Why You Need This: In this video, "Hit Solid With Lots of Shaft Lean | Student Review"...

You'll find out how to make solid contact with MAJOR shaft lean!

If you're struggling with distance...

If you aren't regularly achieving 100 MPH with your average drive...

If you've got some consistency issues...

This video can be a GAME CHANGER for you...

Literally.

In this student swing analysis we'll go over some things that can be done to improve consistency, lag, shaft lean, and speed in his swing and yours at home.

Watch this video today to use the same tips I gave this student in your own game!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:32

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back to Top Speed Golf. Today we’re going to take a look at one of the students of the website.

He’s got a lot of great motions in his golf swing, but struggling a little bit with distance, swinging about 99 miles an hour on average what he said for the driver, and not getting the consistency from day in to day out.

So we’re going to talk about a couple things that he can do to really get more consistency, and improve the speed a little bit, and I know a lot of you guys that are working on your own speed can work on these same drills and it’s going to help you right away.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so first let’s talk about when he’s working to the top of the swing, he mentioned that he’s not getting quite as much sped as he’d like to, only getting 99 miles an hour of club head speed, even though he basically said that everyone’s telling him how great his swing is.

He does, he has a very nice looking swing, a lot of the difficult pieces are already really good, but not quite getting the speed that he wants.

If we go back to address, let’s actually start from there, one second here, let me rewind back to the beginning. I’ll go ahead and mark on the beginning of the take away, we can see that he’s got a little bit of spine tilt here which is nice.

As he goes to the top of the swing we’re going to be able to see that he maintains this which is one of the reasons that this is a good thing to do for consistency. You can see he’s maintaining that there.

The as he comes into the downswing, we can see that he’s actually a little bit too vertical. He needs to be slightly more titled away from the target. We talk about in the stable fluid spine how at impact we’d like to be tilted away somewhere between 20° to 25°.

So this number should read about 115°, and we’re seeing it’s only reading about 105°, so we need to get tilted away, slightly more away from the target. He’s going to feel like his shoulders, at impact, are tilted a bit more like this and his nose is going to feel like it’s more behind the golf ball.

So right now, if we draw a line down there vertically, we’re going to see that this is probably barely behind the golf ball where he’d be at impact. We need to get it even a little bit more than that.

That’s really going to help with power, getting behind that golf ball, it’s going to help it to consistently turn over from time and time again. That’s going to help not only with more power, but it’s also going to help to get a little bit more of a consistent shot by getting the ball to turn on over.

Now a great drill for this is to feel like at set up, we’re going to have the belt buckle a little bit farther forward, and we’re going to have the nose a little bit farther back, and as he goes to the top of the swing, we’re going to feel like his nose is loaded up to the inside of his right foot.

All right, so right about there. Then if he starts down, so he’s doing a pretty good job with that already, that’s a good top of the backswing position. He could probably go a little bit more to the right.

There’s the nose at the top of the backswing, now in the downswing, we’re going to feel like his nose or his head stays behind the ball. This is where you’re going to see where it gets a little bit off track.

As he starts down, watch his first move down is to get his head shift about six or eight inches to the left, that gets everything too far over the top, and starts to throw things a little bit off there.

That small change will help him with getting a little bit more power and consistency.

Now the second thing that’s going to tie in with this kind of hand in hand, is as he goes to the top, let’s go ahead and make sure that he gets a good, full, powerful turn. We go over this in the power turn, the Top Speed Golf System.

Feel like this right shoulder goes back and the left shoulder kind of comes under like this, and really twists to get loaded up.

So the hips are doing pretty well, let’s go ahead and get the shoulders to turn just a few more degrees to really stretch out and feel like we’re getting in a nice position there. That’s going to boost the power a little bit more also.

Then as we start down, we can see that he’s also losing a little bit of lag. Ow the main reason for him losing lag is he’s getting a little bit steep in the downswing.

I mentioned this before as we’re first starting down, we want to shallow out that shaft a little bit. Let’s go ahead and draw a few lines here, and talk about exactly what I mean with this.

A lot of you struggling with lag, when you’re looking from face on, maybe struggling with the same thing. So here, let’s go back to this side again, and we’ll go back to the top of the swing.

We can see that he starts down, starts to lose that shaft angle, and as he’s coming into impact he’s getting rid of that. We see a little bit of a flip, so instead of getting into the straight line release we can see that his hands are going past just right in front of the golf ball.

