Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Do This Right Shoulder Move to STOP Hitting Bad Iron Shots"

In today's lesson...

Professor Q will show you the right shoulder move you NEED to be making...

...otherwise, you'll struggle with heavy and thin shots, have too much loft at impact, and won't have the club face control you need to make consistent crisp ball contact.

Once you know this move, you'll finally start compressing the golf ball.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 11:44

Video Transcription:

If you're struggling to make solid contact or to compress the ball the way that we see the pros do this is because you're not moving your trail shoulder correctly. You see, we need our trail shoulder to be moving down closer to the golf ball. If my right shoulder doesn't move down closer to the golf ball, you can see what ends up happening.

I have to early release the club. That's going to make me tend to hit the ground sooner or even hit a lot thin or top shots. That's going to make it very difficult to control the face because the face is just going to be rolling over hard. Makes it very, very difficult to time. I'm also going to be adding a while off, which makes me lose a lot of my power.

If I'm able to move my right shoulder down to the golf ball now, I can stabilize this face, this face is staying square a lot longer through the impact zone. I'm able to get my hands in front of the golf ball. And it also pushes the low point of my swing, which is where the club bottoms out in front of the golf ball.

That allows me to hit down on the ball, make ball first contact and really compress it like we see all the pros do. Now, if you're not doing this, it's just because we don't understand how the body needs to move to be able to get into that position. I'm going to give you a great drill to be able to do that.

But first, let's test this. Let me make a swing here where I try to keep my shoulder from moving down to the golf ball. And let's just see what my golf line looks like. I've got an eight iron here. Normally my eight iron is 165 yards ish. So let's go ahead and give this a try here. I'll go ahead and try and hit one and I'll try to not allow my right shoulder to get down the golf ball.

 

And let's see what happens here. I really thin that really bad. The only reason why I had any kind of decent launch as far as not going as a sky ball was because I hit it really thin. When you hit it thin, the ball will launch a lot lower. Had I hit that in the center of the face, the ball would have went a mile up in the air.

 

But that's very difficult to do. If I'm early releasing the club, right? The only thing I can really do is pick it off the turf when I do that. So if you're picking it off the turf, this is most likely something that's going on with you. As you can see, I also yanked that way to the left, and that is because I had no control of the club face.

 

When I'm coming in, I'm throwing my hand right there. Face is going to roll over hard. You know, sometimes I might hit a slice if I leave the face to open, if I don't time it right and I roll it over too much, that's what's going to happen there. Right. And that's going to be that's left of the green that might be in a bunker.

 

And that's even if I hit it far, far enough, I didn't have a lot of power there, 77 miles per hour. I'm usually in the eighties with my nine excuse me with my eight iron here. So let's talk about what we need to do to get the chest opening up. So one of my favorite drills to do for this is a one arm right hand drill because it really helps you to focus on what's going on with this unit.

 

You see, when I don't bring my shoulder down to the golf ball, what happens with my wrist? My wrist has to flip, right? My wrist has to extend or which is actually flexing down in the downswing. My right arm has to straighten out. I'm basically kind of punching my my arm down there and my hands are going to roll over very quickly.

 

Whereas if I bring my right shoulder down to the golf ball, well, now my right arm is going to be more tucked. Right? I'm going to have some bending it now. There is going to be some straightening out of it as you're coming into the golf ball. But we need to feel how our body needs to turn and try to feel like our trail arm is staying bent.

 

We need to feel like our trail wrist is being is being bent back as we're as we're coming through. So I want you to just start out with some practice swings here and one hand on the club, right hand on the club. And I want you to take your left hand and just put it on your on your right shoulder.

 

The reason why you want to put it there is because you may as well do something with your left hand when you're doing these these drills. But if you put it on your right shoulder, makes it a lot easier to feel like what the right shoulder is doing. Right. We have to understand how to get that down to the golf ball and you're just more aware of what it's doing.

 

If you put your left hand on the club, you may as well put your left hand on the shoulder. You may as well put it somewhere right from here. Put it here. I'm going to bend this back to here. We have some bend in my arm and have some bend in my wrist. And what's also really important with this is I want to have my my butt of my club pointing right at the target, the reasons I want to have this club working from the inside.

 

So that way I can open up my body if I have it out here, if I have it playing with the target, I'm just going to come down really steep and yank it way to the left, right. So I want to have it nice and bent back here. So that way when I rotate through, I can have that club nicely.

 

I'm playing right? So I'm going to set up here and on the shoulder. I'm going to bend this back. I'm going to try to keep all of this the same right. The only I want to feel like the only thing that's bringing this club to the golf ball is the rotation of my shoulder. All right. So let's go ahead and give it a try here.

 

Been this back up, back and rock through. So they did a good job of brushing the turf. Now, you may find that it's very difficult to brush the turf when you do this, and that's because you're not used to using your legs properly. You see, if you don't bring your shoulder down the golf ball, you basically have to straighten out your legs.

 

You have to stand up to make that happen. Right. So what I want to do is I want to bend my knees as I'm coming down. Now, I just don't want to bend my knees. It's also important where the knees go. You see, if I bend my knees and I bend them in, I can't rotate. I'm going to stall that shoulder and I'm either going to stub the club into the ground or we have to stand up to make room for the club.

 

Right. So we need to get these knees going outward. Now, if you flare up, if you flare open your feet like this, it makes it easy just to think, okay, I'm just putting I'm just putting my knees out over the toes to start my downswing. You set up with it more square like this. Then I would try to feel like you're going out over your pinky toes when you're doing that.

