Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This Is Without Question The Best Drill To Shallow Your Downswing"

If you struggle to shallow the club...

...there are 2 very fixable things that you're doing that are creating your struggles.

In today's lesson...

Professor Q will explain what's causing your struggle to shallow the club...

...and he'll provide the perfect drill to eliminate both issues (including the trail shoulder move you need at the 4:40 mark of the video).

Now you'll be able to make the solid contact you've been craving.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 8:28

Video Transcription:

This Is Without Question The Best Drill To Shallow Your Downswing

Now I know you've been trying to shallow out that club. All the pros are doing it and for good reason. You should be too. If you are sick and tired of coming down steep and cutting across the ball and you wanna start getting this club to shallow out getting the slot, and that way you can just turn and burn through contact and be very consistent.

I have a great drill for you, but first let's discuss what exactly is shallowing. I do think there is some con confusion on this, so this is my definition of what shallowing. Shallowing is the act of bringing this club from a steeper position, more straight up and down position, to a flatter position in the start of the downswing.

All tour players are doing some motion like this in the downswing. If it's, you just can't be consistent, you're gonna cut across the ball, you're not gonna have control of the club. If you're not doing that, there are some players that start down a little bit steep and then shallow it later. Phil Nicholson would be one of those, but most players are doing some act of shallowing out the club in the start of the downswing.

But there are two major issues that I see people struggling with when they, whenever they're trying to shallow out the club. Number one is they're trying to shallow out the club in the backswing. So if I go like this, roll the club inside, bring it very, very inside, and I'm like this as I'm getting up to the top to swing, it's very, very shallow and flat.

Well then in the downswing, I'm gonna tend to do the opposite. I'm gonna tend to come down, see cuz all my momentum, everything is just gonna be wanting to go that way in the downswing. So that's number one. And then number two is people just aren't exaggerating enough, right? They're just trying to ease into it.

They're not, they're not really gonna get, make much headway on shallowing if we're just trying to barely shallow out the club. We need to really try to crazily shallow out the club. So I have a great drill for you that's gonna help eliminate both of those issues. It's what we call the wall drill. So what you're gonna do is you're gonna take a head cover and you're gonna put it on your club and you're just putting the head cover on your.

So that way you don't mar up your wall. What I want you to do is kind of back up to a wall here, and I want you to get about a foot away from it. So if I take my foot like this and go a foot away from it like that, that's about where I want to be. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna go up to the top of the swing without touching the wall.

So that eliminates that first issue that I talked about. That eliminates the issue of bringing the club too far inside to begin with and shallowing it in the backswing. That allows us to get it in a good position at the top, so that way we have room and all the momentum's going in the direction that's gonna help us to shallow out the club.

So that's number one. We're just gonna go up to the top. We're not touching the wall. Now as we come down, right, we want to put the club on the wall when we're starting. And we wanna slide this club down the wall and we wanna do that all the way down to about waste level. And that's really exaggerated.

You know, this club is very, very far from the inside. I really wouldn't want to swing this club that far from the inside. And that's why a lot of people don't do that when they're practicing that cuz they know, oh, I, I don't wanna be that far from the inside. But that's what we have to do in the beginning stages of making any kind of change.

We have to exaggerate the other extremes. So I would have the mindset that I can't really overdo this, and if I do. Then all I have to do is ease off of it. If I do right, if we actually get to where we're hitting balls and we, we are overshadowing out the club, then all we have to do is ease off of that feeling to get more to where we wanna be.

If we just continue to ease into it, ease into it, ease into it, and just try to chip away at it all the time, you're always gonna have your old habit of coming down steep. It's gonna keep pulling you back, pulling you back. You may feel like you have it and then all of a sudden you start coming down steep again.

But if we really exaggerate this and we really shallow it out, get super shallow, then we know what it takes to get back to where we need to be very easily, and we can get back there just like that. So that's why I recommend not just easing into it, let's really exaggerate it with the mindset that I can just ease off of it if I need to.

