Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Hit The Ball First Every Time"

In today's lesson...

You'll discover the secret to making ball first contact...

...and becoming an extremely consistent ball striker.

You've likely heard that you need to get your weight to your lead side...

...but without this secret, that can go terribly wrong.

Now, you'll finally be able to make that ball first contact you've been trying to get!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:17

Video Transcription:

Now if you're gonna play great golf, there's one thing that daggon sure has to happen every single time. You gotta swing down on a descending blow, hit the golf ball first, and then take a divot in front of the golf ball. If you wanna know if you're doing this right, simply put a T about four inches behind your golf ball, roughly.

If the grass is taller, it may need to be a little bit more than that, but I should be able to swing, miss that t, hit the golf ball and take a divot in front very easily. There we go. So we can see I missed the t. Nice clean shot. Hit it great. 157 yards of the nine iron prag on. Happy with that. So how do we make that happen?

Well, the first tip, and probably what you've heard time and time again is you gotta get your weight left. This can be very misleading. Yes, with all great players, your weight is gonna shift to your left foot. You are gonna open your hips, which is gonna help to push the hands in front a little bit, help you to get that dividend front.

You're gonna have what's called shaft lean. Meaning that the this club shaft, instead of being straight up and down, it's leaning forward, that helps you to hit the ball and then release that and hit the turf in front of the golf ball. All those things are true, but a lot of times when people hear that they need to get their weight left, what ends up happening is their upper body goes to the left too, meaning your nose and your sternum also go to the left.

That's a no-no. If you do that, you're gonna come down over the top. As you get your upper body to the left, you're gonna be able to swing more to the left. A steeper. You definitely don't wanna do that. You're also gonna be so far in front of the golf ball. You're gonna feel like you have to flip just to keep from slamming the club down into the ground and chunking it while you're doing that.

Or if you had shaline, you just kind of swing over top of it and hit way up here. So even though you get your weight to the left, the secret to this is you still need to keep your nose behind the golf ball. Now let's try this out here. I want you to go ahead and set up to this golf ball. And what we're gonna do here is we're gonna take our left foot to where it's resting on the ground, and I'm gonna feel like my head then turns behind the golf ball.

So yes, my weight is on my left foot, but my upper body is angled back. Now that's a bit of exaggeration. If you do this, you're gonna hit shots a little bit too much from the inside. Typically, just like that one's gonna draw back a little bit. It's gonna be tough to slice one from that position. So if you get your weight left, right foot resting on the ground, and you just go ahead and put your head behind the golf ball now, you'll see there's this angle with my upper body that's gonna tend to get me a little too much from the inside, exaggerating it, which is a good thing at first.

And I'm gonna tend to hit a lot of big draws. Once you've done that a couple times though, that exaggeration, go back and do that with your real swing, and it makes things a lot easier. So I'm gonna have the same sensation here. My weight goes to the left, everything is over this left foot. My right heel starts to come off the ground a little bit, but my nose is slightly behind the golf ball.

In fact, if you look at every single player on the PJ tour, when they hit a shot, their nose is gonna be behind the golf ball without fail. Doesn't matter what shot they're hitting as far as they're gonna go left with their weight. They're always gonna keep their nose behind the ball, and that just makes it a heck of a lot easier to be really consistent.

Now the second piece of this is even if you do get your weight left, if I start to throw the club, it's gonna make it ground out early. So if you imagine I have this big angle of lag in my right wrist, I keep that angle coming through, I have the shaline, then the club releases out here, the divot is gonna be in front of the golf ball.

If I start to cast from the top and throw this club out, you can see how the club gets much farther from my body and it wants to ground out farther behind the golf ball. So the trick here is to have this right wrist angle back, and it's a tossing motion. So if I grab a golf ball here, the sensation I wanna feel is I get my weight to left.

So let's imagine I was gonna stand with my feet this way, but I'm gonna toss a golf ball toward my target. I'm gonna get my weight to the left. A little shift. I'm gonna open my body, and then from here, I'm gonna have my right wrist angled back like that. And I'm not gonna release my wrist until after contact.

So my wrist is doing this motion, it is releasing, but I feel like it's happening after contact with the golf ball. So I'm here, right wrist, angled back, and then I simply toss it toward the target. Target. So I'm not holding onto this angle. I'm letting it go, but I'm letting it go up here. That's actually one thing we call a straight line release, meaning that your wrist with all tour players actually does release about 45 degrees in front.

So that letting go motion is happening about 45 degrees in front. So toss a few golf balls, get used to the weight going left, get used to your body opening up. Those are all great things that you're having in the golf swing. If you can keep your nose behind the golf ball as you're doing that, that would be the perfect motion.

And then once you have that, you're just recreating that same tossing motion. Almost like the club. The club is stuck to the golf ball and your right hand is the club face, and you're not gonna let that go until after impact. That'll really help you to be a lot more consistent.

All right, so there's still one more piece to this or one more thing that I would do next. I wouldn't stop here. Yes, we got our body in a good position, so that's the weight left nose behind the golf ball. If you've been following top speed golfer, if you've looked at a lot of pro golfers, You'll notice right away, that's what we call a stable fluid spine.

The spine angle has to be angled away. It's one of the five real fundamentals. You'll also notice that that release point in front, like I mentioned, is the straight line release. Now, most of those angles are very easy to do once you learn to square the club, face the right way, and you learn to shallow out the club.

So if I'm over the top and I'm really steep, All of a sudden I have to stand up outta my posture. I have to flip the club just to be able to hit the golf ball, to keep it from kind of burying down in the ground. So if you're steep, then it's gonna be very difficult to do either of these things we just talked about.

If you're, that means that you're not shallowing the club out. If you stand up outta your posture, it's gonna be very difficult to, again, cuz if I stand up outta my posture, I back outta the shot. I have to throw my wrist and get rid of all that angle I have to kind of cast. To be able to get rid of that, to be able to hit a shot.

Now, the great news is it's not a complicated fix. You can actually fix your posture. You can shallow out the club. You can hit the ball with a nice tight draw every single time. You can get incredibly, consistently solid just by doing one single range session with one bucket of balls. I'm gonna teach you how to do all that in a 20 minute shallowing fix.

That's what I'll do next. And in the very first week that we released, I had over 4,000 emails. Members of the website telling me they loved it and all the great success that they had with it. And I want you to have that same success. So right now, if you remember the website, click on the instruction tab, click on the top sweet golf system, and then go to the 20 minute showering, fix, follow the handful of drills in there that you can do in a single range session, and you'll be staying in your shall out hitting the most amazing shots of your life.

And I can't wait to show you how to do it. So best of luck. Let's head on over to the 20 minute Shallowing Fix right now.