Release For Speed - RST Student Success
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In this video, I'll show you how we took playing professional Cory Cooper's ball striking and made it more crisp as he prepares for the Sanderson Farms PGA Tour event next year. He qualified for the event by winning the Louisiana PGA Section event that exempt him into the 2015 PGA Tour event. To better prepare Cory for the demands of PGA Tour greens, we needed to shallow out his angle of attack to help him hit the ball higher. To do this, we had to help him learn the proper amount of lag of solid ball striking because he simply had TOO MUCH lag. I am going to show you how to get rid of excess lag and release the club efficiently for a boost in clubhead speed. I am also going to show you how releasing the club properly will help you gain more control over your ball flight and increase your consistency and accuracy.
- Shift left before the hands and arms start down
- Allow the rotation from the torso to pull the arms down into the hitting area
- Release the golf club with very little tension in the lead wrist
Hey everyone, I'm Rotary Swing Instructor Chris Tyler and I'm here with Corey Cooper from New Orleans, Louisiana, Who has just recently qualified for the 2015 PGA National Championship and is also going to be playing in the 2015 Sanderson Farm PGA Tour event up in Jackson, Mississippi.
So congratulations to Corey.
He's been a longtime member of RotarySwing.
com And he just came down and joined us and I'm going to show you guys some of the changes that we made in his golf swing.
That's going to show him how to shallow out the golf club properly, and it's also going to give him a lot more speed in the hitting area.
Okay, so in today's video, I have Corey here.
We're going to talk a little bit about the corrective process.
Why don't you go ahead and show some of our people at home what kind of the issues you were running into.
Well, a couple of issues I was running into was actually I overdid the lag.
I created too much lag.
Didn't get rid of it early enough so that caused my angle of attack to get very, very steep somewhere around 9 to 10 degrees with a 7 iron.
Then I was not able to release that club in time.
So I was fighting a double miss.
I would either hit a big block to the right or I would slam the door shut and hit a snap hook.
And then also I was losing club head speed.
The harder I tried to swing, the steeper it got, the slower I swing.
So we made some good changes today.
Yeah, so when Corey actually showed up here and we started working on the driving range, I was noticing that on track, man.
We were seeing a very steep angle of attack and we were also seeing his club head.
Speed had kind of slowed down for the last, you know, over the last few weeks.
And we looked at it on video.
Why don't you go ahead and set up.
We'll show you what we ran into.
So when he was getting up into the top part of his golf swing, rather than shifting fully left, he was pulling the hands and arms down into the hitting area.
Okay, So he's got his hands nearly in front of his lead thigh here, and he's still got a ton of lag.
And you just cannot get rid of that amount of lag.
And you can't time things up properly and be able to expect to keep the ball on the golf course.
So what we did first off is we worked on a sequencing drill, Is, we wanted to try to slow the hands and the arms down quite a bit, so he wasn't working nearly as hard.
So we had him get up to the top part of his golf swing.
We had him shift fully left, trying to keep the hands and arms where they were in the first place.
And at this point we allowed him to bring the shaft down to parallel to the ground.
So you can see at this point, his hands are still outside of his trail thigh here, and then he's fully seated left, which is going to help him shallow things out.
So let's go ahead and release it on through now.
And at that point we were much more shallow.
So we did this sequencing drill a number of times, got him to really kind of feel getting fully seated left before the hands and arms started down.
One of the things that a lot of you might not be aware of is that.
If you get up to the top of your golf swing and you're trying to pull the arms down as quickly as possible, they can be really, really fast and they're always going to win that race.
They're going to beat the hips and then you're going to run into problems with either leaning back, bottom the club out really early, or in Corey's case, the club got really steep coming in and we just had a mountain of problems.
So the next part of the process was, is that we had to understand why his speed was being hurt.
And why don't you go ahead and set up for me, we'll take a look at this.
So right up to the top.
So when he first started making golf swings and he was pulling his arms down, I could feel a ton of tension in his lead wrist.
So much tension to where, like I thought he was death gripping it.
Now, we always think of the lead wrist as kind of the drive of our vehicle, and if that guy is really tense, it's not going to allow the club face to rotate properly.
So he was actually pulling the club down into the hitting area, tons of forward shaft lean, And this guy was really tensed up so that there was no rotation to help shallow things out even more.
So what we had to do is we had to work on some left arm only drills, which is outlined in five minutes to a perfect release.
So he's still working on it with sequence.
And then at that point, he just releases that left wrist, and he was able to shake out a lot of tension there.
And tell them what's the big difference that you notice with the left hand only on the golf club.
When it's only the left hand, I notice that the club head is gaining speed without effort.
Right, exactly.
So when he was allowing just the left hand to kind of fall and rotate through the hitting area, he could feel the speed of the golf club gaining on its own, and that's what we want to do.
Because he actually said to me at the start of the session, he's like, I'm working way too hard and just not hitting the golf ball anywhere.
So after that point, once we worked on the release, is that we started to put it all back together.
We're going to show you what that looks like from down the line here.
Go ahead.
We're going to work up to the top here.
This is a good sequence drill for you guys at home.
Keep the hands and arms where they are.
Sit left, club shaft parallel.
Go ahead and release it through.
So it had a really crisp sound to it, didn't take much of a divot at all.
And at the start of our session, you were digging some monster trenches, some of those things that we could actually lay down in.
They were pretty big.
So by working on sequencing and understanding how to reprioritize his golf swing, we were able to take his angle of attack down from 9 degrees to.
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Cut it in half.
Cut it in half, about 4 or 5 degrees angle of attack.
And then talk to him a little bit about what speed did.
Well, with the 7 -iron, you know, I started out, I would range from 90 to 92 miles an hour.
And then when we were finished, if it felt like I'd barely swung at the ball, I was 95.
But if I swung at it, not really swinging hard, but swinging faster, it would get up to 97, 97 and a half.
Yeah, so there you go.
We picked up 5 miles an hour of club head speed and we shallowed his golf swing out beautifully.
And just a few hours of work and re -sequencing, reprioritizing his golf swing.
Understanding where the power sources are and understanding how to turn those things into speed the correct way.
So, in turn, what we've done is we've been able to get rid of his two-directional miss, we've shallowed out his club properly, and then we've picked up speed where it counts and that's at impact.
So those of you at home that are having problems with sequencing your golf swing or trying to feel like you're doing too much with the hands and the arms, try this drill out.
Make sure you work up to the top of your swing.
Try to leave the hands and arms where they are.
Make sure you're fully seated left.
Then club shaft needs to be parallel to the ground and then go ahead and release it on through.
You're going to hear us talk about that video a lot.
It's a great video that keeps you understanding how to control the face and get a lot of that tension out of that lead wrist.
Alright guys, so get out there and let's play some great golf.
I wish you all the best.
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