Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to Finally Shallow the Golf Club | The 2 Stick Drill"

I’ve got an amazing drill that’s going to help you shallow that club out in the downswing…

… which will help with all sorts of things, like a steep downswing.

Not only is this going to help you with shallowing, but it’ll get you doing all sorts of great things in the swing!

In today’s video, you’ll find out how to perform this drill…

… and you’ll see how much fun golfing can be when your swing looks really good and crisp!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:40

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: Now if you’ve been struggling to shallow the golf club, I have the drill that’s finally going to get you to get the right feeling once and for all.

Now, most players start with an incorrect backswing. What I mean by that is, they let the club come inside, travels inside my hands, and you see immediately this orange stick is going to smash into this stick I have in the ground.

Then as they start the downswing, that club steepens up and you can see that the stick is way inside or toward my toes here and then it starts to go like this and shallow out very late.

Kind of a mess, makes it really difficult. You have to do a lot of rerouting. I’m going to show you the right way to do this drill, get you a great feeling, then you can head right to the course shallowing out the golf club.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so let’s talk about the right way to do this drill. I want to go ahead and set up to my golf ball with my normal set up position.

I’m going to raise my hands until my club is flat with the ground and I want to put a stick just outside of that. Now for most players when you’re first doing this, we’re not going to hit any golf balls doing this.

This is all just for reference point. You can hit golf balls doing this, but I would make sure that you give yourself a little bit more margin for error.

Get this stick a little farther away from your hands so you don’t happen to whack to it on the downswing.

That’s the way I would set up to it. To get the feeling for this drill, it’s exactly how I would do it. You’ll see that this orange stick is a little shallower than the angle of my club when my sole of my club, or the bottom of the club here is flush to the ground.

That’s the way I like to set up to kind of exaggerate the shallowing and we’ll talk about exactly what you do with that here in just one second.

Now the second thing here is you’re going to go and take another alignment stick and you’re going to put it to where you’re gripping your club normally.

It’s sticking out of the club about a foot, foot and a half, something like that. Then I’m going to go ahead and take my normal grip.

Now as I set up here, as I go to address, you’re going to see that this stick is kind of resting on the left side of my body here.

It’s not really sticking out very far away from my body, that’s how I know I have it the right distance there. That’s good, because that’s going to help you to get the feedback that we want for the takeaway part of this drill.

Piece number one, as I mentioned, is most players are going to tend to take this club and it’s going to go inside which is going to kick this part of the stick out, the part that’s sticking out from the butt end of my club, and it’s going to whack into the stick in the ground.

If I drag it inside, it’s going to hit that stick and I’m going to get immediate feedback from that.

The reason that’s important is that most of the time when I drag this club inside, my right wrist kind of breaks early, I’m picking up the club all arms, and that leads me to getting the club too far inside and then coming down steeply.

If I can instead feel like this stick stays on the left side of my body, and that club stays outside of my hands for the takeaway, now you’ll see the club head is on this side of my hands, if we’re looking from down the line, and you’ll see this stick is still grazing the left side of my body.

That way I know I’m doing it the right way. If I’m doing this, and that sticks comes off, immediate feedback that I’m doing it the wrong way.

So I’m going to go ahead and get that good takeaway here. As I go from there, I may see this stick a little bit more inside or steeper on the backswing. That’s actually a good thing.

A lot of times players would try to fix their shallowing by trying to get this club really shallow in the backswing, but again like I talked about, that’s going to kick the club out and then in the downswing, it’s going to change.

I want to go ahead and have my club head outside my hands. From there, get this stick a little bit steeper.

Then naturally what’s going to happen is as I start my downswing, my hands are going to want to shallow out a little bit and I want to try to match this stick with this stick very early in the downswing.

So I’ve done my good takeaway, I’ve started my downswing and now I can see visually this stick and this stick are pretty close to lining up.

I want to feel like my hands swing well under this orange stick on the ground. My orange stick barely kind of misses the one that’s in the turf, or in the ground here.

