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In this video, Radio x DJ and BBC football reporter Rich Wolfenden steps up for a golf lesson. He gets some handy tips and drills from Golf Monthly Top 50 Coach Trey Niven
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00:00Hey guys, Trey here, Golf Monthly Top 50 UK Coach.
00:04We're at Hadleywood today.
00:05Just been playing a few holes out at Hadleywood with Rich Wolfenden from BBC Sport.
00:10He plays off 30 handicap, so I'm going to give him a little bit of a lesson and see
00:16if there's any advice I can give him to make his golf a bit better.
00:19If you're around that ability, stick around, watch the video, there's some really top tips
00:23in this video.
00:24So Rich, watching you on the course out there today, I think you do a lot of things really
00:29good considering like how much you play and how you describe like your golf game as well
00:35to me earlier.
00:36But I think like your mid-irons, and you'll probably agree, could do with a little bit
00:41of work.
00:42Yeah, connecting with it, I'm okay connecting with it, getting a clean swing on it, but it
00:49never goes where I want it to.
00:51It'll go off to the right, it'll go off to the left.
00:54Right.
00:55So I think what's really important in this for you is to work on your setup initially,
01:02like how you stand to the ball, how you hold the grip, where things point.
01:06And then after that, I think that's going to have a little bit of influence on how you
01:09move the golf club.
01:11So setup, I think from a starting point of looking for consistency, got to make sure the
01:16setup is consistent in itself.
01:17Okay.
01:18So you just take your setup.
01:20What I usually do.
01:21What's that?
01:21Yeah, you do what you'd usually do if we were going out to play now.
01:24So let's say I've hit a brilliant drive, I'd probably line up the club first.
01:30Okay.
01:30And then just sort my feet out and with a seven iron, I'd have it equidistant between
01:37my feet and then it'll probably be some sort of setup like that if I'm aiming for that
01:40150.
01:41Okay.
01:42And just hit this from here?
01:43Yeah.
01:49And that wasn't the worst one, I think.
01:51That was okay.
01:51Pretty good.
01:52That was all right.
01:53I don't think you need any coaching now.
01:55Nice contact with the floor as well.
01:58I think sometimes you will absolutely find the timing from that.
02:01But sometimes, like we saw on the course at times, that you haven't got the contact and
02:06it's a little bit, like you said, inconsistent.
02:08So I've spotted something straight away there, the ball position, the seven iron way too far
02:14forwards.
02:15Oh really?
02:15Like nearly underneath like left armpit there.
02:18Right.
02:18So again, if the ball position gets too far forwards for you guys listening at home and
02:24I'm trying to make that ball contact and then the ground.
02:27The more I move it in this direction, the more I've actually physically got to move my body
02:32to get over the ball.
02:34And something that I picked up on video from filming you on the course is that sometimes
02:37you hang back as well.
02:39So if you've got a ball that's over there and our body hangs back, we've got a lot of work
02:43to do at the bottom of the swing, hence some of the heavy strikes as well.
02:47So just get yourself set up again for me.
02:50Yeah.
02:50Just as you naturally would if I hadn't said anything.
02:53Yeah.
02:53So I'll probably be about there.
02:55Perfect.
02:56And I want this ball to sit right underneath your sternum here.
02:59Okay.
02:59That's it.
03:00So that one there is actually pretty good.
03:02Okay.
03:02Yeah, great.
03:03And I've seen one last thing on the course and practicing then.
03:07You see how your lead arm there and your lead wrist is kind of bowed this way, forwards.
03:13Okay.
03:13Yeah.
03:13So I want that to sit right down underneath your chest.
03:17So if you just stand a little bit further away.
03:20Further away.
03:20Back.
03:21And then we're just going to press that club down so it sits there.
03:24Okay.
03:24So now you can see this lead wrist and this lead arm.
03:27Right.
03:27Is pretty straight there.
03:28Okay.
03:29Yeah.
03:29Probably feel a little bit uncomfortable.
03:31Yeah.
03:31I feel like I'm really leaning over it quite a lot.
03:33Yeah.
03:33Okay.
03:33So hold that there.
03:36Great.
03:37So you're aiming a little bit right of that 150.
03:40So just bring everything around to your left if you can.
03:43So aim a little bit more in this direction.
03:47Okay.
03:47Yeah.
03:48That's great.
03:49Okay.
03:49And as you've done that, really important.
03:51Just got to check where that ball position is.
03:53That's really good there.
03:55Yeah.
03:55Great.
03:55And what you're looking for, you're looking for feet, knees, hips, and then shoulders all
04:02to be in a line.
04:03So you can see Rich has done a pretty good example of that there.
04:06Yeah.
04:07Right.
04:08So keep them hands really low.
04:10Yeah.
