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Probably the most important golf video on RU-vid . This is exactly why so many amateurs can strike the ball ok and straight when at the driving range in a bay where everything is nice and squared up. Once out on the course 80% will point the left shoulder straight at the target instead of parallel to it and have feet aligned even further right than that. The result is either a big slice as the swing comes over the top in an attempt to correct things or the body stalls because the hips are closed so much resulting in a low pull to the left.
This is the greatest golf video I've ever seen. This finally explains to me why my buddies would line me up and I would just subconsciously fight it and work my way back to my normal stance right before I took the club back. I can't wait to try this at the range!! Thank you so much!!
This officially one of the Best videos I have seen in a while. I am the perfect example of “aiming right/over the top”. Every instructor I have had has told me to practise coming from the inside, but I have always felt that it’s my allignment was bad, but didn’t know how to fix it. This certainly helps 👏👏
I have watched way to many how to golf instructors and completely lost my game. Finally Mike makes sense and I’m starting to get back to a 10 handicap instead of 18 or more. THANKS TO YOU MIKE😁. Common sense always wins out.
Mike is the best instructor in the world. Period. Thank you both for what I consider to be some of the most important golf instruction videos ever made.
I've watched ALOT of golf instruction vids and have just this week found Mike and Brendan's work. They are sensational. So simple and true. Thank you both. (Hi from Downunder)
I knew this, I knew this, then I watch this and thought about it and played today and started knocking down flag sticks. I guess by brain didn't really understand. Thanks, this is working for me. Love Mike.
I have been playing for 20 years and struggled with this. No one has explained it like this. This is gold. if it wasn't 5 degrees outside i would be on my way to the range right now.
Very good video, awesome content in this one. Perhaps the best explanation on alignment/targeting/visualization I've ever seen. Good job on this one and thank you Mr. Malaska as well.
Man, l have to said you are the best explaining Golf swing teacher, that l have seeing, and Brandon you good asking questions, thank you both!! God bless you!!!
Thank you Brendon for this video. Mike is one of the best instructors you habe ever worked with. I will work on training my alignment using this technique! Thank you again B & M !!!!!!
Alignment! Fantastic lesson Mike, I am a good player who had 10years away from golf starting a business. Have been back playing club golf every weekend for a full season, & have been struggling with hitting. Most shots left of my target line, & had a lesson today after thinking my grip or follow through was off. But saw as you greatly explained my visual picture & stance of a straight alignment to the the target. Was so wrong! I couldn't believe it, as alignment is not a feel. Which would make it easier to correct, but realising that re-training the brains directional concept with the trusty alignment sticks again, & your video is going to help immensely!! Thanks Mark from Australia.
This is absolutely fantastic content and I think that 80-90% number who do this is right on point. Working on this but it’s not easy to tell your brain not to worry.
This also explains why every down the line camera view that is down the foot line, looks like the player is hitting their ball way right. Very interesting.
This was a great lesson to watch...your eyes lie to you when you set up square to the ball. Wow! Our binocular vision see things fine when looking directly down the target line, but when we get over the ball our brain basically goes on tilt. Awareness of this optical illusion, and what adjustments Mike is telling you to make will actually change your swing characteristics and accuracy. Thanks for this! Cheers M.
I'm glad y'all discussed this! This is something I think would make you so much better. It's something I've wanted to mention for a long time on your channel. When I watch your course vlogs, your approach to the ball ( pre shot routine) is all over the place. Most of the time you're set up to the ball before you ever look at the target. You're worst shots always come when you're set to the ball then give the target the smallest glance ever. It just looks like you're so focused on the swing or feel you're trying to make that you forget about the target.
Super, recently played and on #18 needing a big cut went to a wide open stance and was amazed at how well I struck the ball as prior that day I was moving on the ball and as normal it seems I am playing army golf, left- right spraying my shots - seeing this tip I now see how I can fix some bad habits. I will be testing the alignment stick out front - as a past decent player who has aged past 70 --- I think that much of what Mike teaches would be perfect for aging players wanting to remain competitive --- even though I stay in shape I see that my swing is nothing compared to the past - now I am in a hurry to hit the ball versus swing the club - resulting in poor turn, sliding, head moving and that is only the first swing --- so many elements that were part of my smooth swing are gone --- this tip gives me a lot to work on. Thanks for the insights.
