In this session, focus is on aligning the club path with the desired face angle or release pattern to effectuate specific ball flights, like a draw or a fade. The key is understanding the relationship between the swing direction and the clubface alignment at impact. The video discusses drills involving the Blue Brick tool to train the muscle memory for inside-out and outside-in swing paths efficiently. Consistent practice of alternating draw and fade swings for five to ten minutes daily is recommended for faster improvement. Visualization and feeling through the ball are emphasized for better accuracy and predictability on the course.
What's Covered: Daily drill routine using the Blue Brick to align swing path with face angle for producing predictable draws and fades.
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Great to have you back again. Let's talk about the daily practice we're gonna do for week two here. Now, week two is all about pairing up your path with the face angle that you're trying to get or the release pattern that you're trying to get. If I'm trying to hit a draw, my path has to be inside out to get the ball to start slightly right as we talked about, and I have to go.
And the number one thing is. When I hit the golf ball, my club face has to be slightly closed to the direction I'm swinging. So say I'm swinging 10 yards to the right of the target inside out slightly. My face has gotta be closed about five yards to the right of the target. That ball starts five yards, right, and then draws right back into the middle of the fairway.
So most people think they get confused on that. They think, well, if I'm drawing it, the face is open to the target. But we wanna think about it in relationship to the direction I'm swinging, right? So my path is 10 yards, right, of the target. My face is closed to that to get it to draw. Yes, my face is still to the right of the target to get the ball to start right and drawback.
But it's, think of everything in relationship to the direction you're swinging. So if I'm swinging this way inside out, I have to have, I can't have my face going the same way. I have to draw that. I just wanna reiterate on that, we talked a lot in this course about these release patterns up here. That's the feeling that you're gonna have to get the ball to get the club face to be square, open, or close at impact.
But I'm really wanting to think about what is my club face doing through this zone? It's almost like from the ball forward, that's where you're gonna feel it. And when I've talked to a lot of good players, pros, most players feel through the ball rather than what's happening. Back here, what they're doing with their club.
So it's almost like you'll hear people say, well, I have long arms, or I covered on top of the ball to hit a fade. Or I felt like I really stayed with the shot. Like Lee Trevino will say, I hit the ball and then I had to shake the golf ball off the face. 'cause he felt like it stuck on the face and stuck all the way through there.
Now we know in reality the ball doesn't really stick to the face, but that's the feeling that he had. And I hear lots of great players talking about that. So as we're doing these week two drills, what I want to get. The whole point of that was I want you to really focus on what's happening from contact through the release.
Think about that ball flight in your mind and what you're feeling through here to get that ball flight to happen. Then when you take it out to the course, the driving range, it'll start to be much more predictable. All we're gonna do in week two is we're gonna pair up our week one feels with the brick.
When you have this brick, it makes it impossible. To swing over the top, especially if I get tight to this stick. So let's say I'm going the shallowing setting. I'm gonna put the driver setting in here. I'm gonna use my driver to practice. If you don't have a driver with you, do the same thing with a wedge, six iron, whatever.
If you wanna sl swing this in your garage or your living room, that's totally fine for now, I have a driver out, so I'm put in driver setting. I'm gonna put an alignment stick on the shallowing setting for when I'm doing these inside swings and I'm drawing it. And then I'm gonna switch it over to the alignment one.
And I'm gonna swing this way to hit my fade swings. You could do the, this course without the brick. It just, I'm telling you, it makes it 10 times faster if you have this, because now I don't even have to think about whether I'm swinging inside out or outside in. It does it for me because I'm naturally gonna miss that stick.
I can just focus in on the release of the face. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna hit 10 shots or 10 successful swings every day, alternating, fade, draw, fade, draw, or hook, slice, however you wanna think about it. I am gonna use my brick. Every time I'm doing this, I'm gonna set up fairly close to this stick and I'm gonna do my draw pattern.
So hands down, club face close at impact, releasing it to get it to turn on over. And while I'm doing this, I'm thinking about what does it feel like through the ball, and I wanna see that ball flying in my mind's eye when I'm doing it. Then I'm gonna come over here and repeat the exact opposite, so I'm coming outside the stick, coming through it.
I'm feeling like, what's it feel like coming through the ball? And again, I'm visualizing that ball starting down the left side and fading back. Like I said, in week one, you'll be surprised when you're doing this, you'll actually have a pretty good feel for whether or not you did what you were trying to do.
So, for example, I'm gonna try to hit my draw here, and it felt like I just kind of blocked it to the right. I didn't release the face enough to actually get to draw. I'm gonna exaggerate and get it to release more to really get it to turn on over. And now that feels much more like a big draw. Wait till you feel a good one.
What you think is a good one. Is it gonna be perfect? No. Are you gonna be right every time? No. But the more you do this, the better your feel will get, the more accurate you'll get out on the course. So alternate back and forth. I get one successful draw, then I'm gonna go over to my fade side. I'm gonna do one successful fade.
I'm not even hitting a golf ball when I'm doing this. I'm just getting used to how to. Release the club, what to fill when I'm doing that. The more you do this, the better you'll get. Do it at least for five or 10 minutes a day as the bare minimum. If you want to get as good as you can possibly get as fast you can get.
Take four or five breaks during the day every single day, and you're gonna pick it up three, four times faster. So best of luck. I know it's gonna help you a ton. I'll see you in the next one.
