Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Address Vs. Impact | The Key To Solid Contact"

In today's lesson...

You'll discover the difference between "preferences" and "facts" about your golf swing...

...and which 3 "facts" you MUST know if you want to make consistently solid contact.

With so much conflicting advice out there, it's crucial to be able to know what to focus on.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:52

Video Transcription:

Now in the backswing, you're gonna notice some players on the PGA Tour bring the club way outside. Think about like a Matt Wolf. He does a little setup thing and then brings the club out here. If I was to pause the hands when they're about waist high or just a little above that, you're gonna see the club way out here somewhere.

Now he's one on the PJ tour. He is pretty dak on Good. You take a look at another player, JB Holmes, also PJ Tour winner, he's gonna do something completely different. So when he takes the club back, it comes a little bit more. And when you pause the club in the same part of the back swing, his club's way over here.

So these two players have their club and the club head almost four feet apart in the backswing. So what gives, well, it just shows you that there's some things in the golf swing that are preference. What does this have to do with a dress versus versus impact? Well, it's probably the most important part of this video.

Those are preferences in the golf. The things, I'm gonna be talk, talking to you here are cold hard facts. You line up every single player that plays on the PJ Tour and they're gonna do what I'm teaching you here, absolutely identical. They're gonna have the same three things in all of their swings, and if you want to hit the ball consistently solid, this is a must do thing.

You have to learn a good impact or we just won't be able to play great golf. Let's go and get started. All right, so let's jump into the first piece. Let's talk about what the club actually does. Cause that's the most I. Now when the club comes in, the downswing, we're just talking about impact here, but really from what I call last parallel, the club is gonna move identically or virtually identically on every single PJ tour player.

If we're looking at it from down the line, the same thing. This club is coming absolutely identical. So if you lay, lay to over top of one another, a hundred PJ tour players all hitting the same club almost, you'd think it's the same swing over and over. There's small differences, but basically identical.

Now the first piece is sha. So when we set up at at address, our club shaft is gonna be roughly straight up and down. It's okay to have a little bit of shaline. I like to have a little bit of a, a forward press as I come to address, but at Impact we have to have Ford a forward press. So what I mean here is even if you set up with a club like this, that's totally fine.

You'll find guys on the PJ tour that do that. But every single one of them, when they're coming down to impact, have the shaft, not vertical, but leaning in. You see tour players are leaning that shaft forward about 30% off of the natural loft. So here's what I mean by that. If I take a 60 degree wedge and the shaft is straight up and down at a dress, when it gets to impact, I'm gonna take about 30% of that loft off.

So I'm gonna take it from 60 degrees down to 40 degrees, or essentially, if I keep the leading edge of the club square, the face square to the ball, I'm gonna be taking this club from 60 degrees. Down to 20 degrees of Shaline to get the loft at 40 degrees of impact. If I take a seven iron like I have here, it's gonna start off at mid thirties.

Loft depends on the manufacturer, and it's gonna lean forward a good 10, 12 degrees to get you down to the low to mid twenties. So if you take a three iron, 20 degrees of loft, you're only leaning it forward six, seven degrees. A driver has almost no forward shaline. Just a tiny, tiny bit of impact. Why are we doing this?

Why is it a cold, hard rule that you have to have the hands in front? Can't I just use a longer club or do something different to make it happen? Well, there's two reasons. Number one, it's way more consistent. You see, if I get my hands in front of this golf ball at Impact, my hands are leading the way.

It's so much easier to get the club to come down, hit the ball first, and then the ground in front. So if I set up like this, that's okay. I just have to know when I come to. I'm gonna be like that totally different position. Now that's important, and you may be asking, okay, I get it. I see all the pros are doing that, but how do I do it?

Well, that gets me to the second two things. The first one is your hips. Now, most players know that they have to get the hips open at impact, but it doesn't line up with what they're trying to do with the club. You see, if I'm trying to get my club in front of the golf ball at Impact, now all of a sudden it makes sense to get those hips.

and clearing outta the way you see if my hips were closed. So let's go ahead and take it. Just imagine there's a club across my hips like this. If they were closed at impact, I could easily throw the the club and get it leaning backwards like this. But there's no way my right arm won't even go far enough.

To get the club, the, the, my hands in front of the golf ball. It's almost impossible, but you'll notice as I open my hips up, look how much easier that gets to lean the shaft forward. So every degree, your hips are closed, you're gonna get reversed. Shaft lane, every degree your hips are forward. You're gonna tend to get more and more shaft lean.

