It’s easy to get too steep on the downswing, but this drill from Jason Birnbaum’s Top 100 GOLF Teachers will help smooth things out.
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Your inheritance is there too steep and to the left. How do you know? You hit wickedly, you pull hooks and slices, depending on what the clubface does after the hit. You need to play a little flatter and get a flatter swing. Here’s a simple exercise that will help you solve the problem with just a few repetitions.
Set up as usual, but with the second ball placed about two clubhead widths in front of the one you actually intend to hit. The goal here, as you can probably imagine, is to hit the first ball and miss the second, which will be difficult to achieve if move up.
Before you begin, reach down and touch the trail leg to remind yourself to stay on the trail longer as you descend from the peak. Once you have made your swing, think of the swing as flat rather than steep, you only feel a slight suspension and the sensation of the club moving up.
Remember that these are indeed feelings – i.e. you never want to “pull away” after hitting – when hitting an iron. Sometimes you learn faster by exaggerating your swing. Try it.
Jason Birnbaum is 100 best golf teachers who is the director of instruction at Manhattan Woods Golf Academy in West Nyack, New York
