Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to Hit The Ball Then the Ground | This Just Works!"

If you want to be a consistent golfer...

...it's an absolute MUST to hit the ball before you hit the ground.

In today's lesson...

I'm going to show you why you struggle to do this consistently...

...and I'll show how my "One-Legged Drill" will have you making ball-first contact with every swing!

Your consistency will shoot through the roof!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:20

Video Transcription:

How to Hit The Ball Then the Ground | This Just Works!

Now, if you're gonna be consistent at golf, you really need to do one thing extremely well. You need to come down, make contact with the ball first, and then have your divot in front. Here's a way to imagine this, and I'll talk to you in a minute. This all comes from the proper body positions, the weight shift, and a specific way of doing that that most people have never learned.

I'm gonna share with you a drill that's gonna teach it to you really, really simply. So imagine this club's swinging from an arc like this, almost like a grandfather. And there's a low point, which is the lowest point this club comes, so it's moving down, reaches that low point and then back up again. The same thing's happen in the golf swing, and if we hit a good golf shot, we're gonna hit this golf ball before that low point.

The low point, or the lowest part that our club gets is the bottom of our divot, the deepest part of our divot, and then it starts coming back up again. Well, if you do this the right way, you can see how I could just swing, even with my left hand here, I could easily hit the golf ball first when I do. I could swing again with my right hand, hit the golf ball first.

Again, these aren't great shots, but I'm showing you it's really easy to just do whatever you want to and make that ball first contact every single time. If we have the right weight shift that I'm about to teach you. Now, what most people are doing wrong with this is they fall back on the right side. So what happens is it's in an effort to come from the inside.

We all know that we need to get that club coming from the. And when we do that, a lot of times we'll fall on our right foot and the pressure and the down swing will be on the inside of this right foot. I really feel it on the ball or this part of my right foot, the inside of my foot, and right up here toward my toe.

If you can feel that in your swing, you're most likely doing the same thing. So that weight goes there, right where I was talking about that my right shoulder then drops down a little bit, my head drops behind the golf ball, and now that low point instead of being up. It is gonna be shifted back behind this golf ball and two things are gonna happen.

Neither of 'em are any good. Number one, I'm gonna hit down and get a little bit of turf, and now I chunk it and it's an absolutely miserable shot. You hate it. You can't stand playing golf. You swear you're never gonna come back and play again. That's super frustrating. And even worse, if you don't chunk it, you barely miss the ground.

And now all of a sudden the club is coming up into the golf ball. We do a little flip motion to be able to reach the golf ball, and we hit every shot. So if you're constantly battling, battling between chunks and thins, chunks and thins, this is exactly what's going on. Well, the first piece of this drill is to get rid of the right foot if we can't fall back on the right foot if we're not standing on the right foot.

So what I want you to do here is put your feet together. The ball would be in the middle of your feet. and I'm gonna slide my right foot back in line with where I just had it so straight back from here. Now, mistake people make when they're doing this is they'll get their foot a little bit out to the side without even noticing it to where my foot would be over here and now I can still believe it or not, find a way.

Everybody will find a way to, to mess up a, a good drill, but I'll find a way to drop. and still hit behind the golf ball. So we gotta make sure that we get this foot kind of behind our left foot. Now we're in a way to, we have no choice. Our weight is in front of the golf ball. I really want to feel like pressure on my left hip.

I wanna feel pressure on the outside of my left foot. And from there I can go ahead and come from the inside, or I can come down and hit the golf ball first very easily. So that time hit the golf ball and then the. And it's really tough to mess this up if you get a couple key pieces right. Number one, I wanna make sure I, I try to rotate through this shot.

What I don't want to do again is just stay very still with my hips and not move I want to, that I, if I stayed still with my hips, I would've to throw my hands and arms at it, often being. I wanna feel like I rotate. So my hips are opening, my body's opening, and that gets this low point even farther in front, and it kind of ensures that I'm gonna hit in front of that golf ball.

So again, down and through every single time. Now, there's a problem with this where a lot of times when players will do that, they'll tend to get over the top still. So we're gonna line up just like we did. Drop this foot back. A lot of times players will tend to still come out this way because they're coming from the inside by dropping to the right, so we get rid of that drop to the right.

