Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Technique Every Pro Uses to Hit Consistent Shots"

Have you ever heard a great ball striker hit the ball and thought “man, that just sounds way different than my shots?”

Today, I’ll reveal the secret behind hitting consistently solid shots with crisp contact & effortless power…

…which involves learning how to position your hands, shift your weight, and open your hips to get into the “power position” for maximum distance and accuracy.

Don’t worry, I’ll make it easy to understand and practice. Check it out in the video below.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:57

Video Transcription:

All right, so if you're struggling to hit the ball consistently solid, this video is gonna solve that for you. I'm gonna teach you something that I call the power position, and it's incredibly important to hitting the ball, uh, crisp every single time. So if you find yourself chunking and hitting behind the golf ball, this will fix that.

If you find yourself thinning the golf ball, this will fix that. If you find yourself hearing players on the range or on the course, they hit a shot and it just sounds different. It sounds more solid than the shots that you're getting. This is gonna fix that. If you wanna be able to create consistent power without feeling like you have to swing really hard, this will fix that.

So, sounds kinda like a this miracle thing that I'm gonna teach you, but there's a lot of physics here that basically are the reason. That every great player you take, every single player on the PGA Tour, they're all gonna be doing this power position that I'm gonna be teaching you. They may do other things different, so they may have a backswing that goes inside like this or it goes more vertical like that, or at the top of the swing, they're across the line or laid off.

You see all these different positions throughout the swing, but this one position is gonna be incredibly consistent cuz you just have to do it to hit the ball well. All right, so let's go into it and talk about what it is. Well, the power position is when the hands are in front of the right leg and the downswing, so I like to think of it as a logo of my glove in front of my right leg.

I want the club shaft to be about parallel with the ground. Now if I'm casting it or throwing out like this, when my hands get down to my right leg, the club head is gonna be way down here. Instead of way back here where it needs to be. Now, the reason that this is so important is because when I have this lag or this club head lagging behind my hands like this, now as I come through contact, I'm gonna let that release and the club is gonna fly out of my hands and really accelerate quickly.

And that's the only way that you can get a lot of speed without having to feel like you're muscling it. Now another benefit to this is if I can get this position here, well, as I'm coming to contact, it's gonna basically guarantee that even though this club is releasing and this club head is accelerating under its own force, my hands are still gonna be leading in front of the club head.

So it's almost impossible to go with my hands here. Well, heck, my hands are almost already over top of the golf ball and then flip and have the club back like that. You really just can't do it. So if you can get this one power position right, it pretty much guarantees that your hands. Get in front of contact.

Now when your hands are in front, that helps you to hit the ball first and then come down and take your divot after the golf ball, which is really gonna clean up your strikes and make your contact that much more solid. So what I want you to do, to do this is there's a couple secret pieces. Make sure that you follow these.

I'm gonna teach you in a minute. But the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna practice this position. I'm making a little half back swing. I'm gonna shift my weight to my left foot, so that's. Incredibly important for getting into this power position. I'm gonna talk about. I'm gonna shift my weight to my front foot.

I'm gonna let my hips start to open up slightly. As I'm doing that, it's a little half back swing shift left, open the hips, and then let my hands come down in this power position. That's the first piece. Do that a few times to get the feeling of it. Shift left open hips, hands in front of the right leg club parallel to the ground.

Now the next piece with it is if I'm standing up outta my posture, I'm gonna do that exact same thing again. But instead of having my hands almost waist high, I'm gonna feel like my hands are getting close to my knee level. So my hands should be about four or five inches above my knee if I'm doing this correctly.

So a little weight shift to the left. Open the hips, make sure the hands are about four or five inches above the knee. That's in a great position for this power position. Now, most players, when they try to get their weight left open, the hips, that club starts to tip out this way, and that can cause you to be steep and over the top, which we don't want to do.

So a good solution for this is I'm gonna put a club on the ground kind of going down my toes, and I wanna have that facing toward the target. I'm not gonna worry about lining that up perfectly. Here today, you'll get the idea. But if I'm over the top, then as I get into this power position, my club is gonna be out here.

