Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "You Simply Won't Stand Up In The Golf Swing If You Do THIS..."

There are countless videos about putting an object (like your golf bag) behind you when you swing…

…so you maintain your posture & don’t stand up in the downswing.

But if that worked, you probably wouldn’t be reading this email, right?!

Today, I’ll show you a drill that actually will stop you from standing up in the downswing…

…and it’ll make you feel like you're hitting the inside of your knees with the club!

This isn’t another band-aid, this is grounded in physics and will definitely correct this issue.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:37

Video Transcription:

Clay: Now, if you're working to stay in your posture, I guarantee you've seen about 500 videos saying to put something behind your, your rear end here, as you come down, stay on it, rotate through the shot, and you're going to stay in your posture. Well, if that was working, it'd already be working, right? But most likely, if you're still, if you're watching this video, what's happening is, as you start your downswing, even though you try to keep your rear end back, it starts to come off of this golf bag like I have here behind me.

Uh, stand up out of my posture, my club shaft starts to get high, I can even shank some, I hate even saying the word, but that's a common, uh, mistake when you really start playing bad and you're losing your posture. So how do we fix this? It's actually a couple of fields that are very easy, but once you really understand them then...

And it starts to make sense to keep your rear end against this golf bag. So piece number one, what I found, people can, can feel what the club is doing. So feeling my rear end as I'm swinging a golf club is not always the most natural thing for most players, but feeling what the club is doing, we have a pretty good sense of that.

So when you lose your posture and my rear end comes off this golf bag, again, my hips go toward the golf ball. Well. As that happens, it pushes my hands out. That's where the shanks come from, like I was talking about earlier. And it raises this shaft up. So if you ever look at your golf club and it looks kind of like this at impact where I've lost my posture, my hands are moving this way, then this is going to be the perfect drill for you.

What I want you to feel here is instead of having the club raise up, I want you to have the club go down. I want you to feel like, again, this is not right. But I want you to feel like the club would be hitting inside your knees. Now naturally what you'll realize is if you're doing this, you'll feel like this golf bag is like in the way.

Right now I feel incredibly crowded by the golf bag when I start to feel my hands being low. In fact, if I was going to hit a shot like this, I would instantly knock over the golf bag. I'm not going to do it so it doesn't slam into the wall, but it's just way too close. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to scoot this golf bag back a good four or five inches.

And now, let's go ahead and set up where I have some space between my rear end and the golf bag. And here, as I swing through, again, I'm going to feel like the handle is down by my knees. It's not really, but that's the feeling I'm creating. That naturally pushes your hips back. It naturally keeps you in your posture and keeps you from popping up out of your spine angle.

So here, let's go ahead and hit one. And I'm going to feel like I... Knock this bag over keep that club shaft between my knees as that's happening. You'll look at I just won't lose my posture There we go Making sure I didn't knock my golf bag over there. So you can see there. I stayed in my posture I didn't pop up out of it And I really felt like the golf bag is almost crowding me a little bit when I'm doing that.

So that's piece number one is to feel like the shaft is low, that's probably going to fix it for you. Now if you're the rare case that still struggles with it, let's kick it up another notch and explain what would make that easier based on what the body should be doing. So now, if you ever watch Rory McIlroy, obviously the guy crushes the driver, incredibly good ball striker, I want you to incorporate a little bit of what he does with his upper legs.

So from his knee... to his hips, these, uh, femurs here. What are they going to do in a downswing? Well, I actually want to stand a little bit taller at address. One thing I see a lot of times, people try to stay in their posture and they're way down here at address and they're popping up out of it. I want to stand a little taller.

As I go into the transition, that's when I'm going to lower the shaft and I want to feel like my legs flex a little bit so the tops of my thighs are more facing up. If I go ahead and stand up out of my posture, that would be here. And my legs are straight up and down. I want to feel like I start tall and then I lower the shaft and sink into my legs.

A great drill. You'll see tiger doing this all the time, tucking the pelvis under. You'll see a lots of guys working on tucking the pelvis under that's in that transition move, they tuck the pelvis under legs are facing up shaft lower, that's really a great feeling to stay in your posture. And again, let's go ahead and give it another whirl.

So the slow motion practice swing here, what I like to do sometimes to get the feeling, do it pausing first, then take out the pauses, make one fluid swing, but go slow enough so that you can feel it. So here's the way I would do that. Here's my pause swing. I go to the top. I feel like I lower the shaft, go to impact.

