Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "THIS Feeling is Guaranteed to Improve Any Golf Swing"

And we all want that seemingly effortless swing the pros have.

Have you ever been told that something you learned years ago playing baseball might help you get closer to that perfect swing?

Today, I’ll show you how a baseball glove–or even a table tennis paddle–can help you achieve more consistency.

You already know how to make these motions, and today, you’ll learn how to incorporate them into your golf swing!

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:32

Video Transcription:

All right, so you catch a ball at home plate and you go down to make the tag. I bet you that you don't do this with the glove. and scoop or cup your lead wrist. You probably use a motion that is exactly what you should be doing in your golf swing to create lag, to create shaft lane, and hit it really daggone consistent, just like the pros.

Now I'm going to show you how to use this baseball glove drill, and once you learn it, it's going to make it so easy. You probably just didn't realize this is what's supposed to be going, or the feeling that's supposed to be going on in your golf swing. And the best part about it? You already know how to do this.

Now, the second thing I'm going to go over is some players struggle with their left hand and pairing it up with the right hand makes it that much easier. I'm gonna show you this exact same motion on how you get a top spin ping pong or table tennis, uh, paddle, uh, top spin forehand with that. So let's go and get started here.

Now I'm gonna grab a seven iron and let's talk about what the pros are doing. And there's one thing that basically You can work on a lot of things in your golf swing. You could practice for hours and hours, take hundreds of lessons. If you don't get this right, you're simply just not going to hit the ball consistently and solid like the pros.

And what I mean by this is last parallel, or when the club shaft. It's parallel to the ground for the last time in the golf swing before impact. The, the hand should be roughly in front of the right leg. And if we're looking from down the line here, the hand should be slightly to the inside. So the club shaft should be slightly to the inside.

So this is my target line. going toward this target in the distance, I want my club shaft not to be on that target line, but slightly in. So that's that motion here. Now that feels really similar to if I have a baseball glove on to go down and swipe the person out. And let me show you what I mean by that.

So I've just caught this baseball. I'm going to tag somebody out at home plate. I'm going to tag somebody sliding into the base. What I'm going to do here is I'm going to lead as though I'm going to swipe the ground. I'm not going to flick my wrist or cut my wrist like that. I'm going to let my wrist lag behind and I'm going to brush the ground with the back of the glove.

That's how everybody would naturally do it because of the shape of the baseball mitt. Now that same thing is happening in a golf swing. Let me just go ahead and take my right hand, put it inside the baseball mitt here. And the same thing. So I'm going to brush this ground, back of my wrist down toward the ground, club lagging behind.

That's exactly. What would be happening as we're doing that. So, in order to do this, naturally, you would open your body as you tag this person out. You just simply don't have to bend down as much when you're making a golf swing. You just open your body. If I'm looking at this mitt, I don't want it to be out here or steeper as I'm making a golf swing.

I want that to be lagging from the inside like we just talked about. And as I brush that from the inside. I'm going to naturally rotate my body open and it's going to get everything to swing on through under its own momentum. So having this feeling is very, very similar, if not identical, to what a golf swing should be.

Now, like I said, left handed is a little bit tougher for some players than being right handed. So all we're going to do if we're right handed is go ahead and if you have a table tennis paddle, if you don't have one, whatever, that's fine. to grab something that's flat that you can hold like this. You can even grab a book by its side like that, and that'll work fine.

Now, if I'm hitting a topspin forehand in table tennis, again, my body opens up. My arm starts to swing forward, but I can't let the tip of the paddle flip or flick past or scoop past my hands. I'm gonna naturally let it lag behind so that I can hit that topspin type motion. And now if you've played much tennis, I play a lot of tennis or table tennis.

You'll know that you have to let the tip of the racket lag down below the handle of the racket. So this would be level with the ground. This would be the tip of the racket above the handle of the racket. This would be the tip of the racket lagging down below the handle of the racket. So if I'm coming from the down the line here, as I let this lag behind, I'm almost going to feel like the red pad of this table tennis.

