Learn To Cover The Ball Like The Pros
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Thanks Eric! Just what I needed. Can't wait to try it out soon!
Hope it serves you well!
Great video as I’ve never seen it explained that way. Nice visual of dropping the right down the shaft to get closer to the ball which creates shaft lean and LAG..!! Bravo..
Appreciate it!
Great information, great explanation "why", great drill for the range, and i may do this as part of my preshot routine on the course.
Thank you Tim!
This is a great video; Eric does a great job explaining things in simple, yet effective terms. It also helps his swing is PURE.
Thanks Kevin! Appreciate ya!
This is me 1000%. It's so hard to retrain your muscles and feels. This is good stuff.
Thanks! Appreciate you being with us Chad!
your telling me. i shot 71 first round of CC and 85 last round. thought i felt the same thing but the ball went all over the place. was ugly.
I’ve been using video recently and have really been trying to maintain my angles as my primary swing thought. After a couple bad ball striking seasons, this one has been much better because I noticed myself standing up (not covering) at impact. These drills and check points will definitely help me focus. Thanks, nice work!
Love it!
Just had a lesson yesterday with all the cool tech gadgets of video, trackman and pressure board. This is exactly what I wasn't doing early in the lesson, but got it real close by the end of lesson. Attack angle went from 1.8+ to 4.3-.... Good stuff!!!!
Love it!
SOmebody else commented that you always seem to release videos about things they are about to practice and it is so bloody true, this is exactly the video i needed.
Lol I'm keeping an eye on you guys :)
Love this visualization. I also like to combine this with your lesson on keeping the lead bicep glued to the chest at impact, helps turn the hips and maintain those trail wrist arm angles.
:)
Probably the greatest tip
/feel ever, have kept coming back to this over the years and it works every time, easy to forget though
:)
Did that drill & then when I hit the ball the contact was superb & I felt like I'm really making headway. Thanks Eric!
Love it! Our pleasure!
Great drill...I'm using this on my skytrak as we speak. Hitting the ball really good. I searched many drills on covering the ball. This was the best!!!
Love it! Thanks!
Been bedeviled by "flipping" irons. This is the antidote. Always wondered why my golfing buddies who had been hockey players could really compress the ball. Now I know why. Many thanks.
100%!
This is a very clear description of how to correctly cover the ball. The hockey grip drill is the perfect drill to reinforce the feel. When I first started to incorporate the proper method and sequence into my swing, the hockey drill was definitely the most effective muscle memory tool. 👍🏻😎👍🏻
Thank you for watching, Scott! :)
Thank you sir - you helped explain this really well🙏
Our pleasure Dan!
Fantastic information Eric! Always great to watch.
Thanks Tom!
@@CogornoGolf no problem love your videos and spread the word often.
Absolutely love this drill !!!
Thanks!
really good stuff Eric...thanks
:) Appreciate it!
(Larry-San Diego) Eric, i played yesterday and i turned "early extension" into an art form and cant wait to practice this drill to help eliminate this major swing/posture fault.
:) Hope it helps Larry!
Simple solid tips! good job
Thank you Ken!
As a golf pro, i am always borrowing from the best on the net. Now i am starting to borrow from you. Good presentations of important subject matters. You are getting better & better!
👊Appreciate you watching my friend! Thank you for your support!
This is a great drill/lesson for all tall golfers like me. My arms are a little short for my height and I’m in my 50s(not as supple as I used to be) so I struggle to get down to the ball. The split grip to relearn the feel is the cure. Great job making this understandable. This should improve ball flight consistency as swinging down the line will be a natural result. Can’t wait to see results on course.
Thanks Brian! Hope it helps!
Thanks great explanation cheers
Thanks William! Hope it helps!
As a chronic early-extender this is a great drill to get the right shoulder and right elbow (tucked at hip). Thanks Eric!
Yessir! Appreciate ya!
One word....BRILLIANT! Thanks again Eric for an awesome training tip.
Our pleasure! Appreciate it!
