Why You Need This: In today's video I want to help you increase driver distance...

I find that this one issue tends to be such a common one throughout the golf world...

Many people will stand up in the downswing, and flip the club when they're coming through their shot instead of staying in their posture...

This goes hand in hand with "Lag", "Forward Shaft Lean", and releasing the club...

I'll do everything I can to help you get away from "flipping" in your swing...

Watch this video now to discover my cure for this common issue...

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:54

Video Transcription:

I have a very common video, people with struggle with this since a lot of times what I see people doing is standing up in the downswing, you feel like from your toes all the way up to your head you’re standing up, and then you’re flipping the club as you’re coming through.

So if we’re looking at this from the down the line view, instead of staying in my posture and releasing the club, a lot of times what happens is we’ll stand up out of the shot.

Now this goes hand in hand with lag, forward shaft lean, and releasing the club. As I start to stand up I get farther away from the ball.

So if you can imagine if I stay down in my posture, I’m coming into contact just like I would be hitting this driver, as I come into contact, I’m going to be staying down and through, and I can have lag and then release that lag with just a little bit of forward shaft lean as I’m hitting a driver.

So you want a couple degrees of forward shaft lean, even with a driver. Now let’s imagine that I stood up and got taller.

So instead of staying down and through, staying in my posture, now all of a sudden I’m standing up taller. Well now watch how I have to flip the club to be able to reach the golf ball.

Very, very common thing to do. A lot of times for power, people will feel like they need to stand up on their toes, all of a sudden I’ve lost all my posture, and hand in hand with that I’m flipping.

What I want you to do when you’re practicing this, is I want you to go ahead and work on exaggerating it for a couple of repetitions.

So as we’re coming into…let’s go ahead and scoot back where there’s no golf ball here, and as I’m coming into the shot what should be happening is my club should be working up and around my body as my club head, excuse me, the grip end, the butt end of my club should be working up and around, actually doing this as the club head itself is releasing down and away.

That creates a whipping action as we release that lag. I want you to go ahead and start in your downswing, and I want you to come down where you’re way too close to the ball.

So now much chest is feeling like t’s very close to the ground, my hands are way down here, very, very low, it’s obviously very exaggerated.

As you’re coming up, we’ve all heard of ground force reaction, I want you to drive that left ankle into the ground, and watch the butt-end of my club here.

It starts to work up and forward as my club head releases, and that allows me to whip this club through contact and get a lot of x-ray speed.

So we’re going to go ahead and do about 20-30 repetitions really exaggerating that. I’m getting to here, and then I’m driving with my left leg as my shoulders rotate up and through, my hip rotates up and through, that also allows me to release as I’m coming through there.

You’ll notice how much easier that is now to maintain lag and actually build lag as you’re in the downswing, and then let it go.

That’s happening a very small amount with all long hitters. So whether you’re watching Rory McIlroy, whether you’re watching Tiger Woods, whether you’re watching Bubba Watson, they’re all doing that to a smaller amount.

Once you get comfortable, let’s do another 20-30 repetitions just doing that a very small amount of the swing. So I’m feeling like I’m here, loading up into the legs, club is lagging, and now as I’m coming through the shot, this end is turning up as my club end is releasing.

So go ahead and do that another 20-30 times, get comfortable with that, then we’ll take it to the ball. I want you to work on these same things as you’re releasing the club.

All right, so now let’s go ahead and test it out on my flight scope. I’m going to make some swings, the first one I’m going to stand up.

Actually, the first one I’m going to hit solid, we’ll see how that one does, we’ll get a good reading on that. Then I’m going to stand up and flip, and we’re going to compare the two, and let’s put a real number and see what’s the difference in distance when we’re doing this.

All right, let’s go ahead and start out with the good one first. As I make my practice swing, I’m really going to get my hands low, my knees are bending, my legs are bending, to over exaggerate and then I’m driving into the ground with my left heel as I’m extending, so a bit of an exaggeration there.

We’re not going to do anything near that, but you’re really going to feel it in your glutes as you’re getting that ground force. Let’s try it out.

There you go, pretty solid shot, right down the middle. Let’s get the reading, we’ll do it the wrong way, let’s see the difference.

All right, so I did my best to try to flip, I really couldn’t get the flip as severe as what I see a lot of times, I’m just not used to really flipping the club and bending my left wrist, but I definitely lost on the second and fourth swing are the ones where I tried to stand up and flip.

I lost a couple miles an hour, two to three miles an hour. Very hard to hit it solid, that’s one thing that people underestimate about having forward shaft lean and lag, is that stabilizes the club because your hands are leading the way, just like you’re pulling a pull cart versus pushing a pull cart.

As my hands started to flip I felt like I lost all control of the face, I couldn’t tell where the club head was at all. And one of them hit 240 yards, 238, another one I hit 273, so that may be a very common thing that you have.

You have long drives, you have short drives, and you feel like you can’t be consistent. It’s not necessarily how much speed or how athletic you are, it has to do with the technique and the flipping, so that really hurt me there.

The ones that I hit with a better posture, having more forward shaft lean, having more lag in the downswing and releasing better, I didn’t hit those quite as solid as I would like, but I still averaged 293 and 290, 113.9 and 114.8 on the club head speed.

So much more consistent, I felt like I had more control of the head, and the biggest thing that I noticed is I could actually feel the head. When I flipped I lost all feel of the head.

When I had nice lag and forward shaft lean as I’m starting to come into the ball, I could feel completely where the head was.

So I think you guys will find the same things, go out there, work hard, I’ll see you all soon.