So if I'm setting up the red pad will be toward the target. I'm going to feel like that red pad faces down at the ball and it's from the inside. And from there, I have to let the tip of the racket go down this way. I don't want to feel like I scoop it that way and get it above my hand. Same thing in the golf swing.

I'm letting this club lag behind with my right hand and I'm letting it drop from the inside. Rather than feeling like I stand up and flip it this way. So I feel like it lags behind what would be the paddle would be toward the golf ball. Everything would be from the inside. And I just let that stay down from the inside as I'm coming through there.

So if you put both those pieces together, you now have the left hand swiping to get someone out. If you're swiping somebody out in baseball with a glove, you have that racket or that paddle lagging behind with the right hand. And you can see what this is really doing is allowing my body to rotate through.

and the club to lag behind and be really, really consistent. Now, a big key with this is the follow through in a specific way that I want you to do these drills on the follow through. So let's go ahead and hit a couple of shots here. And as you finish this little half swing, halfway back, do the same motions we just talked about.

But as you finish, I want you to never let the club head go past your hands. Or if we had that paddle for that to kick up above the hands, the tip of the paddle. I don't want to do this. and let that fold back up. I want to exaggerate and keep the head of the club below the hands, and I want to see how far I can hit a shot doing it that way.

So when I first start out, I have a little 7 iron here. Let me do a little half drill and we'll try it out. All right, so I didn't get the club head past the hands. I try to keep it down here. I only hit it 70 yards. As I get more and more comfortable with those hands being passive, I'm just simply going to ramp up the speed a little bit.

Again, making sure it's coming from the inside, letting the body open up, and really feeling like the head stays below the hands. There we go. And that was a great one. I got 120 yards, just finishing here. Again, the head of the club below my hands. That's going to keep any of that wrist action, that flippy scoopiness out of the swing.

And better, better yet, it's going to keep you from chunking behind the golf ball. You see, if I'm, if I'm hitting behind this golf ball, I'm going to put another ball on the tee here, or on the mat. If I'm hitting behind it, I'm throwing those hands. This is rotating the body, letting the hands trail behind, letting the club head trail behind and it's staying below them.

So let's see how far I can go full speed here. Never letting that club pass the hands on the way through. It's that pure baseball swipe type motion. There we go. That's about as good as I'm going to do. 142 yards, a little half fall through. And again, you don't have to throw it with the hands to get a ton of speed.

Now there's a piece of this that's really important and I didn't touch too much on this video and that's squaring the face up when you're doing this. You see, when I have that baseball mitt swipe, sometimes I'll see players do this. They try to get that lag, but as they come through contact, the face is really open.

Because they don't have the right grip and some people I'll do a little test for you. I'll go into more detail in my 20 minute showing fix program. I'll talk about it here in a second, but if you can make a fist like this and you try to flex or bow your wrist as far as you can, if you can't keep a fist pretty firm and bow your wrist really bent like this, like a Dustin Johnson, so I'd have to kind of open my fingers, have them dangling down here.

If you can't make a tight fist from this position. There's one type of grip that you flat out just can't be using. And a lot of players are using this grip. You're trying to get lag, trying to get shaft lean, trying to do all these things we're talking about, but it's simply not possible based on the flexibility of your wrist.

You gotta find your own natural grip. That's exactly what I'm gonna do in the 20 minute shallowing fix. If you're a member of Top Speed Golf, go to the instruction tab, 20 minute shallowing fix, go through those drills there. In a single practice session, you're gonna be able to find out this natural grip.

You're going to be able to hit it, to shallow out the club every single time and hit some of the most solid shots of your life. I guarantee it. That's part of the promise of that course, and I want you to head over there right now. So best of luck. Let's pair that up with what we talked about here today, and I'll see you in the 20 minute shallowing fix.