Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Driver Swing Is So Much Easier When You Know This "Late Hit" Move"

And have you ever wondered why, no matter how dang hard you swing, you’re not getting all the distance you want?

It could be because you’re a victim of what I call the “early hit.”

Fortunately, I’ve got a great drill today, where you’ll think of your driver as an axe…

…And you’ll not only get rid of the “early hit...”

…You’ll say hello to longer, straighter drives!

Don’t miss out on the distance that you deserve!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:34

Video Transcription:

Now I can't wait to share with you why the late hit, or more specifically, feeling like this band that I put between my elbows, I'm going to get to here in a minute, is pointing to the right as long in the swing as possible is going to create a tremendous amount of lag in my downswing. It's going to feel very powerful.
It's going to shallow out the club. It's going to keep me in my posture. All those great things that we want to do can all be solved with this little TheraBand. Let's go and get started. All right, so let's go over what I see so many times with players. With the early hit, the one that you don't want. Well, we'll go to the top of our swing and all of a sudden this right elbow starts to kick out on top.
And if I was to put a club across my elbows, you would see this club would be pointing down at the ground. This right elbow is high and all of a sudden. It's not in a very good position compared to where we want to be, which is much more level. And from the inside like that. Now, one of the reasons that that's so bad is that as we start to do this, it kicks my club over the top and much more steep.
Well, from there, if I keep on swinging down, I'm going to chop into the ground. So I ended up standing up out of my posture. And worst of all, I start to cast the club and manipulate it. They try to square that club face up and there's just a whole heck of a lot of hand action in there that we simply don't want in the golf swing.
So that's what I call the early hit. And the late hit is a little bit different. Now, what I want to imagine here is we're going to swing on this plane of glass or imagine that I have my golf swing here and it's happening on an angle back and through. Now, if you can imagine that as a plane of glass.
What a lot of players are trying to do, and you may have felt this before, is keep the club face square to this plane of glass on the downswing. Well, that kicks out the elbow on top, that tries to get me to square up this face early, and it's simply not what the best players in the world are doing. Now, there's a solution to this.
We'll get to the TheraBand here in a second. But I want to get you started on the right track with the right mental representation of what's going on here first. So if I turn this club upside down like it's an axe, the tip of the club would be the sharp end, and I'm going to chop into the ground. Well, as I go back, I want to imagine that the blade of my axe in the downswing is running down this swing plane.
You see, when I get my arm on top, that kicks the tip of the blade back behind me. I want to feel like this blade is running down, or the sharp part of the axe. It's going down this plane and you'll notice automatically what that does. Now, my elbows get tucked more into the inside and my right elbow is tucked in low versus on top and high.
That gets me shallowing out the club, it gets me lag, and it really gets me in a great position to go ahead and release and hit this golf ball with what I call the late hit. And I want the hit to be as late as possible. Let me give you a good little representation of how to feel this. Now you don't need to use one of these.
If you have one laying around, by all means you can. But this is just to show you what to do once you get the feeling you'll know once you see it You'll know exactly what to do so I'll just cut one of these stretchy bands into about a two foot section here and then I've tied a knot in it and That way I can put it around my elbows So what I'm gonna do here is stretch this around the outside of my elbows take my grip with my driver And now again, I'm gonna feel like if I flip this club upside down.
I was gonna go ahead and let the tip of that axe go down this plane of Glass here, and you'll notice right away, shallows out the club, gets it from the inside. But look at where this band is pointing. It's pointing over to the right. So, this would be square. Anything this way would be to the right. This would be to the left.
I'm trying to keep it to the right as late as I can in my swing, and then let that hit happen just at impact. So I'm starting my downswing, it's already tilting out to the right. And then as I pause with my hands, over top of the golf ball. This is a big one. I'm going to feel like my hands are over top of the golf ball and this thera band or my elbows are pointed way back in this direction.
