Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This 2 Part Backswing Move Changes Everything"

In today’s video, I’ll debunk a common myth about your backswing…

…and I’ll demonstrate how your golf swing should almost feel like a “karate chop” into the golf ball.

Plus, I’ll show you how to correct a common right shoulder mistake (around the 2:20 mark) that could be sapping your power on every swing…

If you're fed up with a golf swing that feels too handsy or lacks rhythm, this video will be a game-changer!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 11:13

Video Transcription:

A lot of players have visualized the backswing as being a motion that goes across your body. So my arms are kind of going across my body this way. It feels really tight with my left arm. A lot of times my left elbow will break down right away, and we just end up getting a lot of hand interaction when we're doing that motion across the body.

And a lot of times you feel like you're all hands and arms and there's a lot of manipulation there. Well, the backswing is actually not across the body. It's this motion right here. It's almost like putting my hand over my right shoulder, and if I can just lift my hand up over my right shoulder, that's exactly what the golf swing is.

And we'll go ahead and add the left hand to there. This is the top of the back swing position, so if you can do this correctly, you can nail a perfect backswing. Now, here's what I mean by this. I'm doing this motion at the top of the back swing, and I'm adding it to this motion, which I'm rotating my body back.

And I'm rotating my body through When I put both of those things together, this motion with the rotation, that's when I get a golf swing. So lemme break it down for you. Let me get the perfect position to show you how to do this, where you can see your hands in front of your body. Then when you add the rotation, we're gonna be hitting that perfect backswing positions time after time.

So first, let's talk about where the setup position would be. So I'm gonna go ahead and address this golf ball here. Getting a good setup. And if I stand up outta my posture, my hands would be right here. They're slightly in front of what would be the golf club head or the golf ball, and they're about waist tie, so I'm just bending forward to put them to the ball.

I'm standing straight up so that now I can see my hand position. Let's go ahead and lose the club and the left hand for now. To make things easier, I'm gonna start with my hand kind of in front of my left hip, and I'm just gonna fold it up to where it's about eye level height. It's over my right shoulder.

So I don't want it here in front of my body like this. I want it to be kinda on the outside of my right shoulder. If you have a lot of flexibility in your right arm, you're gonna be able to turn that forearm to where it's straight up and down, or even slightly out like this. I don't have very much flexibility in my right shoulder, so my forearm is gonna be slightly in totally fine.

This means I have to move my arm, my upper arm a little bit more out that way. To get it in a good position. Now, a big mistake here is when a lot of players think about this arm going across, is this right arm really bends close to the shoulder. It should be wider out here like this. So if I imagine this being in front of my arm, this would be kind of in line with my face.

That's way too much to the side. I wanna keep that width or keep that hand in front of me on this position here. Now the reason that's so important is in a golf swing. If we have it out in front of us versus beside us, well, if it's beside me, all of a sudden it left arm bends and this club is getting way too deep this way.

If I keep it out in front of me now as I rotate, I'm keeping that width. You hear all the time. Great players, great pros talking about keeping that width back and down. That's what they mean. Hands a little bit more this way. Rhythm in. Suck behind them like that, that suck behind 'em. Position is these hands really close to my body rather than keeping that width.

Like you're seeing with the top pros. So that's pretty much it starts at the left hip, folds up eye height outside the right shoulder forearms basically up and down. A little bit of width here. And then the final piece is I'm gonna have this hand angled like this. If my hand was straight up and down and I was gripping the club this way, that would be a across the line position.

If I angle that club shaft out to the right like that, as I bend in my posture and get into. My back swing position that would be on plane. So once I have it here like this, I'm simply just adding the left hand to it and I'm gonna go ahead and keep my left arm straight. If you're not feeling like you can keep your left arm straight again, you've probably lost that width.

You've probably, bent, this hand way too close to your right shoulder. Get a little bit farther out there like that perfect backswing position. Now, if you think about it, well, I'm gonna go back from a starting position. Hands in front of the left hip. Club head where the ball would be. I'll go here again and show you there's my address position.

I'm actually, I'll be a little fine tuned here. My spine angle when I'm doing this is actually leaned a little bit to the right. So when we set up to the golf ball, we want a little bit of tilt to the right. So if I'm setting up truly like I am at a dress, I would be leaning a little bit this way. And then going to the top of my backswing position.

Now, I always like to visualize this as almost like a, a karate chop. Like I'm almost taking this club in my right hand and chopping it down and it's at an angle like that. This is incredibly important. We don't wanna feel like it's going straight down like this. That would be way too steep of a club shaft, and I'll get to that here in a minute.

I want it to be at this angle, and I'm feeling like. Almost like I'm just chopping down into the golf ball. Great little visual. For this. I have an impact bag from Eyeline Golf. Uh, if you want one of these, I'll put a link down below one of my favorite impact bags here. I make a few bucks for it. If you buy it from that link, you don't have to have a bag.

