Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Trail Elbow In + Lead Wrist Bow = MORE CONSISTENCY"

And there's a good chance you know that you need to tuck your trail elbow in the downswing to get into a good impact position.

But there's an extremely common downswing mistake that makes tucking your elbow impossible.

Discover what this mistake is and the right shoulder trick to fix it...

...so you can get into a proper impact position and compress the heck out of the ball!

I'm hoping this gives you that "light bulb" moment for your golf swing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:52

Video Transcription:

 

What's a move that every single pro golfer makes? Well, they shallow out the club from the inside, tuck in that right elbow. Then from there, they open up their body with an iron, getting the shaft to lean in front and really just compress the heck out of it. Well, in this video, I'm not sure exactly how to do that.

 

And once you get that move down, it's almost like the ball just has nowhere to go but pretty straight with a nice little tight draw. Let's go and give it a whirl here. There you go. Hit that one. Fantastic. Again. Nice straight shot. A little bit of draw from right to left. Not going to do much better than that.

 

Two or five of the six iron. Well, there's a couple of misconceptions that are causing players to, you know, make this almost impossible. Let's talk about the right arm getting tucked in. Well, there's a couple of things that are happening when the right arm doesn't get tucked. Number one, I could be standing up out of my posture. And when I stand up out of my posture, if I was to tuck that arm, there's no way for me to reach the golf ball.

 

If I got this position here with the shaft leaning forward, this great pro impact position, if I stand up out of my posture all of a sudden I'm a foot away from the golf ball. I would have to throw my right arm. There would be a gap between the side of my body, my right arm. Release all that leg, get rid of the shaft lean to now being able to reach the ball.

 

Well, there's one little trick you can do that helps with this. Think about your right shoulder. Look at the difference between when I stand up and throw my arms. My right shoulder is way back here and far away from the golf ball versus my right shoulder getting closer to the golf ball and in front of the golf ball.

 

Now, I don't want this to be a slide in front. I want to keep my nose behind this golf ball. But I want to feel like my right shoulder goes down. And through that, almost like if I had a split hand hockey grip and I was going to go ahead and set up this golf ball normal. Grab a split hand grip and then come down there and make contact like this.

 

Put a little pressure into that golf shaft. You see how much forward my right shoulder would be, how much closer to the ball would be. Get that same feeling and then try to recreate that in a golf shot. You're going to find it's a lot easier to get that shuffling. It's going to give it a whirl here. There you go.

 

Another one to sit down. Fantastic. Nice little draw there again. And I just felt like I'm really getting on top of that golf ball. Now, the second piece of that, I can't get on top of that golf ball if I don't shallow it out first. What I mean by that is if I'm coming down steep a little bit over the top here and I get this right shoulder dropping down and through, that's going to be that over the top karate chop.

 

Just bury that ball on the ground. Chunks. Thins. Big slices. Every bad shot that you can think of. So I need to do a little drill here to where I feel like I can get that club from the inside. Get that elbow tucked in, then rotate on through. Here's the way that I like to feel that. Go ahead and just take the club with your right hand only.

 

I find most players can swing easier, just the right hand only, and take it to the top of the backswing. And if you're by a wall like this, think about tucking this elbow in and getting this club against the wall like that. So basically what I'm doing is I'm turning this arm out this way, and that's about the inch in the range of motion.

 

For me. That's as far that way as I can go. So simply going to the top of the swing, letting my arm tuck in my elbow tuck in, the club get behind me. And then from there I'm doing that, rotating with the shoulder, getting the shoulder, coming in front that gets rid of that over the top steep action.

 

I get very shallow. Then I can rotate all that I want to. Let's go and try another one there again, I would do about five reps of my right arm. Only then I would add my left arm in there, my normal grip. Now try to recreate the same feeling. Elbow tucked club against the wall. Then I just rotate on through.

 

So let's give that one a whirl. Here.

 

There you go. Another nice shot just left center that time, instead of right center and really consistent ball flight, really consistent curvature to that. Because when I get that elbow tucked and I get the club coming from the inside, all I have to do is rotate in the rest. Pretty much takes care of itself. Now, the last piece of this is getting the bow of the left wrist.

