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Welcome to the hank Any Podcast, brought to you by Hamiuniversity dot com. That's my website. That's where you go to find out information about golf lessons, about online golf lessons and how to get better golf, which is what everybody wants to do that listens to my podcast. I am assuming so today what I'm going to talk about is a topic that I kind of came up with when I was listening to the radio and I was listening to the Golf Channel I'm serious, and they were talking about aiming the putter, and it got me thinking about aim because because they were going on and on and on about you know, how you got to aim the putter straight and how important it is. And I thought to myself, you know what, that would be a great topic because a lot of people think that is such it's an important part of not just putting, but the game of golf. You know, aim, I mean everybody since you got you know, the whole line they uses you can't hit straight if you don't aim straight. And my counter to that would be, if you can't hit straight, you wouldn't want to aim straight. So here's some thoughts on aiming. First off, aiming is the most important thing.

Welcome to the hank Any Podcast, brought to you by Hamiuniversity dot com. That's my website. That's where you go to find out information about golf lessons, about online golf lessons and how to get better golf, which is what everybody wants to do that listens to my podcast. I am assuming so today what I'm going to talk about is a topic that I kind of came up with when I was listening to the radio and I was listening to the Golf Channel I'm serious, and they were talking about aiming the putter, and it got me thinking about aim because because they were going on and on and on about you know, how you got to aim the putter straight and how important it is. And I thought to myself, you know what, that would be a great topic because a lot of people think that is such it's an important part of not just putting, but the game of golf. You know, aim, I mean everybody since you got you know, the whole line they uses you can't hit straight if you don't aim straight. And my counter to that would be, if you can't hit straight, you wouldn't want to aim straight. So here's some thoughts on aiming. First off, aiming is the most important thing.

When you are.

When you are.

Doing something like shooting a gun or shooting a bow and arrow, you have to be able to aim straight. You have to aim where you're trying to hit. But you have a given. Like when you're shooting a gun, the given is is that.

Doing something like shooting a gun or shooting a bow and arrow, you have to be able to aim straight. You have to aim where you're trying to hit. But you have a given. Like when you're shooting a gun, the given is is that.

The gun will shoot straight.

The gun will shoot straight.

So wherever you aim, that's where that bullet's going to go. Golf Balls do not go straight off of golf clubs unless you hit the ball in the center to face and you are swinging straight through to the target at the moment of impact and the club face is dead square to the target at the moment of impact, and that happens very very rarely. In fact, people say the hardest shot to hit in the game of golf is a straight shot. And why is That's because you have to basically zero out your impact, Meaning if you're hitting on a launch monitor that measures the path of your swing, to hit a straight shot, that path needs to be zero point zero. You swung dead straight at the moment of impact to the target, and the club face needs to be zero point zero so there can be no variation. And if you can do those two things and you're aiming dead square straight, then you're gonna hit a straight shot. It's much easier to try and curve the ball. And the reason why people say it's easier to curve the ball, and it is true, is because if I want to curve a ball, I'd say I want to curve a ball left to right.

So wherever you aim, that's where that bullet's going to go. Golf Balls do not go straight off of golf clubs unless you hit the ball in the center to face and you are swinging straight through to the target at the moment of impact and the club face is dead square to the target at the moment of impact, and that happens very very rarely. In fact, people say the hardest shot to hit in the game of golf is a straight shot. And why is That's because you have to basically zero out your impact, Meaning if you're hitting on a launch monitor that measures the path of your swing, to hit a straight shot, that path needs to be zero point zero. You swung dead straight at the moment of impact to the target, and the club face needs to be zero point zero so there can be no variation. And if you can do those two things and you're aiming dead square straight, then you're gonna hit a straight shot. It's much easier to try and curve the ball. And the reason why people say it's easier to curve the ball, and it is true, is because if I want to curve a ball, I'd say I want to curve a ball left to right.

I'm a right handed player.

I'm a right handed player.

