Why You Need This: In this video, you’ll discover why you should let go of the club for more distance.

This may sound a bit strange, but letting go is key for more club head speed.

In fact, if your right hand is too tight, it’s like you’re throwing the brakes on your swing speed.

Gripping the club too tightly with your right hand can cause you to push the club in the downswing and/or cause you to cast your club way early which kills your lag.

Now, imagine your club as a lever or a whip as the club is coming through impact.

The problem is that the club head is accelerating very quickly and the right hand really can’t keep up with the club.

So when you feel like your right hand is helping you accelerate the club through impact, it’s actually doing the opposite.

It’s preventing your club from whipping through contact like it should.

So, how do you fix this?

Well, I don’t want you to literally let go out and through your club down the fairway.

But you need to feel that your right hand is starting to let go.

You’ll even see pros let go.

Vijay Singh and Phil Mickelson let their trailing hands come off the club a bit after contact.

This helps them let the club swing through with speed.

The next part of the video explains what your left hand should do in the swing.

You'll see how your left wrist works as a hinge to let the club whip through contact with speed.

In the video, you’ll get a great one arm drill to help you ingrain the proper movements.

Watch this video now to whip through impact with tons of club head speed!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:42

Video Transcription:

Ha ha, whoa! I’m going to talk about why you do want to let go of the club to get more club head speed, and how if your right hand is tight into the downswing, you could be throwing the breaks on your swing speed. Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right guys, welcome back. Now this video’s going to be really crucial for those of you who feel like you get tight with your right hand, maybe you feel like you’re taking your right hand and pushing the club through impact.

If you’re casting, you’re probably using the right hand a little bit too much, that’s causing you to get rid of that angle of lag, and to start flipping through contact.

All these things are happening from being very tight with the right hand, having a little bit of a misconception of what should be accelerating the club through contact, and they’re all going to slow down your swing speed.

So when we have this idea that we really want to use the right hand, I did this for years when I first started playing golf, this is exactly what I thought.

If I get kind of lined up here, and I push the club forward with my right hand, my right hand’s obviously stronger than my left hand, I can really push it on down the fairway and get a lot of club head speed.

What happens is, as we’re coming through contact, if we have really good swing speed, let’s imagine like a PGA Tour player, a Jason Day, Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott, whoever you’d like. As they’re coming through contact, this club is accelerating very, very quickly.

With a driver it’s going over 120 miles an hour. What actually happens is, because your left hand is kind of at the end of this kind of lever or whip, however you want to visualize that, as the club’s coming through, it’s accelerating very quickly. The handle of the club’s accelerating very quickly.

So here’s my kind of lever, my angle, and then releasing that angle that I’m creating. Well my right hand really can’t keep up with this, the club is accelerating so fast my right hand can only really just kind of let go and feel like it aids and lets the club accelerate away from the body.

The right hand will work back here to start to accelerate the club while you still keep some lag, but then it wants to feel like it needs to let go as we’re coming through contact.

If you were to grip tight with your right hand, because the right hand physically can’t keep up with the acceleration of the club, it’s actually holding the club back. It’s actually keeping it from accelerating and kicking on through contact, and your swing speed will get lower and lower, so we need to loosen up the right hand.

You may notice this in players like Phil Mickleson, DJ Singh, Fred Couples, all those players, if you watch in their follow through, as they come through the shot, you’re seeing the right hand almost kind of come off the club like this. That is because of letting that club accelerate as they’re coming on through.

So now we know the right hand’s bad, we know we don’t want to push and be tight with the right hand, let’s talk about what we do want to do with the left hand, to help accelerate correctly and with the entire body for that matter. So as I’m coming through contact, I want to have a good angle of lag in my downswing.

Then from here, as I’m getting closer and closer to contact, I’m actually going to be feeling – they measure this in PGA Tour players now – but I’m going to be pulling up a little bit.

So if you can imagine my arm working up this way, because this club had some angle in it, as I start to pull up on this but end of the grip, my club wants to naturally accelerate to catch up with that.

I’m trying to get the angle to be up even a little bit back right as I’m coming in through contact, and that’s going t help my club to kick forward and accelerate with this. Now we’re going to feel this in these bottom three fingers of my left hand, especially the bottom two fingers of my left hand.

As I start my downswing, I’m going to feel like I get some good lag, my left wrist is starting to bow just a little bit, just starting to allow me to keep the lag. My club’s going to flatten out, I talk about that on the website.

If you’re an All Access Member and you’re following The Move series, very critical in getting a lot of lag, and then getting god club head speed. I go over that motion. But once we have that built up and we’ve got this good angle of lag.

Now from here, what’s happening is my left leg is posting into the ground. My hip is moving up, my left shoulder is starting to move up, that pulls my left arm up, and now because I’m feeling like I have a little bit of a hinge here with my bottom three fingers, that’s allowing this club to accelerate and whip on through contact.

What you could do if you want to feel this, go ahead and grab a club with just your left hand. Make some swings, and let that hinge freely and try to hit a few shots doing that.

You don’t want to control the club, don’t feel like you’re maneuvering with your hand, you’re just letting that hinging action accelerate the club. You’re going to be able to hit that ball with actually some decent swing speed as you’re doing that.

So go ahead and try out about 20 or 30 swings, feeling like you push down and out with this left leg. That’s going to move the hip up. The shoulder comes up, and then the club can whip on through there.

We’re going to do 20 or 30 of these, just with our left hand only and as you get more comfortable with that, we’re going to add the right hand on there. Now the right hand is going to feel like again, it’s letting go.

It’s going to feel very soft as we’re coming through contact. It does add a little speed back in here, but as we get to contact, when the club starts to accelerate so quickly that it runs away from the right hand, we don’t want to throw the breaks on it and hold it back.

We’re going to go ahead, let that club accelerate on through, we’re feeling like we’re actually pulling up and back as you’re coming through contact here. As a result, that club’s going to fly way away from your body as it accelerates, that’s where you’re going to get that long, flowing follow through.

It’s going to be very easy to do once we train this motion. So try that out, first we’re going to get lag. Then we’re going to feel like this butt end of the club is turning up, and we’re going to allow that club to release away from us.

So 30 practice swings with the left hand only, you can go ahead and even hit a few balls nice and easy as you’re doing this. Then once you get comfortable with that, we’re going to add the right hand on, feeling like it’s nice and soft as we’re coming through contact. You guys are going to be ripping that golf ball.