Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This Is The Simplest Drill That Can Improve ANY Golf Swing"

And it's very easy to get consumed with too many thoughts when you swing a golf club.

In today's lesson...

Professor Q will show you a drill to get you focused on what matters...

...so you can clear all the extra baggage out of your mind.

If you struggle with too many thoughts this one can really help free your mind.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 8:37

Video Transcription:

I finally allowed golfers the economy are having trouble because they're really complicating things. Now, finally, if we can just simplify things that make things, makes things a lot easier. And this drill is a great place to start. So if you find yourself you're sitting there and you're watching YouTube video after video after video and you're trying to find the answer to all your problems.

Most likely, this drill can really help you to solve a lot of those things. There's a lot of things that this drill solves and it's very, very easy to do. So a big issue that I see with a lot of golfers is how they are positioned at the top of the swing. So I'll see the spines leaning toward the target that will tend to make you fall away.

Maybe we're swaying the hips, right, or we're not turning our shoulders. We're just kind of bending our arms up to here, maybe where we're laying the club off too much, too far across the line. That can make the club come down in all kinds of funky ways. And it just makes it very, very difficult to get down to the golf ball in a good position.

So what I have is a drill here that's really going to help you to find that proper position at the top. So that way you can more easily transition that to the downswing because most of the time the downswing issues, like I said, are because of what we're doing in our transition. If we can get into a good position there, a lot of times I will just solve a lot of the things that are going on in the downswing.

So what we're going to do here is we're just going to get in our setup position and we're going to take the club and we're going to put it here, right up here on my shoulder, right here on my right shoulder for Lefty would be your trail shoulder. Okay. Then from there, what I want you to do is I want you to stay in your posture.

We all want to stand up, and I want you to turn your shoulder to where basically you're looking over your shoulder at the golf ball. Now, when you're doing this, it's important to turn your hips. So we don't want to slide the hips this way or we don't even really want to slide the hips that way. We want to stay very centered with our hips as we go up to the top.

All right. So that's what we want to feel there. Like I said, we want to turn that left shoulder down, that lead shoulder down and toward the golf ball. Now, from here, all you're going to do is you're going to straighten your lead arm and try to get it as high as you can. So I'm going to straighten it up and get it as high as I can.

Now, from there, that's about the perfect back swing position. That's as good as I'm going to do now in the actual swing. You will probably go longer than that because you're going to have momentum and everything kind of bringing that way. But from a static position, this here we straighten out. We put the club up here on our trail shoulder.

We turn our hips, we turn our shoulder down toward the golf ball. Then we take this. We put it out in front of us. Right now, when I do that, I want to straighten out my lead arm. And I also want to keep my lead wrist relatively flat. So I don't want to go here and then have the club like this.

I don't want to wrench it with my trail arm either. I don't want to be doing anything. I want to stay nice and relaxed here, up on my shoulder, then my shoulder down and straighten out my lead arm. I want to relax my trail arm and straighten out my lead arm. This is going to put you in a good position when your trail arm has some bend in it and your trail wrist has some benefit.

We're just trying to get this to be pretty much a straight line. Now, on your actual swing, I'm really not that concerned if your lead arm has some bend in it. There's lots of great players that have been in their late arm. What I'm concerned with is are we getting a good turn with that bent lead arm right now?

Everything can be overdone, right? If you're getting a big turn and then you're also going like this and you're just bending way too much, that is a concern. But as long as we have it relatively to some slight bend to the pretty straight, we're going to be in a good position. Right. So don't worry about some bend in your lead arm.

I have a lot golfers that come to me that are worried about their lead arm breaking down a little bit at the top. I'm not worried about a little bit of breakdown. That's completely fine, because a lot of times what happens is if we have that little bit of breakdown, that will actually tend to straighten out naturally in the start of the downswing.

