Why You Need This: In this video, you'll learn how to stay connected in golf.

You've probably been told that you need a nice, connected swing.

Well, there's one piece to that advice that you haven't been told...

It's that you only need to be connected as you contact the ball.

At the top of your swing, your right arm won't be connected...

And in the follow through, your left arm won't be connected.

So only focus on where it really matters to be connected - right when you're hitting the golf ball!

Think of some of the big hitters on tour like Tiger Woods and Adam Scott.

Their right arms aren't connected at the top of the swing.

They get their arms nice and high.

But a common drill among instructors is putting a club head cover underneath your arm so you stay connected.

Now, you can hit a ball well by staying connected...

But you'll never get tons of speed in your swing by doing that.

That's why I don't recommend being connected at the top of your swing.

I want you to get more speed and distance with your shots!

What about your follow through?

The same idea applies with your follow through.

If your left arm is connected in your follow through, you're holding back some of your power.

So focus on where it really does matter to be connected - impact.

Watch this video now to learn why you don't want to be connected throughout the swing...

And also see exactly how to stay connected in golf just at impact (where it counts)!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:02

Video Transcription:

All right guys, we all want to stay connected through the swing, but there’s one problem.

There’s one thing that you’ve been missing, or that people haven’t been telling you about staying connected, is that there’s only one part that we want to be connected in, and that’s right through impact.

At the top of the swing the right arm isn’t going to be connected. In the follow-through, the left arm isn’t going to be connected.

I’m going to break it down for you and give you some easy drills that you can follow to be connected at the moment of truth, right wen you’re hitting that golf ball. Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so the top of the swing. One of the common drills is to take a head cover, kind of put it under your arm.

But if you look at a lot of the top players, you know if I was to put this head cover under my arm and swing to the top, there’s no way I can really get my arms high enough to make a good, complete turn.

Look at guys like Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, all those big hitters with beautiful swing. They’re all getting their arms higher up in the backswing and that head cover would fall right out.

So if we stay connected, we do the golf club head cover under the right arm drill, what that’s going to end up doing is getting our arms really low and tight to our body where we feel connected.

It feels good, fells kind of comfortable, feels like I’m in a good spot to come down here and hit the ball. I probably could hit the ball really well doing that, but the problem is we’re not going to get our maximum speed.

One of the things we talk about in the Top Speed Golf System is getting that good, full turn as we’re going back. If I do this, I’m going to have a tendency to stop a little short.

Notice how my shoulders don’t really rotate back. Notice how my hands are really low here. What I want to do is go ahead, ditch the head cover. As I go to the top of the swing my hands are getting nice and high, I’m getting a big shoulder turn.

Now I’m really wound up and I can really get some speed into that golf ball. PGA Tour average is over 110° of shoulder turn going back. They’re also averaging getting those hands above their head.

So we have everybody’s got their own little unique spot that they want to put their hands at the top, it’s OK to be a little low or a little higher, but we definitely don’t want to get that right arm so tight that we can’t get wound up and we can’t get any power.

If you’ve been trying that drill but you notice that it’s really difficult to get power, that’s something that’s very, very common.

Now let’s go on through to the follow through and talk about how the left arm flies out in the follow through.

The same thing there, if we were to take this head cover – you know I’ve seen drills where you put this head cover under your arms, and now as you come through we’re hitting a shot and then we’re going to fold up, my arm folds up immediately. My hands kind of stay below my head.

You won’t see any of the best players -- you won’t see Adam Scott, Ben Hogan, you look at Ben Hogan’s arms, when he’s coming in his follow through, his arms are very high.

When his club’s perpendicular to the ground like this, his hands are above his head like that, and my left arm has to separate away from my body to do that. That’s what allows us to get that nice free-flowing swing, get all that energy going through the golf ball into that nice finish.

But there is one part where we really want to have it connected, and that’s impact. So let me go over a few drills for you guys starting out with the right arm.

As we go to the top, as I mentioned, my hands want to be nice and high. My right arm has a little bit of space between my right arm, underneath my arm, the tricep right here and the side of my body. I’ve got a little bit of space there, I’ll go ahead and let those arms elevate.

As I start down, as I’m getting near to impact, my elbow is going to come into my side. That space is now going to be gone. If you look at my elbow pit, it’s kind of facing forward like this.

If you look at my right hand, it’s bent back with a good amount of lag. So I feel like my right arm is nice and cinched against my body, but my right wrist is angled back where I have some god lag there.

As I come in to contact, what’s going to happen is my hips and my shoulders, or actually take my left arm back, you’ll see my shoulders, my chest, is a little bit open. But my left arm is protracted and there’s no space between the bicep of my left arm and my left pec.

Now it’s nice and tight in there, so when I add my right arm nice and tight, upper arm against my right side, elbow in, that’s kind of facing out this way. Nice amount of lag.

Now I’m adding my left arm against my left side, where I’m nice and connected, now as I come through contact I’m perfectly connected as I’m hitting this golf ball.

So I can consistently hit that ball, time and time again, with that same motion feeling like my arms and my body work together.

As I come on through, now because I have momentum, everything’s released. We talk about the straight line release in our Top Speed Golf System where all these angles are being released here about 45° in front.

Now I can let everything fall away from my body, fly away from my body, get that nice long arc as you’re coming on through, get all that energy to transfer down the fairway.

Let’s put all these together, I’ll make another swing. Let’s go ahead and do a slow-motion video and you’ll see how my right arm geos a little bit away in my backswing, my left arm going a little bit away in my follow through, but right at impact where it matters, I’m nice and connected.

Let’s go ahead and try it out.