Our upper body is very vertical here, and a lot of times we end up kind of coming over the top. Yes, we're hitting the golf ball first. We're hitting a divot after the golf ball, but we're coming down steeper and over the top when we're doing this. But what the pros are doing is they're actually tilted away from the target even though their weight is on the left.

So a lot of times people think of when I tilt to the right, all my weight is falling to the right side. Doesn't necessarily have to be that way, and that's not what the pros are doing. If I stand on this left foot again, what the pros are doing is they're bumping their hips forward so their hips go forward.

This less left hip goes toward the target. My head goes away from the target, and I'm staying balanced on my left foot even though I'm tilted away. In fact, when I measured major winner. Over 50 major winners. The average that those players were tilted away at contact was about 20 degrees of their spine, meaning their spine angle or their upper body was well away from the target when they hit the golf ball.

That's not to be mistaken with them falling this way, their weight is on their left foot. They just let their hip go forward, their upper body go back. I could balance completely on this foot and be tilted away from the target. So when we do this now, we can see how it's almost, IM. To come anywhere but swinging from the inside.

My nose is behind the golf ball and it feels like I can hit in front of this, but really hit a nice little draw as I'm doing that. There we go. So I tried to open up my hips, come from the inside like that. And you're seeing all these are turning over from right to left. That's exactly, that's identical to what you're seeing the pros do when you watch 'em hit irons on the pa, PJ tour, they're getting a little shift to the left.

My weight is moving to this front foot. Same sensation I had in that. As my head stays slightly behind the golf ball, so we're gonna do about 15 or 20 of those balance on the left foot. Get the spine tilted away as you're still balancing on his foot, open the body and just practice hitting about three or four inches in front of what would be the golf ball.

Once you get comfortable with that, hit a few shots. Balance on one leg, like. They don't have to be pretty, they don't even have to be over 30 yards. Just get the feeling of getting left and staying behind it so you can come from the inside. And then finally we'll go ahead and set up to a golf ball and we'll make a full swing having that same sensation, so weight, left body clearing outta the way, but my head is staying behind it.

That's gonna get me in the slot every single time, and I'm gonna become incredibly consistent when I'm doing this.

There you go. Another nice little draw. 192 yards with a seven iron, I'm not gonna do a whole lot better than that. Now this is really just a fancy way of saying the stable fluid spine, that's one of the key tenets of what the top speed golf system is all about. That's one of the five fundamentals that every pro does, right?

That you have to learn now in the stable fluid spine system. So if you go to the instruction tab, if you remember top speed golf, go to the TSG system, stable fluid's fine in there. I'm gonna go over a series of drills that's gonna teach you exactly how to ingrain. So not only the tilt part, but also the weight shift, where your hips should be, where your nose should be, all these angles.

And I give you a series of drills that makes it impossible to get this wrong. Now, if you do this drill today, you're gonna go out and start hitting it good. You're gonna have a great round of golf, you're gonna have a great range session. It's gonna feel fantastic. But here's the problem. If you just do this one drill that we talked about here today in a couple days, it's gonna wear off.

Your buddy's gonna get ahold of you, and he's gonna tell you the greatest tip that he's. You're gonna go and watch, uh, something on tv, a magazine, and you're gonna forget all about the great work that we did here today, and it's gonna be all wasted cuz you're gonna be back to the same mistakes that we made before.

What we need to combat, this is a system. You see this video is gonna get you started. As you go to level one of the TSG system, you're gonna get a lot more comfortable making that move as you work in the level two and level three. As you complete those levels, this becomes locked. To your golf swing dna, you don't even have to think about getting your weight to the left.

You don't even have to think about keeping your upper body away like the pros are doing. You're gonna do it automatically. But that only happens if we work through those levels, and that's one of the biggest problems golfers make is they're on a great idea, they're heading down the right track. But then we just don't follow up and ingrain it in our swing and we go right back to what we were.

So I challenge you right now. Go to level one, start completing these drills and as you work through level two and level three, you won't even have to think about it anymore. You're gonna play great golf and you don't even have to think about your golf swing. That's what I want to give to you. So head on over.

I challenge you to do one video from level one of the Stable Fluid Spine right now today, paired up with what we did here today, and you're gonna be well on your way to building a swing that is dead. Best of luck and I'll see you in the stable fluid spine.