Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Truth About Shallowing The Golf Club"

If you’ve been taught that shallowing the club in the downswing means getting the club super flat in the backswing…

…chances are, you’re doing it wrong.

Thankfully, it’s something that can be corrected.

And today, I’ve got a video that’ll break down exactly what shallowing means, and how the pros achieve it…

…it’ll also show you the best way to get that shallow downswing, for any golfer, no matter what your particular swing issues might be.

Plus, I’ve got a secret about setting up your camera, which can help reveal if you're on track (or if you've been slightly off course).

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:20

Video Transcription:

Clay: Now, if you want to shallow that club in transition, you've probably been told you need to get this club looking in this really flat position like this. And that's not really what's going on with shallowing. You actually don't have to get it anywhere like that. But if you shall the way that I'm going to show you in this video and measure it the way that I show you in this video, it's going to be the same way that virtually every single tour player that's ever played has shall the club.

Now it all starts with setting up the camera in the right position. I'm going to go ahead and show a swing of one of our certified instructors, Robin Rosado, he's our director of in person instructor instruction here in Orlando. And he's making a perfectly shallow swing in this one. This is very similar to what you'll see with Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, a lot of really great players to where the club doesn't have this giant lay down.

And we'll just break it down piece by piece, show you exactly what to do and then how to get it more shallow if you're a little bit steeper. So when I set up to this golf ball, if I'm going to measure shallowing, I need to set up the camera to where it's shooting through my elbows toward the target. Now today, I don't have the camera set up like that, but in Robin's video, I do.

Now, even though there isn't a target in the distance, you're going to imagine that you have a laser shooting out of your camera lens, and as you set up at address, it should shoot right through your elbow and hit the flag that you're aiming at. So your camera is going to be roughly waist high. It's going to be in line with your target to where your target, if you're looking from your camera's view, is.

cover your elbow. If you're looking from your camera's view is covering up the flag that you're aiming toward that gets everything really good. Now, if you're too close to the person. So if I'm taking my video from here, everything gets really distorted. You actually want to go farther away, 10 or 15 feet behind you when you're filming and then zoom in a little bit, that's going to make these angles so much clearer and easier to see.

Now, as I'm doing that, I'm going to draw a line to what I call. the shallowing line, the most important line here. And this is something that, uh, let me go ahead and tell you what it is first and then how I came about it. So draw a line from the center of the golf ball and at address, that's going to come up through the center of the right elbow.

Now, as I gave thousands of lessons, online lessons, I always use pros. Lots of times I'd use guys like Tiger Woods, Adam Scott. Best players in the world, right? Top 10, 15 players in the world. I usually tried to use those swings. Now I've reviewed almost every single PGA tour player. And for a while I did a swing review of everybody that won each week, or actually for a few years, I did that.

And I noticed that they're all getting below this line. Now it wasn't until Sasha McKenzie came out with a lot of his, uh, what's called kinetics of the swing and started talking about the importance of shallowing from. actual scientific forces that are going in the club that it all made sense why they're shallowing.

But I noticed that every single one of them was getting below that line. Once I paired up the science that I'm teaching here in a second, it made it really common sense to why that's happening. So you draw a line from the golf ball up through the elbow. And what you'll see is in the backswing, you'll see all this different stuff.

Some people drag it inside. Some people take it way back out here like a Matt Wolf or Jim Furyk. Some people are perfectly on plane as they're going back and through. So the backswing doesn't matter as much, but in the downswing, what I found with all great players is that when the hands in the downswing got somewhere between chest high and waist high, or definitely by the time the club got below your head, when we're looking for the down the line view, that club should be perfectly on that line or just slightly inside of that line.

Actually, it could be a lot inside of that line. If you're someone like a Sergio Garcia, Who really lays it down. What I didn't see through doing tons and tons of reviews are professional golfers who've got their club head on this side of the line. But when I looked at recreational golfers, they almost all got their club on that side of the line.

So we're looking at a swing like this. We may at first say, well, that's a pretty swing, but that's not that shallow. That's perfectly shallow. This much inside of the line is fantastic. This much inside of the line is fantastic, but you got to get it on that side of the line. And the club head has to get below that.

for the forces to really work. Now, when I'm talking about the forces here, if we can imagine, if I was to bring the club about halfway back with my left arm only, my right arm's not on the club, and I got this club shallower, the head way inside of that, and then I went ahead and just pulled down on this grip, similar to what a golf swing would be, That club is going to kick forward.

