My Favorite Drill Which Has Helped Thousands of Golfers

Now, I got a video for you today. We're gonna work through a drill that's gonna show you why it's virtually impossible for most golfers I see to stay in their posture and open up their body. We're also gonna talk about how to get that club shallowed out and on plane, and why that's difficult for a lot of players to do. And I got a step-by-step drill that's gonna make it super easy to walk through also. So first, let's talk about the major mistake that I see with most players. We start down a little bit steep. This club shaft gets a little bit vertical. You notice if I drew a line down from this, it'd be hitting somewhere inside the golf ball as I start down. Now, the pros aren't doing that. When we look at the pros, they're shallowing that club out, and that butt end of the club would be pointing down somewhere at the golf ball, or you imagine like a target line here, or even slightly outside the golf ball, up to about a foot outside when I'm watching the best players in the world. That's what they're doing when they're hitting. Now, from here, if we do this like a pro, we're gonna shallow that out. And if you look at this club angle, it's gonna match the angle of my right forearm in the downswing. So my club shaft and my forearm are gonna be overlapping each other in the downswing. Now, if I get there, I can rotate as hard as I want to and play some fantastic golf. Let me show you what I mean by that. If I get this club really shallowed out, now it's on my forearm, from there, I can rotate my body open. Think about if there was a rope, somebody was standing back here where this wall is, and they were pulling toward that wall. This side of my body would get pulled back toward that wall. Everything's moving this way. And since that club's from the inside, it would be kicked out on the target line. Everything would be nice and square. It would even help me if I get from there and rotate open to have the club, have my hands in front and to de-loft that club, or have some forward shaft lean when I come into impact. That's what all the pros are doing. Now, that's not what I see most golfers doing. It's a little bit more comfortable for most players to get this club feeling like it's steeper because we feel like we're gonna pull that club down toward the golf ball. And when the club gets steeper, now, if I rotate, look what happens to the golf club. I go ahead and it's over the top. My club is about 15, 20 degrees too much this way. So when I pull back toward that wall again, now that club's chopping down on this golf ball. It's just simply not gonna work. So what do we do? You're a good athlete. You're not just gonna chop down over the top of the golf ball when you clear your body out of the way. You get that steeper club and you say, all right, I gotta get this thing to point toward that golf ball. And I gotta make sure I don't chop down this way. So we stand up, we back out of it slightly, and we throw our hands out to compensate. The problem with that, we lose our lag. We start to cast a little bit. We don't have the hands in front. And our body is basically completely stalled out. We look sort of like this when we're hitting the golf ball, rather than like this, like we see the pros when they're hitting the golf ball. So now that we've identified what to do right and what we're doing wrong, let's go into a step-by-step drill that's gonna help you to feel the correct thing. What I want you to do here is, just like we talked about in the downswing, the pros are gonna have that club shaft lining up with their forearm. Let's go ahead and just put that club about waist high here. I want you to get where you'd be halfway down in the downswing. So I'm gonna stand straight up. I'm gonna put my hands like this, where my forearm, if I had my palm up like this, would just be resting flat, parallel with the ground, almost like I could rest it on a tabletop. And then because that club is parallel with that, we're gonna have that golf club resting on that same flat plane there, that line. This is kind of the halfway down in the golf swing position. Now from there, we wanna close the face a little bit. So we're gonna rotate our hands slightly. And now we're in the position that the pros are in. Get a little bit more wrist set like that. So now if I go into my golf swing, that's exactly what you're seeing the pros do. I've just got you into that position. Now from here, do this same thing. I want you to do a little drill like we're hitting a baseball. So we've got this good position. We've rotated the face to square it up. And now from there, I want you to just turn the body out of the way. Again, this side of my body goes back toward the wall. And as that rotates, that pulls the other side of my body forward. So it's almost like everything's in a barrel here. You've heard swinging a barrel. This is what they're talking about. So as I rotate to impact, like a baseball swing, now this club is pointing down the fairway or the club shaft is straight ahead. That would be in the golf swing just after impact. So here's my impact with forward shaft lane. Then the club face squares up right here. So I've got my live position, the tabletop. Everything's nice and square. Club shaft matching my forearm. I rotate on through. So you can see as this side of my body rotates back, that pulls everything on forward. And that's what the pros are doing. The position I'm giving you here would be just after impact. Now, if I bend down in my golf posture, you would see it would be something like that. Let me go and get my stance better. That's the position I just gave you. So my hands are almost in front of that right leg, or that left lead leg, when that club shaft is straight up and down. Just prior to that, or on the way to that, if I pause at impact, that would be this position. Hands way in front, club face square, everything on one plane of glass. So if I simply just hinge forward as I'm doing that, it's gonna look something like this. Now I can clear