Why You Need This: In this video, you'll learn a great golf power secret...

...that I like to call "The Power L."

We all want to drive the ball far.

But the only way to do that is to generate a ton of clubhead speed.

There's just no way you'll be able to reach those long par 4s in 2 if you're not getting a lot of clubhead speed.

So how do you get more power and clubhead speed?

Well, let's take a look at the "The Power L."

This describes what your right arm does in the downswing to create more speed.

Your right elbow forms an L in the downswing...

And like a piston...

Your right arm releases fully past the ball.

Try this drill to get the correct feeling of releasing with your right arm...

Without your club, imagine you have a ball in your right hand and maintain the L position in your backswing.

Start your downswing and let your right arm fire through impact and into a straight line release.

Remember to open up your hips in the downswing...

And note that your right arm won't be fully straight until you're past impact.

Do about 100 reps to ingrain this feeling.

Next, try this same drill with your drive using only your right arm.

Put in around 30 reps.

So how much speed can you gain by maintaining this L position longer in your downswing?

Take a moment to think about what the opposite of the L position is.

Many golfers cast the club early and lose tons of speed in their swing.

By maintaining the L position with your right arm longer, you'll be coming into the downswing with more lag.

In the video, you'll see the FlightScope stats comparing a swing with tons of lag vs a swing where I cast the club way early.

The speed difference is huge!

When I swing with all my might but cast the club...

I barely break 102 mph for clubhead speed.

My normal swing came in at 115 mph with the L position in my right arm and with way more lag.

And I gained an additional 56 yards in distance (243 yards vs 299 yards)!

I hope this shows you how important it is to form the L position in your downswing...

And avoid casting the club.

Watch this video now to learn "The Power L" golf power secret.

You'll be bombing your drives way past your buddies in no time!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:24

Video Transcription:

Hi guys. So we all want to hit the ball well, we all want to drive it really far. We have to do that by creating a lot of club head speed. There’s no way around it.

If we don’t have the club head speed, we’re not going to get the distance, we’re not going to get the compression, and it’s going to be very difficult to reach those longer holes in 2, and take advantage of the shorter holes. So hitting it farther is always a good thing.

Let’s talk about the Power L. So what is our right arm doing to create some speed and to let hat speed go as we’re coming through contact?

The reason I call it the Power L is because your right arm makes kind of an L shape in the downswing. So as we make our downswing here, I’m going to pause as I’m about halfway down. You’ll see my right arm is bent, it’s making that L-type shape.

Then as I release on through to my straight line release, now my right arm is completely straightened out. If we look at it from this way, again as I’m starting down we’re getting our maximum lag position. We talk about this in the Top Speed Golf System.

About halfway down when your left arm is parallel with the ground, that’s when you’re going to be getting the most amount of lag in your swing. You’ll see from here, my right arm is bent, my elbow is close to my side.

Now from there, I’m going to release that just like a piston. So here’s how I want you guys to feel that without a club first. Go ahead and imagine you have a golf ball in your hand, and we’re going to kind of throw this forward.

I’m going to go to the top of my swing, I’m going to let my right elbow tuck in front of my shirt seam. So here’s my shirt seam on my right side, I’m going to let my right elbow kind of tuck in front of that.

My elbow is bent, and then I’m going to let that fire as my body opens up. My hips are going to continue to rotate out of the way, my shoulders are going to open, and then that is going to release down my target line.

Now it’s going to release, so that’s firing kind of like a piston, and that’s going to determine how much speed you’re getting in your golf swing.

Go ahead and do about 100 reps just in your living room. Stand up right now if you’re in your living room. Bend your right arm, get that nice laid-back position.

My palm is going to be more up toward the sky. It’s not going to be down like this, that’s that elbow out. I’m letting that elbow come in, and then my right wrist is angled back. That’s what’s called extension, that would also be lag in the swing.

Then from there, let that release until you would be at your straight line release point. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Top Speed Golf System that we go over on the website, about 45° in front, that’s where everything’s going to be releasing with my club.

