Core strength is huge in creating speed in the golf swing. Rather than doing endless hours of crunches and twists, why don’t we kill two birds with one stone.
This golf swing exercise will help build strength, improve your “Power Turn, Straight-Line Release,” and get better sequencing, all at once!
What's Covered: Core strength building exercise.
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Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard
Video Duration: 2:10
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Video Transcription:
Hey guys, welcome back. I’ve got a great video for you today it’s going to help you to get a good full turn and work on core stability, core strength, and also releasing the club.
Very, very simple drill, all we’re going to do is grab the impact bag.
I’m going to pretend like I’m setting up for a golf shot, get in your nice golf posture here. As I’m going back I’m going to let the bag swing back to a good full turn.
Now I want to make sure as I’m going back to the top of my swing, as I move the bag back, I want my right shoulder to be going back, my left shoulder to be going away from the target.
My right shoulder will be going back toward the target, until I get at least a 90° turn, preferably about 10° or 15° past 90°.
Now from here as momentum starts to swing forward, I’m going to let the bag release into my straight line release point.
So if my ball is here, that’s going to be going down my target line about four feet in front, and that’s when I’m going to be thinking about releasing the bag.
So the momentum of the bag swinging back is going to make sure that I get a good turn, and then I’m going to use the strength of my lower body, start unwinding the hips and the core first, and then I’m simply going to let the bag go to my straight line release point.
So I’ll go ahead and do a few slow motion repetitions, I go to the back, get a little bit of rock going, good full turn, and then I’m going to release the bag.
Grab the bag I’ll do another one. All right, so again I’m going to rock the bag a little bit, get a good full turn.
Then I want to release it really hard toward my straight line release point. Let me show you a couple things you make sure that you don’t do.
All right, so the first thing I want to work on here, as I’m going back and making that good full turn, I want to create some width with my arms.
I want my arms to be nice and wide away from my body. I don’t want to grab this bag and put it right against my shoulder like this.
I want to have a nice big arch so we can create some speed, and also as I’m releasing the bag I don’t want to throw it straight forward.
I don’t want it to be going parallel with the ground as if I was throwing it 20 feet in front of me.
Again, I’ve got to get all my energy going to the straight line release, I’m going to be using the muscles in my core to do this, nice and wide, releasing the bag, get as much speed as you can.
Go ahead and do about eight reps, rest, do three sets of eight, that will be a great workout for you.
