Why You Need This: In this video, you'll learn 4 drills to stop your flip in golf.

These drills will help you get rid of the flips and you'll start to create more lag in your downswing

These are progression drills, and here's a quick summary of the drills...

Left Hand Only

Start off by grabbing a 3 or 4 iron or the lowest lofted iron in your set.

With a short swing (around one quarter swing), bow your left wrist and make contact with a lot of forward shaft lean.

You should deloft the clubface so much that there's barely any loft.

Note that your hips should be open around 45 degrees at impact and that your chest should be slightly opened.

Since there's very little loft, you'll hit balls that roll on the ground that travel maybe 25 yards.

If the ball goes airborne, you're doing it wrong.

Right Hand Only

Your right wrist is more active in the downswing.

Practice swings similar to the swings you practiced with the left hand only.

Delofting the clubface, you'll notice that your right wrist knuckles are pulled back towards your elbow.

After impact, it's OK to let your wrist release.

Both Hands on the Club

With the same feeling that you had with the previous drills, hit short 50-yard chips.

Again, the clubface is delofted, and you're hitting with tons of forward shaft lean.

It'll feel like you're hitting low shots near the ground, but you'll likely hit a low trajectory chip, which is exactly what you want.

Full Swing

Now that you're ingraining the correct moves to deloft the club and stop flipping...

Hit with a full swing.

You should feel like you're hitting super low trajectory shots.

Summary

Flipping the club can be a tough habit to break.

In this video, you get 4 drills to stop flipping and to start hitting with tons of forward shaft lean.

Watch now to make powerful, more compressed contact!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:08

Video Transcription:

Hey guys, and welcome back. In today’s video we’re going to cut out all the talking. We’re going to get straight to the drills to help you get rid of the flip. It’s going to be a progression drill, and we’re going to start out with just the left hand.

What I recommend doing is taking out a 3 iron or a 4 iron, whatever the lowest lofted iron you have in your set is. We’re going to start out with just the left hand here.

What I want you to do is I want us to start rolling some balls on the ground. The way we’re going to do this, we’re going to deloft the club so much, if you look at the loft that’s on the face, normally my 4 iron would have 25°, 26° somewhere in that ballpark.

I’m going to turn it down, I’m going to have enough forward shaft lean at impact to where it has zero degrees of loft. I’ve taken all the loft off the face here, and I’m going to go ahead and really bow my left wrist to do this.

So you’ll notice my hips have to open up a little bit. My chest is going to be a little bit open, or my shirt buttons are going to be a little bit open. But because my left arm is protracted across my body, it’s going to give the appearance that my shoulders are pretty square.

If I do that, I can take all the loft off the club, and I’m just going to be able to simply roll some balls across the ground.

So there, the was no loft and it never got up in the air at all. What I don’t want to do, is to start to hit these shots and get them to go, even if they’re a foot or two up in the air like that.

That ball, I got a little bit of scooping with my wrist, this broke down, and the ball only went a couple feet in the air, but I want to completely keep it on the ground the entire time.

I’m going to probably take, of a range bucket, I’m going to make 20 or 30 swings where I’m just letting these balls roll across the ground, maybe have to hit 10 or 15 shots until I get comfortable with that.

Now the part that I find that’s hard for most players is to get what feels like a pretty weak position to them. If I’m delofting this club, my left wrist needs to bow a little bit.

What’s going to happen there, these muscles on the inside of my forearm, those are contracting a little bit which is pulling the palm of my hand back toward my body. That’s what’s called wrist flexion, and that’s what’s happening as we’re coming through impact.

Again, we’ve got to get these hips open to allow us to get in that position to just simply roll the ball across the ground. Once you’re comfortable with just the left arm only, it’s going to be difficult.

We don’t want to hit these very far. Those are only going about 25-30 feet. Again, they’re not getting up in the air at all. Now let’s go to the right hand.

So what’s happening in the downswing is my left hand creating some lag here, that left wrist stays nice and flat or a little bit at impact. Then it’s going to release to flat out in front. We’re concentrating on getting that bowed as we’re coming through impact.

Now the right wrist is a little bit more active. It’s going to release a little bit harder. As we’re coming into the downswing, that right wrist is going to be what feels like it’s completely angled back.

Again, that would be flexion what’s happening with my left wrist, this would be bowed. We’re going to have that very cupped or extended back. You’re going to feel like you pull your knuckles all the way back to your elbow.

We talked about the muscles on the inside of your arm pulling this left wrist into a bowed position, it’s going to be the muscles on the outside of your arm that pull your knuckles back toward your elbow.

