SA027. Why You’re Pulling the Ball—And How My Online Student Fixed It

Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Why You're Pulling the Ball—And How My Online Student Fixed It"

Do your iron shots tend to start left, and stay left?

It’s likely because your club path is too far outside-in.

Today, you’ll see how one of Coach Q’s online swing review students fixed this–and the good news is, he didn’t have to rebuild his whole swing!

One simple drill helped improve his swing path. He went from pulling everything to striping it dead straight.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 5:17

Video Transcription:

Hey, coach Q here, and I'm really excited to share with you the awesome progress. One of my online students, Andrew has made in his golf game. So Andrew came to me really struggling with poles, with his irons, and typically poles are gonna be caused by a club path that is too much out to end. And that was the case here with Andrew.

And the way we wanna visualize this, if you imagine if I put a line through his ball and that line is pointing right at the target while Andrew's club is working through the impact zone from outside that line to inside that line. That's why we call it an out in swing. So what we want is we want this club.

If we want kind of a dead straight shot, we want this club be kind of tracking down from inside the line and going back to inside the line after it contacts the ball. So basically at Impact, that club is turning the corner. So here's how we can evaluate. If we are swinging correctly on plane or not, I like to use something called the shallowing line.

You may have heard it called the elbow plane line, but basically what this is is just a line that goes from the ball and up through the middle of the elbow there. I. Let me adjust that to get that in, in the right spot there. And what we wanna look for here is we want to see that club traveling just underneath that line, all the way down to the ball.

So let's take a look at Andrew Swing and see how his club is working down in relationship to that line. And we're gonna see how this club is working down above that line, all the way down to the ball. And you'll notice we, it's a little bit difficult to see the ball fly, but you can see how this ball starts left.

And it just kind of goes straight left. You can kind of see it going out underneath his arm right about now. So you can see the ball right there, just a little speck in the sky there. But we can see how that ball is basically going is a straight pull straight to the left. So what we need to do is work on a drill to get that club path to be working, uh, more from the inside or more on plane to get his club underneath that shallowing line.

So let me move it over here so we can see his after swing. And I got the shallowing line drawn on here. And what I had him do is I had him do, uh, the shallowing drill with the Blue Brick. Now you don't have to have a Blue Brick to fix your pole, uh, but Andrew happened to already have one. And really the shallowing drill with the Blue Brick is, in my opinion, the best drill you can do to, to get rid of that.

Um, but as always, if you don't have a Blue Brick, we can prescribe other specific drills that are gonna do, get the job done as well. But Andrew had the Blue Brick here, and what you're gonna notice here with the Blue Brick is the stick that's that's coming out right here is very closely resembling that shallowing line that we drew from the ball up through the middle of the elbow.

And really that's by design. So we know that if we set up this, this Blue Brick here, and we set it up just outside the ball like it is here. That if you swing underneath that stick, you're pretty much gonna be swinging underneath where, where you need to be. And if we watch here, that's exactly what Andrew is doing here.

Andrew gets this club working very nicely just underneath that line. If we watch, I know we can't see the whole ball flight here, but we can clearly see how this ball starts. Dead straight and you know that face looks pretty square at impact. That's a nice center face strike to me. If that, if that net wasn't there, I think we would see a nice straight frozen rope, um, going straight toward the green there.

So. Very, very simple drill. Um, I like the Blue Brick because it gives you a really nice visual representation of how the club should be, should be working down, uh, but we can set up all kinds of things to get that, to be working, uh, in, in the right way. So really just took a very simple drill, uh, that was specific to him to get him on track to start hitting some much straighter shots.

So if you're watching this specific video. On the day that it's released, that means that I'm opening up spots for my online lessons right now. So maybe you're struggling with pulls yourself. You can try out this, uh, Blue Brick drill and see if that gets you on track. Maybe you have some other issues.

Maybe you're slicing, you know, maybe you're hooking, maybe your ball flight's too high. Maybe it's too low. Maybe you don't have enough club head speed. Uh, you know, it could be your chunking or thinning shots. Uh, and also the online lessons are not just limited to, uh, you know, irons and driver and all that.

We can also look at short game and all that stuff. So whatever you are struggling with, what we can do is we can evaluate, see what's going on there, and give you some drills that are specific to you to get you back on track based on what you're actually, uh, struggling with. So in Andrew's case, he didn't have any major things that were going off.

Uh, he just needed to kind of set, have some sort of visual indicator of how he needs to get the club working down and that for him did the trick. Get the, got the club working down very nicely to get some nice dead, straight shots. So, um, somewhere on this screen you should be able to see. A link to where you can sign up for my online lessons and be able to get specific drills for you to get your game back on track if it happens to be off or, or just get your game trending in the right direction, get things moving to where you were improving and lowering your handicap.

Uh, I do have limited availability. Unfortunately, I can only work with so many people at a time. I wish I could work with everybody. So grab your spot quickly if you can. I tend to sell out whenever I open up spots. So make sure you grab your spot. I'm looking forward to working with you soon. Take care.

Hope you're playing great.