How to Cover the Ball Through Impact in Golf (Ball-Striking Secret)!! 

That’s the best explanation of covering the ball I’ve seen. So clear and precise. The sweeping the cups analogy is brilliant. Thank you.

Adam, thanks for the great "mental pictures" you give. They are always helpful. Cheers!

Thanks Adam. As always, your teaching style is excellent...concise and practical....

Adam, been watching you for a month or so now and practicing per your recommendations to get the feel for some of these things. Probably played the best overall round of golf of my life the other day. Thanks for all the tips and keep up the great work!

Another great video and easily explained tip. Such an effortless swing as well! Thank you Adam.

Baz...Brilliant so clear So easy to follow, THANKS MATE

This was extremely helpful! This guy has a ton of knowledge, and I would direct everyone to this channel if they have any questions.

Love it, so explicit! Thanks

Anyone can teach, but what differentiates you from others is that you explain how it should feel. One of your best videos was when you threw clubs down the fairway to feel the proper release. Your info is awesome.

Thank you Adam!

This guy is so good at explaining golf concepts!

Thanks again Adam!!

Thanks again Adam great advice simply explained

Great analogy: swiping of cups off the table! Thanks.

Great video Adam. As always, very well spoken 👌

Covering the ball I have heard in the past but having listened to this explanation added that I have deeper knowledge in golf now can clearly understand the concept. It’s such that you must feel this covering technique

Another great video adam, thanks

excellent lesson. Thank you Scratch

You've a great understanding of the swing and good at explaining

Very helpful video, sweeping the cups off the table was a great analogy! Looking forward to putting it into practice at the range 👍

Great visualization. Loved the tip!

this is absolutely key for me and my bad swings lead a spin out and a big block / slice . thanks !

Love the 'wipe the bench' feeling...excellent...lately i was getting too shallow and getting stuck behind the ball (rory says that's his mistake so I'm in good company) and went back to covering the ball on the range this morning and all is well, thanks again Adam, great job!

Very good & helpful video. The idea of clearing table with trail hand is so good 👏

Love your lessons. You have such a relaxed swing that looks zero effort. Always reminds me I need to avoid trying to whack the ball and just develop a relaxed swing.

It’s really enjoyable listing to you. You have such a nice demeaner

Thank you very much

Great info!!

Great video!

Great Adam

We're lucky to have you!!

Nice...

Great lesson. Read Byron Nelson's book on this subject. Flex the knees in the downswing. Keep a steady head to swing the right side under.

This is exactly what I've been working on. Been helping a ton.

Thank you for your instruction. I came to "cover the ball" through working on another drill designed to establish my downward plane early in the swing. Essentially I started to "drop my arms" more behind me through a combination of gravity and force, keeping my right shoulder back. At the top of my swing, I would just slam the club head straight down into the ground, and then rotate. Eventually I started my downswing with the arm dropping, and it worked pretty well. Then, for actually the first time since playing for many many years, I felt "covering the ball". It's a new feeling for me and in my mind it feels like it occurs about left arm parallel, and it's an essential move in the golf swing. A "pull" has been my goto shot, and now that I've felt how covering feels, as long as I do it I don't think a 40 yard pull is possible. All of a sudden I see compression occurring...is that possible? I think it's just the new angle with which I approach the ball gives me that sense. Another benefit is I believe I could hit a ball from any lie, just because I'm finally coming into the ball correctly. Is covering the ball that elusive a feel that I could have missed for all my years? Thank you again for your instruction. I think I really see how covering appears in your swing. Oh, I think the sweeping off the table with your arm is helpful, but again I came to it from forcing my arms straight down behind me. In trying to come up with a feel that continues to work, so far it's either start the butt of the club back at the ball, or not just feel left pectoral pressure during transition, but sustain it a little more to allow the arms to drop into the slot.

I can understand this visual, I've had a major power-loss with all clubs, so I'll give this a good try.

Great video adam. I have a question relating to your cracking the towel anology. I can do it with half shots where I can feel the clubhead but as soon as that clubhead weight tips over on the backswing so it's parallel to the ground I lose feel for it. Have you got any tips for retaining feel for the clubhead on a full swing. Thank you

Hi Adam great video as usual! What is meant by getting ahead of the ball?

Thanx Adam, sir mr sneed's famous stooped stance, as per Arnold Palmer, (r.i.p), so myself, I try to stand far enough away from the ball to have to lean into the view, gifting myself plenty room to swing thru, but equally keeping my eye and head over the ball, to see 100% true club ball allignment first, in prep, and then in swing bring the club head around to the outer back quadrant of the ball at contact, engageing the meat of the iron onto the ball, totally wraping the mallet around the ball at impact, usually results in a profound draw thru flight, then adjust stance to straighten the shot, a tee allows full extension of the swing thru flick the wrists, as the club head has more room to swing thru vertically at point of impact, and also, with irons, the barer the lie, the better the impact! Haa, its fun when it goes all right ! My focus is more about covering the ball fully with the applicable mallet , like properly putting an egg in an egg cup, there is only 1 correct position for accurate 100% club head ball allignment, to see this from behind the tee, allows better point of contact.

I appreciate your teaching tecniques Adam.

Good advice. Keeping that right had bent back (in extension) all the way to your left thigh (one coach used the mental image of almost touching your left thigh with the BACK of your right hand) forces you to pivot (or rotate your hips) with weight on the left heel. If you don't pivot, the face would be pointing way out to the right and you would hit a block to the right. So you are naturally forced to make a good pivot. Making a pivot with the hips is always one of the hard things for more senior golfers and high handicappers. Its too easy to focus on spinning the hips as a separate action rather than as a natural part of a smooth swing. Getting into a good pivot as simply a natural component of the kind of swing you are describing to cover the ball makes doing that important part of the swing much easier. The other thing is if you concentrate as you show on moving through the swing with the right wrist staying in extension longer, and you let your body pivot, you will hit higher, straighter shots or perhaps a baby fade. If on the other hand you exaggerate the release and let the right hand turn over the left too early, you will hit many low trajectory left hooking shots, the kind that are the bane of most golfers existence.

Nice

Thanks Adam, My biggest issue is keeping a consistent spine angle to have solid contact with the irons.

I love Alex trebeks swing didn’t know he taught golf

And I was just working on this today! Adam, your range spies are earning their pay! I try to slow my backswing down so as to maintain control of my spine angle on the down swing. Please do a segment on swinging at 50%, etc. I have a devil of a time not just speeding up even if I want to swing slowly. Practice swings are just fine, but when the ball is introduced, the instinct to simply lash at it is seemingly out of my control.

So the idea of the hands/arms being underneath you through impact, that also applies to drives except for the case of driving the arms are more extended away from the body?

How about bent right elbow at impact?

I have heard the term cover the ball with your hands. When I try to do that I feel I have no room to rotate and get the club face square. Can you shed some insight?

My Irons are really spinny. I outdrive my group 95% off the time. But my iron distances are near the worst. Driver often carries 300. 7 Iron is usually 150-ish. Do you think this could be my issue?

@4:38 you look a lot like Ken Venturi!

Do you cover the ball with the driver?

How does covering the ball change if at all as you go into longer irons say like a 6 or 5 iron?

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Great video!