Why You Need This: In this video, you'll discover how to stop casting and start crushing the ball.

The video takes a close look at Top Speed Golf student Cliff's swing...

...to demonstrate what's happening when you cast.

You'll also get some great tips to get rid of casting once and for all...

And to get more lag and hit with more distance.

First, you'll notice how Cliff is coming out of his posture a bit.

To combat this, feel like your left shoulder is going down while your right shoulder is going up.

Also, in the backswing, make sure you get the weight on the inside of your right foot.

This will help you load up for more power in the downswing.

In the video, you'll see a great clip of Rory McIlroy's swing to demonstrate the shoulder steepness...

And how I want you to properly shift your weight.

Next, make sure you don't push out your right hand at the start of the downswing.

In Rory's swing, you'll see how his club flattens out a bit which allows him to whip his club through impact with tons of speed.

In summary,

1. Backswing: make sure you maintain your posture, keeping your shoulders at a steep angle and transfer your weight to the inside of your right foot.
2. Downswing: let your club flatten out a bit and get your right elbow closer to your side.

For All Access Members, make sure you check out the following videos...

1.2 Easy Golf Lag Drill: Stick Behind the Ball

2.2 How to Increase Club Head Speed | Whip the Club Like a Clothes Hanger!

Watch this video now to stop casting and start crushing the ball!

Golf Pros Featured: Rory McIlroy    

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:28

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back to Top Speed Golf. In today’s video we’re going to take a look at one of the members of the website’s, Cliff’s swing, and offer a few suggestions for those of you who may be struggling casting the club. You know you’re not getting the distance that you like.

I’m going to give you a few tips that are really going to help you to get rid of that cast once and for all. Start compressing the golf ball, and we’re also going to talk about a couple key moves that Rory McIlroy does to get a lot of speed.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so to start out let’s go ahead and take it to the top of the swing here. We’re going to see as he goes to the top, good full shoulder turn. Really feeling like you’re loading up as you’re going back.

We can see how the shoulders have turned past 90°, that’s really good. The hips are rotating here which is really, really nice. One thing that you could work on to get you to stay in your posture a little bit more, is we can see here, he’s kind of standing up a bit. The shoulders are a bit level with the ground.

If we want to stay in a little bit better posture and really feel like you’re loading up more is to get this left shoulder to feel like it’s going down like this.

The right shoulder’s going to feel like it’s up higher, and then you’re going to be a little bit more in your posture kind of tilted down instead of the shoulders leveling out a little bit like we can see there. That’s really going to help you to stay in your posture as you’re going back.

Also, one little small thing here that’s going to help with that, is to feel like you get a little more weight on the inside of the right foot. We can see how this right hip is kind of bumping back a little bit too much toward the target which is causing him not to get as fully loaded on the right side as he could.

What we really want to do here, get those shoulders a little bit steeper, a little bit more tilted, and a little bit more weight on the inside of the right foot is really, really going to help out to get loaded up.

Now you could imagine if you want to get more of a normal feeling, maybe like you’re loading up like you’re going to throw a football, and you’re loading up on that right side, and then boom. You’re going to let it go.

If we compare this with Rory McIlroy, we’ll go ahead and scroll over to the other side of the screen here. Let’s take a look at Rory as he turns all the way to the top. We’re going to see that those shoulders are a little bit steeper and a little bit more weight on the right side, the inside of the right foot.

So let’s go ahead and take it to there. I’m going to mark the left shoulder socket and the right shoulder socket. You can see how there’s a difference between the height of those.

You can physically see the weight on the inside of the right foot, whereas if we go back here, we’re going to see that the left shoulder socket and the right shoulder socket much flatter and not quite as much weight on the right foot.

Now the next piece that I’d recommend working on, is something that’s very, very common. I see almost everybody struggling with this. As you’re coming down, what’s happening is we’re pushing with this right hand, kind of pushing the club out this way, the right elbow flies out away from the body.

So we can definitely as you’re starting down how the right elbow has some space between it and the side of the body. This is really putting some pressure with the right forefinger and the right thumb, starting to push this club away from the body to get a little bit of speed.

What we’d rather see here, is instead of this club coming down – I wish we had a down the line view also – but this club’s kind of steeper coming down like this. I’d like to see that club working more behind the shoulder.

If you look at the corner of your shoulder, it’s going to flatten out. The club’s going to kind of drop down this way to flatten out.

The club head, instead of pointing up more toward the sky, is going to be pointing more back here toward that tree behind you. That’s going to get that club to be in a much more lag position.

So if we go down, let’s go ahead and pause when the hands are about pocket height here. We can see there’s a little space, a little bit of daylight between the right elbow, and the right side of the body, and the club, as the hands are pocket height, the club’s already a little bit below parallel with the ground.

If we take a look at Rory in the same position here, let’s go ahead and start that downswing. We can see that when the hands are about pocket height, look how the right elbow is very close to the body, almost touching the right side of the body.

Then look at that difference in the angle of the club. His club is still way back up there when it’s pocket height, as he’s very much out wide. His club is also a little bit flatter there.

Notice how as he starts down that club’s almost dropping behind his body, more toward the fans that you would see kind of here behind him. So the club’s pointing kind of back at a 45° angle to really help that to happen.

That’s going to get you in a position to where now we’ve got all this built-up lag, now we can turn up this grip. The grip goes from facing down like this to facing back up.

That’s going to allow you to whip that club on through there with a lot of speed, whereas if we go back and compare the same position when the hands are at the same area, you can see that the club is already pointed up slightly.

Then as it comes on through, it’s going to go to where it’s pointed back even a little bit more, and that wrist kind of breaks down.

Those are the pieces that I would work on. Number one, making sure the shoulders get a little bit steeper going back, and a little bit more weight to the right side.

As you’re starting the downswing, really feel like you let that club get a little bit flatter, almost pointing more toward the trees back there. Get that elbow a little closer to your side, that’s going to help you to get more lag.

Then lastly, you can whip that club through there, because you’ll have more potential energy as you’re increasing lag in the downswing rather than letting it go a little bit early.

That will really help you out to get a lot more speed. Good luck. Work hard on those drills, and I’ll see you soon.

All right, so for those of you that are members, I’ve got two videos that I want you guys to watch that are really going to help you if you’re struggling with casting the club, you’re struggling not getting as much lag and releasing that as you’d want to.

Video number one is in the lag section, it’s video 1.2. So it’s level 1, video 2, and that’s the Stick Behind the Ball Drill. I’m going to give you a great drill that’s going to help you to increase your lag in the downswing, and really save it up until the last second.

Then to release that speed, we’re going to go to the Compression Line section in the Top Speed Golf System and watch video 2.2, which going to be how to whip the club through impact and release that lag in the Clothes Hanger Drill.

We’re actually going to talk a little more about Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Sam Sneed, all those great players and how to get that club to really whip through there.

So check out both those videos, that’s 1.2 in the Lag section, and 2.2 in the Compression Line, that’s really going to help you not only to get more lag, but then to release that lag and maximize your club head speed.

Good luck to you guys, I’ll see you all in those videos.