Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Cheat Code to Consistent Golf"

In today’s lesson…

…you'll get a detailed description of how to use golf's "cheat code" to start playing fantastic golf!

I'll show you exactly what I mean on the inside...

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 13:46

Video Transcription:

All right. So there is a cheat code of sorts to playing absolutely fantastic golf. And that cheat code is impact. Everything else you do in your golf swing doesn't mean anything until we get this position. Exactly like the pros are doing it. If you look every single pro in the world, they look pretty daggone similar at impact. Well, I'm going to walk you through it all the way from toes, knees, hips, shoulders, the entire body, how to get to this perfect impact position.

And I guarantee you it'll pay dividends much more than anything else you could do. So first of all, learn kind of the number one fundamental of this. We have to deliver the club with a square face, which we know we also have to deliver this club with Shaft lean to be able to take topped off and compress this golf ball.

So pros they're taking about 30% off of the natural loft of the club. So I got a nine iron here that's low forties loft. If I take 30% of that off that means I'm getting all the way down around 30 degrees, maybe even slightly under 30 degrees at impact all that means is if the shaft is straight up and down it impacts.

If I'm hitting the golf ball I'm standing up out of my posture, I'm flipping that shaft is going to be straight up and down I need that chef to be leaning forward about 15 degrees with my short irons slightly even more than that if you go all the way into a lob wedge and then it'll gradually be less and less with your shorter irons.

And as you go into a longer irons and go into the driver, the main reason for that is this the ball position changes. So if I got my nine iron here in the middle of my stance, even slightly back, that's 15 degrees of shuffling. As this ball gets slightly and slightly farther forward, I don't have to change my swing at all.

But if this is the ball position of a three iron, all of a sudden there's not quite as much shuffling. So the cool thing about this, you get it down with a short iron, you get enough shuffling and it's going to carry over to all your clubs just by changing the ball position. Really get your short irons down.

You're not to worry about the rest. So here's that nine iron. I'm watching it at 19 degrees, 19.7 even though there's again over 40 degrees aloft on this club and getting a dynamic loft is somewhere around 30. So if I come over here to my computer, I'll toggle the screen and we'll see that on that shot. I can highlight it for you.

I'm right at 30.5 degrees of dynamic loft or loft in impact. So that's the foundation of everything else that we're going to build. So then how do we get there with the rest of our body? Well, start with the toes. I need my weight to be shifting to the left to be able to get that kind of shuffling.

If you imagine if I'm on my right foot here, put all your weight on your right foot and I'm going to try to get this shuffling forward as much as I can. I've really got my arms extended there. Well, it's not really doing much at all. All of a sudden I go to my left foot and my weight is transferring left.

Now I can get a ton of shuffling, so the weight has to be shifting over to the left. You're going to feel pressure on the ball of your foot, and it's going to feel like your weight goes to the right and swing early. And then through impact, all your weight transitioning left your left leg is kind of bracing back up into your body to keep you from sliding forward.

And it's allowing you to rotate when you do that. So your foot is kind of pushing back up into you, which creates rotation and it keeps you able to get on your left left side without sliding in front of it. That's your first piece. Now, you're right so that is just as important. You need to be having pressure on the inside of your right toe and you need to be feeling like the right heel is coming off the ground.

If the heel doesn't come off the ground, I can't open my body and get the shaft lean that I need. Now, if we move forward to the knees, they're doing a pivot action. So my right knee is going forward and my left knee is kind of clearing back. So back, swing my knees, do this down, swing my knees, do that.

And the more of this type of a pivot action, right knee goes toward the ball. Left knee kind of clears out of the way. The more of that I get, the more shaft lean and the better I press the golf ball again. If we don't get the shaft lean, it's not going to sound like the great players that they hit it.

And you think to yourself, wow, that it has a different ring to it than what my hands are doing much heavier of a hit. They were talking about. I've heard some I say a heavy hit. Exactly what I'm training here today. All right. So let's move up to the hips now. As my weight shifts to the left, my knees pivot and that gets my hips to clear open.

