00:00Now Scotty Scheffler is playing some most incredible and most consistent golf
00:03we've seen for many many years. Now there's a lot to like about his game but
00:07the thing I've really noticed and stands out to me the most is his driving. One of
00:12the most creative drivers of the golf ball in the game, not afraid to move it
00:15left to right, right to left and varied trajectory to make things a little bit
00:18easier for himself. I want to know how he does it so I've come to the magnificent
00:22Royal Liverpool Golf Club host of last year's Open to find out and give you
00:27some tips and pointers on how you can drive the ball more like Scotty
00:30Scheffler. One of the things that impresses me most about Scheffler is the
00:34bang for his buck he gets out of his speed. Now he's by no means slow but he's not
00:38the quickest on tour and he's disproportionately high up those
00:41distance standings and how I believe he does that is he factors in conditions
00:45and he alters his trajectory to maximize that the most. So for example I'm on the
00:50driving range here at Royal Liverpool and we've got a nice helping breeze so one
00:54of the first things Scheffler would do is try and increase that launch
00:57angle, increase the peak height, get the ball in the air for longer and maximize
01:01that assistance from the wind. That sounds really easy but how does he do it?
01:05It's as simple as a ball position change he's very much manipulates that ball
01:09position to create the flights he wants. For example if I'm just making my normal
01:14swing here I might be kind of just inside my left heel might be my standard
01:19ball position and generally speaking that gets me hitting up on it slightly which
01:22is great and that gives me the nice neutral flight that I want but I want to
01:26launch this into the stratosphere so I'm going to alter that at least half a ball
01:30to a ball further forward in my stance so I want to see that more off my left
01:35toe so what that does straightaway is it puts me my stern and my head more behind
01:40the golf ball and increases that attack angle which will help me launch the ball
01:44up into the air. Now the other thing you want to do here as well as changing that
01:47ball position is don't be afraid to give it a good whack we need speed to be able to
01:53generate height and distance and we've got a forgiving wind here we slightly miscue
01:58it and it goes left or right that wind downwind tends to help to straighten the
02:01ball flight up rather than accentuate any miss so don't be afraid to put some
02:06extra oomph into these ones when you're trying to launch it into the air so like I
02:09said ball position forward feel like it's off that left toe for a right hander
02:14sets me up behind the ball and then I'm in a good position to just give it a ride
02:24so that's exactly what I was hoping for staying behind the ball increasing that
02:28launch angle and really giving it a good whack has really increased that peak
02:32height and that can be a really strong weapon downwind now conversely to downwind
02:38obviously for every hole you play down when you might play one back into the wind and
02:42not only in windy conditions when the ground's firmer I've seen Scheffler
02:45bring that ball flight down that peak height comes right down to maximize that
02:49forward momentum and that run so again how does he do that similar but opposite to
02:55the high shot so the ball goes fractionally back in the stance but not
02:58too far back a lot of people make that mistake of thinking I'm going to keep this
03:01ball down get the ball right back in the stance and that brings the attack angle
03:05right down which actually increases the spin so it's a very subtle move back maybe
03:10half a ball in the stance so again from my normal position which might be inside my
03:15left heel maybe half a ball closer to the center of the stance that just reduces
03:20that attack angle slightly without it becoming excessive and the next thing you
03:24need to do which might be counterintuitive when you're trying to
03:27maximize your distance just slow that swing down to a more comfortable pace the
03:32less momentum we put into that the less spin we're likely to generate this is all
03:35about taking spin off so a nice comfortable smooth motion with a ball half a ball back
03:41should all things being equal just come out a little bit flatter less spin when
03:45it hits the deck it just wants to go forward so again got a slightly lower T
03:50peg as well than the last one because we don't need that launch we're trying to
03:54encourage a flatter launch angle so instead of being off the left heel I'm
03:59going to move it back in my stance just a fraction and all I'm going to do is make my
04:04normal swing but just at a slightly smoother what feels like 80% motion to me
04:14exactly again as I was hoping for just taking that pace off the swing having the
