Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This Makes Shallowing the Driver Swing So Much Easier"

Do you struggle with shallowing out your driver?

There’s actually a pretty common wrist issue that causes this…

…and in today’s video, I’ll not only show you why this makes shallowing dang near impossible with your driver…

…I’ll also show you the way to correct it, so you can get that proper feeling of shallowing in your downswing.

This tiny adjustment is so easy to make, you’ll wonder why you’d never heard of it before!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:27

Video Transcription:

Now what if I told you that most people are doing this in their golf swing when they should be doing this in their golf swing. And once you figure out how to do this, it's going to immediately give you the correct feeling that you have in your wrist to shout out the club and shall is going to be pretty daggone easy.

So let's jump into it here. I want you to take this club, just your right hand. make it swing like a propeller blade in a circle like this. So imagine it being a Ferris wheel, like straight up and down. And let's start with it going counterclockwise. So swinging in the counterclockwise direction. And this is what most players are doing wrong when they're doing this.

Now, the golf swing isn't going to be toward the target. Actually, it's going to be inside out. Or if you can imagine that I'm turning this Ferris wheel from being straight toward the target to being about 45 degrees in this direction. That's where the golf swing is going to be, and I'll get to that here in a second.

I know it sounds crazy, but it's kind of eye opening when you see it like this. So I'm just going to let this swing in this counterclockwise direction, and this is what most players are doing. So if I imagine the bottom of the swing as being a dress, and as I let it loop this way, that's going to be my takeaway.

So most players... tend to drag the club to the inside or let that loop in this direction in the backswing. And then as they change direction, that club shaft wants to kick out and be steep and we're coming over the top. So this type of emotion is what most people are feeling, whether they realize it or not.

If you even pay attention to the right wrist, the right wrist bends back in the backswing. And it starts to flatten out in the downswing. And that's where that steep over the top move comes from. And that's why we struggle to get shallow. We're doing this type of motion. Now, if you're a better player, you're probably not doing exactly that.

You're probably going ahead and taking it somewhat straight on the backswing. But instead of letting it drop in and shallow, it's kind of staying that steeper angle here rather than letting it go the opposite direction. Now, let me explain here what I mean by this. If I'm going this way in this counterclockwise direction, if all I do is switch the direction that that is, this is what a good golf swing should feel like.

So I'm letting this swing kind of 45 degrees out to the right. Now I'm imagining that this is the top of my backswing, and from here in this direction is coming down to impact. So the downswing is going to be this motion right here, feeling like the clubhead drops completely behind my body. Now... If you've got any sense at all, you're probably thinking that's not going to work.

I'm going to be hitting the ball 45 degrees out to the right. Well, if we take into account that my body is opening as I do this shallowing type motion or this letting it drop behind me completely behind my body, and I simply open my body at the same time, like I would in a golf swing, you see how those two things pair up to shallow out the club and to square out the path.

So the golf swing should feel like the club is dropping in behind you. As you rotate open, that's what the shallowing is all about. And that's why some of the players struggle with this because it's counterintuitive. We don't want this club dropping behind us. Imagine for a second that you didn't let this club drop behind you, and you just kept it still and rotated your body.

Well, if I went to the top of the swing, and I didn't do any dropping behind me, I just held my hands in the same position, well, I'd be obviously way over the top if I let my body come open. So it's this feeling of, from here, our brain is telling us, go back down to the ball. rather than go behind us. And when we go back down to the ball and we rotate, that's that steeper type motion.

So let's get this fixed once and for all. And I want to particularly pay attention to the right wrist as you're doing this. So start to swing the club in a circle. This time we're going clockwise. Turn that circle about 45 degrees out to the right as you're doing that. And then visualize this is the top of the swing.

This is impact. And you want to feel like this club is just dropping behind at a 45 degree angle, the entire downswing. Now you'll notice when you do this. This right wrist naturally starts to lag behind. You start to get this knuckles to kind of go back here. This shallows out the club, and that's the perfect right wrist position for the downswing.

From there, just simply rotate through the shot, and you're going to have a great feel of what the pros are doing when they're hitting, you know, nice shallow drives, or swinging with nice shallow angle and hitting good solid drives. So let's do a few more of those. I'm going to visualize like I'm going to the top of my backswing, normal backswing.

So there's my top. I'm going to let it drop this way, the entire downswing. And all I'm going to add to that is the rotation. Let's give it a whirl.

There we go. Pretty good. First swing of the day, 314. Nice straight drive. I felt like there, again, I'm imagining this 45 degree drop behind me. And all I'm doing is rotating as that's happening. That's naturally going to shallow out the club. Now there's one more piece I'd like to add to this. A lot of people ask me when to release the club.

And the club release, in my opinion, is when you go from this right wrist angled back to fully releasing that right wrist and it's flat. That's what I call a straight line release in the top speed golf system. And all that's saying is, where do I let the momentum go when I release it? So I'm going to shallow this club out, but when do I let it go?

Well, it's going to be about 45 degrees in front. So if we're imagining this circle, if this is vertical, straight up and down, parallel to the ground, here's impact around here. 45 degrees in front of impact is going to be where you feel like the momentum of the club releases. So if I'm swinging this in a circle, it's going to feel like it releases out to the right.

45 degrees out. Well, when I turn back toward the target, that's going to be about 45 degrees in front. If I'm looking from face on, in fact, when I measured all the major winners last 50 major winners, they released almost exactly at that angle. And I didn't have any of them, not a single major winner that I, that I measured released at the golf ball.

Every single one of them, that right wrist fully released out here in front of the golf ball. And the golf ball is just getting in the way. So when you feel like this club drops behind, all I want you to do is let that go to this golf ball out in front. Or let that go, I'm going to drop it behind, and as I rotate, I'm letting everything go out toward the target.

And that's how the golf swing gets effortless. If you feel like you're pushing the club and using a lot of wrists, and all of a sudden you've got a chicken wing, and you've got this club releasing at the golf ball, man, it's going to be tough to play consistent golf. So what I want you to do, if you're a member of Top Speed Golf, Go to the instruction tab, top speed golf system and click on the straight line release.

Now the way that you're going to ingrain this in your game is through a series of drills that I've laid out for you. You start at level one and you get a hang of it. You start to hit some better shots. Contact becomes a little bit more consistent. You move into level two. You're still having to think about it a little bit, but it's beginning to become automatic.

And once you get into level three, it's completely baked in there. It's automatic. You don't have to think about it one. bit. You just make your swing and sure enough, it's releasing out in front, just like all the top pros and the best players at your local club. That's what I want for you. I want you to get to a point to where your swing is fundamentally textbook sound solid to where you can jump right out of the car and you're going to be having the core pieces that all great players have without even having to think about it.

But it only starts if you do the very first video in level one. and work your way through it. So that's what I want to challenge you to today. Go over to the straight line release through the very first video, and I'll see you there. Let's go and get started.