Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How To Swing a Golf Club | Really Simple Technique"

In today's lesson...

Discover how my "bellybutton jab" move will shallow out your steep downswing...

...so you'll be "in the slot" just like all the pros.

You'll be amazed at how much more solid your shots will feel.

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:08

Video Transcription:

Now there's one really easy way to swing a golf club and simply put this, everybody that that swings really effortlessly has a very repeatable swing. They're gonna shower that club out from the inside. Where the inconsistency comes from is if I get a little steep on the down swing, all of a sudden, what I mean my steep is when my hands.

Or about shoulder height or chest height in the downswing. If I drew a line down this club shaft, if it hit inside the golf ball, that would be a steep swing. If I get it at the golf ball or even a little bit outside the golf ball, that would be shallow, what people call in the slot, all these great terms that you hear, those are from shallowing out, this golf club from the inside, and that's what you see virtually every single produce.

Now, there's a great, easy way to learn this that's intuitive. Imagine I had. Uh, both of my hands. I just made a, a golf grip here and I was gonna hit somebody with my elbows. That's kind of a weird feeling, but I'll walk you through it. So I wanna get my elbows. My right elbow is tucked, my left elbow is out toward that person.

Imagine I was gonna hit them with my elbows this way, that would get the club way inside. Now there's a great way you can feel this. Let's go ahead and choke up on your grip to where your hands are actually on the club shaft here and the grip's sticking out. Now, if I did this same motion, I. This grip sticking out and I hit somebody with my elbows, it'd be like kind, I'm hitting 'em in the belly button here with this grip of the club, the button of the club.

So as I get in that position, I could really just put that into 'em and all I'd have to do is rotate my body to make that happen. I wouldn't be doing some kind of weird manipulation with the hands and arms, or I'm trying to. Do something funky with the club. I'm just getting my elbows toward that person and I'm rotating my body.

And you can see here that was a golf swing that will be very shallow from the inside. And the great thing about this is when I get that far shallow, when I get that far from the inside, now I can open up as hard as I want to, and I don't have to worry about coming over the top. I don't have to worry about being steep, right?

So once my elbows get. The club gets in, I, I can forget about this steep shaft in worrying about going this way. So that's piece number one. Now, this is gonna get you to swing well out to the right, but we may hit a few blocks when we do this. They're gonna go hard, they're gonna go a long way, but they may end up just going out to the right.

Let me give you an example of what that would look like if I did that in a full swing. So this one's gonna, I'm gonna hit the heck outta this thing, but it might go a little bit too far to. There you go. And again, that was killed straight as a string. Good as I can hit 1 3 19 total. 1 73. Ball speed. Look at the spin.

This is one thing I love about this. 1800 RPMs of spin is fantastic. That's really, really low. That's gonna get that ball to knuckle through the air and just go a really long way. That's from being shallow also, because now I'm hitting it more on a level angle of attack or even up. You don't even have to think about that.

That just comes naturally. But that's the first step. That ball may be going out to the right a little bit too much. Now the second step is to get the club head to release the proper way. Now, when I come through, let's go ahead and get in this, you know, I'm gonna jab somebody in the in the belly button with this butt into the club.

That's my lag position here. That's kind of halfway in the downswing. The second piece is gonna be what I call parallel. In the fall through. So as I swing through here, when my club shaft is parallel to the ground, I want to do two things. Number one, I want the club face to be past vertical. So this would be my club face straight up and down.

You can see the, the top edge of the club is straight up and down. If I'm straight up and down, that's gonna be a fairly straight shot. If I'm anywhere to the right of that, that's gonna be a fade. I want to go ahead and draw this ball, so I'm gonna close it quite a bit. Let's overdo it. To start, I get in this elbows in front position, and then from there I'll release this club, let's say 45 degrees closed.

That's gonna be the first piece. Now, as I'm doing that, notice how that club, the shaft is pointing out to the. I don't wanna do this as I'm coming through and have the shaft to the left, I want to release that out to the right with a closed club face. That's the first piece. Second piece is I want my right elbow when I do that to be lower than my left elbow.

So I don't want to roll my body and do this and try to kind of stand up outta my posture to roll that club and now all of a sudden, my right. Is higher than my left elbow as I'm coming through. So that would be this, and then I kinda lose it and I stand up outta my posture. I don't wanna do that. I wanna go ahead and release this club, keeping my right arm under my left arm.

It feels a little bit unnatural when people do this at first, until they see how far they hit those draws. This is a very powerful position. Then you just release it on out there and that ball's gonna draw every single time. So let's go ahead and give it a whirl. I'm gonna go ahead and try to get that good release.

We just went. With that lag shallow position we went over in the beginning of the video, we're gonna pair both of these up.

There we go. Hit that one. Great. And I even overdid it there a little bit, talking about releasing that face a little too much and got a big draw. Totally fine. That's exactly what I want you to do at first. Then once you get those draws going, just back up off of it a little bit. Instead of closing the face, say 30 45.

We get it more toward that vertical straight shot like I was talking about there. Now this is exactly something that we teach in the top speed golf system. It's called the straight line release. Now that release that I just showed you there, being able to get this club lagging behind, get those elbows out, and then releasing it out in front is really one of the biggest keys to golf.

So many players try to hit at the golf ball, so even if they start with this good lag, They kind of stand up and try to hit at the ball rather than releasing through the ball and until you get releasing through the ball, it's just pretty daggon hard to do. Any of these moves that we're talking about, well, that's exactly what I talk about in the straight line release of top speed golf, and specifically the hammer throw.

You want the golf swing to be a throw and not a hit. So if you go to the instruction tab, if you remember a top speed golf, click on the instruction tab, click into the top speed golf system, and then the straight line release. Now don't skip. As you work through this video 2.1, the hammer throw and I talk about how once we get in this position, like we're talking about here with it button into the club, into the belly button of the person, we're gonna get those elbows in this position, and then we're gonna throw that club out in front.

Once you get the timing of that, it is so easy to hit draw after draw after. For the swing to fill, completely synced up for its people. Completely natural, because the golf swing is just a throwing action that's simply put. You throw the club through the golf ball, the golf ball just gets in the way.

That's exactly how it happens. So head on over to two, video 2.1 right now. Check that out. It's gonna pair up exactly what, what we talked about here today, and you're gonna play some great golf. I'll see you soon.