@@CogornoGolf Update: My son and I just got back from the range. We did exactly what you said, "2 slow movements and then hit a ball". My son has been really struggling with fat and thin shots and his consistency was GONE. Today with the drill??? He was a new man! I haven't seen him put distance and a nice little draw on so many shots in months. This is a gem.
amazing stuff as always. the guy in the red shirt in the background is cracking me up. lol
Interesting. I've always liked the feel of "dropping" my right shoulder onto the ball with the irons. This explains why that feel is helpful.
:)
This is great stuff. I will take it to the range. I'll remember to keep my right shoulder in because if I let it get out, I pull the ball to the left. I'll sum this up by stating this is something like hitting a hockey puck with a hockey stick.
Thanks! Hope it serves you well Chester!
great content eric!!!!!! super helpful tip...
Thank you Keenan!
Brilliant Video... Amazingly Clear Instruction.. and if those are the X-Prototype Irons from Callaway like I think they are...we play the same set of irons...LOL Have a great weekend
Thank you :)
Thanks...good video...gonna try the drill because I do stand up sometimes.
:)
Well done Eric.
Covering the ball is such an important topic that get lost in the mix. You can not talk about forward shaft lean or compression or ball turf contact without taking into account the relevance of covering the ball. Covering the ball is an enabler of all good things in golf like compression , shaft lean and ball turf contact. This is a primal concept understated by the teaching professionals of the PGA.
I dare say teaching and learning golf should start out with this basic fundamental. Nearly all if not the majority of faults can be traced back to not covering the ball.
Thanks, Harold!
yep this is so TOTALLY me. I suffer from early extension/standing up. This is VERY helpful...it actually feels more natural.
Glad this one is helpful, Mark!
Great, Great feeling ,thx Can’t wait to get to driving range. Thx
:)
Great video. I was wondering why i was fatting a few. My right shoulder was dropping straight down and increasing my spine tilt. Now i know to turn my shoulders a bit too.
Yes!
It's amazing, everything you say is exactly what I do. Unfortunately I can fix it on the range but go back to bad habits on the course due to whatever reason. Wish I could play a round with you and you just fix me as we go...but alas, I'll keep watching your videos and try try try. Great videos and excellent solutions for us hacks, keep up the good work!
Hey!
Do it more and more on the course and less on the range. Exaggerate more on course. Go out at night with less people and hit multiple balls out there to practice
@@CogornoGolf tried it tonight & was working at times, but still pulling up and trying to swing too hard. Will try again tomorrow, thx!
I did like it. Being left eye dominant I find that my setup is easier to get natural shaft lean and consistency in covering the ball. The trick is trusting the alignment as it looks awkward when looking at the target, something like how putting alignment can look off. Trusting it is the only way to swing freely. Target in mind. This drill will work similarly.
Excellent
Excellent video!
Everyone standing up is compensating differently I guess, but a specific downswing key would be useful. For me, I've thought of it as stretch/flex through my abs to maintain posture, but maybe wrist/shoulder down or something else is worth trying.
That can work!
I finally found out what covering the ball means. I thought it meant moving laterally ahead of the ball. This will be very helpful. Thanks for a great video.
You got it, Allan!
I honestly didn’t know what that phrase meant either! Thanks Eric for clarifying it for us.
Improved my ball striking. My frustrations stem from people always stating that arc width was important for distance, yet here we are at impact with reduced arc width from bent right elbow and wrist
100%
Needs to be more narrow on way down than back
then back to wide again in follow through
I went over that here: czcams.com/video/fV6q0T9SloU/video.html
Great video.
Thank you, Charlie!
This may be one of the best videos you’ve done 🔥🔥🔥 I have a feeling it’s gonna put up numbers!
Thanks Mitch!
Great explanation Eric. I rate that top one compared to some others I watched on YT. By the way, for a split of a second I thought it was John Daly beyond you in that red shirt and shorts :-)
:) Thank you, Miroslav!!
This is exactly what I’ll be practicing next time I go to the range - great video
Appreciate it Luke!
Eric, just found your video and love the explanation and the process. Being short in stature, I struggle with early extension on my longer clubs, especially driver where I feel full extension at impact. Would this drill also be helpful for driver as attack angles differ compared to iron strikes? Would you change any of the drill specifically for a teed-up driver?
