Why You Need This: In this video, you’ll discover the best golf lesson for fixing every swing flaw you may have.

So, if you’re frustrated with slicing, hooking, chunking, topping...

...or any other mishit...

...then this video is for you.

There’s one major part of the swing that baffles most golfers...

It’s how momentum affects your swing.

Once you get a good grasp of momentum, and how to use it to your advantage, you’ll be able to fix the major problems in your swing.

In the first part of the video, you'll learn how and why your body adjusts to swing on the correct plane.

If your plane is way off in the downswing, it's likely due to the momentum from an incorrect move in the backswing.

For example, if you're bringing your club back really flat (or inside) in the backswing, don't be surprised when your momentum causes you to come over the top in the downswing.

That's happening because you're trying compensate and try to get your club back on the correct swing plane.

In the next part of the video, you'll learn how momentum is affected by your posture.

If you're low in your setup and tend to stand up in your downswing, then try the opposite:

Start with a taller posture and let your momentum bring you down through impact.

Next, you'll see how swaying forward or back can cause some nasty momentum issues such as the reverse pivot.

Finally, you'll get some great tips for using your momentum to get more lag in your downswing.

Watch this video now to get the best golf lesson...

And fix nearly every swing flaw!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:59

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back to Top Speed Golf. I’m Clay Ballard, and today I’m going to do one of the most important videos that I’ve ever done, and that’s because it applies to every facet of the swing.

Almost any problem that you can have, this technique, this physical thing that’s happening to your swing will affect every single one of those.

We’re going to talk about how to stop coming over the top and hitting that slice. How to stop blocking shots way out to the right, I know that’s really frustrating when we do that. How to stop chunking the ball, how to get more lag, how to get more forward shaft lean.

We’re going to do all that in this one video, and it all comes down to momentum in your golf swing. Once we can understand how to properly use momentum, the game gets a whole lot easier.

Here as we’re setting up, I’m going to draw a line from the hosel of my club, it’s going to help me measure my swing plane. I’m going to draw a line from the hosel of my club up through my right elbow at address.

My camera should be shooting right down my toe line and toward the target out in the distance. If I draw this line on here, that’s where my swing plane’s going to be as I’m hitting the ball and coming through the ball.

As my club is traveling downward making contact with the ball, and then through in the release, it should be traveling right down this swing plane.

One thing your body’s really good at, everybody’s really good at, is we all have kind of an idea, a subconscious thing in our head where our body wants to put our club on that swing plane. So it’s always fighting to get back on that swing plane as we hit the ball.

If I’m coming over the top, that simply means that as my club is swinging down, I’m outside over the top of this swing plane and swinging right to left across this ball. That creates a slice, or a left to right pattern on the golf shot.

So those of you who are struggling being over the top, chopping down into it too steep, usually what’s happening is momentum is moving the club in that direction. I’ll explain what I mean by that.

As we start our backswing, if my club now comes inside this swing plane line – so instead of coming back on that plane, it comes back to the inside of that. Now I’m way back inside.

Naturally what’s going to happen is, momentum is going to carry top in the downswing, and I’m going to go right to left across the ball.

A lot of times when people are trying to fix their over the top right to left shot, they try to come back more to the inside. That only creates more momentum, and more of an over the top move coming down.

What we actually want to do is the opposite of that. If you’re coming over the top of the golf ball right to left across it, and you’re dragging the club back inside, you’re going to have the feeling that you’re bringing the club back more outside and momentum is going to help it drop in and then kick out and release.

Now in reality, what we want to do is we want to stay parallel to that plane line. If I set up here again, if I travel up this plane line I’m parallel to that as I’m going to the top. Then I’m going to drop down above that, I’ll be above the swing plane line but I’m parallel at the top.

Then as I come down, I’m going to drop back down on that line and then come through and be parallel as I finish the swing. So ideally what’s happening with that club is it’s going higher and lower, but it’s staying parallel with that pretty much the whole time.

For you over the top players that are normally doing here and over the top, you’re going to have a feeling like you go there and that way, but if you look at that on camera, you’re actually going to see you’re staying pretty close to being on plane. It’s going to help you get back to where you need to be.

Now the opposite problem is when we come inside and we block that ball a mile to the right, usually better players get a lot of lag, swing out to the right, and the ball goes a mile to the right, really frustrating shot there too.

