Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This Move Is Destroying Your Golf Swing! | Bucket Drill"

In today's lesson...

You'll discover the one move you can make using an empty plastic bucket and a wall...

...that will give you extreme consistency for making ball then turf contact.

Plus, find out which downswing lead hip move is creating your over-the-top swing path...

...and is also causing your inconsistent ball contact (and deep divots).

Once you know this move, your ball striking ability will skyrocket!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:23

Video Transcription:

I've got one move that you can do using this bucket and a wall that's gonna give you extreme consistency and be able to hit the ball and then the ground time and time again. So let's go ahead and set up here. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna set up with this bucket against the wall. Now I have the luxury here.

If this is being a corner wall, and I can go ahead and make a swing in this club isn't gonna hit it. If you don't have, uh, a wall like this. Just choke up on the club a little bit and you can make a good backswing there. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put this on my left hip, the buckets against the wall, and I'm gonna set up and my head should be tilted slightly behind.

My golf ball. So what I mean here is if I took a a club from my nose, my nose should be slightly behind this golf ball. I don't wanna be up here like this. I don't wanna be tilted way back here like that. If I just hung a club from my nose, my chin, the top of my hat, whatever I wanna do, that would be slightly behind the golf ball.

So let's go ahead and put a second golf ball there, kinda where my nose, my chin, the top of my hat would be. So I have a slight tilt away just like all the pros are doing. Now, from there, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make a backswing and I wanna rotate my hips, and I wanna actually move this bucket on the wall.

So as my hips rotate in the backswing, that's gonna roll this bucket, but I'm gonna keep pressure against it. You see what most players are doing in their backswing is they have this hip slide away from the wall. The bucket falls down. When you do that, what happens is your head may start out here, the hips slide away.

Now my head's way up here. It moves. It moves my sight lines, all that kind of stuff. My weight falls back this way in the downswing. I tend to chunk to thin it, to hit up on it, not be able to get a consistent divot. All those things are happening from not being consistent with your posture throughout the swing.

So again, go ahead and set up here. Normal ball position. I have a little pressure against this bucket. My nose is slightly behind the golf ball. From there, I'm gonna rotate to the top. I'm gonna get a good shoulder turn, so I'm letting my hips rotate at least 45 degrees. I'm letting my shoulders rotate at least 90 degrees.

And now I've really loaded up behind this golf ball. Now, if I was to stay right here at the top of my swing, keep my head still. Drop that down from my hat again. It's still right where this golf ball started out at the beginning of this drill. So I've rotated around my spine. You can almost imagine this is my spine angle.

I'm rotating around that in a circle, but I'm not swaying and moving around all over the place. Now in the downswing. What happens from here? Well, there's two things. A lot of things that I, A lot of times I'll see players. Trying to square up the the club by rolling the forearms over each other, which is gonna look like this.

I stand up now, I lose the pressure off this bucket, and I throw my arms at the club at the ball until this shaft is straight up and down. That's not what the pros are doing. So now where do we go from here? This is really a backswing drill that I went over today. How do we get into the downswing? Well, there's a couple of things that are gonna happen here.

So when I start my downswing, what I wanna do is I actually want to. Press this bucket into the wall. Now where this is plastic, you're gonna see my left hip actually pushes into the wall and squeezes this bucket. My hip is moving about three or four inches to the left. Now I'm doing that before I really start my downswing very much.

Now to continue my downswing, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna open up my hips and as my hips roll, roll open, that's gonna roll this bucket off the wall behind me. So it's gonna look like this. I'm gonna press the bucket in the wall. I'm gonna rotate my hips open as I swing down, and now I'm coming to contact.

Now there's one move that I see players make all the time, and that's sliding in front of it when this is happening. So they get that weight shift to the left, and they slide up here. That gets the club steeping over the top. That gets the divots deep. That gets you inconsistent. It gets a glancing blow into the ball.

All these kind of problems arise with that. Well, what I recommend you do next, after you've done this drill a few times, you feel comfortable with that, let's add to this where we actually keep our head behind the golf ball all the way through contact. If you're a member of Top Speed Golf, go to the instruction tab.

Top speed golf system, stable fluid spine. It's video 2.1 in the stable fluid spine. It's the nose behind the the wall drill. And in that drill, I'm gonna show you how to get that pressure to the left. But to still keep your body in that good angle so that your nose is behind this golf ball. And if you put that together, do this drill first.

Once you've done that, head over there immediately to video 2.1. When you pair those two together, you become extremely consistent. And here's why. At address your head and your eyes that see the golf ball, so you know where to hit are in the exact same position. They're kind of lined up slightly behind the golf ball.

This little ball on the ground here. As you go to the top, your eyes are still over that golf ball. As you make your downswing, your eyes are over that golf ball, so your head is staying extremely still, extremely solid, and that way the ball doesn't feel like it's moving around back and forth to you. If we're doing this and we're moving around a lot, especially in the downswing, that's gonna cause a lot of problems.

So head over to video 2.1 in the stable fluid spine. After you do this drill, And you'll put the whole piece of the puzzle together. You'll be very, very, uh, consistent. Hit a lot of really good, solid shots. I can't wait to see you there.