Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Easiest Way to Get Shallow | Figure 8 Drill"

And I know exactly why you've struggled to shallow the golf club.

In today's lesson...

Not only will I show you the critical mistake you're making that's keeping you from shallowing the club...

...but I'll give you my "Figure 8 Drill" that will get you on the right path to a shallow downswing plane and the best contact of your life!

Once you get this, it will be a whole lot easier to shallow the club.

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:22

Video Transcription:

If you struggled forever to shallow out this club, get it coming from the inside, and really get it in that slot through contact. This is going to be the perfect video for you to see. What most people do is kind of a reverse type figure eight drill. Here's what I mean by that. When they do the back swing, we start to use our hands on our wrist and we pull this club to the inside and that gets this club working to the inside.

 

That's the start of our figure eight. As we start down, we come a little steep and over the top that's kind of like a loop. The first half of the figure eight. And then as you come through, you slice or pull the club across the golf ball and then it finishes up over here. So it's almost like the clubs going inside over the top and then looping around almost like a little bit of a figure eight type motion.

 

If I just kept that moving, it would look something like this, right? So I'm making a little Figure eight pattern there as I'm swinging. That's the pattern that most golfers have. And here's the reason for that. It just feels a lot more powerful to pull that club with the right arm and start to suck it from the inside.

 

We know we can't swing down on that plane, so naturally we kind of loop it to the top. So if you're right hand dominant, then you're pulling the club back inside like this, kind of flaring it open. And then that starts the figure eight on the pattern. Once it gets on the pattern. It's really tough to get off of it.

 

Now, to break that pattern, what you need to do is the exact opposite. You need to get the reverse of there so that you can feel the club really shallow out to the extreme and almost make it impossible not to get the club shallow from the inside and releasing. So all I'm going to do is reverse that pattern.

 

Super simple drill here. I'm going to take the club back outside the opposite direction as I was doing this. I'm going to do a little bit of a matt wolf to the outside, let it drop to the inside, swing out to the right again. So that's the opposite of coming, stiffen, over the top. Now I'm way shallow swinging out to the right and then I'm going to let it loop around again.

 

So if I did that, that kind of pattern, it would be the opposite. So I'd have a little figure eight kind of going this way. I'm just changing the direction of the figure right now. You may be saying, Clay, this sounds silly. I had one problem, so now I'm just doing another problem to fix. It sounds like it's a mess.

 

Well, here's the cool thing about this. You can't overdo it. I never see anybody that over does that and has their swing look anything like Matt Wolf. If we do this little figure eight drill now, this makes some of these swings or I'm coming out and going like that. When you actually get up to the golf ball and make a swing, it's going to look something like this.

 

It's going to look like a completely normal swing. You're going to hit it really solid because you're getting the club slotted from the inside, you're getting lag, you're having that nice tight draw in there like that. So there I feel like I has stepped up. That would actually work fantastic 218 yards with a six iron and I didn't even feel like I had to swing hard.

 

A lot of that is because I've got that club looping from the inside on playing lots of leg and then it releases from there. So there's one big key that you have to do with this when you're doing this drill, most everybody gets this half of the drill, correct. When I swing through, you're going to need to feel like your arms fly away from your body much more than you've ever felt before.

 

So in order to release that club out, you're going to feel like your arms are wide. And there's a lot of space here between your arms and your club and your body. So my club is very far away from me. There's a lot of gap here. My elbows, my elbow pits are almost getting a little bit of air here.

 

And as I swing through, then I'm letting the club loop around this way. So it's that if we're looking from the down the line to you, the club is coming around that way. You'll notice that a lot of players, especially Tiger and his heyday, when he would give that club to release, he would get it here. And it almost looked like it kind of looped around this way as he finished and he got that kind of finished with the club down the fairway.

 

That was kind of his textbook move. The way that it looked like his pattern was, I'm teaching the same thing here, so get the club to go back out first halfway from here, I'm going to feel like the club comes down this wall way, shallow way from the inside. I'm going to feel like I then swing toward that wall, my arms get a lot of extension, the club comes up out in high and then it loops around to my finish.

 

Get a good five reps in on that. Just feel comfortable with it. Feel like you can make that motion without really having to strain to do it. And then we're going to set up to the golf ball, create that same feeling, and again, swing as hard as you want to. You're going to be from the inside, going to be in the slot.

 

You're going to get that ball to be nice and straight, even a little bit of a draw on it every time. So you can see there again, nice, easy swing. Now, actually, a little farther to 20 with the six. I don't know if I've ever hit one that far. Now, there is one small problem with this. You see a lot of players have been taught the wrong way to square up the face.

 

What I just showed you here was half of what I call the move in the top golf system. The first half of the move is getting this club shallowed out and from the inside, I had this call. Figure eight drill is going to help you to do that. Now, the second half of that is being able to release the club face, so we always make sure it turns over from right to left.

 

Now it doesn't mean that you have to play a drill every single time. It just means that's the easiest way to start playing really good golf. You look at most scratch golfers, this is the ball flight pattern that you're going to see. Now, once we learn that motion, we can do anything we want from there. But the real piece that's holding most players back is not getting from the slot and getting from the inside, but it's learning how to properly use the wrists and arms to square up that face and to get the club face squared up every time and slightly closed every time so that you can swing as hard as you want to.

 

You can open as fast you want to, you can do whatever you want to, and you know that you're going to get that type of a pattern. So I want to challenge you head on over to the MOVE section right now so I can teach you that second piece. Just do one video from there today and you're going to be hooked.

 

You're going to start hitting the ball better and you're going to be well on your way to incorporating that and making automatic. There's a handful of drills in there. Once you complete those drills, you don't have to think about it. You step up the golf ball, swing as hard or as easy as you want to play, pretty carefree.

 

And you know that ball's going to be coming over from right to left. You know, it's going to be from the slot every single time. And I can't wait to share that feeling with you because it will be a game changer in your golf game. So head on over to the move. Now just do one video today and I promise you going to be well worth it.

 

I'll see there soon.