This Trick Finally Fixes Standing Up In The Golf Swing

Keeping our body the same distance to the ground throughout the golf swing, especially on the way down and through, would be the way that would make consistent, solid contact the easiest and most repeatable. What we're trying to do to keep our inclination to the ground is not keep our chest down over the ball, it's keep your right side down over the ball. And when they get through, you're going to notice at impact, their chest is actually pointed out towards the target, not down towards the ball. But their right shoulder, hip, and knee are all down at the golf ball. Once they get through the ball, you'll see them on the screen, their right shoulder, right ribcage, hip, and knee are the things pointed down to the ball. That's what keeps them in their inclination to the ground, not chest down, not chest down. If you're like a lot of people that I coach, you really struggle with standing up too much during the downswing through the ball. You don't hit the ball as solid as you'd like, not as consistent day to day, just don't hit the ball as straight and far as you know you can. I'm going to show you in today's video how to fix that, one of my all-time favorite drills. Okay, when we're talking about staying down and covering the ball, the important concept here to understand is what we call inclination to the ground, which is just a fancy way to say keeping our body the same distance to the ground throughout the golf swing, especially on the way down and through, would be the way that would make consistent, solid contact the easiest and most repeatable. So when we look at a good golfer, if we draw a line up my back line here at setup, we would see that especially during the downswing, their body stays the same distance to the ground or even gets slightly closer to the ground on the way down and through the golf ball, and that enables them to hit it consistently solid. Now, if you're like a lot of players that I work with during the downswing, we look something like this. If we draw a line on my head and a line up my back here, we know that during the downswing, we're getting too tall. We're standing up too much at impact, and that causes us a lot of issues. And the reason that causes us a lot of issues is the distance of my body away from the ground dictates my release pattern, okay, and how well I am able to get to a good impact position. If my body is a certain distance from the ground at setup, and I get farther from the ground at impact, and I stand up and stall, the only way for me to get to the golf ball to reach it is to prematurely straighten my right arm and my right wrist. Now that enables me to get down to the ball, but if I put my opposite hand on, what's the problem there? Let's look at me here and put a good player at impact who looks like this. Notice the difference side by side of that. The problem with me prematurely throwing my right arm and right wrist, no shaft lean, poor contact, no distance inconsistent. So we want to be able to keep our body the same distance from the ground on the way back and through. The key concept here, and I see this and hear this all the time, and it messes a lot of people up, is when we try and keep our body the same distance from the ground, we are not, not trying to do that by feeling our chest stay down. When you feel like your chest stays down, we're not able to rotate, you get stuck, the hips are too far back, no good. What we're trying to do to keep our inclination to the ground is not keep our chest down over the ball, it's keep your right side down over the ball. So we're going to put some players on the screen here. You'll see Max Homa, Justin Thomas, a couple of players on the screen, Tiger. And when they get through, you're going to notice at impact, their chest is actually pointed out towards the target, not down towards the ball, but their right shoulder, hip, and knee are all down at the golf ball. So we keep our body's during the downswing with our right side of our body, not our chest down. That's really, really, really important. Now, how do we do this and feel this? There's a couple of different ways. One of my favorite ways to do this, we call this the hockey drill or the split hand grip drill. When you take your setup, I want you to slide your right hand down where it's just past the grip on the club and hold it out in front of you like this, where the butt of the club is about even with the golf ball. Let's make a backswing where your hands like to get to about hip high. And then from this position, I want you to get down to the golf ball, to the golf ball. So normal set up like this, slide the right hand down the grip, hold it right in front of you back up to about hip high, and then take that and get that down to the golf ball. And the beautiful thing about this drill is that it really helps you feel that trail side working down. The reason it works, if I bring it up in front of me, as soon as I take my setup and I slide my right hand down the grip, notice where the club head is relative to the golf ball. It's up about an inch or two. And what that means then is as I swing, assuming I stay about the same height on the way back, I've got