Why and How Senior Golfers can Achieve their Best Golf Shots when they Strike Down on the Golf Ball (Video) - by Dean Butler
Why and How Senior Golfers can Achieve their Best Golf Shots when they Strike Down on the Golf Ball (Video) - by Dean Butler

Okay, so we're going to talk about why it's very important to hit down and by hitting down, why do we get a better trajectory? Too many golfers don't trust their golf equipments or have the inability at the moment to actually hit down and trust that club to get the ball up in the air. So they tend to get over it and try and help the ball up. It's a very classic sort of scenario for a lot of people. How many people actually hit the ball as a senior golfer and finish on that left side? Now most of you are on that right side, almost protecting and trying to help that ball up in the air.

And the more you do that, the more that club is going to come up because you're now leaning back. So it's coming up and as you hit up quite rightly, you're going to hit the top of the ball, which means the ball is going to go low. So here is a very, very simple sort of exercise because obviously the whole idea here is to actually hit down and by hitting down, we're going to get that ball going exactly how it should be with the club doing the work for us. Now all if that – all I'm going to do is to set yourself upto a ball and put a head cover down. Now we're going to put the head cover just a little bit, just outside my right foot in there. So the ball position is in the middle, the head cover is just upto the right foot. And the idea now is that if you were guilty of not actually trapping the ball. So trapping is hitting down and hitting it down, getting that ball between the club face and the turf. If we are guilty of that, which most of us are as senior golfers, okay. Then what would happen here is on the way back, you would basically hit the head cover back and on the way down, you would also catch the head cover on the way down, because you are coming in far too shallow. And of course, as you lean back, you can see I'm trying to hit that ball up in the air. So this drill is a case of, but that head cover back down here, set myself up and the whole idea now is to set up, hover the club up in the air because obviously it's quite a deep head cover. And from here we want you to take the club back, swing the club up and then from here, hit down between the gap of where the cover is and where the ball is. So, we are trying to build up a nice, deep angle of attack, because we are trying to trap that ball, that's the whole idea here. And remember, the more you hit down, the more the ball goes up because the technology does it for us. So imagine that, once you have got your confidence, you can move that head cover. And then you set yourself up and say right, okay, here we go. So from here to the club up, I have hit down, the ball has gone up and from that, you can see, I have trapped the ball, and the club face here has sent that ball off in the air, a lot more control, a lot more distance, less effort. So put that into practice there, put the cover behind, get your confidence there first of all and make sure you hear that sound. If you are not hearing the sound of, you are not hearing that sound, you are not hitting down behind the ball. Okay, so we need to hear that. If you're on a mat, you can always get a line of chalk behind the ball, put a line of chalk down and just concentrate on actually getting the line of chalk. So every time you have a swing, the line of chalk should disappear. So a very, very simple tip and this is all about getting that club back and hitting down. And the more you hit down, the more, the clubs that you have just paid a lot of money for could do the job that you are designed to do. 2013-10-24

Okay, so we're going to talk about why it's very important to hit down and by hitting down, why do we get a better trajectory? Too many golfers don't trust their golf equipments or have the inability at the moment to actually hit down and trust that club to get the ball up in the air. So they tend to get over it and try and help the ball up. It's a very classic sort of scenario for a lot of people. How many people actually hit the ball as a senior golfer and finish on that left side? Now most of you are on that right side, almost protecting and trying to help that ball up in the air.

And the more you do that, the more that club is going to come up because you're now leaning back. So it's coming up and as you hit up quite rightly, you're going to hit the top of the ball, which means the ball is going to go low. So here is a very, very simple sort of exercise because obviously the whole idea here is to actually hit down and by hitting down, we're going to get that ball going exactly how it should be with the club doing the work for us. Now all if that – all I'm going to do is to set yourself upto a ball and put a head cover down. Now we're going to put the head cover just a little bit, just outside my right foot in there.

So the ball position is in the middle, the head cover is just upto the right foot. And the idea now is that if you were guilty of not actually trapping the ball. So trapping is hitting down and hitting it down, getting that ball between the club face and the turf. If we are guilty of that, which most of us are as senior golfers, okay. Then what would happen here is on the way back, you would basically hit the head cover back and on the way down, you would also catch the head cover on the way down, because you are coming in far too shallow.

And of course, as you lean back, you can see I'm trying to hit that ball up in the air. So this drill is a case of, but that head cover back down here, set myself up and the whole idea now is to set up, hover the club up in the air because obviously it's quite a deep head cover. And from here we want you to take the club back, swing the club up and then from here, hit down between the gap of where the cover is and where the ball is. So, we are trying to build up a nice, deep angle of attack, because we are trying to trap that ball, that's the whole idea here.

And remember, the more you hit down, the more the ball goes up because the technology does it for us. So imagine that, once you have got your confidence, you can move that head cover. And then you set yourself up and say right, okay, here we go. So from here to the club up, I have hit down, the ball has gone up and from that, you can see, I have trapped the ball, and the club face here has sent that ball off in the air, a lot more control, a lot more distance, less effort. So put that into practice there, put the cover behind, get your confidence there first of all and make sure you hear that sound. If you are not hearing the sound of, you are not hearing that sound, you are not hitting down behind the ball.

Okay, so we need to hear that. If you're on a mat, you can always get a line of chalk behind the ball, put a line of chalk down and just concentrate on actually getting the line of chalk. So every time you have a swing, the line of chalk should disappear. So a very, very simple tip and this is all about getting that club back and hitting down. And the more you hit down, the more, the clubs that you have just paid a lot of money for could do the job that you are designed to do.