Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Here's Your "Cheat Sheet" For Flush Ball Contact"

Do you feel like you’re trying to “muscle” the ball through impact?

If solid contact is a struggle for you, your hips might be the culprit.

In today’s video, I’m joined by Top Speed Golf certified instructor Ronnie Snowden, and he’ll break down the “hip thrust” that’s robbing you of power and accuracy.

Plus, he’s got a very simple drill that fixes it…

…and he’ll reveal the secret to that effortless compression feeling pros have.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    Ronnie Snowden    

Video Duration: 8:50

Video Transcription:

Clay: It's great to have you here today. I'm joined with certified top speed golf instructor, Ronnie Snowden. And we were talking about the only thing that everybody cares about, which is how do I hit the ball solid? If I can hit it solid every single time, wouldn't care about much else. Ronnie, what is your best drill to get people hitting solid?

Well, first let's think about,

Ronnie: there's actually two things that most of my students are doing that's making it very difficult on them to hit the ball solid. One is in the downswing, they want to push their hips forward toward the golf ball. You know that by pushing them forward. It's making it much more difficult to get the hips open and it creates a lot, you know, a lack of space for their hands to come through, causes a chicken wing and a downswing.

Just a lot of bad things happen, making it more difficult. And the second thing is that, you know, the right side, most of them are right handed and they, and they, Get right side dominant. It feels like they want to push that club down with their right hand. So what's really happening here is, you know, our, our wrists have extension and it has flexion.

And what the pros are doing in the downswing is they have extension. This right hand is, is, has knuckles back. Okay. It allows them to have lag, get some forward shaft lean, you know, really compress that ball, hit that ball solid. But what's happening is You know, the right side of Phyllis dominant, the right side, you know, they want to really get in a rush and push that ball, push that club head toward the ball, hit at the ball.

Yeah. And they push that, that ham forward and get a little flexion instead of extension.

Clay: Yeah. I like that. If you take that with the back, the right hand back there, just put the club in your right hand and take it about halfway back in the backswing of three quarters of the way back. Try not to hit me there.

But the, the knuckles back is this extension. So it's almost like. The pros are going to have their knuckles back as far as you can. And what that does, you'll notice if I start to go this way, where it's flat, as I start to go into extension, it shallows the club out. You'll also notice from this angle, I can get a little bit easier lag as I start to come later on down to the swing.

All of a sudden, if I flatten that wrist out, it wants to kick this club out this way. And when you're coming through impact. Now you're getting a little scoopy versus when the knuckles back, as you rotate through, you're going to have lag and shaft lag, shallow,

Ronnie: full of out, you know, all the good things that we want to do.

So, you know, you, you don't want to, if you fix one, but the other one still happened, it doesn't do you any good. So this drill is designed to, to tackle both of these root causes. Okay. So what you want to do, let me see your club there, Clay. So this will give me some immediate feedback to know if I'm doing this drill.

Right. And all I'm going to do is I'm going to take this. This is a seven iron. Just something that has a little bit of loft and I'm putting it underneath my lead heel. Okay. And what I want to do here is if I'm putting pressure, if I have weight on that heel, the club shaft is up in the air. Okay. So first thing we're going to do is work on our hips, keeping our hips back.

Let's think of at address. There's this imaginary wall behind us. Okay. So if there was a wall, a wall coming up right on the edge of our backside, straight up and down, it's like a plane of glass, almost. We want to keep these hips. back against this wall throughout the swing. Now they're not both going to be there the whole time, but in the backswing we want to think about this right butt cheek as we come back, pushing back against this imaginary wall.

So I want to say, take my backswing, think about pushing this hip back, keeping this, But right butt cheek against this wall. So, now, in the downswing, now that we're in this good position, as this right butt cheek comes off the wall, because as your hips open, it's gonna come off this wall, that needs to get replaced by this left butt cheek, okay?

So, as I'm, I'm back and I'm in a good position, I'm gonna come down, My hips are going to open. I want to think about squatting down, keeping my hips back. And not only do I want to get my weight shifted to my lead side, but I want it to go more toward my heel. And that's why this club is here. If, when you get your weight shifted to your lead side, if you tend to come to your toes, and those hips are coming up, you know, that's going to happen when your hips come up, then this club will drop.

Okay. You'll notice that if you're doing this correctly and keeping your hips back and getting the weight to our heel on this lead side, then, you know, the club shaft will still be up in the air. So that's kind of some immediate feedback to know if we are keeping the hips back, keeping that, that left butt cheek against this imaginary wall in the downswing.

