Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Don't Make My Big Mistake | Stop Pushing the Club!"

In today’s lesson…

…you’ll discover how “pulling” the club rather than “pushing” the club will increase your consistency…

…and how you can make a specific move with your left hip and left shoulder to make it happen!

Give this drill a try and let me know how it goes.

To A Better Swing,

Clay Ballard

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:40

Video Transcription:

So if you've seen many of my videos, you know that I really like to guarantee certain things because I love it. And in golf instruction, when we can guarantee any kind of mechanic even if it's just a starting point. Now, in today's lesson, we're going to be going over early extension, guaranteeing, maintaining the tush line in the back swing Now, the great thing about this is, again, if you execute what we go over in this lesson, you will guarantee getting at least that jumpstart into getting the tush line.

So we know all the bad things that happen with early extension. When we when we start getting these hips to come in towards the target, we start just decreasing all of our space. We have to stand the club up club flips, we cut across it, we add loft. There's so many things that we don't want to do. And if you look if you draw this line right off the back pockets from the down the line view, you'll see all kinds of tour players getting on that line, staying on the line.

Some of them go through that line, some of them stay a little bit near, but they're all somewhere around there. They've got that nice hips back position with the chest over the ball as they're coming through. Now, here's the problem. The big problem that's not mentioned in a lot of drills when it comes to the back pocket slide that we're going to go over here is we have to understand, when we start expelling energy, the swings over, we actually start our swing.

It gets over that fast. It's so quick and if we understand that dynamic, then we can understand how we can start eliminating early extension with maintaining our tush line. So we're going to do a couple of things here. We're going to understand the dynamic of how we fire, and we are going to understand exactly how we can overexaggerate the tush line so that we can do this.

So let's go over the overexaggeration first. This is going to be the nuts and bolts of how we're going to do this. And then the firing sequence is going to be the guaranteeing sequence, how we can guarantee that we're going to be able to do this when we actually start hitting some balls. So the mechanical part here. So let's go ahead and draw a line right off my back pockets here.

This is going to be called this referred to as the tush line, the back pockets line. A lot of different things. But regardless, if we were drawing a vertical line right off the back pocket, what we're going to do in the back swing, I want to start breaking this line So when we start going up to the top, I want you to get your back, but back through that line.

Go ahead and just get it way, way back there. And then that's going to be the first piece breaking that line in the back swing. Then on the downswing, I'm going to have you do two things here. This is going to be this is going to make sense here. In a minute. I'm going to have you keep your back feeling like it stays towards the target and I want you to break that line even more.

So as you can see, let me go and show you here from the down the line view. First, I'm going to keep my chest facing you here and I'm going to get my pockets to go back. Now, as you can see here from the face on view, I'm going to be opening up slightly whether I like it or not.

So I'm getting my pockets back in the back swing and back further in the downswing. That's going to be that over exaggerated feeling. Now, I'm sure you've probably seen you know, Michael, I've seen this before. That doesn't work for me. Well, here's the glue that makes it work. This is going to guarantee it working. If you do this before you unturn, then you'll be able to maintain your back pocket slide if you can.

You'll actually I've had players try this out and the first time they've been early extending so they can never do it. And then I've actually seen them the very first swing, get their back pockets before and make a swing with their back pocket staying behind because they understand this concept. We are going to drop and get down before we start going to the ball very poor.

Important to understand that. So we're going to think about this when we fire. We're going to think about when we actually start to hit the ball. That's going to be us un turning. So the words we're going to use here is we are going to turn, we are going to drop, and then after we drop, we're going to unturn.

Very important to understand that we don't unturn until after we drop the deal here is is we go up to the top of the swing and we try to drop in and unturn swings over. We didn't give ourself enough time to start training on keeping the hips back. So if I try to drop once I start firing my hips are going to go.

Everything is going to go. So we're going to train this in sequence. I'm going to go up to the top I'm going to drop once I drop and I'm at I've got my pockets way behind the line, then I'm going to on turn. So let me show you how that how we're going to start with this we're going to go ahead.

Remember during the back swing, we're going to break that line, then we're going to break that line even more. My back facing the target. Once I get here now I'm going to unturn. Now, it doesn't really matter how we hit these first couple shots because this is going to be very, very PC and put together. But we have to get that sequence first.

So once we get a good feel for that sequence, now, we're going to be able to start throwing some motion in this. And once you start off with this very easy and you'll see once you get a feel for it, you can start speeding this up a lot more quickly than you might think. This is not something you have to work on for weeks and weeks and weeks.

This can be like one to three or four days of really getting this, and you can really eliminate that early extension so again, I'm going to break that that back pocket sign. I'm going to break it more. Once I break it all the way, as much as I feel like I can, then I'm going to unturned. So we're going to see it go back and then I'm going to unturn again.

I know these shots are a little bit squarely right now, but these are going to be over exaggerations. So don't worry too much about where these are going. We're going to be worried about getting the body movement first so that once we get this, we can tone it down, keep the back pockets nice and snug inside the line and hit nice, normal shots.

So let's do one more here. I'm going to be breaking. I'm going to make sure I drop before I fire. That's the key so that I can maintain that that back pocket slide so we go up, down and then turn. That's going to be that sequence. So now that we've got that trained a little bit, we can start speeding that up more and more so let's just take a full swing here and you're going to see that when I make my swing here, I'm going to use that same same that same sensation.

But I'm at a little bit of flow in my swing here. With that sensation. And then we're going to keep those hips nice and back, keep our posture in a nice easy shot right down the fairway.

Now, there we go again. My sensation there was my pocket stayed back then. Then I unturn so they went back. Then I in turn coming into the downswing. Now, the next big piece of this is making sure that you can shallow out, get the back pockets there. So now you have room to shallow and square coming into impact.

Very, very important to make sure you're doing this. Now, if I was actually able to see with my own eyes, see where your swings that we could assess very quickly where you need to be and get to this very, very quickly. This is one thing that I really love about working with my online students is making sure that we can streamline the process, work on what you need to be working on and not waste any time on anything else.

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