Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Stop Wasting Your Time | Driver Distance Secrets"

In today's lesson...

I'll let you in on two driver swing secrets that will unlock tons of extra distance and lower your scores faster than anything else.

Including the hip move you need to be making if you want to be able to pull these off.

It's amazing how something so simple can add distance instantly.

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:28

Video Transcription:

Now, let's be honest. Everybody wants to hit the big ball. And it doesn't matter if you're driving it 200 yards right now or 300 yards right now. One of the easiest way, ways to pick up strokes to get to the par fives into to have short irons in the par force is to hit up, hit the ball farther.

So adding 20 or 30 yards to your drives would lower your score as quickly as anything out there. Now, if we're going to hit it far, there's no point in working on anything else until we can get the hips moving correctly. So the very first piece and what I was told, kind of growing up and what was kind of in vogue, what was popular then was to keep this right knee really flexed, not let that move at all.

And I'm going to keep that flex all the way in the back swing. Now, when you do that, that ends up walking up your hips a little bit. Very difficult to get your hips to rotate unless you're super, super flexible, which I'm not. You're probably not. You're not going to get those hips to rotate very much, keeping that knee locked.

Now, the ideal idea there and why it was popular then is because that's going to help you to get this big stretch between your upper and lower body. Well, that's great in theory, but you can get that same amount of stretch if you go ahead and let your hips turn. You're still going to just get more shoulder, turn your hip, the distance between your hips and shoulders will be the same.

You're just going to wind up a whole heck of a lot better. So getting that right leg to go ahead and straighten up. Getting those hips a turn in the back swing is one of the biggest distance keys that you can have. So as I said up here, instead of keeping this right leg locked like this, a lot of flexing it here, I'm going to go ahead and feel like in my back swing that leg can straighten up.

I want to go ahead and let my knee straighten this way. Now, when you're looking at this, what that ends up doing is it allows my hip to turn back behind my body. The more my hips turn, the more power I can get. We're looking from down the line. You're going to see the same thing. Now, it's not a sway.

It's not this. I'm turning my hip. Imagine somebody had a rope tied to my hip, and they're standing back there. They're pulling that rope and getting me to turn. Look at this big hip turn now. Now, when I make that big back swing like a Justin Thomas or Davis, love the third without even really having to think about it too much, even even if I'm limited a little bit in my flexibility.

So that's piece number one. I want to make sure that in the back swing I get those hips to rotate. Let's go and try one out here. I'm going to give it a good rip. Make that big free, big hip turn in the back swing.

There we go. Hit that one pretty hard. And I really felt like on the back swing. I gave myself plenty of time. Again, don't rush this. Give yourselves plenty of time to let those hips turn and then go. Come on through to a good full finish. Now, piece number two is I can't get a big hip turn. And then to stay back there.

Right. I don't only get this big hip turn and then this stop on my downswing, I want to get that big hip turn into my downswing. I want to get my hips to open from the down the line to you. So a lot of people call the two cheeker, meaning that when I come to contact, you can see both cheeks here when you're looking from behind.

Now, that's exactly what all the great players have. That's what all the pros have. But again, a lot of this has to comes down to what you're doing with your knees. If my knees stay squared of the target in my downswing, like a lot of players, what I'll do is I'll stand up. I'll flip this club and my hips don't rotate very much.

So that would be kind of square knees. What? I want you to feel like these knees are kind of like a piston in the back swing. Here's my right knee. Here's my left knee and my back swing. My knees. Do this as this leg straightens and it allows my hip to turn. This leg comes forward. So this leg's going that way.

This knee is going back, this knees going forward in the downswing. I'm doing the exact opposite. My knees are going that way. So again, this right knee is coming forward toward this camera. This left knee is straightening and getting out of the way there. I want to see a little space in here as my legs come through to allow my hips to open.

That's the only way you're going to get the two quicker is if you get a little space in your knees coming this direction. So in the back swing, think you want a little bit of space? Meaning that as I turn, I should be able to take my golf club and put it through my knees there and have plenty of space in the downswing as I come through the shot.

I should be able to take a club and do the exact same thing. What we want to guard against is locked right knee in the back swing and then I stand up. In both those cases, I wouldn't be able to put a club. My knees would be in the way of each other. I wouldn't be able to slip my club through there.

So let's do a few practice swings now where I feel like in the downswing my knees do this and I really get opened up as I'm coming through there, just like we're seeing with the pros. So we've done a few back swings. We're going to do five or ten reps in the downswing and then really commit to getting that good full finish.

As you swing on through, here we go. Hit that one. Great. All right. So what we just talked about there is getting those knees to move. Getting those hips to really work, to get you power. Really? The hips stay locked. We're never just going to have very much power. We're always going to be pretty arms. Now, the second piece of this, or the piece that should come after this is getting that club to release in front.

You see, what most players do is they lock their hips up, they lock their knees. There's no opening there. And when they come down to contact, if I'm looking at the triangle between my forearms, my shoulders there, this club is splitting that triangle already mean that I'm throwing away. I'm flipping, I'm not releasing on in front. I'm releasing way too early.

Now, if I walk my knees, that's going to happen because I can't open my my body very well. So now if I get my body opening better, everything's more open out in front. This is what all the pros are doing. If I go ahead and choke up on this club again is I come to contact even though my club shaft may be straight up and down because of how my body is angled open, that club is still on the front end of this triangle.

It actually doesn't split that triangle until way up here, about 45 degrees in front. This is what every single pro golfer is doing, that almost every single amateur golfer or recreational golfer isn't doing very well. If we can learn this one thing, it's going to make it a whole heck of a lot easier. So that's the first piece I have to get those knees opening up, those legs, moving the hips, clearing out of the way so that I can release the club in front.

And then from there, I have to learn how to properly release this club to get it all matched up. So these two things fit like a hand and a glove. I have to learn to use my hips and use my body first. If I don't do that first. None of this is going to work. From there, I want to learn the straight line release or what we call the straight line release and the top speed golf system.

So I want to make sure that I have this club lagging. It's releasing in front of the golf ball instead of at the golf ball flip, if I can do those two pieces that your swing is going to look like any swing that you see on the PGA Tour. So after you've done these hip these knee video and hip video here we done today, head over to the straight line release section.

Don't worry about doing the entire section. Just go to the level number one and do one video from that section. I can promise you, you just do one video today or your next practice session you're going to be hitting the ball a lot better and then you're going to build on that. So let's not try to get way ahead of ourselves.

Just pick one video. Do that very first video and you're going to have some great success. So best of luck and I'll see you in the straight line release.