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Transcription – The Correct Putting Setup

Hi, my name is Paul Wilson, I’m the creator of Swing Machine Golf, and the Director of the Paul Wilson Golf School at Bear’s Best Las Vegas.

In this tip I’m going to talk about your putting setup. In a previous tip I talked about the grip, now we’re going to work on our setup, and then in a future tip I’m going to show you the correct putting stroke. So, as far as our setup concerned, there is a few different areas we have to talk about. Now, if you want to vary them a little bit, I’m OK with that. I don’t need you to do an exact position here. I want you to do what’s comfortable for you. If you’re comfortable, then you’re going to be able to create the correct putting stroke, and you’re going to be able to putt very well. So, just use this as a guideline if you can kind a stay within this, then that’s fine. First thing we want to talk about is our stands with. As far as our stands is concerned, I’d like people to take a medium stands. I don’t like the stands too narrow, because on the windy day you’re going to be a little bit out of balance here. I don’t like the stands too wide, because your potter could potentially bottom out back behind the golf ball and hit the grass. If we just do a medium stands, that’s going to be ideal. Now, your medium stands, that’s just like the medium stands in your full swing with your 8, 9 pitching wedge, sand wedge, lob wedge. I would do stands about this wide. For those golf clubs I’m going to do that same stands with for putting. That’s pretty simple. If you like it a little bit wider, little bit narrower I’m fine with it. Just kind of realize that, you know, you want to be doing that medium stands.

As far as our feet are concerned, just looking at your feet, you can have your feet turned in, you can have one out, one in, it really doesn’t matter. Personally I have my forward foot turned out a little tiny bit. I just do that just because that’s comfortable to me. There is no reason for doing it. You can even have your feet straight if you want, doesn’t matter. Do what’s comfortable for you. As far as our ball position is concerned, with our ball position, what we want to do, we want to play it a little inside this forward foot here. So, for me, if I did my setup, I’ll be at that much, that much right there inside my forward heel. So, I’m playing it a little forward of center, and I’m doing that because if you play the ball too far back, the putter will be on its way down, as it hits the ball. So, it’s going to hit the ball, enforces the ball into the grass, and then ends up bouncing as you hit the pot. So, if your putts are bouncing, you might want to play the ball a little more forward. Then the putter will be on its way up as it hits the ball. And that allows the ball to hug the grass a little bit better, and puts a better role on it. So, you want to play the ball a little forward in your stands. Now that we’ve got that, we have to do our body positions. As far as the body positions are concerned, let’s take a look from this angle, and then you’ll see what I’m trying to do here. So, from right here, what I’m trying to do, I add a little bit of knee flex, not a lot, just a tiny bit, and then I’m trying to bend from the waist like this to trying get my eyes over top of the ball.

Now, there is people that are real sticklers for having those eyes exactly over top of this. They’ll sit here, and measure this, and get you exactly over top of the ball. I don’t care so much if they’re close. That’s fine. I think my eyes are a little bit inside the line of the ball. I’m OK with it. Because I’m a good putter that way. So, a way to get it, just kind of bend like this from a waist, your upper body here will be overhanging your toe line, and your eyes are pretty much over top of the ball. And you do that, because when you swivel your head you want to be looking down the line, that you’re going to be putting on. So, if I’m here, and I swivel my head I’m seeing a little bit clear line. So, if my eyes, if I’m way out here, I have to look out to my line, and I may not see it properly. So, we’re just bending from the waist here, and we’re trying to get our eyes over top of the ball. One other thing I want you to be aware of, is just your weight distribution. When you overhang your toe line like that, try not to feel like you’re on your toes or on your heels. Just stay very balanced in the middle of your stands. So, from right here I’m pretty much ready to go. There is one other thing I want to talk about, and that’s just the length of your putter. So, if we have a putter that is too short for us, we’re going to be in a position where our arms are very extended here. So, you don’t want to be putting with your arms totally extended. If you do, what’s going to happen is, you’re going to hit your putts long all the time.

So, that’s what I’ve seen over the years, because this creates too long of, kind a like a pendulum here, and people that do this tend to hit all their putts long, they don’t really have the same kind of feel, and they get all stiff and locked up. So, you don’t want to be setting up with your arms perfectly straight. You want to have your elbows kind of against your sides like this, and you’re going to burn your hands in together, so that were in this type of position. So, you just have your elbows against your sides, and then move your hands in together, and this is the area that we want to be holding on to the putter. So, you can see my elbows are a little bit bend, when I do my putting stroke. That keeps me nice and relaxed, and I get a good feel from that position. So, it’s pretty much it for the setup, it’s pretty simple, you’re really in a position where you’re over top of the ball. Just remember the ball position, your weight distribution, OK? Try not to have too wide of the stands. And if we can get into this position, we’re going to be pretty comfortable so that when I teach you how to apply the correct putting stroke you’re going to be nicely comfortable, and you’re going to be able to do that quite well. OK? Make sure you ask your questions, post your comments below, I’ll try to get to it as many as I can.

1. The Average Player’s Swing Doesn’t Look Like Pros

The reason why the average player’s swing doesn’t look like a pros is because the average player is using their arms to hit the ball as opposed to their body. The average player uses their arms because this is natural. It’s natural because there’s an object on the he ground in front of them. The natural instinct is to hit the object and hit it hard. This leads to a swing that is far too long and loose. Unfortunately, the golf swing is not as easy as just hitting it with your arms. If it was, everyone would have a great swing. In order to learn a great swing you have to use your body.

So how do you use your body to hit the ball? Well … you’ve actually experienced using your body before when you hit that one shot that went farther than other other shot you’ve ever hit. With this incredible shot, you felt “nothing”. If you felt “nothing” you couldn’t have used your arms because if you did, you would have felt them. Unfortunately, this flash of brilliance was short lived. This is because on the next shot, you tried to hit the ball even harder. This caused your arms to power the swing again and all of a sudden your poor shots returned.

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In the future, keep your arms turned off (feel “nothing”). Make sure you base your swing on rotating your shoulders in the backswing and your legs and hips in the downswing. This will stop the arms from taking the club back too far.
If you don’t get it at first, don’t give up. Turning your arms “off” to hit the ball feels like you have less power so it does take time to get used to. Continue to hit easy shots using your body rotation until you get the ball airborne. Then, simply turn your body faster to hit longer shots as opposed to hitting harder with your arms.

