Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Easiest Way to Stop Standing Up For Good"

And today, I’ve got a weird drill for you…

…that involves putting a club under your heel while you make a swing.

It might sound strange…

…but it should really help you sync your body and get the weight shift right…

…so that you can finally stop standing up and stay in your posture throughout the swing!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:05

Video Transcription:

Clay: All right, in this club under your left heel that keeps you from popping up onto your toes, getting your hips to come forward and standing up out of your posture. So what we're going to do, very common question I get is, how can I stay in my posture? I'm going to hit a seven iron here. I have an eight iron under my left ankle.

And all I've done there is I've just set it to where the face of the club is under my left heel, kind of on this part of my heel. And it, when I step on it because of the loft of the club, this shaft is up in the air. Now from there, I should be able to make a good backswing, shift my weight into my lead foot, stay down in my posture with weight on the middle of my left foot, and keep it there all the way on through without this club dropping down to the ground.

I've even got a drill that I'm going to show you for the right foot here in a second. So I'm just going to make some slow swings. Let's do five or ten of them here. where I make a backswing, whatever's comfortable. If you're hitting driver and you're trying to crank it, it's okay to lift that left heel and this club would fall down.

This is more for a middle iron to get the feeling, or if it falls down, just make sure you step on it again, it'll come back up and keep it up the whole way through the swing. So I'm okay with lifting the left heel in the backswing, but for this drill, you don't have to worry about that. It's a little half backswing even.

From there, I'm getting my weight to my left side, look how my knee pops out a little bit. I get my, really flexed into the ground, I'm flexing into there where I can stay in my posture. Then I'm driving through the shot, keeping my chest down, my body down the whole way, my chest feeling it's covering over the ball, and that way I can stay in the posture the whole way through.

And again, if I do that correctly, then we're going to see the club stays in the air the whole time. There we go, nice little seven iron. And even with that swing, because I've stayed in my posture so well, that one flew 189 yards, which is very long for a seven iron, even though I felt like I didn't really go at it that hard.

I didn't make this huge backswing. I just got loaded up well and transferred the energy through the ball. Now, another little drill I like is if we turn this into the right side, you go this way, I'll turn it out a little bit more so it's not in the way of my swing. Or we can even go backwards if you want to.

I like it in the front a little bit just so you can see it. But if I start to pop the hips forward and raise up to my toes, you'll see how that right heel comes out of there too. So I'll do it this way just so it's out of the way of my swing. I'm stepping on this club. And for here, you can even use, you know, an eight iron, a nine iron, maybe a gap wedge.

I don't like using a lob wedge. You'll see a lot of people will have a lob wedge under there. The shaft is way up and down, well, the only problem is there my heel has just come so far off the ground to get that club to drop. If you're just lifting it a little bit, you may not even notice. So from here, it's a little bit different.

I turn into it, I want this to stay up. Weight's on the inside of my right foot, so it feels like it's all the way on the inside of my right foot. I'm turning in to the right side of my body. As I start my weight down, when my hands are about halfway down, this is going to stay on the ground. So I don't want to be popping up out of my posture when I start my downswing and this thing comes off the ground or comes down, drops to the ground, I'm going to stay in it.

Then from there, I do want it to fall down as I finished my swing. So it should look something like this. If I go in slow motion, backswing, a good load in the right side, squatted down, it's still up in the air. And then from there, I'm letting it release. And this right heel comes all the way off the turf.

So, don't try to keep your heel on the ground, even through impact, tour average would be about an inch off the ground, it should almost be on the ground by the time you make impact. I don't want to see somebody trying to do this, I did that for years and it kept me on my backside, had me almost drop kicking the ball a little bit, hitting behind it.

I've got to get through that ball, I've got to let that club drop as I get through the ball and have extension through the golf ball toward the target. So that would look something like this if I go in slow motion, good turn, here, here, here. Then it's coming down. I'm extending through it. So just don't want to get the drop early on this right foot.

Get the spacing of hair different. All right, here we go, ready to roll.

Now there's one thing that pairs with this really well that a lot of people miss. If you're a Top Speed Golf member, you've heard of the power turn. And you probably have worked on rotating your body in the backswing, but as you saw, even with that shorter backswing, I did make a good power turn in the backswing, but it wasn't like really, really stretching back there.

I just made a good turn, but then I finished my swing on through and I got some pretty crazy distance with a seven iron. The power turn finish, the power turn is two pieces, backswing and through swing. If you don't get this through swing correct, and most people have not been taught the right way to do the through swing.

It's going to be tough to ever get the power that you want. And even if you do swing harder, it's going to be one of these, you know, with all arms coming through versus when you watch the pros, you know, they're, they're staying through the ball so much better and finishing their power turn. I'm going to challenge you today to go over the power turn.

If you remember top speed golf, start at level one, I'll teach you not only the backswing, but the through swing as you work through the levels. And if you don't get that piece down, you probably always feel a little bit armsy. And I want to take the arms and hands out of it for you. I want to get the body rotating.

I want to get the easy power and just make it to where you have really solid fundamentals, just like the best players. And you don't have to practice a ton to try to always be trying to find it. So go over to level one of the power turn, start right now, start to build that power turn finish. And I can't wait to see you there.

Let's go and get started.