the body as much as I want. There's impact. There's right after impact. And then finally, what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and release straight ahead. And when I release, this club should be kind of on the left side of my body. Let's look at it from this angle, because it's really cool to see from here. There's my tabletop flat, right arm position. There's my just after impact position when everything is square to the target. And then I'm gonna release it out here. So you can see all that is happening on one single plane, which allows me to be very consistent. And I can turn this side of my body out of the way as much as I want. And that just helps carry the club from the inside and square the club up. Again, if I was that steeper position, if I did that same thing, I'm gonna be chopping down on the golf ball. So do a few reps to get that feeling. And then from there, do a couple of half swings where you get in this good position, then I can rotate on through as much as I want. So this little half swings, and I'm clearing this side of my body out of the way to deliver the club out in front of me. Once you get comfortable with that, we wanna hit these low stingers. So I'm gonna hit a shot here. The normal loft and launch angle with a six iron is what I have, should be about 14 launch. And the loft should be somewhere around 20 degrees. That's what the pros are doing. I'm starting out with 30 degrees loft. I'm actually leaning the shaft forward about 10 degrees to get that pro quality launch. I'm gonna exaggerate it a little bit more here, and I'm gonna hit it like kind of a low bullet stinger shot. There you go. So that little mini swing, and now all of a sudden, I'm still getting quite a bit of power out of that. If you look at that one, the loft on that was 16. Pros are at 20. I'm de-lofting it even more because I'm trying to really hit this stinger shot 16 degrees. My launch angle was only 12 and a half on that one. And you'll see that that shot went 191 yards with just a little half swing six iron. So what it's showing you is, is even though I'm not taking it that far back, I felt like I came back to here. In reality, I probably went back to somewhere like this, like a little half swing. When I did that, I'm still getting tons of speed and tons of distance on that because I'm very efficient. I'm lagging that club. I'm releasing it through the golf ball. You're gonna get a lot of power when you do that. So that's that low bullet penetrating little half swing. Now from there, once I get comfortable with that, I'm gonna have the exact same feelings. All I'm gonna do, just take a little farther back. So now, full back swing. As I start to come down, I'm getting to that pro position. From here, I can turn as hard as I want to out of the way, and I'm still gonna square that club up. Let's go ahead and try a full swing now. There we go, nice and solid. Not gonna hit one a lot better than that. Just a hair to the right of the flag. That's gonna roll up there really nicely. So that one, 208 on a six iron, that's pretty good for me. Now, there's one problem with this. And a lot of times, players really struggle with that idea of getting this club in the slot and then squaring that face up. Everybody that I see, whenever they wanna hit a shot, they get the club in the slot here, and then as they clear their body out of the way, even if everything else is perfect, they have this face wide open. And when you do that, you end up hitting the shot about a mile to the right. Now, there's a different way that the pros are squaring up this club face. You have to use your hands and wrists in a very particular manner. What I do is I like to pause when the hands are in front of the right thigh, and then from there, I'm gonna turn my wrist to get this club squared up the way the pros are doing it. I have a drill that's gonna walk you through this step-by-step, it's called the tennis racket drill. I'm gonna play a preview of that here in a second. And all you need to do is go ahead, and on your screen somewhere, you're gonna click what's called a card. And then from there, you click the title of that video, it's gonna take you right to that tennis racket drill. If you don't see that card, don't worry, just go down to the description below, and you can click the link there, it'll take you to that same video. Now, I'm gonna teach you not only how to square that face up, but how to do it very intuitively, something that you can really feel like you get it down once and for all, and it makes it so easy to finally square that face up from the lag position. When you put all these pieces together, it's like you're a new player. You shallow the club out, you can turn as hard as you want, you're staying in your posture, and now we're talking about how to square up the face the right way, which is just, it's like giving you a blueprint of how tour players are hitting the golf ball. All right, so let's head on over to the tennis racket drill right now. I can't wait to see you there. Good player problems, we're gonna talk about shallowing that club shaft out as we're starting down, as we're doing this rotating of the face that we worked on in the last video. As we start this downswing, what you'll see with basically all of the top players is instead of coming kind of over the top and letting the hands come out away from their body, letting the club come out away from their body, again, coming down steep into the ball and then having to open up, kind of fillet open the face and add loft to it, the flattening of the shaft should happen as soon as we start down. So as we start this downswing, what we wanna have happening here, you can imagine that if I draw a line from the hosel of my club up through my right elbow, that's my swing plane line, my elbow plane. As I go to the top of the swing, I'm gonna be slightly above that. And then as I start down, I want my hands to start to shallow out. I want the club to shallow out inside of this elbow plane. And at the same time, I'm gonna...