2. The Average Player Swings Way Too Fast

This also has a bearing on the look of your swing but I feel it should be talked about separately. The erratic tempo is due to hitting solely with your arms and trying to blast every shot as hard as you can. In your golf swing, your arms move relatively fast compared to your body rotation. The odds of you being able to replicate the exact same hitting motion with your arms is impossible. On the other hand, rotating your body the same rate of speed is relatively easy because it only rotates approx. 3 mph. If you base your swing on the rotational speed of your body and your body tells your arms how fast to swing, it is much easier to make the same move every time thus giving you the tempo you are after.

3. Lack of Knowledge

When I’m standing on the practice range all day it’s amazing what I hear people talk about. The first group of players are the ones who are showing each other their new equipment. Usually, these guys are trying to buy their game so they have picked up the latest and greatest club which will make absolutely no difference. It’s almost like they have this swagger about them thinking that they have solved the secret of the golf swing. Two weeks later they aren’t talking about it anymore. Unfortunately, you cannot buy your game. Clubs are important but if you have a golf swing that doesn’t work, nothing is going to help.

Next, you have the players that are talking about what they are working on in their own swing. This is the talk that I find interesting because as a pro, I know what works and what doesn’t. I find it interesting because it gives me the perspective from the average player’s point of view. It tells me how people perceive certain tips and drills and how they try to incorporate them. Instead of trying every tip or trick that someone tells you, try to stick with one method and become an expert about that one method.

Finally, the last group is the person who has no clue what they are doing and here they are teaching a beginner how to play golf. As a teacher, this is very frustrating because I know they’re going to give the person all sorts of bad habits. I realize that this person means well but relating the golf swing to someone in a way they understand is very difficult. This is a critical point in time for a beginner. They have no bad habits and no re conceived notions. The beginner would be much better off learning from a qualified pro. Obviously, if anyone could teach golf there would be a lot more pros out there.

4. Practice Habits & Patience

Obviously, you have to practice to get better. Unfortunately, the average player never practices the way a pro would practice. The pro is not out on the range to hit ever shot perfectly. They are there to work on an aspect of their game. This means they know exactly what it is they are working on for every shot and they take there time trying to master it. They also know that working on a certain position in their swing may take them months to master. The next time you go to the range have a game plan. Know exactly what you are going to be working on and take your time.

5. Equipment

Pros have long been into matching the proper equipment for their game. The average player is finally starting to realize the importance of proper equipment. Make sure that you visit your local club maker to have your clubs properly fitted to your game. This is vital to becoming a better player.

Until next time,

Paul Wilson
Creator – Swing Machine Golf

If you don’t believe me, just put your swing on video and you will quickly see that I am right. Now that I have you totally depressed because you’ve have been trying to copy Tigers’ swing for four years let’s take a look at what you should be looking for to take your swing to a new level.

The Overall Appearance of a Pros Swing

When you watch Tour Players on TV doesn’t it look like they have the ability to shoot 65? Their swings are so graceful, powerful and in control. Sure, some Tour Player’s swings through the ages have looked a little odd but even these players looked like they could play great golf. In order to get this same look you have to have the proper fundamentals. In order to get the proper fundamentals you have to work hard on your swing. Here’s a way you can look like a pro when you swing:

Go through the list below and check off the things that you do rather well (you or your pro may wish to add to this list based on your swing). Once you have your list finalized and checked off, take a little time and go over each point that isn’t checked off. Once you’ve isolated the things that need to be worked on, make a new list on a new page. Try to list them in order of importance.

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To determine their order of importance just ask yourself, “what could I change right now that would make my swing look more like that of a Tour Player”? Maybe it’s something like: working on staying in balance throughout your swing. If you were someone who swung out of their shoes and fell over after each shot this would be a huge change that would immediately take you one step closer to looking like a pro (after all, they don’t seem to fall over after each shot). Once you master that one thing, move on to the next and so on until your have crossed out every thing on your list. The day your list is totally crossed off will be the happiest day of your life!

Before You Hit the Ball:

1. Grip Position – strong / neutral / weak

2. Grip Pressure – too tight / perfect / too loose

3. Set up – too tall / perfect / too low

4. Set up (feeling) – too tense / relaxed / too loose

5. Thoughts – too many thoughts or confused / clear thoughts

Starting Back:

1. Takeaway – inside / outside / perfect

2. Your Pace – slow / medium / fast

3. Your body coil – no feeling of being tightly coiled up / tightly coiled like a spring

4. Weight shift – weight shifting into the right instep / weight staying on left foot (reverse weight shift)

5. Swing Plane – inside / outside / on plane

Top of the Backswing:

1. Balance – in balance / swaying to the outside of your right foot

2. Weight shift – loaded 80% into the right instep / weight stayed on the left

3. Wrist hinge – fully hinged wrists / broken left elbow

4. Clubface position – open / square / closed

5. Right knee flex – flexed as it was at address / straightened up

6. Spine angle – dipping down / maintained / raising up

7. Swing Plane – upright / flat / perfect

8. Grip pressure – too tight / secure / letting go

Starting Down:

1. Pace – quick and jerky / smooth

2. Arm strength – trying to kill it / relaxed

3. Weight shift – sliding to the left / shifting and rotating at the same time

4. Plane – too far inside out / perfect / outside over the top

Impact:

1. Power Level – hitting as hard as you can / scooping the ball / solid / weak

2. Balance – leaning forward / perfect / falling back

3. Spine angle – raising up / maintained / dipping down

4. Weight distribution – hanging back on right foot / perfect / moving too much into the left

5. Arm extension – fully extended / buckled chicken wing

Follow Through:

1. Balance – feet twisting / weight falling back / perfect balance

2. Consistency – same swing each time / different swing each time

3. Spine angle – lifting up out of the shot / leaning over too much / leaning back / perfect

After the Ball is Hit:

1. Balance – can you swing in balance / out of control

2. Control – are you letting the club swing freely / are you steering the ball

3. Divot pattern – too far left / perfect (slightly left) / too far right

4. Ball flight – too low / too high / perfect

5. What you felt when you hit the ball – arms / body

6. Energy levels after your practice session – tired / fresh

I really hope this list can take your swing to the next level. Please keep it close at hand and refer to it on a regular basis. Keep this thought in mind as you continue your quest for a great swing. “Great golfers look like they can shoot 65. Great golfers all have the proper fundamentals. If I were to give you the proper fundamentals you, in turn, would look like a great golfer.”

