Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Is This the Perfect Backswing Drill?"

I've got a fantastic drill that’ll help you streamline your backswing, perfect your swing plane, and improve your downswing.

To start, imagine gripping your club–by the head!

It sounds weird, I know, but It forces you to use the big muscles in your body to rotate, adding much-needed distance to your shots…

And you’ll avoid the dreaded hand-arm pickup.

No more struggling with casting, creating lag, lack of body turn, or inconsistent release patterns… just pure, efficient golf swings!

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:33

Video Transcription:

I've got a fantastic drill for you to iron out your back swing, get perfectly on plane, and also get the feel for the downswing too. We're gonna start out by just gripping the club up by the head here and put it to the side of your body. Now this is gonna kind of simulate you notice how the, the shaft is leaning forward.

That's about where I want the shaft lean when I'm addressing an iron shot. So a few degrees tilted forward like that. Now as I come back, I'm gonna go ahead and make my swing to here. By rotating my body. So you can see how my right knee starts to come back. My hip starts to open up a little bit, and I'm really using the big muscles of my body to rotate.

And that's so important because if you want to have distance, we don't wanna pick the club up with our hands and arms. And if I did that, you'd notice how this club would immediately come off the side of my body and you'd see how my body isn't rotating at all. If I keep the club on the side of my body, the only way to move it back.

Would be to rotate. So this forces you to rotate to get the back swing. And you can almost imagine if there's a laser shooting outta this club, it would be tracing the target line on the way back, and I'm gonna rotate till I get it about 45 degrees in my shoulders. Then I can start to let it come off my body.

So it's a great way, again, just to iron out a lot of things in there. Get the big pieces moving like you need to if you're gonna play good golf. From there, I'm gonna go ahead and let that come off. The club is then gonna point kind of halfway back to the butt end of the club pointing to the golf ball As I go all the way back to about here, three quarters of the way back, hands about shoulder height, I wanna have it pointing down to the target line and then I can eventually go to the top of the swing, uh, where again, it's gonna be tracing all the way back.

Just go as much as you can, depending on how flexible you are now in the downswing, but do a little squat and turn, move. And again, this is gonna help me to get a ton of lag. To where, what I wanna feel like is my weight shifts to the left. I let my body kinda, my knees come out a little bit wider. My chest is gonna feel like it's going down to the ground.

That's that squat move, and that's mostly to keep me in the posture. A lot of people think that they need to squat and then jump up into the air. You don't really have to do that. You're just trying to squat down so that you can stay in your posture. So I'm doing this little squat move. My hips are opening.

But the key here is I wanna feel like this butt into the club stays pointing down at the target line anywhere in here, but I'm gonna keep it pointing back as far as I can. You see most players, when they start their downswing, what ends up happening is they start this downswing move and the club immediately starts pointing back up here somewhere.

That would be me casting and losing lag. That would be me, um, coming over the top with this right shoulder. So again, by just having this one key, you're gonna be able to feel like I go ahead and squat, rotate my body open, and I'm feeling like the butt in the club is staying back as far this direction as I can, as late as I can in the swing.

Then from there, I'm gonna rotate to impact my right heel comes off the ground, club's against the side of my body here. And again, that would simulate having Shaft lane at impact. And then as I come all the way on through, instead of flipping my hands and smacking myself on the side, yes, there will be a little bit of the release of the wrist like that, but instead of doing that, what I want to feel like as I go ahead, this is a very foreign feeling to most people, but I wanna get that club to release this way.

Almost like the club's turning that way and releasing, or if I'm going from this direction, there's impact as I come on through the club's doing this. Almost like a little, like I'm waving my hand this way, that direction versus flipping in this direction, smacking into my side. So shuffling and impact, and then from here, I'm letting it rotate on around by doing that rather than flipping like that.

So if you're casting, it helps with that. If you're not turning your body, this drill helps with that. If you need more lag, it helps with that. If you need to rotate better through impact and clear the body, well, you have to do that. Or the club's gonna smack into your side. It's gonna help with that. And then finally helps teach you the release.

So let's go through it one more time and kind of hit these key checkpoints. I know I covered a lot there, but it's really pretty simple. Step number one, put the club against your side. It's gonna simulate a really good address position. I'm holding it almost down here by the head. Number two, I turn my shoulders to 45 while keeping the club on my body.

Number three, I go ahead and then let the club set and I let the butt end of the club trace the target line on the way back. As I start down, I squat and rotate open, trying to keep this pointy this direction as long as I can. Four, go to impact shaft lean. Again, body's rotated. Open. Five. I'll let the club release this way versus that way.

And that's really gonna iron out a lot of the key checkpoints in your swing. Now I'm just gonna do that four or five times, get the feel for it, and I'm gonna repeat the same kind of feelings now making a full swing. Let's give it a shot.

There we go. Not gonna hit one lump than that. I'm here with my new Mevo Plus of the Pro package. I really like this device. Much more affordable than most of the launch monitors. And hey, I hit some good positions there. Hit a nice one. Now, one of the things that's really tough is I mentioned that you wanna shallow this out to be able to hit these solid shots.

So as you start your transition, you wanna feel like the club is pointing down the target line and you have this nice shallow angle so that the club's lined up before you wanna hit it. Now, unfortunately, most players are way too steep and it's actually not for the reason that you think it is. You see, it's more face alignment.

So if I grab my little alignment stick here, uh, snap it onto the face to tell you where the face is pointing, you'll notice that if I get steeper, it closes the face. This is pointing more down to the ground. Uh, that would be the same as if I'm at impact that closes the face and points it more to the left.

Open face would be more over here to the right. So if I'm steeper, it closes the face. If I'm shallower, it opens the face. Now you see most people. Don't know how to get shallow and still square up the face through contact. And a lot of it has to do with what I call your natural wrist position. Now, everybody's wrist mobility is a little bit different, and if you're like me, you have to tweak your grip so it matches your natural wrist flexibility with being able to square up that face and until you do that, it's just really hard to get in the positions that are nice and shallow with a face, a square face like all the pros are getting into.

And if we can't do that, It's basically impossible to play great golf and make golf easy. Once you learn how to do that, very, very easy, very efficient, because the club's already swinging down on playing. I just have to keep it going and square up the face like I'm gonna teach you. So if you're a member, top speed golf.

Click on the instruction tab, click on the 20 minute Showering Fix. You can also click on the top Speed golf system and then click in the 20 minute Shallowing Fix there. And with that course, I'm gonna show you how to get your natural wrist position. I'm gonna show you how to square that club face up.

Every single time you want, you go through that course and in a single rain session, you're gonna hit the most solid shots of your life and you're gonna shallow out the club guaranteed. So head on over there. Now you just do this one single rain session and it's gonna fix all of it for you. We've had tremendous results with it, and I don't want you to miss out on all the great results that so many players are having.

Best of luck and I'll see you in the 20 minute showering fix.