 

But I set up nice and flared, so it's easy for me just to think, okay, my knees are going out over my toes. I also need to have a sensation that I'm pushing my hips back, right? That allows me to move closer down to the golf ball. You see, if my hips move forward, my upper body is going to move up right?

 

If they didn't if my hips move forward and I stayed bent over right there, I'm just going to fall on my face. So I need to push my hips back, flex my knees down, push my hips back. And then the last piece is I need to have some right side bend. You see, when I don't move my shoulder down to the golf ball, I don't really get much side bend.

 

There's a little bit happening there usually, but there's usually not very much in order to be able to rotate my body and rotate my chest kind of toward the target here, I need to have some crunch in my side and you feel like I'm crunching down on my side. I need to feel like my shoulders are almost rotating like a Ferris wheel.

 

So a lot of people are rotating their shoulders like a merry go round, right? I need to feel like my shoulders are moving like a Ferris wheel that's going to help you to get those shoulders more steep. Right? That's where you want to be. Steep is with your shoulders. And that's going to allow you to be able to get that shoulder down to the golf ball.

 

All right. So with those things in mind, if you're struggling with this, you have to look at those things that are going on. What am I doing with my knees, my bending my hips back, my getting right side bend? Those are really the keys. What's going on now? If you're doing those things and you're just throwing this club into the ball, it's into the ground behind the ball.

 

It's because of what you're doing with your arms, right? So if you're really straightening out your trail arm, if you're really straightening out your trail wrist, you can see if I do that, if I'm doing all these things correctly, but I'm doing that with my arm, I'm just going to throw it down to the back of the ball.

 

So I need to keep that trail arm bent, the terrorist bent back, to be able to make this happen. So if you're struggling with that, I highly recommend doing this with a stick, right? Because it's going to give you feedback on whether you're doing that or not. So this alignment stick, you get them at any home improvement store for a couple of bucks.

 

Don't buy them from the golf store from online because they're just going to overcharge you. For them, these are literally just a couple dollar fiberglass sticks that you can buy at any home improvement store, at least here in the United States. If you're not in the United States, I'm not sure what you may have available to you. But in the US, any human home improvement store, a couple of bucks.

 

All right. So I'm going to take half of it and put it at the end here and half of it down the shaft and I like to grip it on the bottom. It's a little bit more comfortable for me to grip it on the bottom. You may find it to be more comfortable for you as well. But yeah, I mean, I set up to this on my left side.

 

I'm going to bring this back right here. And again, I want to have this stick pointing to the right of the target, but I want to have the sensation I'm moving and not allowing the stick to get closer to me as I'm coming through. I want to come through just like that. So let's try to do one in a practice sling here.

 

So again, I'm going bring this back and when I bring it back, arm bent wrist bend pointing out to the right arm on my shoulder, I'm going to rock this back and really try to work down. I want to hit the turf a little bit more there. If we look down replay, you're probably going to see that I didn't flex in my knees very much.

 

I didn't move my hips back and move down to the ball right. That's why I didn't really brush the turf very much. So, again, I'm going to get right there and going make sure on this one and then move down to the ball. Yeah. So on that one, I got much, much better with that. So now it's now I'm able to do that.

 

Now I'm going to try to add the golf ball and try it with the golf ball. So again, and remember, we're not trying to crush these golf balls. We're just trying to get this movement down. So that one went out a little bit to the right and you're going to hit some like that. You're going to struggle with this in the beginning.

 

You're going to hit some dirt, right? Don't worry about that. It's about how you're moving. That's the most important thing is how you're moving to get this done. Now, I would highly recommend that you work on this 30 minutes a day. You can work on this in your home, put a little piece of scrap carpet down, load up some some pieces of paper and just hit the pieces of paper.

 

Use a foam ball hitting, do a curtain, hit into a towel, hit into something you can get a lot of reps in at home and just getting this working better is going to make huge dividends for your golf swing. So work on this. I would recommend 30 minutes a day every day if you can. I'm telling you, you keep working on that.

 

It's going to make a huge difference. A lot of people overestimate what they can do in one range session, but they always underestimate what they can do over a long period of time. This isn't going to make a huge difference, just doing it for 30 minutes. But if you do this for 30 minutes for a month every day or even every other day, it's going to make a big difference for you.

 

So that's what I highly recommend that you do. Now, none of this really matters. If we're coming down steep and the start of the downswing, see if we're coming down steep, we have to stand up out of it to be able to get the club to shallow out. So if I have this club like this now, I stand up, I move my shoulder farther away.

 

Now the club's shallow and now I can swing from the inside. But the problem is, is that I'm going to early release, I'm going to flip, I'm going to have a hard time hitting consistent golf shots. Now, the the alternative to that, if we're coming down steep, if I were to move my shoulder down to the golf ball, it's like when I was saying, we want to have this back into the club, pointing out to the right, this is essentially like having the button of the club pointing to the left.

 

I'm just going to have big pull yank. So left. Now, you may compress the ball a little bit better, right? But you're going to end up hitting the ball way left pull hook, maybe even big slices. It's going be difficult to be consistent. So what we want to do is we want to make sure that we're having this club shallowing out in the start of the downswing.

 

So that way we can get into this position and we can move our chest through the ball and be able to compress the ball and hit the ball like a tour player. So I highly recommend checking out our 20 Minute Shallowing Fix course. We've had a lot of members work through this course and had incredible results, so I highly recommend you go check it out to get to the 20 Minute Shallowing Fix course, all you have to do is click the instruction tab Top Speed Golf system.

 

Then the 20 Minute Shallowing Fix course get started on those drills and start hitting the ball like a tour player. Play well and I'll talk to you soon.