Why You Need This:

“It’s effortless power. It’s easy power. You can take three-quarter swings all day long and hit it past your buddies.”

Many players struggle to stay in their posture during a swing, but this simple method teaches you to maintain that critical pro-level form effortlessly. This significantly increases your power and distance on all shots.

This secret technique lies in understanding forward shaft lean, ball position, and how to compress the ball for maximum energy transfer. You’ll get a breakdown for each club type to apply these insights across your entire bag.

Sick of weak, frustrating shots? Fed up with not getting the yardage you know you’re capable of?  This fix will make you the envy of your golf buddies.

Think of hitting the perfect golf shot as launching a rocket. When you compress the ball, you generate the explosive energy at liftoff. Staying in your posture is like having the right launch platform to ensure that energy drives the ball forward, not dissipating into the air.

What's Covered: See: "Perfect Practice Plan" Sheet In "Practice Keys" Section of This Page

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:30

Video Transcription:

Clay: All right. So as we move into this final step, you're probably asking yourself, clay, are we ever going to hit real shots? Are we always just going to be choked up on the shaft to try to get the posture? Well, the reason I did that, there's a reason it's not just by happenstance. I want to make sure that we get enough reps into where we can grain being in our posture.

And it's impossible to be in our posture or get out of our posture. If we're choked up like that. So I'd rather you spend extra time choked up before we go to the full swings. Now let's take it to the full swing, full backswing, full finish, normal grip on our club. So here all we're going to do is we're going to recreate what we did in video number one, where we go ahead and lean the shaft forward on our leg.

So we have shaft lean, forward shaft lean. We're going to feel like we've been down in our posture, just like we've been working on this entire time. And we're going to re grip the club. So you can see now here, because I have the shaft lean. I can stay in my posture and not bury the club in the ground.

This right arm is going to be bent. If I don't have the shaft lean, my club is straight up and down and I stay in my posture. Again, I'm burying it in the ground. So club shaft on the lead leg, re grip it, have the same feeling here as we've been through the power position, club slightly to the inside. As I release, toe toward the target, and then we're going to come all the way to the full finish where we're stacked just like Bernhard Longer.

our head is going to be just over our right leg if we're looking from this down the line view as we full make that full finish. So we're going to go ahead and set up here club on the left leg. We're going to do 10 reps and really focusing in on staying down through the shot and then coming to that nice stack finish balanced on our left leg as we fall through.

There we go. Hit that one. Nice. and solid, nice little tight draw there. And I love the feeling. It feels so compressed when I'm doing that. As I stay in my posture, it allows me to get those hands almost like trap the golf ball on the club face with the hands in front. And it just kind of explodes off the face.

So even though I felt like I, I barely swung at that one, 114 yards of carry 122 yards total distance after the rollout. So that's pretty daggone good. That feels Super, super solid. I'm going to do that again. And I'm really going to focus on nose almost on the ground. And my natural inclination is going to be, man, there's not very much room for this club to move in here.

I really have to get my hands in front for that to make sense. Just make sure when you get those hands in front, I still release the toe so it's toward the target when I'm on a straight line release. As I start to get my hands in front, I don't want to hold off on this face and hit blocks to the right.

Just like we talked about in the last progression, if I'm cutting it just a little more from the inside on the power position, a little more release of the toe as you're coming through, and that's all you have to do. It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that. So club on the left leg, setting up to it.

Nice balance finish on the way through. There we go. That's as solid as I can hit one. And again, 114 yards. And those are easy swings. Let me show you when you really ramp this up. Let's say you get completely comfortable. I don't want you making any hard swings when you're doing this. I want you to ingrain the motion.

But once you get the motion down, you can really compress a golf ball. So once I do this now with a full swing, Same feeling. I'm going to be down through the shot hands in front. I'm going to go ahead and make a little more aggressive swing on this one.

135 yards with my sand wedge. Now I didn't all of a sudden put on 20 pounds of muscle, get way faster, right? All I did is use the right technique to be able to hit that kind of shot like that. So my club head speed was fairly fast as 92. 9 miles an hour. That's going to be faster than most players. But 135 yards is pretty daggone long with a sand wedge.

The only way that can happen is by compressing it, staying in your posture and really getting those hands in front. So it's like the, the club, like I said before, the Trevino, I want that ball to be smashed into the club because I'm trapping it with my hands forward. And I want to feel like I got to shake the ball off there when I finish, because it's stuck to the face so well.

