 Wel, welcome back to the Average Golfers Channel a another video of testing the tips where I as an average golfer just like you test out some of the very best tips drills out there from fellow golf YouTubers. This one is really interesting. This is three faults that can absolutely ruin your game and Danny Mord comes up with ways in which they can easily be fixed. Or at least he thinks so anyway. So we're probably eight or nine episodes in of testing the tips series and it's getting a bit repetitive that I say this same thing but I've got to do it and that is that this is my interpretation of in this case Danny Mord's video. So anything that you see that I relate please go and check out Danny's full video, subscribe to his channel if you don't already for a greater explanation, a more technical explanation from a PGA professional. But I'm going to give this one a go because like I said I've watched it I've seen these three faults that are very very common I've certainly seen them in my game and I reckon Danny's got three tips, drills, whatever you like to call them that can certainly help me and I'm hoping they can also help you. Right so this is the first part of the problem really and I think for me this really resonates and particularly early on in the game for me and that's getting a sort of I suppose a bit all in the arms in terms of the swing so a lack of power and that really comes from not turning that top half early on in the round particularly like I said when I'm loosened up a bit everything's starting to flow then yeah maybe that's not a thing but it can be early on you just looking to guide one down there perhaps is a common fault so again becomes all arms there's not much rotation in those hips nor the shoulders so the first thing Danny talks about is how we can make sure that we're starting to turn our shoulders and in turn our hips as well and the way he does that is quite simply you're going to take your head over your right shoulder as if someone's calling you from behind there and you're going to look up to the sky so your point of reference is just to look up to the sky sounds simple I know but just do it and write what you do so your address position, clubbing hand turn to look at the sky and all it does straight away you'll feel it yourself it turns your shoulder it also rotates the hips as well so straight away you get up into that great starting position now like I said it sounds really simple but for me how many times I realise I'm just swinging all arms like I said early on whereas this simple drill takes me up here I can feel a stretch right the way down there you can already see the hips start to turn because simply you cannot stop the hips from turning to get into that position so straight away it's just straight up to there and then through and then all you're doing is you take up to that position and then remove the kind of looking back bit and just try and feel that same swing but looking at the ball and all it does like I said straight away four or five practice swings with the head looking up bit of a warm up before I get to that T when I start the address position obviously the head stays still but I can feel that turn so I can remember that position that I was in when I was able to lift my head it gets me straight back in it and the shoulders and the hip are already starting to turn right from the off and not on the fourth and fifth T when I've warmed up right so what you're going to see now is me just attempting to hit a few shots with that simple drill so just the head going back like I said but we just looked down you'll see those shots are okay no great focus on any other part of the swing right now just purely getting that turn right making sure I'm using those shoulders and hips nice fluid swing through results okay so far Danny but the next bit is how we then get from these arms up top which is that position he's got us into with that kind of look into the sky and how we then start the downswing and he said you start the downswing with their hips the arms will follow the problem a lot of golfers will do is you get to this position and then we again become all arms and the exaggerated release is that we start the downswing with the hands not good lost all the power that we've been storing all the other problems that can come from that but just that mere fact that the power if you like that we've managed to store in that turn has then all gone because we don't release any of the hips nor that shoulder turn so how do we get from there into the ball effectively and what Danny again calls the sort of phase two is this idea of throwing a ball releasing a ball now it's a visual and again I keep saying in all these videos I've watched loads of these right now some of the things resonate some of those videos resonate with me others don't so try it and see what you think but you get to the top here and then what he's saying is you then need to release with the hips and he talks about an arc that sort of appears here when your hips start to move forward and that bottom arm comes through and that's where he's talking about this release of the hand that you're throwing something through throwing a ball underarm and then he gives a similar example of throwing a sort of frisbee with this forearm and that's that release so you get to the top and then we throw that ball through so it's up to the top like we were and then you're throwing that ball through that arc and you see those hips and again not sliding which our props just did then so it's up to here and then make sure you're turning through so that drill though worries