I don’t want it to touch it, I want it to be underneath it. Then I’m going to go to impact and my hands are going to travel well under this.

If I stand up, also which is a very common problem, if I stand up, all of a sudden, my hands are going to want to go over that stick and that’s going to lead some serious issues there too.

I’m typically going to flip, lose a lot of lag if I do that. So I want my hands to go under that stick, everything to be parallel, and then I’m going to pause at impact, making sure that my hands have cleared well under that stick in the ground.

I might even feel like the heel of my club is a little bit lower, like the toe of my club is almost sticking up like this as I’m coming through contact. That’s going to help me to exaggerate that kind of shallowing out feeling.

Once I’ve done a few of those and gotten a feel for it in slow motion, I can get rid of this stick that’s on my hands and now I can actually hit some shots doing this.

Now remember, I want to give myself plenty of room here. I don’t want to be accidentally grazing this stick and hitting myself, maybe I can hurt my wrist or something like that.

I want to give myself plenty of room, and I’m going to have the exact same feelings that I did in that drill. So let’s go ahead and hit one here, and then I’ll give you one more tip that really helps this to happen.

All right, definitely got my hands under it. You’ll if I take a couple swings here, and I’m not going to reset this stick every single time, but it’s really more for kind of a visual reference than it is trying to get exactly perfect.

Just having that stick there kind of in the way gets my hands more under it, and I’m typically going to be a little bit more heel down, little bit more shallowed out when I do that.

So let me go ahead and hit one more here, and even though I’m nowhere near really making contact with this stick, just having it there makes me feel like I want to get underneath it which is the exact opposite of what I see most players doing.

Most players are going to stand up, get their hands higher, and then they’re going to flip when it comes down.

So it really solves early extension or standing up. It solves shallowing it out. It solves a really good takeaway, where I feel like my club’s outside my hands and then it will want to shallow. A lot of great things are happening when we do this drill.

Now the last thing here that I want you to be aware of, if you’re struggling with this, is making sure that when you pause at impact, your hips go ahead and open up.

I don’t want to go ahead and try to be lower here and just be doing this entire drill all arms, not moving my body at all.

Go ahead and let your body open up just like you would in a real swing, and then this drill’s going to work fantastic.

Again, I’m setting up because I’m hitting multiple balls here, now it’s a good 8 or 10 inches away from my hands, but just having it there makes me want to swing underneath it and exaggerate that shallowing out.

There we go, really nice solid shot. For me, this is a great go-to drill to get everything really crisp, really clean and shallowed out early.

There’s one more piece to this that I think is really important. That’s the squaring of the club face. What we’ve done here in this drill, is essentially what I call The Move in the Top Speed Golf System.

I want to shallow that club out, get it from the inside, get it in the slot, and then from there, we have to square the face up.

Most players when they do this, are going to shallow this club out and they’re going to leave the face open and it kind of goes to the right. There’s two parts to this.

Part number one, let’s do the drill that we did here. Let’s get this club coming out, shallowing, opening up our body, getting into great movement patterns just like the pros are doing, getting rid of that standing up, getting rid of that steep downswing. We’re going to get rid of all that with that drill.

But the second part is squaring up that club face. I go over that in a lot of detail, especially the Tennis Racket Drill, in The Move section of the Top Speed Golf System.

So once you’ve finished this drill and get the overall movement pattern, head over to The Move section, follow those drills step-by-step.

I’m going to talk about how you square up that face, you get that bowed left wrist like the pros are getting, you get this shaft lean, or my hands in front of the club head at contact like the pros are getting.

All that happens with using the wrist properly through contact, which I’ll go over there. So do the drills in this video, head over to The Move section.

Follow those drills there, and once and for all you’ll get it shallowed it, you’ll get it in the slot, and you’ll get that face nice and square up just like the pros, and you’ll have a blast playing golf because it gets a whole heck of a lot easier.

I’ll see you in The Move.