So you can see how that's happening where my elbows are almost pointed that way or this band, if you drew a line perpendicular to that, it'd be pointed out this way. So I'm trying to keep that as late as I can in the swing. And then from there, I'm going to go ahead and release everything out in front.
So then the elbows will turn on over and you'll have that kind of flash of speed head impact. And that's what the pros are doing. You're wondering how these little scrawny guys, barely weigh a buck fifty soaking wet, crank it out there 320, that's a big part of it is having that late hit in the downswing.
You want to check out somebody that hits it later than anybody else. Look at Dustin Johnson, and it's no coincidence that he's one of the best ball strikers on tour. So what I want to do is go ahead and make a couple practice swings, pause, hands over the top of the golf ball, late of hit as possible, and then from there, I'm going to go ahead and let this club release, or I'm going to throw it on out in front of me.
I don't want to feel like I hold the club face open. I want to go ahead and let that face release around the outside of the golf ball. So for example here, my club face is square, or straight up and down. I want that going across the outside or releasing around the golf ball. Almost like you're trying to get a topspin forehand in tennis or getting that ball to curve from right to left.
Now, the great thing about this is I can make a very smooth, slow swing. And as long as I keep this late hit, you're going to see my swing speed is fairly high. So again, a little half backswing here. I'm going to go like 50% power. And let's see what kind of club head speed I can get. I bet you I can still get over 100 miles an hour.
Just almost barely swinging this thing and letting that kind of late hit do a lot of the action. Let's try it out.
There we go. And again, not going to swing the best with rubber bands around your arms. I'm not recommending that you even hit one with a rubber band. You'll see my club head speed is 100. 6. The only thing that got me doing there is I want to make sure I go ahead and release that club around the outside of the golf ball and let that thing go.
I don't want to hold the face open at all, which can be very easy to do like I did there with these rubber bands on it, but you just make a few practice swings and let that thing go. So let's try it out again now without the rubber bands with just that same sensation, elbows back and then bam, I'm gonna let that thing hit at the last second.
Let's see how it goes.
There we go. Hit that one really nice 289 not bad for getting warm, not getting warmed up yet, but you can see how that was very smooth and I'm waiting for that last second to really let that club take on off. Now, if I want to crank it up a little bit, that's my little kind of go to swing on the course.
If I want to go a little further, all I need to do is go ahead and let the arms and the body rotate a little further going back. And then rotate a little further coming through, and I'm gonna get even more speed. So there one 17 with that late hit, let's go ahead and crank it up a bit. Let's see what kind of swing speed we can get when we really let it loose.
There we go. Nice and solid on that one. 2 85 carry 3 0 5 on the total distance, swing speed. Went up another couple miles an hour to one 19.6. Ball speed. Went up to 1 75. Pretty happy with that. Anytime I can hit it fairly straight down the middle of the fairway. Over 300 yards. Hey, that's pretty daggone good.
And I can't wait to hear about the amazing results you have. hit. Now this is the perfect compliment to the 20 minute shallowing fix course. And the reason is we're going over the same things here, the 20 minute shallowing fix. I want to talk about how to get that club shallowed out. I'm actually going to do a variation of that ax drill.
That's really going to be enlightening for you. But then most importantly, what I want to make sure is it gets that nice tight draw on every single shot. Just like we had here. Now in order to do that, we have to go about it a little different sequence than we worked in this video. We got the power here, we got it from the inside, but I want to make sure that you never have to think again.
Every single one of those balls is turning over from right to left. That way you can line up to the right, know it's coming back, and you hit draw after draw after draw. Um, that's exactly what I'm going to do for you in the 20 minute showering fix. And if you're a member of top speed golf, go to the instruction tab, top speed golf system, 20 minute showering fix.
You're going to be able to walk through in a single range session. I guarantee you're going to show the club and hit some of the most solid shots of your life. And they're all going to look something like that. Turning over from right to left, which is baked into the program. So again, you don't have to think about it.
It's just going to happen. Now, if you haven't done a 20 minute showering fix yet, head on over there right now. I can't wait to walk you through it. Step by step. Let's go ahead and get started.