Inside-Out Draw Drill (Wedding China Drill)

Place the TrueStrike just outside and slightly ahead of the ball — in the path that an over-the-top, outside-in swing would travel. The pad acts as the physical obstacle Jacob references in his "wedding china" analogy: if you swing over the top, you hit it. If your path is inside-out, you won't come close. In the downswing, the goal is to feel the clubhead get just behind your hands at waist height — from there, a neutral face matching the spine angle allows you to rotate through and produce a right-to-left draw.

The Wedding China Drill is a classic teaching concept where an instructor places a valuable object — traditionally wedding china, now updated to a cell phone — just outside the ball on the ground. The consequence of swinging over the top is breaking something precious, which powerfully rewires the instinct to come outside-in. Jacob uses the TrueStrike as the modern, damage-free version: the pad provides the same physical feedback without the risk to the club, the training aid, or anyone's personal belongings.

Heel and hosel strikes happen when the clubhead moves too far toward the ball's inner half at impact — usually because the club has approached from outside the target line and the face has been rerouted toward the body. An inside-out path naturally pushes the clubhead away from the body through impact — Jacob specifically notes this drill "forces you to push away," which moves the sweet spot back to the center of the face and away from the hosel. Golfers who shank or consistently hit toward the heel will see immediate improvement with this path correction.

At the waist-high position on the downswing, an inside-out path has the clubhead trailing the hands — meaning if you looked from the target, the hands are slightly closer to the ball than the clubhead. This is the "slot" position that allows the club to approach from the inside and exit right of the target. When the clubhead is in front of or outside the hands at waist high, the path is over the top and outside-in — the recipe for a slice. Jacob's drill trains this waist-high checkpoint as the key reference for whether the downswing is on the correct route.

At the waist-high downswing position, a neutral face angle means the face is roughly matching the angle of your spine — tilted slightly toward the ground rather than pointing at the sky (too closed) or at the target (too open). Jacob uses this checkpoint as a draw-production confirmation: if the clubhead is behind the hands and the face matches the spine angle, you have an inside-out path with a neutral face — the conditions for a controlled draw. A face that's too closed from that position produces a hook; too open produces a push or block.