G030. The Perfect Golf Swing

Why You Need This: Does the perfect golf swing exist?

Should you worry about every minute detail of what you think the perfect swing is?

When I was younger...

I was obsessed with developing the perfect swing.

What a waste of time!

Instead of laboring over every tiny detail of what I thought was the perfect swing...

I should have been ingraining the moves that actually matter in the swing.

So when you see swings of top pros such as...

Tiger Woods and Adam Scott...

Don't worry about mimicking every single detail of their swings.

It'll drive you mad...

And you'll likely skip over the swing moves that can actually make you a better golfer.

So what moves do matter?

I recommend you spend your time working on swing moves such as...

Maintaining a "Stable & Fluid Spine" throughout the swing...

Loading up with a full "Power Turn"...

And swinging with long, free flowing arms while building lag.

Watch this video now to learn why focusing all your time on every small detail of the perfect swing...

...is pretty much a waste of time.

Focus on the core swing moves that'll drop your scores!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:08

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. Now this is one of the things that really destroyed my game for a long time. It didn’t destroy my game, but it made things difficult in my golf game for a long time. That was the search for having a perfect golf swing.

The idea of a perfect golf swing, we get these ideas of Ben Hogan in our mind. We get these ideas of Tiger Woods from early 2000s, Adam Scott, these beautiful, long, free-flowing golf swings that look like every single position as we look at them on camera, is just perfect.

We try to get this in our mind that we’re going to create this perfect golf swing and that’s going to allow us to hit perfect shots. That’s what I always thought.

When I worked on my swing a lot as I was younger, I thought well when I get a very good lucky swing on camera, that’s going to give me perfect ball flight, perfect shots. But it doesn’t really happen that way.

We don’t get those perfect swings that give us perfect shots. I see all kinds of people that look really good on camera, but don’t really hit the ball that great.

So there’s a lot more to it, there’s a rhythm, a balance, a technique, and we shouldn’t be looking for that perfect swing.  I see tons of players, I’ve seen this happen thousands of times.

I’ve had a lot of online students, and a lot of times we get a little too worried about the small details. Maybe we’re worried about just our takeaway.

How does our posture look? Is it perfectly in alignment? Is everything exactly right? In my takeaway, is my club perfectly aligned? Is my toe a little too closed, is it a little too open?

We worry about all these really, really small details that aren’t going to make a lot of difference for how I’m going to contact the golf ball.

A lot of times when we get focused on these small details we lose the overall picture of the swing, we lose our rhythm, we lose our athleticism, and we don’t hit the ball as cleanly as we could.

So think of it this way, and I think that none of us should be looking for a perfect swing, but we all want a really good, consistent, repeatable swing that’s free-flowing, lots of speed, and that we can go out there and compress the heck out of the golf ball every time.

I want you to do one trick, one tip, whenever you’re making a swing change, think about this. How is this going to help me to improve my strike of the ball? Not worried about anywhere else in the swing other than when my ball is touching the face of the club, how is this going to help me to improve my swing.

So if I’m worried about my takeaway and getting it exactly right there, that needs to make sense of how that’s going to improve my contact with the golf ball. If I can’t pair those two things up, I probably don’t need to be worrying about that.

Today I’m going to give you one of the best tips that I have as far as an overall swing thought to create a very good-looking swing, to get lots of speed, more speed’s going to help us to hit the ball more solid.

To be very, very consistent so we’re not moving around. We’re going to eliminate a lot of the extra pieces of the swing. That’s going to be fantastic, that’s going to help us to consistently square up the face. It’s also going to help you to compress the golf ball by delofting the club.

First we’re going to work on just the body pieces. The number one fundamental we go over in the Top Speed Golf System is we’ve got to have a stable, fluid spine.

What this means is our spine angle’s going to be tilted a little bi away from the target. I want you guys to think if I’m looking down right at the top of this golf ball, I’m going to angle my body in a way to where I’m looking down a little bit at the back of the golf ball.

That’s going to get me a little bit of spine tilt. Now what that does, is that helps me to get this right leg angled in a bit, and that gets rid of the reverse pivot that I see a lot of people struggle with.

So a lot of times people let those hips slide to the right, upper body goes to the left, and then I’m kind of falling around. It looks something like this, and we have a lot of moving pieces with my body.

By getting that angled back, now I’ve created a good tilt, that’s going to about 10 really good things for me. Number one, it’s going to help me to keep my spine nice and consistent as I go to the top.

It’s going to help me to eliminate the sway from my hips. It’s going to help me to deliver the club a little bit more from the inside. I get leaned this way, I’m going too much over the top, so it’s going to give me a better pat, it’s going to help me to be more consistent.

It’s going to help me to put the club on the ball many more times in a row, really, really nicely. Once I’ve done that, I’m tilted away slightly, as I go to the top I want a good, full turn and then as I come through, I want a good full turn with my shoulders.

What we’re going to do here after I get tilted behind it, put a club across your shoulders, good turn going back and a good turn coming through. I want this club pointing in this direction.

My club head pointing almost down the right fairway, right side of the fairway as I finish. That’s going to get us that power and free-flowing action in our swing.

We’ve got the good balance with our tilt, we’ve got a really good powerful swing, free-flowing swing because we’re loading up and turning through the shot. Now we need to work the arms in there.

We’re going to go very long in the backswing, create some lag, and then very long in the follow through. That’s going to look exactly like this. Let’s do 100 reps with the posture, 100 reps with the full turn, and then we’re going to do this for 100 reps, just practice swings.

I want to have my takeaway very long and free-flowing, very little wrist hinge here. As I come into the downswing, I want to have some lag, so I’m letting these wrist hinge or cock.

My right wrist is angled back, that’s going to allow me to get some lag, and then as I come on through, I want to work on my arms being very into the follow through. When this club’s perpendicular to the ground, I want my hands to be up by my head.

That’s going to look like this as I add all three pieces together. Number one, titled behind. Number two, good powerful turn. Now I’ve got that good, free-flowing long swing with a lot of lag.

So work on those 100 reps a piece. By working on those simple key factors, those are three pieces out of the five pieces in the Top Speed Golf swing, by working on those it fixes 20, 30, 40 other things in the swing so we don’t have to worry about making everything perfect.

A lot of that just starts to fall into place. Let’s go ahead and try that out. Good tilt at address, good powerful turn, create some good free-flowing lag. There we go, nice simple swing.

I may not have a perfect swing, but I hit the ball pretty well. It’s nice and repeatable, and I have a lot of fun playing golf. I know you guys can too. Good luck to you guys. Work on those keys. I’ll see you all soon.