– There are many ways
to add club head speed. You can work on your
ground force reactions, you can work on getting some lag. But I've really only found one way that's gonna help you to
instantly add club head speed to your game, and that's creating more space and time to accelerate the club. The more space and time you
have to accelerate the club, the more speed you can generate and the more ultimately the distance that you can get from that.
So, how do we do that? So, there's a horizontal component, and then there's also
a vertical component. The horizontal components would be how we turn our hips and
turn our shoulders, right? So, if I don't turn my
hips and turn my shoulders and I just kind of get my arms over here, it's gonna be very, very difficult for me to create speed from here. I need to go ahead and turn
my hips and turn my shoulders so I can get that club going back further. We also have a vertical component. So this is where I'm talking
about lifting the club up. getting the club up higher in the air. If I bring that club back here, even if I turn my hips
and my shoulders a lot, I just don't have a lot of space and time to accelerate the club. I need to get those arms up higher, so that way, I have a lot more space. So, how do we work on this? So the first thing I wanna do here is show you what a swing would look like if I restricted those things, because I see people
in lessons all the time who are really restricting these things and robbing themselves a distance.
Then they work on these things, and instantly, they've added
a lot of club head speed. I've seen people add more than 20 miles per
hour just by working on these things that I'm
gonna be talking about. So, in this swing here, I'm
gonna try to restrict my turn, my horizontal components,
and my vertical components, and see what kind of speed I can generate. I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm not really sure
where this is gonna go, I'm hoping I can hit solid.
I'm gonna try to hit this
with a lot of effort here, and see what kind of speed I can generate by doing what feels like to
me is very, very restrictive. It may not look super
restrictive on video. Hopefully it does, but I'm
gonna really, really try to restrict myself and see what I can do. So that hit way off the heel. Didn't hit it very good, didn't go very far. But I got 105 miles per hour there. I just felt super rushed, I actually came over the
top there a little bit and just hit a pull off the heel, carried about 205 yards and
only a smash factor of 1.35. That's not my best right there.
It had a lot of spin too, 'cause I felt like I
had to rush it so much because I was trying to
give it so much effort. Got 105 miles per hour, which isn't too bad, but that's definitely
much lower than my normal. So, how can I instantly
add that club head speed? So, first what I want you to
do is grab an alignment stick and get in your stance here, and put it just inside
your trail foot there. And what this is gonna
add, this is gonna act is where you wanna get
the shoulders to turn with this club across your shoulders here. So what I want you to do is
I want you to take this club, put it across your shoulders, and I apologize if this
is hitting the mic. But what we wanna do is I want
you to turn your shoulders and match it up to that
club on the ground. Now, the reason why we
have it on that trail foot is that one thing I see a lot of people do in an effort to get to
create more space and time is they will actually kind
of lean back this way, right? So, if you imagine, I have
this, I'm taking my swing.
Now, this is lengthening my swing, I am getting the club to go back further, I am creating more space and time, but that's not the way you wanna do it. That's gonna lead to a lot
of issues in the golf swing. That's gonna lead to most
likely in over the top. You're gonna tend to kinda fall away in the down swing when you do that. So, it's just very, very
hard to be consistent if we're really leaning toward the target. We wanna stay behind the golf ball, get nice and loaded up, so that way, we can shift our weight more easily. So that's why we're putting
that on the trail foot here. So initially, we're gonna work on these horizontal components. So that's the hip turn
and the shoulder turn. And I know you maybe thinking, "I'm not flexible, I'm not gonna be able to turn very much." Well, I'm not flexible either. I'm actually very, very
unflexible in my lower body. I'm working on it right now to
hopefully get some freed up.
But what I have to do because
when you turn your hips, your trail leg is internally rotating, so it's going like that. And you can see there, I have a hard time doing that. So, what I have to do is I have to turn my trail
foot out a little bit, and that helps free me up to
turn my hips a little bit more. So, I'd highly recommend doing that. One other thing I'd recommend doing is letting this heel, this
lead heel come off the ground. It's completely fine to do that. I know a lot of you may have been told, "Hey, keep your feet on the ground." But that's a total myth. Look at players like Jack
Nicklaus, Bubba Watson. There's lots of players out there who lift that heel off, and I've seen Tiger do it sometimes. So, go ahead and let that
heel come off the ground.
That can help free up the hips. If you keep that heel on the ground, it can act as an anchor for your hips and not allow those to free up. One last piece would be to drop this trail foot back a little bit. That can help you to get
turned away a little bit more. So, those things, the hips
are the number one thing that I see people struggle with as far as the horizontal components. Most people are able to get a good turn between the shoulders and the hips.
It's the hips and the ground
where I usually see the issues. So, free those things up by doing that. So get this club across
the shoulders here. And what I want you to do is I want you to do three back swings. And then on the last one, do a downswing. So, the reason why I want you to do this is I want you to create momentum here to really get that
feel that good stretch. So I've got my trail foot
turned out a little bit to help me turn a little bit more. I'm gonna go one, two, and the last one, three, I'm gonna swing all the way through. Now, I really want you
to feel that stretch in the turn there and get that
nice and matched up there. If I'm looking right
down with my eyes here, I can see that my club is
going right down there. So, do that a few times.
