In three steps, you can make these guys hybrids
your favorite weapon in your golf bag, especially if you are an older
golfer. So why choose hybrids? Well, the obvious one is
they are more forgiving. Basically these are like mini woods. The center of gravity is
much further behind the ball, behind the the face of
the club and lower down. So you don't need as much swing
speed to be able to get the loft that you want. And with this massive soul here, it's a lot harder to fat the shots
to dig in because it's going to kind of bounce off the turf. I really like my long iron 3, 4, 5. I've always enjoyed hitting them and
I've always enjoyed being able to get, you know, a decent distance out of them with confidence. 44. Now the thing why that works is because
I'm getting enough clubhead speed to give it elevation, right? But what if you don't have
that speed and I still use a hybrid at times. Why would I do that
when I can do that with a forearm? Well, I'm not on the p g tour in case you
haven't noticed.
Even though people say, I look like Justin Rose or he looks
like Alex Forec, you decide. But anyway, a hybrid gives me just a bigger margin
for error, as I told you earlier. But what does it do for distances? Not much distance changes. 2 41 Yards. But it's giving me that
consistency with that bigger margin of error, all position
and setup. It might be boring, but it makes all the difference. So the checkpoint you want to have
is about a club head in from your lead heel. Okay? So we are looking about here and the
reason we want that is because we want to be not necessarily
hitting it on the upswing, but pretty much at the bottom because all
the center of gravity is at the bottom of the club. It's going to help us up. But if we lose the bounce by
digging in this front edge, you're not gonna get the height and you
start hitting those kind of squirmy ones that look a little bit like,
like that kind of thing.
Loss of distance, loss
of control. And yes, I promise you just moving the ball
forward a little bit is gonna help a ton because now we're also
going to make sure that our hands are not pressed too far forward
and we haven't got them too far back. We want them pretty straight. So the line we want to sort of be looking
for is from your lead chest all the way down to the ball, to the
hands. We are looking for neutral. So this shaft is going straight
along this alignment stick.
You can do the same kind of drill or test. We don't want it here and we don't
want it here just in the middle. Then we execute our goal swing. Okay?
That's gonna give you the right strikes. But an extra little thing
I want you to do is, especially if you are an older golfer,
a little bit more experience in life, I want you to turn your lead
foot out because that's going to stop this kind of stalling
motion where we get in our way here.
It's just gonna be a little bit easier
to pass the hands through and get to a bounce finish, which
is gonna be crucial. Now, the reason why I bought is to
here is because we're uphill. And when you've got a slower swing
speed, especially with longer arms, it's very difficult to get the height
that we need. This is a two-tier green, it's uphill. We've got
like 180 yards carry. Now you need height off your shot
and a hybrid can give you that, but you have to deliver the
club in the right manner. So first step is always tee
up on a par three, okay? Always, always tear it up just a little
bit here, doesn't it have to be a Heidi? But give ourselves the
best possible lie. Why not? Jack Nicholas always said
to tee up on a path three, and I think he knew a thing or two. The
next thing after we've got step one, the setup will dialed in. We are focusing now on the
delivery of how we want this club to work best. We're not trying to get over
compression with those hands forward, which is where you get the low squirty
one, which is gonna suck on this hole.
We also don't wanna try and
help it up too much by flipping. We want a nice smooth
delivery, a neutral delivery. The setup is gonna help
facilitate that. However, we need to perhaps have a swing
feel and a key that gets you away from one of the two faults, which is hands too far forward
and the body stalling or the body stalling and flipping through, trying to sort of help it up to lift
it up. So I'm giving you one task when we come into impact. I don't
want the hands to win the race. I don't want the club to win
the race we are trying to impact at the same time.
Now, it's not a precise science. I don't
want really stressing about this. Picture a line right here. Okay? A line coming down from my
setup where we set up to, we've still got that line.
Now as I enter impact, I'm sort of clearing myself out the
way, but I'm trying to get my hands, my arms to match that line because
now I'm using the loft of the club, the bounce of the club, and I'm getting
the right delivery on my swing arc.
Make sense? If I don't get step
one, right? This can't work. That's why it's important
to go step one and step two. So my only swing feel
after I've got the setup, my only swing feel is to
try and impact at the same point. That really is about it. Now this is a long club for me, so I'm gonna have to swing a
bit shorter and slower here. Otherwise I might hit some houses at
the back, but let's see how we go. So I'm just trying to rehearse that
movement and I've got that visual in my mind here. It's a smooth visual. There we go. That's fun.
Come on, left a bit. Right distance, dead out the middle and it flew
the correct height and compression without any real force or effort. It's
much easier when you do it that way.
We don't always feel comfortable being
smooth and just allowing the design of the club and indeed gravity and
a flow of the swing to help us. I've mentioned a couple of times in the
video how catastrophic it is and how frequently I see it when people just
stall the lower bodies and the hands whip through either flipping through
or lunging the upper body. We can avoid it with this. All I want you to do after you've
made a nice smooth backswing, I want you to get through
to a balanced finish, balanced on the front
leg toe supporting you, but not having to keep you on balance.
It's just very lightly supporting.
But what I have is my belt
buckle towards the target and my task is to finish
with balance here and to get a little bit of an extra zip. I'm just going to make sure
that I have full extension, that I'm not pulling the
arms in this way. So, so really it's kind of three
little thoughts, smooth tempo, getting through and allowing those
arms to sort of be pulled out from you and sticking
this finish. That's it. You do that coupled with
the step one of the setup, step two of the impact, and then we are going for a nice smooth tempo. You're gonna be amazed at
just how far these guys go with accuracy, with a
minimal amount of effort.