As I’m coming through contact, if I let my hips open up, now I can get into a position to where I’m going to feel like my right arm’s pretty tight. The upper right arm’s pretty tight with my chest.

Again, my chest is opening up slightly and my right wrist is really angled back as I’m coming through impact. It almost feels like I’m just tossing a ball down the fairway.

Now after impact, I can go ahead and let that release. It’s actually is releasing through impact, but we’re exaggerating for this drill. But I’m going to go ahead and roll some on the ground, again, these aren’t going to get airborne at all.

I’m just going to roll this across the ground, hit that one a little bit thin. Let’s try one more, and I’m just going ahead and letting my club brush the turf. So it’s almost like you’re putting with your 3 or 4 iron. That one was nice and solid and just scooted right up the fairway.

I’m doing the same thing there with my right arm. I’m feeling like it’s going from a flexed back position, notice how my elbow is up this way, into letting that go as I’m coming through the shot. But I’m not going to let it add loft as I’m hitting the ball, taking all the loft off the club face.

Once I’ve done each of those arms individually, again, 20-30 reps with each one, I’m starting to get a feeling for where I would be at contact if I really want to deloft this a lot.

For those of you guys that are casting or flipping early, this is going to feel very different than what you’re used to. Now from here, I’m going to put both hands on there, and the key is in my normal swing if I’m casting, look at it from this direction, my right wrist is firing early.

So this wrist is going flat, and that is what’s casting and pushing this club out. I’m feeling like I’m really hammering on it with my hands quite a bit.

When I put both hands on here, what I really want to focus on, again, is keeping that right hand back almost like the palm of my hand is toward the ground, and I’m going to feel like I’m just kind of tossing that ball down the fairway taking a lot off this club.

Now again, the mistake I see here, let’s go from a 4 iron to about a 7 iron. The mistake I see is everybody wants to go all out, full-on speed and hit their 7 iron 190 yards. Not literally, but that’s the idea, we’re going to crush this 7 iron. We want to go to all out speed without getting the motion ingrained first.

What I want you to do, let’s get both hands on the club now. Let’s chip some shots. Now I’m going to go from about 25 feet rolling them, I’m going to go about 50 or 60 yards, and I’m going to try to take all the loft this 7 iron just like I did with my 4 iron.

In my mind, I’m thinking I’m going to roll it on the ground. In reality, it’s probably going to get a good 10 or 15 feet off the ground.

That was about, yeah, 10-15 feet. I carried that one about 60-70 yards. So I’m trying to see just how close to the ground I can get this ball flight to be. I’m taking all of the loft off the club.

Again, I’ve got to get my body, my hips, my torso has to open up, my left arm is across my chest so it’s going to look like it’s square, but I have to get that to open up so I can keep that club delofted on through there.

If my body slows down and stops, my hands are going to flip past my body. I’ve got to keep tha body rotating through the shot. I’m not trying to get a lot of speed from my hips, but I do have to keep them moving.

Let me go ahead and hit another one here, and I’m going to see if I can get it even lower than the last one. There we go, so that’s just a little punt shot. Those are only getting about 10 feet off the ground with a 7 iron, and those are flying a good 60 yards.

Now last thing here that I want you to pay attention to, is look at the divots that I’m taking. I’m not chopping down into the ground.

Sometimes I see people trying to deloft the club and instead of actually delofting the club with their hands and wrists and taking some loft off there, what they’re doing is they just try to hit down into the ball more.

So they’ll put the ball back in their stance, they’ll get a lot of forward shaft lean, they’ll chop down into the golf ball. We don’t want to do that, because we’re not going to get a lot of compression on the ball even though we’re hitting it low, we’re kind of cheating to do that.

We’re not using the hands and arms and the club effectively to get lag and then release that lag to get speed, we’re just cheating and putting it back in our stance.

I want this ball to be up kind of off my left ear, the logo of my shirt where it would be normally with an iron shot. So it’s just in front of center in my stance. I’m still going to hit this 10 feet off the ground, coming in nice and shallow and taking a good, clean, small divot.

I don’t want to put it back, and I don’t want to chop down on it. I want to be using my arms properly, this lag and forward shaft lean properly, to get the loft of the club.

So finally, we’re going to hit 20 or 30 to hit them about 10 feet off the ground, 50 or 60-yard shots, and then we’re gradually going to go a little bit faster and faster.

On this one, I’ll go ahead and hit one more, let’s actually show it in slow motion, and then we’ll be able to see that full swing. You’re going to see at impact, I’ve got a lot of forward shaft lean, and I’m going to flight that ball down. We’ll see just how low I can hit it with a full swing.