MALASKA, THIS is why Golfers DON'T IMPROVE | HOW TO BE BETTER AT GOLF

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[juandelval]

My head literally feels dizzy. I've never had my mind blown so much! This may be the best golf advice I've ever had!

[a.u.]

Brendan, I'll throw this out there, and I have heard this a lot over the years but if you learn to play as a kid, the golf club feels heavy, and you have to learn to "swing" it. When you learn as an adult, you have muscles and you want to use those to "hit" it, not "swing" it. It is a big difference in how good you can get in the game. You have to re-program yourself as an adult to embrace the "swing".

[MM-zbkc]

Mike is the best instructor on YT. I’ve learned more from him in the last year than anyone before and has made my ball striking and driving the best it’s ever been. Reason is because of how he talks so I can understand it. I’ve gotten in person lessons before and I was good for a few days, etc but as soon as I went a little off I couldn’t get back to what the instructor wanted because he didn’t teach me in a way I could understand it.

[scotthogangolf]

Gold stuff here, I always try and get people to swing slower and watch the mechanics fall apart. If you can’t do it slow, you won’t do it very well at fast speed!

[TPH]

Brendon, you are the best! You pace your questions perfectly. I don't think your second question came until the 9 minute mark, you let MM go. Plus, you introduced so many of us to Mike...can't tell you how much I appreciate the work you do!

[cheeky]

This might be the most important and beneficial golf video I've ever watched.
Knowing what to practice and how to practice are so important.
Thank you.

[anguskerr]

That little loop that Mike does at 12:45....Eureka moment for me. I was suffering from a pull hook and wondering what was going on, and trying to slide / bump my hips and all sorts of things...None of which worked...And then I saw the loop in his arms, and then I suddenly remembered the figure 8 drill, and voila - hitting it pure, long and straight. Mike is bang on, you have to be approaching the ball from an inside path - like Mr Hogan said - hit from the inside out.... Thanks so much, this lesson is like gold..

[tiptopsaidhe]

Another great vid. Mike is so kind to you. Love it at 4:13 when you put the club in your right hand. If you recall, AJ drew the clubface in your hand with a pen to show what forearm rotation is necessary to get the clubface to rotate toe past the heel. In this lesson, Mike showed you what AJ calls a "stage 2" golfer. All "good" players play the draw...until it becomes too "drawy." There is another level, according to AJ, and Mike knows how to get you there also. It's what we see on tour. I can't explain it, but they both can. It's the swivel release of TGM with a somewhat "outside to in" path. Please say thanks to Mike for these last couple of vids. Great stuff to confirm where you've been (with TGM and others).
p.s. If you've watched the last couple of Zen Golf vids, he just suggested throwing out the alignment sticks. ;-)

[ChrisLim]

LOL. I just paused your video when Mike said. "Practice at 50%", went downstairs and hit like 20 balls at 50%. Pured almost all of them. Most amazing feeling ever. Took an 80% shot, best feeling shot in a long time.

[gonzalohiguain]

it's so interesting how good the timing, rhythm and finish was on your last swing 16:57 when you were focusing on the hands.
This game is so back to front!

[ronnietyrrell]

I’m so excited to hit the range this weekend
Mike “these guys don’t learn anything” love it

[florianredecsy]

Unfortunately there aren’t as many good instructors around like Mike, Milo lines or Monte scheinblum just to mention a few. Yesterday on my round I accompanied our teaching pro and one of his students on the course. A hardcore slicer. Looks more like he would like to chop wood from above. He not once talked about the clubface and stuff like this in the video. He always showed that he needs to get the club straight down at around 3 o’clock (if twelve would be the ball and 9 the direction to the target) and then towards the ball together to get his club shallow. There are toooo many things I have seen from „teaching pros“ who sorry to say have got no clue on their own. Lucky we are to have internet and so access to good ones. It is just hard to figure out who you can trust and whom not. Have a nice week. And last times episode with the hand moving in (around the body, not pulling towards the body) and up! in the context with shaft lean and pressure was an eye opener for me. Sure I knew the hands work that way but never was I aware of the consequences in control and compression if you don’t do it. Have a nice day!

[donwoods]

71 years old and had carried 5-7 hdcp for several years until three years ago when my game took a (literal) left turn (maybe left of left is more apt). Had tried every "don't hook" tip I could find, most of which worked great for about fifteen minutes then back to "fore left!!!!" I got this a week or so ago and for the last week am hitting the ball better, straighter and longer than I have in 40+ years of golf. While the mechanical part is great, I think the best advice is devoting
90+% of practice to less than full swings. Thanks to both of you.

[toddwilliams]

Mike is The King of golf instruction.
He reinforces what I'm trying to practice every day...
Controlling the ball flight...but with, literally, a 1, 2, 3 approach.

[leedeaton]

holy cow man, i have watched maybe 1000 youtube golf instruction videos over the last year and i don’t think any of them made what you need to start with any more clear or basic. bravo that is beautiful, both of you guys.

[isleofdeath]

I basically never train on the range without alignment sticks, but I have not even once us it like shown here, with one extending in behind the ball. Will give that a shot! But the BEST part for me in this video is 4:43 to 4:46 -- the "hand can feel, where the club face is". I will go out there and try finding that feeling next time.

[mikefixac]

Mike said, "Every shot is a success". Fantastic. Every shot, even bad ones, is an opportunity to learn. To get pissed off, throw the clubs, etc., belies the chance of learning.

[mofojohnson]

You don't learn anything at full speed. Well I've learnt something right there. I'm gonna try these skills out at 50% as soon as the driving ranges by me open up again. This is gold 👍

[Addy-]

Mr. Malaska’s the best teacher out there

[NonnyStrikes]

I was told by a golf pro at a really nice club that I could never grip the club in the palm of my lead hand.

That same night I watched Jack Nicklaus say how the grip for him is "in the palm with the lead hand, like you're gonna hit someone with the back of your hand, not your fingers".

That was over a year ago, and I continually forced myself to use my fingers...which resulted in so many varying ways of swinging the club, because I could never comfortably create leverage with my lead hand.

Until today. I said screw it, it always feels good when I palm it in the lead hand, and I can feel the same leverage needed to create a consistent swing. Then the real fun started up. I instantly had more relaxed arms at address, my knees had bounce because I was able to position of the sticks with ease. I have the great sensation of throwing the clubhead through the ball. I agree 100% with finding a grip that fits your body type. Saying that palming it freezes your wrists is an absolute JOKE. It DOES NOT and I can prove it over and over again to anyone who wants to disagree. Yes. It might freeze some peoples wrists... but that is what putting it in my fingers does to me. It locks everything up because of tension and destroys my accuracy immensely.

Do not be afraid of trying a grip that feels really good. As long as you can maintain the leverage required to swing in a circle around your body!