The club head is going to release, the momentum of the club is going to release, and it'll actually go toward the golf ball. So if I did this, and I pulled down, it naturally goes very similar to what a golf swing would be. If I did the opposite of that, and I took the club and put it on this side of my hands, and did the same motion, all of a sudden it wants to fly in and hit my right leg.

That's where the blocks to the right are coming from. That's where the face... Wanting to open up and the difficulty to get rid of the slice comes from if you're struggling with blocks to the right, if you're a better player, you're hitting the blocks to the right. And then the next time the face wants to open up, it's a little steep.

It wants to open up and then I have to slam it shut and I snap hook one or if I'm more of an intermediate player, I'm a little steeper and I'm coming over the top and this club face feels like it's very difficult to get it to close down and square up and it's giving me a slice. Both of those, or all three of those scenarios, are coming from having this clubhead on the wrong side of the line.

Once I get it on the inside of the line, as I simply pull through, notice the clubhead wants to square up under its own momentum. Notice how the clubhead wants to kick toward the golf ball. From on this side of the line, as I swing down, the clubface wants to open up and it wants to kick behind me, which means blocks to the right, snap hooks, or players as they start out.

Compensate for that by trying to come more over the top and get the slice in there. So no matter what you do, gotta get that club on the inside of the line if you're going to be consistent at golf. In fact, when you do, I can simply take one hand here, and I can hit some pretty decent shots just one handed.

There we go. So, 130 yards with a little one handed 7 iron here, and because I get this club shallowed out, and from the inside, it's pretty easy for me to control the face. So I can hit a lot of shots like that without having to feel like I'm manipulating the club. I'm not some kind of super athlete. I'm just getting the club a little bit shallower from the inside.

Now, here's a couple tricks to be able to get it shallow. Number one, I want to set up with a little bit of spine tilt. I don't want to be leaning to the left because that's going to get my club wanting to come this way. I'm going to get a little bump to the inside. I'm going to feel like my nose is behind the golf ball.

And from there, I'm going to feel like my hands and arms or a little bit deeper as I go back. And I'm going to feel like my club, as I come down, is coming well from the inside. And I'm almost going to hit like a little topspin inside out. The feeling of having a little topspin inside out forehand. So if I'm steeping over the top, I'm coming over this way and hitting on top of the ball.

I want to feel like I let that club shallow out, and I'm hitting this way around the ball. Now, if you're already a better player, and you're from the inside, Then what you may be doing there is getting that little inside move, but the club shaft is still steep, and maybe that club is still barely over the line.

So you try to get your arms deeper, but the club's still coming down this way, and it's not really getting the forces the way we want them. For players like that, what I recommend is feeling like the hands come down a little bit more square. I don't want to loop the hands way inside. The hands are going to come down square.

I'm just going to open the palm a little bit more. So as you're coming down, let the hands and arms swing back and forth on plane like this. But if I want to get that club a little shallower, all I'm going to do is have the palm open slightly to get that club head a little below what would be the shallowing line.

So I'm going to feel like on my backswing, that palm opens. And then from there, I'm going to go ahead and close that palm and release that palm through the shot. All right, so let's give it a whirl here.

There we go. And I'm not going to hit a seven iron any better than that and crush that thing. 190 yards on the carry one 97 total distance and a nice tight little draw like that. So that's the real shallowing. If you're trying to get it way in here like this, that's way overdone. You don't have to do that much.

Now the best news is if you're a member of top speed golf, you can work through a surefire system that I guarantee will get you shallowing the club every single time after just a single bucket of balls. And have you hitting some of the most solid shots of your life. Now, I didn't have the time to go into all the details here, like finding your natural grip that makes this much easier and doing it the right way.

Most people are told to grip, do the grip the wrong way. Also didn't have time to get into your natural elbow position to be able to feel like you slot the club from the inside and tuck that rod elbow like you've been trying to do for years. So that's just two things that are going to make showering so much easier and it's all in the 20 minute showering fix.

So click the instruction tab, go to the top speed golf system or the 20 minute showing fix tab, either one, go through the 20 minute showing fix, and you can do it as little as a single day. Start shouting out that club and hitting the best shots of your life. In fact, I guarantee it head over there. Now let's go and get started.