I saw this tip from Martin Hall and Blair O’Neal on GolfChannel.com and was sure I had seen it before. Sure enough there was a blog post from December 14, 2014 called “Box Before Ball for More Power and Better Ballstriking“. If you watch them both you’d swear Martin was reading a script, down to his comment on how Sara Brown and Blair O’Neal hit their shots.
Here the videos are. We’ll start with the newer one with Blair O’Neal:
And here it is from 4 years ago with Sara “No H” Brown:
School of Golf’s Martin Hall came up a simple way to ensure that your grip is not too strong, thereby fixing the most common cause of hooking the ball.
I know at least one guy that could use this tip.
School of Golf’s Martin Hall and Blair O’Neal show to how to hit a low spinning wedge shot.
At a clinic at the RBC Canadian Open, legend Lee Trevino gave a lesson on the proper technique for hitting chips and short pitches.
Lee Trevino with an impromptu wedge lesson at the Canadian Open pic.twitter.com/lGQNMaRRJo
— Kristina Rutherford (@KrRutherford) July 24, 2018
According to Trevino, the key to chipping is the hips, not swinging your arms.
I saw a comment on a Martin Hall tip video thanking Martin for a “wiping up the spilled milk” tip and so I had to go and try to find what this meant. This is what I found. Martin gives 3 tips for eliminated the slice, and finishes with “wipe up the spilled milk”.
Revolution Golf sends me an e-mail every day. Sometimes they are trying to get me to sign up for their pay section or sell me some product, but more often than not it is a golf tip.
The tip they sent today was from Martin Hall (of the Golf Channel’s School of Golf), and it was a simple way of thinking about the downswing. John Jacobs, one of Martin’s greatest influences, had a short six word phrase to teach the downswing: “Out of the way and underneath.”.
“Out of the way” means to get your hips out of the way, and “underneath” is to turn your right shoulder underneath. Martin explains it much better. If you want to watch the video, you can find it >>HERE<<.
I found this tip in my inbox today from Golf Channel. Martin Hall says people like imagine pulling a rope, or ringing a bell, when they start their downswing, and this is a huge mistake. What they feel is that they are pulling with their left arm, but what they are really doing is pulling with their lead side.
Golf Channel’s Martin Hall has a quick and simple fix to help those who struggle with hooking the golf ball.