or what you're trying to visualise experience like I said is perhaps not with the ball not with the club but when you get to the top of that backswing for me it helped me more so with that sort of frisbee motion so this forearm being the lead arm rather than the underarm the sort of throwing of the ball that idea releasing a sort of frisbee discus type of throw helped me so it's up to the top and then you're kind of releasing as I said this forearm with a throw underneath and then we're into that sort of final stage of how do you link all those things together and finally a golf ball right so I'm going to recap on that and this is as much as for my benefit as it is for yours because this is probably well for me anyway the most difficult one I've had to explain and the one I'm struggling with to relay so let's hope we get this bit right so the first bit like I said it was that keys are looking to the sky getting in that position up top we're then looking at the hips moving and starting this kind of downswing where we've got this kind of curve almost in the leg and spine area and then we start to release and it's that throw through and like I said whichever way you like to do that whether it's that feeling of release through that bottom hand or in my case like I said just be so then when we're doing the practice swing it was just very much of up to the top and then release that sort of swing throw the ball out and that's where your links are sort of three moves together Danny loves a little bit of a rhyme and I think one of my favourite videos that we've done so far was one two and pivot through which was very much about looking at strike of your irons and in this one he goes one two and throw it through which is well it works for me so that one two and then it's that throw it through and if you can get that kind of one two and then throw it through and it's the same in principle kind of idea but again whichever video suits you in terms of your brain whichever works so you see me in a couple of shots here now that's being overlaid and again very very quickly I got some great ball striking really did work well but still the odd one that leaked and I think for me the one thing that I struggled with in terms of over complicating things for me was when I was bringing the sort of hips in and this idea of starting the downswing with your hips as opposed to your arms now I don't know whether I do that or I don't but all I'm aware of is that when I was concentrating on moving the hips first and then the arms second I lost kind of my coordination if you like and that sequence all went a bit to cock and you'll see a couple of balls leaked out right so I did something that we've not done before which was we incorporated last week's video into this and we use this kind of this mat or this ball collector that you see at driving range and we talked about don't forget if you've not seen that video there's a link up above for you but basically created an arc shape and for me this the combination of the two then really sort of helped me out so what I did was don't forget this is all about following this this sort of route, this arc and it made a big difference to me so up high then in case of then throwing that fridge be through and coming down below so let me give that a go hopefully what you heard was a real good crisp strike we've got a ball with a little bit of right to left on it not a great deal of it and again what I don't want to start doing many of these drills in my own game have years ago suffered with a bit of a hook I like to call it a draw but in reality can be a hook at times so I don't want to over do that but what I really like with this sort of combination of the two drills was I loved that kind of that looking back was a great way to get my body turning loved that, I loved the throwing the release with that fridge be or the underarm throw with the ball like I said hips bit just got me so I'll put them together I'll look up that's a real decent ball again and the strike I think that's got to be I'll glance over to the screen that's making its way to the middle of the green again so the thing for me with all these videos and perhaps this one highlighted it more than ever was that you take elements from the tips that work for you and in this case to be able to combine two of those tips and put them together really really helped me and I've got to say that over the weeks that we've been doing this it's helped my own game that I've been asked this question in the comments it's helped my game no end the strike has been so much better in terms of my iron play it's been a lot, lot straighter it's been a lot more consistent in terms of the strike but as I would say don't over complicate matters don't get drawn into things that perhaps can send you in the wrong direction if it ain't broke don't fix it I think is the saying and that certainly for me was hitting a ball really well bringing these sort of things in particularly me for the turn was a major, major key thing for me to remember early on in a round but again great video, great tip from Danny Mord as I've said if I've not explained it properly go back and watch his video and see how he explains it and maybe you'll interpret it just a little bit different but as ever thank you for watching I really do appreciate the support in this series there's been a load of comments which I love, there's been a load of encouragement to keep these going so hopefully we'll see you next week it seems to be that on a Thursday night it'll be another test in the tips video every week so hopefully I'll see you all next Thursday