G192. The Truth About The Weight Shift | Key To An Effortless Golf Swing

Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Truth About The Weight Shift | Key To An Effortless Golf Swing"

In today's lesson...

Professor Q will give you the key to having a smooth effortless swing like Ernie Els or Fred Couples...

...including the subtle move early in your swing that helps make it much easier!

You'll feel like less effort is getting you even more distance.

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 9:33

Video Transcription:

I don't know about you, but I would truly kill for a swing as smooth and as effortless looking as Ernie Els or Freddy Couples. But what we need to get there is we need to have this perfect mesh of shifting our weight and turning our body. We can't just do one or the other. You may have heard instruction that says you have to be very centered, while if I just stay very centered, it's just not going to be very powerful.

And that's not going to be very consistent when I do that. Freddy and Ernie are definitely not doing that, and I just don't want to shift either and not really turn, because if I do that, then I might swing kind of looks like that. And I'll tell you what, that that didn't really feel great on my back just doing that.

So if you have a sore back, it may be from doing all that swaying and sliding in the swing. Nobody is consistent when they do that. So what we really need to do is we need to have the perfect mesh of both. And I'm going to show you a very easy way to be able to do that. So that way we have that nice, effortless looking swing like an Ernie or Freddy.

So what ideally we want to do is we want to have a little bit of a shift very early in the back swing. If you look at a lot of great players, you look at those players I just talked about, you look at Rory McIlroy as well. You will see a very subtle shift of their hips into their trail side.

A lot of times it's even before the club starts going back. Some people like Henrik Stenson. Stenson will have a more prominent one, but most players are going to have some slight little. Sometimes it's just a half an inch. It's very subtle, you know, if you're not really looking for it, you may not see it. And that's why a lot of people think they're staying very centered and not shifting.

But the reality is, is that there is usually a very little shift in the beginning of the back swing. So that's what we want. We have a little shift, so that way we can apply pressure into our trail foot. That pressure that we put into our trail foot is going to allow us to turn our hip back and around.

What we don't want to do is apply that pressure and just keep applying it and keep moving this way. We want to apply that pressure, keep this leg angled in so that way I can turn my hip back around. That's going to allow me to turn my body so that way I can have a lot of effortless power and speed.

Just like I talked about with those players. So here's a great drill to get that back swing shift in turn happening. What we're going to do and you can use a chair. Basically, we just want to have anything that we can kind of set up and have just outside of our hips. So I just have something there that I'm going to put, you know, roughly about a finger or a hand width between my hip in there and the noodle probably isn't the best thing.

It's a little bit hard to feel something a little bit heavier, like maybe a chair you could even use a doorframe in your house might be a little bit better. But basically what we want to do is we want to have a little bit of space there and then as soon as we start the back swing, we want to feel that right and then we want to turn away from it and create some space here as we get up to the top.

So that's going to get us shifting and then turning and lead us to be able to have a proper downswing. So let's do this first and let's just get the sense and feel for this, right? So I'm just gonna start out with the practice swing. I'm going to get in my setup position here. I'm going to have a hand with here.

I'm going to shift into it, turn my body away, and then turn all the way through into the full finish. And I want to have a sensation like a nice brush on the turf when I do that. So let's do another one. Going to have a little bit of space there. I'm going to shift into it, turn my body, shift to my left side, come around and do a full finish.

So you can see there, I didn't put a lot of effort into that swing. It was just shift, turn, shift, turn. So if you see your swing, you're just making this space right away. You're not shifting into your lead side or your trail side. Excuse me. We want to shift into the trail side, put pressure on the ground.

If you look into that, your swing and you draw a line here and you push into that and you stay pushing into it, then you're not getting to your left side right. We want to shift and then turn away from it to be able to get to our lead side properly. Now in the downswing, we just want to do the same thing now that we have the back swing in a good position.

Right. We just going to move this to the other side. Now, typically there's going to be a little bit more shifting in the downswing. If you draw a line straight up from my ankle here, that's basically, you know, just outside my hip, it may be more of a the whole part of your hand here. That's typically what you're going to see.

Tour players are getting pretty close to that, right? So what you can do is you can just make some swings here, put a whole hand between your between your hip in that. And what we'll be doing is we just want to make some practice swings here. We shift into our trail side and we're going to shift into our lead side without touching.