04:11Okay.
04:12Great.
04:12And just try another shot from there for me.
04:14Yeah.
04:15And just see how that feels.
04:18Ooh.
04:19Okay.
04:20Not bad.
04:20A little bit heavy.
04:22Yeah.
04:22Yeah.
04:23Dead straight.
04:24It did go straight, which is what we're here to work on.
04:27Let's try another.
04:28Yeah.
04:29There's more of that.
04:34The wrists are straight.
04:37It's the forearm.
04:42Great shot.
04:43That's at the 150.
04:44Hit it.
04:46Hit it.
04:48Oh, that was pretty good.
04:50That was accurate.
04:51I'll give you that.
04:52That was pretty good.
04:52so I'll give you credit on that one you can see set up there when we look at the
04:58video I'll film that last swing yeah dead square to where we wanted to aim
05:02yeah hands were sat nice and low so you're in a place at the start of your
05:06swing where there's less to go wrong right essentially I've seen one last
05:10thing and I don't want to give you too much yeah I want to give you maybe two
05:14points maximum right to work on because this game can be a bit of a minefield at
05:19times with the swing thoughts but if you just look as your club swings back here
05:24yeah so it's over my shoulder yeah it's over the shoulder as you come down there
05:29you can just see right here you can see how the loft of that golf club so we talk
05:37about the club face or the grooves yeah point backwards towards the camera here
05:43right again this is a little bit of de-lofting so you take loft off the club
05:48right so with no loft on a golf club and you want to try and hit the thing golf
05:53ball in the air yeah we're consciously wanting to lean back and add loft kind
05:58of through the ball right so I want you to as you start to swing back maybe
06:04halfway just to feel this lead wrist is just doing a little bit of hinging like
06:09this if you look at yours it goes back this way right right right due to how you
06:13were set up before yeah so all on that lead wrist to feel like it's got a
06:18little bit of hinge or cup in the back of that left wrist okay keeping it firm
06:22yeah so try that again just take your setup same setup points making sure we
06:27square to the target yeah good sit them hands nice and low yeah so then I bring it
06:33to hold that there that'll be the position it's spot on there where you have it here
06:38you can see this logo on the glove or the wrist has got a bit of a kink in it
06:42this
06:43is where it was before I was there I'm taking loft off okay keep some on there
06:50cool that's it just try that again then it's a little backswing
06:56good try should I hit it yeah good just remember that same bit further back from
07:04the ball good and make sure them hands are nice and low to the yeah like thumb at
07:08the tip of the the rubber part yeah so hands back up yeah back up back up back up
07:13yeah good and then just press the whole ah yeah yeah that's it that's it good nice
07:19relaxed hands and then hit oh good try it's all right let's have another one
07:28oh great strike yeah I think I was thinking too much about my uh my wrist action okay just
07:36just just take that set up again yeah okay and just hit one more come on best one of the
07:46day
07:50remember that ball position under the chest yeah good
07:59uh fatted it but it went it went straight if you take one thing out of that shot so this
08:05is
08:05something that you can go away with now because I know that's going to take maybe a few balls to
08:10get used to that yeah think about where you finished that golf shot so as you hit the ball
08:14you hit the ground and both feet were both flat on the floor like this yeah yeah so what does
08:19that
08:19tell me about my weight it's all it stayed back to your back leg so I think for people listening
08:25at
08:26home what you can take away and you can take away from this Rich is that the finish of the
08:30swing
08:31tells the story for kind of how what you've done prior to that yeah so think about if I'm in
08:37this
08:37finished position haven't moved in through enough if I'm in this finished position I've transferred
08:43efficiently through it yeah yeah so I think that wasn't a bad swing at all you just didn't have that
08:50finished position yeah yeah forget that but you know it's multiple things yeah in your head that you
08:55need to work on but you know certainly felt that the the positioning in my yeah so bit by bit
09:01you've
09:01got set up yeah halfway back yeah finishing the swing yeah work through it in that process
09:07homework well done yeah nice on that good work cheers try no worries so in summary there for Rich
09:13really important to just check that the setup and everything is in place again a player that's craving
09:18consistency but hasn't quite found the consistency in the setup so just making sure the symbol things
09:24ball position grip hands body alignment all playing a huge part in his consistency and creating the
09:32same shot creating the same contact moved on to a little bit of talking about how the arms and the
09:37wrist now need to work with the change grip and then after that it was a little bit more on
09:42to okay
09:42where are we finishing the golf shot because finishing the shot can tell a lot of the story of
09:47kind of the tail of the swing so make sure you're in a good finish position weight moving forwards
09:53nice and stable lower body nice and nice and stable in balance and often if you can get into that
10:00finish
10:00position it can breed some very good golf shots so really good work from Rich there
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