Improve Your Golf Swing with a Football

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• Instructor: Glenn Deck
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Full Swing

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Our holiday wish for you on Golf Life is that your golf game will improve this year. So, let's head out west to the beautiful Pelican Hill Golf Club in Newport Beach, California, where top teacher Glen Deck has a drill you can do anywhere. Hi, guys. We're here to help with your golf game today. All you need is a football, a golf ball, and some kind of a target alignment. Now, simply take your football, guys, line the seam line up toward your golf ball down below here. Now, the backswing is pretty simple. There's 3 things that should happen. We've got a hinge, we've got a little bit of forearm roll. The key is doing the right sequence. If you decide to go ahead and hinge first or roll first here, we're going to be in trouble. The first thing we do, guys, with this football here is take the laces here and let's turn them where? Let's turn them back. So number 1, guys, we create a turn. Number 2, we're going to hinge. If you do 1 and 2, as a bonus, guys, you get number 3, the correct amount of forearm roll. The laces here should point somewhat down toward our target line or toward the golf ball. If you point a little bit inside, that would be great also. What we don't want to do is have that thought of, hey, trying to keep the elbow close to our body here and start rolling here too soon. Now the seam lines are offline. That makes golf hard. You wouldn't throw a football like this. You would have it where? Out here. So remember, guys, turn, hinge, and now we're set. Now, when you throw a football the other direction, we're going to always…