In this video, we delve into week four’s drill number one, focusing on refining your natural swing and eliminating biases in your golf shots. The process starts with warm-ups followed by hitting five shots to identify patterns and tendencies, such as fade bias or toe bias. The key is to recognize these biases and then practice swings that counteract them, aiming to make corrections and achieve straighter shots. With repeated practice and analysis of ball flight and strike location, you can progressively improve your swing, keep your path and face square, and gain better control over your ball flight.
What's Covered: Recap of the bias-identification drill, covering how to warm up, spot tendencies like fade or toe bias, and practice the corrective opposite pattern.
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Welcome to the drill recap for drill number one in week four. Now, here's where we're really gonna start to build our natural swing and keep making it straighter and straighter. You repeat this process as much as you want to for the rest of your life. You'll just keep getting better with the driver. So I'm gonna start out by obviously warming up, and then I'm gonna hit five, draw five shots, trying to identify the pattern.
So I'm gonna hit a shot. I'm gonna watch it fly down the range, and out of those five shots, I'm really just trying to identify. What are my tendencies? What's my pattern? So if I hit five shots, two of them go really nice and straight, and then the other three fade, I have a slight fade bias that I need to get rid of.
Ideally, I will keep working this drill until I can't identify any type of bias. Now, if you're not sure if you have a bias, whenever you hit one nice and solid, see which way the ball curves. So if I hit it nice and solid on the center of the face, obviously I'm spraying my face with a strike spray powder.
I'm hitting those five shots. I'm reading the ball flight. If I notice when I hit it dead center, it fades. I know I have a fade bias. I may be hitting some off the toe that make it draw, but I'm putting a fade swing on it. It goes pretty straight. It feels like I don't have any bias 'cause I'm hitting it straight.
But when I look at my marks on the face, they're all on the toe. And when I hit it on the center of the face, it fades. I have a fade bias and a tow bias on the, on the club. So we're just trying to identify the bias there. Let's say that that's our case and we hit the five shots. Most of those are fading, and when I look at the strike location on the face, it's a little off the toe.
Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make a few practice swings where I ingrain the opposite, so I have a fade bias, or basically I'm swinging across the ball, have a little bit too much of my fade release in there, and I'm hitting off the toe. Now I'm gonna feel like I'm doing the opposite. I may break out my brick swing under the shallowing stick swing a little bit more out to the right.
Use my hook release a bit more, feel like I'm hitting it a little off the heel and do the opposite of whatever my natural bias is. Then I'm gonna go and hit three successful shots, doing my opposite of whatever my bias is. So if my bias, when I started with those five natural ones, didn't feel like I was doing anything or fades and off the toe, then I have to hit three good shots that are draws.
And maybe favor the heel side a little bit. So I'm really just exaggerating the opposite feeling of what I'm doing. Then I just repeat the process all over again. I'm gonna go through that at least two rounds in this drill. One for week four, and I just wanna take your time with it again. If you get confused, if you're not sure if I have a bias, wait till you hit a solid one.
See which way the ball curves. That's gonna be your bias for the swing direction that you have and how the face is going. So best of luck. You're gonna have a lot of fun with this. This may get a little frustrating for some players, I'll be honest. 'cause it feels like, man, I'm, I'm never honing all of them in.
As you keep repeating this, if you wanna do this after the course, what you'll notice is you'll start to get the path to be really square. Then you'll start to get the face to be fairly square. Maybe one of those will start to veer off a little bit, but you'll be able to get it back on track. Then you'll start to notice you get a little control of the ball flight with the, or the, the strike location.
So it's like. All three of these are kind of running around at first, and you're trying to wrangle 'em in. If you just repeat this process though, trust me, they will start to get tighter and tighter and tighter, and the more you do it, the better you get.
