Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Swing Short = Hit LONGER"

And have you heard that swinging shorter will make you less wild?

Well, most people have a few misconceptions about swinging short that actually makes them wilder…

…and today, I’ll go over those misconceptions that make shorter swings just as inaccurate as a longer swing (just without the extra distance).

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:47

Video Transcription:

All right. The short swing on that one. I try to not take the club much back past here and I was able to hit it pretty doggone solid. So we've all been told that we need to swing short to have more accuracy. You're going to have less moving parts. This is going to be a simpler more efficient golf swing.

And there I hit that ball after the roll out. 218 yards probably carried close to 200 yards. So it's possible to make a short swing and have a lot of power but what gives? Sometimes we make a short swing and it feels fantastic like that one. Other times we make a short swing and the power goes out the window.

We feel tight, we feel quick. And it's just going all over the place and has the exact opposite feeling of what we were setting out to do. Let's talk about the right way in the wrong way to have a short swing so that you can be incredibly efficient no matter what you choose. So let's go ahead and talk about the wrong way.

Here's the mistakes that I see players make when they're making a shorter swing. It starts from the legs up. And a lot of times people have that idea that the less things I move, the more consistent I'm going to be. Well, in golf, that can be true, that oftentimes just leads us down the complete wrong path. So if I walk in my knees, I'm not going to get very much of a hip turn here.

And when I don't turn my hips, I'm fully stretched out with my body about right here. Now, you notice when I made that short swing, I was able to still get my knees to rotate a little bit. I still wanted my knees to kind of move back and forth. I almost imagine those like a piston. The right knee moves back as the left knee moves forward and allows the hips to rotate as that's happening.

Go and get that feeling right now that unlocks your hips and that allows you to have a lot of power and build up that power in the hips, even if you're only going to come back to here. Now, that brings me to the second piece. The hips, the belt buckle. If you imagine there's kind of a laser shooting out of that belt buckle.

I want to get this belt buckle pointing behind the golf ball, a good amount in the back swing. If I'm going to swing a short or long or anything. If I feel like again, I walk my knees in and I just go to here, yes, my song is going to be shorter, but I'm not going to be able to produce any speed at all.

So let me go and try one out where I lock the knees. I don't get much of a hip turn, and I'll make that same short swing again. So the last one again went to 18 or so. Let's see what the carry was on that when the carry was 25 with that little short swing. Now we're going to lock the knees and hips in.

I'm still going to try to hit it hard. We're going to see vastly different result here. So that one, everything felt very tight and much quicker. Now I happened to hit that one really solid, but the carry distance went down to 160 something. So I lost almost forty yards of total distance on the six iron by having that that feeling worse than that, I can give up the distance.

To be honest with you, if I was hitting a dead solid pure, that would be okay. But it feels really rushed when these knees don't move so tight. Once I get back to here, I just feel like I'm having a fire with everything I have now as we move up the chain with this, pivoting in the knees does.

Once we get those moving, the hips now can move. And then here's the big one. We need to make sure that those shoulders turn. And I like to feel like I'm opening up my chest. So if I take my right hand and I just kind of reach behind me, almost like I'm going to grab something and throw it at the golf ball or reach up and grab something off a shelf here.

Notice how that opens up my right side of my body. We're going to notice. My knee actually starts to pivot back like that. My hip starts to pivot back. And now I'm really wound up. I'm really loaded up here. That's get me in a very powerful position. To where from there I can go ahead and everything back out in front.

Plus, I'm not getting steep when I'm doing that. So a lot of times players, when they get short, they'll get steeper like this close to vertical. If I get that unwound, get that behind my body like that, really feel like I'm letting that right side of my body clear, open. Now, I have plenty of time to go ahead in the downswing and make a really powerful swing there, too.

So think about it this way. How many? Go ahead. Let my knees pivot. I'm going to let my hips pivot and my shoulders pivot as I go back. That's going to get me in this position. Now, if I want to put my hands straight out in front of my body and have this club on plane that can be as long of a back swing as I make.

And I'm still going to have tons of power from there. From that position. All you need to go ahead and do is just go ahead and swing on through to a good full finish. That's part of the last mistake that I see. Everybody want to get in short and tight. They start doing one of these where nothing moves and it's a it's kind of a lashing at it with arms.

I still want to get loaded up so that I can feel loose and free flowing even if I have that shorter swing now. Definitely want to go ahead and make sure that I finish with my chest all the way around toward the target. And that doesn't come from flexibility. My chest, it actually comes from letting those knees pivot the other direction and my foot kind of swivel around to let my body face to target.

I'm not stretched here at all. I feel completely relaxed, actually. I feel like I'm just standing and talking to somebody on the screen. That's the feeling that I want you to have as you complete your turn. Not that you're really stretched out you're not looking like a Gumby out there. You're not very flexible like these two players. I just want you to go ahead and finish it by pivoting your body on around like that.

So again, I'll make a shorter swing here, but I go ahead and use my body. I let my knees, my hips and my shoulders move, and I still have great distance even if I stop a little shorter parallel yeah. That felt great there. Nice little draw back on the target. That made me better in the first one. This is going to be pretty similar.

Just a little over 200 yards a carry. And you'll notice on that one, I may have gone a little farther back than I felt, but I felt like I was making this swing right here. Now, this video is about short swing versus long swing. I got to be honest with you, it really doesn't make a whole hell of things difference if you swing back to here or you swing back John Daly style to there, it helps actually.

The farther you go back, the more potential swing speed that you'll have. But as we saw on this video today, most of that speed is coming from what I call the power turn and the touch of your system. So that means I'm rotating my hips and I'm rotating my shoulders in the back swing and then delivering through the shot all that power, all the momentum is coming through the shot.

That's the power turn. That's where you get the majority of your distance. And if you get that right, you can take any length, swing you want and hit it a whole heck of a long way. So what I want you to do now, get started with this video here, but I still haven't shared with you all the secrets of making this happen.

I want to share with you how to build momentum through each segment of your body. I want to show with share with you the proper turn, the proper angles to get on to get that power turn down forever. And I do that in the power turn section of the golf system. So if you remember top speed, just go ahead and go the instruction tab, click on the TSD system and then go to the power turn there.

And I challenge you right now to head over there and watch just one video from that section. And what that's going to do is that's going to build on what we did here today. And if you can just get past that one video, you're going to start seeing a lot more effort, less power in your golf game. It's going to become addictive as you start working through the three different levels there you're going to be having some steady progress.

It's going to be fun while you're working through it and you're going to turn around in a very short period of time and you're going to make that that great turn like it's automatic I want you to show up to the very first tee roll out of the car, not stretching at all. Now that you know these secrets that are going to allow your hips and your shoulders to turn a lot more, it's going to be easy to get that turn and you're going to have a whole heck of a lot of fun while you're playing.

So once you finish this video, head over to the Power Turn section right now. Watch just one video. I know you'll be hooked. I can't wait to see you there.