Now you can see my right arm is dead straight. I’m letting that angel go and letting that fire kind of like a piston. Again, my hips, and my shoulders, and my body, everything is rotating open as I do this.

Now let’s grab a club with just the right arm, and I’m going to get that same sensation. So as I come down, I’ve got this right arm bent, my right wrist is angled back. I’ve got a good amount of lag, and then I’m going to go ahead and let that release.

I can make some little easy swings, letting that happen and getting some speed with my right hand as I’m doing that.

Again, do another 30-40 reps feeling that with just the club. We’re not trying to go that hard when we’re doing this, we’re just trying to get that right motion and feeling as though we’re letting go of that club. We’re throwing that club past the golf ball, and the golf ball’s just going to get in the way.

It’s easy to say OK, that’s going to give you speed, and all good players do this. You can look at Hogan, Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, anybody you want to look at, and they’re all doing that with the right arm.

But how much difference does that really make? I’ve got my FlightScope out here, and what we’re going to do is go ahead and hit a couple shots. I’m going to do a couple the correct way, and then I’m going to do a couple the incorrect way, getting that right arm to extend.

A lot of times what I see players struggling with as they get to the top, that right arm starts to fire out, and then they’re standing back kind of flipping at the ball and that right arm is straightening too early.

It’s straightening back here as we’re hitting the ball rather than straightening in front as we’re releasing the club in front of the ball.

Let’s put that to the test and see which one goes farther, and just how much difference that makes in club head speed. Let’s go ahead, I’m going to go ahead and hit a few. The correct technique first, and then we’ll look at some of these numbers.

All right, so I hit about 10 or 15 shots, I’ve really tried to cast it as much as I can here, really get that arm going out. It was really difficult for me to do, because I felt like just subconsciously I’m just losing a ton of power as soon as I start to do that.

When I’m casting I’m feeling like my elbow instead of staying in and my elbow pit staying facing forward, my elbow is going out like this. The feeling much more like that, I see a lot of players do it even much more than I was doing there.

Now the elbow pit goes forward, and then I’m releasing that very, very early. I just lose a ton of power with it. My club head speed on my first one, 115.8. The total distance was 299, that’s right into the wind. So I hit that one pretty well.

Then on my second one, club head speed went down to 102 and 243. I lost 56 yards of distance just by getting that elbow to go out. I felt like I was sitting it so hard, and swinging it so hard, but there’s just no speed there to get.

One last thing here for you guys to work on that’s really going to help with the idea of how this is happening. Imagine we’re throwing a baseball, and when we throw overhand what we’re really doing is tilting our shoulders so that they’re in line with our shoulders.

We’re really, there is no such thing as an overhead throw in baseball, everything is just kind of inline with our shoulders, roughly.

When we do a normal overhead pass, we’re tilting our shoulders and throwing, our release point is like this. If we’re doing side arm, can imagine our shoulders are level and we’re throwing like that.

This is the same thing that’s happening in golf, except now in golf we’re having our shoulders tilted forward and we’re staying in posture. Now we’re at a tilt here, here’s coming down to contact, and then as we come through contact we’re tilting this way.

We’re keeping our shoulders in a tilted angle that way, we can imagine here we’re going to take this golf ball and I’m going to do that same thing.

As I throw the golf ball, my shoulders are tilted and I’m letting that thing launch. Imagine again like our straight line release like we teach in the Top Speed Golf System, and I’m letting that thing really throw that way, my shoulders are staying in line and I’m letting that launch.

That’s the sensation that you’re getting. You’re letting that right arm fold, and then it’s releasing on forward down the target line as we’re letting it go.

So work on those drills, get rid of that cast, and I’m telling you, you’re going to pick up some big-time speed. No matter how hard I felt like I swung, I didn’t get one anywhere near what I could do with my normal distance.

So really work hard on this. Good luck to you guys. Take these tips to the range and you’ll be hitting better in no time.