Why You Need This: Today you'll learn "How to Stay in Posture | the Wall Drill"

And today you'll discover why the traditional "wall drill" promotes a couple really bad habits in the golf swing.

While staying in posture throughout the golf swing is a crucial element for a consistent golf game, the traditional version of the wall drill makes it nearly impossible to perform two vital swing moves.

In today's video you'll discover:

• the bad habits the traditional wall drill promotes
• 2 simple tweaks to keep the benefits of the drill while avoiding the negative aspects
• an added bonus to help ingrain "The Move" while staying in posture

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:37

Video Transcription:

Hey, I’ve got a fantastic drill for you. Now I’m setting up here against a leaderboard, a golf leaderboard, you can do this right from the comfort of your living room.

We’re going to talk about how to keep your posture, and you’ve probably all seen the drill where you sit against a wall, you try to put your rear end against the wall to keep your posture, stay down.

We’ve all seen that one before. There’s a variety of reasons that the traditional way of doing this doesn’t really work.

We’re going to talk about some of the issues with that, and the solutions to them so that you can keep your posture, you can still hit those nice, compressed, powerful shots and be very consistent all at the same time.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

OK, so first let’s talk about staying in your posture and the wall drill, or keeping your rear end on this wall.

Typically here’s the way this would happen. I’m going to set up, and the way that I like to do this is the way that I typically see this done, actually, we’ll start out with that.

You set up with your butt against the wall. You swing to the top, and then you try to keep your butt against the wall as you swing down.

Well, there’s a couple issues with this. If you do it this way, typically what people will do is they’ll turn off their hips and they won’t really get much hip rotation.

So as they swing to the top, they keep their butt against the wall, and now all of a sudden I haven’t really rotated my hips like I want to, I haven’t got a good, full turn for my shoulders.

The wall’s getting in the way of my club here, and it’s causing a lot of issues. So as I swing back, this club should be hitting that wall. We’re going to talk about a good way to get around this in a second.

Then we’re also going to talk about a certain way to set up so that we don’t turn our hips off. If I do it the traditional way where I keep my butt against the wall the whole time, I’m basically just doing an arm swing.

Even if I do rotate my hips a little bit, they’re not really active the way they should be in a real golf swing. Not to mention the wall issue we talked about.

So here’s the right way to do this. If I set up in my normal posture, and I want to get to where my rear end’s touching the wall as I’m at address.

Now I’m going to go ahead and choke a couple inches up on this club to where my fingers are almost down on the club shaft. That way it’s not going to go as far back in to this wall.

Then what I’m going to do from here, is I’m going to take a step forward with my feet, about two inches. So now when I get into my posture, my rear end should be a couple inches away from this wall.

As I come into the backswing, again, remember, I talked about my hips not really rotating. What I want to feel like is my right pant pocket goes back into this wall as I make my backswing.

So if I’m turning my hips here as I turn back, this right up is going to go back into that wall. So if I put my club there I should almost be able to feel that kick against the wall.

You can have a little bit of flex in your knee is fine, I don’t have to completely straighten it up like that, but I definitely want to rotate my hips a little bit to where I’m almost feeling like now my right hip is touching the wall.

It doesn’t have to touch it. From there, I’m going to go ahead and take a pretty good shoulder turn, and I’m going to let my club actually touch this wall here.

So this would be the top of my backswing. Big hip turn, big shoulder turn, I’m only making a three-quarter length backswing because this wall’s in the way.

Then from there as I start down, the idea is that I’m going to do the opposite. I’m first going to squat back to square, and I’m doing that, my club is still going to be in the wall.

We’ll talk about why that’s important here in a second. Then the next thing I’m going to do is take my left hip and drive it into the wall there.

Now that actually keeps my rotating, keeps me moving like it’s going to be a real shot but now I’m clearing this hip out of the way to stay in my posture.

So again, let’s go ahead and set up. I’m two inches away, my rear end’s a little bit off the wall. I’ve choked up on the club, now I’m getting a good hip turn and I’m only going back until my club hits the wall.

