Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "My Legitimate Best Shallowing Tip of All-Time"

If you've tried everything you can to shallow the golf club...

...but just haven't been able to pull it off.

Then today's lesson could very well be the missing piece you've been searching for...

...as you'll get my best shallowing tip of all-time (and one you've likely never thought about)!

Finally get that club shallowed out and start consistently puring the ball!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:55

Video Transcription:

Now everybody wants to shout all this club out and get in the slot from the inside, but there's one problem. There's a big missing piece that you've probably never been told before, and that for years I didn't realize myself. Now when we come into contact, let's say we hit this ball perfectly flush, well, that means that the toe of my club isn't down or up like that.

And when I have that club perfectly flush on the ground, it makes an angle with this club shaft. So I could go ahead and get this perfectly flat on the ground like that and we could draw a red line up this club shaft angle and that would be my swing plane or roughly where I want this club to be. On that line or a little bit inside of that line.

I'll go over why in a minute. Now if I get a little bit steeper than this, so say my club comes in at this angle, you'll notice how now the club. The heel of the club gets lifted up off the ground. And what that would do if we turn it this way is the sweet spot of the club would be moved higher off the ground.

You're gonna hit dag on there, everything thin. Or like most people, they feel like they have to have that ball setting up on a nice fluffy lie to hit it solid. If it's on a bare lie or bare dirt, you really struggle. Well, this is gonna solve that, so I wanna get this club on that line, or preferably a little bit inside that line.

Now here's the reason why. Let's imagine I take this club with just a couple fingers, uh, three fingers, my thumb and two fingers there, and I'm gonna swing this. I'm gonna get this club outside or steeper than that line. And if I was to come down to try to hit this golf ball, if you make a little practice swing like that, it's almost impossible to get everything to square up.

The club's wanting to feel like it flies in this way. The faces wanting to open up like that. You end up having to raise your hands up. All these compensations. Well, that's exactly what's happening with most golfers. We get the club a little bit steep outside here, and then we have to stand up out of our shot, raise our hands and flip at it.

That's why you see most golfers with the toe down as they come into contact. Now, I've got a little, uh, what's called a divot board here that's gonna gimme perfect feedback for that kind of, that kind of, uh, contact, uh, in the ball. So what I wanna actually see here is a nice square divot. As I hit this golf ball.

So on the first one I'm actually gonna stand up steep like that and we're gonna see what that looks like. So here's the steep club. Well, I picked that one up off the ground. It was so hard for me to hit. I couldn't even take a divot. Let's go ahead and try one more here that I don't fend, but I get a little bit steeper there like that and we can see how that's exactly what's gonna happen when I hold this divot board up.

When I'm looking down at this, I see the toe of the club entered the board first. That means the toe of my club is down like this. Then my heel came into the the board later, and I also haven't hit it off the toe because I lost all feeling of where the club is. It's just hard to know where the club is when you're swinging steep like that.

So let's throw it down here again and we'll see that when we make a good swing. When I let that club shallow out from the inside, now I'm on that red line or below it, I can take just two fingers again, swing down and, oh, that actually feels like a golf swing. The club's wanting to kick forward this way.

I'm allowed to rotate through there. The face is wanting to turn on over, so if I shower that out, it's easy to swing well, because now the momentum of the club is doing the same thing that I want the momentum of the club to do. So here, let me shower this out. I'll make a nice swing here and we'll see if we can get the heel down a little bit or the, the contact perfectly flat on this divot board.

There we go. And I hit that one. Fantastic. And that's exactly what we're seeing on this divot board when I hold it up. I even got a little heel down first, and then the toe came in, but that's, That was very close to being perfectly flat. Something if it looked like this with a perfectly square contact, that would be a flat divot like that.

If it was like, uh, this, that would be heel first contact. So the more square I can make this. It's hard to do with just my finger, the better the contact is. Now that one may have been a hair off the toe, but I, I mean, that was pretty daggone pure. I hit that one nice and solid. So with this divot board, there'll be a link below this video if you want to pick one of these up.

You can also just look at divots on the driving range. Now if you purchase from that link, that button you see on this video, whatever you see. We do get a few bucks, uh, from the company. The DIT board company helps us to make more great videos and put out more great content like this. But like I said, you don't have to have this.

It's just a pretty nice to have tool. I use this thing all the time and I really like it. So once we do that, now let's work on how do we get that club shallowed out from the inside? Well, a big piece of it now is I realize I'm swinging down at contact. I need this shaft lower. So I almost imagine like there's a plane of glass here, flatter.

And as I swing, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna feel like my hands go bla below that plane of glass. And as I do that, my club head goes below that plane of glass. As that happens, my palm of my hand would be up like that as I come through. And that'll really get me below. So here, I'm gonna even exaggerate that a little bit and I'm gonna see if I can get the heel down a little bit on this one.

To exaggerate the feeling on this. There we go. Another one that felt amazing. And again, I did get the heel slightly down to where it's contacting first and then the toes coming out there on it. So that was a really great shot for what I had intended. And this result where it overdrew a little bit is a perfect result for what I'm working on.

Cause as I get that down more from the inside, I'm gonna tend to have a little bit more of a draw, which is fantastic. That's what most players. Should wanna have a little bit extra that have that draw that happens every single time. Now if you wanna pick up one of these boards, I think it is so beneficial.

Not only does it work on heel down, toe down, so shallowing out that club. It also works. I'm gonna get my weight shift and my hands leading in front. It's gonna tell me if I make that dividend front way up in front like that, or it's gonna tell me if I back out, my weight falls back and I flip, and I get the divot way back there.

So it gives you fantastic feedback. On where you're making contact, whether or not you're shallowing it or you're steeping it, it gives you fantastic feedback. If I hit it off the toe or the heel, all kinds of good stuff from this very simple training aid. It's really, really good for that. Now, the perfect series to match up with what we talked about here today is what I call the move, and that's gonna build on the foundation, the fundamentals that we did here.

So once you finish this one, go ahead and go over the instruction tab, go to the top speed golf system, and then the move. And in there I'm gonna tell you not only how to shower that club up, but how to release that club the right way like the pros are doing so that it always turns over from right to left.

Just like we saw with that shot. I can't wait to share it with you. Get your divot board head on over the move section and I'll see you there.