Danny you’re the best on KZfaq. Such a smooth, effortless swing and you’re able to teach without over complicated drills or language. Thanks!

Your teaching is so concise and clear. I have been watching your videos for about a month and my ball staking has greatly improved. I now understand why I hit a certain bad shot. And the fix for it. You are the first instructor ( in person or video) that has helped me to understand the right elbow position. I have added 20 yards to my driver because of your videos. Thanks

Hi Danny, your last few lessons have really made a difference for me. Why? Because you’ve taken the basic elements of the swing and described them in a very understandable way that readily translates onto the practice range and course. Moreover, these latest lessons are congruent with all of your previous instructions. So helpful. Thank you and blessings.

Great drill, great video. Your online coaching and golf swing explanations are some of the best out there. Thank-you Danny!

I believe that we all feel a strong pull inside of us to become a person of value, someone who makes a difference in people's lives. Danny Maude you have become such a regular part of my life for the past few years that I would TRULY be devastated if you stopped making videos. Thank you for providing quality content to those of us who cannot afford to do lessons with a PGA professional. I just felt compelled to tell you that I think you are an amazing coach and you make the best content on youtube with so much new content. You know what else, I bet that 99% of your followers feel this exact same way! Thank you for being you!!!!

A Saturday without your videos is a given away Saturday. Perfect to realise again!!

Danny is my go to guy every time. Love his presentation style and delivery. The BEST

Used this drill yesterday on the course and it worked immediately - straight and long. Ball contact was also excellent. Thank you Danny, as always!

Brilliant lesson Danny. I’ve used this drill in the past for tempo but never really thought about why it worked or how to use it to evaluate proper balance. So obvious once you explained it. Thanks for all you do for the golfing community!

Hi Danny, I love your unpretentious and straightforward teaching style. You make it seem easy to improve the golf swing, and you're the only golf instructor I watch on KZfaq. Keep up the good work!

Try this today on the course, with a 3 quarter swing, it was amazing, I started to hit the driver straight and my irons, for the first time in a long time, I felt in control, thank you so much for this drill, will keep you updated on my progress cheers Danny 😊

Bloody marvellous!! So simple, yet so effective. This will end up being one of my "go to's" Thanks Danny.

Thx for reminding me about feet together practice. So useful. I realise it’s best sticking to you each week rather than checking out lots of other coaches which gets confusing. It’s like having a personal coach every week with back up notes if needed. Thx as always. You’re the tops.

The simplest drill made beautiful ,thank you so much

The #1 golf training tip I have rcvd!!! I took 5 strokes off of my game yesterday. Thanks Danny for all your videos...

this video helped me so much. ive watched so many before about hitting the driver and you made it so simple. i went to the range today and i was absolutely striping it right down the middle. thank you so much, you just made golf so much more fun for me

Thanks Danny. Took it to the back yard and then to the course and it worked. This was perhaps the best tip I've ever hard. Thanks so much, you're the best.

Danny, this is absolutely my all time favorite drill. I have used this drill for over 40 years and I can tell all of your subscribers that it works. I start off doing half swings to also check my club position. Then increase to a 3/4 swing and then to a full swing. Thanks for posting!!!!

Always great advice Danny that help improve my golf game. Many thanks for taking the time.

Tried this feet together drill this morning at range. Was seeing much better consistency with swings with all clubs. Best I have swung driver for ages. Thanks

Many thanks Danny, wish you healthy and productive as usual.

I had forgotten how good this drill is. What I would add is for those practising to hit 5 balls normally and stick a marker down at the average of these FIRST. Then work progressively from slow and easy to progressively faster and progressively wider. Watching the ball get closer to the marker with shorter width and slower swings helps to reinforce that bad things in the swing are getting overcome. Nothing like having a target and then kicking its butt whilst learning - then hitting it sweeter and longer and straighter in progressive way. Thanks Danny, brilliant as usual!

This week’s lesson is an absolute golden example of Danny’s entire style: simple yet powerful. I’m playing my first round in 2 months on Monday so hoping to try this out at the range ahead of the round. Thanks as always, Danny!

Good morning Danny. Thank you for such an easy drill to help with driver and for all your hard work each week, with your videos.