Now, most importantly, I want to get my belt buckle in front of the golf ball as this is happening. So I don't want to stay back here and open up my hips, belt buckle behind the golf ball. I want to get that weight shift to the left, open my hips up and now all of a sudden belt buckle is way up here.

That's going to get my weight up there. It's in to clear my hips out almost. Imagine your belt buckle turning to where it's kind of going toward your left knee or going toward the target as that's happening now. Here's a big key with your hips. Most people don't get a lot of times we think we need to hit at the golf ball really hard.

And we stand up and kind of throw the club with the golf ball that's burning up all the energy too early and I'm staying out of my posture. A great key for this is feeling like my hips get lower to the ground if you can. All of us imagine that there's a plane of glass here that's kind of at a low angle, and I'm feeling like I'm getting my entire body under that plane of glass so I can swing in at a shallower angle.

And that brings me to the next point of this really tour quality impact which is I can't be having my handle go this way any time, even if I have shaft lean, if I lean the handle up like this. So if I do this at all where the handle goes away from my body, it's this big angle here.

I've even seen people teach this that pulls the heel of the club off the ground and it raises the sweet spot higher in the air. That's why you're not that's why you're probably struggling when you get those really tight laws to hit it on the sweet spot. We have to get lower shell this club out. Kind of let my hips sit down and then I'm letting this club come into the ground very, very flush.

People will say, Well, I just need to get my lying goal adjusted. There's no amount of lying or adjustment that can happen. If I'm standing up out of my posture and flipping it, they'll get the sole of the club flat if I do make it flat, it's going to cause a bunch of problems with other things. So we don't want to go down that route.

We won't do it the way the pros are doing it, right? Because those are the guys are hitting it consistently solid. Now, if we move up the chain there a little bit more. So we've talked about the hips need to kind of squat down, belt buckle needs to get to my left foot. I did skip the knees a little bit.

I want a little bit of flex in the knees, left knee and right knee at impact. It's not all the flex isn't going out of those knees until what we call the straight line release out in front. But I'm really letting that lean forward now from there. What about my chest in my upper body? This is a really big point here.

If I'm going to get into a good impact position, I need to be behind the golf ball with my upper body. Now, that's crazy because you just said, Hey, Clay, you go get your belt buckle in front but your upper body behind. That's exactly right. And the reason for that is I have to be in a position where I can deliver this club from the inside.

And if my upper body starts to slide in front, that's going to kick the club steeper and more over the top. So a great cheat for this is I like to think of my shirt, buttons or my sternum I want to have it slightly behind. The golf ball has my belt buckles in front, so I'm getting my weight to shift to the left.

My knees are pivoting so all my lower body is going toward the target, but my upper body is staying behind the golf ball. That allows me to get into position where I can get shuffling. But now you'll see shirt buttons kind of at the golf ball or slightly behind nose is definitely behind the golf ball. I don't want it to be way back here.

I'm not falling back. I'm just shifting to the left and keep my nose just ever slightly behind the golf ball that's going to get you in that perfect impact position. Now, there's a lot of questions on how do I know if I'm doing it the right way? And there's a really cool training that I like. It's called the DST compressor.

And the more I use this thing, the more I like it. So here I have a an eight iron, and what it has is a club shaft. So what you end up doing is to get this club to sit flat on the ground. Now, all of a sudden I have to get that shuffling that all the pros have.

And to make it even easier, there's a line that's vertical on this club that shows me the right amount of shuffling. So if I go ahead and just go to impact like we just talked about and kind of practice my impact position, my club is flat on the ground, my hands are way in front with the line. And if I'm looking at the hustle of this club, that line is vertical, straight up and down.

If I start to lean it back this way, all of a sudden the lines leaning too far that way if I get too much shuffling. So if you're wondering how am I overdoing it? If I get too much shuffling, the line's leaning too far for that way. So I just got to get this line perfectly vertical, and I know I'm getting the right amount of shuffling.

