Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Guaranteed Compression on Every Swing"

Did you know that there is a single element of the golf swing that can accomplish all of the following:

• Straighter shots,
• Increased ball speed,
• A more consistent ball flight,
• And having this allows you to swing EASIER and hit the ball farther?

And the crazy thing is, almost NO ONE at your local course is doing this...

...but, in today’s video, you’ll discover what this “swing piece” is…

...and how you can get it into your swing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Michael Derr    

Video Duration: 6:59

Video Transcription:

Michael Derr: The secret to consistency in ball speed on the golf course is forward shaft lean, bar none. If we have forward shaft lean, then that club face is going to be stable through impact, meaning the shots are going to be much more consistent.

They’re going to much straighter, there’s going to be less curve, and if we have shaft lean, we’re also delofting the club, meaning we’re going to get more energy into the ball and the ball speed’s going to be higher.

So this is a must have if we’re wanting to be consistent on the golf course and hit great shots. We can actually even swing easier and hit the ball further.

What we’re going to go over today is something you may have heard before, but if you stick with me, I’m going to show you how you’re going to be able to finally get forward shaft lean every single time you swing.

If you’ve seen me doing instruction yet, you know that I really like to explain things in extreme. I think it’s a really easy way to make it so we can easily see what we need to see, so that we can make easy adjustments in our golf swing.

So, if I’m looking for forward shaft lean, I have to be a certain height from the ground. Let me explain that in the extreme.

The extreme would be if I’m standing straight up and down. If I’m standing straight up and down when I make my swing, if I were to get forward shaft lean, I wouldn’t even be able to reach the ball. I can’t physically reach it.

If I’m standing straight up and down, to be able to hit this ball, I’m going to have to flip the club. I’m going to have to extend to hit this shot.

The opposite of that, that would be the extreme, the opposite of that would be me covering the ball with my chest. Let me explain covering the ball very quickly.

Covering the ball, if I was going to cover the ball, it’s almost like I’m putting a roof on it. This would be me completely covering the ball.

Now we can’t actually do this when we’re swinging, so what we’re going to do is we’re going to cover it to a certain extent. The more that my sternum gets closer to the ball, the more that I’m covering the ball with my chest.

This is the secret to getting forward shaft lean, it’s going to control my height so that I can get forward shaft lean.

If I go to cover the ball and I’m going to overexaggerate this even more just like I did standing straight up and down, and I were to release the club early, I would hit, this is almost too feet behind this ball.

In order for me to hit this ball solidly, I’m going to have to do something in order to do that. The only way to do that, is to get forward shaft lean.

I guess I could do something kind of weird, but this is not going to be something we’re going to be able to do in a full swing. So if I’m covering the ball, I have to get my hands in front to get forward shaft lean.

The opposite, if I do this and I really, really cover the ball and I hit this ball solidly, that ball’s going to come out super, super low.

You can see my loft on that was 4.6, that’s crazy low compared to a regular golf shot. How do we apply this to our full swing? Well, the answer is this, guys. It’s really this simple.

When we’re making our downswing, and I’m going to show you exactly how to do this, we are going to really in our minds, overexaggerate this chest getting closer and closer to the ball.

We want to do this on our downswing. So if we’re doing this ideally, we’re going to stay about the same height on our backswing.

Then, on our downswing, we are going to on our downswing cover the ball with our chest as much as we possibly can.

Even in your mind, if you feel like I was doing it earlier, when my chest is completely over the ball, this is what we’re going to feel like we’re doing.

Now, what actually happens when you go to hit the ball, your mind is going to know where that club head is, so you’re not going to actually be able to get this low.

If you do get this low that’s great, you can start toning it down a little bit. But most of the time, the player’s going to feel this.

Now the number one mistake, just real quick, that you don’t want to make is you don’t want to do this with your nose.

You don’t want your head to go down, you want to make sure your actual shirt buttons, or your sternum goes down.

I like to tell my students to keep the distance between their nose and their shirt buttons the same, and we don’t want to tuck our chin. We want to make sure we keep that distance the same as we cover the ball with our chest.

So, when you’re working on this to start off with, you’re going to need to make sure you pay attention to where your bottom point is, because it’s going to be much different than it was before.

The drill you want to do is start off with taking nice, easy swings. Really on the downswing, cover the ball with the chest as much as you possibly can and hit the ball solidly.

If you don’t hit it solidly at first, that’s fine, but you will hit it solidly if you keep covering it. You’re just going to have to find a little bit different way than you’re used to, to get to the ball.

So I’m covering this, I know it looks a little bit weird, but I’m really overexaggerating this so I can keep my chest down.

What we’re going to do is really work on covering the ball consistently, down as far as we can go, and hit it solidly.

Once we feel like we can do that consistently, we’re going to make sure that when we can check ourself on camera, we going to make sure that we’re staying either the same height as we’re coming into the downswing, or we’re even covering it a little bit more.

That way it’s going to guarantee if we hit that ball solidly, that the hands are going to be in front, we’ll have that stable club head, we can release it out in front, and get that ball speed that we’re looking for.

Once we feel like we we’ve really got it. So there we go, that would be about a normal loft. That’s actually a little bit lower than normal, about 19.1. The one before that, I think was like around 10 degrees.

You can see, by overdoing this, we can really make sure that we get that forward shaft lean.

When you’re working on this, make sure that that chest is covering the ball as much as you possibly can and this will guarantee when you hit it solidly, that you’ll have forward shaft lean. Because if you don’t, we’re going to bottom out way behind it.

I’m going to do one more here, we’re going to make sure that on the downswing I’m covering the ball, I’m feeling like I’m getting down here and hitting the ball solidly.

Now there we go. It came out super low, and you’ll see when you start covering the ball with the chest more and more, you’re going to have a very good problem, that’s having too much forward shaft lean.

Once you have that, it’s going to be really easy to tone down, because all you have to do to tone down the shaft lean is control the height that you cover the ball with your chest on the downswing.

Now, the number one problem you’re going to run into, is when you cover the ball with your chest, the tendency is this shaft is going to want to go with the chest and steepen out.

What I’m going to need to make sure you do, is when you’re coming down, you’re going to be shallowing out the club and squaring up the club face.

We’re going to be coming from the inside and coming in to the ball with a square club face, because you’re going to have a lot more forward shaft lean than you’re used to, and when a player does this for the first time, they tend to leave the club face open. So make sure you’re squaring the club up with the club face.

If you’re a member, what I’m going to have you do is head over to The Move section. Click on the Instruction tab at the top, go to the Top Speed Golf System, and click on The Move.

That’s going to show you how to do both of these in great detail where it’s going to show you how to shallow up the club, square up the club face through impact.

If you pair up The Move with making sure you’re staying in posture as you’re coming through, you’re going to be compressing the ball like crazy and you’re going to have to tone it down. You’re going to have forward shaft lean every time and it’s just going to be insanely solid.