Name: I Wish A Golf Coach Had Told Me This Sooner
Uploaded: 2025-04-25T08:26:01.000Z
Duration: 12 min 47 s
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Have you ever found that when you're trying to hit driver's stretch, or even strike your irons better, you have a golf tip and it works for a very short period of time, but for whatever reason, after about a week, it suddenly stops completely?

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Well, this was the case for a recent student of mine, Paul, who comes to see me, and you could see the level of frustration in his body, in his voice.

Now, this is a guy who practices a lot, but do you know what?

He wasn't getting better, and that level of frustration, because of the energy and effort he's putting in, was really getting to him.

Now, unfortunately, he was falling for the trap, falling into the trap that we've all done.

In this video, I want to share with you exactly what we did to help him hit driver straighter and longer, but also help him hit his irons much, much more solid, in an effortless, easy way.

He says, Danny, that just, all my tension's gone.

I'm going to share with you what I shared with him, because I think no matter what you're working on in your golf swing, this video is a must.

I don't think anybody can improve their golf swing without knowing this first.

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So, if you don't mind, I'd love for me to share with you the process that I took Paul through, because whether you're trying to stop a slice with your driver, or stop a hook, or strike your irons better, I promise you, what you're going to see here, you're going to be surprised at how easy and effortless this really, really is.

So, you know, golf golfers, all of us, want to need to do three things, right?

So, we want to be able to control the orientation of his face.

You want to make sure the club face returns back, you know, fairly square to impact to hit a reasonably straight shot.

We also need to be very good at putting the club and landing the club in the correct position, so we strike the ball effectively.

And the third thing, we need to be very, very good at knowing how to increase the speed of this club, so we can hit it longer.

So, in order to do that, what one thing do you need to get really good at feeling, do you think?

You've got to learn to feel, really feel where this club head is in space.

Now, what Paul was doing was he was trying really hard to put the club in position.

He was definitely trying to control the club head, trying to move it into positions, etc.

All that really did was feed lots of tension, and he would just slice his driver.

He would be really inconsistent with his irons.

He wouldn't hit it anywhere near as far as we got him to hit it in the end.

So, goal number one for Paul was I needed to teach him how to truly swing the club head.

So, let me show you what this looks like, because a lot of people say that when they're seeing a professional swing, they make it look easy and effortless, yet the ball seems to go a long way.

Now, I've got a 7-iron here, so let me show you what a free-flowing golf club looks like.

So, how can you start to begin to let this club swing freely?

Because a lot of people try really hard to do this, but they still struggle.

Well, I shared a simple kind of metaphor with Paul, which was a real eye-opener for him, and I want to share it with you right now.

Have you ever had a conversation with somebody where they're chatting away, but your mind's somewhere else?

You're thinking about something, they're still talking, you're thinking about something, and at the end of the conversation, they turn to you and ask you a question about it.

And because you weren't listening, you go, uh, sorry, I wasn't listening.

How did you perform in that conversation?

Well, the same is true in the golf swing.

When you swing a golf club, you're having a conversation between the club head and you.

The problem is that most of the time, what you, me, and a lot of golfers are doing, certainly Paul was doing, you're having this conversation in your head about do this and do this and do this, but you're club head, you're not having that conversation with the head.

You don't feel where it is because there's so much else going on right up here.

So the first thing I did with Paul was I said, look, Paul, I want you to make a swing, and this is what I want you to do.

If you can do this with me, stop the video and really feel this, it's amazing.

Make some swings, and I want you to pay attention to the weight of the head.

Don't try to achieve it, just feel the weight and momentum of this head.

Now, as soon as we did that, Paul said, do you know what, Dan, it feels like a pendulum.  What are these things?

That immediate, as he's starting to kind of feel, imagine this pendulum motion, his body instantly started to relax.

So before we got into helping him hit it straighter and longer and work on the driver, I said, well, let's learn that skill first.

I got him to make some swings and hit some shots and see if he could recognize whether he was having a real great conversation with the club.

Could he actually experience the golf club swinging in the golf swing versus just being stuck in his head, giving himself a lot of instructions?

So he got to the golf ball, and like I said, I said, hold that image of a pendulum.

Hit a few shots where you're feeling that momentum of that golf club backwards and forwards.

Don't worry about the necessary distance at this stage.

Just see if after each shot, you can eliminate those instructions for a second and just feel the weight of the club swinging backwards and forwards.

I could tell instantly he was doing it because when somebody's, in a sense, swinging the weight of the club, everything about their shoulders, their body, it just looks easy and effortless.

Now, what was really surprising for Paul is with his irons, particularly, not so much with his driver to start with, but with his irons, he was hitting them really straight.

And all he was focusing on was the weight of the golf club.

Now, I said to him, I'd like you to now hit the ball a little bit further.

He says, oh, no, daddy, I'm really happy with that.

I said, yeah, but you could do so much better, right?

I said, but what happens if I lose control?

So I got him to pick up a golf club, and I want you to do the same.

You've now got, I said, Paul, you've now got momentum of the golf club, right?

So just hold the club out in front of you here.

Just what would you do to increase that momentum?

Now, I can tell you that I am lifting my arm up, and that increases momentum.

It's like my body goes, it knows what to do to increase that momentum.

I said, look, when you're swinging now, let your body start to figure out how to kind of increase that momentum.

Now, technically, if you're watching, you'll start to see, for instance, there's a pushing off the right leg to accelerate the club back.

And on the way through, there's weight goes onto the left leg.

And then, look, the left leg pushes and accelerates on the way through.

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