Everyday Items That Will Enhance Your Golf Swing

🧥 Using a folded jacket or towel behind the golf ball helps golfers practice managing their low point and improve ground contact.

📚 Holding a book in your lead hand can teach you proper wrist angles to fix slicing or hooking issues without needing a golf club.

🧦 Placing a balled-up pair of socks next to the ball acts as a swing path guide, helping correct out-to-in or in-to-out swing problems.

🔄 Simple household items like jackets, books, and socks can be powerful tools for practicing and refining your golf swing at home.

🎯 Each item provides instant feedback, making it easier to identify and fix common swing faults during practice.

00:00:00 - All right, I'm here with Lexi. We have got three items that you've got around your house today that you can use to help you with your golf swing. So, let's talk about each one and let's dive into this. Awesome. Sounds good.

00:00:14 - All right, so item number one, I have a jacket. Okay, everybody has a pullover, a jacket of some sort. I would not use like a winter puffy coat, but just something that's a normal pullover. You can use this as a way to help you practice managing your low point. So, where the club enters the ground, where you're basically hitting the ground every single time. So, the way that you would use this is you would have this kind of folded up like I've got. You could also use a towel. That'd be

00:00:36 - totally fine. Like a dish towel would be fine. Um, you want to put this probably about a club head behind where the actual golf ball would be. So, we're using the red dot here as an example. Kind of want to roll this up. Have this about a club head behind where the ball would be. If you practice making some swings, avoiding hitting the jacket would be a really, really easy way to manage where you hit the ground. That's my toughest drill. I'm really bad at that one. So, the biggest thing with

00:00:58 - this is you just want to make sure it's not like too baldled up or too thick. Like if you get it too big like that where it's too high off the ground, it's not going to be possible for you to hit the golf ball solidly. So, maybe one fold be a really easy way to do it. Lay it about a club head behind the ball. Practice working on that. This is great for short game shots as well. I would use this a ton for like those little 20, 30, 40 yard shots that you have.

00:01:18 - Practice with a jacket behind the ball. Be a great way to practice managing where you're hitting the ground. Cool. Should we test it out? Let's do it. All right. All right. So, I've got this folded up. We're about a club head behind the golf ball. Lexi's got her wedge. So, this would be a really good way to practice those like 30 40 yards shots. So, try to hit one like 30 or 40 yards for us. Oh, I hit the jacket. Okay. Yep. So, this is a really good feedback mechanism. Tells you exactly

00:01:40 - where you're hitting the ground. So, if you're clipping the jacket, the towel, any of those things at all, this is just a a way for you to understand where the club's hitting. And this will help you fix that problem. There you go. So, you can see the contact was a little more solid on that one. Uh, carried it about 30 yards. So, that's a really, really easy way to practice managing where you're hitting the ground. Item number two, a simple book. Okay? Doesn't matter what type of

- book and use whatever you want. I would just use something that's light enough that you can hold. If you're right-handed, you're going to place this in your left hand. This grip or this book is going to be helpful to help you understand how your wrist needs to move throughout the golf swing. Okay? Okay. So for a lot of people who slice, if they were to hold this book like they were a golf club, when they would go to hit the ball, their wrist would be in this extended position. Okay? Okay. What

00:02:30 - that does is it leads to an open club face. So if slicing is a problem, grab a book, rehearse some movements where you're basically taking this book and trying to pin it to your forearm. So what that what that essentially creates is more flexion in my lead wrist. That's going to help close the face to path. It'll also help reduce the dynamic loft. So, if you're somebody who struggles with hitting shots far enough, um, if you tend to add a lot of loft, this would be a really good way to practice

00:02:53 - that. So, give you that book. You don't even Yep. You don't need a golf club for this. This is just a way to create a a feel or a way to understand kind of how your wrists need to move. So, you just make a back swing. What should I do with this second? You can put your hand right on top of where your other one is. It's totally fine. So, you make a back swing and then you can kind of like you like you're feeling keep that book pinned to your forearm. That'd be a really good

00:03:12 - way to create those proper wrist angles through impact to help you, like I said, minimize the dynamic loft, move the low point more forward, and close the face to pat. Yeah, that is so cool. If you were somebody who sliced, if you moved your wrist in the opposite way where you extended your wrist and held that book the same way, you'd feel that book come off of your forearm and move away from you. That'd be the way that you wouldn't want to do it. So, what if I hook right

00:03:34 -now? What What do I want? So, if you hook, what you would actually want to do is the opposite. So, exactly what we were telling people to do with pinning it to your forearm. You'd actually probably want to feel like you go the opposite way and pull that book off of your form. Off your forearm. Okay. So, that'll keep the face a little bit more open. It would almost be the sensation, Lexi, like you're hitting a bunker shot. Like you could use this book as a way if you struggle getting

00:03:53 - out of a bunker when you're going to hit the ball, basically take the book and pull it off of your forearm, create that lead wrist extension. That'll help open the face, use more of the bounce, and get the ball higher in the air. Okay, cool. So, that's that's tip number two. books. Super helpful just for understanding how your wrists and your arms need to work. Awesome. All right, tip number three. You need a pair of socks. I would find a pair of socks that's not worn. So, a clean pair. Okay.

00:04:16 - Um unless you enjoy the the smell of stinky feet. So, find a pair of socks. Just ball them up like this like you would typically have in your drawer at at your house um in in your dresser. And all you're going to use this for is a way to help you manage and understand the swing direction. So, this would replace essentially a noodle um or any of those objects that you might use. Just a simple household item that you could that you could place down on the ground. So, the same thing that we

00:04:38 - talked about with a noodle. Put this right next to the golf ball. If you're somebody who struggles with a swing direction that's too many degrees out to in, basically align it with the ball, angle those socks slightly out to the right, that would help you swing more into out. If you're somebody who struggles with the opposite problem, like you're swinging too many degrees into out and you hook the golf ball, all you would do with these socks is instead of having them behind the ball, you

00:04:58 - would move them in front of the ball. Oh, okay. That's going to help straighten your path so that you don't swing too far out to the right. Help you reduce some of that hook. So for you, that's probably what you need to do. And I know you're fighting a little bit of a hook right now. See if I can hit a straight shot with these socks here. Yep. So the goal is to avoid the socks. It'll straighten out your path, help you reduce some of the hook. Wow. I need socks my ball more often. If you

00:05:27 - want to use the stinky ones, it can just go ahead and incentivize you even more not to hit them cuz then you don't have to touch them. Yeah. So, three three common household items you could use. You could use a book, use a jacket, use a pair of socks. All of those can help your golf game. [Music]

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