Why You Need This: Shallowing the club has become a "buzz" word in the golf these days, but it's not always the easiest move to make (especially if it's brand new to you).

In fact, there's one big reason (or "missing piece") that pro golfers are getting right and today you're going to get that missing piece.

You're FINALLY going to add the "Tour Twist" to your downswing and start hitting the best shots of your life!

Discover this move and transform your golf swing, right now.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:49

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: Hey, I’ve got a really exciting video for you today. I’m going to talk about the two things that pro golfers do that most recreational golfers don’t do. It gives you a whole lot of trouble.

Plus, I’m going to go over something that I call the “Tour Twist,” it’s a very specific way to use your wrists in the downswing to kind of lock in those angles, get it set, get it the right way just like the Tour players are doing.

So let’s go over those.

Number one, most players that I see when they’re not hitting it very solid, they really never have that ball that’s really compressed, really crisp, really clean.

You know, when you’re standing on the range and you hear somebody and it just sounds different? That’s what I’m going to teach you in this video.

You want to be that guy on the range that sounds different, sounds really clean.

So most golfers will tend to come a little bit steeper, meaning that as they start their downswing the shaft angle is pointing inside the golf ball here.

Then from there, they’re going to be coming down over the top, which means a more negative kind of descending angle of attack.

You imagine that’s an airplane coming in to the golf ball here, your club head’s the airplane. It’s coming in too steep, kind of nose-diving into the ground. That’s the first piece.

What you’ll see with Tour players, is they’ll get that angle shallowed out quite a bit. This club shaft now is pointing at the golf ball as they start their downswing, or a little bit outside the golf ball there.

That’s going to allow them to come in on this nice, shallow angle and really compress the golf ball. That’s like that airplane kind of gliding into the runway, it’s going to be a lot more solid, a lot more compressed when you hit shots that way.

Also, you may have noticed this but not really known the cause of this. If I start down a little steep, what will end up happening is I end up backing out of that shot by raising my upper body and flipping the hands at it.

You’ll notice now I’ve lost my posture. Because of this, my handle raises up. If you ever notice in your divots that the toe side starts first, before the heel side, or the toe side of the divot is deeper, that’s from that steepening angle.

You want to make sure that you’re coming in on that nice, shallower angle. Now that’s the first piece.

The second piece, is even more important. It’s what I call the Tour Twist, and let’s go over the right way and the wrong way of doing this.

Most golfers are very comfortable squaring the club up by releasing their hands this way. So if you notice if I have my wrist with some lag and I flip the club to where there’s no shaft lean, that face is perfectly square and my wrists are really flat on both sides.

Now that’s not what the Tour players are doing. You see what the Tour players are doing is they’re taking the normal amount of loft.

So with this 6 iron, there’s about 30° of loft on this club and they’re leaning the shaft forward. That’s a big key to compressing the heck out of the golf ball.

I need to be able to come in shallower, and I need to be able to get some shaft lean and have this face square.

But here’s where most people go wrong with this. If I take my normal grip and I go ahead and I lean the hands forward but I keep the wrists neutral, then you’ll notice that the face isn’t square.

You see we’re used to squaring up the face by throwing the wrist this way with no shaft lean. That would be this type of motion.

When I use that same type of wrist pattern, so I’m squaring the wrist up by doing this but I add some forward shaft lean to it, notice how the face is now pointing a mile to the right.

So look at my left wrist. Look at my right wrist. I’m not going to change the angles of those, I’m just going to go ahead and let that go forward. You’ll notice my hands kind of roll open when I do that.

So if I keep a flat left wrist, I keep a flat right wrist, and I just shove the handle in front, my club face is way open.

That’s where most players go wrong when they’re trying to compress it like the pros, they get their hands in front, but they’re not used to using the wrist in the right way to square up that face.

Now there’s a second way to square up this face. We can flip, that would be this kind of backwards and forwards called wrist flexion and extension, which you don’t need to know that for this video, but that’s the first way, the wrong way of doing it.

The second way is by twisting the butt end of this club. So I’m kind of twisting the shaft around itself so the shaft isn’t moving forwards or backwards, it’s just turning in a circle.