 

You see, the problem is, when I get this club from the inside and I rotate the faces wide open, I need to bow this left wrist to square it up. See, the bowing of the left wrist not only opens and closes the club face, but it also adds and delofts the club face too. Is that I mean by this, if I set this club face, straight up and down again, the pros are leaning the shaft forward.

 

They're getting that compressing shot like we did with the hockey drill there. They're having the hands in front of the golf ball contact. Well, if I leave the shaft straight up and down and I just bow my left wrist, that closes the club face. So that would be this motion here. I'm going to be bowing. It will be closing it.

 

I'll do it this way so you can see it. I'm going to cup it and that would open it so you can see that face just twisting both ways. When I do that motion. If I do that on the ground, here's the bow. And now you say, well, that's not going to work. The club face is pointing 30 degrees to the left.

 

Well, watch what happens when I. I keep the same wrist angle and I lean the shaft forward. Now, all of a sudden, the club face is square. The shaft is in front. I'll do the opposite. I'll cut my left wrist. Face is wide open. What do I have to do to square it up now? I have to have the shaft, the hands behind the golf ball.

 

So if you tend to stand up, throw the right arm and have the shaft leaning back. There's no bow in that left wrist. So I want to practice here getting this good drill and I'm going to have this risk bow to square up that club face. That way I can get that draw. So again, same drill behind me, rotate on through and now I'm just going to bow the wrist to square that face up and have it perfectly square.

 

If anything, I want to go ahead and overdraw it as I'm doing that. So I'll get a little extra draw on this or maybe there you go. Start to the right, definitely swinging back in. If I do that motion, I get that wrist angle like that. I'm guaranteeing that you can see these these black lines, these tracers on there.

 

I'm getting each one of those the turn over from right to left. I can really depend on that kind of a shot. Now, there's still one little problem we have here. A lot of times it's difficult for players to get rid of that hit impulse. So a lot of the reasons that we stand up out of our posture, we throw the right arm, we have this club shaft leaning back with a cup left wrist because we want to hit the heck out of it.

 

We're thinking about hitting this golf ball and we're throwing at it. Well, in reality, we should be swinging through the golf ball instead of hitting at the golf ball. That's exactly what I teach you to do in a straight line release. Now, if I put a golf ball about 45 degrees in front of this one on the ground, so if I imagine my chest is here, if I draw a line 45 degrees out in front, that would be a golf ball about four or five, six feet out in front there.

 

Now, when I'm hitting this golf ball on the ground, in my mind's eye, all I'm doing is I'm rotating my hips, my chest, my arms in my club and letting all that release to this golf ball here. Now, if I do that, I'm going to flow through these positions. And it's talked about a shallow the club out. I get the elbow tucked, then I just rotate through and release of that golf ball.

 

I'm going to have the shaft lean here. That shuffling is not getting away until out in front. That's a foreign idea to almost every single player. But once you start to realize that I can throw the club, I just don't throw it at the golf ball. Throw it in front of it. You'll start to naturally, athletically, get the shaft, lean athletically, stay in your posture, and then still release it on out in front and hit the ball really clean and crisp.

 

So what I challenge you do now go to the instruction tab at Top Speed Golf website, go to the top speed golf system, then go to the straight line release. I want you to just do the very first video in the straight line release section. As you do that, you're going to start to get a feel for this. It's going to feel good.

 

You're going to like the way it is, going to feel solid and feel effortless, but it's not going to be ingrained. You just do one video. It's not going to happen. As you start to work through a few of those drills you work through, level one starts to feel pretty familiar. You work through level two. It gets even more ingrained. Time

 

to get to level three and you finish level three. You won't even know that you're doing it. You'll just swing a golf club. And if you look at it on video, you're going to see tons of shuffling. It releases on in front and you'll think, Huh, I didn't even try to do that. It just happened. Well, that's the the drills that you work through and the ingraining that happens as you work through level one, two and three.

 

So today I challenge you just do one single video from the straight line release section. You're going to get hooked and then take it from there to completely ingrain it. Best of luck. Head on over to the straight line release right now. And I can't wait to see there.