Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Stop Pulling Iron Shots! | Tuck & Turn Shoulder Drill"

It’s so frustrating to blast a drive right down the fairway...

...then step up and pull your approach shot left of the green...

...ruining what would have been a great birdie opportunity!

There’s one common mistake with your right shoulder that’s causing this...

...and today’s drill includes a swing thought (around the 2-minute mark)...

...that’ll help get rid of the issue...

...and start turning those pulled shots into birdie opportunities!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:01

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: All right, so pulling your iron shots is one of the most common things that I see. It’s extremely frustrating and it seems like no matter what you do, as soon as you swing, the ball is going dead left.

Now, when you’re pulling iron shots, two things are happening. Number one, your right shoulder is coming out. So as the shoulder comes out this way, then that gets your path, or the direction you’re swinging, more to the left.

When you swing more to the left like that, there’s only two options. Number one, I can square up the face, meaning my face is also going the direction I’m swinging.

When I do that, that’s going to go dead left and straight. It’s going to be fairly solid, it’s going to feel pretty good, the distance is going to be OK, but it’s just way too far left.

Now, if you try to open up the face, to square that shot back up, so I feel like the face instead of going to the left is a little bit more open, that ends up being an extremely weak kind of floating up, slicing shot.

It ends up going to the right, and it’s crazy frustrating because that one goes like 30 or 40 yards shorter than it’s supposed to. It feels really, really weak. That all stems from this right shoulder coming out.

In this video, I’m going to show you exactly how to use the right shoulder properly, and then once you do that properly, you feel like you can turn through the ball as hard as you want to, and nothing’s ever going to go to the left.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so in this drill, I call it the Tuck and Turn Drill. That all comes down to this right shoulder like I mentioned.

When you go to the top of the swing, the natural tendency being a right-handed player, being right-arm dominant, is to get that right side of the body starting to come hard from the top. When you do that, a lot of times that shoulder will go out instead of tucking under.

Now I want you to feel what I mean by tucking under, where you feel like you pinch almost like if you had a glove or you could even take your glove off and do that on a couple practice swings.

Put that glove under your right armpit and we’re going to feel like as soon as we start our downswing, we’re going to have that right shoulder kind of tuck in to our body.

That right elbow’s also going to come in, so if your elbow tends to fly out, this club would fall out, that’s a common problem. I feel like I’m tucking my entire right shoulder, right arm, right elbow into the right side of my body.

Now that that’s tucked, everything’s going to come from the inside. Notice how when my elbow and my shoulder go out, it steepens up the club.

I’m kind of coming over the top, steep shaft angle there. But when I tuck it in, all of a sudden that starts to drop the club in to where it’s now shallow.

All this is connected, and from there, I can turn as hard as I want to and I’m coming from the inside. I’m going to deliver this club squarely through the golf ball.

So do a couple practice swings just where you go to top. Go kind of halfway back, you tuck the right shoulder under, and then from there, you can rotate as much as you want and you’re going to be coming from the inside.

You’re going to get rid of that over the top, that right shoulder flying out, that right elbow flying out, and you’re going to feel really, really good and connected from there.

Now once I get that right shoulder tucked to kind of start the downswing, from there I can rotate as hard as I want. I don’t want to stop my rotation.

If I stop my rotation, I’m going to throw all arms, nothing really good is going to happen from it. But if I can tuck that shoulder and then rotate on through as hard as I can, that’s going to allow me to finish the swing and have a lot of power.

So let me go ahead and try that out here. I’m going to tuck first, and then I’m going to rotate. I’m going to turn as hard as I want.

There we go, and that one was dead straight and I felt like no matter how far I turned left, no matter how hard I turned through the shot, no matter how aggressive I was, now that my shoulder was tucked everything is going to be nice and square through the golf ball.

Now there’s one piece of this that’s going to make things a lot easier. When your spine angle is really vertical, it’s almost impossible to get that right shoulder to keep from flying out.

So what I mean by that is, if my body – if you’re looking at my belt buckle and my shirt buttons – if those are straight up and down or even a little bit to the left, now as soon as I start my downswing, that right shoulder’s going to pop out.

My body is in alignment to where that wants to pop out as soon as I start down. I can’t tuck the shoulder in. What I want to do is what I call the Stable Fluid Spine.

What we do with this, is we get a little bit of tilt away from the target that gets my body angled away from the target there a little bit.

That makes it very easy that as soon as I start my downswing, I can tuck that shoulder in, tuck that elbow in and swing from the slot or from the inside and make this game a whole heck of a lot easier.

So once I get a little bit of that tilt there, now I can tuck and turn as much as I want and I’m going to feel like I can rotate hard as heck, and that golf ball’s going to go pretty dag-gone straight.

If I get my spine vertical, that’s going to make it really difficult. So what I recommend to do now is head over to the Stable Fluid Spine section of the Top Speed Golf System.

If you’re a member of Top Speed Golf, go ahead and click the Instruction tab, go to the Top Speed Golf System, then go to the Stable Fluid Spine.

To be honest with you, this is kind of the key fundamental. This is what all the other fundamentals are hung on. So if you get this one piece right, it’s going to make it easy to do every other piece of your swing correctly.

So head over to the Stable Fluid Spine now, I can’t wait to help get you set up in that correct position. Make it a whole heck of a lot easier, and as soon as you start to work through level one, level two, level three, it doesn’t take that long before you start hitting a lot more solid shots.

So best of luck, and I’ll see you in the Stable Fluid Spine. Let’s go and get started.