In this video, we delve into the first drill of week three, focusing on mastering shot control using a tee drill. Clay starts by demonstrating how to set up a tee and swing to miss it on the outside and inside, ensuring 10 successful shots. Following this, the drill is fine-tuned using strike spray powder to control toe and heel hits on the clubface. The video also includes bonus drills to help achieve draws and fades by slightly altering the strike location. This exercise aims to enhance golfers’ confidence and precision in hitting the correct spot on the clubface, ultimately improving shot shapes and overall play.
What's Covered: Recap of the tee drill and strike spray exercises for training precise clubface contact and correcting shot shape.
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Welcome back to week three. This is drill number one from week three. This is the recap, so you don't have to watch the full video. First what we're gonna do is we're gonna start off by setting up to a T in the ground. I'm gonna alternate until I get 10 total successful shots on the first swing. I'm gonna swing and miss the T to the outside of the T, or what would be way off the heel.
I would miss the ball off the heel side. So basically I'm setting up with my normal stance. Addressing the T. And then when I swing through the ball, I'm gonna swing outside of this. So going this way, swing outside the T until I miss the T. And then if I, after I'm successful with that, I now make a swing where I swing through to the inside of the T, right?
So I'm gonna do good to do this. I'm gonna go outside of the tee and then I'm gonna come in. If I'm successful, go to the inside of the tee and you'll start to get a feeling. You may notice, like I have to get my weight going a little more this way to go off the heel. I have to feel like it drops back to get off the toe.
You'll find the feelings that you have internally to make that happen again. The number one feedback I get is "Clay, I don't have control of the face. I can't move it around the face like that." I have yet to find anybody who can't do this T drill. And if you can do this tee drill, then you can do it with a golf ball.
So that's really exaggerated. That's moving the club four or five inches outside. And inside. Once you've done that, we're gonna start to fine tune it a little bit. We're gonna take the strike spray powder, spray the club face, and we're gonna alternate hitting 10 total successful shots. Now I'm gonna hit a golf ball.
The first one I'm gonna try to hit off the toe if it's anywhere on the toe side of the club. So if I had a line on the middle of the face, if the center of that mark that it makes is anywhere on the toe side, that counts as a tow strike. So most the mark could look like it's almost dead center. If it's a couple millimeters toward the toe, the dead center of the market makes that counts as a successful tow strike.
Once I get a successful strike off the toe, I'm gonna go to the heel, I'm gonna hit a golf ball. I'm gonna look at the mark. The dead center of that mark has to be anywhere on the heel side of the club. So again, it can be a couple millimeters, can be like two inches. A lot of that's gonna depend on your ability to control the face and kind of where you're at.
Tour players are gonna be pretty dialed in around the middle. If I'm a 20 handicapper, it may be moving across the face quite a bit, and both those are okay. Now I got a couple bonus drills on this one to where it's a much easier to get the ball to draw if you strike it a little off the toe. If you want hit some bonus shots here.
I would now try to hit some draw shots, do my draw release or my hook release as we're calling it. Hit it anywhere on the center of the club or slightly favoring the toe. So if I'm trying to hit a draw and I hit it right dead, dead in the middle of the club face, hey, that's great. Solid's always great.
But if I miss it a little bit, it needs to be toward the toe side of the club. That way I can guarantee that it's gonna curve the way that I'm wanting it to curve. If I wanna fade it, I'm gonna do the exact opposite. I'm either gonna hit it dead center or hit it a little bit on the heel side of the club to help it start to fade back.
The big miss hits happen. When I'm trying to draw one but it fades 'cause I hit it way off the hill or I'm trying to fade one and it draw, it's gotta hit off the toe. I wanna make sure that I have control of at least the correct side of the face that I'm hitting. Then I can really count on my shot shapes when I'm out there on the course.
Enjoy these. These are a lot of fun. Once you start to get the strike location into this and you can at least favor the correct side of the the club when you're hitting your draws or fades. Man, it gets a lot easier to hit straight shots, and I just think people are blown away. They don't think they can hit the correct side of the driver or they don't think they can, uh, move where they're hitting on the driver.
When you do this t drill, you start to spray the face, you realize you're probably a lot better than you thought you were. Best of luck.