Paul Wilson
Creator – Swing Machine Golf

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Transcription:  How To Cure A Pull

In this tip I am going to teach you how to stop pulling the golf ball. I’ve seen lot of questions and comments, and a lot of people tend to pull a golf ball a little bit to the left, for a right handed golfer when they’re hitting their shots. So, what we want to do is understand why we’re pulling it.

Well, if you’re pulling the golf ball, what’s happening is, you’re in a position where the golf club is swinging what’s called over the top. So, from right here, if we imagine that there is a plain line underneath, through my body, and out the other end. That’s our swing plain. From right here, we want our golf club to stay on that plain, to about here, then it’s going to leave the plain. Then as we come down, it’s going to flatten and be parallel to that plain and then back on plain as we’re coming in to impact, and through. OK? So, it will still be on plain, then it will leave a plain a little bit as well, into the finish, OK? But what we’re concerned about is this area here. Now, if you’re ‘over the top’, what that means is, your golf club is swinging to the top like this, and then it’s coming down, but it’s swinging to the left. From right here it’s ‘over the top’ of this plain. So, that causes the golf club to swing to the left. Now, if you’re hitting a golf ball with the face square, with a club moving to the left, you will hit the ball straight to the left. If the face is even more closed, you will hit it left, and then it will spin even further left. So, that’s called ‘a pool hook’. So, some of this stuff will apply for ‘a pool hook’ as well. And I’ll try to get to that towards the end. But, what you need to know is, your golf club is swinging to the left. The face is square to that path, it’s very simple.

Now, what we have to do is, we have to stop the club from coming over the top. Now, let’s understand why it’s coming over the top. The golf club is coming over the top because you’re trying to hit with the arms. Your arms are starting the down swing first. In that process what happens is, you go to the top like this, your arms are moving before your body is moving. In that process your body, your upper body starts to tip a little bit to the left. And in that process that determines that the path of the golf club will swing to the left. If you don’t believe me, just go out to the driving range, hit a bunch of shots, and tilt to the left, and watch where your ball goes. Then tilt to the right and see where your ball goes. Your body affects the direction of your shot. If the ball is going a little to the left, your body is tilted left on the way down. It maybe fractionally, it maybe just for a millisecond, but keep in mind that as soon as you start the path, and it’s determined at the top, if you’re a little bit over the top, you will be over the top by the time you hit the golf ball. That’s because from here to there is a quarter of the second in time. You can’t change the path once you’ve determined it. So, if we’re up to the top like this, and in this first instance you move a tiny, tiny bit to the left, you will hit the ball to the left. Because the path is over the top. And if the face is squared to that path, that’s what I’m assuming. OK? So, we need to stop our body from tilting to the left in the down swing. Now, throughout the years I’ve carried a million pulls in my life, and this works every single time, so all we have to do is we have to get the body starting before the golf club moves. Now, we’re going to take a look now again from here, the concept is simple. In a golf swing you have mass, and it’s swinging around an axes. So, here’s our axes, here’s the mass swinging around it.

Easiest way to think about it is a wait on a piece of strength. If you picked it up, and you twirled it, the hand is always one step ahead of the weight. If you pick up the weight and you twirl it, the weight will always want to go to 90 degrees to the access where the hand, it will allows want to go to the 90 degrees, if it’s moving it’s fastest. So, if we’re up at our, top of our back swing. This our way, this is our string, this is you twirling it. If we’re up to the top like this all we have to do is start this first, and get it to head of this. If we do, this will want to go to 90 degrees. That means it’s not going away from 90 degrees any more. If I’m right here, and I turn my body, it will flatten. Now I’ll be in a situation where the club is swinging out of the ball, instead of over the top. And in the process of using my lower body, we’ll just take a look at it from here, if I use my lower body in my down swing, it’s like hitting the accelerator on a car. When I go like this my upper body falls backwards. That means that I’ll be tilted slightly to the right when I hit the ball, instead of tilted to the left. OK?

So, we’re going to cure a pull, by understanding a pull. The golf club is slightly over the top. The face is square to that line. That means that our wrist are working, because the face is square. If our wrist are all locked up, you would be slicing the ball. You’re not doing that, so it’s not even a hands and arms problem at all. In the three elements I teach, wrists loose, body rotation, and constant forward tilt our wrist are loose in our golf swing, because the face is square. It’s a body problem. Because we’re swinging a little over the top. If we tilt left, the ball will start left. So, we need to fix the body, body rotational problem, OK? So, all we’re doing is, we’re getting to the top, we’re not going to be hitting anymore. Totally relax our arms. We’re going to use the lower body to initiate the down swing, and in that process we’re going to tip a little to the right, and then we’re going to have a path slightly from the inside. So, what you want to do, do a couple of drills to get you the proper feeling. OK? First one is just this. You go to the top, like this. And take your belt buckle, and point it back at the golf ball. Try to keep your hands up here, because we need the lower body ahead of the golf club. OK? So, we got to get our lower body ahead of the club. That will get our body starting first, the club will flattened and then be swinging out at it on the way down. Next thing we can do is just hold our golf club up in the air, like this. If you hold the club up in the air, and you do practice swings, there is no ball to hit. So, if there’s no ball to hit, that will allow you to relax your arms, and get the body rotation ahead of the golf club. If I do it towards the camera, I’ll just exaggerate it for you, so you can see the actual movement. And then you need to apply this to your golf swing. So, from right here, you’re going to see my body move first, and then the club come wiping through. Right here. I’m just exaggerating a little bit. OK? But that’s what we need, we need our body to get ahead of the golf club. So, from right here you see my body move and then the club comes wiping through. OK? So, holding the golf club up in the air is a great way to feel your body getting ahead of the golf club. If your body gets ahead, the club shaft will flattened, then it will be swinging out of the ball. OK? So, one of the thing, if you’re pull hooking the ball, you’ve basically got the same thing, you’re over the top, so the club is swinging to the left, is just the face a little too closed.

