Why You Need This: Today you'll find out "How to Shallow the Club and Outdrive Your Friends"

Discover how to unlock all that hidden swing speed that you didn't even realize was hiding inside you.

In particular, there's something that you do with your right hand (if you're a righty), that feels really, really powerful...

...but it's actually KILLING your distance!

In today's video, you'll discover what that "something' is...

and you'll equip yourself with 3 steps that will get your right hand in the perfect position to BLAST your ball past your buddies!

The next time you tee it up, they won't know what hit them!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:19

Video Transcription:

All right, what a cool driving range, a cool course we’re at here. This is Orange County National, home of American’s largest driving range. This thing is pretty neat.

It’s over 400 yards across this with tee boxes all the way around. Really cool courses, they hold the Q school for the Korn Ferry Tour to get your PGA Tour card here this year, so really cool spot, thought it would be really fun to come out and shoot a video here.

Well in this one, I’m going to talk about how you can shallow out your swing so that you stop coming down steep and how that can really help you to unlock a lot of swing speed that you have built up inside.

Now what happens a lot of times, let me go ahead and tee up one more ball here, you’ll see that if you’re getting a little bit steep, it’s usually a right arm wanting to push that club and accelerate the club.

Early in the downswing you’re going to see this club shaft is pointing well inside the golf ball. If you look at where that’s pointing, if I just kept swinging down that direction, I would slam this club into the ground, two, three feet behind the golf ball.

Obviously, that’s not going to work, so when this right arm gets overactive, or active in the wrong way, we’re going to go over the right way here in a second.

When it gets overactive in the wrong way, I have to slow down my swing, reroute this club shaft to get it kind of shallowed out. I usually stand up and flip to kind of help that action happen, and you lose a lot of swing speed.

All that slowing down to reroute the club, could have been acceleration if you’re already in the slot, this accelerating, accelerating, accelerating all the way through the golf ball. That’s what we’re going to go over in this video.

Now one of the biggest things that I see players struggle with, and they’ll ask me, “Clay, you know I get that you’re supposed to be shallowing this club out. I get that the logo of your left hand is toward the sky, that I want to kind of roll this arm in, but I just can’t feel anything with my left hand. I don’t feel comfortable doing that.”

That’s why in this video we’re going to focus all in on the right hand. What is the right hand do? I found that you’re probably going to have a lot more success focusing on the right hand versus the left hand.

Then you can kind of blend it all in together and it’s going to feel natural here after a while.

What I mentioned there, and what happens, when you’re coming a little bit steep is typically in the takeaway, you’re going to bring the club inside, and then right hand is going to push that club into a steeper position here.

Now it doesn’t mean that you’re coming over the top. You may be steep and still coming from the inside, just standing up like that. That could be happening.

Doesn’t mean that you have an over the top slice, you may have an over the top slice, or you may even have a hook doing this, what we’re talking about here is the steepness of the shaft.

That’s when that club comes back a little inside, the right hand pushes the shaft steeper, and then from there we reroute. We want to reverse that.

So go ahead and drop the club, and just take your right hand. Now at address, if I take it inside, my right wrist is bending back. These knuckles of my right wrist are bending back.

That’s called wrist extension, that’s your knuckles toward your elbow. I want to feel like my right wrist is pretty flat as I’m going into the backswing.

I’m going to do a few reps feeling like it’s flat, and then going ahead and making my swing. Now you can do this right from your living room. Go ahead and make a good 10 or 15 swings, just focusing on that.

We’re going to build this in a progression, layer by layer. I don’t want to go ahead and do everything all at once, we’ve got to make a few swings to get comfortable with this.

So here, I’m just going to focus in on my right wrist being flat in the first part of the backswing. I’m going to do that by turning my body and letting that move the club versus me picking it up with my hands and wrist and dragging it to the inside.

So I’m going to do 10 or 15 practice swings like that, and then I’ll go ahead and hit a golf ball here. There you go, another one nice and solid. That would be down the left-center of the fairway there, so good swing.

