Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Finally Stay In Posture & Stop Standing Up"

Whether you know it or not, staying in posture in the downswing is extremely important.

It helps your body rotate…

...it’s a MUST to compress the ball…

...and it’s very difficult to have any consistency without it.

Today, I’ll reveal 3 ways you can make sure you’re not losing posture (including putting your backside in the turf)…

...so you can finally get into the perfect impact position…

...and start playing consistent golf!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:26

Video Transcription:

G134. Finally Stay in Posture & Stop Standing Up

Clay Ballard: Now I want your cheeks on the ground and then we’re going to twist like we’re turning them into turf.

I know that sounds crazy, but let me get into the details of how we’re finally going to stop from standing up, losing that posture in the downswing that causes us to flip and cast, causes all kinds of bad things to happen there.

Well, there’s three specific motions that make this happen, and one of them involves your butt cheeks and the turf. I’ll get to that in a minute.

The first one is, where does our weight go in our feet. So if I’m standing up, what ends up happening is I’ll let my weight shift forward to my toes early. That moves my hips forward and it gets my upper body standing back.

To do the opposite of that, we want to feel like our weight is in our heels. What I want you to do is make a few practice swings here where as you start your downswing, you actually let your toes come off the ground.

You’re almost going to feel like you’re falling over if you do a little bit too much to that. So that’s the first move. I actually want to see those toes go up as that’s happening and then make some swings where I come all the way on through.

It’s going to feel weird. It’s not supposed to feel good. I want the toes up, and then coming back. I’m almost going to fall over that way.

It’s actually important to overexaggerate that because it’s so ingrained to do this and come toward the toes. That’s going to take over if we don’t exaggerate a ton.

That’s piece number one. Weight in the heels. Make some practice swings doing that.

Piece number two, I want you to feel like your butt cheeks, both of them at the start of the downswing, are on the turf.

I want you to feel – obviously that’s really not going to happen, I’m not going to sit down on the ground when I’m doing this – but I want to feel like I’m exaggerating that so much, that I’d be putting my cheeks right on the ground as I’m making my downswing.

I have yet to see a single player, I’ve yet to see a single person ever overexaggerate this enough. It could happen, maybe you’ll be the first, but I have not seen anyone overexaggerate this too much yet.

So my weight is back on my heels, my cheeks are on the ground, and then finally, here’s the last piece of that.

What I’ll see players do, even if they start to get the weight going back – they start to squat a little bit better which is good – will do one of two things.

They’ll keep the hips very still and then all of a sudden, their upper body will just kind of throw at it, because if my hips don’t open, I really can’t swing through the shot very well and I end up throwing my hands and arms at it anyway.

Or number two, they will – what I just talked about there – back out of it with their upper body and throw their hands at it.

Both of those come from either keeping the hips too square or keeping the hips too square and backing up and throwing your arms at it. Both of those come from not turning or not twisting your body open.

Once we get those cheeks feeling like they’re on the ground, I have to twist my body open to the target. So number one, weight’s on the heels.

Number two, I’m sitting into the ground and from there, I have to make sure that I turn through this shot all the way to a good, full finish.

Now you’ll notice when I finish this swing, I’ll come to a nice, high finish as I’m doing this.

There we go, so even though I sat down, even though I had this downward motion here, and I kept down all the way through contact, as I came to the full finish, everything came up.

My chest is nice and high, my head’s nice and high, and I’m coming all the way around here. I don’t want to stay down in my posture like that.

There’s one more piece to this that I think will be incredibly helpful. I have an entire series talking about how you stay in your posture, how the hips, the shoulders, the body, how you cover the golf ball.

All this relates back to what I talked about here today. So we started here today with the lower body. We talked about how we’ve got to get our weight back, hips to turn, and our butt on the ground and then twist it.

But what about the upper body? There’s actually a specific way that you want to turn your shoulders that’s going to make that a lot easier.

I find that most players as they back up they just get their shoulders rotating too flat. Once you can get your shoulders rotating on more of an incline plane, that’s going to make things so much easier.

Now I have an entire series of this. If you’re a member of the website you can work through it, and I’ve had tons of players have tremendous success with this series.

It’s called Eliminate Early Extension. All you’re going to do is go ahead and go to the Instruction tab, click on those Quick Fix Bonus Courses, go to the Eliminate Early Extension.

In a very short period of time, you’re going to get this ingrained into your game. So we’re going to start with it here today, get the lower body working correctly. Then we’re going to add the upper body.

The shoulder movement in there, I’ve got some great tips for you in there. We’re going to talk about how to use the hands and arms to get tons of shaft lean and really cover that golf ball like you never have before.

There’s just a ton of great material in there that I can’t wait to help you with so that the goal of it is once you go through a few of those videos and you follow the drills, you’re going to get out of the car, you’re going to make your very first swings of the day, and you’re going to be covering the golf ball.

You’re going to be staying in your posture. You’re going to be really compressing those golf balls without even thinking about what you’re doing. That’s the goal, and that’s what I want you to have.

So best of luck, and I can’t wait to see you in the Eliminate Early Extension series.