Right Foot Back Drill To Cure Your Game // Malaska Golf
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2022
- The Right Foot Back Drill works so well because you can get your hips out of the way, and it gives you the space for your arms to swing down into the ball.
When you drop your right foot back, it makes it easier to time the outside circle of the clubhead with the circle of your center as you go into the ball.
Many Tour Players will drop their right foot back to hit the ball harder. Doing this gets their hips out of the way, gives them more time to hit the ball, and gives them a more significant turn.
Hitting the ball with your right foot back allows you to hit the ball farther and be more consistent. The only downside is that your swing path might might follow your foot line. Whether your feet are open, square, or closed, your shoulders and eye line stay the same.
Moving your feet allows your lower body to do different things, and that’s why players adjust their feet. This lets you do other things with your arms.
The Right Foot Back Drill is excellent; everyone should learn to do it.
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I think golfers of all levels would be well served listening to Mr. Malaska. He knows his stuff. He is not a social media invention. This man has been doing it for a heck of a long time and is good at his job.
Right foot back helped me a bunch, saved my game made it enjoyable again at 62 yrs old
So other than bigger turn, hits it farther and more consistent there's no reason to really do it.. Brilliant!
The closed stance at address (especially hips and shouders) does work, and it definitely promotes an in to out swing path and STOPS over the top. Combine this with your weight pivoted onto the front foot (see Jim Venetos [not stack & tilt] and Tom Saguto) and you have the easiest swing method i've encountered in my 50+ years of struggling with this game. Since ensuring that I keep my weight on my front foot (70%) throughout the entire swing and closing my stance my ball striking has improved, I've gained extra distance AND I've never been as accurate with my shots.
I’ve used this drill in the past and it taught me to hit from the inside.. this drill really does work, thanks Mike.
No joke. Some random dude was like just take a small step back with right foot. So when playing for money I just do this and I’m hitting every fairway (yes I’m sandbagging a little) I never understood why this worked! This video explains it!!!! Thank you!!!!
Hey Mike, you directly improved my game with the tip of redirecting the momentum of the club, and I wanted to say thanks with a little financial support. The information you put out on UA-cam is incredibly valuable.
Thank You! Happy to hear you enjoy the content and find it helpful. I appreciate the Super Thanks!
Slicer here! Took my kid to the driving range today and was explaining to her what she needs to do to make contact.. had my own epiphany studying what I was trying to get her to accomplish. I dropped my right foot just a few inches back and poked about 15 drives like this. 3 or 4 still went right a bit further than I hoped but was surprised.
So glad to find this video so I can continue practicing this and share with my buddies who struggle with the slice as well.
Your teachings and drills uncomplicate the game. Great job!
Thanks Mike. I greatly enjoy your videos.
Hi Mike have just recently discovered and subscribed to your golf chanel. Just wanted to say, there are very few golf instructors on utube l listen to continuously. You are one of the very few that I do.
Great explanation of why to use this drill. Should help my swing too.
Great idea!! Will try it!! Thx!!
LOVE your channel. I am 6'3" and have struggled for YEARS to drop my irons into the slot. I did this drill and immediately started hammering my irons. Before this, I would hit an 8-iron maybe 150. Now, with the right foot back, I'm easily at 165 with compressed contact. My other problem was VERY inconsistent because I would miss the slot so many times. Btw... I've played golf for about 30+ years.
Good to hear, I’m 6’5, u ever have trouble with getting to handsy with the wrist at impact?
One of the finest instruction videos I've ever seen. If true genius is simplicity, this is on the order of Einstein, or Michelangelo! Drawing the foot back gives better rotation, turn and release. In the classic refrain, "Is there a downside to this?" Only if it is way overdone. Playing this way is the best way of ensuring that the swing is as full as possible. Especially under pressure. I'm playing with this tomorrow. After I lop of at least five shots, I'll comment again later. GREAT STUFF!
So hows it goin?
Ive been doing this exact thing for quite a while now. As I've gotten older it helps me rotate and set up for a nice draw. You have to be careful and really pick a target and set up your stance or you can end up missing everything far right if you don't get the desired draw.
Mike, I've enjoyed this drill and have used in my game recently as you previously counseled, but this vid gives me the confidence to integrate the technique more particularly on long irons & woods.
Nick Price would play entire practice rounds using this drill.... he was pretty good.
As a terrible slicer, I experimented at the range with dropping my right foot way back and closing the face of the club a bit. I was hitting draws for the first time, along with the odd snap hook. All in all it was a big improvement. Just need to be brave enough to try it on the first tee!
You could try weakening your grip a bit and or movebthe ball a bit forward in stance...to tone down the hook..worked for me
Mike. I thought this setup was my own until this video. What it does for me, especially with driver, is keep me from coming over the top. Forces me to stay behind the ball and allow perfect release.
Ben Hogan said and published long time ago this foot’ position. Go and read his book about the five positions from driver to shorts wedges. It’s even on UA-cam…
Great simple concept that definitely helped my ball striking. Thank you!
