gonna help you hit a lot, a lot better. I recommend doing these drills every day for as long as you wanna keep on improving your driving.
I'll see you soon.
