D096. Effortless Golf Swing | How to Transfer Your Weight for Easy Power

Why You Need This: Today you'll get an "Effortless Golf Swing | How to Transfer Your Weight for Easy Power"

Have you ever wondered how some people appear to be swinging so smoothly...

...but they absolutely crush the ball?

It's amazing what you can do when you get your swing in sync.

You see, there are two keys with your weight shift that, if you're doing correctly...

...you'll add a ton of easy power.  But if they're off...

...it can wreak havoc on your timing and can crush your distance AND consistency.

Check them out now...

...because I'm guessing you've never heard the 2nd key anywhere before (hint: your toes are a key part).

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:02

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: All right. There’s only a couple things you have to do with the weight shift to make golf really easy.

I’m going to get to this little red device at first, but before I get there, let me talk about the number one thing that I see that makes things hard.

The weight shift, every single good player that’s ever played this game has a couple things in common. They get a pressure shift, or they feel some pressure in the right foot going into the backswing, very early in the backswing.

Then number two, they start to shift their weight to the left. They increase the pressure on their left foot as they start the downswing, and then that continues all the way into the finish.

So as they finish on their follow through, that weight’s going to get to the left. Every single player from Ben Hogan to Tiger Woods, the great players at your local club, they all do that.

Now there’s one big misconception here that we don’t want to do. We don’t want to start and what a lot of times I’ll see people do, they’ll say well, if I want to get my weight to the left, why don’t I just start with my weight on my left?

Then I’ll just keep it there the entire time. I’ll just eliminate one of the variables, this will make things a whole heck of a lot easier, and I’ll just play some solid golf.

Well, the issue with that is, you have to get a little weight shift to the right to create power. Your body knows this, subconsciously, even if you’ve hardly ever picked up a golf club, it kind of feels I have to get my right to get some speed.

What you’ll end up doing if you try to keep your weight left, as you go into the backswing, your body without you even realizing it, will shift that weight to the right, but it’s going to the right way too late.

Now when you’re starting your downswing, your weight’s still on your right side. You end up falling back.

That’s going to be the shot that you kind of drop kick or just inconsistent contact. Or, you’ll fight like heck to get to the left, but it will be way too late and you’ll feel really out of time, really out of sequence.

Your rhythm will be gone. It will feel like your hands, arms, and body and club are all just disjointed, you could call it.

Very simple drill to get rid of this. I like to put this little Eyeline Golf, they sent me this a few years ago. I don’t get any commission for this, I don’t even know what this thing’s called.

It’s called the Balance Rod, and I like it a lot for feeling where your weight is.

You could take a rolled-up towel, you could take a thicker alignment stick, or I even used to use one of those half-inch wooden dowels you can get from a home improvement store, and you can use whatever you want to.

You don’t have to have this. I just had it laying around and I like it. The reason that I like this is because it takes a little pressure off my feet to where I can feel if I’m going heel and toe, and I’m also where it’s just different, I’m much more aware of how I’m shifting my weight.

So with this, what I want to do is I want to set up with my weight early on my right side. You’ll see a lot of good players will even – I’m going to change my alignment here slightly – will even start with about, maybe, 60 percent of their weight on the right side to even get going.

You’ll notice with me, I’ll even pick up my left toe to start my swing, it’s just a trigger that I don’t even realize I’m doing. When I do that, that automatically kind of gets my weight shifting to that right side early.

Now you should feel like most of your pressure is on your right side by this early in your backswing.

From there, all you’re going to do is shift your weight to the left before, not after but before, you start your downswing and then continue left all the way on through.

So it’s really simple. Just start with your weight on your right side. Shift to the left before you start your downswing, and then swing to the finish.

I’m starting right, I’m shifting left, then I’m swinging down. That’s really all you have to do to get the proper weight shift from right to left.

There you go, and you can see I’m getting my weight to my left side, then I’m making my downswing. So a little messy out here today, I’m going to chew up the turf a little bit. That’s piece number one.

Piece number two, is not to get to your toes early. This is something that a lot of players do that can cause a lot of problems.

What happens when I get to my toes early, and what I mean by that is, in my backswing I’ll get to my right toe. So if you imagine this is kind of the balance rod, if I go to my toes I’m getting on this side of the rod.

