Why You Need This: Today you'll learn how to "Have a Consistent Golf Swing"

When I say "consistent golfer" are there certain people that pop into your head?

You know, those guys that just seem to be able to come out every day and make consistently good contact with the golf ball...

Just by watching them swing, it may not be obvious to you why they're able to perform so well day in and day out, but I'd be willing to bet they have this one common trait that almost ALL consistent golfers have.

Are you ready to start playing better golf and end your days of being a "wildly inconsistent" golfer?

How would you like to become one of those guys that pop into other people's heads when they think of consistency?

Today, I'm going to help you unlock the secret that leads to consistent ball contact and ultimately...  consistent golf.

I'll give you a hint, your eyes play a major role in this "consistency secret".

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:59

Video Transcription:

So why in the heck are so many players so consistent? You watch them hit ball after ball and they’re all in a string. The divots are in the exact same spot, it’s ball first contact every single time.

Their head looks like it’s frozen in space. It’s perfectly still and stable. Where you may feel like your swing at times gets a little all over the place, the consistency goes out the door, and it’s really tough to hit several divots exactly the same.

Well I’m going to teach you one of the real secrets on how to create that consistency in your own game. Let me just show you how this is going to work.

Now if I do this properly, and I get my body set up in a certain way to make this easy, I can rotate back and through and you’ll notice my head stays very still and very stable.

That allows my eyes to have much better hand-eye coordination and to have a lot better proprioception.

I have three tees set up here. If I can clip these tees without hitting the turf then I know that I have really good consistent contact, and I can control my low point. That’s the second piece of this.

If I do this correctly, I’ll be able to clip these tees just like that without actually hitting the turf. Now that’s not anything special that I’m doing, it’s just getting set up in the correct way making it easy for my body to perform with a lot of control. I’m going to go over that in this video.

All right, so let’s go over exactly what we did here. Well, I’m going to start out by doing that same drill with you and it’s got a few steps to this.

The very first step here is as I set up to this golf ball, I have to get my spine tilted in a way to where I can rotate in the backswing, rotate in the downswing, and that spine angle’s going to stay pretty consistent.

Now that spine is going to rotate, I can rotate around my spine but my spine angle isn’t shifting, or swaying, or moving around a lot. It’s going to stay pretty stable the entire swing.

That’s what I call the Stable Fluid Spine. What this means is, as I set up to this golf ball, if I take my shirt buttons and my belt buckle here and I put this club in front of it to kind of represent where my spine angle is, I’m going to tilt my body away until that would kind of hit the inside of my left leg.

So my spine angle’s tilted away just a little bit at address. That sets me up in a position to where now as I go to the top of the swing, I can easily rotate to the top without moving my spine.

Notice how I can also rotate to the top and now my head doesn’t move. What happens if I start to maybe set up with my weight straight up and down, or even favoring my right side and I get that reverse pivot?

When I get a reverse pivot, look how it tilts my eyes, now all of a sudden my eyes are being tilted this way. I lose a little bit of my hand-eye coordination, my proprioception.

My spine angle is kind of moving around there, it’s a lot more to tie them up. Just a little bit more difficult doing it that way.

I’m not saying you couldn’t play good golf doing it that way, I’m just saying it’s a lot harder to play good golf, consistent golf doing it that way.

I like to get a little bit of tilt away, get that tilt locked in, spine angle on my left leg, rotate to the top keeping the head very still.

Then from there, you get a little weight shift to the left, which kicks your spine a little bit more tilted, so at impact I’m going to be a little bit more tilted than that. But notice my head really didn’t move a lot as I did that.

So I can get this little shift to the left, but my eyes and my head didn’t move. If you watch a lot of great players, basically shouldn’t say a lot, every single great player, as they come down and hit that golf ball, their eyes are going to be behind the golf ball.

If I start to do this, I’m going to be coming over the top, chopping down into it. That’s what’s going to allow me setting up with the tilt, rotating the top, steady head, keeping that tilt.

As I come down in the downswing, I get a little weight shift to the left, but again, my eyes stay steady. As I put that all together, I can be very consistent and it’s easy to hit the ground in the same spot.

Now there, I’m purposely clipping a tee, I’m not touching the turf, but I can do the exact same thing when I’ve got a golf ball here, and now I’m just going to swing down and hit a little bit more turf.

So I’m going to hit a few shots here, and we’re going to notice where my divots start. I won’t see a lot of them in front of and behind the golf ball. I’m going to see them be very consistent in front of this golf ball every single time.

Let’s go ahead and make a little tally there, this is kind of the line that my ball is lined up on, and we’ll see where this divot ends up in relationship to that line.

Notice my spine angle and my head stay nice and stable throughout the entire swing. All right, so just a little small divot, brushed the turf in front of that one.

Let me take a little bit more of a divot. With a long iron you’re not going to take a big divot, I actually hit that one really well, but I’m going to do a little extra. I’m going to hit down a little bit more to see if you can see it easier.

There we go. Hit that one perfect, right down the middle of the fairway. You can see it roughing it up with this 4 iron, this longer iron.

Let me go ahead and try to hit another one. On this one, notice my head in both the backswing and the downswing, is not going to be moving around very much. Yeah, and again, right on the exact same line, little bit of a divot, brushed the turf in front.

Now as I switch over to say, a wedge, let me go with a pitching wedge here. The exact same principle applies.

My tilt is going to be a little away at address. As I go to the top I’m going to staying tilted away. Because this club is a little more loft, as it hits the ground it’s going to take a little bit more of a divot.

There we go, we see that’s in front of that line on all three of those, all of those examples.

Follow those tips, you’re going to be a lot more consistent with your entire bag, from a wedge, all the way to the driver.

So here’s what we do from here. This video is really going to help you to get started on the Stable Fluid Spine, but we need to really ingrain that so it lasts a lifetime.

The only way to really ingrain something is just chip away at it and be consistent with it. If we do this today, you’re probably going to go out and have some fantastic results, you start hitting it better on the range. You’re having fun, and then you completely forget about it.

Two, three weeks down the road, you start to deviate away from what we worked on here today. The consistency goes down, the results aren’t as good, and we wonder what’s happening.

We start searching again for a new fix because we’ve kind of even forgot about this video. What we need to do to be really consistent is to commit to working through the Stable Fluid Spine section in the Top Speed Golf System.

If you’re a member of Top Speed Golf, go to the Top Speed Golf System, go to the Stable Fluid Spine section, start right with level one.

As you start chipping away on those drills, you’re going to be engraining that into your swing. You move to level two and level three, man, this becomes automatic.

You’ll be making a practice swing and your head’s going to be completely consistent, your spine’s going to be stable. You’re just going to be clipping those divots one after another, perfectly.

The only way to get that is to work through the system. I can’t wait to see you there. Best of luck, and I’ll see you soon in the Stable Fluid Spine.