I can swing a couple degrees to the left. Let's say I swing three degrees to the left and my club face is one and a half degrees to the left. So my club face is now one and a half degrees open relative to the path, and I swing because my club face is not as far left as the path. My ball's gonna start off to the left and it's gonna curve back somewhere to the target line. And don't have to be exact lee on the target line to be a very very good shot, you know. I mean, certainly anybody would take a shot within ten or fifteen feet and this opposite would be true. If you want to hit a hook, you just hit the path needs to be to the right, the club face a little less to the right than the path, meaning the club faces closed relative to the path of the swing. Ball is going to come drawn back to the target. You could be two degrees to the right, three degrees right, four degrees. You don't have to be You don't have to be absolutely precise to draw a ball or fade a ball somewhere to the target. So aiming straight is only really something you want to do if you can hit straight. That's my counter for when people say you can't hit straight, if you don't want to aim straight, I'm like, why would you want to aim straight if.

I can swing a couple degrees to the left. Let's say I swing three degrees to the left and my club face is one and a half degrees to the left. So my club face is now one and a half degrees open relative to the path, and I swing because my club face is not as far left as the path. My ball's gonna start off to the left and it's gonna curve back somewhere to the target line. And don't have to be exact lee on the target line to be a very very good shot, you know. I mean, certainly anybody would take a shot within ten or fifteen feet and this opposite would be true. If you want to hit a hook, you just hit the path needs to be to the right, the club face a little less to the right than the path, meaning the club faces closed relative to the path of the swing. Ball is going to come drawn back to the target. You could be two degrees to the right, three degrees right, four degrees. You don't have to be You don't have to be absolutely precise to draw a ball or fade a ball somewhere to the target. So aiming straight is only really something you want to do if you can hit straight. That's my counter for when people say you can't hit straight, if you don't want to aim straight, I'm like, why would you want to aim straight if.

You can't hit straight? Makes sense.

You can't hit straight? Makes sense.

The problem is is that all your clubs curve a different amount. So drivers are the straightest face club in the bag. You're going to get the most amount of curve with a driver because you're contacting more towards the equator of the golf ball. If the club face is open or close relative to the path the swing, you're going to get the ball to curve. Wedges hit more underneath the ball. SAM wedge, your sixty degree wedge, most lofty club in your bag, it's the most underneath the ball. If the clubface is open or closed, it's not going to give you as much of a curve obviously as you would with the driver. But if you're going to hit straight and that's your goal, then you got to aim straight. The problem is most people can't do that. So when you're thinking about aim, I think about it this way. I remember back in the day when and then this is where I got to thinking about this putting conversation.

The problem is is that all your clubs curve a different amount. So drivers are the straightest face club in the bag. You're going to get the most amount of curve with a driver because you're contacting more towards the equator of the golf ball. If the club face is open or close relative to the path the swing, you're going to get the ball to curve. Wedges hit more underneath the ball. SAM wedge, your sixty degree wedge, most lofty club in your bag, it's the most underneath the ball. If the clubface is open or closed, it's not going to give you as much of a curve obviously as you would with the driver. But if you're going to hit straight and that's your goal, then you got to aim straight. The problem is most people can't do that. So when you're thinking about aim, I think about it this way. I remember back in the day when and then this is where I got to thinking about this putting conversation.

This morning that I was listening to.

This morning that I was listening to.

I remember back in the day they had this putter called the Seymour putter, and they still sell them. I think it's Seymour putter s E E. M O RA Seymour and it was supposedly great at getting you to line up. Payne Stewart used to use Seymour putters of course, great champion pain Stuart and I remember I was at the Byron Nelson Classic years and years and years ago when they first came out with this putter. I mean, I've been coaching for a long time. They first came out with this putter, and there was they had a tour rep at the Byron Nelson Classic, and the spiel was he said, this putter helps you line up straight, and then he went on to say that all their testing shows that like ninety five percent of all touring pros.