So yes, my hands will be in front of my right leg. My club will be parallel to the ground. But if I'm looking at it from down the line, it's not gonna be parallel with my target line. It's gonna be out here. I actually want you to be, and this is a little known thing with great players, but if you look at great players when their club is parallel to the ground in the downswing, it actually won't be facing toward the target.

It'll be slightly inside of the target line. So we're gonna do this power position again, weight shift, the left hips open, hands are low. And then I'm making sure the club is actually inside of this line on the ground that's going toward my target. So now it's in here. That's gonna guarantee that I'm coming from the inside.

I'm releasing the club inside out and I'm hitting a nice tight little draw. Now, there's a lot of physics, and I'm not gonna get into the details here, but there's one that's called parametric acceleration. Basically it means. As you turn an angle, imagine a skier being pulled behind a boat. As that boat turns an angle, it slings the skier through there.

Same thing's happening here. My hands reach a low point, kind of in front of my right leg here when this club's parallel. And then as my body keeps on rotating, my hands are actually gonna move back up. And this club head or the skier is gonna be slung through the golf ball. That's where you get the easy speed.

Now the cool thing about this is if you have the club a little bit to the inside, like I just talked about, as that club has slung through there under its own momentum, like that skier being slung under its own momentum, the club's gonna sling from the inside. And your path or the direction the club is swinging is naturally gonna be a little bit inside out.

Or be that nice tight draw. So again, that's from coming through here in the downswing, making sure that it doesn't get tipped out this way. So let's hit the checkpoints again. Little half swings. Weight shift to left hips. Open hands are gonna be about right here, just above the knee club shaft parallel to the ground club from the inside.

And then from there, I just keep on rotating. I feel like the, the, the club head or that skier is being flung out, away from my body. And I'm letting the momentum of the head do the work rather than me trying to muscle it. That's what I call the power position. If you can do that, you're gonna get some pretty daggone good, solid shots.

So now let's go ahead. I'm gonna do a little half swing here again. I got a six iron, and you'll notice I'm gonna swing really nice and smooth, but using this technique I can get a lot of good distance and hit solid shots without putting out a ton of effort.

Here we go. 1 95, carry with a six iron. That may have looked like a pretty full swing. Let's slow it down a little bit. I can't overestimate enough just how powerful this is. Let me make what feels like a little quarter swing, so this nice and smooth on the way back and way through. I'm just gonna make sure that I do the power position correctly though.

There we go. Again, draw happened automatically 1 72, and I felt like I barely even swung at all. I felt like I put out almost no effort. My body just kind of rotated through and that club just got slung around. That's so much easier when you're getting these right positions, like what you're seeing all the great ball strikers in the world do.

Now, one of the things that we talked about here today, Is we, we hinted around was that this is gonna help the club to release properly. And the cool thing about this, if you get in this power position from here, it's impossible to get in this position and not have that great straight line release out in front.

Now sometimes, When you start to focus on that straight line release or to releasing to a, a target that's out in front of the golf ball, that makes it so much easier to get in this position cuz it really ties in with your mind how I'm kinda lagging this club behind. I'm in this power position and then I'm letting it go out in front.

So the straight line release can be really helpful in making that happen. Now I want you to go to level one of the straight line release. If you're a member of the Top Speed Golf website, go to level one of the Straight Line release and do the very first video in that series. Which is really gonna help you to get this idea of releasing out in front.

Watch that and pair it up with what you did here today. And that's like the perfect one-two punch. It's like the full picture of what the club and the body should be doing through impact now. Makes sense. And it's really effortless, which is cool. You don't feel like you're gonna guide it. You don't feel like you're gonna muscle it.

You feel like that club is just kind of releasing under its own momentum out in front of the golf ball. The golf ball just gets in the way and it's a whole heck of a lot easier to play some good golf. So head on over to the straight line release right now. Do the very first video and I'll see you there.