Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This Driver Tip Just Works | Total GAME CHANGER"

In today's lesson...

They tested the swings of lower handicap golfers vs the swings of higher handicap golfers...

...and they found one HUGE difference that's creating a TON of problems for the higher handicap golfers.

Find out what that difference is...

...and what a sliding door has to do with the tip that's going to fix the issue.

Fixing this one thing will make all the difference in the world in your game.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:35

Video Transcription:

All right. Now you're probably wondering what the heck is this giant white thing and what does it have to do with me hitting my driver? Well, well, it's actually something that's really important in the golf swing. Unfortunately, my flight scope radar won't work with this giant door in the way, but that's exactly what this is.

This is a door that I just took off, a sliding door off the hinges, uh, strapped a two by four. And it's representing what's called the vertical swing plane. Now, when you test professional golfers versus recreational golfers, what they found is, is that professional golfers have a flatter vertical swing plane.

So you can imagine this as the plane that my club head is coming through is is traveling on as I'm going through contact. And what they found is that the lower handicapped golfers have a flat. Vertical swing plane and higher handicapped golfers tend to have a more, uh, upright vertical swing plane. This makes a huge difference in all kinds of things that can pop up in your golf swing.

So let me run through, and the great thing about this, you don't have to have this door here. This is just a visual representation of what's happening. By changing your mindset and changing what you're visualizing, uh, the goal of a golf swing to be, a lot of these things will start to clear themselves up.

So let's start with piece number. Which is coming up outta your posture. You see, a lot of times when I have the idea that I'm gonna hit at this golf ball, I'll tend to come down and pull down toward the ground. And what that does is that gets a, a much steeper club shaft. And this is why most players have two upright of a vertical swing plane, is they start to pull down toward the golf ball.

This club is too steep and if I kept going down on this angle, it would just slam into the. So I'll tend to stand up outta my posture and that will shallow the club some. And then in an effort to hit the golf ball or an effort to redirect it, I'll then have to raise my hands up. And all of a sudden, this driver angle is much more upright.

Now, if you're wondering for a driver, this swing plane angle for tour players on average is 45 degrees. And as you go into shorter and shorter irons, because those are more upright, let's say, as we go to the wedge, , they're much more vertical. So a six iron is more at 60 degrees. So this would be my driver's kind of representation of the vertical swing plane.

This would be my pitching wedge representation. Now the cool thing about this is you're probably thinking right now, you know, clay, this is getting even more complicated. How do I know if I'm on the right plane? This seems like it's gonna be a lot of work to get Well, I got great news for you. Every single player that I've ever worked with, That that wasn't a low handicapped golfer.

Barring may be a handful of players here and there, they've all been too vertical. And a great way to check this is look at your divots. If your divots have that nice square dollar bill shaped to 'em, you're probably coming down on the correct swing plane with an iron. If your divots are towed down, meaning that my handle raise.

The outside of my divot is deeper than the heel of my divot or the leading edge, or when my club very first hits the ground isn't perfectly flush it and perfectly flat. That means that your swing plane is too vertical. And like I said, dang near every single golfer, I'm talking, thousands of golfers, unless they were a scratcher better, we're all pretty much too vertical and they're swing planes.

You gotta flatten. So when I think about this door here, now all of a sudden it makes a lot more sense how I stand my posture. Well, how would I swing under this door? I definitely wouldn't be able to swing under this door easier if I stood up outta my posture, that would make it even tougher. I would want to feel like I actually get my upper body going down toward the ground.

I kinda lower my body and I'm swinging under this door this way, and I'm exaggerating. for example's sake, but if you feel much more down under like this, then that's really gonna help you to shallow out that swing plane and stay in your posture all the way through. A second thing here, if I think about, instead of pulling this club down toward the ground, I now think about pulling it on this angle.

So I'm really trying to slot the club in here much on a flatter plane so it can fit underneath this door, and I'm pulling it more toward the golf. and I can even imagine the button of the club is facing out to that golf ball. Now all of a sudden, look at my right elbow, it begins to tuck under. Look at my club shaft.

It lays down flatter. If I'm looking from face on, this is a big key for this, and I'll mention this here in a minute, but if I'm looking from face on, if I pull the club down, this looks very steep and not very much lag. Watch what happens when I shallow this plane. Now all of a sudden it looks like a ton of lag.

So when you're looking at somebody like Sergio Garcia or players that just have massive amounts of lag, you just wish you could have that sharp angle like that because you know that can really help with your golf swing. A big part of that is coming from shallowing it out this way, which gives the appearance of tons more lag in the down swing.

So what I want you to do is to visualize this when you're hitting some golf balls and feel like you're getting under this. . Another big piece to this, uh, one thing that I really like is I like to feel like my butt cheeks are scraping the ground. So as soon as I make a downswing, I feel like I'm putting my butt cheeks right on the ground, and I'm staying down there on that.

Now again, that's gonna help me from standing up outta my posture, but it's also gonna help me to get on a better plane and all these other things that we're talking about here. So let me give you an example of what that would look like or what I feel like I'm doing when I do this. So I'm squatting, my legs are staying bent.

This is down on the. I feel like I'm getting under this door and I'm pulling the butt cap toward the golf ball, and that allows me to swing on a much shallower plane. Now, like I said, you're not gonna be able to see the on the, the launch monitor because the doors in the way of the readings, but you can see how there, that was a really exaggerated example of how to shallow that out.

Now there's still a second piece of this. We can't stop here. This is getting us started on all these great things, staying in our posture, being able to create the lag like we talked about when we shallow out this. . But if you really want to ingrain that, there's a series of drills that I want you to work through.

And if you remember a top speed golf, what you'll do is you go to the top speed golf system, go to the instruction tab, top speed golf system, and then the lag section. And this is perfect for this cuz a lot of times players never realize that being steep is killing their lag. And once they get this door drill, man, that makes it so much easier when you do work through your lag drills to fully ingrain it for a life.

So start with level one, and I just want you to pick one video from that today. And as you work through that video and the drills there, it's gonna make it natural. And my goal for you is this, just with a handful of videos, as you start to work through level one, two, and three in the top speed golf system for the lag section, you're gonna get so ingrained with lag that you don't even have to think about it.

You walk outta the. You walk straight to the driving range or even go to the first tee and without thinking, you just make a swing unconsciously, and it's gonna have tons of lag, and you're really gonna hit it very, very solid and very far without putting out a lot of effort because you get this whip that comes from the club.

So it's pairing both those things together. This is gonna get you started. You're gonna have tremendous results. Just doing this door drill and filling that shallower angle with more lag, but then you're gonna build on it and, and keep it forever to make it where you don't have to think about it all. And the way that you do that is working through a system.

So head on over the lag section right now. I can't wait to share with you the very first video in that it's gonna help you to, to really pair up what we did here today. Let's go and get started.