Why You Need This:

If you want to know how to stop chunking golf shots…

This video’s going to give you some great drills to finally kick this nasty habit for good!

This is the second video in my Stop Chunking & Topping course…

And as a quick recap, the first video presents a quick overview of what’s causing you to chunk and top the ball and focuses on maintaining your spine angle throughout the swing.

This video takes it a step further and introduces great weight shift drills that’ll put you in a more comfortable – and powerful – position when you impact the ball.

These drills are easy to do and will help build up your muscle memory.

Here are just a few of the benefits of this video:

• Learn how to transfer your momentum properly,
• Gain club head speed and distance, and
• Improve your contact consistency.

Watch this video now for better, more consistent ball striking!

What's Covered: Learning more efficient weight shift motions to chunk and top the ball less

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:30

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. Hopefully in the first video we helped you to tackle those tops and those chunks. We’re going to take it even a step farther.

I’ve got an awesome drill for you that’s really easy to do, that’s going to help you not only now that we’ve got our right body position, but to also get that weight transfer in there so we can feel really nice and comfortable with this.

So again, in the first video we talked about how we want to get a little bit of tilt with our body. That’s going to set us up in that proper stable, fluid spine position.

We’re going to keep that tilt as we turn to the top, and our right hip is going to move back, our right leg is going to be angled in a little bit, that’s all great. The as we come through, we’re going to come all the way on through to the left.

That’s really good. If you haven’t done those drills yet, go do those first to get your body angles correct. Then once we’ve done that, I’ve got two or three drills that are going to help you with your weight shift that are going to be really easy here.

All I want to do at first is I just want to start out – why don’t you lose the club – put your arms across your shoulders, and I just want to get the feeling of putting my weight to the inside of my right foot.

You can imagine that I go to the top of my backswing, I’m going to put some weight on the inside of my right foot. You can put a club across your shoulders as you’re doing this, if you want to.

As I turn to the top, now I feel like I’ve got some weight on the inside of that right foot. Again, it’s right through here. I don’t want it to sway to the outside of the foot.

If I let that weight go to the outside of my foot, watch how my hips sway to the right, and then I’m in that reverse pivot position, I’m going to fall this way, I’m going to chunk and top like we went over in the first one.

So I’m going to make sure as I go to the top, weight’s on the inside of my right, right leg is angled in, good full shoulder turn.

As I come on through, now I’m going to shift my weight to the left and I’m going to feel like I’m pushing down and out, kind of in this direction to rotate my hips as I come through to the downswing.

I’m pushing that direction on the way back, weight’s on the inside. As I start down, shift to the left pushing this way with my left foot now, and I’m going to rotate all the way on through.

Go ahead and do 100 reps just doing that exact same motion, getting your overall weight shift. Once we’ve done that, now let’s take a club and let’s make some little mini swings.

So again, I want to tilt my body. I’m going to go ahead and make some swings where I pick up my left foot on the way back and then I pick up my right foot on the way through.

What that’s going to essentially do is that’s going to allow me to take a little weight off my left side as I go back, and a little weight off my right side as I come through. So that’s going to look like this, very easy drill, and I’m looking angled with my body the entire time.

There we go, just like that.

Now the final drill here, we’re going to take a step and we’re going to get some power with this, we’re really going to be able to feel this weight shift.

So go ahead and set up to an imaginary ball. I’m going to put my feet together, and then I’m going to take a step forward and then swing all the way on through. Now as I’m taking that step forward, I really want to feel like I push into the ground and I get my weight moving forward through the shot.

That’s going to allow me – we’re not going to go over this in detail in this video – that’s going to allow me to get that lag, get this wrist in a nice position here, and then I’m turning up the butt end of the club as I get that to accelerate on through.

So the butt end of the club is turning up as the club head is accelerating down and through. That’s really going to help with this drill. So again, start with your feet together, step, and then I’m going to shift all the way on through to my front side.

Notice how I’m balanced over my left side, all my weight is going forward, my chest is nice and high, my chin is up, and I’ve come through all the way around. My shoulders have rotated on through the shot.

So now we’re starting to get some weight shift to the backswing, we’re going to the right, downswing we’re going left all the way on through.

Let’s tie this in together with the videos from the first video, the drills from the first video, and then what we’ve done here with the weight shift.

So again, I’ve got my ball out, and I’ve got this little black dot on this golf ball. We can see there you’re just going to mark one of the dimples in the golf ball. I’m going to pretend that this is on the equator of my golf ball.

If I set this golf ball down, it’s going to be right in the middle of the golf ball right here, facing back. If I’m right over top of the golf ball again, I won’t be able to see that one dimple.

Now if I’m sitting straight up and down, I can’t see that dimple at all. Now what I’m going to have to do, is go ahead and get in my tilt and now I can see the dimple on the back of the golf ball.

Now from there, I’m set up in a great position with my spine angle just like we talk about in the stable, fluid spine, and I’m really in a position to eliminate that reverse pivot.

From here, we’re going to combine that with our weight shift drill. So I’m going to go ahead and put my feet together. Again, my body’s tilted a little bit o the right. I’m going to feel a little more pressure on my right foot at this point.

Then as I swing forward, I’m going to take a step, hit that golf ball, and then come all the way through to the finish. So we’re going to practice those drills individually that we already went over, about 100 reps each.

If you get a little tired you can knock it down to about 50, but I recommend at least getting a few of those reps in there to really start to build that muscle memory. Then we’re going to put this golf ball on the ground.

I’m tilting, I can see the dot. I’m going to pull my feet together, I’m going to take a step and hit the golf ball. Nice and solid, came through my weight is on my follow through, my finish side as I came through the shot.

That’s ensuring that I’m transferring my weight through even though that I’m tilted slightly back.

You do that drill, I guarantee you guys not only are you going to have that weight shift, you’re going to get rid of that reverse pivot. You’re going to have that nice forward compression, you can see that obviously hit in front of the golf ball, getting that divot out in front every time.

So keep up the hard work, I’ll see you guys very soon.