(metal swishing) – Shallow in the club. Everybody wants to get
this club nice and shallow. Now, when I shallow the club properly what's happening is my weight goes to my back a little bit. My rear end kinda sticks out. So I'll open my hips a little
bit to start the down swing. And then what you should see here is when your left arm is
parallel with the ground, you wanna see this club shaft pointing at your target line which would be illustrative
of a screen stripe here or a little bit outside the target line. Now, there's two specific things you wanna do with your wrists. Some certain forces that
you wanna put in here, stick around to the end of this video. I want to make sure that
I go over those with you. That'll be a game changer. It's like night and day.
Once you get those right how much easier it is
to shallow this club out but there's several things you wanna do. Now, this is a little device. You don't have to have
this, but I really like it because it gives you
some immediate feedback. It's called a checkpoint laser. It shoots a little green
laser out of the end of it to where my sweet spot, just
in front of the sweet spot.
And it has another little green laser that you can see pointing
out of this end of it. Now, one big problem
that I see when players tend to get steeper in the down swing and get this kind of laser you see that pointing
inside the mat there. What they'll do is they'll pick it up with their hands and wrist. And when I pick it up
on my hands and wrist the club shoots inside and you'll notice that green laser that's on the ground here immediately goes to the
inside of that stripe. Now that could be a big issue.
The reason is when I get it to the inside as I start to pull down, that gets my club's steeper. Let me grab a club and show you exactly
what I mean with that. So whenever you have this
club working to the inside and your momentum is going back. Imagine your hands are kind of
working on a plane of glass. So as I go back and through my hands are on this inclined plane, as I changed directions start down, I go from my back swing to my down swing. And my hand start pulling down
this plane, this direction. Well, if my hands are inside or my club head is inside of my hands. When I do this, watch what
happens when I change directions it starts to throw the club out that way. So you can feel this real easy, go to the top of your swing, get the club really flat
just with your left arm only and just pull your left arm down to the ground like you
would in a golf swing.
And you'll immediately see
that club starts to steepen up. It kicks out this way
and comes over the top. Then you can do the opposite. Go ahead and have the club out here, not a golf swing. You're never gonna make
a golf swing like this but go ahead and stick the club out. And then he yanked the club down again. And you'll see how immediately
this thing is like slung and flattens out. So you can actually use the momentum of the club head if you move it correctly. So if I pull this club to the inside all of a sudden I get it here. And then as I start my down swing it wants to kick out that way. What I'd much rather do is have this club stay a little outside in my hands. A little tiny bit is fine. And then as I changed direction it's automatically gonna wanna
shallow out a little bit.
So we can use this little laser to make this happen. So I'll set up with it on the stripe here. As I go back, almost wanna
feel like my hands and my body are leading the way, like my hand is in front. This hand on the way back
is leading the club head. The club had kind of lagging behind it. You'll notice when I do that, all I'm gonna focus on here is turning this hip out of the way, turning this shoulder out of the way and keeping my wrist loose.
And you can see automatically that little green laser
traces outside this line. Now I'm completely fine with it tracing on that line, which will be kind of perfectly
on plane as I'm doing that or tracing a little bit outside of it. Well, what I really don't like is taking the hands and wrists and not using the body to turn and just picking up with
the hands and wrists. And all of a sudden
this club shoots way in this wrist it's bowed,
this wrist it's cupped and then it's that over
the top steepening move. That's the one that's
really gonna hurt you. So with a laser like this,
you can just practice on turning with the right side of the body, keeping the wrist loose and you'll see that green
laser should actually track on this line or slightly
outside that line.
And that's gonna help it to set shallower in the downswing. That's a really helpful thing to have. Now, the way that this
works is eyeline golf makes this device, Sam,
the guys over there, they're really nice guys this amazing people to work with. True professionals. They sent me one of these for free and they gave me a deal where anybody that buys one of these eyeline lasers through the link that you'll see. So if you're watching this video you should see a box
somewhere on this page, a link in the description, a link down below on the page where you can actually buy one of these. Anybody does that. They give me a few
bucks from one of these. And that always helps us
to make more great content but by all means go buy it from anywhere. We should have the lowest price on that link there that
you'll find anywhere. So you can feel confident with that but I love these things.
So you're helping us out. Helping your swing out and no pressure here at all. If you don't, you don't have to have one of these to make it happen. You don't have this device. It just makes it easier. Do I want to sit here and have to think about these positions or kind of just look on the ground and make the positions happen? Like I want. So love it, support eyeline golf and top speed golf, head on
over to the link down below. But before we go there, let's check out piece number
two, the second fundamental. That was the first one. You really wanna get
that club working back on plane to make it easy
to shallow the club out. Once you do that, the next
piece is even more crucial. So once I get to the top of the swing what I find most players will do is they'll start to yank down
on this club really hard.
