Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How To Compress The Ball Like A Tour Player | Student Before & After"

In today's lesson...

You'll see how Top Speed Golf Instructor, Michael Derr's student went from throwing away all of his lag prior to impact (despite a fundamentally sound swing)...

...to creating pro-like angles of lag with forward shaft lean at impact.

He'll walk you through the exact drills he used to create this transition in his student's swing so that you can do the exact same!

You won't believe the difference!

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Michael Derr    

Video Duration: 11:06

Video Transcription:

If you truly want to take your ball striking to the next level, you have to learn how to compress the ball. If you're anything like my before and after student here, Peter, you're gonna see he's getting into some pretty good positions and he actually has a pretty good club set naturally. So when we first started working together, he actually lagged the club pretty good, which put him in a pretty darn good position to compress the ball.

But like a lot of players that I've seen, probably including yourself, when you get to a good position here and then no matter what we. To get our hands in front and get our shaft to lean forward. We see this dreaded flip where the clubhead passes the hands and then we add loft and we have a very unstable strike going through the ball.

So even though we have all these good positions, it all gets wasted going through impact because we're not compressing the ball with a stable club face. If you look over here on the after swinging, we're gonna see the exact. We're gonna see not only a good transition, an even better transition where we load up a ton of energy into the shaft.

So you can see a very sharp angle between the lead forearm and the shaft. But more importantly, we have learned how to transfer that energy into forward shaline. So now he's gonna be able to take advantage of that forward shaline where he is gonna be able to put energy into the ball. And most importantly, you're gonna see a very stable.

Very, very gradual release out in front, like you see all the touring pros get into. We're not just getting into a forward Kathleen position at Impact and then flipping right afterwards. He's gradually releasing that out in front. , which automatically leads to more consistent ball striking. So if you have a similar issue where you're struggling with that clubhead passing the hands very quickly through impact, I'd highly recommend checking out this video.

Cause, cuz I'm gonna show you the process that Peter and I worked on and the big drill that allowed him to see and feel impact correctly so he can, so he could actually accomplish this position. Let's go ahead and get. . Hey guys, I am top speed golf certified instructor, Michael Dur, and I am very excited to show you some of these details on how Peter and I worked on these.

So Peter is part of my online lessons group where he sends me in video and we work on things step-by-step. So just like you would if you were seeing someone in person. The thing that I tell my students all the time is that if we have the right information at the right time, that's the magic to getting your swing better.

And I'm gonna show you how that worked here in Peter Swing. So if we're gonna go over this just in a little bit greater detail, what we're gonna be looking at here, if you're familiar with the straight line release course in the top speed golf system, this is a very, very important position. That's when the point of the, that's at the point of the swing where if we were to draw a.

Through the club shaft where it splits the forearms in two. And that is a very critical point because this is gonna show us how good we actually moved through the ball in terms of being able to move the club head stably through impact. So you can see here in the before swing, this straight line release is pointing almost directly at impact.

So meaning we're kind of releasing at the ball. This is one of the more common swing patterns we see with students, uh, just starting out, even when students are trying to get for cha. What's happening here is not only do we not know how to get the club head to the ball correctly, we don't know how to square it up correctly with Ford Chalene.

So the drill, I'm gonna show you that got Peter. To not only, again, if you look at the beautiful lag and transition loading this up, it's the same drill. We actually use the same exact drill to learn how to lag the club like this and move it in such a way that we could, can come in with a ton of compression.

So we're gonna see a beautiful amount of forage shaline. Then if we look at the straight line release here, let me redraw that over here. On his before swing and then we look at it over here, we can see that it's pointing much further out in front of us, which is indicating a much more stable release.

And as we go ahead and go back into impact, we can clearly see how nicely that club is staying stable through impact. So what I wanna do here is show you the drill that we use to help him, uh, not only. Train this impact position, but also visualize it so that he knew exactly what he had to do in the full swing in order to accomplish it.

That might sound very intuitive or very straightforward, but there's a little bit more to it than that. And that's something that we were able to discuss while we were working on the swing. And that's kind of the magic in this is I was able to keep him focused because one thing that he was able to do is put a lot of his extra thought on me.

I told him, let me worry about making sure your body stays in correct positions. And that way he could focus. On this drill work here. So I also want to do something a little bit different in terms of not just showing you the before and after swing, but actually showing you a little bit of the progression that Peter went through here.

So over here on the left, you're seeing a video that I shot for Peter. It is um, called the Alignment Stick Compression Drill. This is just a simple drill to show impact and also be aware of the extension of the club. So you can see right here we're just grabbing an alignment stick and putting the extension of the club.

I'm sure you've probably. And a lot of our drill work are in, a lot of instructors use this, but it's, it's a very good tool to understand where the extension of your club is. And all we started off with was a very simple half swing drill where we learned how to work the club in a way that we were be able to compress the ball.

and the key checkpoint for Peter was finishing with this club straight, perpendicular to the ground. Most players, when they do this drill, this club kind of points away from them. And then you can see here in Peter's first attempt where we actually, this is a little bit more of an advanced progression where he was, uh, doing his first tries at not using the stick, which would be the next progression there.