I've done this myself, trying to fix a pull to the left, missing my target by 10 degrees. It works, and it delivers better power without getting all crossed-up during the swing.
This drill is IT for me, and the only time it doesn’t work and I start hooking it is when my hands are way too active. Truly appreciate your videos, Mike!
Try weakening ur grip
I play like this all the time, not just a drill for me. My ball striking has never been better!
Spot on! 👍
It works
Brillant
In response to Life Saver, it's going great. I just need to be conscious of it until it becomes even better ingrained. By that I mean using it every single time. For another great tip, look at Tammie Gibsons Yoga stretch for golfers over fifty. This drill applies to golfers of every age. She and her husband Barry have a wonderful array of simple tips. Thanks, Life Saver. As the handicap keeps dropping, Ill keep chiming in.
I was struggling at the driving range and my shots were going in all directions. In frustration i started trying different stances. When i tried this type of stance i started flushing it further and straighter. It worked on all club's too, from driver to LW. I went on the top tracer 30 game at the range, and i usually struggle to shot my HC. Not this time! I shot 10 HC better! I was blown away, and so was my pro buddy. So then i played Gleneagles on the sim, shot an 82 and im on a 20 HC at present. Now this of course doesnt mean it will work on the course, but i sure am going to give it a go next time out thats for sure!
this fixed my swing! but now do i have to keep swinging with right foot back or is there a way to transition back to square feet position without losing the smooth swing?
Great video Mike! I was wondering if you have seen or tried a training aid from GEM Golf? It is a weight on the end of a rod about 8” long that attaches with a clamping mechanism to the lower end of the grip and is positioned perpendicular to the shaft 180* from the club head. I have seen it demoed on several UA-cam channels including “Be Better Golf”. The feeling that is described when you swing a club with this training aid attached sounds exactly like the “Malaska Move”. It would be great if you could get hold of one and see if, in your opinion, it produces the feel of the move that you recommend. If it does I think that it would be a worthwhile investment. Thanks!
Johnny Revolta taught me to play like that.
(Suzie) I've been doing this for a long time, but didn't really understand why, I just know my coach told me to do it!! lol
This may be a silly question, but can you hit a cut doing this drill? Turning the ball over scares me which feels like what this does but it feels like a great concept to try
I get jammed up at impact. I need to work on this.
This drill will help, if your slicing the ball
Assuming you keep that upper body the same, by stepping back with the right foot as the last step, will this lead to a square clubface or soft draws?
Ben Hogan did that for years.
Only with certain clubs
What about with driver? Or just iron shots ?
I’m a right handed golfer who has difficulty getting the left side turned back completely. Would dropping the right foot back help me make a better backswing turn? Thanks
I had great contact but this created a power fade. How to I prevent that?
Would this be a good way for me to play? I have a big stomach and I often feel like it blocks my arms from a good inside path. Or sometimes my elbow hits the side of my stomach and the clubface rockets into a closed position - pull hook.
Do you also flair your left foot?
I'll try this...too bad its the start of winter and I can't play for another three months or so 😄
Some other instructors say you should open and drop back your left foot. I’m confused
That then creates an open stance ... check out Steve Johnson's Eureka golf swing ....
Tried it out on the range, ball speed with driver up on average 7mph.
Biggest problem for me is the follow through. Closed stance makes it hard to turn after hitting the ball even when I flare my left foot out
It can also be because people may have poelvic obliquities and/or leg length discrepancies.
Isn't this also what they call the Hogan Angle?
My 2 cents: It’s simply natural to pull the golf ball. Closing the stance a bit allows for that.
I don't use this drill because i worry i might lose my compression which has changed my game for the better, any thoughts on that?.
I'm tall. 6'3". So, for me, I had the opposite problem. I'd have one shot with great compression and the next would be thin and the next fat. This drill has allowed me to consistently keep the club in the slot and be far more consistent. With my height, I had a tendency to be entirely too steep on my downswing. But if you're already crushing it, I would stay with what you've got.
A la Rocco Mediate
why cant your club follow your foot line? doing this creats an in to out swing does it not?
this isnt even a drill for me anymore.. This is what my normal set up looks like.
This FireRock?
Hogan's feet were closed
Why is it a drill. Why not just play like that.
So...aim right? Lol
This is an exact opposite on what to do. ROTATION THROUGH THE BALL is the single largest problem most golfers have, which this stifles. THE BEST SWING THOUGHT IS TO TAKE THE CLUB OUTSIDE to clear your body and then your hips can rotate, BAD ADVICE folks, thumbs DOWN
Thanks troll.. now go away! 🙄
It works, simple as!
Raymond Floyd played with a closed stance for years and I'm going to guess he's won a hell of a lot more tournaments than you.
@@knightwriter2989 yea, and tell me who plays that way now, there were TONS of feel players way back when,, weren't there?
@@knightwriter2989 and by the way, this "someone can beat someone argument is the DUMBEST freakin thing on earth dude, MAN UP and come play me,, betcha can't hang.
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Will you hit a draw?