I remember back in the day they had this putter called the Seymour putter, and they still sell them. I think it's Seymour putter s E E. M O RA Seymour and it was supposedly great at getting you to line up. Payne Stewart used to use Seymour putters of course, great champion pain Stuart and I remember I was at the Byron Nelson Classic years and years and years ago when they first came out with this putter. I mean, I've been coaching for a long time. They first came out with this putter, and there was they had a tour rep at the Byron Nelson Classic, and the spiel was he said, this putter helps you line up straight, and then he went on to say that all their testing shows that like ninety five percent of all touring pros.

It was some really high number. I don't remember the exact number.

It was some really high number. I don't remember the exact number.

It was over ninety percent of touring pros don't even line up exactly at the target. And I thought to myself, Okay, this is your whole premise, is that you have to aim straight, but yet the best players in the world don't even do it according to all your testing. And what that told me is that if the best players in the world don't aim straight, then that must not be that important. Now you could say, well, the poorer the player, the more you miss aim. And to a certain extent, that is true. But people miss aim because they mishit. If you hit the ball to the right. I don't care if it's a driver, if it's a seven or and if it's a pot. If you tend to miss to the right, you are going to tend to aim to the left. When you're hitting a full shot, you only have two options. Even when you're hitting a pot, you only have two options. If you keep missing to the right, your two options are you either aim or swing more to the left. If you're missing to the right, if you keep missing to the right, your option is to aim or swing more in the opposite direction.

It was over ninety percent of touring pros don't even line up exactly at the target. And I thought to myself, Okay, this is your whole premise, is that you have to aim straight, but yet the best players in the world don't even do it according to all your testing. And what that told me is that if the best players in the world don't aim straight, then that must not be that important. Now you could say, well, the poorer the player, the more you miss aim. And to a certain extent, that is true. But people miss aim because they mishit. If you hit the ball to the right. I don't care if it's a driver, if it's a seven or and if it's a pot. If you tend to miss to the right, you are going to tend to aim to the left. When you're hitting a full shot, you only have two options. Even when you're hitting a pot, you only have two options. If you keep missing to the right, your two options are you either aim or swing more to the left. If you're missing to the right, if you keep missing to the right, your option is to aim or swing more in the opposite direction.

That's what you do.

That's what you do.

So if I keep missing to the left, I'm gonna aim more right. If I keep missing the right, I'm gonna aim more left. Simple, that's how you make the ball go straight. So this whole spiel this guy was given was all based on the fact that our putter helps you line up better, and even the touring pros have trouble lining up. But the thing that touring pros do better than anybody is they do the same thing every single time. The best putters don't necessarily always aim perfect at the target, but I'll tell you what they do. They aim the same way every time, or very very close to it. They may be a little right, they may be a little left, but they're the same. And when you line up up the same every time and you have a repeatable motion, you're going to hit consistent shots and you're going to be a better golfer. Here's another example. When I first started coaching, I always thought the best three ball strikers in the in the history of the game at the time were in my mind, they were Ben Hogan, Lee Trevino, and Mo Norma. Now my list would be much different now, I mean would put I would put Tiger in that list. I might put others in that list because they frankly, the game has changed so much. I mean, you can't. You can't ignore the power aspect of the game of golf. And I can't ignore the power aspect of the game of golf when I'm listing the best ball strikers of all time, because you have to be able to to be considered a great great or one of the greatest ball strikers of all time. Now, well, you have to be able to send it. You have to be you have to be somebody that hits it like over three hundred yards easily, and you have to be somebody that can get the ball up in the air. The greens are so fast, the greens are so firm. You have to be able to hit it long. You have to be able to hit it high. Got to be able to do those two things. So Lee Treino did not hit it high, and which is which is one of the reasons why he always struggled playing at Augusty.