So, in that case I would definitely check the grip so that you neutralized your grip, because if your grip is strong and you role this over, you’re going to close the face, and you’re going to get right to left curvature of a pull hook for a right handed golfer. OK? So, definitely check your grip, make sure it’s neutralized. If you still pull hooking it, make sure you’re not thinking of that rolling miss over. You don’t have to think about rolling that over, because the club face is already going to square, and then beyond square. All you have to do is get the lower body initiating the down swing, and then for you too, the golf club will flattened and then you’ll turn that pull hook properly into a draw. So, that would be a lot better shot than pull hooking it, that’s for sure. OK? So, hopefully you get it, turn the arms off, quit trying to hit the ball so hard, especially from up here, OK? Turn the arms off, initiate with the lower, that will flattened the club, and then you’ll swing out at it, and you’ll fix your pull. And if you fix your grip, you’ll fix a pull hook too. OK? Please, ask your questions, post your comments below. I’ll try to get through as many as I can.

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Transcription: How to Cure a Golf Slide

In this tip I am going to teach you have to cure your slide and your down swing, as you go to hit the ball. Now, what is a slide? Well, slide is typically seen amongst better players.

What happens is, if you’re in that beginner or average category, you’re probably still in a position where you’re trying to hit the golf ball with your hands and arms. So, you’re up here, the top of your back swing, and you’re trying to do this hitting motion. As you do that, what happens is, your whole upper body is tilting to the left. You’re in a very rotational position, but because you’re hitting with your hands and arms, your whole body is still tilting to the left. Now, if you tilt to the left like that, you have a swing that’s called being over the top. So, from this angle right here, if I’m in a position like this, and I tip my body to the left, the golf club will swing to the left. If the club face is open a little bit, the ball is going to start left, and then slice back to the right. If the face is way open, it’s going to start right, and go right. If you role it over, you’re going to pull the ball, or pull hook the ball to the left. So, this is typically what happens when you’re in that beginner or average category. Now, as you become a better player, what happens is, you start to understand that you’re suppose to be hitting the golf ball with your lower body. In that process what happens is, you start to fire from your lower body and you start to use that to start your down swing.

The problem is, you start over doing it a little bit. Maybe somebody told you that you should be shifting to hit the ball, or bumping your hips to hit the ball. Well, if you do that, what happens is, your whole upper body tips to the right too much, and that causes your ball to push, push fade, or even dock hook, because you’ve created a severe inside out swing path. So, from this angle, let me just show you what happens when you slide laterally in the down swing. So, if I’m here like this, and I slide, my ball is now push fading a little bit out to the right. And that’s because from here I went like this, I just took it back, and then I moved laterally to hit the shot. Now, in that process that’s called sliding. So, I’m sliding laterally, that tips me right, ball goes out to the right. If I turn it over too much, or flip it a little bit, a club swing severely from the inside hitting the top right quadrant of the ball, and that’s what gives me that dock hook to the left. So, people that slide tend to duck hook it. They may even draw it too, or push, push fade. OK? So, this is why it’s so important that you cure the slide. We need our golf club to not be swinging as severely inside out at the ball, so then we get going more down the target line which will produce straighter shots.

So, how do we actually cure this? Well, if you have seen any of my previous lessons, the follow through position that I want you to be in with the left leg has it in a locked position. So, I want this leg to literally locked by going straight back, and allow this leg to come around and perfectly touch it. If you did that properly, there is no way you would be moving in a lateral motion. So, I don’t want this movement, I want a rotational movement which allows this leg to lock straight. So, if you look at it from here, this leg is literally going straight back. So, I feel it goes straight back as this one comes around to touch it. If I was doing a lateral motion, like bumping my hips, or shifting my weight, there is no way my legs are going to be touching here, because this leg is going in this direction, and this one is trying to catch it. If I lock the leg, that allows this one to come around and meet it. Because this leg is no longer going sideways. OK? So, we want to lock this leg. This one will come around to meet it. Now, ideally you should be thinking about that position from the very top of your back swing. So, if you’re up here like this, you’re not thinking about shifting anymore, you’re not thinking about hitting the ball, you’re thinking about turning. Now, I say that, because if you turn the weight will shift on it’s own.  Because you can not get to this position with your weight over on this side, and being on the tip of this toe, if the weight didn’t shift. So, if we think about turning the weight shift will occur. If you’re thinking about shifting when ever you’re going to turn you’re still lateral, so that means that the body tips too much and you end up in that severe inside out position. So, we want to be thinking turn, not shift. OK? We need this leg to lock, this one will come around to meet it.

You can get that by thinking about taking this hip and turning it to the left. You can think about locking the left leg, and allowing the right to come over. You can think about taking the weight from this side, and pushing it in a circular motion, to allow this leg to come over to touch the other leg. All 3 of those things occur, even if you’re only thinking of one of them. So, if I turn my hip, my legs straightness, the weight comes off of this side. If I straighten the leg, the hip turns, this come over to touch it. If I go from this side the leg, straightens, the hip turns. They all happen, but it just depended on which one you want to be thinking off. Me personally, I think about taking away from this side, and I push it in the circular motion to this side. So, that gives me that rotational feeling, and I certainly don’t slide. I used to slide quite severely when I was younger. So, I actually had to go through this at one point. And if somebody would have just told me, hey straighten this leg, and touch this one, I would occurred it in about 2 seconds. Instead of taking 2 months which it took me of every single day working on it. OK? So, you can get this a lot faster if you understand. So, here’s a great way to get this. You just do this drill, you can do it at home, you can do it at the ranch. It doesn’t matter, just try to do this drill, this will give you great feeling for it. All you have to do is, you have to get the object, and you put it off of your left hip, and then when you go to do your swings you try to miss the object. So, what that means is, you can take an alignment stick like this. These are a little tough to get into the ground, but if the ground is soft, it’s not a big deal. Put it in the ground like that. You can set up to your ball like this. Just do practice thing first. So, from right here you want to make sure you’ve got about 4 inches right here.