Hi Danny My post is nothing to do with today’s video but a follow up to one a few weeks ago with your Leo and the towel drill leading to longer drives. Decided to try it out during my usual Wednesday game concentrating on high hands on the backswing and then whipping it down to the ball. I noticed three things: I was hitting it further, consistently outdriving my playing partners and on one occasion by 30 yards. One of my partners, who plays off 4, wondered out loud if I’d been bodybuilding! On one hole my drive measured 255 yards. Now, given the cold air temps and the very soft fairways, that’s not bad for someone nearing 69 and stands at 5’4”. Think what I could do in summer temps with the fairways firm. My target must be 280+? I was hitting the ball STRAIGHT! I believe with my previous ‘safe’ drives, I was getting ahead of the club maybe, leaving the clubhead behind me and therefore the face might be a bit open leading to a fade, a BIG fade or…..the gorse bushes!! I was actually hitting the ball down the left of the fairway this week probably because at address I was closing the clubface slightly to conteract the fade. So, the ball wasn’t going everywhere! The brain takes over and adjusts. I was just letting it go! The ball flight was much higher, with the ball in the air for longer. Again, if I’m not getting ahead of the club I feel I must be hitting up on the ball much more leading to a better ball flight?? I have read posts from your subscribers who have got so excited at doing this or that on the course after following your video tips. I can now understand how they feel! It is SO exhilarating! So, if any of your subscribers managed to read to the end of this post, please just give it a go, you’ll be amazed. Thanks Danny. Grahame

Love these lessons and they definitely help. Something I get very confused with is the effortless not even trying swings going 250 yards. Been playing golf about 20 years and I'd say I've hit it over 250 less than 100 times and always in summer with wind helping etc. They just look like you're not even trying and yet it's obviously somehow generating speed most of us can't get near. Even with your legs together so presuming no real ground forces at work there. I'd be more than happy with 250 yards drives consistently and in play, I think for most amateur tees / golf courses it's more than enough. Basically I guess I'm jealous of those effortless 250 yard drives where you don't even have to try 😂

Danny - I watched this video yesterday before my first round of the year in Minnesota. I had been struggling with my driver on consistency and length. This video (along with the previous one on go slow to go fast) helped me shoot my first 73 (+2). Beating my personal best by THREE strokes. I was either in the fairway or just off. All my irons were struck great. I am looking forward to getting out of the 80s and into the 70s more this year thanks to your videos. Please keep them coming!!! Thank you!

I appreciate the simplicity of your training, and the swing thoughts needed. Cheers, -Jon

I would never share this or any of your other videos...I want to win against them!!! Ha! Your teachings are simple and to the point. Thanks.

My coach got me to do this to help with tempo. As it works, I built this into my pre-shot routine on the tee i.e. one practice swing feet togethet, then one with feet apart keeping the same feel then hit the ball.

Great video Danny!! So simple but sooo effective. Thanks again Danny!

Thank you Danny!!! I truly appreciate your ability to make practice meaningful!!!

Love this. I have been struggling with driver lately. This is now my go to practice and warmup drill. Thank you Danny.