So if I keep missing to the left, I'm gonna aim more right. If I keep missing the right, I'm gonna aim more left. Simple, that's how you make the ball go straight. So this whole spiel this guy was given was all based on the fact that our putter helps you line up better, and even the touring pros have trouble lining up. But the thing that touring pros do better than anybody is they do the same thing every single time. The best putters don't necessarily always aim perfect at the target, but I'll tell you what they do. They aim the same way every time, or very very close to it. They may be a little right, they may be a little left, but they're the same. And when you line up up the same every time and you have a repeatable motion, you're going to hit consistent shots and you're going to be a better golfer. Here's another example. When I first started coaching, I always thought the best three ball strikers in the in the history of the game at the time were in my mind, they were Ben Hogan, Lee Trevino, and Mo Norma. Now my list would be much different now, I mean would put I would put Tiger in that list. I might put others in that list because they frankly, the game has changed so much. I mean, you can't. You can't ignore the power aspect of the game of golf. And I can't ignore the power aspect of the game of golf when I'm listing the best ball strikers of all time, because you have to be able to to be considered a great great or one of the greatest ball strikers of all time. Now, well, you have to be able to send it. You have to be you have to be somebody that hits it like over three hundred yards easily, and you have to be somebody that can get the ball up in the air. The greens are so fast, the greens are so firm. You have to be able to hit it long. You have to be able to hit it high. Got to be able to do those two things. So Lee Treino did not hit it high, and which is which is one of the reasons why he always struggled playing at Augusty.

He couldn't. It was not a course for him.

He couldn't. It was not a course for him.

Too many downhill lies, too many elevated greens, small areas to land the ball in low ballflight wasn't going to work. He was not a long hitter either, not certainly, not by today's standards, not even close. Mo Norman was not a long hitter. Incredibly consistent hitter and an amazing player to watch. Both of those two players to Reno and Norman, but neither of them were long hitters, and neither of them were high ball hitters, not anywhere close to today's standards for that. Now, Ben Hogan had more power, had more variety to his shots. True to Reno, primarily played a fade later in his career. As he continued on the Champions Toury started working the ball right to left, hit more shots to get more distance, but he primarily played a fade didn't really play the nine shots. Didn't have the nine shots because he didn't have the high ball, not like a Roy McRoy, Jack Nicholas Tiger Woods, not like those guys. So he didn't didn't have that shot. But he pretty much just played the low trajectory fade. To Reno always aimed his body to the left. This is where I got to thinking about the aim also, like aiming is so important in people's minds, but yet Lee to Reno didn't name straight, one of the greatest players in the history of the game, didn't even come close team and straight. As a matter of fact, his feet were moving up until the moment he took the club back. They were moving left and more left, and more left, and then he finally took the club back. More Norman. I watched more Norman hit balls on quite a few occasions. He was an absolutely incredible ball striker, the most consistent ball striker I've ever seen, and he always hit the same shot. He always hit a little tiny pull. He'd aim to the right, a little bit to the right, and he'd pull it to his target very slight. So he didn't name straight either. Now Hogan did. But Hogan would hit shots he would hit right to left, left to right, So when he's hitting those shots, he's not aiming exactly at the target. When you're playing nine shots, the nine shots straight ball, low, medium and high, right to left shot ball starting right of the target, curving back to the target, buttons past the target low, medium, and high. When you're hitting a shot that starts left and fades back to the target. Three shots