Now, if you do a swing, you should be able to turn without hitting this object. So, if you go up to the top like this, and you slide, you will be hitting into this objects, as soon as you come down. So, have an object of the left hip, about 4 inches. Now, an alignment stick, this thing is kind a flexible. Might be a little tough to feel if you’re actually hitting this or not. So, what you do is, you get a broken shaft, or a shaft with no head on it, put the shaft in the ground, right there. If you don’t have a broken shaft like that, and you really want to do this like today, out on the driving range, what you do is, you take one of your golf clubs, and you just stick it in the ground like that. So, now I’ve got an object off of my hip. So, from right here I can do practice swings, and then I can even hit golf balls with this at about 4 inches right here. If I hit shots, I should be able to do that whole swing without knocking this out of the way. Because it’s in there pretty sturdy, I can feel that against my side hip, if I was to move against it. So, keep turning, keep trying get this leg to straighten, allow this one to come over and touch it, and then you’re going to get rid of that slide. OK? Hopefully you understand it. If you’re sliding, you’re creating a path that is too much inside out, so by learning how to turn better, you won’t be tipping too much to the right, which will determine a path that’s more down the line. So, you’re going to hit a lot straighter shots, OK? So, get to work on your slide, and within no time you’ll have it fix. Make sure you ask your questions, post your comments below, I’ll try to get through as many as I can.

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Transcription: How To Start The Downswing

In this tip I want to continue on from the tip I did last week on coiling your body. So, last week I talked about coiling, now we are going to talk about uncoiling in the downswing. And that motion is going to allow us to hit our golf shots. OK? So, we’re not just sitting there like this, just whacking at golf balls anymore. If golf was that easy, there would be a lot more good golfers out there. So, what we want to do is what the better players doing. They are coiling their upper body, and they are hitting the ball by uncoiling their lower body. So, in the backswing when we go to coil up it creates a tight feeling, OK? That tight feeling is what’s called torque.

Now, torque is a consistent thing in life. If you coil something up it will snap back the other way 100 percent of the time. So, to demonstrate that I do it with this head cover. So, from right here there’s your feet, here’s your shoulders. If we coil our shoulders, and just let go, the top of the head cover snaps back a 100 percent of the time. So, that’s a very consistent movement. That’s what we want to be basing our back swing on. We want to be creating the torque. Once we’ve created the torque though, we want to unwind the other way, and that’s going to allow us to create even more power and even more consistency. So, here’s what I am talking about. From right here, we take our shoulders, we crank them around. Now, we’re going to take our lower body, and we’re going to unwind our lower body. And in that process the upper body snaps back the other way. So, you can see if I’m going this way, and then I turn the lower body the opposite way. That really compresses the middle of this head cover here.

So, I am coiling up and then I am uncoiling, and that really snaps the upper body through the other way. Now, in order to uncoil what we’re doing is, we’re doing the lesson that I already gave about the touching of the legs position. So, what that means is, as we get to the top of the back swing, and we’re feeling coiled up, all we’re doing is, we’re taking our lower body, and we’re going to trying tight our legs together here. This leg goes straight back. This one comes around and physically touches it. The only way I can get that position is if I turn my body and I allow my weight to shift. Because, if I didn’t shift my weight, I would be stuck on this back foot. There is no way my legs are going to touch. If I go sideways, there is no way my legs are going to touch. So, what we want to try to do is, we want trying strengthen this leg, and allow this leg to come over and touch it. In that process, my lower body is turning in a circular motion which is just like the uncoiling of that head cover. So, here we go. I’ve gone into the backswing, by coiling. So, I’m thinking right here, left shoulder. You can think of your right shoulder if you want, it doesn’t matter. We need to be thinking up here, because these move the most. So, from right here, I take this shoulder, and I crank it around until it gets tight. So, you can see, that’s a tight feeling to me. And I’m very tight normally, so I don’t even get to 90 degrees. So, if you are someone who is tight up here, don’t feel like you have to crank your shoulders way around to hit the ball along way. You don’t have to do that. We just have to get this coiling and uncoiling action. You’re going to hit the ball plenty far. Don’t feel like you’ve got a cranked way around. You just don’t have to do that. From right here I crank up the shoulders, and as soon as I’m feeling that tightness, I take this leg and I literally touch the other leg with it. Now, that’s one sensation that you can get. You can also think of straightening the leg, so you could be thinking about feeling this leg go backwards, like this. If that goes back, this comes around to touch it. You could be thinking about turning your left hip to the left. And that allows the legs to touch. Whatever your thought is, I personally have the weight here, I’m coiled up, I take this leg, and I literally just touch the other leg. That is how I uncoil. That’s the movement I want you to recognize. Want you to recognize which of those things works for you.

I go from the right to the left. You could be thinking of the left just straightens it, and allowing the right to touch. You could be thinking about turning the hip to the left, and allowing them to touch. Anyone of those movements you do causes the others to happen as well. So, if I push from here, my left leg straightens my hip turns. If I turn my hip the weight comes off the right, my legs straightens and my legs touch. OK? So, it’s an uncoiling from the lower body that you want to be recognizing. Now, I get lots of questions about how do I start the downswing, Or when do I start the downswing. With my method, there is no guess work. You start the downswing when you feel the tightness. Soon as you’re coiled up, and you feel that tightness, instantly you uncoil the lower body. So, if I hit a shot for you here, all I’m doing is, I’m coiling my shoulders. Soon as I feel that tightness I uncoil the other way. There is no hesitation, there is no thinking about it, there is no how do I do it, what am I thinking, you know, I know exactly what I am doing. At that moment, as soon as I feel like I am coiled up, I’m thinking right here…