And even if it doesn't, even if you maintain that little bend all the way through. Again, I'm not too concerned with that. It's mainly about our wrist and getting a big turn. I don't want to have a ton of cup in this wrist if you want to have it a little bit, but that's completely fine as well. But we don't want to have a bunch of cup because it's just it's just hard to come down into a good position from there.

For most golfers now, if you're someone who's capable of having a lot of cup here, and then you can undo that nicely as you're coming down. I have no issue with that, but that's just I just don't see a high golfers. They're able to do that. Right. So again, I would just do some reps and you can do this in your living room, put that club up on your trail shoulder, turn that lead shoulder back behind the golf ball.

Make sure you're turning your hips and keeping them nice and centered. And then we're just going to push our hands up to the top. And then from there, you can just go through into a full finish, you know, push into the ground and turn all the way around into a full finish. So just put in some reps of doing that, getting comfortable with that position at the top.

And then from there, what I want you to do is I want you to start from your dress position and then just try to find that same position that you just had. So it might be good to do a rep when we put it on our shoulder. Turn it back, put my arm there. Okay. This is where I want to be.

Okay, so now how do I get to that position from here? Now I know I may not be exactly in that position, but I'm just trying to find that position the best that I can. All right. From the back and then I swing through. Right. And just things are a lot easier when that club's in a good position.

You see a lot of golfers, they get the club up here, right. And then we got stand up out of it or something like that to get it in a good spot. Or we get to it's where it's too laid off and then we'll kind of pull it down and that will make the club come down steep. So we don't want to be too laid off.

We want to be too across the line. A little bit of either is usually fine depending on how you're coming down, but generally we just want this to be in a good spot about right here. This isn't across the line. This isn't too laid off. It's in a good spot. And I just find that easily. If I just pushing my hands out in front, then I can swing down in through from there.

So once you get comfortable with finding that spot and you can even look on video and see, okay, I'm finding that good spot, right? And then I would start doing some swings where you don't do the pause or maybe you just minimize the pause. So let's say of doing that hard pause at the top, I've got it. And then I swing through.

Once I've got that, I'm going to start trying to do it with a really just a very slight pause at the top. So I go there, found it when I go through. Right, check that on video, make sure that that's pretty close to what you're doing and if it's way off and then just go back to doing more of these to help you find it, you just need more reps to help you find that good spot.

Once you start getting more comfortable with that, then we can start taking the pause out completely, just making a nice fluid swing. So I'm just going here. I might do one of these to help me kind of find that again. All right. So now I'm going to try to do a fluid swing right where I'm finding that same position.

Right. And again, that's probably longer than the actual position that I was in when I was doing the drill. But again, our momentum is going to take us there. If that's the case, that's completely fine, right? We just want to be able to be in a position where we can bring the club down nicely down into the ball.

So I'm telling you, you work on this drill, you work your way up. The way I talked about you start out with club on the shoulders, turn the shoulder here, then you work from that to a just a practice swing where we go back and we just find that position, pause the work to minimizing the pause when you work, to adding fluidity to that, that way it just makes things a lot simpler.

Now, this is a great way to put you in a good back swing position, but now we need to get this club shadowing out so that way we can stay in our posture, get good shaft, and be able to control our ball flight as we come through the ball. Now, the best way to do that, once you're getting into this good back swing position, is to work through our 20 minute shallowing fix.

And if you want to get to that 20 minute shallowing fix, all you have to do is click the instruction tab, then click the 20 minute shallowing fix, and then you can get to the course from there. Let's say you already work through the 20 minute shallowing fix, but you really, really struggled with it. Maybe you got hung up on drill number two where we're we're getting the club shallowed out.

Drill number one. We're getting that face closed. Drill number two, we're getting it shallowed out. Maybe you're getting hung up there. It might have to do with the positions that you're in at the top. So if that's the case, it would be beneficial for you to work on this drill and then go give that 20 minute shallowing fix a try.

And then if you have some time to do this drill, even if you haven't done the 20 minute shallowing fix so that we can get a good back swing position. Right. Play well and I'll talk to you soon.