Hey Mathieu yes it would change for driver
1. The setup is the biggest change. Ball position more forward, upper body more tilted away from target
2. Head more back in downswing
EE with driver not as big of a deal bc ball on a tee (just have to make sure you rotate enough with it....so you extend at the TARGET not the ball
Driver vs iron specifics:
czcams.com/video/TJtx-qVSgVU/video.html
czcams.com/video/vj3py9jZ6q8/video.html
Excellent video. Also feels lije the handle of club moving upwards towards left shoulder for a shallow angle of attack? .
Thank you! 100%
More on that specifically here you may like: czcams.com/video/DE6a3IX1s9Y/video.html
Great video
Thanks Daniel!
Great lesson. I wish you got into covering the ball with a driver. Much more difficult and much more counterintuitive than doing it with an iron, as you're hitting up on the ball.
Thank you!
Check this one out! Hope it helps :)
czcams.com/video/qn1gjWRVBAs/video.html
Excellent drill! So helpful. Man, talk about a player who gets that right shoulder down, Lee Westwood. Good example.
:) Thanks!
So there are essentially 3 "feels" to achieve the same thing (EE here talking!). Getting that spine to bend towards the ball is the holy grail for early extenders and these three will do it: 1) push the left hip backwards away from the ball (Mike Malaska), 2) point the right shoulder towards the ball when coming into impact, and 3) keep the arms/hands close to the body as demonstrated so well in your video. The key question is: which of these 3 can be learnt the easiest and which one runs the machine to give this effect? Please address.
Hey Marlon!
1. Yes!
2. None are easiest. Need to have all.
@@CogornoGolf Would you say in #1 and #2, one of them is a more dominant driver rather than an effect of the other? Just trying to nail this since I want to eliminate thoughts.
Hey Marlon!
Nope.
you need to do them all
Absolute money Eric !
Thanks!!
watch the guy in the red shirt, brilliant!
good stuff
Thank you!
Eric - daily Math lesson for you. A 7 iron has length 37"s (let's pretend it is 36" or 3 feet). The Lie Angle of a 7 iron is 60-degrees. Thus, the club shaft with length 3-ft forms a perfect 30-60-90 Degree 'ancient' triangle with the tips of your toes, which are directly below your hands. Thus the simple math rule to remember is that your toes will be 1/2 the distance from the ball as the length of the club (so 18-inches or 1 1/2 feet) and the handle will be 85% the length of the shaft - approx 30-inches or 2 1/2 feet. PGA Pros have a 15-degree shaft lean at impact on a 7-iron - this shaft lean comes from the Right Wrist in Extention / Left Wrist in Flexion. That 15-degree effectively shortens the length of the club by 5-inches. You can demonstrate this to yourself by standing at address and then fully bending your wrists into this impact position - the club will come off the ground by 5 inches. Those critical 5-inches, to achieve PGA-Tour level impact, are roughly 1/2 covered by your right shoulder rotating lower with side bend (covering the ball) and half by the head dropping - PGA-Tour average is 2 to 4 inches of head lowering. Just having students see how critical those 5-inches are of club shortening (if you want that 15-degree shaft lean at impact) absolutely focuses the brain on 'covering' the ball. Putting numbers on it really drives home the facts.
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Hi Eric. Great video. Does this "cover the ball" apply to the driver as well?
Yes---but head a bit more back with driver!
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So Eric, does this work with stack and tilt With weight forward. Your the best my friend!
It does! My son and I are both S&T golfers. Works great for keeping those shoulders turning back and through to the right spots and keeping the chest covering the ball through contact.
yes
Love it
Appreciate it!
great swing, easy to understand instruction, however, there is 1 minor aspect I disagree with... at 10:28 you talk about forward shaft lean, turning a 7-iron into a 6-iron to gain more distance... I would say that forward shaft lean is much more about having the opportunity to make contact with the sweet spot of the club-face. Without forward shaft lean, one can not have sweet spot contact.
Hey! Thanks! For sure thats a huge part as well!
I really like the advice to intentionally start with the club a couple of inches above the ball in order to force you to make that squat move to get down to it. It gets you going down rather than coming up out of it.
Yes good one to exaggerate!
Eric, as always I benefit from your great videos. I can not find the one you did with a friend who placed two ball (one inside & one outside) lining up on the inside ball and hitting the outside one. Please send me the link for that video.