low, medium, and high. So you're only aiming straight when you hit three of the nine shots. The other six of the nine shots that really make you a great ball striker, six of those shots you're not aiming straight. So to me, there's example after example of why aiming isn't as important as people make it out to be. Like I said earlier, people who slice to the right have two options. Either they aim to the left, or they swing to the left, or both, and that's how they compensate, and their banana ball ends up back in the middle of the fairway. They call that their straight ball, But it started way left, curve back to the right. They aimed and or swung to the left. People who hook the ball aim or swing to the right. Why does their path get so far in doubt, because their ball keeps curving too much to the to the left. Why do they tend to aim to the right. Why they tend to put the ball back in their stands too far? Why because they curve the ball too much to the left, So they compensate by putting the ball back in the stands aiming more to the right, swinging more to the right to compensate for that. People who slice put the ball too far forward in their stance. They aim to the left. They swing to the left to compensate for the ball going to the right. It's not because they can't they can't visualize what it's like to aim straight. It's not because they don't have a concept of what it means to aim straight. It's because they have a history of their ball going in a different direction. When you see somebody who aims as putter too much to the right, then you're going to see somebody who either has the club face closed at impact or the path of the swing is going too much to the left and they're aiming right to compensate for it. When you see somebody who is doing the opposite, the ball is going to the in the opposite direction. You see somebody that's aiming to the left, their club face is open at impact, which is deflecting the ball to the right, or they're tending to swing and doubt it's those are the option. There's a reason why they're aiming less than straight, because that's how they're making the ball go at the hole. And as long as you do the same thing over and over and over again, Nie Trevino did the same thing over and over and over again. Mo Norman did the same thing over and over and over again. All those touring pros that the Seymour putter rep way back when told me weren't aiming straight. This guy doesn't aim straight. This guy doesn't name straight. That guy doesn't name straight. I'm like, those guys put better than like anybody in the world. Yeah, they don't aim straight. And I'm like, and his theory is, we'll just think if they aim straight, they'd put even better. No, no, not necessarily, because if you pull the ball just a tiny bit to the left, but you do it every single time, then you're gonna be great. If you aim just a tiny bit to the right, and if you push it to the right, you're gonna be really good if you aim just a tiny bit to the left, as long as you do the same thing over and over again. So when you are hitting. And I do a lot of teaching now, I mean all my teaching is indoors now, and it's amazing how straight people aim. I mean, there's nobody that aims way offline like they do outside. They're just hitting into a screen, they're on a mat. The mad is said straight. There's an aim point that they aim at in front of them, and rarely is anybody ever off by much at all. They always aim straight. Another example, I've taught hundreds of hundreds and hundreds thousands a beginning golfers, and I have never, not one time, have I ever seen a beginning golfer somebody with no history in the game that didn't aim straight or relatively straight, very very very close, never off by much. They all aimed straight until they hit their first shots. And as soon as they hit their first shots, chances are the ball is not going to go straight. And when it doesn't go straight, what happens to their aim? Their aim gets off, ball's going right, they start aiming or swinging to the left. Balls going to the left, they start aiming or swinging to the right. It happens fast. But what came first the chicken or the egg, And what came first was they had a good aim, but it got ruined when they couldn't hit straight. So the first thing that I always try to do is I try to get students.