Now, remember if we have this
club kind of to the inside and we start yanking down
on it and it gets steeper. But even if we have a good back swing and we get it in a good
position at the top, if we yank straight down on it, my hands down toward my feet, it's gonna kick this club out and a little bit of a steeper fashion. So here's actually what I want you to do. This is gonna solve several problems with one thing. I want you to feel like
your first move down is tucking this elbow.
So when my elbow comes down imagine I'm pulling on
this handle this way which is gonna shallow that club out. At the same time, I wanna feel like my left thumb, I wanna really exaggerate here is going down and giving kind of a reverse thumbs down like that. If I do both of those at the same time, that club gets super shallow. That's tucking that elbow and feeling like my left hand goes in the opposite direction up. So what's happening there is what's called from a physics term is called a couple and is the left hand goes
up, the right hand goes down and that really shallows out the shaft.
Now I'm doing it way too much there but you just do that a little tiny bit tuck that elbow and have
that thumbs down position. Now, all of a sudden you're
super, super shallow. We're actually seeing
this little green laser is pointing well outside this map. Here, when that happens. So let's put that together. Now, as you do that move, as I start to get my
shallow in the downswing. I would actually like to have this laser a little bit outside of this green line. Now, again, running down that
green line is perfectly fine. It's gonna be really good, but if you're a little outside of it, especially if you're a steeper player.
If you revert back to
your old ways a little bit when you actually get a golf
ball down there in the way, that green line is gonna go from slightly outside or that green dot is gonna
be slightly outside the line to right on that line. So here's what we wanna do, as you start your down swing, get a little weight shift to your left, get your hips to open up. I don't wanna have my hips do this and just throw the club down
there on the line like that.
That's not gonna work, get my hips to open up, get that hand action to happen and actually get that green laser pointing a little bit outside of it. It's completely fine. Then as you work down to contact, we're gonna see that come, on, what would be the golf ball, trace down the line here and then I'm gonna release, the cool thing about this too is as I release, I can see that my face is square as I go down this target line because of how I release
it with the club there. So if I have a little bit
of an over the top flip not only am I not gonna
trace down this line on my down swing, through contact, but I'm gonna see this
green laser from the head shoot off to the inside there. I wanna feel like after I shallow out I get it on the line. My second tracer, traces
down the line there also.
And I don't get this thing to flip to the inside and start going back in as that's happening. So that'll really help you stay square all the way through contact, which is a really good feeling to have. If I can be really square from here on then I'm gonna be a fantastic player. I'm gonna be very consistent. Now there's one thing that I wish this device had, that I haven't seen this device or any other device teach you.
And that's teaching you
the pro wrist motion that's gonna square up at face. You see, the one thing about this device is I can get it perfectly on plane and I'm really riding down here on plane. My club face is coming through on plane. Everything looks like a million bucks. I'm shallow. I'm really swinging fantastic but I could have this face open. You see, I can have my pointer on that line but I can have the face open or closed, in that pointer still pointing
in the same direction. Now this is actually
something that I go over in what I call the tennis racket drill. And there's a specific way that the pros are using their wrist,
both their left wrist and the right wrist to
come through impact.
And now get that great pro impact with a shaft leaning in front
of the club face square. That dot right on the ground and making that happen. Most, everybody that I ever see may get the shallowing piece right. But then they don't have the second piece. They don't have the wrist right. You have to have both
of those pieces together if you want it to work. And I'm gonna play a great bonus video for you called the tennis racket drill, where I teach you a very
intuitive way to get those wrist angles.
If you can put both those together then you're gonna be
swinging pretty doggone good. You're gonna have this club shallowed out. You're gonna have those
wrist angles really good to where now you're hitting
those nice, powerful draws. You don't have to worry about the shot shape. You know, it's gonna turn
over from right to left. You know, it's gonna be solid.
So go ahead and check out that video. I'm gonna play a preview
of it here in a second. All you have to do is go ahead and click the card, help bubble up above or click the link down
below in the description if you don't see it there, you'll get instant access
to that tennis racket drill. You pair it up with what we did here today and you're gonna have
some amazing success. You're gonna have a blast
out there on the golf course. So best of luck. And I'll see it right now in the tennis rocket video. 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 down
swing, which 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 filet 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 down swing, what we want to have happening here. You can imagine that if I draw a line from the hozzle 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 be rotating..