Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "2 Tips To Transform Your Golf Swing | Stop Standing Up Drill"

In today's lesson...

Discover why losing posture is a symptom of a much larger issue in your swing...

...and how you can make it EASY to stay in posture by fixing this root cause.

Plus, find out two tips to finally make staying in posture a reality for you...

...including the surprising angle to focus on in your downswing.

You'll be amazed at how much more solid your contact will be by doing this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:57

Video Transcription:

There we go. Hit that nice and solid, 160 yards with a nine iron, dead straight. Nice little draw on it. I'm not gonna do much better than that. I gotta tell you. A lot of times I know that I've stayed in my posture by how it feels when I contact the golf ball. Let me explain why staying, getting outta your posture is such a problem.

And there's one thing, two pieces to it, but one thing that can really fix that for you, and most people never get there because it's not. Staying in your posture that'll fix that. So if I start down a little steep, what I'll end up doing is standing up outta my posture to try to shower that club out. And I'll end up flipping.

And what happens is when I stand up, notice how my hips go toward the golf ball that drives my hands out. And then just to be able to make contact with the golf ball, my club has to go down. So instead of being more at a flatter angle like this with my club, I'm exaggerating. My hips go toward the golf ball and I end up doing this.

The shaft ends up standing up, and that causes a couple problems. So realizing that if you stand up outta your posture, this will happen. It's impossible for me to get this shaft lower unless I stand on my posture. You see, if I stand up outta my posture, my hips are in the way, and I can't get that club shaft down.

If I stay in my posture, now all of a sudden I can get that club shaf. That's a great thing to know. So let me walk you through the details on this and I'll give you a couple simple tips to fix it as we go through it. So number one, let's talk about how that shaft angle can really affect the direction that the ball goes.

So if I have a, a piece of wood here, just to demonstrate, I'm gonna put this piece of wood almost vertical, much more vertical than a shaft would be in the golf swing, but I'm gonna put the bottom edge of. Straight toward the target or straight enough for demonstration purposes here. Now, as I get that shaft more vertical, what happens is it opens the face.

So I'll give you an example of this. If I put this little magnet on here that shows where the face is pointing, you can see if the soul of the club, the face of the club is straight ahead, the soul of the club is flat on the ground, then this club face is pointing directly toward the. . Now, if I lift this club more vertical, the more vertical I go, the more it goes to the right.

And that's because if I kept on going that way, the loft on the club would make it go farther and further to the right. The flatter I go, the more this goes to the left. In fact, if I took the club and I imagine it being perfectly, the shaft being perfectly flat with the ground, all the loft on the club would basically be making the face point directly over to the left like that.

So you can really see this when you put a little piece of wood. And you start to hit shots with a square face and a straight path. But because the shaft is so vertical, that ball just goes out to the right. So you see as I got more vertical, the ball went that way. Not because the face is open, but just because the shaft was too vertical and I can simply lower it down like this, and the opposite's gonna happen.

So I get that shaft flatter. And now all of a. , the ball is gonna go to the left if I'll even be able to hit it here. , yeah, that that face is gonna be square and the ball goes dead left. So that's a great way to demonstrate how the ball's gonna take off differently just by the angle of the club shaft.

Even when your path and face are dead square, even when you make a great swing direction wise, you can get a bad result. Now, another thing that's really interesting with this is when I put this ball on the ground, it becomes very clear to see. When the shaft goes more vertical, the toe of the club is lower than the heel.

And what ends up happening is if I was to dig down in the ground enough to get this ball up on the sweet spot, I would be chunking it cuz the toe would have to dig down in the turf. It's not unless this leading edge of the club or the bottom of the club is flat with the ground, that I get the ball solid on the face.

And if I went the other way, the same thing would happen just in the. . Well, the great news is I never see anyone with the club too low. Everybody I see is the club is way too vertical. So if you're thinking right now, I wonder if my club shaft is too vertical. Like he's saying, I wonder if I'm standing up like he's saying.

