Why You Need This: In this video, you'll discover why you come over the top, and you'll get some great advice on how to stop doing it.

It's incredibly frustrating to step up to the ball and come over the top only to produce a weak slice.

Does that sound familiar?

Do you feel like you have plenty of power but your results aren't showing it?

To make it even more frustrating...

You see other golfers blast their balls past yours even though it seems like they're not hitting with any power at all.

Well, it's time to figure out what the heck is going on.

In this video, you'll learn how to start coming from the inside, and you'll also learn how to release the club face for the best possible contact.

You'll begin to understand what's causing you to come over the top as well as why you're likely to hit a weak slice.

Watch this video now to stop coming over the top...

And eliminate your weak slice!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:51

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. Over the top is extremely frustrating. You get up to the course, you pull out your driver, you make a swing, it’s coming over the top, you hit this big slice. These little tiny guys that don’t have any strength at all are driving it by you, 30, 40, 50 yards.

Unbelievably frustrating, because you know you have the strength, you know you have the speed inside there somewhere, we’re just trying to get that to the golf ball.

Well, I’ve got a great video that’s going to help get you back on plane. We’re going to go from being over the top swinging right to left across the ball, we’re going to get that more inside.

We’re going to start releasing the face, I’ve got a couple of tricks that are really going to help with this, and also the root cause of why we come over the top. We’re going to get you right back on track. Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so when we’re talking about over the top what’s happening here, and just naturally I think everybody, I know I came over the top when I very first started to play. We’re thinking about hitting the ball forward in front of us.

Naturally if I want to hit this ball hard, it seems like I should want to open up to the target as quickly as possible. When I do that, I start to come right to left across this golf ball. So as my club’s in contact it’s going right to left like that, and glancing across the golf ball.

Also when we very first start out, our right arm wants to hit that golf all really hard. We’re used to doing thing with our right hand. If you’re a lefty you’re doing things with your left hand, but left hand is taking over, but we’re trying to come over the top and really push this golf ball through there.

We have the idea that we’re going to hit the golf ball with the right side of our body toward the target. Gets us opening up too son, and it gets too much right arm in there in a pushing motion rather than what we want to do is have the right arm coming more inside and rolling on over and releasing the golf club.

So first we’ve got to address the path, get rid of that right to left, then we’ve got to address the right hand and the face, and get that face releasing. Once we do that, this over the top, the slice is going to be gone forever.

All right, so first we have to trick our brain. If we’re going to get the path right, we need to trick our brain to getting the club to square up or even come a little bit from the inside.

So as I set up to this golf ball, if I’m an over-the-top player, and I make my completely natural swing, what feels square to me – so if I can imagine kind of a hula-hoop, a giant hula-hoop here, that would be square, nice straight shot. What feels square to me in reality, I’ve tilted the hula-hoop this way.

Now when I feel like I’m swinging square, I’m opening my chest to the target too early, and I’m coming right to left across that ball. What I have to do to trick my brain and fix this, is I have to tilt that hula-hoop way to the inside to get my brain to kind of reset itself.

That way I can get this club moving to the right. Instead of getting this hula-hoop a little to the left, we’re going to take it all the way to the right to where now I’m basically swinging perpendicular to the direction I want to hit.

I know it sounds crazy, it’s a little bit out there, we’re going to do it a few times though, and then we’ll go back to what’s normal. Now if I tilt this hula-hoop to the right, when I swing I’m going to be kind of over my right foot and I’m going to swing up over my left shoulder.

So as I’m making a couple little practice swings, I’m going to do this. As I come down, the butt end of my club is pointed directly out in front of me as it’s parallel to the ground. Then when I swing on through, I’m going to finish over my left shoulder. So it’s going to look something like this.

I’ll have to have a little bit more weight on my right side, if you’re looking at it from this way. If I’m hitting that direction, I’ll have to have a little bit more weight over here, and I’m just going to swing like that.

So I’m really getting used to the crazy inside out. In reality that wouldn’t work for a golf shot, that’s way too extreme, but that’s the exact opposite of what’s happening in your golf swing. Go ahead and do this about 20 or 30 times. Give yourself a little bit of space.

As the club comes down parallel, pointing out in front, then as I finish I’m finishing over my left shoulder, just like that. If I do it from this angle, 20 or 30 reps, really inside. That’s going to get you more weight on your back foot as you’re coming down.

You have a tendency to open up, get on the front foot too early, keeps you getting more weight on the right foot. Also getting that club really extreme. Now once you’ve done that a few times, now it’s going to be easy as I swing and hit a golf ball to come a little bit more to the inside.

So even this is extreme, but that’s going to be the feeling that you have. In reality, you make a swing that’s going to be pretty dag-gone close to being straight. So that’s the first piece, I’ve got to get that path way to the inside. Go crazy with it, the worst thing that could happen is you start hitting some big draws which would be great.

Now the second thing here we mentioned, we’ve got to get the face. So when I come over the top, I’m right arm trying to push that ball to the target. I need to feel like my right elbow is tucked in, if you look at my elbow pit it’s now facing up to the sky. Then from there, I’m letting the face roll on over.

So if I do a practice swing here, what I want to do, is I’m going to go ahead and let my right elbow kind of come into my side slightly, and then from there I’m going to roll my hands until this left wrist is bowed.

Notice how that closes the face down, that’s closing the face which would be more of a draw-type motion. I’m doing this, closing that face, and then letting it still swing on out to the right.

So when I put those two feelings together, right elbow and the wrist bowing, now I’m set up in a position where I can really hit and turn the inside and release that club head. Let’s go ahead and try that out.

I’ve done by 20 or 30 practice swings very extreme. I’m still going to feel like I’m swinging this direction, staying much more closed with my body. Then I’m going to rotate the club face closed, that’s going to get you a beautiful draw.

There we go, that ball drew about 10 yards, started out at the right edge of the green going right toward the center. You do those drills you’re going to hit it so much better. 20 or 30 reps way inside, 20 or 30 reps closing the face, just practice swings.

Then put both of those together, start hitting some golf balls. You’re going to have a great time. See you all soon.