Soon as I feel that I uncoil the other way. And that’s what allows my arms to come down to hit the ball, because my arms are connected to my body. They are not going to stay up here forever. When I make that uncoiling motion, my arms come down and hit the ball. So, I hope you’re starting to understand it. One thing I want you to be aware of, is when you go to uncoil, it’s a circular motion. You’re thinking uncoil. Now, I say that because again, if I demonstrate with this head cover, some people seem to think that you’re going to be moving sideways, or shift to uncoil. Or bump your hips, or you know, I don’t even know any of other ones. They shift, they bump, it’s this lateral sideways type of motion. Well, you don’t want to do that. You want to be going in a circular motion, because again, if I show you with the head cover, right here, I take my shoulders, I coil them up. Well, if I was to move laterally I get a sideways motion here. Well, a sideways motion isn’t going to be as powerful as uncoiling in a circular motion. So, I don’t want to be moving sideways. I want to be moving circular to create the fastest uncoil that I possibly can. Another thing that people tend to do is when they go back they keep the weight over on this side, so they move sideways, and then sideways. OK? We don’t want to do that either, because that’s like taking a head cover and moving it this way. So, we don’t want to be stuck over on this leg, as we get to the top, because then we’re going to be falling backwards as we hit the ball, and that’s not going to be very consistent either. So, hopefully you understand it, I’m taking it upper, I’m coiling until I’m tight. Once I’m tight I uncoil by touching the legs. That’s going to cause my lower body to move, and of course I’m going to create that snapping action with my upper body. My upper body will move my arms down to hit the ball, and I’m going to be very, very consistent. Hopefully you’ve got it. We’re uncoiling now, we coil up, we’re going to uncoil to hit the ball. Please ask your questions, post your comments below, I’ll try to get through it as many as I can.

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Transcription:  How To Hit A Bunker Shot

In this tip I am going to show you have to hit perfect bunker shots in a matter of seconds. That’s right, I did say that, perfect bunker shots in a matter of seconds. Now, I know you may have a lot of trouble hitting out of the sand, but I’m telling you, if you can just follow a few simple instructions, you really will hit perfect bunker shots in a matter of seconds.

So, in my first tip I showed you how to have the golf club in an opened position, where opening face to about 2 o’clock, and that’s so the golf club skims the top layer of the sand, instead of, if the face was in a square position, it would dig in too deep. So, we’ve got the club in a 2 o’clock position. When we do that, we need to aim our body to left to compensate for the fact that the ball will go to the right, if the face is in an open position. So, for a right handed golfer we’re going to aim to the left. Now, what do we do when we first come in the sand. Well, the first thing we want to do is, we want to align our body to the left, as we get that alignment we’re going to dig our feet in a couple of inches into the sands. We’re trying to find the base to the sand. If you stand on a very top surface, this is very unstable, so you could potentially slip, or wiggle around a little bit too much. But we want to dig down, so that we’re finding a base. Well, we’re also digging down because when we dig down a couple of inches, we are actually lower than the ball. Now, this is very, very important. Because you need to hit the sand and not the ball. So, in the past, I’m sure you’ve heard of hitting a few inches behind the ball.

I never want you to think like that. If you think like that, you’re going to be a worst bunker player in the world. So, we’re never going to be thinking of hitting about 3 inches behind the ball. This is going to occur, because we are lower than the ball, when we hit the shot, because we dug our feet in. Imagine if you were on grass, and you dug your feet in a couple of inches lower than the ball. If you did, you would hit the ground behind the ball every single time. So, you don’t even have to think about hitting behind the ball. This will happen because you dug your feet down. So, that’s very, very important. You have to remember that. Don’t be looking at the spot 3 inches behind the ball, and trying to hit that spot. So, that’s a first step. So, we dig our feet in on align to the left of the target. Now, as we go to set up to the shot, I’ll just show you the line to the left, there is our line, our ball position is going to be a little forward of center. Relative to the line, left of the target. So, we’ve got our ball in the proper position, we don’t want to play it too far back, because we’re going to hit the ball first. Too far forward we’re going to take too much sand. So, just a little forward of center is going to be fine.

Now, from here we need to do 2 things when we hit this bunker shot. So, I’ve seen a zillion people hit bunker shots before. And for all those people they find it very difficult to get out. Well, after analyzing a bunch of people, what I come to the conclusion, what I found was that a lot of people do not hinge the golf club properly, they are either lock here, or they take this big, long swing, because they feel that they are going to have get some power to get this ball out of the sand. Well, we need a little bit of power, but we don’t need to be really hitting that hard. So, what we need to do in our back swing, is we need to be hinging the golf club. So, as I go back, I’m going to be thinking of the butt and of the golf club. When I take the golf club back, I’m going to think about pointing the butt at the sand. Now, I don’t want it to be right at the sand, I want you to be almost at the top of your swing. But if you think about pointing the butt at the sand, it would probably go up a little bit higher, which is the position that I’d like the club to be in. So, from right here, if I go into my back swing, I don’t want to do this big, long swing, because I am not going to hit really hard, and that is just not going to work. So, from right here I’m going to feel like I’m pointing the bat of the club at the send. So, that to me feels like it is a sand, I know it’s a little higher than that. So, that’s our first part to our swing. We’re going to hinge the golf club.

Once the club is hinged, we’re just then going to take our body, and we’re going to turn it to the left to hit the actual shot. Now, I want you to turn the body on a parallel line left of the target. So, we want it on this parallel line to this line right here. So, good way to do that, just make a mark off of your toe right here. This forward toe just make a mark there. And when you finish, your belt buckle is going to be pointing at that mark. So, we’re not hitting behind the ball. That will occur. What we’re thinking off is in the back swing, we’re thinking about hinging, so we’ve hinged the club, now to hit the shot we’re not thinking hit, we’re thinking, take the belt buckle, and we’re going to turn it left of the shot. Left through the shot. If we do that, this is what is going to happen. From right here, we hinge, and then we turn. OK? Ball will come out every time, perfectly. If we do that.

So, let me show you again. So, right here. I take the golf club into the back…sorry. I’ve dug my feet in on the line to the left. The face is open. I hinge…and then I turn. OK? In that process, what’s going to happen is, I ended up getting off of this back foot, through the shot. And yes, I know there’s people out there that teach to keep your feet planted. I guarantee that this will work a million times better, if you just hinge and turn. It really does work, and that will stop you from being back on this back foot when you hit the ball. I’m sure you have this shot before. When you go like this, and you’re hitting way back here, behind a ball you leave the ball in the bunker. So, we’re going to get rid of that shot, by getting off of this side, by turning through the shot. So, we’re going to hinge our backstroke, or in the back swing, OK? And then…We’re going to turn on the way through. Hinge and turn.

