Why You Need This: In this video, you’ll learn how to produce automatic golf swing speed.

Next time you’re on the course, I want you to check out how other players swing their clubs in the downswing.

If you watch mid-to-high handicap players, you’ll often see the club come down very steeply in the downswing.

That's not good.

On the other hand, pros make an "X" type shape with their hands (as seen from above) and shallow out the club path in the downswing.

That allows pros to slingshot the club head through impact with tons of acceleration.

So, if you feel like you’re putting a lot of effort into your swing…

Your arms are really tight…

And you feel like you’re trying to muscle your swing speed…

Then this video is perfect for you.

You’ll see a clip of J.B. Holmes demonstrating the X hand motion in his swing and get an explanation of how it helps him produce speed.

You’ll also learn…

How to shallow out your club path in the downswing, and...

How your hips can help you get your hands up and through contact.

Watch this video now to create tons more speed in your swing!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:37

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, great to have you here today. We’re going to talk about a very powerful move in the golf swing. When I’m watching mid- to high-handicap players make golf swings, I often see players that are coming in very steep.

This club shift starts to come down very steep, even if you hit a draw going from a steep angle, and then kind of rerouting that and using a lot of hands and arms to try to hit a draw in the downswing.

That’s what I see pro players doing, they’re actually making – if we’re looking from above – an X-type shape with their hands and their club coming through contact.

I’m going to show you exactly what that is, but that allows them to get this club to shallow out and really slingshot, and really accelerate through that ball to get a lot of speed without putting out a lot of muscular effort.

If you feel like you’re putting a lot of effort into your swing, you feel like your hands and arms are getting pretty tight in the downswing to really try to create that speed, this is going to be a great video for you.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so first let’s look at a pro player doing this in action. There’s not very many players out there that are longer than J.B. Holmes, and he’s not a humongous, 6’5”, 6’6” guy, like a lot of guys you see in the long drive, those are big guys.

He’s not a big guy, I think he’s about 5’10”, 5’11”, somewhere around in there. Obviously very strong, but he’s getting that speed by using the momentum of the club, releasing that club out in front.

If we look at this over the top view, when we’re looking at his hands, as his hands get closest to the ball, they’re roughly in front of his right thigh. Now from there until contact, his hands and arms are actually moving in to the left.

You can see that red line that we’re demonstrating on the picture right now, that’s his hands moving to the left from when they get in front of his left thigh until the club reaches the ball.

If you look at the club head, when his hands are in front of his right leg, then you’re going to see that club head moves in the opposite direction.

So his hands are turning back up and to the left, they’re actually moving this way up and to the left as we’re coming through contact, and the club head is moving out, down and to the right.

That allows that as you turn the corner with your hands as a lot of people call this, that allows that club to really accelerate.

When we come back…that’s great to know, but how are we going to do this? A very vital piece of this is we have to shallow out this club. That’s why we make a big deal on the Top Speed Golf System about The Move.

That means that as I make my transition, my hands are coming down, my club is going to shallow out, and flatten out that swing plane as I’m coming down.

If you want to great way to check this, if you’re filming from down the line, just like the camera view we’re looking at now, as my club shaft is coming in the downswing, I want that to match up with my right forearm in the downswing.

I’ll do my best doing a slow-motion swing here, that should be basically match up with my right forearm as I’m coming through.

That’s going to shallow this club out, get it slightly to the inside and now as my hands turn in, back up and in to the left, that’s going to let this club whip on through there and to really, really accelerate very quickly.

Now one thing to keep in mind when you’re doing this, a common misconception that I see players trying to do when they’re getting this flatter angle, is they start swinging way out to the right.

We’re not trying to flatten out this club and swing out to the right, a big inside out path and get a big hook. You could even play a cut from this position.

We’re shallowing this out, you can imagine this like a plane of glass, you could have a very steep plane of glass that would be moving squarely through the ball at a very vertical angle, straight through the ball, a very vertical angle coming through.

Or you could have a very shallow plane of glass that would be flatter, square as you’re coming through the ball, and then flatter as you’re releasing the club on the other side.

We’re talking about flattening out the shaft angle, and you’ll notice all pros are doing this. Take a look at any top pro, they’re all flattening out that shaft in the transition to get that shallow angle so that they can take advantage of this whipping action, this powerful X-type motion that we’re having through contact.

That’s the first thing, we’ve got to get that shallowed out. Now what I would recommend doing, feel like your upper arm, your left would be your humerus, from your shoulder socket is actually turning in. Imagine you had a doorknob, and you’re going to turn it inward from your shoulder.

If you look at my elbow, here’s my elbow down, as I turn that, that’s going to be my elbow pointing more to the left. If I had a club, I could do this and that would shallow it out.

You’ll also notice the logo of my club is up more toward the sky as I’m doing this. We walk over all of this, if you’re a member of the Top Speed Golf website, we go over all this in The Move section.

As I’m making that transition, I want to feel like that left arm comes out more this way, I want to feel like my right elbow gets tucked under.

Another one for you guys, if you feel like your elbow is coming out this way in your downswing, you’ll notice you’re losing a lot of lag coming in steeper, this would be perfect for you guys, too. We don’t want that elbow to come out, we want that elbow to be tucked in, that club shaft to flatten this way.

Now here’s the big piece. Once we’ve gotten this flattening action, how do we actually get those hands to move up and to the left. A lot of that comes from the hips.

As you’re making your downswing, your very first move down should feel like I’m nice and wide. You may have heard like the Sam Sneed squat, my knees are nice and wide, just as Sam Sneed got. I’m getting a little bend in my needs so I can put some pressure into the ground.

As I rotate my hips on through and I’m driving up from my legs, now you can see how my hands are moving on an upward path, how that would make this X-type motion just sling shot the club through there.

If we’re looking at it from this way, same thing would happen. As my hips open up, you can see those hips opening, that’s going to naturally get my shoulder to open up to start coming back into the left.

My shoulder’s naturally going to raise to get those hands moving left, and now I’m getting this big powerful X-type motion.

So work on those drills. To recap, we’re going to make some swings in our living room. If you’re in your living room right now, grab a golf club, start making some practice swings, you can even choke up on the club while you’re doing this.

Number one, I want to make sure I get a good, full turn. I’m going to shallow this club out coming down. My upper left arm is shallowing out, logo of my glove up toward the sky.

Number two, I’m going to feel like my knees get nice and powerful as I’m making my transition.

Number three is my hands get about right here, now I’m letting everything open up. My hands are moving back in as my club swings out.

Remember, I’m not trying to go way out to the right, I’m going from a flatter position as this accelerates it’s coming squarely through the ball, and then back in to the left as I’m releasing the club.

Let’s go ahead and try this out, I’ll make a few swings. We’ll take a look in slow motion. You guys work on that Power-X, you’re going to start ripping the golf ball.

Good luck to you guys, see you soon.