Why You Need This:

In this video, you’ll learn how to stay in your posture with more forward shaft lean.

This is part of my Stop Your Early Extension bonus series…

And by now you’re likely starting to feel a lot better with your posture,…

…staying down through contact…

…and getting rid of your early extension.

Not only that, you should be hitting more quality shots with solid contact.

The previous videos in this series focused on what your body’s doing…

Now let’s tie all that in and find out what the club’s doing.

In this video, you get a simple drill with three checkpoints to keep you on track.

First you’ll shallow out your club path in the downswing…

And making sure your wrist is flat or even a bit bowed to get your club face to close up.

What’s really important is to stay in your posture as you’re doing these steps,…

…feeling like your hips are moving back a bit…

And your chest is feeling like it’s moving forward a bit.

As you come on through, you’ll hit the next checkpoint…

Which is coming through the contact area with good forward shaft lean.

The key to your forward shaft lean in this move is to keep your posture as you rotate through contact.

Important: make sure you don’t bump your hips out too much…

Let your hips and shoulder open and that’ll help you get forward shaft lean

Finally, as your shoulders open up through contact,…

Make sure you stay in your posture a bit with the club angle nearly the same as the angle of your shoulders.

So jump on in and watch this video,…

…hit with more forward shaft lean…

…and enjoy the cleanest, most solid shots ever!

What's Covered: Methods on how to apply forward shaft lean while staying in your posture throughout the downswing and contact.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:33

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, welcome back. So if you’ve been working through the drills, I’m sure you’re feeling a lot better with your posture. You’re staying down through contact, you’re getting rid of that early extension, and you just make a lot better contact on the golf ball.

Now let’s tie it in with what is the club going to be doing? We’ve talked a lot about what the body’s going to be doing, in the first video, the shoulders in the second video, how you’re going to get a little more forward shaft lean.

What is the club doing in both coming into the ball, contact, and then releasing through the ball?

First let’s talk about a move that we’ve mentioned a lot in the Top Speed Golf System, and this is really important because it shows you how everything ties in together. When we stay in posture, we’re going to be able to hit the five pieces of the system even easier.

When we make our downswing, one of the things that we talk about in the move section is really shallowing out this shaft, and feeling like this wrist gets nice and flat, or even a little bit bowed would be good. It’s going to start the club coming down.

Now as I do this, what I’d like see is me staying in my posture and my hips are moving back, my chest feels like it’s almost moving toward the ground a little bit as I’m shallowing out this club.

Now as I’m coming further down, you’re going to see how that club shaft kind of splits my forearm, it depends on how the camera’s lined up, hopefully we’re lined up fairly good there today.

What you’ll see how that’s kind of splitting my forearm as you’re coming down. Then as I come through the shot, that’s going to line me up in a position to where I can stay in my posture, and I’m going to be able to come squarely through the ball.

So if I grip a little bit up on the club, we’re going to see how now I can stay in my posture, my shoulders are working down, watch how the butt end of the club moves back up. That’s my left shoulder moving up that we talked about from the last video.

As that happens, the club head itself starts to move out and down. So this is moving up as that’s moving out and down.

You can see how it’s easy now for me to stay in my posture, because I’m kind of lining myself up as I’m in good posture to put myself where I can go into the straight line release.

As the butt end of my club moves up, the head moves out and away, and I’m going to get that nice, shallow angle of attack.

If you watched our video on impact glide, how the butt end of the club’s going to turn up as this bottom end of the club starts to get really shallow with the ground, I get some forward shaft lean and it just slides right on through contact, get those nice, shallow, clean divots.

So as we’re coming down, having our hips work back, having our shoulders go down, that’s going to help us to actually get this club more on plane.

Now as we’re coming through contact, another piece we’ve mentioned in video number 2, is that as my shoulders start to open up, so as I come through contact here, my chest, my sternum has actually opened up a little bit.

My hips are moving back out of the way, and that’s going to help me here to get that forward shaft lean.

So for those of you that have been struggling getting into that straight line release, what you’ve probably been doing – one of the things you may have been doing – is sliding forward with the hips, and then bumping them this way, and you stand up and you cast the club at the ball.

So you’re sliding, standing up and casting the club, and now the shaft goes straight up and down.

Now as we’re in this better posture, we can feel like this club handle’s leading forward, we get more forward shaft lean, and because my chest is a little more open, my left shoulder is protected so my shoulders are square but my chest is open, my rib cage is pointing this way.

That’s going to allow me to get forward shaft lean a whole lot easier as I’m coming through this shot. Then finally, what I want you to really focus on in this video, is how the club is releasing, how is it going to be coming through contact after the ball has left the club face.

So here, hips working back, club shallowing out. There, my left shoulder’ working up. Chest starts to open up a little bit, even though my shoulder’s protracted, it looks square, that helps me to get the forward shaft lean.

Once I’ve contacted this golf ball, I’m staying down in my posture. My right side’s bent down, left shoulder continues to work up, and now as you finish here, you should feel like your club almost matches your shoulders as you’re coming on through.

That’s the position I want you to practice there. So halfway down, shallow the club, getting it working down the forearm coming from the inside. Position number two, we’re getting in this good posture, now we’re got a lot of forward shaft lean. That’s position number two.

Position number three, we’re going to let our club almost be going the same angle as our shoulders past impact. That’s position number three.

So pause in each one of those for about 100 reps. I would do it just like this. I’d go here, that feels comfortable, I can see I’m shallowing. Number two, good forward shaft lean. Number three, I’m keeping that club in line with my shoulders.

Roughly, it doesn’t have to be. If it’s over here, if it’s over there, it doesn’t matter exactly, but it’s roughly in that angle. Then I’m coming all the way on around to a good, full finish.

100 practice reps, do another 100 practice reps, nice fluid practice swings. Start to finish, I don’t have to hit a golf ball here. I’m just working on those same things.

Number three, another 100 reps. I’m going to take some practice swings, and then I’m going to hit some shots between the practice swings. So both the practice and the balls count as a rep, and I’m going to get 100 total as I really ingrain this.

After you’re done with that, you practice these key moves, you’re going to feel so much better about your golf swing. There we go, right down the middle. That one’s going just off the left edge of the pin.

So work on those three things guys, get in your reps. Your posture’s never going to be better. I’ll see you guys soon, hope you all enjoy these videos.