Why You Need This: In this video, you'll learn how to hit solid irons shots now!

Top Speed Golf Instructor Michael Derr joins me to give you great tips on how to get into that nice release position that you see with all the top tour players' swings.

First, you'll see a demonstration of the full Straight-Line Release that we cite in the Top Speed Golf System.

This happens after contact, when the club splits your forearms at a 45 degree angle to the ground.

Swinging with a Straight-Line Release allows you to get forward shaft lean at impact.

Second, you'll get a quick demonstration of what you don't want to do -- flip the club.

Flipping is the opposite of hitting with forward shaft lean and will cause you to lose tons of distance.

Next, you'll get a close look at how your wrists should move in order to hit with forward shaft lean.

Note that you'll also need to sync you upper body and hips with your lower body to open up your body and release the club at the correct time.

Watch this video now to stop hitting weak flips and to start hitting solid shots with forward shaft lean!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    Michael Derr    

Video Duration: 3:55

Video Transcription:

Hey guys, I’m Michael Derr, and this is Clay Ballard, and this is Top Speed Golf. Today we’re going to talk about how you can get into that nice release position you see all the Tour pros get into.

Clay let’s just go ahead and take them out into the straight-line release. So the straight-line release like we talk about in the System, is when we get into about a 45° angle after contact.

You can see Clay here, he’s got the club splitting the arms in two. We define the full release as right at this point, right when this club starts to split the arms in two.

So this is going to allow us to do a couple things. Go ahead and show them, Clay, this is going to allow us to get forward shaft lean in the swing.

At the end of your lag position, so let’s go ahead and just show them the lag. From here into the straight-arm release, or the straight-line release, we’re going to get forward shaft lean in between those two points.

You can see that’s going to be our most critical component of getting this released properly.

What we want to do -- let me go ahead and set my club down. What we need to understand about this is how our wrists work in the swing.

Clay let’s go ahead and show them the flip, just kind of go slow motion through a flip, and just kind of go back and forth with the flip, right there are the bottom.

We’re going to see here, as his wrist goes back and forth you’re going to see the club is going to move very far very fast. You’re going to see that it’s going to split the forearms very quickly and then get out of the forearms very quickly.

If we drew a line and there was a laser beam coming out the other side of the club, you would see this line go through the forearms very quickly on one side, and very quickly on the other side as it’s coming through the ball.

This is the flip. This is when the wrists are flexing and extending. This when you’re making like your beach muscle when you’re flexing the forearm, and then when the knuckles are kind of coming back.

When we flip, that’s going to send the club through there very quickly. Go ahead and show them one right here.

So guys that flip out there, when you’re coming down into contact and you’re flexing and extended with the wrists and these are coming through in a flipping motion, that club’s going to pass through there very quickly. It’s very hard to get that release out in front.

What we need to do, is we need to understand how the wrists are supposed to work. So Clay, let’s go ahead and show them how the wrists turn, it’s almost like we’re turning more of a doorknob.

You’ll see Clay, we have almost like a slight little bow in the front wrist, and that’s actually going to be turning, almost like we’re turning a doorknob, and we’re not going to be having the extending move in the wrist.

Now if we understand that, go ahead and show them real slow all the way through, that if he’s coming through into the release and he’s doing this, you can see how much slower this club is going to be splitting the forearms.

It’s going to take a much longer time for that club to get in between the forearms if he’s releasing in the proper manner.

The main thing that we need to understand about that is yeah, we need to release properly but if we’re not moving our body properly as well, we’re not going to be able to release that.

If Clay makes a perfect swing and he keeps his momentum and his hips and everything synched up coming through, he’s going to be able to release that club.

He’s going to have the momentum of his club. His hips are going to be open at contact, and they’re going to continue all the way on into a full finish.

Now, the main thing that causes the flips even when we’re trying to release the club properly is the stalling of the hips. So Clay go ahead and show them whenever the hips stall out, that means whenever the hips start to stall, the club is going take over.

The fastest moving point in the swing is going to be the club head. If we stall the hips, the club head’s going to take over immediately and our wrists and our forearms simply aren’t strong enough to hold that speed back.

So, to get into the proper release we need to make sure – go ahead and show them one more time – make sure that our hips and body are all coming through together and in synch, and that we are releasing with the wrists making sure that they are turning the doorknob through the zone.

Let’s go ahead and show them one, Clay.

All right guys, so if we understand that we’re going to allow that gradual release to come through the forearms gradually instead of that nasty flip that we all don’t want.