So here’s something that’s going to help with that a lot. As he starts the backswing, we’re going to notice that as he goes to the top of the backswing this club shaft, let me go ahead and play this for you.

Oops, see if we can get this to work here. There we go.

This club shaft is going to start to get a little bit steep on the downswing. We want this club to be tracing down as he starts about halfway, for the hands and the club to be on this red line.

We can see that he’s parallel with it, he’s not really far off or anything, but the hands and club instead of being here, should be – I’ll go ahead and change the color of this, let’s make it green or yellow, that would be fine – the hands and the club should be…whoops, didn’t change my color for me.

But it should be tracing on this elbow plane here. We can see that he’s above this a little bit. So what he needs to feel like he’s doing, is getting this club to shallow out and be below the shoulder as he starts down.

So right now it’s hitting right on the shoulder, I want as he starts his downswing for the club shaft to feel like it starts to move, his hands and the club, both start to move in this way to flatten out, and that club gets below the shoulder.

Right here I’d like to see an angle of the club shaft more like this, almost matching that plane line there. A good thing that’s going to help with this, so a way to feel this too, is to feel like he really gets the wrist bowed a little bit.

To feel like that club face is shutting, and to feel like the wrist is bowing a little bit more. So instead of the club face being straight up and down, let’s get this right wrist angled down toward the ground. I talk about getting the palm toward the ground a little bit more.

The palm’s going to feel like it’s down toward the ball like that with your right hand. Right now his palm is feeling like it’s a little bit more this way, so getting that palm down is going to close the face very, very slightly.

So the club face instead of being straight up and down is going to be a little bit more in this position. That left wrist is going to be a little bit more bowed to where the logo of your glove feels like it’s down toward the ground.

Now this closing of the club face is necessary when we start getting more forward shaft lean. If we jump over to this other video again, if you try to get more forward shaft lean without getting that club face to rotate on closed, what’s going to happen is the club face is going to be open.

Club face is going to be too open coming in, and what is going to happen is he’s going to feel like he struggles to square up the face. He wants to flip that club to get the club face to square on up.

So those couple of things, number one shallowing out the shaft a little bit as he starts down, and then number two, getting that club face to close a little bit more is going to make it a lot easier to get that forward shaft lean and to really compress that golf ball.

So several tips there that are really going to help him out. As he’s doing the backswing, little bit more shoulder turn, keeping that nose behind the ball as he starts down is going to get him a lot more consistent ball flight and a lot more power.

He’s going to feel like he’s loaded up behind the ball to really let that go.

Then as he starts the downswing we’re going to shallow out this club, shallow out the hands to get them coming in you see all the pros doing, and then feeling like you’re rotating this club face a little bit more closed early, that way when you get more forward shaft lean you’re still going to hit a straight, solid shot.

If you put these things together, I know it sounds like a lot, but these are fairly simple changes to make because the swing itself is looking so good. The big pieces, the tough pieces to make are already in good shape, already a great looking swing, nice fluid flow to it, which is really nice.

So work on those things, I know you’re going to be playing a lot better. Good luck to you guys out there. Play well and work hard.

All right, so those of you that are members of the website, there’s a couple videos that I want you guys to check out. Now number 1.3 in the straight line release section. So if you go to the Top Speed Golf instruction series, you go to the straight line release section, level 1, video 3.

We’re going to talk about what actually causes forward shaft lean, and how to release that club on out in front of the golf ball. That way you can be much more consistent, and getting that nose behind the golf ball we talked about earlier, is very, very crucial in getting into that straight line release, getting that proper tilt with your spine, and getting the forward shaft lean to happen automatically.

That’s a great video to watch. Then 1.4, the next video, we talk about a pet the grass drill. Now that’s going to shut your club face a little bit more, like we talked about in this video, and make it very easy or you to get more forward shaft lean.

If you’re struggling getting forward shaft lean, you feel like you do the practice drills and then you go to your real swing and you cast it every time, I promise you, you’re probably not getting your hands in the right position to close that club face and to get to more forward shaft lean.

That’s exactly what we’re going to go over in video 1.4 and the pet the grass drill. So go to the straight line release section, work on video 1.3 and 1.4, it’s going to help you guys out tremendously to compress the golf ball better, to get a lot more consistent.

Good luck to you guys, I’ll see you all soon.