Why You Need This: In this video, you'll learn how to feel a dead solid golf shot.

I'm often asked...

"What does a perfectly struck golf shot feel like?"

This is a tough question because how you swing is going to be different from how other golfers swing.

However, there are certain swing moves that you need to make in order to feel a solid shot.

In this video, you'll learn these moves and get some really great drills...

...to recreate the feelings of hitting a well struck, solid shot that explodes off your clubface.

First, here are a few tips on what you should feel in your swing...

Tip #1...

As you make contact with the ball, you should feel a throwing motion.

Grab a ball in your right hand and toss the ball forward with an underhand motion.

Your right wrist should feel relaxed all the way through the impact area...

...without any over the top motion.

Tip #2...

Your right hand should roll on over in your follow through.

Imagine putting draw spin on the ball as you come through impact.

Tip #3...

As you set up to the ball, your focus is on the ball, but your target is to the left.

This is where the trouble starts.

Many players have difficulty staying in posture as they rotate to the target.

Also, it's common for golfers to come over the top with their right hand.

Try this...

As you rotate your body towards the target...

Throw your right hand while focusing on the straight line release point (about 35 degrees past your ball).

The sensation you want to feel is that you're releasing slightly to the right...

...because your arms are moving in this direction.

The opposite of this feeling is tossing the ball to the left.

You'll feel this if you tend to slice the ball.

Needless to say, you don't want to have this feeling.

Drills...

Toss the ball about 50 times focusing on the tips written earlier.

Then grab your club with just your right hand and practice these same motions (without a golf ball).

Then tee up some balls and hit nice and easy shots with your right arm only.

Next, do the same drill with your left arm only.

Finally, swing with both hands on the club.

You should now be starting to feel what it's like to make solid contact with the ball.

Watch this video now so you know exactly how to feel a dead solid golf shot!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:19

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. This is a question I get all the time, what does a perfectly-struck golf shot feel like? What should I feel like with my body? What is the sensation that I should get?

This is always a little bit of a tough one, because everybody’s going to feel slightly different things based on what you’re doing with your swing.

I tried to boil it down, and I thought and really broke down some drills that would recreate the feeling that I have as I’m coming through contact when I’m really hitting the ball well, getting those perfectly-struck shots that don’t have hardly any curvature at all on them.

What’s the sensation that I’m going to have? So I’m going to break this down into four pieces.

The first piece, and I think the most simple motion of a golf swing is really just a tossing motion. This is what I’m going to be feeling like I’m coming through contact.

If I can go ahead and imagine I’m hitting toward the target out there in the distance, I’m going to go ahead and turn sideways with my feet kind of somewhat similar to what I golf stance would be, I’m just rotating them open.

I’m just going to toss a few balls out in front of me. That’s that tossing motion, that’s kind of what we feel like we’re doing as we’re coming through contact. So my hips are going ahead and opening up, my shoulders, I’m letting my inside of my arm come here, then I’m tossing it on down the fairway.

Now a lot of times what people struggle doing, is instead of having this tossing motion, they have more of an over the top right-side pushing motion. So push, or a flip, a cast would all be different than this. We’re going to let that club lag and then toss it down the fairway.

My wrist should be nice, and loose, and relaxed. I feel like I’m letting that flow as I’m tossing this golf ball, and I don’t feel like I’m trying to hit at that golf ball at all. I’m just letting it happen as I’m coming on through there.

Now the second thing, I see a lot of people that struggle with the slice. So I would imagine I would get the sensation, it’s a little bit more the sensation that I’m letting my hand roll on over as I’m coming on through.

I imagine my hands coming around the outside of the golf ball, and I’m getting a little bit of a draw spin on there. I’m going to do the same thing, I’m going to try get this ball to spin this way or almost like I was going to hit a little bit of a draw as I’m coming on through.

So not only am I tossing, I’m letting my arm come all the way on around as I’m coming over the shot. That’s kind of the sensation, a slight bit of that sensation as we’re coming through if you hit just a very slight draw as you’re playing golf.

Now that I’ve done that, what does it feel like now that we’re sideways? I think anybody can just turn here and toss the ball down the fairway, pretty easy to be accurate, pretty effortless there. But when we get turned sideways, now everything gets weird. Now I’m turning sideways and I’m trying to go this way.

This is what causes, I think, almost all the problems in golf, is that our focus is this direction and our intention to hit the ball is that direction. Well the sensation I’m going to have here is the exact same one as when I was tossing forward.

As I go ahead and let this ball come back, as I come through notice how my hips are going ahead and allowing them to open up. Notice how my shoulders are allowing to open up. I am staying in my posture, because it is a bit of a golf swing here, it’s not just like I’m tossing forward.

I’m staying in my posture as I’m coming through, but I’m going to feel the same thing, the same sensation that I’m letting my body open up and I’m tossing it out toward the fairway.

Now I may get the sensation that instead of going so far forward, tossing it up in the air, I want to let it go to my straight line release point.

If we imagine here’s contact, about 35-45° in front that’s where my straight line release is. That’s where we’re letting all that energy go, and we talk about that, that’s one of our five keys in the Top Speed Golf System.

I’m going to feel like I’m letting that go out in front here. So again, I’m going to set up. I’m sideways, I feel like I’m tossing forward, but now my ball is going to release there. So sensation is going to something like that as I’m coming on through. I’m just letting that ball come out.

