Why You Need This: Today you get some great tips on how to stop flipping and improve your golf consistency.

And we'll start by analyzing the swing of Top Speed Golf member John.

Now he's doing pretty well already...

He's about an eight handicap...

He's getting a pro-like turn (around 128 degrees)...

And he's driving the ball around 270 yards.

Not bad...

But he's looking for more consistency in his swing so he can get even better.

And you can benefit from this video too...

If you're looking to improve your consistency.

So check out this video now to learn how to hit the ball straight and hard, time and time again!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:57

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back to Top Speed Golf. Today we’re going to take a look at a member of the website’s swing. Doing a lot of things really well.

John is an 8 handicap here, average driving distance is about 270, so he’s got some pretty good power, but he’s missing a little bit of consistency.

So we’re going to talk about a couple that can help him to get more consistency in his game, get hitting it straighter, and some things that you guys can also incorporate in your own swing to get more consistent. Let’s go ahead and get started.

The first thing we’ll talk about here is the power turn. That just means that we’re going to load up and build some power, build some resistance in our body in the backswing.

We can see that as he turns to the top, the hips and turned a little bit less than 45°, he could go ahead and get a little bit more hip turn, but a super-flexible player. So resisting that hip turn for this person may be OK.

For those of you who are a little bit less flexible, you may want to rotate those hips a little more so you can get loaded up. Then we can see that the shoulders have turned a lot, well past 90°, that’s actually really good.

If we look at the average PGA tour player when we’re going from shoulder socket to shoulder socket, they’re getting about 128° of shoulder rotation for the average PGA Tour guy.

That’s not the chest itself, but the actual shoulder socket. So as you’re doing this there’s a big difference between the chest rotating and the shoulders rotating.

You can feel like your lead shoulder is going back away from the target, your back shoulder is going back toward the target, and this is going to allow you to coil up.

So even though John isn’t a big, strong guy, he’s not 220 pounds of muscle or anything like that, he’s getting 270 yards of driving distance, which is really good.

Then as he comes on through, he allows everything to rotate on around to the other side, and we can see now his hips are facing the target, and his chest is facing out to the right rough, or the left rough for you guys that would be right-handed golfers.

That helps you to deliver that power through the swing, all the way into the finish. So that’s really good, I like his power turn, I think he’s got a good move there.

As far as consistency, we really want to look at a couple of things. We want to look at first the stable, fluid spine. Then from there, the compression line and how we release the club. Those are really going to help us to build some consistency.

So at address he’s doing a great job here. If we draw a line from the belt up through the center of the chest or the sternum, we see that he’s angled away very, very nicely.

We’d like to see that stay in that same alignment as he goes to the top of the swing. We can see that he starts to just barely get leaning back toward the target a little bit.

So if we took a line from the center of his hips up to the top of his spine, this is giving us a rough angle of what the spine would be. He’s a little bit more vertical. The spine, I know, is slightly curved, it’s hard to get an exact angle on that.

We can see that he’s starting to lean just very, very slightly back toward the target. Not a huge deal here, but as he starts down one of the things is he starts to get going a little bit too far to the left with the hips, or too far toward the target with the hips.

We’ll see at contact, he tends to get that hip leading in front of the way. So here at contact we’d like to see the hip socket, the ankle socket, and the shoulder socket to all be lined up.

What we can see is that his lead hip kind of gets bumped out in front a little bit, and that gives it even almost a little bit of a bowing kind of action. So his hip, ankle, shoulder looks something more like that as he’s leaning back.

That can give you a little bit of inconsistency, almost like the body’s rotating open and leaving the hands behind. As he comes all the way on through, now we can see that’s getting a lot of bend in the lower back as he comes on through.

So this could cause, especially for players that have a little bit of back pain, that can definitely start to cause some back pain.

So what I would recommend with the compression line, and I have a great video that I can recommend for you guys that’s later on in this video, I’ll talk about the name of it.

But if you put a stick here in front of your lead ankle, I want my hip to not be bumping into that stick, but I always want my shoulder to be in line with that, if that makes sense.

You see how his lead leg would kind of be bumping into that stick, and his shoulder would be back. I want the hip to be clearing back out of the way, so that that makes a nice, straight line as he’s coming through there.

That’s going to allow him to deliver the club down and through the ball, very, very consistently.

Now the second piece of that, so if we get hat compression line a little bit better, that’s going to help, and the stable, fluid spine a little bit better. That’s going to help to get a little bit more consistency in the swing.

The second thing I want to talk about, let’s go ahead and take a look at an iron swing over here, and the straight line release. Let’s pause as he comes down to the bottom of the swing, and gets into the straight line release.

We want that club to be first splitting the forearms about 45° in front of the ball. Now we can see here’s the club angle of the shaft. It’s splitting the forearms just barely in front of contact.

So if we go back, instead of being about four, roughly four feet in front of the ball, he’s only getting about, you know, maybe 8 or 10 inches in front of the ball. So that club should very first be splitting the forearms on out here in front.

That’s a very, very big key to getting some consistency. We can see as his club reaches that point, it’s gone well past the straight line release, and now it’s almost matching up with his back arm a little bit.

That little bit of flip at the bottom loses a lot of stability in the club, and gives you less forward shaft lean. The less forward shaft lean that I have, the more inconsistent the club’s going to be, and the tougher time I’m going to have hitting the same shot over, and over, and over again.

That’s a great couple of things to work on, let me go ahead and recommend a couple videos for you guys that are members to watch to improve your game.

All right, so if you’re joining us on the website, you’re a member of the website, the video that I really want you to focus on at first is in the straight line release, video 1.2, and we talk about getting that club to first split the forearms at a point about four feet in front of contact.

I’m going to walk you through step-by-step how to do that, that’s level 1, video 2 in the straight line release. We’re going to talk about the release into that ball in front.

The second one is going to be what I call the pet the grass drill. As he’s coming down, one thing that’s happening is this right, or his back wrist, his left wrist, is releasing a bit too early.

We can see how the wrist is already flat there, we want to have that angled down toward the ground. That would be the right wrist for you right-handed golfers.

That’s a great drill that I work over in video 1.4, so it’s level 1, video 4. It’s called the pet the grass drill. It’s going to help you to get that wrist angled so he can get more forward shaft lean so he doesn’t start releasing this a little bit too early, and really build a lot of consistency in his swing.

So check out those videos, 1.2 and 1.4 in the straight line release section. Those are really going to help you guys out.

Good luck, and I’ll see you all soon.