Too many downhill lies, too many elevated greens, small areas to land the ball in low ballflight wasn't going to work. He was not a long hitter either, not certainly, not by today's standards, not even close. Mo Norman was not a long hitter. Incredibly consistent hitter and an amazing player to watch. Both of those two players to Reno and Norman, but neither of them were long hitters, and neither of them were high ball hitters, not anywhere close to today's standards for that. Now, Ben Hogan had more power, had more variety to his shots. True to Reno, primarily played a fade later in his career. As he continued on the Champions Toury started working the ball right to left, hit more shots to get more distance, but he primarily played a fade didn't really play the nine shots. Didn't have the nine shots because he didn't have the high ball, not like a Roy McRoy, Jack Nicholas Tiger Woods, not like those guys. So he didn't didn't have that shot. But he pretty much just played the low trajectory fade. To Reno always aimed his body to the left. This is where I got to thinking about the aim also, like aiming is so important in people's minds, but yet Lee to Reno didn't name straight, one of the greatest players in the history of the game, didn't even come close team and straight. As a matter of fact, his feet were moving up until the moment he took the club back. They were moving left and more left, and more left, and then he finally took the club back. More Norman. I watched more Norman hit balls on quite a few occasions. He was an absolutely incredible ball striker, the most consistent ball striker I've ever seen, and he always hit the same shot. He always hit a little tiny pull. He'd aim to the right, a little bit to the right, and he'd pull it to his target very slight. So he didn't name straight either. Now Hogan did. But Hogan would hit shots he would hit right to left, left to right, So when he's hitting those shots, he's not aiming exactly at the target. When you're playing nine shots, the nine shots straight ball, low, medium and high, right to left shot ball starting right of the target, curving back to the target, buttons past the target low, medium, and high. When you're hitting a shot that starts left and fades back to the target. Three shots low, medium, and high. So you're only aiming straight when you hit three of the nine shots. The other six of the nine shots that really make you a great ball striker, six of those shots you're not aiming straight. So to me, there's example after example of why aiming isn't as important as people make it out to be. Like I said earlier, people who slice to the right have two options. Either they aim to the left, or they swing to the left, or both, and that's how they compensate, and their banana ball ends up back in the middle of the fairway. They call that their straight ball, But it started way left, curve back to the right. They aimed and or swung to the left. People who hook the ball aim or swing to the right. Why does their path get so far in doubt, because their ball keeps curving too much to the to the left. Why do they tend to aim to the right. Why they tend to put the ball back in their stands too far? Why because they curve the ball too much to the left, So they compensate by putting the ball back in the stands aiming more to the right, swinging more to the right to compensate for that. People who slice put the ball too far forward in their stance. They aim to the left. They swing to the left to compensate for the ball going to the right. It's not because they can't they can't visualize what it's like to aim straight. It's not because they don't have a concept of what it means to aim straight. It's because they have a history of their ball going in a different direction. When you see somebody who aims as putter too much to the right, then you're going to see somebody who either has the club face closed at impact or the path of the swing is going too much to the left and they're aiming right to compensate for it. When you see somebody who is doing the opposite, the ball is going to the in the opposite direction. You see somebody that's aiming to the left, their club face is open at impact, which is deflecting the ball to the right, or they're tending to swing and doubt it's those are the option. There's a reason why they're aiming less than straight, because that's how they're making the ball go at the hole. And as long as you do the same thing over and over and over again, Nie Trevino did the same thing over and over and over again. Mo Norman did the same thing over and over and over again. All those touring pros that the Seymour putter rep way back when told me weren't aiming straight. This guy doesn't aim straight. This guy doesn't name straight. That guy doesn't name straight. I'm like, those guys put better than like anybody in the world. Yeah, they don't aim straight. And I'm like, and his theory is, we'll just think if they aim straight, they'd put even better. No, no, not necessarily, because if you pull the ball just a tiny bit to the left, but you do it every single time, then you're gonna be great. If you aim just a tiny bit to the right, and if you push it to the right, you're gonna be really good if you aim just a tiny bit to the left, as long as you do the same thing over and over again. So when you are hitting. And I do a lot of teaching now, I mean all my teaching is indoors now, and it's amazing how straight people aim. I mean, there's nobody that aims way offline like they do outside. They're just hitting into a screen, they're on a mat. The mad is said straight. There's an aim point that they aim at in front of them, and rarely is anybody ever off by much at all. They always aim straight. Another example, I've taught hundreds of hundreds and hundreds thousands a beginning golfers, and I have never, not one time, have I ever seen a beginning golfer somebody with no history in the game that didn't aim straight or relatively straight, very very very close, never off by much. They all aimed straight until they hit their first shots. And as soon as they hit their first shots, chances are the ball is not going to go straight. And when it doesn't go straight, what happens to their aim? Their aim gets off, ball's going right, they start aiming or swinging to the left. Balls going to the left, they start aiming or swinging to the right. It happens fast. But what came first the chicken or the egg, And what came first was they had a good aim, but it got ruined when they couldn't hit straight. So the first thing that I always try to do is I try to get students.