You’ll notice when I do that, that can open or close the club face. That’s exactly what the pros are doing.

So they’re coming in with shaft lean, but instead of having this open because our wrists are flat, they’re turning their wrist, or twisting that club handle to where now that face is square straight up and down.

You notice how if I do this, I’m going to go ahead and open my body. I have the face perfectly square with no loft on that.

That would look like this in the downswing. I’ve opened my body, my hands are in front, but now I’ve turned that club to where the face is square and I’ve taken a ton of loft off the face of the golf club.

When you put those two things together, if I get that club shallower and then I twist the heck out of it, that is really going to compress the ball like you’ve never felt before.

So what I want you to feel here, is I want you to have pro problems. I want you to get that ball starting too much from the inside. Let’s over-shallow it at first. Let’s do it the wrong way.

I hardly see anybody ever over-shallow it. Let’s go ahead and do too much of the Tour Twist to where we really take all the loft off the club.

Make sure that that ball is drawing from right to left because now that I’m closing this face the right way, I can just swing as hard as I want, I’m going to be able to hit that nice draw. Let’s do that.

Now let me show you how to do that in a video here, or drill here. What I want you to do, is I’m going to go ahead and set up. I want you to go to shaft parallel in the downswing.

When I do this, I’m going to pause right here. I want to make sure that I open my hips as I’m doing that. I don’t want to see this where my hips are closed and my body’s closed.

I want my hips to go ahead and be opening up, and when that shaft is parallel, now we’re going to take this left wrist – and I want you to do about five reps – where you turn the left wrist down as far as you can, to where the face is now pointing to the ground. That’s an over-exaggeration of the Tour Twist.

Number two, after we get those five reps, I’m going to do five reps with the right hand. Just feeling that wrist turning down like that, and I can feel all that loft coming off there.

The second piece of that, after I get those five reps in, I’m going to turn it down, and then I’m going to come into contact and I’m going to make sure that that face is square.

I don’t want to have that face pointing out to the right. I don’t want to have this where my wrists aren’t bowed and cupped. I want to have this where they’re now squared up.

That’s exactly what you’re seeing with all these Tour players when they get a bowed left wrist, or a cupped right wrist, that’s that nice angle of lag like you see everybody doing. That’s the Tour Twist, that’s that getting that club head down like that.

Now from there, go ahead and make a few more practice swings without making the pauses, and I’m going to get that club from the inside like this.

Now instead of being parallel with the ground here, I’m going to get it a little bit more inside, and I’m going to release it and have that big draw feeling.

So all I’m doing here is go ahead and going parallel to the downswing. Second piece here, I’m going to go a little more to the inside and release it.

You see what I’m getting you to do there in the second exaggeration, we’ve learned the right way, let’s go ahead and exaggerate to where now we get the club even a little more shallow, a little bit more from the inside and we release that club and really get it to turn on over, really compress the snot out of it.

So I’m going to do about another 5 or 10 reps feeling that, and then once I eel like I’m doing that correctly, I want you to get 100 total reps making sure you have that big draw every time.

Making sure you really take the loft off of it every time, and once you’ve gotten 100 practice swings, this is without hitting any golf balls at all, you’re going to have a really good feel for the muscle memory.

That’s not the right term, that’s not really what’s going on, but your neurological system is going to get the feel for the timing of this and how to do this.

From there, now we can set up this golf ball, swing as far to the right as you want to, close the face down as much as you want to, and it’s going to be really compressed. I want you to hit those nice, compressed draws.

If anything, get it to start too far right and over-draw the golf ball, 15-20 yards of draw is fine. We can always tone back on that.

There we go. Nice draw. That one even drew back into the wind a little bit.

So again, when I’m doing these, I’ve done my practice swings. Between each shot, I’m going to go ahead and get those same feelings.

So I’m going to pause here, do the Tour Twist, get the club a little inside, and then I’m going to swing out to the right and really let that thing release.

I’m going to be over-compressing it. This ball should come out very low, very penetrating, and feel really nice and solid.

There we go. Very low, very well-hit shot there. So work on that Tour Twist, ingrain that, and you’re going to have pro problems. You’re going to be drawing it as well as any of the pros in the PGA Tour. I’ll see you soon.