Why You Need This: In this video, "How to Be Consistent in Golf | Secret to Stable Impact"...

You'll discover the true path the club takes coming through contact...

And how there's a flat spot that great golfers use for pro-level consistency.

Then you'll get drills to ingrain this movement in YOUR swing.

The key is to understand that the golf swing ISN'T circular like a hula hoop (or whatever other image you've been taught).

Nope.

Swinging that way will lead to bad chunks and tops unless you've got your swing 100% dialed in on that given day.

Instead, watch this video to learn how to greatly increase your margin of error...

...and ensure your mis-hits are still good shots!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:53

Video Transcription:

One of the things that we’ve always heard, and we’ve always visualized is that the golf swing is a circle, and the club is going to be coming down making contact and then coming back up. We visualize this being a very circular motion.

Well if we have a circular golf swing, it’s going to be extremely difficult to be consistent. I’m going to go over the true path the club takes coming through contact. I’m going to talk about how there’s a flat spot that really good golfers use to be very, very consistent, and how you can do that for yourself with the drills at the end.

I’m super excited to show you guys this, it’s going to make a world of difference in your consistency. Let’s go ahead and get started.

First, let’s talk about what is the circular golf swing versus the flat swing, and how the pros are using a flat spot in their swing to actually hit the ball a little bit better, or actually a lot better, a lot more consistent. It makes some things a lot easier. In the last half of this video I’m going to give you some drills, show you how to get this flat spot in your swing.

First let’s go over the circular swing, and we’ve seen this a thousand times. People use a hula hoop, or the giant circles to practice their swing, and the club comes down, it meets the low spot, and then immediately comes back up. That’s a very, very inconsistent, especially if you’re going to take a divot in that type of an arc. It’s very difficult to be consistent every time.

Let’s imagine that I’m doing that circular swing, and my club comes down, I’m coming down into the ball, and I hit and I hit the ground at the exact same time. My circle is coming down and meeting that, I’m still on a descending blow, and I hit the ball and the ground at the exact same time.

That’s going to be a great contact, and really you can use any kind of swing you want, and as long as you come down at the exact same spot every time, you’re going to be fine, you’re going to hit it pretty good.

It’s pretty dag-gone hard to do, I don’t know very many people that can do that consistently. So let’s imagine we take that same idea there, and now all of a sudden our circle’s a little farther back, and that ball is an inch and a half forward from where we were just that at contact.

Now the ball is in the middle, we’re coming down that circle blow, we hit the ground an inch and a half behind the golf ball, the club still moving down that circle, and when we meet our low spot, that’s a big-time chunk.

We’re going to really lay the sod over that golf ball, that ball’s probably going to go 15 feet because we’re hitting so much dirt coming down through there.

Then if we’re doing the opposite way, where we actually come down on that circle, meet our low spot, and then start to come back up, now we’re going to hit the golf ball thin.

There’s a very small margin for error. The pros and the very good golfers out there, the very good, consistent golfers out there have actually a flat spot in their swing.

What’s happening, as they’re coming down their club has some lag to it, and then as they’re getting closer, the handle is actually moving up as the club releases.

So what’s happening is the as the club reaches the ground, gets close to the ground, it’s coming in very, very shallow, so it’s going to arc. It’s coming in shallow for a long distance, let’s say four or five inches, six inches, as it’s getting into the ground, and then it releases wide as it’s coming on out of there.

Take those same three examples again. If we hit the ball and the ground at the same time like we talked about in the first example, it’s going to be a clean strike no matter what you do.

If that ball’s an inch and a half forward, if I have a flatter spot in my swing, that club’s going to shallow out, I’m going to catch a little bit of dirt, probably not going to be perfect contact, but it’s still going to be a really good shot. It’s going to be on the green, going to be pretty close to the hole as I’m doing that.

Even if I’m three inches in front, that would be the one where I came up and hit the ball thin, maybe I’ve brushed the ground and I’m starting to come back up a little bit, but I’m still going to have a pretty good consistent strike on the ball.

It’s going to be around the green, it’s not going to be beautiful, but I’m going to be within 10 or 15 yards of the green. I’m going to be able to get it up and down instead of being 10 or 15 feet in front of my last shot.

So notice next time you’re watching the pros, look at their divots. They’re paper thin, they’re five or six inches long, about the shape of a dollar bill, and they’re really, really thin and square as they’re coming into that ball, so they can be more consistent, hit a little behind the ball, hit a little bit in front of the ball, everything’s going to work out pretty well.

That’s how they can hit hundreds of shots, I could dump over a bucket of a thousand golf balls, and hit all those with pretty clean contact, whereas a lot of players, they’ve got that very steep, circular angle of attack as they’re coming into the ball, and it’s very, very difficult.