From there, the first move down I’m going to squat, let my hips get square, and I’m going to keep my club against the wall so I’m coming from the inside.

You see if I flip the club and have it miss the wall, and I go ahead and have it where it’s not going to come down to hit this, all of a sudden I’m very steep when I’m doing this drill.

I want to let the wall help to shallow me out as I squat and get my hips square. As my club down to contact, now I’m taking my left foot, that heel, and I’m pushing out this way to push my hip.

Almost imagine you’re going to knock something over with your left hip. I’m going to push it back out of the way, that’s going to help me to rotate on through.

Because I’ve kept my club kind of dropping down this wall, now all of a sudden I’m from the inside, I’m really in the slot here, and as I push on through to the left, that’s coming from the inside and it’s going to be a nice square contact with the golf club.

 

As I finish on through, I’m only going to go through to about waist-high on the follow through. You’ll notice my club isn’t coming all the way around, because it would be hitting this wall if I did that.

I’m just making a little half swing, slide down the wall, and then I’m letting that hip drive into the wall and I’m halfway through the follow through.

My left foot should be rotating out, my foot should all the way be up on the toe like this. Again, I don’t want to turn off the hips and be all arms like this. I’m letting my hips rotate on through there, and that’s kind of pushing into that wall when that’s happening.

The final piece here, and if you’re typically doing this drill and maybe you’re coming down steeper, that club face starts to open up.

We’re going to talk about how to square the face just like we talk about in The Move in the normal Top Speed Golf System.

As I do this drill, I’m going to let that slide down the wall again, and what I’m going to do is my club comes off the wall, I’m going to rotate my wrist down so that I square that face up.

You can see that closing down. That early squaring of the face is going to allow me to still come from the inside, have forward shaft lean, be in this great posture, and square up the club.

If I don’t have any of the squaring up on the face and I come down with the face open, my left wrist is cupped, what’s going to happen is as I rotate open, I’m going to block it out to the right. My club face is pointing way over there.

When I have that from the inside, squatting, clearing the hips out, I really have to get this motion to square that face up and really compress it. Again, I’m going to finish right here in that full follow through.

So let’s recap on this. I talked about a lot of different things, let’s hit the highlights.

I’m going to set up to the wall, normal posture, choke up on the club a couple inches, I’m going to have my rear end against the wall.

I’m going to scoot my feet two inches away from the wall, or two inches farther this way. I’m going to retake my normal posture and now my rear end is off the wall.

As I go to the top, my right hip goes back, and the club only does a three-quarter backswing, it’s against the wall.

As I squat down to square, my legs bend, and that club drags down the wall. As I come through, I’m going to ram my left butt cheek into this wall here, and I’m going to square up the face as I’m doing that.

As I finish, my hip’s against the wall, feet fully rotated, hips fully rotated, and I’m only coming through to a little half follow-through there. That’s really going to get me into a good position as I’m coming on through.

You do a few of these every single day, you’re going to be able to keep your posture, you’re going to be able to have that nice, flush contact, and you’re going to be really consistent.

Now we don’t want to stop here. This is a great drill to get us started on having our posture being much more consistent, but a real key with this is what we call The Move in the Top Speed Golf System.

That’s where we’re shallowing out this club and squaring up that club face. Now if you want to ingrain that, and make it where it’s just second nature to do that, you want to go to The Move section of our Top Speed Golf System.

Go through each one of those videos and do those drills. That way, you’re automatically going to get the club from the inside.

You’re automatically going to square with the face, really compress it, and you won’t even have to think about it.

You’re going to keep your posture a lot easier when you’re doing that too, because now I’m not standing up when I’m coming over the top.

I’m not coming in steep, and then standing up and flipping, I’m actually able to shallow that club out, square it up the way the pros are doing.

But we’re only going to ingrain that when we work through those videos. If you’re currently a member, go to the Instruction tab, click on the Top Speed Golf System, click on The Move section, and then work through those videos.

I’m telling you, it’s going to pay huge dividends, you’re going to hit the ball way better when you’re done with the drills. I’ll see you there.