Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How To Automatically Be "On Plane" Every Time"

We all want to be perfectly “on plane” in our backswing every time, just like we see with the pros.

Today, Top Speed Golf certified instructor Ronnie Snowden will join me…

…to break down the perfect drill to get your left arm, club shaft, and shoulders all aligned.

This video is also going to be a huge help if you struggle (like most golfers) with keeping your lead arm straight in the golf swing!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    Ronnie Snowden    

Video Duration: 7:17

Video Transcription:

Clay: So if you want to be perfectly on plane in your backswing with this left arm, the club shaft, your shoulders all matching up, just like you see with the pros, Ronnie Snowden certified top speed golf instructor and I are going to break down a perfect drill for that. Also, if you're looking from face on here, if this lead arm starts to collapse, you get that bent and all of a sudden this is folding down.

This is going to be perfect video for that too. So let's start out Ronnie with just the arms across the shoulders. I'll hold the club for now. Okay. Arms across the shoulders. Just turn until you're facing that wall there. This would be like a complete backswing, your 90 degree shoulder turn. I might even add in there, if we want to get a little tilt over that right side, now we'd be in the posture tilted away slightly from the target like we would be in the golf swing.

If you can do this, you can do the drill. Make sure that your hips are rotating. Make sure you're okay to move your knees and your feet a little bit. Don't keep your lower body locked or you won't be able to get in this good turn. If you can get a little past this, even that would be even better. That's like bonus, right?

But if you can get at least to there, you're going to do this video or this drill. Great. Number two would be, let's go back to standing up again, straight up and down. Let's just take our left hand out in front of us. Like we're going to just punch straight forward, flat back of the left hand, which we're going to get to in a minute, how important that is for the grip.

And then the exact same thing there. The only difference is as you turn to the end of the backswing here, level with the ground, so we're straight up and down. We're going to see if we can get this arm, while it's staying straight, to about in front of the right shoulder. Again, go back as far as you can comfortably, and that's as far as you need to go here.

This is probably a 3 quarters to 7 eighths length backswing drill. That's totally fine, we're going to get all your angles good, and then you just make a little farther back and further through. So you don't feel like you have to strain when you're doing this one. Now, a common mistake here, would be bending this left arm.

So if I'm folding this up, I don't want to do that. I want to really feel like I'm extending that left arm out until it's completely locked. Yeah. So if you're someone 

Ronnie: who does struggle to keep that arm straight in the backswing, this is a great drill. 

Clay: And by someone, he means like 99 percent of golfers.

Cause that is difficult for most players, but it's because of the shoulder turn. It's actually not from, this feels comfortable, right? Yeah. Yeah. So let's go back again and we're just going to add another piece to it to where we go here and then go ahead and take your grip. As though you're going to be holding a golf club.

So the palm of your hand will be up toward the sky. And again, the important piece is the back of this left hand is kind of flat with the ground there. And then we're going to go right back in the same position again. That's going to be perfectly on plane. Sometimes I'll see players that really want to get the club way up here.

That's going to be a little too high to be on plane. Some players want to bring it way down here where it's below the shoulders. That's too low. It's going to be a very short, you're just not going to get a lot of speed when you're doing that. So here is where we want to be. Now, if we've done that correctly, All we need to do is grab a club.

Let's do the same thing, a drill again where we take a club in front of us. So take your normal grip. Then you're going to put the hands up just like you've done here. Make sure that the club head is level with the shoulders and the arms here. And then when he's just going to rotate that back on a single plane, you want to make sure that this is all straight in line with the shoulders.

This is really going to be out away from your body here. And for me, this really stands out to me. What do you see with this right arm in particular? With most of your students. Usually it's bent. Yeah, when you start to fold that up, so go ahead and fold one up again with that right arm. It gets the hands close to your body.

I almost imagine like there's a pole from your chest out to the grip and that has a pretty good amount of length and you're keeping the width in there. This is what Tiger Woods worked on with Butch Harmon a lot. Lots of great players keep this width. They don't fold up. That's how you keep the left arm straight.

The right arm is going to feel like it's a mile away from your body. Believe it or not, that's right. That's how you're going to get the good, good width in the backswing. And then from there, all we're going to do is simply hinge forward into our posture. We can get it a little bit higher here like that.

Now you see everything's perfectly on plane. This is the swing that everybody wants here. And all you had to do is follow this progression. Then from there, let's go back down to address again. and just try to make a backswing where you get into that same position to where you just feel the same things you felt in that drill.

Yeah, exactly. And like I said, this is going to be a little three quarter swing, good shoulder turn, nice width, clubs perfectly on plane. Doesn't have to be all the way back to parallel for this. We're going to nail this piece. And then once we get this down, we can go ahead and start to add more and more speed to it.

So do you have anything to add there as far as any positions that you think? You see your students when you're working with a drill like this that maybe feel a little bit new to them or anything that, well, 

Ronnie: I mean, just the, the width. I mean, so many of my students, the club, their arms, they have that club so much closer to their body and they, they're not getting that width.

They're not getting as much of that shoulder turn and that width away from their body. That just means so much for, you know, just having a much more consistent 

Clay: swing to have that width. Yeah, I like that. And a lot of times what will happen when we don't have that width, everything folds up. All of a sudden we start to arm it and then zero shoulder turn.

Our distance goes out the window. Ronnie was sitting some before this, after doing that drill and hit, you know, three, four miles an hour faster. And there you're saying, yeah, well, when I do this, you know, I get sloppy too. I don't feel like turning my shoulders is a little bit more feels like a little bit more work than all of a sudden, look at the ball and it's going 10 yards farther.

So doing a drill like this is good. Whatever level you're at, if you're a beginner golfer, all the way up to a tour pro. So, you know, something like this can be, can be really, really handy. All right. So the next best step for this, if you want to have a swing that looks like that on your own, but maybe you're not exactly sure how to get there, you'd like to have somebody kind of guide you through it step by step.

And then from there, you'd like to keep on building your swing. Ronnie is your guy. As I mentioned before, he's a certified top speed golf instructor, very knowledgeable guy and his students love him. There's a program, when you click the button down below this video, you can learn about. It's our Swing Review Program, where you'll be paired up with Ronnie.

He'll be your individual coach. You can send him videos from anywhere in the world. He'll look at your swing. You and him will come up with goals and plans that you want to meet. He'll lay out a custom plan on how to get you there, and he'll lead you there the entire step by step process. All you need to do is go ahead and click the button below this video.

He has a few spots open. He just opened a few spots today. If they're already sold out, I apologize. Sometimes they sell out really quick. Make sure you join that wait list. And the next time he opens up spots, you'll be the first one to be notified so that you have a chance to work with Ronnie. Cause a lot of students really want to, and I've heard tons of success from his students.

So, uh, thanks Ronnie. And I can't wait to see you soon in the next video. All right.