Clay: Yeah, I really like almost if you imagine it like almost like a mirror, like there's a flat sheet of glass and. You took some dry erase marker and you dry erased all over it behind your backside. And you put two towels, one on your right butt cheek, one on your left butt cheek. As you took the backswing with your right one, you would push into the mirror and wipe away some of the dry erase marker that's behind the right butt cheek.

Then here's what I really liked. You mentioned this before when you shift forward, it's almost like you get your hips forward. So almost like bump the hips forward first, put them against the, the, the mirror and then wipe away the left side. So it's that shift forward that allows you to get your. Dividend front, the shaft lean, all the good stuff that happens with what he was talking about.

Ronnie: And if you struggle to open your hips in a downswing, this could be one of the reasons why you're pushing those hips forward. So doing this drill, keeping these hips back, you're going to figure out that it's going to be a lot easier to get these hips open. Yep, for sure. So that's part of the drill.

That's going to deal with the thrusting of the hips. Now, the other thing I want to do is try to You know, eliminate this right side dominance, this right side, the right hand, the right wrist flexion.

Clay: Okay. It feels powerful. It does reality. It gets ridiculous, right?

Ronnie: What we really want to be doing in the downswing is pulling this club down.

Okay. So the lead arm is responsible for pulling this club through and you're really pulling through and then pulling up with that lead arm. So. Let's take the right hand off. Let's give, give ourselves that feel for where our lead arms roll should be in the downswing. So I'm going to work on both of these at the same time.

I'm thinking about my hips, but since I'm only swinging with my, with one arm here, what I'm going to do is I'm going to grip down on the grip just a little bit, probably halfway, maybe a little more than halfway to make it a little bit lighter. Put my right hand behind my back. So I'm in a good posture here.

I'm thinking about my hips, staying back against this imaginary wall. I'm going to come back. Okay. And then in the downswing, pull this club through. Okay, I'm keeping my hips back against this wall, getting my hips nice and open. And I'm really getting the feeling for what my lead arm should be doing in a downswing.

Getting the hips open, really pulling that club through, having that club lag behind, and feeling what it feels like to whip through contact. As you pull that grip up, you know, if you have lag, it's really going to create that whip through impact there. So, what I like to do is do about 20 reps with just one arm.

That gives you, that's enough reps to give you enough of the feeling of what that lead arm should be doing in the downswing. After you've done about 20 reps, gotten that feel, now I want you to do 20 more reps where you alternate between one and two arm swings. So, you do a one arm swing, keep the hips back, pull that club through, and then, put the other hand on, and when you do these two arm swings, I want you to really feel, you know, what that lead arm was doing in the one arm swing and try to replicate that.

Try to keep the right hand from taking over. Let the right hand be more passive. Let the lead arm kind of take control and really feel that same feeling. And the thing I like about doing alternating reps is you're constantly every other swing, getting that reminder of what that lead arm should be doing in a downswing.

Clay: Yeah, I like that. And then this is the cheat sheet to where if this falls on the ground, You know, you can't always tell, I like the mirror, but you can't always tell if you're doing it right. You can tell if this is falling down or not. So it's kind of the, the shortcut to it. Right now, what I recommend as the very best thing you can do for your swing.

Everybody swings a little bit different. Now, if you follow the drills that we lay out, the step by step progression, we do the top speed golf system. You follow the 20 minute shallowing fix, the 20 minute distance fix, all those programs, they have a track record of helping people to improve. We have all the data in the world to back that up.

You're going to get better. But if you want to get better, even faster, it helps to have a coach. That's really knowledgeable. They can watch your individual swing and fast track you on the quickest ways to get those improvement. That's exactly what Ronnie does. So below this video, you'll see a button. If you click that, you'll learn all about his swing review program.

And right now he's just opened up a couple of spots. A lot of times we'll sell it pretty quick. If you want to sign up and those are already sold out, I apologize. Make sure you join the wait list. And we'll be sure to notify you as soon as he opens up more spots. That way you'll be the first person you'll get kind of first dibs.

Now, the cool thing about this is that Ronnie's going to work with you based on your custom goals. It doesn't matter if you just want to fix your slice or you want to win your club championship. When he hears about your goals, he sees your individual swing. He's going to lay out a step by step process on how to get there.

All you have to do is follow the drills and you're going to get a whole heck of a lot better. So best of luck. Thanks for joining us, Ronnie. And I can't wait to hear about your great success working together.