John: You have probably noticed that all the balls that Remy and Ruth are hitting are all situated on a tee, most important in my opinion for the beginner, because he has to have a feeling of confidence. When the balls are on the tee it's not going to be too difficult for him to get the ball fly. And when they see that, they are much easier to teach, they are much receptive. Let's go and see how Remy is getting on here. Remy.
Remy: Yeah.
John: What's happening, how is it going?
Remy: I went so right, but, I don’t know the best place to hit the ball to have the best direction.
John: Nice impact, okay well, basically the club should be taking the ball about here, right in the middle, okay, right in the center. The manufactures call this the sweet spot. You have got the guidelines on your club actually, which we are going to show you basically. And this is called the, sweet spot and it is the area that you get less the impact feel, you don't -- you don't even feel the club hitting the ball, it's very, very light. Okay when you hit the ball on the toe or the heel there's a shock in your hands and this is the sort of thing that you are going to feel very, very quickly yourself. I mean it's rather, like when you play tennis, if you hit the ball near the wooden part of the tennis racket immediately the ball is not so powerful, and you feel it in your hands. It's the same thing.
So put the club down, like this, start off with the ball centered right in the middle between the hosel and the toe, there you go, and that's with good coordination that's where you have got to try and bring the club back. Now just try and get a really nice shot, okay. Right in the middle, good coordination, off you go, hit a good one. Beautiful.
Okay now, I heard good impact noise there, I don't know whether you did. Okay different, okay tell me what to do now, purposely try to hit the ball from the toe. Try to mishit the shot, try and catch the ball right on it, just to -- so that you feel the difference. Okay and that's very well done. You hit so much on the toe, you missed it, that's it. Did you feel the difference?
Remy: Yes.
John: Okay now this is important, even when beginner takes the first lesson, I like them to feel some -- the movement, when it’s bad, they must know when it’s bad as well. So you see learning to play golf really isn't so difficult, is it? I've got one more little thing, you might like to practice, throw a ball on the ground and keep it moving, just using the right hand, and your club like this, just keep it moving it's a really super exercise for coordination, just like that okay.
So you too, can learn to play golf, if you remember my two basic principles, don't forget them now, natural instinct, coordination and like Ruth and Remy practice would be quite easy. See you next week.
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