That's just barely. If we're getting if we're touching it, then we're just sliding too far. We're not turning out of the way enough. All right. So let me go ahead and try once again, I'm going to do a little shift. Turn normally a shift and that turn. Let's see how I do with my practice on here. So there I didn't I didn't touch I may have touched it, just barely.

I couldn't feel it. I saw it wobbling a little bit, but I think I stayed in a pretty good position there. So that's where we want to be. If I'm going like this and then sliding in front of it, I'm going to chop down on it. I'm going to tend to come over the top, that sort of thing.

Now, another key principle with this is where we're feeling our pressure in our feet. We want to stay nice and balanced over our feet or we don't want to do a shift, get our hips kind of moving out toward the golf ball and then kind of shift and go like that because then I'm going to stand up out of it, really extend, flip out, I'll off hit really, really poor shots.

Typically when I do that. So I want to feel like I'm staying very balanced in my feet. I'm driving in my heel when I'm going back. So initially it's going to be kind of in the balls of my feet. And then as I'm going back on the air, drive into my heel, and then when I set to my lead side, it's going to be in the balls of my foot.

And then when I come through into the finish, it's going to be more in my heel for coming into contact and we're out on our toes. That's usually an indication and you can confirm this by looking at your swing on video that you're standing up out of it, you're losing your posture. And when I lose my posture, I have to kind of throw my hands at it.

Nobody is consistent when they do that excessively. When they do that too much, we want to be able to come in, at least get some shaft lean. You know, we don't have to have tore like shaft lean. But if we're getting the shaft, the hands in front and back, we're going to be in good shape with things. That's when we really stand up out of it, you know, get straight up and down with the shaft.

Or even sometimes I see backwards shaft lean, right. That's when we're really going to lose a lot of consistency. So it's really, really important that we're feeling we're driving into the heel, pushing back, driving into the to the balls of the feet and then into the heel as we're coming into the fore finish. Now, if you're having trouble with this, what you may want to do is flare out the feet, makes it a lot easier to shift and turn, shift and turn.

That's really what we want to do. We want to shift first. As soon as we shift and get that pressure into the feet, we want to turn and then we're going to shift again and then we're going to turn out of the way. That's what's going to allow us to power our body, to rotate, so that way we can slingshot the arms and create lots of effortless speed.

If I don't do anything, if I just go like this, that's not going to be a lot of speed, right? I need a shift. Turn, shift, turn. It's almost like my arms are just kind of wet noodles and they're just being powered by my body to get a nice smooth swing. So let's see if we can put this together here and see if we can put a good swing on it and put that shift, turn, principle, shift, turn, shift, turn, principal and see if we can get a good strike here.

All right. So dead straight. That's about as good as I can do for a nine iron. 161 I think I think I got a little adrenaline go and usually I hit my nine iron 161 but I'm really happy with that. And I didn't feel like I put in a lot of effort. I feel like I just shifted, turn, shifted turn and everything just kind of happened, right?

I got a nice everything squared up nicely and got a nice shot out of that. All right. Now that we have this piece down, we're shifting and turning properly. We have good balance in our feet. Now, what we really want to do, the next natural step for this is to get this club shallowing out. So that way I can more easily use this and stay in my posture properly.

You see, if I'm coming down steep, I'm going to have to stand up to get that club shallowing out. And I don't want to make that compensation. I want to be able to stay in good balance and not want to stand up. I want to get that club shell out so that way I can turn in the ball, get that club releasing out front, get that good forward shuffling and compression on the ball.

So we actually have a somewhat new course that we've gotten tons of feedback from thousands of golfers. They've seen great results from it a lot of times in just one rain session getting great results. And so our 20 minute shallowing fix and clay goes over a sequence of drills that are going to help you to get this club shallowing out and get to where you're hitting.

Not only really effortless shots, getting the ball accurate and straight, and you're gonna be hitting a lot more greens and playing a lot better golf if you get this down. So if you want to check out this video or check out this course, all you have to do is click the instruction tab and then click the top speed golf system, then go to the 20 minute shallowing fix.

From there, it's 100% free with your membership. You just got to go there, start working on the drills, start playing some better golf, play well and I'll talk to you soon.