Usually what’s happening there, is the club gets a little steeper above that plane. Think about like a Jim Furyk, his club gets steeper and then it drops in too much underneath.

This is exactly what the A Swing, the David Ledberry A Swing is teaching you to do. That’s what helps people to hit a better draw sometimes, but if you actually do that, if you have your club out here and then dropping in, that’s going to lead to a little bit of inconsistency.

You’re going to have a tough time trying to find your swing plane in the downswing. A lot of times you’re going to get too far from the inside, you’re going to start blocking shots well to the right after you’ve done that for a little while.

Those two things really, momentum plays a big role in trying to get that club on plane. Now last thing, or another thing here momentum plays a role in, is staying in your posture.

A lot of people have trouble standing up out of their posture, and they feel like they’re coming up out of the shot. Their head’s raising up and looking off the ball. We obviously want to stay down and through as we’re doing that.

Well, the same thing applies here. If I start out in a low posture, I’m really bent down, my natural inclination is to stand up. We’re always going to do the opposite of where we start.

If I can start a little bit higher, you watch Adam Scott, old Tiger Woods from back in 2000, a lot of those players starting very high. Now as they start their downswing, you know I’m starting out very high and then I’m coming down, staying in my posture and then coming on through.

So actually starting out a little higher is going to help you to stay down in your posture. If you start out low, the momentum of your body is going to start to stand you up out of that posture.

If you’re struggling with that, I recommend staying tall and then feel like you’re moving down through contact, it’s really going to help you with that.

Now let’s go ahead, we’re going to change the camera angle here for a second, and we’re going to talk about how we can get more lag, more forward shaft lean, and actually stop chunking the ball, which is another big problem in the golf swing.

All right, so the same thing happens in the golf swing, we’re talking about chunking the ball. Remember, whichever way we start, momentum is going to carry us the other direction.

The reverse pivot is a big problem in golf, and what I see people do that struggle with chunking, is in the backswing they’re actually leaning toward the target, the direction I’m going to hit the ball, my upper body is leaning back this way.

As I make a downswing, I’m trying to get my balance back and I end up falling away from the ball. Now as I fall away, that’s going to cause me to hit behind the ball like this. So in the backswing, we’re leaning left onto our left foot, and then we’re falling away onto our right foot as we start down.

We started left, we’re always going to move back to the right. Now the proper way to do this, is to get some spine tilt like we talk about in the Top Speed Golf System.

Then as we turn to the top, now we’re going to be loaded up on our right foot and then we can shift on through to the left hitting that nice, down and through divot.

So if you’re struggling, you’re chunking over and over again, check that spine tilt. You want to be tilted a little bit away from the target. As you go to the top of the swing, I want to be on the inside of my right foot. As I swing down, I want to come all the way on through to the left.

Now lag and forward shaft lean, this is probably the biggest mistake that I see a lot times, is we want to get more forward shaft lean, we want to get more lag, and for forward shaft lean what I’ll see people do a lot of times, they start out thinking I’m going to hold this angle.

Again, momentum, we’re always passing through being very soft, but they’ll try to get a lot of forward shaft lean here.

I’m going to hold this angle and try to hold on, when actually what happens if I start with a bunch of forward shaft lean, as I pick that club up I’m going to start casting as I come down and lose that forward shaft lean as I hit the shot.

What I actually want to do is feel like – I’m going to exaggerate here – but my hands are going to go back the opposite of forward shaft lean, and then as I start down, now I’m going to have a ton.

So try some little chip shots like this, where you actually go the opposite of forward shaft lean, and then you hit some shots, and you’ll notice right away that club face starts closing down, you get a lot more forward shaft lean without even thinking about it.

Then finally, the last thing, the same thing happens with lag. The biggest thing that I see people do is they try to set this lag really early and hold on to that, and again, the same thing here. If we do this early, we’re always going to move away from that.

We want to actually have less lag, and then as we start down we’re creating more lag and then we can release it out in front. So you never want to try to start where you want to end up. Everything’s moving and flowing in the golf swing.

You always want to start a little bit opposite of that, and that’s going to help you to get there with momentum. So keep that in mind whenever you’re working on something, and I guarantee it’ll get you right back on track. Good luck to you guys, I’ll see you all soon.