Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Finally... The Real Feeling Of Shallowing Your Golf Swing"

And there’s one downswing move with the right hand…

…that not only allows you to shallow out your downswing…

…it’ll also help you get more lag, compress the ball, open your hips and stay in your posture.

Are you ready to see how a simple wall exercise can revolutionize your golf swing?

It’s amazing how much improvement this one move can provide you!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 10:48

Video Transcription:

Clay: Now, if you've been struggling to shallow out the club, I'm going to show you how this move, this start of the downswing move, is not only going to help you to finally shallow out the shaft, it's going to help you to get more lag, to compress the ball better, and to finally be able to open your hips, stay in your posture.

So many things come down to this little right hand move that I'm going to teach you here today. All right. So one of the questions that I get all the time is, Clay, I'm right handed. There's a lot of things that I can't feel in the swing. I do feel like I have a good feeling of what my right hand is doing if I'm right handed.

If you're left handed, just flip this around in reverse, do everything we're going to say here just to the opposite side of your left hand. But for the sake of this, most people are right handed. Let's do the right handed drill. I've got a little, it's like a baseball training pad, I believe, um, really you don't need this at all.

I'm just using it to demonstrate and show what this should be doing. So I'm going to jump on the wall here. and go over the feeling that you need to have. So I'm going to be about a foot away from the wall. What we can do for this video, let's go ahead and do a split screen with a face on a down the line showing it the entire time.

That way we can see from both angles and you really get a lot of detail that way. So from my foot to the wall is about a foot away from that roughly get to where it's comfortable. And what I want to be able to do is turn what would be the top of my backswing and easily be able to place my hand on the wall.

So if I get too far away from the wall and I'm like two feet away from it, I'm gonna have to lean. If I get too close to it, I'm just really gonna be cramped up. There's not gonna be much room there. So about a foot away from the wall or so, 10 inches maybe, turn to the top, and then I'm gonna put this on the wall.

Now let's get the spacing of this right. If I'm standing straight up and down, and let's imagine that there's a line going through the middle of my body here, I would put this It's about head high. So kind of how your hands, if you go to the top of the backswing, my hands are going to be roughly head high.

And from there, instead of being in line with my body this way here, it's actually going to be a little bit behind my right shoulder. So as I turn, my hands will go over my right shoulder. It would be about right there. So basically it's just a little bit behind my body, about head high is the right way to put this pad on there.

So again, to do this correctly, I'm going to let my hips turn. I'm going to let my shoulders turn. My head should feel like it's kind of on the inside of my right foot. I don't want to be hanging back here and all of a sudden I can't reach the wall and I've got a reverse pivot. This is also great for reverse pivot where I turn into my right side, I put, place my hand on the wall and I'm right there in position.

So it's kind of top of the backswing. Now from here, instead of having the fingers up and down pointing this direction, I'm going to rotate the fingers until they're pointing straight out in front of me. And the feeling I should have for shallowing with the right hand in the downswing is as my body opens, this turns to the right.

So I'm going to feel like I turn my hand until this is at about a 45 degree angle. So you imagine this angle here, my fingertips are going to be pointing at that angle. So let's do that again. I'm in the backswing. I start my downswing and rotate the hand at the same time. Now you'll notice when I do this, look at my knees, they're staying nice and wide, I'm not collapsing into my left side, I'm keeping my knees wide, and my knees are starting to point toward down the line, my hips are opening.

My shoulders are starting to open too, but they're not all the way open like this, they're still about 45 degrees closed, that's going to allow me to keep this hand on the wall. Now from there, that's the Shallowing Move. That's the feeling you should be having to set this club on plane. If I did that with a golf swing, it would be this motion.

Top of the swing, and as I start down, it's going to be that type of a motion. It's exaggerated, so I don't want you to have to do this much in a real swing, but when I show you how to pair it up with the rest of it, when you take a video of a swing when you're trying to do this, it's going to look exactly like you want it to look.

So, let's go back to the wall here again and get this really ingrained. I'm setting up at the top. My fingers are here. I've opened my body and I've started to get my fingers at this 45 degree angle going this way. My fingertips are pointed behind me. Now from there, like I said, my hips are opening. My shoulders are still fairly closed.

And the only thing I'm going to do as I continue the downswing is I'm going to slide this pad at that 45 degree angle with my fingertips staying back as long as I can. So I want to have this. Bend in my right wrist. So we're looking from this angle, this bend in my right wrist as long as I can, as I'm opening my body.

That's what lag is. Most players get rid of that and start to cast that out a little bit as they continue their downswing. And that casting type motion is what gets this in there and I lose my lag. If I do this the correct way, like I'm showing you, I'm going to be lagging the club. The entire way down.

