Why You Need This: Today, you'll finally "Stop Coming Over the Top!  Drill to Fix Your Downswing & Slice"

What if I told you that this one "Stick Drill" will...

...end your "over the top" swing path (you'll start coming from the inside)...

...help you keep your head behind the ball...

...make you stay in posture (stop standing up in the downswing)...

...force your hips open in the downswing...

...and...

...basically, make it impossible NOT to have a nice spine tilt away from your target?

You see, ALL of these things are important in the downswing (for consistency)...

...but let's be honest, you don't have time to think about all of this.

Once you master the "Stick Drill", you'll be doing all of this naturally!

I can't wait to help you get started today...

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:33

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: Have you been really sick and tired of you’ve tried all the drills out, and you just can’t keep from coming down a little bit steep, a little bit right to left or over the top?

Well, I have a great drill that I’m going to break down for you that really helps you to get this feeling of coming from the inside.

It actually makes it where it’s dag-gone near impossible to not get the right feeling from coming inside. It’s also going to tell you how to properly rotate your body open.

So if you find yourself kind of standing up and flipping at it, your hips aren’t opening, you’re losing your posture, it’s going to be fantastic for that, too.

Let’s jump right in, I can’t wait to show it to you.

Now here’s a great drill I have where you can just grab a golf club. What you’re going to do, is you’re going to set up to the golf ball, an imaginary golf ball here, you’re not going to be hitting this one at first.

So I’m going to take my stance, and then I’m going to put a club straight up and down in line with my right foot.

Now from here, I’m going to take my left arm, keep it straight, and have it like this. What golfers do that come from the inside, is that they get their club rotating into this gap.

You kind of imagine this big gap here. If I was going to come over the top, I’d be kind of hitting into my hand. So I have this space from the inside that I’m going to rotate into, and when I rotate open, I’m actually going to keep my left shoulder in place.

You’ll see that when I come over the top, my left shoulder would be pulling back this way. I’m going to keep my left shoulder stable, that’s going to force me to come from the inside and get the feeling of turning into my body.

So when I do this properly, and there would be impact, you’ll notice how my left shoulder or my left bicep kind of gets cinched into my left pec. So it’s almost like I’m turning my body into this left arm.

I’m coming from the inside, it forces me, there’s really no way for me to come over the top unless you let this shoulder move out of the way.

So as long as I keep this shoulder still, I’m going to rotate into my left arm, I’m going to be coming down from the slot.

Now there’s another great thing that this drill helps with. When I’m coming over the top, what’s going to happen is, I’m going to tend to slide in front of this.

So if you imagine there’s a vertical line coming up from the center of my ankle. Let’s actually imagine a big wall here from the outside of my ankle.

Well, if you’re coming over the top, if you’re getting steep, a lot of times what would be happening is you’re sliding forward and your body’s going to be bust through that wall.

When I put this club here, and I keep my arms still, I rotate into it, now all of a sudden it keeps my head behind the golf ball. That is so important.

When your head’s behind the golf ball, you can get from the inside, you can have the club come in from the slot and man, it makes it so much easier to do all these things that we’re talking about. Even to stay in your posture a little bit better.

Now, when I slide forward, my spine angle instead of being a little tilted back, my head behind the ball, tends to get a little tilted forward like that. I chop down into it.

In fact, I measured 50 Major winners on the PGA Tour, from past and present. I found that the average angle of their spine at impact was about 20° tilted away from the target when they’re coming into contact.

Now most golfers that I see, their spine angle’s almost vertical. So again, as long as I have my left arm still here and I rotate into it, it forces me to stay behind the golf ball.

If I shift forward, now all of a sudden my left arm moves and you’ll notice that right away, because this club will kick forward.

If this club doesn’t move, I can rotate into impact and I’m going to be in a great position to deliver the ball really square like the pros do.

Now there is one mistake that I see with this. A lot of times when players do this drill they simply go like this and they just move their arm.

You notice how my hips aren’t moving, my chest isn’t moving, nothing’s really loading up or turning through.

Now the key with this drill, is as you’re making your downswing, I’m starting with my hips. So again, if you imagine my hips are here, my arm is there, I’m turning my hips into my arm.

If I have my chest here, I’m turning my chest into this arm. So the arm stays still, and my body rotates into it.

You’ll even notice as I do this, that my right heel turns off the ground a little bit. You’ll notice that my hips feel like they’re rotating into that.

My belt buckle is kind of facing toward my arm if I was looking at it here, and if I looked at my shirt buttons, it would be rotating to where I feel like I’m pressing my shirt buttons against my left arm, also.

That’s getting you in a perfect position to realy knock out all the big keys and to stay in your posture. If I’m standing up, then I’m not rotating and nothing’s going into my arm. It’s all just going forward this way.

If I stay in my posture, I’m rotating through it. So really, this drill is fantastic to solve almost any problem that you’re going to have that we’ve addressed.

Now when we’re doing this, we talked a lot about how to get from the slot from the inside, how to rotate into that arm in the downswing, but again, if you don’t load up it doesn’t make any difference.

So if I’m just taking my arm and I’m just kind of flinging it back and then I rotate into my body, yeah, that’ll get me in a great impact position, but I won’t have any power at all.

Now the key to this is, when you rotate back go ahead and feel like this right shoulder goes behind your left shoulder.

Feel like you’re just opening up the whole right side of your body, really letting this go back and around. Now you’ve really, really loaded up. If you need to, go ahead and let this leg straighten a little bit to help aid with that turn.

Now, here’s the cool part. Now that I’m really loaded up, I can hit the heck out of this golf ball and be in a great impact position from this drill that we’ve worked on here today.

When you put those two things together, that’s when you’re going to have this consistency from the technique and the fundamentals that we talked about with this drill, and the power that you have from really loading up.

Now one of the most common things that I hear players say is, well Clay, I’m not that flexible. I can’t make that big turn. If I make a big turn, I’m going to hit it all over the place.

Hey, I’m right there with you. That’s what I thought for years, and for years, I hit it probably, let’s see, on average about 12 miles an hour slower than I do now.

So now I swing 12 miles an hour faster, which is roughly 30 yards farther off the tee. Not only with the driver, but with the irons, too. I’ve lost zero accuracy as I’ve done this.

The biggest key for me to do this is what I call the Power Turn in the Top Speed Golf System. Before, in the old days, what I would do is I would make a short swing and I would get into this great position that we talked about here today.

I had this part nailed, and I would make this short, compact swing. I’d hit it OK, decent, and fairly straight, but I didn’t have the power that the guys that were beating me were having.

Once I learned to load up my body, then I was able to add the power to it. These two things go together hand in hand.

Once you do the stick drill that we talked about here today, and you pair that up with a big turn, that’s when you’re going to be somebody that everybody wants on their team.

So once you get done with this video, head over to the Power Turn section of the Top Speed Golf System. That’s where I’m going to walk you through if you’re not that flexible.

If you haven’t been able to make that big turn. How you can have the results that I’ve had, and I’ve seen thousands of golfers from all over the world have, where once they learn the right way to turn and how to do it, man, they’ll never go back to that shorter, compact, tight, quick swing again.

Even if they hit it straight, it’s not going to be that fast, not going to be that solid. So I can’t wait to share some of the secrets with you there.

Head over to the Power Turn after this video, and let’s go ahead and get started.