Now I notice when I did these, when I felt like I had the same sensation I did when I made a swing, my ball always went a little bit to the right. So I think that’s because we’re coming from the inside, the ball is coming here, we’re opening up.

My momentum is going to feel like it’s almost always moving out to he right. I’ve noticed every single ball that I’ve tossed has rolled on a little bit out to the right, when I get the same feeling I had when I swing a club.

The opposite of that would be those of you who struggle slicing or casting, everything’s coming over to the left. You may find yourself tossing some balls to the left. They can either be straight or a little bit to the right, and I want to feel like I’m opening up, letting everything clear out, and then letting it come on through.

Now once I’ve done that, I’m going to go ahead and take just my right hand on here. As I come on through the shot, I’m going to feel like I open my chest, hips, everything, and now I have some forward shaft lean.

I’m just doing the same thing that I was doing as I’m tossing a golf ball. So I’m letting my body open on up, I go from this direction. Again, I’m letting that club lag, that would be the same as me tossing this golf ball here. Then I’m letting that lag go as I release. So here my hips are opening, I have some lag, I’m letting the lag go as I release.

Go ahead and do a 50 or 100 of each one of these reps, tossing the ball, grabbing this club just right arm only, and again, that same sensation as I’m opening up more to the target, and then letting my club swing on through there.

Now this appears differently. I think this is again, getting back to the reason a lot of people struggle with golf, or almost we all struggle at golf at times.

Nobody ever starts off good at golf, I can promise you that. I know I didn’t, I shot 140 the first time I played. The reason it looks a little bit different, is because if I’m just my right arm, and I’m coming up in there, you see how open everything is. Watch what happens when I add my left arm to the club.

I’m not going to change my body positions at all, I’m simply just going to add my left arm. Now it looks a lot more like a golf swing. It looks a lot more like contact. So without my left arm on the there, everything’s open at the target. I’m letting that ball fly, I’m tossing it down the fairway when my left arm is off.

When I take my left arm back on, now everything looks a lot more square even though when I take it off again, I’m not moving my body, I’m just adding and removing my left arm.

So the appearance is that I’m much more closed than I really am. The sensation is that I’m opening up and letting that ball toss down the fairway. Once I’ve done that a good 50 to 100 reps, I’m starting to get comfortable to swing with my right arm only, then I’m going to go ahead and tee up a golf ball.

I’m going to go ahead and chip a few, just nice and easy. Same sensation, opening up, tossing that ball down the fairway. Again, I’m going to feel like I get a little bit of a draw on there, letting that hand roll on over, just nice and easy though, I’m not trying to force it.

Not doing anything to try to manipulate the golf ball, and you see that went right down the fairway just as if I was tossing it. Another 15, 20, 30 shots, depends on how good you want to get, how hard you want to work, the more the better.

Once we’ve done that, now we can go ahead and do the same thing with our left arm. So this is going to be again a little bit confusing. The sensation is different than it appears, but I’m going to let the loft of this club do the work and I’m going to feel like I’m doing the same thing.

Instead of tossing with the ball  up in the air, I’m going to feel like I’m tossing the back of my hand. It’s almost like the back of my hand is just going kind of flowing down the fairway. I’m letting everything open up, and it’s just going that way.

I can go ahead and just take my left arm only and do a few little swings like that and feel like the back of my left hand just flowing down the fairway, that’s the sensation that I’m going to get.

There we go, another one, nice little easy shot, chipping it down the fairway. I’m using a tee there, that makes it easier when I’m doing these shots.

Once I have that sensation, let’s throw in the right shoulder and then I think we’ll be ready to hit some full shots. As I’m making this tossing motion, my right side of my body needs to feel nice and connected.

You notice how if you watch a lot of good players, the pros, that right elbow is working in front of the body. The right shoulder is kind of cinched in tight with the body here, and the right elbow pit is facing forward or up toward the camera.

As I’m coming through there, that’s the position I need to have. That’s that pre-tossing motion before I let it go. If I do the same thing with a club in my hand, now you’re going to see this type of an angle.

Again, my body’s opened up, I’m tossing down the fairway, but look at my elbow pit how it’s facing forward toward the camera. My right arm is a bit in tight to my right pec, my right shoulder has been in tight. From there, I’m letting it flow on around.

Now I’m going to put all these pieces together. I face the target, I tossed a few. I face my ball, I did the same thing. I went ahead and still opened up, tossed a few more. Now I went ahead and hit some with my right arm.

Same sensation, left arm, same sensation, just like I’m tossing it with the back of my left hand down the fairway. Now finally as I put both hands on there, I’m going to feel very connected in with my right side of my body.

This elbow is in, shoulder, elbow pit is facing forward, and I’ve got this nice forward shaft lean, just like I’m tossing the ball right down the fairway as I’m doing that.

Once we get all these sensations built in together, that should give you a pretty good overall idea with how the hips are opening up, how the body rotates on through. How we’re nice and free flowing through the ball with both the right arm and the left arm.

Do about 50 reps of each of those, and then let’s tie all of those in together, we’re going to hit some nice, clean, crisp shots just tossing it down the fairway.

All right guys. Play well, good luck with your game. That’s great sensations to have, great feeling to have, that’s what I feel like when I’m playing my best golf. Hope you guys get the same feelings too. I’ll see you all soon.