I played last week front 9 five over and par round on back nine one of the best round of my life never ever played par round thanks all your videos I'm really playing very good after watching all your videos and one more very important I'm hitting with my 4 iron almost 210 meters and dead straight, I'm not 20 years kid, I am 55 years young men😉 really appreciate all your hard work and thanks a lot god bless you 👍👍
Amazing video. I can’t wait to go out and try this. It’s so often that I find my shots (even the well struck ones) are slight blocks - eg 3-5 yards to the right of target from 100 yards ... Whenever I considered alignment it was only the feet line that I looked at (and these were often pointed at or to the right of target, but correcting this I’ve always found feels off)... so the importance of shoulder line and getting the right picture from this video is a seminal learning for me! Bravo Mike
This video is so good!!! I’ve never heard any other instructors talk about how your eyes influence your setup & the cascade of events that happen from a good or poor setup. This is next level stuff! Thanks Brendon & Mike! This has helped me be better at golf.
Dear Sir I'm Brazilian, I live in Brazil ans I have difficulty with the English language. Forgive the text. Be Better Golf reflects work done with passion and seriousness. With good teaching, bugt simplicity. Congratulations Roberto
Watched this one then practiced a little with it. Went to the range the next day was was hitting absolute bombs😂. Mike is the man. Great video. If there is one video I will be passing on to friends it's this one.
This is the most important concept ever and most teachers and amateurs focus on everything, but this topic. Pure gold and I wish I knew this explained this way a long time ago.
Stephen Shepherd everyone loves the complex sexy stuff, not the basic obvious stuff we don’t want to spend time on. Weird how all these teachers crank out all these videos 2-3 times a week on all kinda of stuff... almost like the more videos they put out the more money they make...🤔
Visual parallax explained expertly. I’ve recently have decided I can’t get any better aiming right and swinging left. So I’ve started trying to train myself to line up and then don’t look at the target before I swing. If I look I feel like the target is too far right and the farther out the target is the more right it is. Nice drill I’ll try it tomorrow!
Great video. Mike is awesome. I am a right aim golfer that actually hooks it instead of coming over the top, but the solution is the same. When I get the feeling as Mike describes it, the game is easy.
People dont understand this is the hardest thing to do in golf. Training your brain is so hard. Getting there. but this is the first, second, third, fourth and fifth issue for us amateurs. Brilliant and thanks!
This is a great description of the deception you see with your eyes due to the way golf is played alongside the ball and not directly behind like in basketball or throwing a pass in football. Keep in mind these descriptions here are about hitting the ball straight or directly at the target. Another thing that most golfers do not understand but they must grasp about aiming is that your target line is NOT your target when curving the ball. Your target line is your aiming point / starting line. My target line to hit a draw is actually right of my actual target, to hit a fade it is left of my target, and to hit it directly or straight at my target then they actually become the same thing, but only on a straight shot. You have to train yourself and your brain that you are trying to hit it at one point and allow the curvature of the ball / shape of the shot to end at your true target or finish point. Mike does a great job of explaining how to take practice swings and gain your feel to hit the shot you want and then finding your "target line" to play that shot trying to duplicate the feel in the mental game video. You practice feel, your aim, and trusting the feel trying to duplicate it to do what you want is the "Process" that Mike talks about. Mike does an incredible job of taking the complexity of this game and helping us all understand that we actually already know how to play this game in our brains because the brain is a task master / problem-solver. It's the lack of understanding of impact and lack of instruction and skill development to perfect that causing golfers to continue to struggle. I love your Mike Malaska series!
When I set up to what I think is straight on the range I’m always 20 yards left as Mike says. This has been the most eye-opening insight for me. Thanks Mike and Brendon.
I hate the amateur term referenced to bad golf, the greatest player to play the game was an amateur , Bobby jones, he won 13 majors by the age of 28, the British and us amateur in those days were majors because the best players in the world were amateurs. 4 us opens , 3 British opens( out of 4 tries) 1 British am(out of 2 tries) and 5 us ams, what was astonishing was he rarely touched a club between majors, which was months at times. He won over 44% of every major he played. His total win percentage of all tournaments was astonishing. He shot a 66 in a British qualifying tournament on a course that played 6900 yards. In a time where you couldn't lift clean and place on the green, this was mind bogging. He shot lower scores and equaled that but this one left Britain stunned. So please lets just say weekenders or average players. I do like your videos.
