Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "#1 Key To a Consistent Golf Swing | Build Your Solid Foundation"

Tired of frustrating shanks and thin shots destroying your round?

Fortunately, Top Speed Golf Certified Instructor Ronnie Snowden joins me in the studio today…

…and he’s going to show you a great drill that’ll help fix all kinds of swing issues, including shanks and thinned shots.

It’ll help you tilt your spine, open your hips, and start making solid, consistent contact… and all it requires is an alignment stick!

Also, don’t miss the right shoulder key to making this all work (revealed around the 3-minute mark).

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    Ronnie Snowden    

Video Duration: 7:36

Video Transcription:

Clay: Hey, it's great to have you here today. I'm joined with top speed golf certified instructor, Ronnie Snowden. He's been in the studio the last couple of days. We're shooting a ton of content and he was showing me a series of drills or kind of a breakdown of a drill that I really liked that teaches you the fundamentals of the golf swing in a really easy way.

And the cool thing is if you get this right, it's like all five pieces of the top speed golf system become that much more easy. So why don't you show them what you 

Ronnie: showed me? All right, I will. So. Basically, we know that at impact, we want to have, from the top speed golf system, we know we want to have some spine tilt, okay?

So, this, this drill is basically to ingrain a proper impact position as far as having some good spine tilt, having your hips nice and open, okay? Those are two very important pieces that allow a lot of other good things to happen in your swing. So, for this drill, what I do is I have you get an alignment stick, and if you don't have an alignment stick, you can always just grab another club from your bag, and just kind of put it here in the center of your stance.

Now, it doesn't matter where the ball is in your stance, I want the alignment stick to be in the center of your stance. Okay? So, at address, let's go ahead and set up with some spine tilt, because we want the spine to not be moving around a lot during the swing. So, If we know we want to have tilt at impact, we might as well go ahead and start off with some tilt so our spine doesn't have to move around a lot during the swing.

So, at address, I want you to take your belt buckle, or the center of your hips, and bump it in front of the alignment stick, and then take your nose and make sure it's behind the alignment stick. That's going to make sure, without looking at anything on camera, that you know you have some spine tilt at address, okay?

It's also, by bumping your, the center of your hips forward, It allows you to have even weight distribution at address. If you just simply tilt it away, you're going to get too much weight on your trail side. So, let's bump our, our hips up. Let's keep our nose behind the alignment stick at address. Now, for this drill, what you're going to do is you're going to go through 20 slow motion reps.

You're going to pause at the top of your backswing and pause again at impact, okay? So, what you're doing in the slow motion portion before you pause at the top is you're starting off with some tilt and you're basically Trying to maintain a stable spine, keep that tilt, but not let the spine move around at all through the backswing.

So, you're really just trying to rotate using good hip and shoulder rotation, rotate around your spine to the top of your backswing. So you're gonna concentrate on coming back nice and slow, not moving that spine around at all, and at the top I want you to pause and make sure that your nose is still behind this alignment stick, okay?

Now, once I get to that position, In the downswing, I know that I am going to shift my weight to my lead side and I want to get my hips nice and open, but I want to keep my spine tilted. So, the main thing I want to do is keep my head back while my lower body is opening up and shifting forward. So the way I'm going to do that is I'm going to think about my right shoulder, okay?

I want my right shoulder to feel like it's getting lower. Closer to the ground, I want to get some shoulder tilt. So my right shoulder is going to be getting lower than my left shoulder. And doing this in combination with getting the weight shift forward and the hips opened up is going to give you that nice angle of tilt at impact.

And, you know, it's just going to put you into a great impact position. So, start from the beginning here. I'm bumping my hips up. I've got my nose back. I've gone in slow motion to the top. I've kept my spine nice and stable. My nose is still behind the alignment stick. Now, in the downswing, I want to get my right shoulder closer.