If you noticed my follow through there, I went through. I didn’t go all the way around, but I’m pretty close. So, I’m really getting right through it. So, hinge, turn, and if you do that you’re going to be able to hit perfect bunker shots in a matter of seconds. Make sure you ask your questions, leave your comments below, I’ll try to get through it as many as I can.

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Transcription – How To Chip A Golf Ball

In this tip I am going to talk about the different ratios that you need to learn in order to chose the right golf club for the proper chip shot.

So, what is a ratio? Well, what it is, it’s the distance you’re going to be flying a golf ball vs. how far the ball is going to be rolling. So, what we need to do is, we need to calculate out, how far it is to the front of the green, about a yard onto the green. Because we’re going to be flying our ball about the yard onto the green with each of these different chip shots. Once we understand that amount we then look at our pin placement. And that will tell us how many of those,.. or how far that distance is compared to where we’re hitting our golf ball. So, in this situation right here, on the front of the green here, and I’m going to pace this off in the second. So you see, but if you look onto the very front, about a yard onto the green, that amount is about the same amount I have to roll the ball to that first hole. So, in this situation that would be a one to one ratio. Each of the different pin placements has a different ratio to it, and it’s very, very important that you understand this very clearly, because you want to be able to chose the right golf club for the appropriate chip shot. So, what I’m going to do, I’m going to pace off these different yardages, so that you understand exactly what club to hit in what situation. And understand the ratio, so then you can use that into the future.

So, I’m going to pace these off for you, I’m going to start with this, with this sand wedge. So, here we go, I got a sand wedge here, and I’m going to just pace it off to the front of the green, and you’ll get the feel for how far it is to hit a sand wedge. So, from here, one, two, three, four is the front of the green, and then five is where I’m going to be landing my golf ball. So, I’m five paces to right here. So, that’s where I’m trying to hit my golf ball. Now from here, I’m going to pace it off to the rest of the way to the hole. So, one, two, three, four, five. OK? So, right here, which is pretty much at this first 10 placement, I’ve got a one to one ratio. It’s pretty simple. So, one to one ratio, I want to hit a sand wedge. If you’re someone that has a lob wedge, anyone to chip with the lob wedge, feel free to do that, some people like using their lob wedge better than the sand wedge. Some people don’t even carry a sand wedge. I personally use the sand wedge, so out of one to one ratio, that is the golf club I am going to be using. Now, let’s take a look at the next pin. The next one, I’m going to be using a nine iron, so right here, right here I’ve got a nine iron. So, let’s pace this one off, and you’ll see what the ratio is to here. So, one, two, three, four is the front of the green. Five is where I’m going to be landing my golf ball. So, it’s five paces. Now I’ve got one, two, three, four, five to the first hole, which we’ve just talked about. One, two, three, four, five. Right here, this is where I’m going to hit a pitching wedge. This is halfway between this two holes. That is a one to two ratio. So, five to the front of the green, and this is 10 yards. So, this is more roll than how far I had to fly it. So, one part fly, equals two parts roll. That’s a pitching wedge. One, two, three, four, five. Now, I’m at this flag here. This is where I would hit a 9 iron. It’s five yards to the front of the green, and then it’s 15 paces to here. So, it’s a one to three ratio. So, hopefully you’re starting to understand how this works. You’re looking at the front of the green, and then you’re trying to look at the different pin placements. You’re tying to determine how far it is to fly it onto the very front of the green, about the yard onto the green, and then you look to see how much roll you need, and then you chose the right club. So, from right here, we’re going to go 7 iron all the way to that pin way down there.

That is going to be a one to five ratio, which you’ll see in a second. So, here I am. One, two, three, four is the front edge of the green. Five is where I’m going to land my ball. So, that’s one part fly. Now, we’ve got one, two, three, four, five. That’s one. One, two, three, four, five. This is a one to two ratio. One, two, three, four, five. This is the one to three ratio. One, two, three, four, five. This is the one to four ratio. This is where I would hit 8 iron. It’s half way between that hole and that hole, OK? So, now we go one, two, three, four, five and now I’m at the one to five ratio. This is where I’m going to hit my 7 iron.  Fly 7 iron about the yard onto the front of the green, and it’s going to go all the way there to that pin, because I know a 7 iron rolls five time as much, as I fly it. So, it’s pretty simple, we’re again looking at the front of the green, and again we’re tying to determine what club to hit in what situation. So, now I’m going to hit some different chip shots with the different clubs, so that you can see how each of these clubs hits the front of the ground, and then rolls to the different pin placements. We’re going to start with our sand wedge first, we’re going to hit the front of the green, and go to this first pin placement. We know that’s a one to one ratio, so this club should hit this ball to that pin…OK, so that was very good right there. We hit it within a couple feet, with our sand wedge. So, now we’re going to do a 9 iron, and you’ll see that this club, just in changing clubs, I’m not going to do anything different with my stroke. We’re going to get this club to go to the middle pin placement, because that is one to three ratio.

So, here we go…so there you go. That ended up about a foot away from the whole, with the 9 iron. So, I’ll hit the 7 iron now for you, and we’re going to go all the way back to the…all the way down there to that last pin placement. So, again, if I hit the front of the green, ball is going to roll all the way to the back, because I’ve got a 7 iron. And that’s a one to five ratio. So, here we go… OK, so, if you take a look at that, that ended up couple feet from a hole down there. So, just keep in mind what we want to try to do. We’re changing a golf club for the different pin placements based on a correct ratio. We measure this distance from here to the front of the green, where we’re going to land the ball. Then we measure that distance towards the hole. So, we’ve got a one to one ratio, which is the first hole here. We’ve got a one to two which will be a halfway between the first hole and the second hole. That’s going to be a pitching wedge. We’ve got a one to three which is the middle pin placement. One to four is halfway between the middle and the end pin placement. And then a one to five at the very end. Also, keep in mind that, if the pin or the green, sorry, is uphill, or downhill, you’re going to add or subtract a club to make up for the slope. So, if its uphill, you add a club. So, instead of the one to three ratio, maybe it’s a one to four ratio. So, you don’t hit it with a 9 iron, you hit it with a 8 iron. If it’s a downhill you take a club off, or subtract one from your ratio. So, instead of a one to three ratio, it’s a one to two. So, instead of the 9 iron you hit the pitching wedge. I would think the best thing to do is make a chart, so that you understand those different ratios, and then you can take them to the course’’’ with you, and you’ll be able to dial in the correct club for the right distance. In future tips I’m going to show you the stroke. Now you’ve got the ratios, you’ll understand how it all fits together. Make sure you ask your questions, post your comments below, I’ll try to get to it as many as I can.

