Why You Need This: In this video, you'll get a great drill to increase swing speed.

First, you'll see what you absolutely don't want to do...

Gripping the club way too tight with your right hand destroys your swing speed...

And it causes you to cast the club and push it through contact.

To increase your swing speed, relax the right hand grip a bit...

And let the club accelerate so fast that your right hand will have trouble hanging on.

Grabbing on tight with the right hand is common for most of us...

So it's going to take some work to train yourself not grip the club too hard.

I have a great drill to help you get the correct feeling and increase swing speed.

I want you to practice with your left arm only.

This may seem extreme, but it's a great way to break the habit of squeezing too hard with your right hand.

Start the drill by gripping up on the club about five inches with your left hand...

And feel like you're holding on with your bottom three fingers.

Get a little bend in your legs during the downswing and rise up as your club releases.

Here's an extra tip...

As you begin the downswing, bow your left wrist a bit.

This will help square up your clubface for more consistent ball striking.

Now, start hitting some balls with the one arm drill, letting the club accelerate through contact.

Put in a hundred reps...

Then add your right hand on the club.

As you make a normal swing, you should start to rely less on your right hand.

Watch this video now to discover a great drill for increasing your swing speed!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:05

Video Transcription:

Hi guys. One of the worst things we can do in our golf swing is really holding on tight with the right hand, it’s going to cause us to start casting, it’s going to start us pushing the club through contact.

If we swing properly the club should be accelerating so quickly, the shaft should be accelerating so quickly that we really can’t even hold on with the right hand. We’re just staying nice and loose with the right hand, to let that club accelerate away from our body.

Now if we’re grabbing on tight, most of us are right-handers, right hand dominant, we really want to hold this club with the right hand, we’re going to lose a lot of swing speed.

So let’s go over a great drill that’s going to help you to build in the proper swing. I’m going to show you how to get this nice, free-flowing finish also as a good byproduct to this.

What I want you to do is go ahead and grab a middle iron, I have an 8 iron here. You can use any club in your bag from a 6 iron all the way to a pitching wedge, would be good clubs to practice with.

We’re going to take it just with our left hand, and we’re going to grip up on the club a good four or five inches. This is going to help us to get a little bit more control as we’re swinging back and through. It’s going to make this easier to happen.

Now as we swing this golf club, what should be happening if I go ahead and grip up on the club here, what should be happening is as I make my downswing, my butt end of the club – this makes it easy to see.

I’m obviously not going to be holding up here when I’m making a swing – but the butt end of the club here is actually working up as the head of the club is working down.

That creates something that we call impact glide, or a flat spot in your swing, meaning that the club’s going to be coming down as this butt end of the club starts to turn up, the shallow, the arc of the swing shallows out where it’s almost perfectly level with the ground.

Which means I could take two golf balls here, and I could hit this back golf ball and it’s coming in so shallow that would be nice and clean. Or if that back golf ball wasn’t there, I could come all the way up into this front golf ball and it would still be kind of a decent shot, because my club is coming in so shallow.

Almost like you’re taking – if you look at the pros out there hitting shots – it’s like they’re taking a razor blade and just slicing the top layer of the turf off there. That’s exactly what we want to have happen. If we don’t use this left hand properly, it’s impossible to make that happen.

The left hand, especially the bottom three fingers of the left hand, have to be working back up as the club works down to get that flat spot. That’s what’s also going to help the club to accelerate on around.

What’s the force of the direction you’re putting some pressure into this club, as we’re coming through contact because we have some lag previous to contact, my hand is going to be actually moving back up this way. That happens from my hip and my left leg, I’m going to feel like my hips are extending.

So here’s some leg bend, and then my hips extend. That’s going to cause my hips to move up. My shoulders, because they’re rotating around in an arc, this left shoulder which is connected to my left hand is going to be moving back up. Then my left hand is just staying along for the ride.

You may have a little bit of a feeling of ulnar deviation, which is this club moving down this way, you have a little bit of a sensation of that. But really the hands aren’t doing too much. We’re not trying to guide or steer this club with our hands.

If I can do that, my left hip, my left shoulder, and the butt end of the club are all moving up, that’s going to allow that club to whip through contact because I have this lag and then I’m letting go of that lag.

When I add the right hand on there, it’s adding some speed back here, but it’s not taking over the swing. A great byproduct from this is my swing will now be very long. Since I’m letting this momentum of the club swing on through, you’ll see all this extension I get out here.

As I come up, if I was in a room with a nine-foot-tall ceiling, my club would be poking right into the ceiling there. That’s a great way to swing and to feel the momentum of the club coming on through.

We’re going to practice this by again, gripping up on the club a good four or five inches, feeling like I’m holding the club with my bottom three fingers. As I’m making my downswing, I’m going to feel a little bit of bend in my legs, and then as I come on through, I’m going to feel those legs straightening up.

So since this is moving up, you can imagine this is kind of a shoulder hinge point here, that’s moving up as my club releases, that’s going to allow it to be nice and shallow with the ground.

One last tip here as we’re working on this. As you start down, get this left wrist to begin to bow a little bit. That’s going to pre-square the club face.

So the club face starts to square up back here, and then it’s going to release as I’m coming all the way on through and it gets very easy to do this. Now let’s start out with just some little 20 or 30-yard shots, and we can gradually go farther and farther.

The ones you’re seeing me hit on the screen, those are going to be almost 120 or 130-yard shots, I think I have a 6 iron in that video. Here I have my 8 iron, but I’m just letting that hinge happen, I’m letting this club accelerate on its own, and I can make those nice, solid shots practicing just with the left hand.

Now once we’ve done that about 100 times, both practice swings and hitting some balls, let’s go ahead and add the right hand on there. We’re going to go back to the end of the club now, and then we’re going to make our full swing where we’re getting some lag.

The right hand does add a little bit of speed, but then we’re going to let that go to a nice, full, long-flowing follow through. That’s going to really help you guys with distance.