Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This Basic Driver Move Will Change Your Golf Swing | Straighter Drives"

In today's lesson...

You'll discover the one super basic move that makes a WORLD of difference...

...for hitting not just longer, but straighter with the big stick.

Plus, how you can easily start incorporating it into your swing!

Who knew it was so easy to be both long and straight?

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:44

Video Transcription:

Now, I gotta tell you, there's one very basic driver move that makes a world of difference on how well you're gonna hit the big stick, how far you're gonna hit it, and how straight you're gonna hit it. Most players that I see will set up to the ball very much too vertically, meaning that their spine is straight up and down.

Their head is kind of between their feet and the the ball may be even a little bit more toward the middle of their stance. And when they swing in their downswing, because we're told to kind of square the club face up by rolling our forearms over, a lot of times what will happen is we'll stand up out of our posture in the downswing, meaning my upper body starts to lean back like this so that my arms can throw and I'm very much vertical or straight up and down here.

Well, the best drivers in the game, actually, every single player on the PJ Tour, you can line 'em up. From one all the way to 200. Every single one of them is not gonna be doing that. They're gonna be behind the golf ball, the ball position's gonna be on the inside of the front foot from there. If I had my left arm from my shoulder kind of straight down toward the driver, my right arm would be angled back like this.

So instead of my shoulders being level, I'm gonna have my shoulders this way. There's a couple ways I can do this. I'm gonna show you several different ways to get this feeling. Number one, I can start with my hands to my sides. This would be vertical. My fingertips are the same distance down my pant legs.

As I start to tilt my shoulders, I'm gonna continue to tilt them. So I get a little bit of knee flex. I tilt my shoulders until my right. Fingers are just above my kneecap and my left fingers have kind of slid up to just below my pocket on my pants there. That will get my shoulders tilted like this. It gets my head behind the golf ball, and now all of a sudden I'm in a position here to where I can create a ton of lag and the downswing, I can comfortably create lag.

I can come from the slot or from the inside, and then from there I can release on out through the ball and get a lot of extension as I'm coming through there. You see, if I swing too vertically like this, I'm gonna end up throwing my arms down at it and standing up outta my posture. So let's go ahead and try the wrong way here.

Again, I'm gonna stand up like that. I feel like I'm kind of pushing the club through. Very awkward. Where as I let my arms slide down my legs like this. Now I'm behind it. I almost feel like I'm gonna, if I had an axe here, I'd be hitting it. So if this is the tip of the ax, I'd be hitting it from the inside like this, and my shoulders are angled behind it.

It's just a much more powerful position. From there, I feel like I can absolutely hammer it. I dunno why it's going so quick on the screen today, but that 1, 2 90 carry, three 13 total distance. Much easier to hit a draw, much easier to come from the inside. So tilting the shoulders, sliding the hands down, that's one way of doing it.

Now, another way, if I was to take my club, We're getting to the exact same result here, but if my hips are out of a line, it's not gonna work. So I'm gonna put this club on the front of my pants here on my belt, where my belt is on my belt loops. So it's the same height, it's level with my hips. From there, I'm gonna go ahead and bump my hips so that my left hip is a little higher.

My right lip hip is a little lower, and now you can see this club shaft gets slightly angled up like that. So this would be level, this would be me leaning the other way. I'm getting a little bump this way, and I'm slightly closing my hips. This makes it a little easier to get my body tilted back. Behind the golf ball slightly.

So all I'm doing there is tilting it, turning a little bit closed, and now all of a sudden, again, I'm opening up this big amount of room, this big amount of space to come from the inside and to get that club shallowed out so that I can hit that nice draw. Now here, I'm gonna overdraw it a little bit. I'd rather do that a little extra because most players would love to hit a little extra draw, if anything.

So now I bumped my hips forward. A little bit closed, and again, I'm creating that same kind of feeling where it's tilting my shoulders. My head is behind the golf ball. There we go. Killed that one again. Two 90 ish carry, 2 87 0.43 12. Total distance. I'm pre Dagg unhappy with that. Now, I think there's one thing that can tie this all together and make it a whole heck of a lot simpler.

It's what I call the straight line release in the top speed golf system. So what this means is as I get my body tilted back behind it, I can have a ton of lag in the downswing. I can come from the slot. Even at Impact, my club has it fully released. So if I choked up on this club shaft as I come to impact, My club shaft is in front of my forearms.

So imagine there's a triangle, left arm, shoulders, right arm. That club is on this side of that triangle. And then from there, it's not splitting that triangle until way up here somewhere. And then the club is going ahead and releasing, well, if I think about that release point being out in front. So let's put a golf ball, you know, five, six feet in front of the golf ball that I would be hitting here.

If I just visualize, okay, I'm gonna throw my club at that golf ball in front, naturally, that would be a whole heck of a lot easier if I got tilted behind the golf ball, got a ton of lag from the inside like this, and then cleared my body outta the way and let that release to there. The problem is most players visualize it as hitting the golf ball straight down in front of you.

So I stand up, I keep my shoulders level, my body level, and I throw at this golf ball that I'm trying to hit. That's the big discrepancy between what pros are doing and what recreational golfers are doing. Most every single golfer that I've ever measured, if I've measured 10,000 golfers, I've seen 10,000 golf swings.

I don't see anybody that's ever released their club far enough in front. That wasn't a great player. If you can do that one thing, you're gonna be a good golfer, and getting your body in this position helps with that a whole heck of a lot. So what I want you to do now is, Start to ingrain that pair up.

This body position we talked about here today with where you're releasing the golf club Go. If you're a member of Top Speed Golf, click on the instruction tab, click on the top speed golf system, and then level one of the straight line release. Just watch the very first video of this straight line release.

Pair that with what we talked about here today, and now you got the whole puzzle. My body's in a good position. I have lag. I'm from the inside, and then I'm gonna release it out in front when I put those two things together. You're gonna be beating the pants off your buddies, lemme tell you. So you're gonna play some great golf head on over to the straight line release.

Just watch the very first video from level one right there. And I tell you once you pair it up with today's video, you're gonna have a blast on the golf course. I'll see you in the straight line release.