to actually lower some on the way down. Now, do you have to actually lower some? We'll show some examples on the screen with the line on their head. Some really good ball strikers do in fact, lower some. That enables them to keep their trail arm and trail wrist bent and hit it very solid. The opposite of standing up and throwing those angles. So lowering would be totally fine. But in reality, even if we stay the same height on the way down, that would be good. We just can't stand up too much. Why can't we stand up too much? Because then our body's too far from the ball, and we have to early throw our right arm and right wrist. Why is that bad? Because we're gonna get inconsistent contact, no shaft lean, no solid contact. So what I want you to do when you're practicing is split hand grip, hand down the end of the grip here, left hand even with the ball, back to about hip high, get to the golf ball. You should feel a big right oblique crunch here. Okay? The right shoulder feeling closer to the right hip. Same thing, back and through. Now, as I'm doing this, I'm doing this as a drill and stopping at impact. But in reality, as I do this, I'd be working through the ball like those players. Once they get through the ball, you'll see them on the screen, their right shoulder, right rib cage, hip and knee are the things pointed down to the ball. That's what keeps them in their inclination to the ground, not chest down, not chest down. So I like one or two of those drills, grab a feel of what that feels like. And then we're going to hit with that same sensation. Feeling like my right side, like, what do I feel when I'm doing this? My hips and weight are still forward. I feel a right side oblique crunch. Like my knee is about even with the golf ball and my hip and my shoulder are pointed down towards it. My chest feels like it's out towards the target, right? That's the feel. So I'm going to get that feel. I'm going to hit one, right side works down and through. Let's hit one with that. And there's a very solid iron shot. Now, when you're doing this, like I mentioned, the bad version, okay, the bad version is us standing up, straightening our right arm and wrist. Now, if I'm getting my body actually closer to the ground, even if I'm staying about the same distance, something needs to shorten to make up for that distance. Just like when I got farther, something needed to lengthen to make up for that distance. As I get closer, something needs to shorten. And that's good. That's what all good ball strikers do. Since your right shoulder, right hip and knee are closer to the ball and forward, you're going to probably need to feel like your right arm and right wrist are more bent as well from about hip high, hip high through the hitting area. It will of course, straighten out past impact, but through the hit, the right arm and right wrist will feel a little bit shorter. That helps shorten the radius, shorten the radius. So as I'm doing this drill, split hand grip or hockey and getting down to the ball, I'm feeling a right side crunch. My right arm feels bent. See my weight's still forward and hips are still forward over my left leg. My chest certainly feels like it's out pointed out here towards the target, not at the ball. And I'm still going to feel like my right arm and right wrist are bent at and past impact. Okay. So same feels, we'll show those players in the screen, right side works down and through right arm and right wrist feel bent. And there's another one, very solid high iron shot. Now in terms of the lowering, if we draw a line on my head here, the thing that's actually causing the is that right side bend. Notice as my right shoulder gets closer to my right hip, see how my head, let's draw a line on my head. My head goes down, but also it's going away from the target. Okay. That right side bend is the piece that actually causes the lower, some lower body stuff too. But in terms of upper body, that's what caused it. Now, as I do that right side bend, notice as I add rotation, that brings my head back on center. So how I get lower is right shoulder closer to the right hip. As I rotate brings it back for what's that right side down and through. That's a really good one to use that split hand grip like that to keep compressing the ball and stop standing up. I absolutely love that. We'll put a card on the screen for a similar style video. If you want to plan like this or drills you can do for your game, check out CogornoGolf.com would love to work with you there. Any questions, always leave a comment. If you can click that gray thumbs up button, subscribe. If you haven't, maybe send this to a friend that all helps. Appreciate you guys watching. All right, guys, if you're interested in a winter golf school, we just made the dates live for December, January, and February down in Boca Raton in South Florida. We're partnering with our good friends at the Don Law Golf Academy. I've personally hand selected some of the best coaches in the world to be there along with me to give you a two day event that I want you to never forget. I want you to have a transformational event for your golf game. I want you to have a blast. 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