So I have to clear my hips outta the way. Now, piece number two and one of the most important things to address. It all depends on your, your swing plane in the downswing, and this is what I, I tackled in my new course, the 20 minute showering fix. But if I'm already steep in the downswing and I open my hips, look at what that club's doing, I'm coming way over the top.

I have to get this club shallowed out and from the inside. That way when I clear my hips open, the club's coming squarely from the inside square through the golf ball at contact. So if you wanna get your hips, You have to be doing that. Th those two things, right? If you're thinking about coming in steep or you naturally come in steep, we gotta get that way more inside.

If we wanna get the hips open, if we're thinking about having our club go back to where it was at a dress and we want to get a hips open, it's not gonna happen. We're gonna stall those hips out. We're gonna throw the club. To make that happen, we need to be thinking about this club being way up here like this.

That's the idea I want to have to get the hips open so away from the inside. Feeling like my shaft is leaning way forward when I'm coming to contact. That's what's gonna get your hips open. If we're not trying to do that, they're never gonna open up. Now finally, and third is the weight shift. You see it at address.

My weight is actually favoring my right side, and I'll get to that here in a second. But that's wildly different than at Impact. So at address, I'm probably 60% on my right side, 40 on my left at Impact. I'm. 80% on my left side and 20% on my right. Now again, the same thing. If I shift my weight to the left, makes it easier to get the hands in front, makes it easier to clear the hips outta the way.

If I'm doing that, and you may think, well, that's preference. Well, hundreds of PJ tour players have been measured thousands of of professional players, and what they found using these force plates that are incredibly accurate is that players max out their weight shift to the. early in the backswing. So when a tour player starts to get their weight shift to the right there is far on the right side as they're gonna get an entire swing about this point in the backswing, and then they start to go to the left.

So a lot of players mistake this. They think, I want my weight on the left at impact. I'm gonna start with my weight on the left. Okay? Now we're way away from what the tour players are doing. What ends up happening, if you do that, is you end up staying too far to the left and then falling back to the. So I want to think of the golf swing as just shifting like this.

So just take your foot and lift it up about a half inch off the ground right to left like this. And when my right foot hits, think of that as being the backswing when my left foot hits. Think of that being the downswing. So it's gonna be this type of emotion that's gonna help you to get the rhythm of the backswing and the downswing.

So those three things, if you don't do those right, impossible to be incredibly consistent and solid in the golf. Hey, see, there's, there's still one problem with this. If you do everything we talked about here. So if we clear our hips open, if we get our hands in front, if we get our weight shift to the left, but we don't know how to do it, the, the natural movements with the wrist.

So if I keep my wrists in this normal position, I'm mad at here at a dress, and I do all these things that get to great impact, look how the face opens wide. And I'm gonna hit shots a mile to the right. So if you're heading toward the screen, you're probably gonna hit in the corner over there somewhere.

And that's because we've never been shown the right way to square the face. And most of us have been taught to square the face by doing this rather than what the pros are doing. And if you square the face that way, getting into this great impact and shallowing out the club are gonna be next to impossible.

So that's why I design a brand new course. I call it the 20 Minute Shallowing Fix. And in that course, I'm gonna show you how to shallow out this club from the. And square up this face, not by weeks and months and all that kind of stuff to training. This is a single range session. You see, there's two breakthroughs that I had in this one.

I learned that most players have a tough time getting their wrist in the right position to get in that great impact position. So no matter how hard you try to get great impact, this doesn't work. And then number two, I realized that players have a tough time getting their elbows in a natural position to start to shallow out that.

And I realize that, that there's a couple things you can do that feel great. They feel like you were born to swing this way, and your impact starts looking a lot more like the pros. Your swing starts to shallow out, and again, it just happens in one session. So that's called the 20 minute Shallowing Fix.

And if you remember a top speed golf, click on an instruction tab, go to the top speed golf system. Then go to the 20 minute Shallowing Fix. We've had thousands of players go through this. The, the feedback's been tremendous. We've had tons of players. There's one guy that said after three swings, he hit it the best he's ever hit in his life.

And I guarantee you that if you follow this course, you're gonna hit some of the most solid shots that you've ever hit in that single range session. So I can't wait to see you there. Let me go ahead and show you some of the secrets to getting that great impact with your hands and your wrist to shallowing that club out.

And when you add that to what we talked about here, Man, it's gonna feel great. So let's go ahead and get started. I can't wait to see you over there. Click on the button to go to the instruction tab, top speed golf system, and then 20 minute shall fix right now. Let's go ahead and do it.