Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to Shallow the Club NATURALLY | Light to Heavy Drill"

If you are sick and tired of coming down steep and you want to start getting this club, shallowing out and working from the inside, I have a great drill for you now. All you're going to need for this drill is a towel. I have this really cool magnetic golf towel that my dad got me for Christmas. Shout out to Pops for that.

But you don't have to have a magnetic golf towel. You can use a normal golf towel. And what I would do is I would just get it damp, you know, get it, get it nice and wet, then wring it out and then it'll work just fine for this. So the biggest issue that I see with people trying to shallow out the club is they're trying to manufacture the shallowing in the backswing.

So basically they're trying to get it really, really shallow. But naturally, when we do that, we want to steepen it and pull it down in the downswing. We're not using the momentum of the club to be able to get the club to show up properly. And that's what I call the light to heavy drill really, really helps you to do that.

What we want to do is we actually want to get this club steep in the backswing, so that way this club will naturally want to work behind you and shallow out on its own. So we're going to start out doing this drill one hand at a time. And the reason why we want to do this is, one, if we use one hand of time, the club is going to feel heavier.

And two, it helps us understand what each arm is doing individually. Because if one arm's not doing its job, then the one that's trying to steepen the club is usually the one that's going to win. So if we understand what each arm is doing individually, it makes things a lot easier. So let's start out with the lead arm at first, and what we're going to do is just get in your normal grip here, then put your trail arm to your side and what you're going to do is you're going to bring this club up just like you would in the golf swing.

But I want you to bring it up very steeply, almost to where it's standing straight up and down. Now, this is an exaggeration. You don't need to bring it up straight up and down in the golf swing. But if you're someone who has been trying to shallow out the club and you've been trying to manufacture that shallowing in the backswing, this is going to be a really good feeling for you.

And you can tone it down when you get to it later. So we're going to feel this club go straight up like this. And the reason why it's called the light to heavy drill is because it should feel pretty light right here because it's straight up and down. But now we want to make it heavy by rotating our arm.

And now once we get that like this now it feels a lot heavier. I'm really using the muscles in my arm to be able to support this club. And then from here, I'm going to really want to turn my body and turn through there. And as the club is shallowing out nicely, so what's happening with our lead arm to get this to shallow out?

So first it's our humerus, which is our upper arm bone, which is internally rotating. Right. So if it's internally rotating, that's inward rotating. You can see how that rotates my elbow out like that. And that can help get the club shallowing. And that's also my forearm. That's, that's rotating inward as well. And those two together help get that club shallowing out.

So next we want to go the trail arm and do the same thing. I would get get in several reps, you know, ten, 20 reps with that lead arm and then move to the trail arm. So now trail arm again, I'm going to take my normal grip, take my lead hand, put on my side. I'm going to do the same thing.

I'm going bring it up vertically, like this, where it's going to feel very light. And then from my mind, make sure I'm getting a good turn. And then from there I'm going to make it really, really heavy by rotating my arm this way. And then from there, I'm going to feel like I naturally just want to rotate through as the club is shallowing out.

So with the trail arm, what's happening is the opposite, right? My trail arm is externally rotating. So you can think of that is losing an arm-wrestling contest that's essentially happening with the trail arm. And this is the one that gets most people, most people want to bring that elbow the other way. And a lot of times that's what really steep into the club.

So we really want to focus on getting that elbow to turn in like this. All right. So we're going to get that elbow turning in. And then also my forearm here is going to be rotating to where my palm is more up. So it's going to be rotating outward. And that gets that club to go from light to heavy.

And then from there, I can turn through. All right. So once we've done it with each arm individually, we've done ten to 20 reps with each. We got a good feel for it. Now we can put both arms on the club and do the same thing. I feel this club going up to where it's nice and vertical and it feels light long.

I feel heavy as I start my downswing and I'm going to turn through accidentally hit the golf ball there. But that's the feeling that we want to have as we're coming through there. So again, get ten to 20 reps Feel that club working behind you. And when you feel that club working behind you, you're going to have the ability to now rotate.

You're going to feel like. Now I got that club behind me. I need to rotate to get to the golf ball. So if you've been struggling, rotating, and getting the body to open up, it's probably a big reason why we have to get the club shallowing out if I don't get the club shelling out and I rotate with that, well, now I'm just going to come way over the top line.

We hit terrible golf shots so you can work on rotating your swing or rotating in the downswing. This is going to be a great drill for you to work on as well. Now, once we've got a good feeling with the towel, now we can take off the towel and try to get the same feeling without the towel.

So go up steep right when I feel it's go straight up and down. Now I want to feel that club work behind me. And again, we want to feel this rotation with the trail arm excuse me, the lead arm. And I really want to feel my elbow work in with my trail arm. And I want to feel my palm kind of pointing up the sky to get that club heavy.

And then from there, I can really rotate through the swing and be able to stay in my posture much more easily. So once you put it all together now and you've got to where you can do it in a practice swing, now we can try to do it with the golf ball. And I'd start out really, really slow with the golf ball and see if you can do it there.

So let's see if we can get one to shallow out nicely here.

All right. So hit a nice solid one there, a nice little draw. And that felt to me about 50% speed, in reality, is more like 75% speed. But that's what you want to do. You want to start out really, really slow and then build up to speed slower. Little by little by little by little. Now, as you get to where you're going faster with this, you're likely going to find one of two things.

Either when you speed up, you're going to get the club nice and shallow out, but then you're going to have trouble getting that face close and getting that face squared up and impacting. And you start hitting some shots out to the right or your brain is going to say, Hey, I don't want to hit shots at the right and you're going to stay steep when you go faster and you're going to kind of flip and stand up through impact.

So we need one last piece to kind of tie this all together. And this is really what the move is. This is just one part of the move is a shallowing out portion. The other portion from shallowing out is the squaring of the club face. So this is a great preliminary drill to get you started on doing the move.

But what we need to do with the move is also getting the face squaring earlier, which is what we do in the tennis racket drill of the move course. So right after you work on this drill, I want you to go straight to the move course by clicking the instruction tab at the top of the screen. Then from there you can click the Top Speed Golf System, then click the move in specifically 1.3 of the tennis racket drill from the move course.

That's a drill that's going to combine what we did here, getting the club shallow it out with the squaring of the face and that tennis racket gives you an awesome visual to be able to do that. Now, keep in mind, you do not have to have a tennis racket to do the drill, but it offers a really good visual to be able to do that.

So go there work on the move, play well, and I'll talk to you soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 7:18