To hit the.

To hit the.

Ball where they're aimed, and hit the ball in the direction that you're swinging. So if you're swinging a to the left and you're cutting across the ball and you're slicing the ball back to the right, I don't have to fix it all one step. But the first thing they want to do is fix the curve to the right, because if now you swing to the left and it goes to the left, you're going to instinctively start aiming more to the right. If you're aiming to the right and you're hitting to the left, you're never going to get yourself to fix your aim until you start hitting the.

Ball where they're aimed, and hit the ball in the direction that you're swinging. So if you're swinging a to the left and you're cutting across the ball and you're slicing the ball back to the right, I don't have to fix it all one step. But the first thing they want to do is fix the curve to the right, because if now you swing to the left and it goes to the left, you're going to instinctively start aiming more to the right. If you're aiming to the right and you're hitting to the left, you're never going to get yourself to fix your aim until you start hitting the.

Ball where you're aimed.

Ball where you're aimed.

So if you're aiming three degrees to the right, but your ball's ending up three degrees left to the target, and I tell you, hey, you're aiming too far right, you're like, yeah, but I keep missing to the left. You have to first get the gobel to go in the direction that you're aiming, and then you can fix your aim. First get the ball to go where you're aimed, then fix your aim. Aim to me is one of the least important things that I would pay attention to. It is a result. I've never seen somebody that hooks that aims to the left. Talking about a right handed player, never seen it. I've never seen somebody that slices that aims to the right. Slicers aimed at the left, either with their body or the club face turn closed at address. People hook aim to the right, either with their club face being wide open or their body aiming to the right, and you're never going to fix it until you get the ball to go in the direction that you're aiming or swinging, and then you can instinctively you'll fix yourself. When you talk about aim, you have to consider all the parts of your body and your club that need to be aimed properly.

So if you're aiming three degrees to the right, but your ball's ending up three degrees left to the target, and I tell you, hey, you're aiming too far right, you're like, yeah, but I keep missing to the left. You have to first get the gobel to go in the direction that you're aiming, and then you can fix your aim. First get the ball to go where you're aimed, then fix your aim. Aim to me is one of the least important things that I would pay attention to. It is a result. I've never seen somebody that hooks that aims to the left. Talking about a right handed player, never seen it. I've never seen somebody that slices that aims to the right. Slicers aimed at the left, either with their body or the club face turn closed at address. People hook aim to the right, either with their club face being wide open or their body aiming to the right, and you're never going to fix it until you get the ball to go in the direction that you're aiming or swinging, and then you can instinctively you'll fix yourself. When you talk about aim, you have to consider all the parts of your body and your club that need to be aimed properly.

Your feet.

Your feet.

People pay attention to their feet, but the club face is number one because everything. When you aim, you put the club face down, you visualize the line going out the front of the club in the back of the club. Then you line your feet up parallel to that line. So it's like you have two railroad tracks. But it's not just your feet. It's your feet, it's your knees, it's your hips, it's your shoulders, it's your arms, and it's your eyes. All of those things need to be lined up parallel to the left of your target. If you're aiming straight, and when you aim a little to the right for the drawer, a little bit to the left for the fade, you turn everything. So it has to be a unit. Everything has to be lined up. It's not just it's not just one one thing. But for people that think that the biggest thing is you got to aim like peels, ah, I just can't aim like aiming is easy. Like how many people go to shoot a gun and they're trying to, you know, shoot a gun straight ahead and they aim twenty yards.

People pay attention to their feet, but the club face is number one because everything. When you aim, you put the club face down, you visualize the line going out the front of the club in the back of the club. Then you line your feet up parallel to that line. So it's like you have two railroad tracks. But it's not just your feet. It's your feet, it's your knees, it's your hips, it's your shoulders, it's your arms, and it's your eyes. All of those things need to be lined up parallel to the left of your target. If you're aiming straight, and when you aim a little to the right for the drawer, a little bit to the left for the fade, you turn everything. So it has to be a unit. Everything has to be lined up. It's not just it's not just one one thing. But for people that think that the biggest thing is you got to aim like peels, ah, I just can't aim like aiming is easy. Like how many people go to shoot a gun and they're trying to, you know, shoot a gun straight ahead and they aim twenty yards.

To the right.

To the right.