Everything looks good. I'm in my posture. I'm staying down. Then I'm going to come on through. Then I'm going to take the pauses away and I'm going to go slow enough. So I just have time to think about it. I have time to feel what I'm doing. So here, lower the club shaft, my legs come down. Obviously I'm in my posture and then come all the way on through.

Now, once I get comfortable with that, I'm going to do the same thing, just faster. So no golf ball still, there we go. And I almost feel like my, our rear end is kicking back. If that golf ball golf bag was there, I'd slam it back into the wall. I don't want to mess up the paint in my wall. I'd put it back there and knock it into the, the wall for you guys, uh, but I'll spare, spare the wall.

I don't want to have to paint it. So I'm feeling like though, like my left butt cheek here is going here and then boom, it's going to be knocking back toward this wall as I'm, as that's happening. And again, that's easy. If the shaft is low, that starts to make sense. So faster, faster swings until I'm basically doing a full speed practice swing.

Then I'm going to go ahead and hit a shot. There we go. Killed that thing. Not going to do a whole lot better than that. Another thing there too, you know, sometimes we're doing these exaggerations and it's like, oh my, our rear end has to be way down there. I actually don't mind if your rear end starts on a wall here.

If it stays around there, if it comes an inch off that, it's really not going to matter. Guys on the PJ Tour. Many of them move this far off their rear end line as they start the downswing. You just don't see many of them that are popping up like this, losing their posture. Most all of them are going to stay, if there's a wall behind them, they're going to stay on that wall or really close to that wall.

It's okay if it isn't perfect. As long as you're staying down, flexing into the legs, shaft a little bit lower, then you're going to hit it pretty daggone good. Now, if you're not sure... If this is correct, I got a little challenge for you. Go to the driving range. Next time you're out there, look at all the divots, what you're going to see is tons of divots with the toe side of the divot digging in first.

So the divot looks like it's at an angle with the toe side starting first and then the heel side. Every single divot is going to be deeper on the toe side. You look at the PGA Tour, those divots are square and flat. So if you're doing this correctly, if you're staying in your posture, the real proof in the pudding.

It's going to be, can I make that square divot with my club shaft lower rather than standing up and having a toe deep divot? Now there's one more piece of this I want you to do. There's a second thing that accompanies this. It's going to now make a ton of sense. You see, a lot of times if we're popping up out of our posture, what we have to do is cast the club to be able to reach the golf ball.

Well, now that we're in our posture and that club shaft is low, we can get a ton of lag and still reach the ground. So getting lag is the next. Exact step that you should be taking to keep improving your swing. If you're a member of Topspeed Golf, what I want you to do is go to the Topspeed Golf lag section, go to the instruction tab, TSG system, lag section, and you, be sure to use, er, to, to finish the stick behind the ball drill as your very first drill to do there.

Now, like I always say, and you're gonna, you're gonna hear me say this a lot, and the reason I say it so much is because I care about your golf game. I don't want you to have a great feeling after doing this drill only to turn around a month from now and have fallen back into bad habits. I want you to get this down and play great golf for the rest of your life.

As long as you're playing golf, let's just make a swing that's really good that you don't have to think about and you hit it like the tour pros. Maybe not as far as the tour pros, but there's no reason you can't hit it as solid as a tour pro. Well, the only way to do that is to get the five real fundamentals of the golf swing down pat.

If you don't get those down, it's going to be a constant struggle to play really good golf. The way to get those down, start with level one. Get comfortable making the move. You're going to have to think about it in level one. As you get to level two of the lag section, it becomes a little bit more natural.

You still have to think about it every once in a while. As you go through the drills, they get a little bit easier. Then as you get to level three, it's automatic. You don't have to think about it at all. You, you look at your swing. Two months from now and you haven't practiced one lick and all of a sudden you pause it in the downswing and there's a ton of lag in there and you're like, that looks pretty daggone good.

That's what I want to get you. The only way to do that is completing the reps, going through level one, level two, level three, to build it into your swing, to bake it into your swing DNA forever. And I can't wait. I'm excited to get started with you on this journey. So head on over to the top speed golf lag section right now.

Start off with the stick behind the ball drill. That's the perfect next step for what to do next. Let's go and get started.