Do the practice swings, then go ahead if you’re at a driving range hit a few balls doing that. If you’re at homes, just do the practice swings and you’ll be well on your way when you go to the driving range.

Now piece number two, let’s add to that now. Go through this progression. My right wrist is flat going back, and you can see that would be kind of flatter like I was shaking someone’s hand here.

As I start down, here’s what I want you to feel, and this is exaggerated, but this is really key to shallowing it out. I want you to feel like as your body opens, your palm is toward the sky.

So that’s really going to take this club from here to there in the downswing. Now that’s exaggerated, that’s too much.

You’re not going to get that shallow, and I don’t want you to, but that’s the feeling you’re going to have to have as you finish the backswing and start the downswing to really get that club to move in the proper way.

Now from there, I’m going to do another 10 or 15 practice swings, and that’s really going to help me to come more from this way.

The mistake that I think a lot of people assume is that if I get this club more from the inside that means I’m going to swing way out to the right, and that’s simply not the case.

My hand is opening up, and then I’m going to be releasing that to square up the face. Once my palm opens, that’s in a good shallow inside position, and now I’m going to release it.

This is what all the great pros are doing that I see a lot of players that struggle don’t do. You’re taking this club from the inside, and then releasing that to square it up.

My palm goes from open here to square releasing through the target, and then coming on through.

If you’re looking at it from the camera angle here, my palm’s going from open to going ahead and releasing just square, and then coming on through.

I’m going to do a good 10 to 15 reps of that, let’s go ahead and hit another golf ball here, and notice how that club definitely shallows out in the transition, and I’m coming from the inside but I’m not hitting any massive hook or really swinging way out to the right.

I’m swinging squarely through the ball, because I’m releasing that hand. Let’s go ahead and try it out here. There we go, pretty solid.

The last piece of this and the final question I get here, is well won’t my club face be open if I do that? Won’t when my palm is up, won’t this face be open and out of position here?

Actually, to solve that, that is true, you’re going to get a little bit of this move. Some people call it the motorcycle move where you’re twisting your wrist.

That would be me turning this club this way, but that move when I’m shallow, this is closing the face, so if I took this club and I twisted toward the camera, that’s closing the face. That’s opening the face.

So I want to have that palm up and my knuckles back like that. That’s really the key, that’s the last piece that kind of ties this in together.

I’m getting the club from the inside, and then I’m getting those knuckles back to square the face up. That looks like this. Again, all three pieces together, I’m going to go really slow for you.

Backswing, wrist is nice and flat, that’s going to get you on a great backswing position. Second piece, as I finish my backswing and start my downswing, I’m going to feel like my palm is up toward the sky.

Third piece, I’m squaring that up, so as I open my hand, my knuckles are rolling back, so it looks like this. I’m going to go real slow and show what that would look like.

That’s why you see so many pros with their left wrist bowed, that’s why you see so many pros with this elbow tucked in, that’s why you see so many pros coming from the inside.

It’s that wrist move that I’m talking about there. Get those three pieces together.

Again, make another 10 or 15 swings, and you’re going to get really be able to feel like now from the top of the swing, you can accelerate all the way through the downswing, because you don’t have to reroute it, the club is already shallowed out on the angle that it needs to be on in the downswing.

It’s go ahead and crank one more here, see just how far I can get this one to go, were really going to accelerate through it. All right, I hit that one awesome.

All right now that last move I talked about was the wrist move, squaring up that face, make sure the face isn’t open. If you’re like most people, that seems a little counterintuitive.

I actually have a really cool trick for that, it’s the tennis racket drill that’s in our Move section. The next thing to do here, do the drills in this video, that’s going to get you started, but if you want to ingrain this shallowing out, we need to go to The Move section of the Top Speed Golf System.

We’re going to work through those videos step by step, make sure you catch that tennis racket drill in there, that’s going to help you with this right wrist angle.

So finish this video here today, but if you want to ingrain it, you want to make it where you don’t even have to think about shallowing it out, you need to work through that progression in that series of videos.

Best of luck, and I’ll see you in The Move section.