If I go to my heels, I’m getting on that side of the rod. So this would be toes, this would be heels. So in the backswing, if I get to my toes I’ll tend to stand up out of my posture.

On the downswing as I shift to the left, if I get to my left toe, then I’ll stand up out of my posture and I’ll start to flip the club. I’ll start to get my rear end moving toward the ball and causing a lot of problems there.

Here's what we want to feel. In the backswing, again when I’m getting that weight shift to the right, I want to get it on my heel early.

So if this is both of my feet, I want to feel like this is my right foot. I’m getting to the heel of my right foot early, then as I shift my weight to the left before I start my downswing, I’m going to flip-flop that.

So in the backswing, I’m kind of doing this. In the downswing, I get to my left heel early and my right foot goes up. So here’s the backswing, excuse me, this way. Here’s the downswing that way.

So it’s kind of switching heel, toe, heel, toe. In my backswing, my heel is putting pressure on the ground, my toe almost comes up a little bit. My toe’s on the ground here. I’m exaggerating here.

I shift to the left, and I reverse that. Now my right toe goes to the ground, my left heel goes to the ground.

So I’m just doing this whenever I’m making my backswing, I’m doing this when I’m doing my downswing, and that allows my hips to rotate.

If I keep my feet flat on the ground, my hips aren’t going to rotate, and again, I’m going to feel like I’m all arms. My arms and my body aren’t working together.

So I like to make a few little practice swings here, line this up just a little bit more to the left. This isn’t going to be perfect alignment here today.

I know I’m not really taking the time to get it all exactly where I want it to be. But here I’m doing this in the backswing, so early. I’m not waiting until back here to get it to my right.

I’m doing it early here, where my heel goes in the ground on my right foot. As I shift to the left, my heel of my left foot goes to the ground, then I swing down.

So again, watch how I don’t come to my toes early, I stay in my posture and this little training raid or rolled up towel will help me to do that. There we go, couldn’t hit one much better than that.

All right, so to recap on that, there’s only two things you really need to remember. Number one, you’ve got to get your weight to the right early.

So I’d even preset my weight, get about 60 percent of your weight on your right foot before you even start your swing. Get your weight to your left early.

So I’m going to shift my weight to my left, and then swing down. That’s the first piece. Right early, left early.

If you do that, you’re going to conquer 90 percent of the problems people get with their weight shift. That’s the right and the left. Now the second piece of that is don’t go to my toes.

So in the backswing, I don’t want my toes going this way, I’ll stand up out of my posture and my downswing, I don’t want to be going to my toes too much, or I’ll stand up out of my posture there. I want to get to my heels.

Again, what I’d recommend is, as you’re setting up, feel like your weight is already in your right heel a bit and it’s going to be even here, this really early in the backswing.

That’s when it gets in the heel, that’s when the weight gets right. Then as you shift to the left before you swing down, you want to get that weight in the left heel, or behind this kind of balance rod.

Again, use a rolled-up piece of towel, that’s completely fine either way. Now really what we’re talking about here, even though we’re doing this in a round about way, when you shift your weight properly, what it allows you to do is to load your body properly.

That’s all we’re talking about. So if I can shift my weight properly, now my hips turn, my shoulders turn, and that’s what we call the Power Turn in the Top Speed Golf System.

So if I do this properly, I can load my body up. I get this big shoulder turn, I don’t even feel like I have to be very flexible to do this.

Then in the downswing, I shift my weight through and I finish the Power Turn and come all the way down the fairway with my shoulders in the follow through. That’s all the Power Turn is.

So what I want you to do now to really ingrain this, hey this video’s great, it’s going to help you to get started feeling a lot better with this.

But if you want to make it completely natural, to where you just grab a golf ball, your weight shift’s fantastic, you load up in the backswing, you finish your swing, all these things that we see the great players do like I mentioned earlier, work through that Power Turn section.

Start at level one, and as you do those videos, it will become completely natural. Most players will add 10, 20, even 30 yards to their drives. They’re going to hit their irons farther.

The best part about all of this, is it all feels like it’s in synch, because now my weight shift, my body motions, all those are kind of synched up and working together.

So best of luck, I can’t wait to see you in the Power Turn section. Let’s go and get started.