Why You Need This: Today, you'll get "One Simple Trick to Fix Your Backswing for Good"

While what happens at impact ultimately decides how well you hit the ball...

...there are things you can do in your backswing that can sabotage your impact position.

Today's video will help you understand what these hurtful moves are...

...and will give you a simple "Lawnmower" drill to make sure you're setting yourself up for a successful impact with the ball!

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:35

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: Now I bet I know exactly what you’re going through. When you make your backswing, that club tends to go to the inside, stand up out of your posture, and then from there it feels like it’s all arms and hands as we lose our posture, our hips kind of go toward the ball, and it’s a little bit of a flip.

That could be really, really frustrating. That’s kind of this move where everything kind of levels out and then throws it at the ball. Even though that went fairly straight, it was very thin and probably 40 yards short of where I should normally be hitting it.

Now, what do we want to do in the backswing? Well, I want to load up really powerfully. I want to feel like I stay in my posture so as I rotate I’m staying down on the ball.

That way when I’m coming in my downswing, I can have a lot of lag, a lot of forward shaft lean, and stay in my posture as I compress through this golf ball.

That’s really what you’re seeing all the pros doing, and I’m going to give you one very quick, very simple drill to get that exact same feeling in your own swing.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so this is what I would call a Lawn Mower Drill. You may have heard of the Lawn Mower Drill before, but you probably never heard of it like this.

So what I’m going to do is I’m going to grab an alignment stick and when I set up to this golf ball, I’m going to imagine like I’m loading up with my left hand like I’m going to start a lawn mower, like one of the old-school, you know you pull the string to get the lawn mower to start.

So as I’m in my posture here, let’s go to the top of the swing. As I’m in my posture, if I was to reach out like this, that’s really going to ensure that I turn my shoulders and that I stay down.

Then from there, I’m going to kind of feel OK, where would I need to be grabbing if I was going to imagine this is the lawn mower string and I want to pull it right out of the handle of the lawn mower.

Let’s go ahead and set this on the ground, kind of like that. You don’t even have to use this stick if you don’t want to, this is just a visual to kind of feel this.

What I would imagine here is I’m going to set up to this golf ball. I’m going to stay in my posture. A great way to do this is to put your arms out. As you rotate, you can see where my shoulders are tilted, I’ve stayed in my posture.

Now a big thing for distance, really, really big, is that I have to let my hips turn. I can go ahead and loosen this left leg up if you’re not very flexible. I let my hips turn, and from there, I’m going to imagine that my shoulders are really loading up and rotating.

Now if I’m reaching out to grab that lawn mower string, that’s kind of like this alignment stick here. That’s my backswing.

Now as I make my downswing, all I’m going to do is go ahead and pull that string on the same line as my shoulders. My shoulders are tilted, I’m going to stay tilted in the downswing, and I’m going to pull this way.

So I’ve reached to grab the string in the backswing, and then I’ve pulled that string out of the ground really rotating on through in the follow through. It’s just like a reach, grab, and then pull everything on through. That’s really what the golf swing is.

I’m going to do that same feeling here as I make my backswing. Once really slow, so you can see it. So the backswing is going to be that reach and pull, that same feeling although my arms are going to be moving back now, it’s my shoulder.

Almost another way to envision this is imagine there’s a string tied to your left shoulder, and as you go into the backswing, that’s going to be attached to that lawnmower string and you’re going to pull with this left shoulder, pull the string with your body.

So two great visuals there to really get loaded up, stay in our posture, and get a whole heck of a lot of power in your backswing.

Ooh, I couldn’t have hit that one any better. Just barely left of the flag.

Now that’s going to solve the majority of the problems in your backswing. You’re not going to suck it to the inside anymore, because that would level out the shoulders.

You’re not going to stand up out of your posture, because you wouldn’t be able to reach that shoulder down if you did that.

Then also, in the downswing it’s going to keep you feeling very powerful by opening the body. Remember if I’m going to pull that string out of there, I have to open my body to make that happen.

Now there’s one problem with this. Almost every single player that I see, as they get in good posture, as they start to open up their body by feeling like they pull that lawn mower string in the downswing, they tend to have that face wide open.

When you have this face open like that, the obvious thing that’s going to happen is you’re going to hit it a mile to the right.

Now what you need to pair with this is the move to square the face. Quite frankly, this is really never taught to most golfers.

If you listen to all the pro golfers, what do they all talk about doing first? What do they learn to do first before they tie it all in together?

They say, I always battled with the snap hook. I always battled really releasing the face and hitting that quick, low hook.

Now, with most golfers that I see, it’s not that quit low hook that gives them the problem. It’s that kind of flippy, scooped up in the air, float one. Even if it doesn’t go very high, it doesn’t have a lot on it. It just kind of floats up there.

I want to teach you what I call “pro problems.” I want you to have the same problems that the pros have, which means that I’m going to get you to over-shallow out the club.

Get the club way from the inside, really in the slot here, and then square that face up so that you get every single ball turning over from right to left.

They’re going to come out hot. They’re going to come out really compressed, and that’s what I call The Move.

It’s one of the easiest ways to really start compressing the golf ball. So what you’re going to do is go ahead and go to the Top Speed Golf System.

After you get into the System, click on The Move section. Then from there, follow just a handful of drills that you’ll work through.

In this series, I’m going to teach you how to shallow it. I’m going to teach you how to over-compress it, and get those pro problems again.

So now that you’re loading up with that Lawn Mower Drill, you’re staying in posture, you feel more powerful, you’re not going to get those weak ball flights.

You’re going to improve your speed, then you’re going to really compress it or really hit it nice and solid. Always have it turning it over.

I can’t recommend this enough. It’s going to really be something that you look back on and think Man, I’m glad I did that, it was really a turning point in my game.

We’ve had just tons of success with it. So best of luck, I can’t wait to see you in The Move section. Let’s go ahead and get started.