So let's keep it going all the way to impact. Now, as I continue down, here, I'm sliding it down, my hands are on the wall, I'm trying to keep my fingertips on the wall, and it angled back at that 45 until I'm about waist high. Then from there, I'm going to feel like, again, this wrist is angled back, and I'm going to be petting the ground all the way through contact.

So if I imagine I'm on the turf here, I'll just be swiping that turf. with my right hand. That's what it feels like. Now, one reason I really like that is at the start of the transition here, I'm going to keep my hand on this wall, but as we talked about, I open my body. I can go ahead and squat down and get to my left, get my weight to my left.

You'll notice how my arm goes from bent to being a little bit straighter because I'm getting off the wall with my body. I'm shifting to the left. As I continue down to do that, my weight is to my left, I'm closer to the ground, I'm not popping up out of my posture, and then from there, the feeling is now that I'm close to the ground, I can pet the turf, and then all I do in the finish to release that is let the hand fold back up, and again, if you can kind of imagine this 45 degree angle, I'm on it all the way down, petting the turf, and then from there, I'm letting it come back up on that 45 degree angle to finish my turn.

All I'm really doing to finish my turn. Is going ahead, letting my legs drive me through it and my weight get on to my lead side. So my weight's on my front foot. I really rotate around my back foot. It's completely off the turf at that point. Give me about 15 or 20 reps and you'll be surprised when you do that.

All of a sudden, you're going to feel this club. way shallowed out. You're going to feel like you have a ton of lag with this hand angled back. You're going to feel like you stay compressed on this golf ball. It's almost like the ball melts into the face and as you extend through it, it's just sunk in the face the entire time and then just really shoots off there with a lot of speed and power.

And the cool thing is, if you do this technique right, you really don't have to swing with tons of effort to get a lot of good ball speed. So I'm going to have that same feeling here. Here's an eight iron and I'm just going to swing nice and smooth. Let's go ahead and have the same feelings I just had there.

There we go. And that started out to the right. You can see it drawing back and I had 174 yard eight iron. I'm not even trying to feel like I'm killing the ball there. Let's get a little less shallow and get it slightly more straight. I exaggerated a little too much on that one. And that one is dead solid, 179 yards.

I may not ever do any better than that. That was pretty good. 179 yards with an 8 iron. Really felt nice and crisp. Cause I'm coming into the ball and really applying a lot of pressure through it. Cause I'm not flipping those hands and releasing all my angles. I'm here, I'm lagging, the ball is sinking into the face.

And then it just explodes right off there. There's a perfect compliment to this. If we're doing this correctly, we're getting down into the ground and we're releasing the club in front, meaning that we have lag, we're saving it up and we're releasing that lag past the ball. That's a straight line release.

Really all this is, is shallowing out the club, like I talk about in the 20 minute shallowing fix. If you remember the website, you've probably seen that, thousands of players have gone through there, had tremendous success shallowing the club. It's pairing that up with the straight line release. That's that pet the ground, and then let it fly on through there.

Now, I have a challenge for you. I want you to play golf a certain way. The way I want you to play golf is to get out of your car, not to have touched a club in a month, no practice, no anything. You loosen up with a few swings, and all of a sudden, you videotape your swing, and it hits all five of the real fundamentals that every single great player is doing.

Now, there is a formula, there is a way that you can build that into your swing, and it has a progression, happens in a progression. I've laid that out for you, level one, level two, level three of each of the pieces of the system. All you have to do is watch the video, do the drills that are in there, and I'm telling you, you'll see your swing start to transform if you just follow to the tee exactly what I lay out.

For today, the very first step of that, if you remember the website, go to the straight line release section. Just do a single video from level one, and what you're going to start to feel, again, this is the main feeling I want you to have when you're doing this straight line release. What you're going to see is the main benefit.

That ball is going to be trapped on the face, and you're going to feel like it stays on the face a long time because you're releasing out in front instead of standing up and hitting at the golf ball and losing all my angles. If I can trap it on the face and keep it on there. All the way down the target line, I'm going to hit it far, and I'm going to hit it a heck of a lot straighter.

And my release is going to be in front of the golf ball instead of at the golf ball. Go to the straight line release right now, and do the very first video in level 1. As you start to get to level 2, you still have to think about it a little bit, but it feels good, and it's starting to become ingrained.

As you get through level 3, it's ingrained. You don't have to think about it anymore. You're doing it in your swing. You've built that in there to where you don't have to think about it. You can get out of the car, and it just happens. And all you have to do is just look at a target swing and just be completely reactive, not thinking about the swing that much at all anymore.

If ever anymore, that's where I want to get you to. And it all starts today with level one. So I challenge you to do one video on level one today. You're going to be hooked. You're going to start that progression. I can't wait to hear about your tremendous success. Best of luck.