I'm opening up my hips and I'm coming into a good impact position. My hands are ahead of the ball. My hips are nice and open. My nose is still behind the alignment stick. Once you see that you're in all these proper positions, now you come on through to a nice high full finish and make sure your weight is stacked on top of this 

Clay: lead leg.

Yeah. I like that. And I think, you know, it seems so simple, but then it tackles 50 things in the golf swing. So if you've got a reverse pivot, let's say, and you're sliding, so go ahead and show them reverse pivot where you're sliding to the right with your hips, you're sliding back to the left. Well, that's reversing your spine angle right now, his spine is leaning like this.

So, he's gonna go ahead and keep that belt buckle in front, do it the right way now, where this belt buckle was in front, upper body's back, now his spine's tilted away, all of a sudden he's cured his reverse pivot. Now from there, like you talked about, you're gonna get your weight shift to the left, and I love, probably, you know, so many people struggle with weight shift, if you get that first piece right, and then, I think here's the, the cheat code.

To getting the proper weight shift to the finish is when you go ahead and follow through. What I want you to do is finish all the way around to this right shoulder is facing the target. The right toe, just go ahead and make a full fall through. It's all the way around like that. You'll see the right knee is facing the target.

Every single one of these cleats is off the ground and the, the body is almost just stacked completely over that right or that lead foot. You should be able to tap your foot. So if I'm in the proper finish. I should be able to tap my foot and not fall over, so I'm stacked on that front foot. I think it's 

Ronnie: a good point to talk about that right shoulder, because a lot of people, a lot of my students, when I give them this drill, the first thing they worry about is, well, if I'm leaning back at impact, aren't I going to hit the ground back here?

Well, they don't realize that getting that weight shifted forward, pulling that low point of your swing in front of the golf ball, you know, that allows Also, I skipped the part where I'm talking about my right shoulder getting that lower because that's another thing that makes them think they're going to ground it out.

But if they're getting the weight shifted forward, and as long as they follow through and bring that right shoulder up like this into that full finish, they're not going 

Clay: to ground out. Yeah. And what happens is, we get our reverse pivot a little bit. And then we try to get that right shoulder down. We never get on the front foot.

And then all of a sudden we're dumping everything back here behind the ball. That's really going to 

Ronnie: be a struggle. That weight shift has to get to your lead 

Clay: side. Yeah. You want to tuck that right shoulder in and then let everything come on around. It's almost like a throwing motion where if your sidearm, like you're going to skip a rock, you know, it's just staying back and throwing it all arm, you're going to skip a rock, but then finish all the way up on that front foot, you know, and that's, that's what pulls the low point in front of every single shot.

That way, if you hit down on it a little too much, what would be a chunk, if you were hanging back, is now not a chunk, it's just, you know, a good heavy hit. If it was a little thin, if you're hanging back, well, now all of a sudden it's not actually thin, it's just a little bit lower on the sweet spot kind of thing, so that's really the consistency key to that, so that's a great drill, and if you're a member of Top Speed Golf, you know, I think the best place to start here is level one of the stable fluid spine.

That's really going to set in the same fundamentals you're doing here. It just builds on those with the progression of drills. And you're going to have to think about it a little bit in the beginning, but all of a sudden you're going to start to see those divots in front of the golf ball. You're going to see yourself maintaining a much more stable golf swing, stable spine in the golf swing, and now the chunks and thins go away.

You're going to see yourself shallowing the club out more because my body's in a good position to shallow the club out. And as you go to level two, you start to think about it, but not as much. And then finally, when you get to level three, it's unconscious. And let's be honest, that's, that's the only thing we really care about.

I want to get these fundamentals right in your swing. And that's what Ronnie does to make it to where you don't have to think about it at all. You just swing and it automatically happens. That's only going to happen when you follow a progression. This is, think of this as step one of the progression.

Then go over to stable fluid spine, level one, level two, level three. That's what solidifies it forever. So if you're a member of Top Speed Golf, head over there right now. I challenge you to do just one video in addition to this one. You're going to be well on your way. We'll see you soon.