Why You Need This: In this video, "Good Flip vs Bad Flip"...

You'll discover how to add tons of distance to your drives.

We've all been told that flipping the club is the worst thing you can do in the swing because you'll lose your lag and distance.

That is correct...

But did you know that there's a good kind of flip?

This good flip will get you more distance.

In the first part of the video, you'll learn what's happening with your wrists when you swing with a bad flip.

The right wrist is flat at impact with little power.

A good flip is when the right wrist is bent and releases (or flips) fully past impact.

Watch now to learn how to avoid burning up your lag early with a bad flip...

And discover what it feels like to hit it dead solid!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:31

Video Transcription:

So we’ve all been told how the flip is one of the worst things you can do in the golf swing. If you’ve been struggling to get rid of your flip, you feel like you’ve done everything.

You’ve tried to hold on through contact, but you just can’t stop releasing early, I’m going to talk about how there’s a good flip and a bad flip, and how one is going to get you tons of distance, and the other one’s going to kill your distance.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

Now when we’re talking about the flip, what I mean here is the angle in the right wrist and how the angle in the right wrist releases. So if we have a bad flip, we’re going to be getting rid of this angle early and as I make contact, you can see my right wrist is already dead flat.

If I have a good flip or a good release, a release is probably a better word for it, as I’m coming into contact, I’m keeping this angle later in the downswing and then I’m releasing that as I’m coming through contact.

All right, so for those of you who are struggling with the bad kind of flip and releasing early, usually what I see that’s happening for most people, and this may feel like exactly what you’re doing, a lot of times people will get to the left side a little too much.

If we had a good angle on the wrist coming down, we’d be coming down too steep, so we actually flip and release the club to try to shallow this out.

A lot of times that will result in a bent left wrist at impact, a complete loss of the angle of the wrist, of the right wrist, and then also a chicken wing as we’re coming through impact because we’re releasing the club so hard.

That costs us a lot of distance and a lot of speed, because we’re burning all that distance very, very early. Now if you try to hold on as you’re coming through there, that tends to not work because we’re so far left we’d be chopping down into the ball.

There’s a couple things we need to do to get this correct. Now with the good flip we still want to be releasing that right wrist, but it comes down to when we want to release the right wrist.

As we start the downswing, instead of getting way up to the front, we’re going to stay back a little bit with our upper body. Now as I’m coming into contact, you can see that my hands are almost over top of the golf ball.

Look how my right wrist is pointing down toward the ground, and my knuckles are back, still back to my elbow here.

If you took your index finger knuckle, the bottom knuckle on your index finger, and you felt like you paused just prior to contact, I want to feel like that is facing down to the ground.

So just before my hand gets to the ball, or over top of the ball, my right knuckle’s facing down to the ground.

Now from here, I really want to release this club. For those of you who felt like you’re trying to hold on, we want to do the opposite of that. We want to go ahead and be releasing the angle of the right wrist as we’re coming through contact.

As we get 45° past, now we can see from my chest down through the club I’m fully released here, and my right wrist has lost all of its angles.

It’s that acceleration of the right wrist and letting that club go that’s going to help us to get more club head speed. OK, so if we actually want to get rid of this flip once and for all, there’s two things that we have to do.

The first thing we have to do whenever we’re working on any type of a swing change is we have to visualize what perfect contact is going to feel like.

As I’m making these technical changes, I want to be visualizing in my head and feeling exactly what it’s going to feel like to hit that dead solid shot.

I want to feel like my club face is coming into the ball, the ball is sinking into the face like it’s a rubber ball, it’s going to be that soft. And it’s going to stick to the face for a good four or five inches as we’re coming through contact.

Even though it isn’t exactly happening in reality, we’re going to get that feeling. If I can visualize that good feeling, and now pair it up with this drill, that’s going to help me to improve a lot faster.

I want to get that great feeling, I’m thinking of a dead solid shot, I’m seeing the ball flight, and now I’m going to work through this drill, a two-piece drill.

I’ve got on the bottom of my index finger that little X there on the knuckle. That will come down just prior to contact, again I’m going to stop my hands just before they’re over top of the golf ball, and I’m going to see my club angled back very nicely.

At this point I’m going to feel like that X on my index finger is down toward the ground, and my knuckles are back toward my elbow. That’s going to give me a lag and a ton of forward shaft lean as I’m coming here.

Now I want to go ahead and pause in the release. Again, 45° past, and my right wrist is dead flat. After this, I can go ahead and fold up my left wrist, that’s completely fine. It’s all right to fold up your left wrist after you’ve fully released, but not before.

I’m going to do about 100 reps getting that good visual, that dead solid contact, and pausing and trying to pair up my technique with my feel as I’m doing this in slow motion.

After you’ve done that, we’re going to go ahead and do about 100 full swings, focusing on the same thing without any pauses.

Then we’re going to take it to the course and hit some drivers and I guarantee, you guys focus on that good contact, get the technique right. Pair those two together, and you’re going to hit some great shots.