Mr Kipling you and everyone else on RU-vid. Listening to swing concepts is much more interesting than accepting alignment as literally being all that 99% of golfers need to work on and NOTHING else until they have truly mastered it. If that idea caught on a lot of people pushing all these swing concept videos would lose a lot of money cause the masses wouldn’t need them anymore. 🤔
Great video. After spending all season learning how to swing properly watching mikes videos and many others and not seeing very much progress. I’ve gotten back to basics and this is one of the best alignment vids I’ve found. Huge issue with my personal swing. Hope it helps. Any other tips about this in future videos would be awesome! Thanks for the great content.
Eric Mead the basics, and mainly clubface alignment, is all that needs to be focused on. You get that correctly and your 🧠 will be able to figure out the rest
Guys, keep up the great work. Love this discussion today. Even more relevant to me now as temperatures begin to drop in Atlanta and common fault for getting a little more distance out of each shot is hitting a big draw, ie end up aiming further right. Also, i wanted y'all to know that since I started following I've moved from 2.3 index to a +0.7. Amazing what happens when you eliminate "getting stuck" from your game. Thank you!
BE BETTER GOLF have you noticed with Malaska swing how there is not much divot .I have noticed that with my swing doing this .So you not steep at all you just bruising the ground a little. Wish you would talk to him sometime about this .Love these videos 👍
Like the video...especially the idea of things not looking right from over-the-ball and have to get used to this as an amateur weekend-warrior. Alignment, when I haven't played in awhile, can take me nine holes to trust and by then bye-bye to a decent score. Another video which has helped me with alignment tremendously is on Monte's IG...he talks about kicking fieldgoals about 18 inches out as an intermediate target...gold!
A life line to my sinking game. Now in my early 70s and having tried so many swing adjustments in recent years, I'm convinced I need to focus more on my alignment and now have been given tools to do just that. Thank you for "pointing me in the right direction."
I am a big fan of BBG and Malaska golf for a couple of years. I like Mike’s teaching and have implemented his suggestions. I have had difficulty tipping the shaft. I have had an ahah moment. For me my first move down from the backswing with my hands and arms is to shallow my arms, the club head drops behind my hands, my hands go out a little. This allows me to swing in a proper semicircle. Watch any pro from DTL.
THANK YOU. I've been noticing this since I started focusing on lining up the club face with whatever is directly infront of the ball; grass patches, leaves, etc. I try to get my feet square to that line, and it really screws with my brain. Feels like a huge mistake, esp with the longer clubs.
Ty you guys great content!!! So what I thought I heard fro. Mike and IAM steep with my driver iam going to tee off from the left side of tee box and make my target out to right on the fairway ??? If I understand what Mike explained so my task is to drive ball from left side of tee box to the right side of the fairway ??? I'll let you know how it goes !!!!
This concept is what Shawn Clement (RU-vid master teacher) is all about... task master brain... visualization/target. Brandon should look him up and do lessons/videos
For a visual person like me, it would have been more effective if there were lines drawn to depict target line, body alignment, path direction, clubface, etc. But, for just pointing out the parallax error, thanks a million!
Respectfully, at 1:45, if you adjust the bottom of the circle to the ball at address, then swing on that plane, even with that foot and body position, it is going straight and right down the middle. Radius, Tangent! I like all the rest!
Question for Mike: Most slicers are going to aiming to the left of the target in hopes that a miss to the right will find the target, but you are saying the most golfer's shoulders are alighted to the left of the target causing an 'over the top swing'. Do open shoulders at address promote a slice or 'over the top' move and closed shoulders promote an inside swing path producing a draw? Thanks
Great lesson, I Watch my wife line up them when she greats ready to swing she shuffles her feet over to aim more to the right. I try and not make the same mistake.
Man, I feel like I say this for every one of your videos with Mike, but this might be the best one yet lol. Such an out-of-the-box concept that is never covered in golf instruction, yet it is so intuitive.
This happened today, i was pulling everything....so I made myself open my stance. It felt weird but i started hitting it straighter because my brain wouldn't let the ball go left as much....of course next time this won't work, because that's golf. Which is why teaching pros make a lot of money.
Sort of confusing on the flags. The one the alignment stick is pointing at looks black or black and yellow. Is that the one your hitting the ball at? It looks like your shoulders are parallel to that. Then i look again and the arrow goes to the one on the right. Also are you setting up for a pretty straight shot. Great videos. I really like the one that show clubface at address.
The last part, target is to the right, but aim to the left. Is the eyes/shoulders aim to the left, while club face still aiming the right of where the target is??
It's called "Parallax" Try point your finger at something with one eye closed, then close that eye and open the other eye without moving your finger. See how far off your finger is off the target.