You can roll up a, uh, old pillow or something like that. This is great for a lot of drills though, but the way I'm imagining this here, Let's imagine this is an impact, and I almost have it angled like this, so I'm gonna go ahead, set up in my normal position, I'm gonna stand up in front of me like we just talked about, our starting position.

Well, that's about where this impact bag would be. And if I'm making the top of my back swing position two impact, it's like I'm chopping into that bag. That's a great feeling to have for the correct golf swing. Now, another piece of that, if you wanna shallow out this club, you don't wanna chop down vertical, like I said.

You imagine the hand angle is like this. I wanna keep my club on this side of that hand angle that's shallow. That's from the inside. That's what would be lag when I'm in my normal golf swing. So my club stays on this side of my hand angle. So if you imagine that, here's the angle of my hands, I make sure the club stays shallower than that as it's coming down, and that will be perfect for what we're doing in the golf swing.

Now all you have to do is bend over in your posture. Rotate back and through and you've pretty much got it nailed. So let me give you a little surefire way to get the rotation right. So we've done the hand angle to get that at the, the great position at the top of the back swing. Again, I'll go over that here.

That would be this in a real golf swing, right? Picking that club up over the right shoulder as I'm in my posture. That looks like a normal swing. Now the second piece is I'm gonna put this club inside my right ankle. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put a club across my shoulders. Now, make sure it's all the way up to the top of your shoulders here.

As I go to the top of the back swing, I'm just gonna rotate until that club is over top of the club on the ground. So if I dropped it, if my leg wasn't in the way, this club would fall down and fall directly onto this club. If you wanna do one better than that, rotate past that club. So I'll put the grip in kind of sticking out so you can see it.

This would be great. If I go a little past that, that would be even better to where my club rotates here. The reason I have this club on the ground is I don't wanna do this. I don't wanna fall to my left. Now I'm made a bad turn, and if I drop the club, it would be way over here somewhere. I wanna get a weight shift over to the right and get my club on my shoulders matching that club on the ground.

That's the back swing. Add a little bit of a tilt or an angle to it. Now you're swinging on a plane just like you are in the real swing. And as I finish that, I'm gonna come all the way around and I'm gonna feel like the, if I stick this grip out of the right, my right shoulder, as I come through, I'm just gonna feel like I get this pointing toward the target as much as I can.

Now, if you're not very flexible, it's gonna be very important to let this left foot rotate open in the fall through. It's also gonna be very important to get the right foot all the way off the ground to let everything. Turn on through there. But then again, that's the back swing. I'm rotating back. I'm rotating through as far as I can.

That motion with this motion is a golf swing. So practice each of those individually and then once you get the feel for 'em, you're just gonna put both of 'em together. This is exactly what I feel like I'm doing when I make a real golf swing. My golf swing to me feels like I'm doing this. Like I'm almost just hitting into the back of the ball just like that.

And as you rotate back and through it, it just feels very repeatable. It takes all my hands and arms out of it because when I'm doing this again, I can get a lot of lag in this club angle and then boom, let that lag release. It just doesn't feel like I'm having to manipulate it. I'm controlling it with my lats.

Kind of the same motion you would be doing if you're pulling this way, using the big muscles in your back of the lats. That's an easy way to get speed there too. So here I'm gonna pull down into the back of the ball. Let's see if I can get a decent shot.

There you go. Nice little draw. Coming back in toward the target. Not gonna do a lot better than that. One of the first swings of the day. 193 yards with a six iron. That felt pretty daggone. Good. All right. Now everything we talked about here today is really just shallowing the club you see when I make this swing?

And my club stays on this side. That's shallowing the club. You know, a lot of players when they do this, if you haven't been taught the right way to do it, sometimes when you get the club shallowing from the inside, you're, you'll block it out to the right because you're not have, you've not been told the right way to square up the face.

You see, in fact, most people have been shown a grip that is much too weak for their natural wrist positions or their natural wrist ability. So if you take a. A fairly neutral grip here like you might see with a Ben Hogan or a Tiger Woods. If I'm gonna make this downswing move and square up the face, I'm really gonna have to have this left wrist starting to bow, and I have to have quite a bit of flexibility in those wrists to be able to hit a nice tight draw when I'm doing that.

And some people simply don't have it. If you can't make a fist and bow your wrist this way quite a bit, that may be you now in the 20 minute shallowing Fix program. I'm gonna walk you through how to find your natural wrist position so that you can do these moves that we talked about here today. And if you happen to be blocking those out to the right, this is kind of the core piece of that.

So once you've worked on what we did here today, the very next best step is to go over the 20 minute shallowing, fix, walk through your natural wrist position, which I go over for you there, and you're gonna be well on your way to hitting some beautiful shots. In fact, you're gonna hit some of the most solid shots of your life and shallow it on every single swing, and I guarantee it.

In the very next practice session, as long as you follow those drills that I lay out. So if you remember, toss me golf head on over to the instruction tab, toss speed golf system, or 20 minute shallowing Fix course. Click on that and just follow it. You can do the whole thing in a single practice session.

I can't wait to show you your natural wrist position and help you to hit it a whole heck of a lot better. Let's go and get started.