So once you get this where you can finish with the stick and you have the, that stick as a training aid, and you can finish with that stick straight up and down to the. The next ma move, there is a very small progression where we remove that stick. So what we're gonna see here is a, uh, a during training, while we were working on this, he sent me this video where he was struggling with keeping that stick outside of his lead arm here.

So you can see how in the finish of here, over in the drill example, that the stick is outside the arm. And then you can see on his drill where this, the stick is pointing well into his body. So you can see right here, he didn't just get it at first, he started getting the idea of it. And then, If we flash forward just a little bit, we're gonna see another half swinging drill where he started getting more and more comfortable with this drill.

Now, we did work after this drill work on getting his body into a little bit better positioning, but the main cue here was this is the first time he was able to get a compressed move. With keeping that stick outside the arm. That's a very big thing because not only did he compress the ball correctly, he squared the club face up and started hitting them straight with the half swing.

And that's one of the big keys that, and one of the more successful things I've had with my online students is getting that impact position right on a half swing first. And that's gonna be one of the big keys for yourself. If you're struggling with the flip, let's see if we can get a very nice compressed move on a under a very controlled environment.

And then we can work off of that table from there, we can work off of that easy swing and start working it into the full swing. So we're gonna go up and pull up one of, one of his drill works on his way to getting to the after swing where he was working. Getting that same feel from his full swing, getting an over exaggerated move here.

Obviously we could see we haven't fully released the club, but what I had him do, and one of the things that is really beneficial for us to be able to communicate like this is I had him really over exaggerate this feel of. Getting a more very compressed move going through the ball. That way when he turned on the speed, he got that, we got that beautiful release out in front.

So this is him working on getting it, uh, a little bit over exaggerated. And then of course he works that into his full swing. But the drill work is very, very simple. Which you're gonna do is grab an extension, uh, of your club, which is gonna be an alignment stick. So if you have an alignment stick, that's the perfect tool to.

Um, and then of course from here what we're gonna do is we're gonna work on getting a little bit of a half swing and we're gonna be working on keeping that distance between the stick and the body. So what I explained to Peter in one of the fields that worked for him, and that's another thing, we were able to talk about di many different kind of feels so they could, so that he could use a feel that would resonate with him.

To get the compressed move. So what resonated with him very well was we had a certain amount of distance between the stick and the body. And what we tried to do was turn through the shot while maintaining that distance between the stick and the body. And remember, the main checkpoint here is to finish with this club perpendicular to the ground.

Now this may look pretty simple here, but when you first tried this, if you're used to flipping the club, this is gonna take a little bit of work to get a feel for actually hitting the ball solid straight and finishing the swing with that club perpendicular to the. So the first goal is to be able to get that on a nice, easy swing.

Then be able to do it a little bit faster, do it without the stick, and then start working it into the full swing. And as you can see, the results kind of speak for themselves because we're able to monitor the mechanics. In terms of setup, spin angle and all those things that I worry about, while I'll let Peter focus in on the compression moves, then we are able to get these before these after swings here where they have beautiful transitions.

So what I wanted to do is pull up a couple so that you know that we didn't just make one lucky swing. We are consistently making beautiful, full turns with beautiful big lag positions and able to transfer that energy into the. With a beautiful amount of Ford Schlafly. And then again, let me go ahead and back that up here real quick and we're gonna see the same thing, beautiful amount of Ford AFF at Impact, releasing it perfectly out in front, releasing it perfectly out in front, and getting very nice compressed moves.

And this is transferring all the way up through the club, through the driver. And we're gonna get more and more stable. So the more Peter trains this, the more it's going to get the, the thing is, That I, that I explained to my players. When you get to the point where this is your release pattern, this is where the more practice you put in, the better that you're gonna get at golf.

So I'm sure that you've seen players on the range that practice all the time, and their scores never get any better. Well, if you're swinging it like this, then all of your practice is going to help you get consistently more sharp with your ball striking. When your ball striking gets more sharp, your scores come.

So if you're interested in making actual physical changes to your mechanics, like we did here with Peter, where we got that terrible flip and we got, we went from that terrible flip to a beautiful stored up lag position to compressing the ball, I would highly recommend checking or starting off with that compression drill with the stick and really being able to stick your finish with that club club perpendicular to the ground.

Because once you start hitting those shots solid and hitting them straight with those check. It's gonna completely change the way you see impact, and it's going to give your mind a much better idea on how you're actually gonna be able to accomplish that from the full. Now if I was actually able to see you with my own eyes, like I was here with Peter, where you could send me in video and we could communicate and talk about different feels tailored to your swing, we would be able to get there a ton faster.

So if you're possibly interested in working with me, I highly recommend checking out my review group by clicking the button below this video. So if you're actually seeing this video right now, that means I have spots open and available in my review group. Now, they do tend to sell out very, very quickly, so if you're interested, I'd highly recommend going.

And jumping over there and seeing if there are any spots left. If there aren't any spots left, I highly recommend joining my waiting list so that you're notified first the next time spots become available. I look forward to possibly working with you. Good luck with your game, and I will talk to you soon.