Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The DRIVER SWING Is So Much Easier To Learn When You Follow This"

In today's lesson...

Discover a simple cheat using a couple of items from the hardware store...

...that's going to make getting into the correct driver impact position much easier for you.

Be sure to pay close attention to your trail elbow position.

You'll finally be able to switch from your iron swing to your driver swing much easier by using this mental image.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:21

Video Transcription:

Now, back when I very first started playing golf, I was taught to essentially be in this position when I hit driver or any club to that matter, I'm gonna be behind the golf ball, meaning my upper body's behind it. I almost feel like my elbows are going toward the target that way. Left elbow higher, right elbow kind of tucked in under, and I feel like I'm delivering it from the inside now, right away that clicked with me.

I felt like driving's been pretty easy since then, and I've actually gotta cheat. I'm gonna show you exactly how to get in that position, make it feel really. With a board and a hammer here in just a second, but lemme show it to you. Full speed. Once you get this one moved down, it just feels pretty d uneasy to hit.

Drives really long and really straight.

There we go. I'm not gonna do a whole lot better than that. Nice little draw right down the middle. Three 16 total and uh, 1 74. Boss be pretty dang on. Good for me. I'm not gonna do a whole lot better than that. Here's a drill that walks you through how to get that. See when you're in that behind it position, that what I'm calling Hammer position.

It feels like the club just releases from the inside. It's gonna shallow out like we've always talked about. You've heard so many times, and it just makes it easy to do it. So I'm gonna start out with a board like this. Now, if I was gonna hammer a nail down, that would almost be like hitting down on a shot.

Like I, I might hit a, a wedge or an iron a little bit more down. I may get more down onto. That's not what you're doing with the driver, you actually wanna hit up on the driver. So with this board, instead of having it straight up and down like this, I'm gonna put it where the ball would be. I'm gonna tilt.

Back a little bit. I'm gonna put it a little bit farther in front. So the, the head of this nail will be actually where the ball would be. So from there, if I tilt it this way, I naturally have to get into, into a position where I can hit up on it slightly. Now, the second piece here is if I put my hand on the outside of this, this gets my right arm or my left arm lower, or excuse me, I can't talk.

My left arm is higher than my right arm. So now if I hammer this nail, I'm gonna be behind this board like, And not only am I gonna be hitting up into it slightly, I'm gonna have my left arm above my right arm. And that really tilts my body. Remember I talked about in that swing before I made it, how I wanted my elbows to almost be toward the target, feeling like I'm I'm this way.

Left elbow above the right elbow. This gives you that feeling automatically. And you don't have to have a nail on here. You can grab any hammer. Just go over to the wall. You have to hold outside, get this arm outside. So that you feel like that keeps the body more closed and from the inside. So for example, I could have that same feeling if I didn't have this board and I just held my driver like this.

So if I held my driver with my left hand out here and I hammered down on that board with my right arm, that's putting my upper body in that same position, which is exactly where you wanna be. Now the final piece to it is every time we swing a driver, we wanna get shallowed out in from the. We want this club to get in here and we want it to come from the inside out, delivering it toward the golf ball.

So it's gonna be a nice little draw time after time after time, I can do that exact same thing with this board. Now all of a sudden I've tilted it back to hit up on the ball. I've put my arm outside the nail so that I stay closed and get my body in that good. Now I can just turn this board slightly closed so I can deliver it from the inside.

And this feels exactly to me, like a driver would feel like I'm just gonna drive this nail through there as hard as I can. Now, if you do this drill, there's one thing that you can do to go wrong. A lot of times I'll see players do this drill and they think about hammering it like this just with their arm.

That's not a powerful way to do it. Imagine you had to drive this. Clear through this board. Obviously this is a screw. Had to screw it in there, so stay but imagine it's a nail. I'm gonna pound it through this board. I'm gonna bash this board into a billion pieces. It's gonna break in half. This is the way I would do that.

I would open my body up. I would get my right heel off the ground. I'd really open up so that I could hit that thing really, really hard. Really smack into it and give it, do it with some force. That's the way you gotta do it. So clear your body out of the way. Then I can really pound that. Pretty dag on hard.

So that's the feeling you're gonna have. Take that same feeling to the driver. Do that a few times, and you're gonna see your clubhead speed go up and up and up. You're gonna see your ball start to turn over from right to left. Everything's gonna feel really good and really natural. So let's go ahead and do the same thing, just like I did when I was hammering that nail.

Get behind it, get my elbows toward the target, and let this thing fly.

There we go. Hit that one about as solid and powerful as I'm going to, again, 1 21 club, head speed, 1 75, ball speed, three 15 total distance. I, I felt really, really solid on that one. Now there's one thing that could still go wrong with this, so see if we get in this great hammer position. We haven't tried, we haven't had to release the club.

And most players have been told to release the club by rolling the forearms over each other, which it gets us outta that hammer position. See now my right forearm gets high, rather than my right forearm being under and really killing this ball. Now in the move section of the top speed golf system, if you're a member, here's how you get there.

Just go to the instruction tab, go to the top speed golf system, then the move, I'm gonna show you the right way to square. It's what I call the tennis racket drill. So don't be, be sure not to miss this video. It's the second video in that system. And from there I teach you how to square it up. Like the pros do it.

There's a special way that you move the forearms and you move the the wrist to square the club face up. Now from there, when you do this move that I'm talking about, you can be from the inside all you want to be. You can shall this club out as hard as you want. You can swing as hard as you want to to the right, and you know that that ball's gonna turn over from right.

So head on over to the move right now. I guarantee you, once you start to feel those powerful draws, it's gonna be addicting. You're gonna wanna do more and more and more of it, and I'll show you how to do that there. It's a perfect combination to what we talked about here today. Head over to the move.

Start with the first video. I'll see there.