So this is a really cool training right now. If you want one of these, I'll put a link down below in the description. I worked out a special deal with Birdie Coral, who the designer and inventor of this fantastic training aide, and if you follow that link, it's going to be as cheap as you can find anywhere on the Internet.

Now we get a few bucks every time you buy one from there. You don't have to have this. It's just obvious this and it answers a lot of questions of whether or not you're doing it the right way. So if you do want to get one, always helps us out, helps us to grow the channel, make these great videos.

I really appreciate you for doing that. But again, we don't have to have one of these. It's just a cool way of making things easier. So let me go and hit a couple shots of this now that I feel like I'm in front. And again, let's go over some of these keys and then I'll build out into the shoulders and the arms what this great impact is.

So let me go and hit one here. Belt buckle in front, but nose behind. There we go, man. That sounded fantastic. And what I found sometimes is if you're not getting quite enough lean, you might even overdraw this club you see, what happens is the more I get shaft lean, the more it opens the face. So you might overdraw this club the first couple of times you use it.

That's an awesome little feedback mechanism for me. There wasn't a bad shot, but I probably could use two or three degrees more shuffling here. So if I wanted to do that, let's talk about how I would do that. Let's go up to the shoulders now. Now with the shoulders, if I want a bunch of shuffling, the right shoulder has to rotate and the left shoulder has to rotate up out of the way.

The right shoulder has to rotate forward and down, but not letting my nose slide in front. So I need to get my right shoulder under my chin as much as possible, which is going to push my hands farther and farther in front, but not doing this to get it over there. So basically long story short, if I put a club across my shoulders, all I'm doing is rotating my shoulders open more and I'm rotating them in a very steep angle like this.

So I'm staying in my posture. My right shoulder goes down as my left shoulder goes up, kind of like if I had a fan blade here with my arms and I just tilted that fan this way. So my shoulders going forward, but I have it slid in front of it. Now, if I do that, that gives me tons more room to now get my arm farther in front, see how much more I can push my right hand in front.

When that right shoulder goes down and I rotate more open, left shoulder goes up, I can get a ton of shuffling there. Let's go and try out another little easier down here with this DST compressor club there we go and much better. I like the shuffling I got with that. And you can see immediately I started to straighten that out a little bit.

So that's the shoulders. The more I can open them and the more I get into what's called right side bend. So what I'm doing here is I'm bending my body to the right and I'm opening it. Or a simpler way of doing that is a tilted kind of fan blades this way that allows me to get more and more shuffling as much as I want to.

Now, if I go from there up to the hands and arms, this is the big piece that most people get. Rome, you see with this DST compressor club, it kind of automatically squares the clubface because the shaft is bent. But when we're doing it on our own, we have to learn how to get this space closed down and square the impact.

And that also it's really important that that pairs up with what we talked about here today. Weight left upper body back. Now I have a course that has done amazing results with this is called the 20 minute shallowing fix if you remember Top Speed golf, head over to the instruction tab, Top Speed golf system, you'll see the 20 minute shallowing fix in there.

And man, this pairs up everything we talked about today with getting that clubface to square up too. You see a lot of times what happens here is when you get shuffling, it opens the face and it causes the ball to shoot off to the right. So what you end up doing is you get some more shaft and you get closer to this pro impact position.

Maybe everything looks good with the club, but the face is wide open I teach you how to get your natural grip and your natural elbow positions so that the clubface squares up on its own and you don't have to think about it. And in that course also get it to where just in a single practice session, you can shallow out the club from the inside and do all these great things that we've talked about here.

It just makes it all happen. So once you finish this video, you're working on these pieces that we've talked about head directly over the 20 minute shallowing fix, and that's going to make it the easiest thing in the world to get all this put together. So best of luck I can't wait to see over there. I can't wait to show you how to square that face.

Let's go and get started right now.