I guarantee you, without a shadow of a doubt, your club is too vertical. Cause I never see anybody unless you're, unless uh, you're better than a scratch player. I hardly ever see anybody with that leading edge flat. So if you're wondering, I can promise you that you need to go flatter with a club. . Well, that's great news to have because now that I realize that if I wanna stay in my posture or, or if I realize that if I can just get this shaft lower, it will force me to stay in my posture.

You see, if I come up outta my posture, my hips go this way and I can't get the shaft lower. If I stay in my posture, now my hips clear back outta the way and I can get the club shaft lower. So just focusing on the angle of the shaft at. You can make it a world difference. You don't even have to worry about the exact angle.

If you're in doubt, just go lower and you'll start to see those divots get square and square instead of those kind of cockeyed toe down divots. All right, so let's talk about now the two things that I would work on to feel like this happens. Number one, I would start out by taking a little bit of a wider stance.

You see as I widen my stance, and I'm gonna give you an example, extreme example, but as I widen my stance, I'm getting lower to the ground. It's easier for me to. With this club on a flatter angle, that's obviously very exaggerated. But a lot of times I see players feet too close together, especially with shorter irons standing way too tall and now you know they're starting staying outta their posture rather than getting down in it.

That's the first thing, a little wider stance. I want some more knee bend. I want it to be athletic here with my knees again, so I can lower the club shaft and I don't have to worry about overdoing it cause I never see anybody that over. Now third, this is the big key here. I'm gonna teach you how to use your hips, and it feels a little bit weird.

You may even feel a little shaking, like some shaking bake type action happening in your hips. But if I roll my hips down and then tuck my pelvis under like this, so if my belt buckle here, you can imagine as I tuck, as I tuck my butt underneath me, my belt buckle faces more up. And as I roll my pelvis down to where my butt's kind of sticking out toward the.

All of a sudden my belt buckle goes more down. So this will be tucked under. This will be rolling it down. It's called anterior and posterior tilt. You don't have to worry about that. Just realize this, in my transition, I want to feel like my belt buckle goes down to the ground. My butt goes out toward the wall here, and that allows me to get lower and create this room for the club shaft to be lower.

So that's piece number one. Wider stance, more flex. Get that belt buckle. And then piece number two is just to visualize exactly what we did with this oversized club. I actually want you to visualize the toe being up in the air. So when I come into the this ball, I wanna feel like the toe of the club is sticking up in the air, and I'm actually gonna overdo the opposite of standing up and getting it steeper.

Now again, because no one ever overdoes it this way, I think you can go as stream as you want to. And if you look at your divots, if they're those nice dollar bill square divots, then you know you're not overdo. So a little wider stance. Belt buckled down, and then I'm gonna feel like the toe of the club stays up in the air.

And man, I'm gonna hit some nice, clean, solid shots. That's about as solid as I can hit one there. That felt fantastic getting 1 65 with a nine iron. I'm not gonna be able to do it any better than that. Now if you're a member of top speed. The next step for this is getting more lag, and here's the reason.

If I get the club more vertical, it doesn't look like it has as much lag. So if I'm making my downswing and all of a sudden I get the club vertical like this, look how it doesn't look like it has any lag at all. As I flatten the club out now, look how it looks like it has a ton of lag. That's the same wrist angle there, but it looks totally different as I flatten the club.

So flattening the club is the same as coming in on that lower angle. So the drill that I want you to do, go to the top speed golf system instruction tab, top speed golf system. Then go to the top speed golf lag section. And video 1.2 is what I call the stick behind the ball drill. That's the best video to do after you completed what we worked on here today, because I'm gonna teach you the right feeling to get this lag laid in the downswing.

And if you got your club coming down on the right angle and now you got a lot of lag, it's gonna start to look a heck of a lot more like those tour pros you're. , even if you're, no matter what your handicap is. So I can't wait to share with you, you know, the next piece of this that's stick behind the ball.

You don't want to skip that. That's one of the best drills I see. Success story after success story coming in from that one. And I wanna share it with you too. So head there now go to video 1.2 in the lag section. Let's go ahead and get started.