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Topping the ball is one of the most frustrating shots the average player can hit. You will often hear that the cause of topping the ball is that you are “looking up” or “raising your body up too early”. Although this is true, you have to ask yourself the question, WHY are you looking up? If you can answer this question, you will finally eliminate the topped shots from your game forever!

There are a couple of reasons why you would look up. In this tip, we will look at what is causing you to look up before you even take the club back (in the next tip we will talk about what causes you to look up when you are actually hitting the ball). This is a problem I bet you didn’t even realize that you are doing … until now.

If you look at the color picture of me in my set up position you will see that when I look at my target, I do so, through tilted eyes. The black and white picture depicts how the average player looks to the target with level eyes.

Why Looking at Your Ball Through Tilted Eyes is So Important

If you take your set up position and look at your target through level eyes you’re telling yourself that this is the way you want to watch your ball fly through the air once it is hit. Unfortunately, this will cause you to raise your body up through the shot and finish with your eyes level (black and white picture below). If you raise your body up through impact the club will come off of the ground slightly causing you to top the ball.

Now, if you could set up to the ball and look at the target through tilted eyes each and every time before you hit the ball, you will be telling yourself that this is the way you want to watch your ball fly. If you watch your ball fly through the air this way, you will maintain your spine angle throughout the shot. If you maintain your spine angle throughout the shot, your club will make consistent contact with the ball and you will finish on a tilt as seen in the color picture below.

Why Do You Want to Look Through LEVEL Eyes?

The reason to watch your ball fly through “level” eyes as opposed to “tilted” eyes is quite simple, it’s because you walk around in everyday life looking through level eyes. This means that you naturally want to see things this way. If you walked around everyday with your head tilted to one side you wouldn’t even be reading this tip. Unfortunately, watching your ball fly through tilted eyes is easier said than done because it goes against what you want to do naturally. Now that you know how important it is and how it effects your golf swing, you will want to get used to it no matter how uncomfortable it may be.

How to Work On It?

The best way to work on watching your ball through tilted eyes is to do some practice swings towards a mirror or while watching your reflection in a large pane of glass. As you take your set up position, take a look at the reflection of yourself imagining that you are looking at your target. Make sure that when you do, you see that your eyes are tilted like the picture of me at address.

Now, take a swing and stop when you have hit the finish position. Again, take a look at yourself and check to see that when you finish, your eyes are also tilted (this tilt should only be slight DO NOT be too tilted or you will put too much pressure on your lower back). You should be watching the ball fly through the air with tilted eyes as I am in the follow through position (color picture). If you notice that after you swing through your eyes are level you are going to have to keep practicing until you have mastered tilted eyes. If you do, you will finally be on your way to stopping those topped shots.

Paul Wilson
Creator – Swing Machine Golf

Typically, I say that I can give you a pretty good swing in 5 lessons, a great swing in 10 and a phenomenal swing in 15. That’s 1 lesson per week for that length of time with practice in between lessons. Considering it took me over 10 years to develop a swing I was happy with, it seems like such a small price to pay. Unfortunately, many people won’t wait that long. It’s not because they don’t have time it’s just that they want results immediately.

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The funny thing, is that people don’t bat an eye at the length of time it takes to learn how to play a musical instrument. They know before they even start that it takes years to be able to play a song half decently. How about learning a new job? Training is going to take you up to 6 months. How about other sports? Other sports take a while to get good at but you’re OK with it. So what’s so different about golf? Well … there are many reasons. Maybe you want to impress your friends. Maybe you want to take some money off of your friends on the weekend. Maybe you hit that one brilliant shot and you think you should be able to do it all of the time. Maybe you just think golf looks like a simple sport. Whatever the reason, creating a great golf swing takes some time.

If you’ve played golf for 15 years and you still shoot in the mid to high 80′s or 90′s the first thing you have to realize that the golf swing you are using doesn’t work. If you played a guitar for 15 years wouldn’t you be able to give guitar legend, Eddie Van Halen, a run for his money? Now, I’m not saying you should shoot 72 every time you go out but after playing for 15 years shouldn’t you be able to shoot in the 70′s regularly? Knowing that you have a golf swing that doesn’t work is the first step to playing the best golf of your life.

The second step to playing the best golf of your life, is knowing that if you decide to change your swing, it will be like starting all over again (but this time it won’t take you that long). Initially, changes to your game will cause you to hit some very poor shots. This is because you’re learning a totally different way to swing. You are un-learning years of bad habits. It is this critical moment in time that you must decide to press on. No matter how bad your game gets … the future is bright.

The third thing you must do is practice. You have to ingrain your new movements until they are second nature. The best way to make changes is to do consecutive repetitions. What I mean is you have to do the same new movement time and time again. If you do consecutive repetitions of the new movement you will master it faster than if you do old swings in between. In the early stages it’s all about making the changes. The faster you can change the faster you will get better. The fourth thing you have to do is work with a qualified instructor. This does not mean taking 1 lesson. You have to find a teacher that teaches a method and stick to it. I, myself, have a vision of what I want the students swing to look like before we even start. There are certain steps that must be followed to get to this end goal so no matter what it takes, see it through. Some people learn faster than others but with a few weeks you will get used to the changes and you will see some amazing shots. This is the sign of things to come in the future. Keep at it and keep practicing and you will soon reach your goal.

The final thing you have to do (if you haven’t figured it out yet) is have patience. It takes time to change you swing. Work hard in 2012 and pretty soon you’ll be breaking 80.

Paul Wilson
Creator – Swing Machine Golf