This lesson really resonated with me because after I retired I took a job as starter as a course watching hundreds of golfers hit off the first tee and common denominator when they hit poorly was a loss of balance during the swing often starting during the takeaway with a less than ideal, too far inside club head path. The light bulb in the head then went off realizing I was doing the same thing WITHOUT REALIZING IT! Interested in the underlying psychology of things I thought about why I had difficulty feeling I was falling off balance and concluded it was because the process of staying in balance is so unconsciously reflexive-the body mass reacts to counter the force going in the ‘wrong’ (less than ideal) path without the conscious brain realizing it until its too late to fix. The paradox in a golf swing is that beginners tend to do with club in the takeaway-pronate lead hand pulling it too far inside the hands-is itself an uniformed reflexive solution to dealing with the exponentially increasing force stored in the club head mass as it swings back. The first time a student is shown the more ideal outside that hands takeaway what happens? They will be pulled off balance because their reflexive brains haven’t ever reacted to a pull from the club head in that direction before. What the feet together drill really teaches is how to ideally take the club back because failing that step staying in balance during the rest of the swing becomes increasingly difficult. I first came across the drill in a book by Hank Johnson called “Winning the Three Games of Golf: The Swing, The Stroke, The Score which focused on biomechanics in the swing using analogies. His similar balance drill involved swinging a old fashioned broom with the butt end stuck in the belly at address. The mass of the broom greatly exaggerated any loss of balance due to technique and having the butt end of the club pressing against belly ensured the takeaway was truly ‘one piece’ with hips, shoulders and hands forced to move together in the first 45° of the swing arc until the momentum acting on the head of the broom forced the wrists to cock and the butt end popped out of gut. What I realized from that action of extending wide to generate force - which will cause loss of balance - is that the action of cocking the wrists does a very critical thing in the backswing with regard to balance: it redirects the force vector in the club head mass up and forward which is why a WELL TRAINED golfer is able to stay in balance. An analogy is how a figure skater does a spin starting with arms extended wide at the start then pulling the mass of the arms into the body closer to the center of rotation and balance to spin faster. When a golfer learns to take the club head away from the ball ‘in one piece’ without any reflexive hand action to steer the club to the more balanced inside path in the takeaway it begins force the wrists to cock automatically at just the right time and place in 3D space relative to center of rotation and balance! The swing starts to feel automatically balanced as if swinging the club head in a groove! What I realized from all that analysis and experimentation is that the #1 fault in untrained beginners swings was not being CONSCIOUSLY aware of where the club head should be in 3D space relative to the feet and center of balance at the point the wrists should react to the force, cock and swing the mass in closer to the feet and redirect the force up making it possible to stay in balance. So I created a drill to teach them this similar to what the broom drill felt like. First I would have a golfer swing the club as they had been too far inside and hold it still at the point where it would force the wrists to cock. I’d then grab the club head and pull on it, always pulling them off their feet because their is no way to brace against force moving in the that direction. Next I would show them where in 3D space their club head should be relative to feet and center of balance when force causes wrists to cock giving their brains a CONSCIOUS swing way point and showing them all that is required to hit it is to set up properly at address and turn hip/shoulders/hands together (as if the butt end was stuck in the belly). Once they could repeatably swing the club head mass to that waypoint slowly I have them hold it extended just before the point the wrists cock automatically and pull on the club head in the direction of the takeaway force vector. What invariably happens the first time the club head is pulled when it is in the ideal waypoint in 3D space to cock the wrists is the golfer gets easily pulled off balance. Why? Their reflexive brain hasn’t ever encountered a force pull in that direction! But the brain adapts very quickly to solve balance problems so after repeating the tugging exercised 3-4 times the golfer learns to reflexively tension the correct muscles in legs and torso to resist the tug and stay in perfect balance. What is learned by that drill how to create a great deal of momentum in the body turn of the take away to generate a effortless well balanced backswing just by consciously breaking the habit of steering the club head mass with the hands and letting just the hip/shoulder turn and stable arm triangle guide the club head mass the ideal spot in 3D space relative to the center of rotation. The short cut in that process the instructor showing them where that ideal spot in 3D space is, which broom drill and this one with feet together also teach but by trial and error until the golfer realizes it ‘feels’ better.

Loved lesson. Always struggle with driver, and i play alot. Took this to course yesterday had my best round in months. After drive i used it for every shot that day. Lot better contact lost hardly any distance. Will keep playing like this for now. Thanks danny

Thanks Danny. I will be trying this out tomorrow on the range. Love your videos.

I came up with this myself 40 years ago, and I still do it because it works. This is the first time I have ever seen anyone recommend it. It improves your balance and ball striking, and as you demonstrate, you can actually hit the ball surprisingly far with your feet together. The one thing you do differently than I have ever done is to point your front foot forward. I just tried it. and that makes the balance easier, and improves the follow through. Well done.

I’m watching and learning about golf to help my 14 year old daughter that finish 16Th in La State Championship and I appreciate your videos thanks.

Another great video Danny! This will hopefully assist with my inconsistencies in my game! Keep the videos coming! All really clear and easy to follow.... Good Stuff!

I used this drill before I started my round yesterday. 2 under my handicap. Will use it always now before a round of golf. Will see if I can improve more tomorrow Danny 😊 Thanks for your videos they are fantastic

Love your teaching but one thing all teachers seem to have an issue with is the stated ball position. The camera always seems way off. In this one the ball appears to be inside the left foot but you mention it is supposed to be out side the left toe!! Is it my screen....

Danny! I have been watching you for a long time. I love your videos. But, please, please do not grow a beard!

Great lesson thanks again Danny

I really can’t believe how simple and easy this drill looks. I can’t wait to give it a try.

Thank you so much for that video. I think it's really going to help me

Love the lessons Danny. Keep up the great work.

Excellent exercise, I tried it and amazing result, from now on I will do this before every shot

looking forward to learn this swing path,will texted back results..thanks Danny

Another quality post DM 👏 Always good content for us golfers. 🙏

Thank you so much for this Danny, the best drill I’ve ever done, took it in the back garden first without a ball, then the driving range where I had possibly my best ever range session. Acid test on the course today, played my best round for a couple of years. Thanks again mate

I'll give it a try , TY!

