Why You Need This:

In this video we will test your compression line on video and see if you are hitting the key checkpoints. For level three I give you several checkpoints to be sure to do correctly. Keep up the hard work on the reps!

What's Covered: In this video we will test your compression line on video and see if you are hitting the key checkpoints. For level three I give you several checkpoints to be sure to do correctly. Keep up the hard work on the reps!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:22

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. This is the Level 3 compression line test. This is where it’s really starting to all come together.

In Level 1 we worked with mostly pausing drills and practice swings. Level 2 we worked mostly ingraining practice swings with actual real shots. In Level 3, we’re going to take it mostly to being full shots hitting a ball, and we’re not going to do quite as many practice reps in this.

We’re going to do 3,000 reps again. I want you to do 2 or 3 pausing, 2 or 3 practice swings, and then you can go ahead and hit 10 or 15 shots. I want to video tape these in the beginning of the session to make sure that my full swings hitting the shot look good.

Then I can kind of adjust my body. I’m going to give you a couple adjustments I see that happen pretty quickly here in this video. So 3,000 total reps. Again, break them down over several weeks.

There’s nothing wrong with doing these over a period of a month or even two months if you have to, nothing wrong with that. Not everybody’s going to be able to get to the range every day, I understand that that’s not possible for most people.

Don’t be afraid to spread this out over some time. The goal is to fully ingrain this so we never have to think about it again, and we’re going to develop a great golf swing that’s automatic.

So let’s go ahead and set up. When we start out, I’m going to do a first one where I pause. Again, I’m going to go over these check points.

I’m going to make sure the center of my left ankle, the center of my left hip socket, the center of my left shoulder socket are all in a straight line, and they’re all tilted away from the target about 6 or 8°, right around that angle will be fine. Check that on your camera, draw a line on that, make sure it’s correct.

When you’re doing a pausing repetition, realize that a little more weight is going to be on your right foot because you don’t have that momentum moving into the left. You don’t have anything to brace against with your left side.

I’m looking for those, and I’m also looking to make sure my left knee is slightly bent at contact, just a little bit bent is fine. It’s going to be fully straight as I get on our here to the straight line release which we cover in a different section.

I’m also looking to make sure if I’m going from down the line, that my hips are roughly 45° open. See my hips are open, and my shoulders are roughly pointing down the target line.

Little bit open or closed, not a big deal, but if we’re completely square with our hips or we’re way open with our hips, we’ll know we’re way off. If our shoulders are way open or way closed we’ll know we’re way off.

I want to get it right around 45° and 0°, if you’re a couple degrees don’t worry about it, it’s not that big of a deal. There’s a lot of good players that aren’t perfectly square with those angles, and that’s completely fine.

Once I have those things correct, now I’m going to go out and hit a lot more golf balls doing this. The way I would do this in a practice session is I would go out, check a few on camera, and then I’m going to go ahead and make a few shots.

I’ll go ahead and swing one, then I’ll pause. I’ll draw the lines on there on my camera, I use Hudl Technique to actually get the angles and make sure that those lines are straight.

I want this to be pretty dag-gone good. We’re on Level 3 now, your left ankle, your left hip, your left shoulder should be almost in a dead-straight line.

If you start to get your hip bumped out like this, so this is a pretty common one that I see. The hip gets bumped out in front, now my shoulder, hip, and ankle aren’t in a straight line.

My hip is bumped out too far, I’ve got to feel like my hip is really moving back away from the target, and my shoulder and my ankle are staying in front, that’s going to get me to clear my hips a lot easier, I’m going to feel more like this.

Again, that’s a feeling. If I’m over the top and I tend to be more like that, now I have to do the opposite and feel like my hip goes a little bit farther out in front, so it’s really custom to you.

You just got to get those to make sure that they’re lined up correctly, and we’ve got to make sure that these are good.

If you do 3,000 reps with your hip a little bit bumped out in all three of them, or in ever rep, doesn’t really count as a rep, because we’re not getting the right kind of rep, we’re not building the perfect fundamentals of the swing.

So get those close to being very, very close to being perfectly stacked up, very close to being about 6 to 8° tilted away, get in those 3,000 reps hitting a lot of balls.

Like I said, go ahead and film one, once it looks good on camera, then you can sit down and hit about a quarter of a bucket of balls, and then videotape another one to make sure it’s still looking good. Then just work through and hit a lot more.

3,000 reps is going to take some time, don’t worry. If it takes a couple months, that’s completely fine. If you really want to hammer on it and get after it hard, if it takes a few weeks, that would be a fantastic result.

Good luck to you guys, I’ll see you all very soon, and good luck mastering and fully ingraining that compression line.