Why You Need This: In this video, you'll discover a great golf drill for speed.

We all want more swing speed.

Wouldn't it be great to...

Whip your driver through contact with 120 mph club head speed...

And crush your 6-iron 190 yards?

But what does it take to do that?

First, you have to get your left hand working up through impact which helps accelerate your club.

Part of that move includes getting your hips and shoulders to rise up.

However, most golfers struggle to get the speed they want...

...because their hips are sabotaging their swings.

The problem is caused by sliding (or bumping) your hips too far towards the target.

This makes it difficult to rotate your hips properly and maintain your lag.

Here's a drill to help you avoid bumping your hips...

Drop your club and open your shoulders to the target, letting your back foot come off the ground.

In this position, drop down then extend upwards.

This drill will help you get the feeling of rising up in the downswing and follow through.

Practice this drill, then practice swing in slow motion with hip rotation.

Once you get a good feeling for these movements, you'll improve your contact zone.

A bigger contact zone means you'll be able to make more consistent contact with the ball.

Watch this video now to learn these great loading and extending drills...

And an awesome golf drill for speed!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:03

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. Now we know we want to get a lot of speed, we want to get that 120 mile an hour swing speed with the driver. Those 6 irons that are going 180 or 190 yards. We’ve got to get this left hand working up through contact. That’s going to get the club to accelerate on through there.

Now that comes from getting our hips to move up, then our shoulder’s naturally going to move up, and then the club is going to take of last. We’ve talked about that in a lo of videos.

One of the things I see people struggle with time and time again, is getting those hips to work properly. In the proper golf swing, if you watch players like Jason Day, Rory McIlroy, they all do this really, really well.

As you’re going into the downswing, my hips are kind of dropping back, and I have an angle between my legs and my torso. So if I’m looking this way, if I pause kind of halfway down you’ll see that there’s an angle between the upper leg, my femur here, and the angle of my overall torso or upper body.

As I come on through, I’m going to be losing that angle. As I go halfway down here, and as I come through, now this is extended. My chest is nice and high toward the sky as I’m coming through here. My right leg is extended, and all this angle is gone.

Now this is really helping you to release that golf club, because as my lower body, my pelvis, drives forward, that’s going to help my hips to move up. It’s going to help my left shoulder to start to move up, and then that’s going to really help to whip the club on through there.

I’ve got a great way for you guys to feel this, it’s a little bit of an extreme drill, but for those of you who may not have felt this extension, or extending at the right time, it’s really going to help.

One of the most common mistakes that I see are people sliding forward, I mean I did the same thing myself, I think we’ve all struggled with this from time to time. But we slide forward, now our hips don’ rotate, and we actually end up extending early in our downswing.

It’s going to look something like this. Your hips go toward the ball, and then you lose your posture. Very, very common.

What I want you to do is go ahead and drop the club for a second, we’re going to pretend like we’re hitting down the fairway here. I’m going to take my shoulders, and I’m going to open them. Right foot’s going to come off the ground a little bit.

I’m going to open my shoulders, kind of where I’d be in my follow through. So my chest is straight up and down, I’m facing down the fairway.

Then what I want you to do is go ahead and drop the hips back until your chest is bent, and now it’s kind of over my front foot. Now from here, I’m going to bend, or I’m going to extend from that bent position.

So my hips are bent, and I feel like my hips are moving forward toward the target, and my chest goes up nice and high. Go ahead and do about four or five of those. You can do these in your living room.

That’s exactly what’s happening in my golf swing. I’m extending up like this. That’s helping that arm to move up. Well, all we’re doing is adding rotation to that in the golf swing. So we’re here, this is that position, and then we’re extending on up out of that.

That gets this butt end of the club to turn up, get you that impact glide, that flat spot that we talk about in the Top Speed Golf System where the butt end of the club is working up as the bottom of the club, the head of the club, is going down.

That’s going to get you a flat spot at the bottom of the swing. So you can hit an inch behind the ball, two inches in front of the ball, and it’s coming in so nice, and clean, and shallow, it’s still going to be solid.

So go ahead and do about 10 of those drills where we bend down, extend up, and now we’re going to do the same thing where we pause halfway down.

Same bending action, and then we’re going to extend up as we follow on through with a kind of a slow-motion swing, pausing then coming on through the follow through.

Then we’re going to do about 10 where we do the same thing in a full swing. Now we’re ready after we’ve gotten about 100 reps total, so we’re doing 10, 10 and 10 three times, that’s going to be about 100 reps. You’re going to feel pretty good with this.

Then once we feel comfortable, let’s go on out to the course. I’m going to create that same feeling loading, extending up, and then that’s going to allow me to leverage the club a little bit better, get a little bit more swing speed.

There we go, that one felt good. Chest was nice and high in the follow through. Good luck to you guys, I’ll see you soon.