04:18ball slightly back in the stance that's come off so much flatter and I would
04:22imagine five to six hundred revs less spin so when that hits the deck it's going
04:26to want to bounce and run and run and run and the wind barely touch that so
04:30that's a really useful weapon just altering tee height ball position and
04:34swing pace and you can create a completely different flight which is
04:37really useful another thing I love about Sheffield's driving is how he's not afraid
04:42to start moving the ball from right to left and left to right at will he's not
04:46one of those one-dimensional players who just repeats the same shot and the
04:49reasons I like that twofold it makes fairways wider so all of a sudden if
04:54you're shaping the ball with the contours of a fairway with the curve of a
04:58fairway all of a sudden the angles are much more suitable to hit those fairways
05:03and create more accuracy so you'll see him a lot on right to left right to left
05:07dog leg holes like the 10th or Augusta for example the hooks he was hitting
05:11around there and the masters were absolutely spot-on similarly 11 you'd see
05:16him fading the ball around the corner so within two holes into completely
05:19different shapes of shot which is to open up the angles and make it easier to
05:22hit those fairways but also until I've seen him do it to maximize distance all of a
05:27sudden if you've got a slope off the right and you've got that ball hitting
05:30the deck and it's coming more down the slope with a right to left shape you're
05:34going to get some more rollout and again you really maximize that distance he
05:37really gets the most out of his output so how does he do it so for the right to
05:41left one from my point of view and for those of you at home it's probably best to
05:46keep it really simple some people like to feel things through impact with
05:49rolling of wrists etc I think most simplistic way to change ball flight is
05:54just through setup it's a simple path and face relationship so if I want the
05:59ball to start right and curve to the left simply put my face needs to be
06:02pointing left of my path at impact so I preset a right path by aiming a little bit
06:08further right than I ordinarily would and I just feel like the club head is
06:12towed in a little bit and then all I want to do is continue to swing out what
06:17feels to right field over there but with my club face pointing a little bit left of
06:20that the fake the face being left of the path will create the spin axis to turn
06:25the ball right to left so it's as simple as that body aims right face toed in a
06:31little bit swing up your feet line
06:36it's a perfect my path is out to the right face was a little bit left of it
06:40all started right holding against the wind just turned over slightly so that's
06:44exactly what I was hoping for okay so left to right as opposed to right to left as
06:49you would imagine it's just a mirror image we do the opposite we want the
06:52ball to start left so I'm going to move my feet and my body alignment to the left
06:56and I'm going to have my face slightly open to that target so we're creating the
07:00face-to-path relationships that's going to make the ball spin and do what we
07:04need now another thing Scheffler does on these left to right shots you see
07:07really varies the tee height so he's got kind of a keep the ball in play shot
07:12that I see him using an awful lot where he pegs the ball down quite
07:14significantly it just creates kind of a more squeezy impact that just tightens
07:19that dispersion knows it's going to go left to right so you can be really
07:23comfortable with a left start line so I'm going to do the same way I just peg it
07:27down I'm going to open my stance and my body up down the left-hand side about
07:31where I want to see it starting leave the face a little bit open and I'm just
07:35going to swing along my body line as before
07:46so that's exactly what I wanted to see so again similar to the right to left I
07:50preset that path to the left so the ball started left the face being open to that
07:54it's created the spin we needed and it's just bled a little bit to the right at
07:58the top of its flight so all of a sudden if you know what curvature is going to
08:01come you've got a much better idea of where you need to start the ball on
08:05what's gonna and you can use it on certain holes to suit the topography to
08:08suit the shape and really open up a whole new world of possibilities so there
08:13you have it four really simple ways to dramatically alter ball flights both from
08:17a left to right and a high and low perspective now a lot of people think
08:20that's just for elite golfers but I hope I've shown you just a couple of really
08:24simple alterations to set up can make all the difference and maybe you can start
08:29driving it a little bit more like Scotty Scheffler
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