Now, if I flip here. You're not going to see anything like this. So this one, I'm going to go back and do it the wrong way. Again, I'm going to have long arms. I'm going to back up out of my posture. The loft is going to get higher and you're going to see, I can swing really fast, but instead of that penetrating, nice draw ball flight, you're going to see a much higher, much shorter shot.

So there again, I swung three miles an hour faster. Now I know these numbers seem kind of crazy. I'm swinging fast on all these. I have high swing speed, so they're all going to go fairly far. I swung three miles an hour faster and I lost 27 yards, right? I went down to 108. I swung faster, but because I didn't stay in my posture and compress the ball the right way, I hit it on the center of the face.

It wasn't like I mishit this shot. It was on the middle of the face, but because I was doing it the wrong way, then I'm a posture losing the shaft lean. That ball went 27 yards shorter. Now, if you're a slower swing speed player, maybe your absolute best sand wedge is going to be 95 yards. Totally fine. If you do it right and compress it, you're going to be pretty daggone consistent doing that.

If I do it the wrong way, instead of 95 yards, maybe it goes 80, 75 yards, 60 yards, right? The point of this is you're going to be losing distance. You're going to be losing consistency because the ball is going to float up the face. We're having way too much loft on it. And it's a glancing blow. If I stay in my posture, And I learned to compress it.

Like we're talking about here, it's effortless power. It's easy power. You can take three quarter swings all day long and hit it past your buddies. So finally here, let's go, you know, to recap on this whole thing, how do we take this to the rest of the bag? It's actually incredibly simple. The really, the main difference, you know, we're going to say, Clay, I get that we have a ton of shaft lean on these little wedge shots.

I get this up there by my front leg, but what about a seven iron? We'll take it too low. You know, if I'm really down here in my posture. And I have a ton of shaft lean with a seven iron. Isn't that too much? Well, yes, that's correct. With a seven iron, your ball position is going to be slightly forward of where it was with a sand wedge.

And you're going to have a little less sand, a little left forward shaft lean, less forward shaft lean as a result of that. So again, with a seven iron, the back of my balls in the middle of my stance with my sand wedge, it was probably the middle of the ball or the front of the ball in the middle of my stance.

As I move to this seven iron, the ball is slightly more up in my stance. So when I get my hands on my lead leg, it's not all that much shaft lean now. It's just a little tiny bit of shaft lean pros with a six iron, seven iron typically have about 10 degrees of shaft lean, which is about what that is. Pros with a sand wedge are going to have closer to 15 degrees of shaft lean.

Well, if my ball is a little farther back and I get my hands in front of my lead leg, that's the difference. It's just ball position. If I go to driver now, Same thing, balls on my front foot. So the ball's kind of on the end step or the toe of my front foot. Well, now if I have it leaning on my, on my front leg, that's straight up and down shaft.

That's a nice high draw. So I can feel like I'm going to stay in my posture the same as I did with those irons. And it's going to be perfect for a driver too. Now I will say, as you go to longer and longer clubs, We're not going to be quite as bent over as we were on that choked up sand wedge. You're going to naturally stand a little taller.

You're going to naturally stand a little farther away from the golf ball, but that's because the shaft is longer. If you get it down with a sand wedge, you simply recreate the same thing with a driver and it's going to feel the same, but because of the longer shaft length, because of the ball position is different, it's going to perform a little bit different.

Let's go ahead and hit a driver now.

There we go. To me, I felt the same as I did with my iron swings. I took a nice little easy swing there. 267 yards of carry. Not bad for the first driver swing of the day. And it rolled out to 289. As I got warmed up, it'd go a little farther than that. But the point there is, it felt the same as that sand wedge swing.

But because the shaft was longer, because my ball position was farther up, So the adjustments are going to be done on their own. So the great thing about this, you get it down with a sand wedge and it'll naturally happen with all the other clubs in your bag. So I really hope that you enjoyed this course and it's been a blast sharing this information with you.

It took me years to figure this out and to be able to get players to pretty easily stay in their posture. You see the pros doing it all the time. It's like, why in the heck can I not do that? Well, it's a few things there that are tied together and knowing what to do the right way to do it. Now, if you had great success with this, I'd love to hear from you.

You can email support@topspeedgolf.com. If you had a tremendous, uh, success story where you're staying in your posture for the first time ever, I'd love to hear from you. That makes my day. I love to hear when I do a course like this and you really have a good time with it. You really have tons and tons of success.

Uh, that's a lot of fun to hear. So I can't wait to hear from you. Best of luck. And I'll see you soon.