In this video i'm going to show you how
to optimize your shorter golf swing so
you can play the golf of your life. So if
you've got a shorter golf swing i'm
going to show you three keys that you
can use to optimize it
so you can get enough distance you can
still play this ge well and compete
with your younger rivals that you play
with. So three keys I want you to work on.
I'm going to assume you've got a good
grip and set up as we begin the setup I want you to use
your belly button as a reference point.
So as you turn I want you to turn
and have a one piece takeaway so
everyone move everything moves in one
piece. You can see my belly button lines up
roughly with the grip it can go a little
bit higher that's okay
but you're turning getting a bit of
hinge in the club
and you're turning everything together.
Now the next part is making sure you get
a bit of hip depth.
As you're
getting that hip depth you're
getting more pressure into that trail
instep there
and I also want you to make sure you get
some depth in your hands as well. So not just
getting hip depth here which gives you
more space on the downswing but you're
getting your hands a bit deeper and the
club a little bit laid off not so much
like that. More laid off like this
i'll go into more detail on this on the
downswing but what that'll enable you to
do is give you more space to shallow that
club in the downswing so the keys for a great
backswing for a short back swing
it's getting everything to turn to that
belly button height getting hip depth
we're getting hand depth getting a
little bit laid off
now we're ready to make a great
downswing all right let's take a look at
the down swing now i'll quickly just
show you that back swing from face on
that looks
to here turning everything together
getting that hinge getting that pressure
into that trail side
and getting those hands deep and we're
getting that trail hip deep as well so i
thought to show you that from another
angle let's look at the
downswing so as we go to the top here
now the reason i want your hands to be a
little bit deeper is it makes it much
easier
to get this club
shallow so it's splitting somewhere near
that trail forearm i can't see myself on
cera there but it should be fairly
close to splitting that trail forearm
if you shallower
you'll have a very good chance of making
solid contact
more often now this is the big key i
want you to do when you're down sing i
want you to feel
as we start down i want you to feel that
trail elbow
closer to your body that'll help shallow
it and the first thing i want you to do
is feel your lead shoulder
and lead hip goes down
only be a small movement
lead shoulder lead hip go down
what that does is it gives you get your
pressure on your lead side
so you can really crush your golf shots
it's incredibly important with your
irons also works for your driver and
hybrids let me show you from face on
just so you know what i'm talking about
made a back swing
left shoulder left hip
down
getting a mass onto that lead side
okay
that trail elbow is staying tight and
tucked
that will shallow out the club let's do
it again let's just make our short back
swing
there getting pressure into that lead
really into that lead in steps
in a great position
to get the most of that shorter swing
and from there
you can really crush that golf ball i
just want to touch on one small thing on
that down swing i left out your grip
pressure needs to be light enough that
your trail wrist
this right which is my right hand for me
i can maintain some of that hinge that i
had at the top i can maintain more of
that as i get that move forward
that way i can shallow it
bring the club through on plane if i
keep that wrist very tight
i could cast it
even worse the importance of keeping
that right elbow close to you
it stops you from
getting out like this you can keep that
right elbow close to you you won't come
down steep
and you'll be able to shallow it
and get into a much better position at
impact okay the final part of our
shorter golf swing so you can really
optimize and get the most out of it and
that's
impact through the follow through so
i'll show you this in a couple of
different angles
so we've made our back swing we've
shallowed the club on the way through
i want you to have these feels as you
come through to get the most out of your
swing now the first one is going to be
as you come through past impact
i want you to feel like those arms in
fact i'll just show it over here first
feel like those arms they remain
straight
okay they'll obviously hinge
eventually but i want you to feel like
they finish straight
okay that's the first feel i want you to
have from this angle here
we we're to here and we're finished as
we're rotating we're shallowing the club
okay you want to feel those arms and are
extending out i don't want them
flipping like this too much now the
other feel i want you to have which will
help you hit a lot more straighter golf
shots
i feel like this handle
is more
inside the club head like that rather
than
i feel like the handle
is inside the
that club head
the reason why that is so powerful
it helps maintain a lot more club face
stability the clubface won't move around
as much through impact help keeps it
more stable
more consistent golf shots more santa
face golf shots as well
so those are some keys for you as you go
through feel like you can maintain some
angle in your wrist like that
we got into that wrist position up here
we've got our hands nice and that light
grip pressure but we're swinging through
i feel like you're maintaining a bit of
cupping with that trail wrist
so we're going through
to here
we're shallowing it to here and then
through
one final piece i want you to think
about
and i know this seems like a lot but
once you
build muscle memory and these all become
automatic is this lead leg
it should straighten out past impacts as
you come down
it'll still be bent here
it'll be straightening and impact and
then after impact
that lead leg needs to straighten so
let's have a look from here
we go to here
impact
straighten
and then through
now in your follow through talked about
that handle being inside the club head
again depending on your flexibility and
what you can do
feel like that handle matches up with
the belly button again so we're using
our body this is very much a body
a body golf swing it's a body rotational
swing we're coming to here
we're rotating
and the handle is finishing again
roughly in line with that belly button
belly button rotates through with the
body
and we're finishing about here somewhere
so it's a body driven swing that's not
going to rely so much on your wrists
and it will encourage you to do a lot
more rotation
so this is what it looks like
to here
to here
this is a repeated a repeatable golf
swing
that you can do over and over
which will result in a lot more
consistency so let's have a look at a
simple drill you can do to practice this
and build this into your ge all right
let's look at how you can practice your
shorter golf swing get the most out of
it first thing i want you to do is grab
a club grab the handle put it into your
belly button we're going to reference
that again
choke up on the club like this
and you're going to turn and make your
back swing you'll notice everything
stays connected and together
and then turn through
this is a great drill to practice this
shorter golf swing keep everything
connected and that body turning it
forces you to rotate
an excellent one to do you can do even
do it as a pre-shot routine before you
hit your shot the other thing you can do
is do some slow rehearsals
so you can practice getting your stance
you're just going to come to here
and you're going to swing through and do
everything we spoke about nice and slow
to here
and through
all right let's hit one now we're going
to put all those three keys into
practice
and see how it goes
set up to one here
going to get that ship shift going to
get that that depth
pretty good strike
you can absolutely make a shorter golf
swing and still get plenty of distance
and play
great golf so if you have any questions
about that video anything you didn't
understand about the backswing the
downswing or that follow through
please let me know we'll get back to you
got an important video coming up that
you need to watch because this talks
about how to stop standing up through
impact now when you combine that with
this video you're going to play some
fantastic golf so i'll see you on that
video it's coming up.