You know, get in four or
five reps of doing that. And now, let's get the club in our hands and try to replicate that same motion. So again, I'm gonna free up
my hips, free up my shoulders. I'm gonna allow myself
to get a good turn here. And again, I'm gonna do three pumps. I'm gonna go one, two, now last one, three. I'm gonna swing through
into the full finish. And you can feel there how much time you're gonna
have to accelerate the club.
It's gonna feel like you're creating more effortless
speed when you do that. So, get in a few more reps with that, and then let's move on to
the vertical component. So the vertical component is getting those arms up in the air. So, when we're getting
the hands raising up, that's essentially like
doing a touchdown signal, like a football referee
doing a touchdown signal. That's essentially what's happening. We're just lifting the arms straight up. So, what I want you to do again, is to add this feeling
in with the last one where we're getting a big turn and matching our shoulders up. Let's also feel like we're
getting that touchdown feeling like we're lifting the club, we're taking this club
up an elevator shaft. That's what we wanna
feel like is happening. So, I'm gonna implement that same thing. And go nice and slow at first. If you're someone who swings
very, very flat right now, this is probably gonna feel really weird. So, go nice and slow at first, and then you build up
the speed from there.
So again, I'm gonna do three pumps here. And on the last one,
I'm gonna swing through, and I'm gonna feel big shoulder turn, and you know, doing a
touchdown signal feeling, that club go basically
straight up in the air. So if you watch me here, I'm gonna go one, two, and then three on the last one. I'm gonna swing all the way through. So you see I went nice and slow there. Build up the speed, build up
to a much, much faster speed. So now, let me take a swing here after I've worked on
getting that good stretch, freeing up my hips,
freeing up my shoulders, getting those arms to go up higher.
And let's see if I can get some nice club head speed boost
here from working on those. I get my tee in the ground here. All right, so let me
move this out of the way. All right, so got a good one there. Definitely a big club
head speed boost there, almost 10 miles per hour
extra club head speed there just from feeling more
turn of the shoulders, and more turn to the hips, and more vertical lift of the club.
All right, so now that you
have this new found speed, now you need to learn how to be able to control it much better. You know, with great power
comes great responsibility, right? So the best way to do that is to get this club shallowing in the start of the downswing, and also get that club face squaring up sooner in the start of the downswing. The sooner you can do that, the better. Because that allows you to
get this club in the slot and then turn through the golf ball as hard as you possibly can.
You know that face is gonna be square, you know that club is gonna be on plane, you're gonna be watching that ball go down the middle of the fairway. Because what happens is if
you get to where you're steep, right? So now, I've gotta stand up and
really throw my hands at it. I may have all this great speed, but I don't have any control of it because I'm depending
it all on timing, right? So, you know, some days you may be great, your timing is perfect, and then other days, it's like you don't even know
why you came out and played. You wish you would've stayed home because you're just hitting your
drives all over the place.
So, if we can get to where
this club is shallowing out earlier in the start of the downswing, get this face squaring up earlier in the start of the downswing, that's gonna allow you to
just turn right through it and just know every single time. That's how the tour players, that's how Dustin Johnson just rears back, swings 'bout as hard as he can, and he knows where that ball is going about every single time. So, this is what we call
the anti-roll method at Top Speed Golf.
You may have heard of it
called the tour twist, but if you wanna stick around, I'm gonna show you a preview of a video where Clay Ballard, the
founder of Top Speed Golf, is gonna talk to you a little bit about what this anti-roll method is. But if you'd like to see the whole video, all you have to do is click the icon that's gonna pop up on your screen or you can click the link
below in the description. Play well. – Here's the bottom line. If you've been taught to roll the club in the early downswing that
causes the shaft to get steep, and that steep club
causes all your problems, causes you to hit it way
behind the big hitters and way inconsistent with
your quality of strikes. You're in the tall grass, and
the trees, and the hazards all day long. Now, the great news is this. There's really only two
pieces that you need to know to fix all these problems.
The first one is we need to learn the proper way to square up the club face. Instead of rolling the
forearms and getting steep, there's another way that the pros do this. Once you learn this right way
to square up the club face, then you can shallow out from the inside, and everything starts to fit together. Now, I'm gonna teach you this right now in what I call the anti-roll method. You may also hear this
called the motorcycle move or the tour twist, but let's walk through
exactly how to do that. Now, what I want you to do is go ahead and go kind
of in the last parallel in the downswing. So here, I want my hips to
go ahead and be opening up, I want my club to be
parallel with the ground, and I want my hands to be
in front of my right thigh.
Now, when I take my grip, you're gonna notice that when I do this, the club face is basically
straight up and down. So if I'm looking at it from this angle, you'll see the face is
straight up and down, and my logo of my glove is
pointed out in front of me. Now, from there..