Why You Need This: Here's your chance to learn a power-producing weight shift with the "Golf Backswing and Weight Shift Drill."

What's the best method to shift your weight in the backswing?

Well there's no shortage of advice out there...

Some folks think you need to keep your weight planted on your lead side throughout the swing.

Others believe you need a shift back then shift forward.

So who's right and which method will produce the most power?

In this video, you'll discover a great drill to help you develop a smooth, effortless weight shift that generates a powerful swing.

Watch it now because you'll also get a bonus tip to reduce your back pain!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:41

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. Today I’ve got a video, I get all the time a question on how do I properly transfer my weight? How do I start the backswing? Where should the weight be on my feet?

You hear different ideas out there. Some people will tell you, you need to keep your weight planted on the left side the entire backswing and downswing. Some people say you really want to shift off, shift right, shift left.

So which is correct? How am I going to be able to get power in the golf swing, and how do I ingrain this to make it kind of smooth and rhythmatic so I’m not trying to force this in my swing?

I’ve got a great drill for you, it’s going to help you to smooth all this out and get a really powerful swing.

First let’s talk about what the proper weight shift is. As I set up to the ball, let’s just go ahead and grab a club in your living room and work along these drills with me.

As I set up, I’m going to have a nice little amount of tilt in my spine at address. The idea here is that I’m going to shift a little bit of weight to my right side, inside of my right foot as I load up, and I want to keep that nice angle of tilt as I go back.

We can see there I rotated around my spine, got a big turn, but I haven’t started to sway or shift, or do anything like that. We do want a small weight shift as we go to the top of the swing, but what I don’t want to do is I don’t want to shift too far.

As I get this tilt, I don’t want to do this as I go back and really slide off the ball to the right. You’ll see now if I do that, the inside of my foot comes up off the ground. Now I know I’ve slid too far, my upper body’s going too far this way, and in the downswing I’d have to slide back over the other way. It’s just a lot of movement.

If you’re out there maybe chunking one ball, hitting one ball thin, a lot of times it comes down from that extra movement and you’re not being able to time up contact.

So I want to go ahead and have that little bit of spine tilt at address, I want to go to the top and the weight’s going to shift to the inside of my right foot.

Now in the downswing, we have to shift back to the left. You watch all the pros, as they’re coming through contact, most of the weight is going to be on the right foot.

Now it’s going to be about the center of the right foot, since the hips are rotating you may see that right toe or inside of the right foot barely start to come up off the ground. But in general, I want the same idea when I went back.

I don’t want to go ahead and slide way over here and have my foot coming way up off the ground like this, because now I’m sliding too far forward. So that’s the proper amount, we want to go to the inside of the right foot going back.

As we shift down, now it’s coming to the middle of the left foot, and I’m coming all the way on around to a good, full finish. You’ll see my right toe is on the ground, and my hips and my shoulders have all rotated through to the target.

That’s what we want to do and the proper motion. If we start to slide too much, we’re going to get inconsistent.

Now another thing you may hear out there, is that you want to stay stacked on your left side.

This has been a very popular thing the last 5 or 10 years, is that we’re going to start out with the weight on our left side, go to the top with the weight on our left side, and come down with weight on our left side. That makes it seem a little bit simpler.

Now in theory and idea, sounds pretty good. If we just keep everything on the left it’s going to be a lot easier to make contact in that way.

But in reality, it actually makes things tougher, because we’re naturally as we’re swinging down, our arms are shifting momentum toward the target, and our tendency’s going to be to come down to far that way.

So if I set up to this golf ball and I had my weight left with all the programs that teach you to keep your weight left, there’s a motion where you have to kind of throw your weight going back right in the downswing to compensate for that, so that you don’t chop down too far into the ball.

I won’t get into a lot of the details there, but you’ll see some moves as far as you’re coming down, feel like you’re thrusting your hips toward the target, and your upper body leans back to compensate.

That’s a pretty big compensation, it can do a little damage to the back, makes it a little tougher in the golf swing.

You can play good with your weight left the entire time, but not really what I’d recommend. You’re definitely going to lose a little bit of yardage doing that. I recommend nice weight shift like we talked about before.

Let’s go ahead and do a drill now that’s going to help us to ingrain this weight shift. So I’m going to step back from the ball, put my feet close together, and now on the backswing what I’m going to do, is I’m going to take a little mini step.

Just about 4 or 5 inches, little mini step, and as I swing to the top, now all my weight’s on the inside of my right foot.

As I’m ready to start the downswing, I’m going to take a little mini step to the left and let my weight come all the way on through to the finish where I’m balanced over my left foot, my right toe’s on the ground.

So go ahead and do these drills along with me, set up in your living room. A little mini step to the right, step to the left. I’m making sure it’s on the inside of my right foot, center of my left foot as I’m coming through.

Do about 100 repetitions of this, I’ll go ahead and do a few more. That’s going to feel pretty good. Once we’re comfortable with that, we’re going to do 100 repetitions to take out the step.

Now we’re going to feel that same pressure in our feet like when we were taking the step, we’re just not going to actually take the step. It’s going to look something like this. There we go, so I’m putting pressure on my feet just like I was before, feels pretty comfortable now.

Now once we’ve done that we’re ready to go to the driving range, hit some balls, and ingrain those steps. You want to do the reps, the 100 reps is going to help ingrain this, get some muscle memory.

That way when you get to the course, it’s going to stick with you. If you just do it 5 or 10 times, you’re not going to get that muscle memory.

Now once we’ve built this in, I’m going to have the same feeling of pressure in my feet, make a nice, full swing. There we go, hit that one nice and solid, right on the center of the green.

Work on that weight shift it’s going to smooth you out, it’s going to get you hitting it better. Good luck to you guys, I’ll see you all soon.