That doesn't happen. I mean, the air aim may be off a little bit. You aim a little bit to the right or a little bit to the left, But as soon as you do, if you aim a little to the left and you thought you were aiming straight and you shoot a gun, it goes straight a little bit to the left, and what will you do next? Boy, I think I'm aiming straight, but I'm not. I got to aim a little more of the right. Oh wow, that looks like to me, it feels like I'm aiming right. But when I shoot, it keeps going straight, so you recalibrate your aim. The problem is that doesn't work in golf because in golf, your ball curves, and when your ball curves, you compensate. You compensate with the aim. You compensate with the bath. Aim yourself straight, but don't be obsessed with it. Be obsessed with trying to hit the ball straight. Trying to hit the ball straight to where you're aimed, and as soon as you can do that anyway, if it curves a little bit one way or another, that's fine. But aiming in the general vicinity is good enough. That's why, like when I give a lesson, like I don't even ask people where they're aimed, because I'm standing behind them and I can see where they're aimed. So I don't need to ask you where you think you're aimed. I can kind of tell where you think you're aimed because there's a flag out there, and he must think he's aiming in that flag. But you know what, He's aimed way to the right of the fe flag. Why because he has a history of hooking the ball. I see a flag out there, I'm giving a lesson. You're lined up. I can pretty much tell you that's where you think you're going, but you're not. You're aimed way to the left. Why because you have a history of pushing or slicing to the right. It's a dead giveaway even even before you swing. So get the ball to go where you're aimed. And when you get the ball to go where you're aimed, you will be able to fix your aim. Don't obsessed with that. Obsessed with fixing your big miss. That's what you have to do. Whether it's a putt, a chip, a pitch, a full shot, a driver, whatever it is, fix your big miss and when you do, aiming will become a lot easier. In the meantime, just get everything organized in a general direction and try to fix these big curves. All right, that's my golf tips for today. Hope everybody enjoyed it. Hit the follow button on the iHeartRadio, Apple wherever you get your podcasts, and We will talk to you soon on the hank Any podcast

That doesn't happen. I mean, the air aim may be off a little bit. You aim a little bit to the right or a little bit to the left, But as soon as you do, if you aim a little to the left and you thought you were aiming straight and you shoot a gun, it goes straight a little bit to the left, and what will you do next? Boy, I think I'm aiming straight, but I'm not. I got to aim a little more of the right. Oh wow, that looks like to me, it feels like I'm aiming right. But when I shoot, it keeps going straight, so you recalibrate your aim. The problem is that doesn't work in golf because in golf, your ball curves, and when your ball curves, you compensate. You compensate with the aim. You compensate with the bath. Aim yourself straight, but don't be obsessed with it. Be obsessed with trying to hit the ball straight. Trying to hit the ball straight to where you're aimed, and as soon as you can do that anyway, if it curves a little bit one way or another, that's fine. But aiming in the general vicinity is good enough. That's why, like when I give a lesson, like I don't even ask people where they're aimed, because I'm standing behind them and I can see where they're aimed. So I don't need to ask you where you think you're aimed. I can kind of tell where you think you're aimed because there's a flag out there, and he must think he's aiming in that flag. But you know what, He's aimed way to the right of the fe flag. Why because he has a history of hooking the ball. I see a flag out there, I'm giving a lesson. You're lined up. I can pretty much tell you that's where you think you're going, but you're not. You're aimed way to the left. Why because you have a history of pushing or slicing to the right. It's a dead giveaway even even before you swing. So get the ball to go where you're aimed. And when you get the ball to go where you're aimed, you will be able to fix your aim. Don't obsessed with that. Obsessed with fixing your big miss. That's what you have to do. Whether it's a putt, a chip, a pitch, a full shot, a driver, whatever it is, fix your big miss and when you do, aiming will become a lot easier. In the meantime, just get everything organized in a general direction and try to fix these big curves. All right, that's my golf tips for today. Hope everybody enjoyed it. Hit the follow button on the iHeartRadio, Apple wherever you get your podcasts, and We will talk to you soon on the hank Any podcast