– Now, if you've been struggling
to shallow the golf club, I have the drill that's
finally gonna get you to get the right feeling once and for all. Now, most players start with
an incorrect back swing. And what I mean by that is
they let the club come inside, travels inside my hands
and you see immediately this orange stick is gonna smash into the stick I have in the ground. Then as I start the downswing,
that club steepens up, and you can see that
the stick is way inside or toward my toes here, and then it starts to go like this and shallow out, very light. Kind of a mess, makes it really difficult, you have to do a lot of rerouting. I'm gonna show you the
right way to do this drill to get you a great feeling, then you can head right to the course, shallowing out the golf club.
Let's go and get started. All right, so let's talk about the right way to do this drill. I wanna go ahead and
set up to my golf ball with my normal setup position. I'm gonna raise my hands until my club is flat with the ground, and I wanna put a stick
just outside of that. Now, for most players, when
you're first doing this, we're not gonna hit any
golf balls doing this, this is all just for reference point.
You can hit golf balls doing this, but I would make sure
that you give yourself a little bit more margin for error, get this stick a little
farther away from your hand so you don't happen to walk
into it on the downswing. But that's the way I would set up to it, to get the feeling for this drill, it's exactly how I would do it.
You'll see that this orange stick is a little shallower
than the angle of my club when my sole of my club or
the bottom of the club here is flushed to the ground. That's the way I like to set it up to exaggerate the shallowing. And we'll talk about exactly
what you do with that here in just one second. Now, the second thing here is you're gonna go and take
another alignment stick, and you're gonna put it to where you're gripping your club normally, and it's sticking out of the club about a foot, foot and a
half, something like that. Then I'm gonna go ahead
and take my normal grip. Now, as I set up here,
as I go to the dress, you're gonna see that
this stick is resting on the left side of my body here. It's not really sticking out
very far away from my body, that's how I know I have it
the right distance there.
And that's good 'cause
that's gonna help you to get the feedback that we want for the takeaway part of this drill. Now, piece number one, as I mentioned, is most players are gonna
tend to take this club, and it's gonna go inside, which is gonna kick this
part of the stick out, as part of the sticking out
from the button of my club, and it's gonna whack into
the stick in the ground. So if I drag it inside,
it's gonna hit that stick and I'm gonna get immediate
feedback from that. The reason that's important
is that most of the time when I drag this club inside,
my right wrist breaks early, I'm picking up the club all arms. And that leads me to getting
the club too far inside and then coming down steeply. If I can, instead, I feel like this stick stays
on the left side of my body, and that club stays outside
of my hands for the takeaway. Now you'll see the club head
is on this side of my hands, if we're looking from down the line, and you'll see this stick is still grazing the left side of my body.
That way I know I'm
doing it the right way. If I'm doing this and
that stick comes off, immediate feedback that
I'm doing it the wrong way. So I'm gonna go ahead and
get that good takeaway here, as I go from there, I may see this stick a little
bit more inside or steeper on the back swing, that's
actually a good thing. A lot of times players will
try to fix their shallowing by trying to get this club
really shallow in the back swing. But again, like I talked about, that's gonna kick the club out and then the downswing, it's gonna change. I wanna go ahead and have my
club head outside my hands, from there, get this stick
a little bit steeper. And then naturally, what's gonna happen is as I start my downswing, my hands are gonna wanna
shallow out a little bit.
And I wanna try to match this stick with this stick very
early in the downswing. So I've done my good takeaway. I've started my downswing
and now I can see visually this stick and this sticker
pretty close to lining up. I wanna feel like my hands swing well under this orange stick on the ground. My orange stick barely misses the one that's in the turf
or in the ground here. I don't want to touch it, I
want it to be underneath it. And then I'm gonna go to impact, and my hands are gonna
travel well under this. If I stand up also, which
is a very common problem. If I stand up, all of a sudden, my hands are gonna wanna
go over that stick, and that's gonna lead to some
serious issues there too. So I'm typically gonna flip,
lose a lot of lag if I do that. So my hands to go under that stick, everything to be parallel. And then I'm gonna pause at impact, making sure that my hands
have cleared well under that stick in the ground.
I might even feel like the heel of my club is a little bit lower. Like the toe of my club is
almost sticking up like this as I'm coming through contact, that's gonna help me to exaggerate that shallowing out feeling. So once I've done a few of those and gotten the feel for it in slow motion, I can get rid of the
stick that's on my hands, and now I can actually
hit some shots doing this. Now, remember, I wanna give
myself plenty of room here. I don't wanna be accidentally
grazing the stick and hitting myself, maybe I could hurt my wrist
or something like that. I wanna give myself plenty of room, and I'm gonna have the exact same feelings that I did in that drill. So let's go ahead and hit one here, and then I'll give you one more tip that really helps us to happen.
All right, definitely
got my hands under it. You'll see if I take a couple swings here, and I'm not gonna reset this
stick every single time, it's really more for a visual reference than it is trying to
get it exactly perfect. Just having that stick there in the way, gets my hands more under it. And I'm typically gonna be
a little bit more heel down, a little bit more shallowed
out when I do that. So I'm gonna go ahead
and hit one more here. And even though I'm nowhere near really making contact with this stick, just having it there makes me feel like I wanna get underneath it, which is the exact opposite of what I see most players doing. Most players are gonna stand
up, get their hands higher, and then they're gonna
flip when it comes down. So it solves early
extension or standing up, it solves shallowing it out, it solves a really good takeaway where I felt like my
club's outside of my hands, and then it will wanna shallow, a lot of great things are
happening when we do this drill.
Now, the last thing here that
I want you to be aware of if you're struggling with this, is making sure that when
you pause at impact, your hips go ahead and open up. I don't wanna go ahead
and try to be lower here and just be doing this
entire drill all arms, not moving my body at all. Go ahead and let your body open up just like you would in a real swing, and then this drill is
gonna work fantastic. Again, I'm setting up 'cause I'm hitting multiple balls here. Now it's a good eight or 10
inches away from my hands, but just having it there makes me wanna swing underneath it and exaggerate that shallowing out.
There we go, really nice solid shot. For me, this is a great go-to drill to get everything really crisp, really clean and shell it out early. Now, the last piece of this
that's really important. Most players, when they
start to shallow it out, will leave the face open. So if you look at my club face
here, I've shallowed it out, I've got it from the inside,
but now the face is wide open, that ball's gonna go a mile to the right. Now, the pros are using their wrist to square up the club in
a very specific manner. Once we get this club shallowed out, we then have to square up the club face by rotating our wrist the proper way.
That's gonna close the club face more, which helps me to hit it
square every single time, get that nice tight draw. It also helps me to get
that forward shaft lane and my hands leading in front of the club head through contact. I'm gonna show you a preview
of one of my best drills, called the tennis racket drill. It's really intuitive. Once you see this,
you're gonna feel exactly how the pros are getting
that bowed left wrist, how they're getting all this shuffling, how they're getting it shallowed out like you see with all the top players.
So let me show you a preview of that all you need to do to see the full video is go ahead and click the card
that pops up on your screen, or go down to the link
below in the description where you can get instant access. Best of luck, I can't
wait to share with you a couple of those secrets on how the pros do the tennis racket drill,
let's go and get started. – Air 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 with
basically all of the top players is instead of coming 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, lay 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 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..