Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How To Make A Perfect Backswing | Hand Path Fix"

If you're getting too steep in your downswing, it causes a TON of issues...

*you'll lose distance

*you'll struggle with ball contact

*you'll lose your posture

I could go on and on with the bad habits being steep creates.

You've likely even tried to correct this issue before...

...but if you don't tackle the root cause, it can be very tough.

You see, there's something you're doing in the BACKSWING that makes it nearly impossible to NOT come down steep...

...and it has everything to do with a natural wrist movement and your hand path.

In today's lesson, you'll first understand what's causing your steep downswing...

...then you'll discover how to eliminate this natural motion so you can get your club shallowed out in the downswing (and make golf a LOT easier for you).

You won't believe how much easier it is once you know how to fix this.

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:39

Video Transcription:

I see almost every single player that struggles getting steep in the downswing or coming over the top in the downswing, maybe losing some power, not feeling like you're very athletic with your golf swing. Almost every single player, and I bet this is you too, if you fit that, that description struggles with their hand path in the backswing and in in the entire swing.

So let me go ahead and talk about what's the most common thing that happens. Well, we wanna get this club from the inside. We. Having the club in the downswing come from the inside or in the slot, as a lot of people would call it. That is really good for playing great golf. You don't see too many players that are coming down way steep in the down.

You know much more on this side of the, the slot. So if this is really good here, this steeper downswing, you don't see a lot of PJ tour players, a lot of great players at that very steep angle. How do we get it shallowed out though? Well, what a lot of players will do is they'll actually pick up the club with the right wrist.

So this right wrist will start to bend what's called wrist extension very early in the swing, and the right elbow will. Almost make like a lawnmower move. And when you put those two things together, that sucks the club way back to the inside. That's in an effort to get it more shallow and from the inside.

But the problem is we're talking about the downswing, and this is in the backswing. So when I tend to get the, the elbow and the wrist doing that motion that drags the club inside and now my body instinctively knows I'm gonna have to re. Somewhat to even make my downswing and it'll start to kick this club steeper and over the top.

So the more you try to go inside in the backswing, the more it actually reroutes and gets steepened over the top in the downswing and causes a whole heck of a lot of problems that are very frustrating. Here's what I want you to do. Let's actually reverse that pattern for a second. Instead of that right wrist wanting to extend what's called wrist extension and go back your knuckles back to your elbow, I actually want you to exaggerate and have it do the opposite.

As you start the backswing, I want your wrist to what's called flex your right wrist to flex, and I want that's gonna make that club stay way outside your hands like this. Now, if I was to really do this in a golf swing, it would look crazy. I'm just talking about a little. Let me show you an exaggerated version of this.

So if I was to actually let those wrists do that, that would bring the club way out here, almost like a matte wolf kind of looking swing. But then watch what would happen in the downswing when I change direction, that's gonna bring it to the inside. So the more you do this in the backswing, the more I suck this club to the inside.

The more you want to cast in the downswing, the more I keep this wrist kind of going this way, feeling. The more it wants to have lag and be able to go into the slot in the downswing. Same thing with that right elbow. I want you to go ahead and set up here, and I want you to feel like it stays very straight for a very long time in the backswing.

I imagine this club is staying as far away from my body as I can here. So when I put that together with the wrist angle, it's gonna look something like that again, kind of that matte wolf esque type swing. And when I change directions, all the momentum of the club is gonna wanna work from the inside. So if you struggle to get the club in the in from the inside, you struggle to get into the slot.

A lot of that is just that very first move in the backswing. So let's go ahead and try one the right way here. I'm gonna feel like I'm Matt Wolf, really getting the momentum going. But in reality, it's not gonna really look like that. That's just the feeling that I'm happening. You'll probably only barely see a small difference in what my real swing looks like when I feel that exaggeration.

Let's go ahead and give it a try here.

There we go. So that club really feels like it went way out there and wanted to loop in. Again, this is a drill. It's not necessarily what you're gonna feel like when you go out and play, but give me 15 of these as practice swings. So I'm just feeling like the club goes out and then it loops in. I'm gonna do that about 15 times until I get the feeling of it.

Then another 15 where you take out the pauses and you actually make, make full swings doing that. So it'd be something like, And I'm got another 10, 15 swings. Again, just to get comfortable with the move. And then you're ready to feel the same thing when you're hitting a golf ball. And that club is really gonna want to jump to the inside.

Now, here's what I found with a lot of players who finally get this club in a slot. So we get this club kind of all the momentum of the club wanting to come down in here. What I find though, is they still have the urge to cast. So even though the club wants to go this way, they'll fight over through it and start to cast this club in the downs.

And we can actually tweak what we feel and how we visualize the swing. It's gonna make this a lot easier. So what we really want to do is once we get this club now working with more momentum to the inside, we want to closer to the ground. I wanna feel like my legs bend. I wanna feel like my chest works closer to the ground.

And I wanna feel like I've released the club out in front. So I call that the street line release in the top speed golf system. So I'm getting closer to the ground, I clear my body outta the way, and I release this club to this point. That allows me to get that hit impulse outta the swing because if I had that really stand up and hit at it, really cast this club impulse.

It doesn't matter what I do in the swing, it's all, you know, gonna go down the tubes. So work first on getting the momentum coming from the inside and then from there, let's pair that up with releasing the club out in front. And that's gonna be the perfect kind of one two punch to make this happen. So if you're, remember at Top Speed Golf, go to the instruction tab, click the top speed golf system, and then go to the straight line release section there.

You're gonna be able to work through those videos from start to finish. I challenge you just to complete level one. You're gonna start to see a really big difference in your consistency once you start to just get used to releasing this club up. It's gonna make it way easier to get the club in the slot now because it all kind of fits together.

And I'll go over exactly how to do that in that system, then go up through level two and three. And in the grand scheme of things, not a whole lot of work to get this down once and for all. And I found that players, this is a big separating factor between great players and recreational golfers. Almost everybody that I see, this recreational golfer wants to release this club back here before.

Get a little flip in there when if we can have this great lag come from the inside and then release out in front, that's what the pros are doing. So maybe one or 2% of the people that I see starting out coming in, release out in front. Whereas almo, basically a hundred percent of pros release out in front.

And I wanna show you how to change that once for all. It's actually not that complicated once you start working through the drills. So start by getting the club's momentum, wanting to work from the inside, like we talked about here. Then pair that up with a straight line release head over there now.

Start watching some of those videos, fall on the drills, and you're gonna have a blast playing golf. Best of luck and I'll see you soon.