Brilliant Danny! Fantastic explanation as always. Thank you (and to Pete).

The best channel for golf on youtube. Thanks

Thanks to the YT algo I've watched your video. That's the best advice ever and the editing is so perfect, I've subscribed gleefully. Thanks !!!

Danny you simply an awesome human being and great teacher. Thanks for all the wonderful tips you give us. Keep up the great work.

Love this, bless you Danny. Thanks

Great tips all round watched this and another video on driver had a very productive session on the range.

Great lesson as always, taking this straight to the driving range. Thank you

A simplistic drill that I really need to get back too! Love your videos Danny.

Thank you Danny, This is something I use to get myself to slow down and focus...My coach taught me this over 25 years ago and it is one of the drills that has stuck with me. Nice to see that it has not gotten lost in todays technology movement.....

Great lesson Danny. Thank you.

Great segment!!! I saw a huge improvement from the drill suggestion. Thank you!!!

Excellent drill! Thanks for sharing.

Great help this Danny. Thanks as always.

Sounds so simple, Danny, I'm going to try this, thanks.

I tried this routine for the first time today, having not played golf for some months due to illness. It really worked a treat with me consistently hitting driver as far as I normally do but without the glitches of me dipping down into the ball that is consistently my bad shot. I also tried it with the irons and, guess what? It works. More work needed but a wonderful drill. Thank you Danny.

Excellent video Danny . Thanks

Cant wait to try this! Thanks!

Terrific video, Danny. This will be a great exercise for pre round warm up.

What a great lesson! Thank you again!!

My hat is off to Danny Maude for this tip. Irregardless of the camera angle, I followed the instruction and IMMEDIATELY improved both distance and accuracy! I’m 66 and my average drives were in the 254 range! Just incredible. I take my time to set up as instructed, take my normal swing and away it goes. I’m a 5.7 hcp and love golf! Thank you Pro!

iam going to give it a try.awesome 👍👍👍👍👍

Love this drill! It's great for working on contact 👍👍

The 45* inclined plane circle that you are demonstrating in this video is something that I have been working on. Although I still lack the distance I am wanting, I do have the consistency in the strike most of the time! Well Done Danny! Always learning and validating from your videos!

Thank you great video

Thank you Danny, great drill.

That is incredible how far you get it with your feet together like that. If I can do that I won't bother widening my stance, fantastic. Thanks as always have a great weekend

Thanks again Danny for great instruction, gonna try this for sure & try & get rid of the bad swing I’ve picked up over the winter ❤

This makes so much sense - cannot wait to try this in practice

This lesson makes much sense to me. I am going to try on the driving range next week.

Thanks man!

Combined this logic with Ernest Jones classic 1937 Golf Book "Swing the Clubhead". Went to the range at my club here in Scottsdale AZ and stroked 80 balls for the first time using this drill. Only 2 hard slices, maybe 8 fades and the rest straight or nice draw using irons, fairways and driver. I wish I had seen a video like this many years ago. Can build on this and slowly widen my stance with control and consistency. Smooth takeaway, staying on plane, keeping the feet closer eliminates body movements (any sways) .... makes a big difference.

Amazing thank you

I tried this at the range today, it was a revelation!!! Simple! Thanks Danny.

Brilliant!

Wonderful simple drill !! Thank you

Looks good definitely going to try this when I get back from holiday tomorrow, who knows maybe even on a golf course! Thanks 👍

Great video. Makes it so simple and clear to follow. You don't rush it, you show all the inidivual steps, making it easy to follow and undestand...and, what I think is really important, is, that you also show what you shouldn't be doing when swinging (which we all do), as well as what you should, which makes it all so much easier/clearer to follow.

Excellent information. Cant wait to try it out. 👌

As always, great content Danny!

Brilliant ! I tried this tip and it immediately helped the consistency of my low point Thank you! 🙏🏻

Great video DM. Really useful 👍

Excellent lesson!

Seems exactly what I need. I am going to go practice this starting tomorrow. I lack consistency and this seems the way to get there. THANK YOU!!

Good stuff like always!

Great explanation thank you.

I love how you teach. I feel like this is the only golf lesson I need. I wish you were local to me. I spend thousands every year at my Golftec and they are not bad but they are not you.

Great video. This was very helpful. Kudos!

Great tip. Can’t wait to work on this.

Was playing this morning so had a few warm up swings on the 1st, worked really well striking improved both off the tee and from the fairway. I will keep working on it as its simpler than any other solution to my "kill the legs" thought when I feel myself moving too much....now to rewatch the chipping lesson with Pete