The Ball Striking Truths Nobody Tells You – Simple Golf Swing Drills

Why Golf Planning Broken and How We Fixed It.

Every year, 12 million U.S. golfers travel to play in tournaments, yet the experience of planning for the trip is the opposite of enjoyable. With more than 100,000 golf events held annually and no central platform to search them all, players and families spend an average of 4.7 hours researching and planning every single tournament.

The result: 65% of tournament golfers report dissatisfaction with current planning resources—leading to frustration, wasted money, wasted time, and missed deadlines.

Hubble.GOLF solves all of these challenges. Launching today, the new all-in-one platform unites tournament discovery, travel booking, budgeting, and team coordination into a single, seamless experience.

Hubble Makes Golf Planning Easier for Everyone Involved in Competitive Golf.

  1. Parents of Junior Golfers
    Hubble.GOLF helps parents of junior golfers create itineraries, organize travel, build a smart budget, and track their child’s development all in one place.
  2. Adult Amateur Golfers
    Hubble.GOLF helps adult amateur golfers locate events that fit their schedule, score the best deals on tournament hotels, and stay on budget.
  3. Golf Coaches and Instructors
    Hubble.GOLF helps golf coaches and instructors coordinate team schedules and logistics with ease, communicate with players and parents, search for tournaments, and track player development.
  4. Tournament Directors and Organizers
    Hubble.GOLF helps tournament directors and organizers do away with outdated planning methods, ensure smooth registration, and gain access to a larger, more connected community of players and fans.

Everything You Need, All in One Place

1. Comprehensive Tournament Discovery

Gone are the days of bookmarking dozens of different tournament websites. Our database contains thousands of tournaments nationwide, from local junior golf events to major amateur championships. Search by location, date, age group, or skill level and find exactly what you’re looking for in seconds.

For junior golf families, this means no more missing registration deadlines or overlooking perfect developmental opportunities. For competitive amateurs, it means discovering events you never knew existed. Our golf tournament platform centralizes what used to be scattered across countless websites, email lists, and word-of-mouth recommendations.

2. Intelligent Itinerary Planning

Building a tournament schedule used to mean juggling spreadsheets, calendars, and sticky notes. Now, you can create comprehensive itineraries that include tournaments, travel time, and family commitments. Everything syncs seamlessly across your devices, so you’re never double-booked again.

Parents managing multiple junior golf schedules will especially appreciate having all tournament information centralized in one place. Share schedules with coaches, family members, or carpool partners with ease. You can view travel time between events, helping you plan realistic schedules that don’t leave players exhausted before they even reach the first tee.

3. Integrated Travel & Booking

Why visit multiple websites to plan one tournament trip? Book hotels directly through Hubble, often with exclusive discounts negotiated specifically for our golf community. We’ve partnered with major travel providers to make tournament travel simpler.

As we continue to expand our travel integration features, we’re working to add flight and rental car booking capabilities, along with enhanced preference tracking to make your tournament travel planning even more seamless.

4. Cash Caddie: Your Financial Command Center

Tournament golf can be expensive, but it doesn’t have to be mysterious. Our Cash Caddie feature helps you track expenses, monitor budgets, and even calculate mileage for tax purposes. Finally, you’ll have clear visibility into the true cost of competitive golf.

For junior golf families making significant investments in their young athlete’s development, this transparency is invaluable. Track everything from entry fees and travel costs to equipment expenses and coaching investments. Generate reports for tax preparation, college scholarship applications, or simply understanding where your tournament budget actually goes. Set spending limits by category and receive alerts before you exceed them.

5. A Community That Gets It

Connect with other golfers, parents, and coaches who understand the unique challenges of tournament life. Share course-specific insights, get advice on navigating college golf recruitment, compare notes on training approaches, and build relationships that extend far beyond the 18th hole.

Our community features include tournament-specific discussion threads where players share local knowledge about courses, lodging recommendations from families who’ve been there before, and even carpooling coordination for regional events. For junior golf development, parents can connect with others at similar stages of the journey, sharing both the victories and the valuable lessons learned along the way.

Built by Golfers, for Golfers

Our team includes competitive players, tournament parents, and coaches who’ve experienced every scenario you can imagine. We’ve missed registration deadlines, booked hotels in the wrong city, and showed up to tournaments unprepared. Those painful lessons became the foundation for every feature in Hubble.

We didn’t just build software – we solved problems we’ve actually lived. Every feature exists because someone on our team has a story about needing exactly that tool at exactly the wrong moment. That lived experience shapes not just what our golf tournament platform does, but how it works and what it prioritizes.

What's Coming Next?

This launch is just the beginning. Over the coming months, you’ll see expanded tournament coverage, enhanced community features, and tools that make competitive golf even more accessible. We’re exploring partnerships with golf academies, junior golf organizations, club manufacturers, and tournament organizers to create an even richer ecosystem.

Features in development include performance tracking tools that help players identify strengths and improvement areas across multiple tournaments, enhanced coach collaboration tools for team management, and integration with popular golf GPS and stat-tracking apps. We’re also working on scholarship resource centers specifically for families navigating the junior golf to college golf pathway.

Most importantly, we’re listening. Your feedback drives our roadmap, and every feature request gets serious consideration from our development team. As competitive golfers and tournament parents ourselves, we know the platform is never truly “finished” – it evolves as the needs of the competitive golf community evolve.

Join the Revolution

Competitive golf has been stuck in the past for too long. Scattered information, manual processes, and disconnected systems have made tournament golf harder than it needs to be. Hubble changes that equation.

Whether you’re a junior golfer chasing college scholarships, a parent managing multiple kids’ tournament schedules, or a coach working with an entire team, our golf tournament platform was built with your specific challenges in mind. We understand the unique demands of competitive golf because we live them alongside you.