But the reality is you're probably just gonna be closer to where you want to be if you really exaggerate it. Right. So again, about a foot away, I'm gonna go up to the. And I'm gonna do this, go up to the top, not gonna touch it, and then I'm gonna come down to waist level. So let's talk about what's happening.

You don't need to know what these things are, but I always like to break down what's exactly happening with your arms and, and your shoulders, and what's, what's moving that's different than what was before. Again, you don't need to know these things, but it's good to, it's good to understand what's happening.

It just, it just helps you, you know, if, if you can pinpoint, okay, well I know, okay, my shoulder's not doing this, then you can focus on that part and it can help you to get it working out. But if you just do this and you keep it on the wall, you'll automatically do everything that I'm talking about. So number one is in our shoulder here, what's happening is when we are coming down, we are externally rotating our shoulder, right?

So you can think of that as losing an arm wrestling contest. My uh, my should. Joint here is externally rotating. And the reason why when we roll it inside that that makes it very difficult is that we overdo that and then in the start of the down swinging, we want to win the arm wrestling contest. So that's why we don't want to overdo the external rotation in our shoulder at the top of the swing, so that way we have room to lose the arm wrestling contest in the downs sling.

So that'd be number. One of the major things that's helping you to shallow out the club. The next thing would be the rotation in our forearm. So if I were to pin my elbow to my side here and I rotate my, my hand to where my palm's kind of pointing up to the sky, you can imagine how that's shallowing out the club, right?

That's what's called suppination. So that's outward rotation of our, um, of our forearm here. That's supination or suppination. Some people. That's, that's what's happening there. So those two things combined are really helping you shell out the club. There's other, some other factors in there, but those are the two major things that are happening differently.

When you're coming down steep, it's the opposite, right? You are internally rotating with your shoulder and a lot of times your forearm is going to be pronating, which is the op opposite of uh, sup or suppination, right? It's gonna be pronation where it's inward, re inwardly rotating, right? So those two things together are.

Getting this club salad out and coming from the inside. So that's what I'd recommend doing. Do a lot of drills where we're getting, do this at home. Find a, find a wall that, um, you know, you put your head cover on. It won't, it won't scratch it up, you know, but find, you know, a brick wall works great, even if you have a wall outside in your house, in your garage, or anything like that.

It's a great place to work on this and really get the sensation of that club working down. And then when you go to the range, you just wanna take the head cover. Right, and then have that same sensation. Right? They're coming down and this club is dragging all the way down the wall to here and then coming through.

So if I went to the range, I'll go up to the top, I'd feel like I'm away from the wall. Then I'd go really slow coming down here. I'd feel like it's way from the inside, and then I would turn through it. That's the other thing too, once we get here, We wanna turn through the ball, right? Because if I get here and I just kind of stand up and throw it like I did before, I'm probably gonna hit the ground back here.

If I just drop it, right, I'm gonna hit the ground. So I wanna get here, and then I wanna turn through it so that way I can hit the ground where the ball is. It's very, very important for that. Right now there's still a major problem with this. When we get the club shadowing out, a lot of times what happens is we'll come in and we will leave the club face open.

That's really the third major problem. If I were to shallow out this club, or if I were to come down steep, what I'm typically gonna do is I'm gonna stand up and kind of flip my hands through to get the club face closed. But that's not what we want to do. That's not what the tour players are doing. The tour players are shallowing out the club.

When they're turning through the ball. They're staying in their posture and they're doing things with their wrists and with their grip that allows them to get that plug face closed. And this is what we talk about in the 20 minute showering, fix, and drill. Number one, you're gonna go over what is your natural.

That's going to help you to get that club face square when you're shallowing it out, and some wrist angles that are necessary to also get that club face squared up. So what I want you to do in conjunction with this drill is go to drill number one, and Clay actually talks about this wall drill and drill number two in the 20 minute showering fix.

So to get to the 20 minute showering fix, click the instruction tab, then click the 20 minute showering fix, get started on drill number one, find that natural grip that allows you to get that club face closed. And then drill number two, you'll be able to combine it with what we did. In the wall drill, and again, clay talks about the wall drill in there and you'll be able to really be consistent with your golf game.

So play well and I'll talk to you soon.