Why You Need This: In this video, you'll learn how to make clean, crisp, solid contact in golf.

You'll get a close look at:

• how the leading edge of your club affects the club face angle,
• how to limit your club face rotation for more consistent contact, and
• how your divots give you great feedback on your shots.

Start things off by studying the leading edge of your club.

Keeping the leading edge aimed at your target, see what happens when you adjust the shaft angle.

If you shallow the club, notice how the club face points left.

As you raise the club vertically, notice how the club face starts pointing right.

So, why does that matter?

Well, to make contact with a perfectly square impact (like the pros)...

You'll need to shallow out your club path in the downswing.

I call this The Move in the Top Speed Golf system.

This move helps you make square contact with forward shaft lean.

If you don't do The Move and come in a little over the top, you're club face won't be square to the target.

Also note that your divot will look similar to a dollar bill if you make square contact.

Bowing your wrist in the downswing is also part of The Move.

As you'll see in the video, bowing your wrist helps you come into contact with a more stable and square club face.

This improves your consistency.

Watch this video now and find out how to make clean, crisp, solid contact in golf!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:35

Video Transcription:

Hey guys, welcome back. I’ve got a great video for you today. We’re going to talk about the leading edge of the club and when we want this facing the target, and how your club face, so the direction that your club face is pointing, could actually be a little bit different than the direction that the leading edge is pointing.

We’re going to go over this, we’re going to tie this in with The Move in the golf swing. We talked a lot about how we need to shallow this club out, deloft the club early the swing in our Top Speed Golf System.

We’re going to talk about how that’s going to help you to hit the ball better. Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so first we’re going to set this club down here. We’re going to notice how the leading edge, or if you look at the bottom groove of the club, we can see that’s facing directly parallel with this stick.

This stick is perpendicular to my target, it’s facing my target out in the distance. But if I had that leading toward it, you notice if I raise the club up so now the shaft of the club is completely vertical, the leading edge is still pointing toward the target. If I go this way the same thing.

So even though my club is shallowing and steepening, the leading edge is still facing the target. Now if I put this little indicator on the face, this is going to tell me the direction my face is pointing.

I’m going t keep this leading edge still basically parallel with this stick, and watch what happens as I raise the club up more vertical. Notice how now the stick is pointing way out to the right, even though the leading edge is still perfectly parallel with the stick.

If I go the other way out, I flatten the club, now my heel would be hitting the ground first. The leading edge is still parallel, but the face of the club is pointing way to the left. That’s because we have loft on our club face. As we start to change this, we’re changing the direction that the loft is pointing.

All right, so that’s great, it’s good to know that it does change, but what does this really matter? What are we going to do in our swing? What should we be looking for to make sure that we’re really squaring this up?

The idea is that if we’re going to have a perfectly square contact, that just like the Tour pros that we’re going to see, we’re actually going to shallow this club out a little bit in the downswing, we’re going to have some good forward shaft lean.

As I make contact with this ball, my leading edge or the direction the face is pointing, and the leading edge of the club are both going to be square and you’re going to get those nice really square divots.

If you’ve ever hit some really good shots, or seen pros hit, you’ll notice they have a divot that’s about the size of a dollar bill and it’s perfectly square.

The sole of the club is coming down, and when it makes contact with the ground, it’s perfectly square with the turf. The toe isn’t down, the heel isn’t down.

So it’s not like this, it’s not like that, perfectly flush with the ground. That’s going to help us to get direct backspin, and that’s going to help us get a nice, compressed golf shot.

So how we do this in the golf swing, is what we talk about in The Move. When you watch pro players or really good players swing, what you’ll notice is as they start their downswing, they’re actually shallowing out the club a little bit.

Their wrist is bowing, and what that does to my club face is as I continue my downswing, notice how my club face is starting to turn down a little early. So I’m shallow and my face is turning down early. Dustin Johnson is somebody that really does this a lot, he really bows the wrist, turns that club face down a lot.

There’s tons of other examples, but that’s kind of an extreme of what’s happening here. We don’t’ have to do it as much as Dustin Johnson, but that is a good idea.

As I start to turn this face down early, notice how the loft of the club, the direction that my face is pointing is already starting to square up to the ball a little bit early. Rom there, I can limit the amount of face rotation I have as ‘m coming through the shot and keep that square for longer.

As I come through the ball, I’m going to release this club and it’s going to turn over a little bit here, but I don’t want to have this club face go from wide open – look at the face pointing way out now, so that would be the face open, to square, and then really turning down like that, because now I’m creating a lot of different angles that I could be hitting from.

So I’m going to square that club up early, square it through contact, and then I am going to release the club face, but I’m just going to limit the amount that I’m doing that.

We talk about that in The Move, and one of the other things this helps with is, as you start to shallow this club out, now the sole near the hosel is getting closer to the ground.

So if I’m very steep into the ground, what I’m going to tend to do is to stand up out of the shot. My hands come up and out, now all of a sudden the toe is digging down. Look where the face is pointing, and then I’ve got to make manipulations with my hands.

If I’m shallowing this club out, now my heel and my toe can hit the ground at the same time, I’m nice and square through this ball and I’m going to have those good, square divots. So we’ve got to shallow this out.

Now that we know that, and we know how this would work, let’s go-ahead and make a couple practice swings and talk about how we would practice this.

So here, I’m going to try to line up toward the target again. That’s about right. Now when I make some swings, I’m going to make some practice swings, and what I’m going to look for here, is I’m going to go ahead and shallow this club out, get my left wrist nice and flat.

My right wrist is going to be bent back, it’s also going to help you get a lot of lag. I’m feeling like I’m squaring this club face up early with the ground. Then I’m looking at my divot to see which piece is touching first.

I’m going to go ahead and make a practice swing here, and make a small divot if I can. There we go, that felt pretty good. If I look at that divot, that’s nice and square. If I look at the back edge of this divot, I notice that my heel and my toe both hit the ground at the same time.

So I know that I shallowed this club out. My bottom, the heel of the club, was coming down in good into the ball and I didn’t kind of stand up out of my posture and swing the club down.

I’ll go ahead and do it the wrong way now. Let’s imagine I’m coming in steep, and then I’m going to stand up. Imagine like Charles Barkley. He’s very steep, and then standing up out of it.

Those of who have early extension you’re doing this to a very small amount, he’s doing it like crazy. But I’ll try one out like that, and we’ll see…let’s go ahead and try again, I’ll hit a divot farther back.

Have to try it again, I’m...there we go, I’m not used to standing up out of it. On this one, we can see that my divot is coming and that the leading edge of the divot is at an angle like that. That means my toe was digging down in first, and then my heel came down in, so it wasn’t very nice and square.

I’m going to work on that, and I’m going to adjust just how much I stay in my posture, and how much my club shallows out to get that nice leading edge square divot, and then we’ll go ahead and hit a couple shots and I’m going to look at my divot for some feedback.

Now let’s go ahead and hit one, and try it out. All right guys, dead straight shot. Didn’t take a huge divot on that one, but I can see it was pretty square. I’ll go ahead and hit a couple more and I’ll show you guys the divots close up, so you can see them first hand.