Hey James! Unfortunately I'm not sure which one that was either! Hope you find it!
Love this Eric!! I noticed in your downswing that you slide your right foot toward the target. Is that something that I should work on?
Hey Frank!
Nope.
@@CogornoGolf thank you brother
thank you for the amazing content
Tremendous!
Thanks Joe!
I hit good with split grip but regular grip I’m bashing the ground behind the ball
Would have to see your swing to say for sure----this may help: czcams.com/video/Lbluc0YCwlE/video.html
Eric, the guy behind you in the red polo shirt and plaid shorts need a lesson.....BTW your doing a fabulous job. Your lessons are clearly explained and helpful. If I could only rinse and repeat...
Thanks Robert!
Another great video, I just wish you would help the guys behind you. They need your help.
I just made the same comment...HA....
More bend forward to the ball at transition will be easier to feel.
Yes
Nice
Thanks Frank!
the guy in the back ground at 40seconds frustrated haha look at the early release chicken wing, i feel his pain.
I tried this drill and I’m hitting the ball more solid. The only problem is the club face is open at impact and I’m pushing the ball right of target. Any suggestions would be appreciated..
Yo! Of course I would need to see your swing on video to say for sure.
1 Make sure grip is strong enough
2. Make sure you have enough arm rotation in downswing
3. Lead wrist flat to bowed
thats my golf swing losing posture club open and steep in the downswing
Hope this helps!
To paraphrase Seinfeld: “Gold Eric! Gold!”
:) We try our best Jerry, the best!
What if you have longer clubs, Im 6'4... my clubs are 1" longer, would it be better to have standard length clubs to accomplish this??
ITs possible Craig....but I think doing the same drill here with the correct length clubs for you should work just fine
One strategy some coaches will use is a MUCH shorter club to force you to get down to the ball.....can work....not for all
Is it a similar feel as far as shoulders and oblique with a driver?
yes
Actually just posted this comment in another video of yours but probably more relevant here...
Assuming the player has a square/neutral clubface condition.. Would an excessively low trail shoulder lead to too much trail side bend and would a player who suffers from this want to feel the trail shoulder more out (toward target line) and forward (toward target) in transition?
Yes
But if you TURN enough....generally you are OK.
TOO much side bend is like TOO MUCH money....not many people have that problem and generally they are doing OK. Good problem
Would it make sense to hit with the split grip?
You can
Is it the same with driver
To varying degrees.....you don't need to cover as much with driver since ball is on tee and we want to hit more up.....so head more back and chest less down for most
Iron vs driver differences here:
czcams.com/video/TJtx-qVSgVU/video.html
Does this work with woods or driver?
Yes!
Does this work for the driver too?
To varying degrees.....you don't need to cover as much with driver since ball is on tee and we want to hit more up.....so head more back and chest less down for most
Iron vs driver differences here:
czcams.com/video/TJtx-qVSgVU/video.html
Thought that was John Daly in the back with the red polo 😆
Day 1 = ouch, Day 2 = progess, less fat shots, super compression, piercing ball flight, no early extension, little to no flipping, 7iron hip to hip is 150 yards plus, still can't full swing the club without flipping or early extension. But it felt way better than Day 1. Day 3 I'm hoping for continued success.
Glad to hear this one is helping your game! Keep up the good work!
Nice shirt! Oshkosh B'gosh?
Thanks!
@@CogornoGolf I heard someone mutter that to me while I was at the driving range a couple months ago. I've been wearing big boy shirts ever since.
Lol thanks Eddie!
John daly's swing in the background has got a bit of sync
Too funny.
Very Pete Cowen "pressure" the ball
Yep!
Early extension is my middle name
Check this one out, hope it helps!
czcams.com/video/1nXmUi0SH0U/video.html
That first shot at the beginning of the video sounded a little fat? Right?
Me....fat...c'mon lol
Just kidding of course I mis hit some...it could have been!
@@CogornoGolf you have a great attitude. I love watching your videos
You looked shirtless in the thumb nail😀
Trying to sell some premium memberships man :)
Looks like you need a new 7 iron haha
I need new everything!
I used to hit my 7 iron 150, a year with you on here, I hit it 176 now.
Awesome! Love to hear that Matt!
Does this work for all clubs?
yes