You have to have great hand-eye coordination to hit all those consistently. Now let’s go over, let’s do some drills to actually get this flat spot in our swing. I’m going to explain a little bit more, and anybody can do this. I’m super excited, this is going to be awesome. Let’s go ahead and get started with those drills.

All right, so there’s three things that are happening that are going to contribute to making this flat spot so you can be very consistent. The first one is what we go over in our Top Speed Golf System called the stable fluid spine.

As I come to contact, my upper body needs to be tilted away from the target. If you look from the middle of my body to the upper chest, you’ll see the overall tilt of my upper body is going to be away from the target.

What this allows you to do, is to release the golf club in front of your body. That’s allowing as I’m coming up, if you see this tee, let me choke up on my handle here.

As you watch this tee that’s sticking out of the end of my club, as I start to work in through contact, notice how the tee is moving upward. Now that only is able to happen consistently if my body is tilted away slightly.

If you’re coming over the top, maybe you’re coming in steep and over the top, and really chopping down in the ball, notice how now my upper body is basically up and down, and I’m coming in too steep of an angle of attack.

Now look at the tee also, it’s coming down and chopping into that. So the first thing I want you to do, let’s go ahead and get some repetitions in, and I’m going to pause at contact.

My shoulders are going to be square to the ball, my hips are going to be a little bit open, but I’m going to focus in on my upper body being tilted back slightly. Get about 100 repetitions in with that, and that’s going to allow you to be in a position where you can release down and through the golf ball, have a nice, solid but shallow strike, and flatten that out.

The second piece is going to be what we do with our wrists and our arms. Now that we’ve got the body set up right, we can use the hands correctly. As I’m coming down into contact with my hands, prior to contact notice how I have a lot of lag.

I’ve got a big angle of lag here as I’m coming in, my right wrist is bent back, my club is basically parallel to the ground as it’s reaching in front of my right leg. Now from here, I’m going to go ahead and release that lag as my body’s tilted back.

Because my club is moving up as it’s going down, the grip end of my club is moving up as my club is moving forward, that’s going to shallow that out. How I want you to feel this is a very simple motion.

I want you to go ahead, make a practice swing, get the club on the ground what would be about five or six inches behind your ball, and I want you to let that release and stay on the ground as you’re coming through there.

Notice how if I get some lag, now as I’m releasing that lag, I can really drag that through there nice and consistent and smooth. Two things I want you to focus on as you’re doing that. Number one, I want to make sure that that face is square.

I don’t want to have the face open like this, wide open, and drag it through there. That’s going to lead to a big block to the right. I want to go ahead and feel like this face is nice and square all the way through the hitting zone. It’s going to lead to a lot of consistency.

Number two, I want to make sure that I feel like I’m putting some pressure into my left ankle. That’s going to allow you as you’re moving that through the contact zone, to be really consistent as I’m driving down in my left ankle.

Those two things together are really going to help you to move that club through contact very, very consistently. The last piece here that I want to focus in on is my left shoulder. Tie all three pieces together, and this is going to be really easy for a lot of you to do.

I’m going to feel like my left shoulder is moving up and out as my club is releasing down and away. If we’re looking at it from this angle, if I let my shoulders swing on a circular fashion, notice how I’m coming through contact my left shoulder starts to come up and out.

I’m not changing anything, I’m just allowing it to rotate up and out of the way. I’ll do the same thing from this angle. As I come through contact, my shoulder starts to move up and out.

Even though my shoulders are square, as I’m hitting the ball, you’ll see that this one is higher, it’s moving up that way. As I do that, my club isn’t moving up and out this way, my club is releasing and moving square down through the target line, and getting that flat spot.

I want my club to be releasing out away from my ball. A great visual for most people, especially if you’re struggling with a slice, as this moves up and out, my club releases down and through. I’m going to exaggerate, and it’s going to go out to the right a little bit.

That’s an exaggeration, I want it to be moving square, but I just want to make sure I don’t pull this up and through. I want you to break those down into 100 pieces each, 100 focusing on the body tilted back, good release position.

100 focusing on square face, driving in with the left ankle, putting that pressure in the left ankle, and letting this club move very squarely through contact, about 100 repetitions.

Then 100 making a full swing, allowing the shoulder to move up and out, the chest, my left chest to move up and out as my club releases down the target line. So I’m going to do 100 full swings just like that.

300 repetitions, it’s a lot of work, but let’s face it. It’s not going to take that long, and we’re going to hit it a lot better. It’s definitely worth it. So put in the work, do those repetitions, and we’ll tie it all together, we’ll go out to the course and hit some golf balls.