Ready to Simplify Your Golf Life?

Creating your Hubble account takes less than two minutes, and you can start exploring tournaments immediately. No long learning curves, no complicated setup processes – just powerful tools that work the way you think.

Welcome to Hubble.GOLF. Welcome to the future of competitive golf.

Ready to get started? Sign up for your free Hubble account today and discover what organized tournament golf feels like.

Have questions about Hubble or ideas for future features? We’d love to hear from you. Connect with our team through the community section or reach out directly – we read every message and we’re genuinely excited to hear how we can make this golf tournament platform even better for you.

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By: Mark Crossfield | Duration: 00:06:28


Video Description

Do you want to learn the secret of pure ball striking that can transform your golf game? In this video, I will reveal the truth about striking that most golfers don’t know. You will discover how to hit the ball and then the turf with your irons, which is the key to consistent and accurate shots.

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26 Comments

  1. @jamiesloan7259

    Uhh. It looks like your foot mat has your feet above the ball. Is it level with the floor, or am I looking at it wrong?

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  2. @That_Cajun_Guy

    Variability and differential practice! Love it. I started hitting off of the sides, back and front slopes of the tee boxes at the local par 3 to throw myself some curveballs and it's improved my ball striking for sure. Trying to hit big slices and hooks, thinning or chunking on purpose has also helped. Have to make yourself uncomfortable and stop worrying about hitting a bad shot, even on the range!

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  3. @mrwoo33

    Great video Mark. I play on a particularly hilly course so flat lies are very rare

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  4. @lvond555

    Your insight to how the game is played and what you should do to get better is always top notch. Great video!

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  5. @roadtoscratch3481

    Mark, this is an excellent drill, and, yes, we amatuers think that we must practice on a level ground when, as you keenely stated, is not how we actually play on the course. Thanks for reminding us of this. Cheers.

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  6. @OsgoodEcho

    At last I’ve been telling my playing partners for years you practice at the range perfectly flat lies and I don’t think I’ve ever had a perfectly flat lie on a course. So I’ve always practiced with foam squares under my mat at different places so slightly above my feet and below at different parts of the mat and going straight from slightly high point to the lowest point I still can thin the first shot as it’s lower and until I swing can’t adjust on first change.

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  7. @Charles-xq6mr

    Kind of like hitting off an ice covered pond!! Lol… Great tip…Cheers

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  8. @jordanprice6249

    Great video, and makes total sense. So maybe the best way to practice and get better is just to get out on the course and play more and get your basic skill set better, then go back to the range and get lessons to help you improve even more 😊👍

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  9. @chrisashford4295

    To use a crossfield saying…"its intresting" how quickly someone can turn into a salesman.

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  10. @razorockIB

    maybe the best tip I've seen in a very long time

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  11. @SolomonLi

    Oh yes please. I love this kind of practice! Thanks Mark! Great as always.

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  12. @ryajsmit

    Grew up on hills ball contact has never been a problem since

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  13. @rafabonati7757

    There is a big difference between being critical and just questioning someone. There is nothing wrong with questioning someone’s instruction. But if you plan to criticize someone in public, don’t. I think your ideas are quite sound, Mark. Nice lesson!

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  14. @Jeebizz101

    I noticed something very similar, I built a sim in my garage and at the start I found it kinda wonky to hit unless I had my golf shoes on, over the weeks of walking past and hitting a few shots with different footwear from barefoot to work boots which are way different in height it slowly became less of an issue, didnt even really think about it till watching this

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  15. @rufussthoo4083

    Technique/mechanics vs skill/dynamics. It is good to be reminded I spend an imbalanced amount of time on the former. Cheers, Mark.

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  16. @PhillipNorby

    This is incredible advice. Going to start doing this right away!

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  17. @jacobthomson5177

    Hi mark hope you’ll answer my question here.

    I buy into your ideas on lag and ulnar flexion happening earlier and all of those outdated lag ideas that are wrong!

    However I’m still wondering – when you look at videoes of tommy Fleetwood mcilroy and the like you often see them still showing a 90 degree angle between forearm and club when their hands are around their upper thigh.

    Coaches continually show me videos of that angle comparing it with my swing where my club isnt holding that angle when my hands are around upper thigh.
    They use videos like that to show me where I should in my swing.

    So my question is – why does the pros swing look like that from the front on view when my swing doesn’t look like that.
    Is that also due to the fact that their club head may be more behind their hands (thinking in down the line view)
    And therefore merely a sign that my swing may be steeper than theirs?

    Hope my question makes sense. I basically want to know if my coach is actually right in saying that I’m letting go of angles and need to hold on more when comparing my swing to a pros.

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  18. @kentbrown3736

    Mark I love your videos mate. Thank you for bringing skill and good communication to the game of golf. Many of your tips have really helped to lower my score consistently. Love your work mate.

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  19. @matthewloughton

    This is an incredible video Mark.I really do think this is a great video exposing the difference between technique and skill. Skill is ultimately tested on the golf course. I've seen some really wild swing techniques come in under par consistently because they mostly train their skill and are able to repeat what they have

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  20. @JonathanBrazil1

    🤯yet again, Mark. Your insights and tips, understanding of the pitfalls we all stumble into as casual players never ceases to open my eyes. Not once did I ever think of practising dynamically adapting to a situation and so simply as you have shown. Please keep them coming. I may never be a great player but schooling like this will certainly stop me from being a neglectful player.

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  21. @MACS6USMC

    Played a course in Iowa and hit 12 fairways. However there wasn't a flat lie on the course. I hit one green.

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  22. @richardmurphy4210

    Exactly the same problem I am having. Thanks for breaking it down to make it more understandable.

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  23. @ronharrington8659

    I have a question. Why do we hit better shots on uphill lies?

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