What do you think the best way to teach your child to produce solid contact is?

Have you tried hitting him??

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Grip wayyy down. Make the club as short as possible.

Hit chips, pitches, and half wedges. Make them compete against each other.

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Great advice.

Might not be a popular comment, but getting him fitted to shafts and getting his lofts and lies dialed in will help immensely with turf/ball interaction.

Water balloons.

Let them swing at water balloons.

Skip rocks.

Throw balls.

Crack whips.

I saw mine trying to hit with my clubs one day. He was about 9 as well. So got him a used set of kids clubs.

Just gave him a few fundamantals and we'd play yard golf. Lay out a course around your house and use whiffle balls (also more forgiving if you hit it fat or thin). You have to be within a club length of the "hole" (tree, lawnmower, bush, whatever) concrete is water. Id handicap him strokes and we'd just go out an have fun. Kids will play on their own and figure it out if its fun. Dude was going out and practicing so he could beat me.

He's 11 now and makes great contact. He did first tee for a few weeks before we moved and was outhitting all but a couple kids. Just from smacking around whiffle balls.

We played Beaver Creek and he did pretty dang good from the red tees. Shot a 57 on the front nine. Respectable for his first half round of golf. After he hit a shot Id hit my shot as close to his ball as I could (iron practice for me). That way we werent all over course and could keep play moving. Kid had some nice shots. His putting was where he really needed work. Like all of us, lol.

weight kinda always forward being young I think learn the feeling of compressing those irons at the youngest age possible.

Nicklaus said learn to hit the ball as far as you can...then you can work on straightening it out. but power is harder to develop. but these days I guess you can

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have them break water balloons instead of hitting golf balls - they will learn how to compress a golf ball by smashing water balloons with plastic clubs - did it with my girls all the time and it works

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I posted regarding water balloons.
Somebody downvoted.
I guess for some, golf can never be just fun.

Aren’t your daughters world ranked golfers now?

Smashing water balloons at 4-6 years old is loads of fun.
Accidentally learning something about golf is a hidden bonus.

Adam young has some great drills and guidance for contact training
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The entire point of the golf swing is to essentially return to your initial address position at your impact position. There are some subtle differences like angle of attack on wedges, irons, woods and driver. But the best thing you can do, is to keep it as simple as possible.

Address, posture, and feeling comfortable and athletic at address.

Not doing too much on the swing. Simple rotation, head down, don't move the feet around, don't drop the level of your knees, chest, etc

It's really a simple game if you let it be

As a last resort, I recommend beating the wife in front of your children for every whiff they have out on the range. You have to set the standard of what is acceptable and what is not. Then they will understand it.

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don't move the feet around

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Develop a swinging motion.

The feet may move, but in response to a true swinging motion like Scheffler.

Don’t is hard to do.

Do swing the clubhead like Ernest Jones/Manuel De La Torres taught.