 Now before we start today's video I've got one quick question and that is quite simply do you pull the ball left or do you in fact slice that ball off to the right? Either way what we're going to look at today is a potential issue that is causing both of those problems and I'm hoping that we've got a little bit of a drill that can help eradicate both of those problems. So today's test and the tips video comes from Kered Great Golf. Now that's a new one to me and someone that's obviously the link will be in the description below of Kered's full explanation and maybe a more detailed explanation than the one I'm going to give you today. This is of course my interpretation of Kered Great's instruction but what he's basically saying is there's two things that can call one thing at a time that can cause both of the problems. He concentrates on the fact that it could cause you to pull the ball left but he also touches on the fact that you could in fact also cause you to slice the ball to the right and for me on a personal level the latter is something that I do and it all comes from the movements I make from the top of my backswing that first movement and my first movement tends to be out rather than down and that can be the cause of both of these issues we're going to look at in today's video. Right now let's hope we can get this one in between the showers here at Betty Kered Golf Club which is just an idyllic backdrop I really love it down here but we've got a little bit of rain that is hovering so I'll make this one short and sweet. I've got the camera placed sort of down the line it's really interesting because most of what you're going to see is the movement that takes place like I said from the top of the swing. What Kered explains as being a major issue for a lot of golfers is the fact that when we get to the top of our backswing we make a movement and that movement can often be out and that is something that I do I've got a real issue with it anybody who's watched the main channel for a number of years will see that something and it's commonly known as sort of casting so you get to the top of the swing and the movement starts to come over and then what that does is start to deliver the club head sort of across the ball now that cross the ball with a closed face or what that can mean is that we sort of pull the ball off to the left and that's what Kered sees as the main issue I on the other hand I've got a tendency of getting to the top of that swing moving out and then when I come down I've got a slightly open club face to that path which is mean I hit the fade and that's where I said for me it's a dual problem that this potentially causes and to be honest with you over the years if you said to me if I went for a lesson and people asked me well which is my miss well my miss is often both I've got a left in me and I've got that fade and that's all down to whether or not I've got that club faced closed or open through the impact position but the one thing remains constant is it all stems from that movement at the top so the question is and Kered goes into a lot of description as to what all the issues are I'm going to skip all that bit because I know what they are I think you know what they are and quite simply if you do either of those two things then what you want to know is what is the solution well the solution is when we get to the top of this swing we've got to find a different movement to stop us from casting out the movement should be when we get to the top we should start to drop down a little bit so our immediate movement rather than out should be down and start to see the hands and the club shallowing out as we start to make our move forward and then it's that rotation to release the club head forward so to the top instead of coming out we start to come down drop our hands down and then start to rotate now all we need to do is just look at a couple of shots I played earlier on this morning just testing this out it's a hybrid first shot this morning and I can't believe first of all I'd say how straight it was but it was also had a slight curvature and that curvature being a bit of a draw shape which was really nice to see we then stepped on and I played a mini driver off the tee and exactly the same really solid and if we slow the whole thing down and that movement that I've just made you'll see that the big difference is like I said that move and you can see I start to drop down so as the rain now starts to come down I'll get straight to the point and what is it we need to start doing the drill that we're looking to take away from this and what Kerrard explains is what you need to take to the course or the practice area sorry get to the top of that swing and make that movement down in almost a slow motion and then look to release the club head so we're going to swing to the top we're then going to feel ourselves down then we're going to release the club head so it's almost I find this bit almost more difficult to do but I understand that you've got to get those feels and that's something to talk about in a lot of videos it's very difficult to translate sort of a movement in full speed because first of all doing it in or breaking it down and getting those sort of feels that's a very different feel for me that I would not really be used to like I said the movement is very different and then as you get to that you can then start to obviously build that up into a full swing but what I'm going to do first of all is just try and hit a ball down with what would be you know whether that's a half swing whatever you want to call it but just get to that sort of that location and then see if we can sort of rotate and turn through the shot so we're going to get to the top we're going to come down and then we're going to hit through and like I said let's see if I can do that in a slower motion if you like so out down I actually found that I caught that ball just perhaps a tad heavy but it still worked in the sense that it was a neutral ball flight and hopefully we got into that position but I've got to say whilst I like sort of practicing the drill swinging to the sort of half position and then trying to generate some power I almost felt it kind of it stopped me from getting any sort of fluid motion within my swing so for me again personally the whole idea of testing the tips is me to give my feedback on what I thought from carriage instruction first of all I think it's a real big problem and I think he's right to highlight it but for me like I said I would do practice swings where I'm feeling where I'm at dropping down and turning and rotating love all that but for me I'm going to hit a ball from this position as well the two shots you see me hit earlier was just being full swing but concentrating with one thing in mind and that's when I got to the top of the swing having a conscious mind that what I was trying to do was drop down and drill through the ball and not make that movement out and that made the significant difference so we're going to try one more ball down see if we can hit a full shot while this rain is really now starting to come down with a sort of full swing and see if we can gather a little bit of momentum and pace and it's a real good ball to finish this video well first of all what a real good clip that is I'm not sure if you are you don't know far we are away but that is exactly where I'd want it to be in terms of the line neutral in terms of its ball fight which is really key but also a really good clip I'm working on another video or another tip that we took from Alex Elliott video in terms of the takeaway which is working really well right now as well as you can see that rain is coming down I'm more than happy with the shots that I've hit and it's only been a few but the results have been so so good I love every bit of these tips I genuinely feel like it is helping my game so if you've got that cast motion just checking your swing right now when you next go the driving range or on the course just have a little think do you move out a little bit maybe record yourself would be my tip as well because it's not something I quite realised I did until I watched it back on camera and then you think Jesus yeah that is something that's a movement I make so if you've got a mate that can just switch the phone on just get a little bit of a look at your back swing film it from behind see if you make that cast in motion it's really dangerous like I said it can have a negative impact both left and right and that is the drill from Kenneth Gray to hopefully straighten things out a little right I'm going to get soaking wet we're going to call it a day thank you for 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