How the GOATs Start and Sequence the Entire Golf Swing

Do you need a simple yet powerful way to trigger the start of the golf swing? Do you struggle with sequencing the swing in the right order? Do you not feel any power or fluidity in your golf swing? This is how to get all that and much more.

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Do you struggle with getting the swing started, and, more importantly, do you struggle with the entire sequencing of the swing?

And do you not have speed and power that you know you should?

The secret to all of this stuff is what I want to share with you today.

After all of this research I've done for so many years, I keep trying to boil the golf swing down to just really, really simple movements, Simple ways to get everything to fall into place together.

And today, What I'm going to share with you is the same thing that you're going to see in every great ball striker.

From Ben Hogan to Tiger Woods and on, and Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, They all did this movement and it will help you immediately start the swing the right way, so if you tend to move off the ball, if you tend to swing with your arms, If you tend to get a lot of tension and have your shoulders at the ball and do all of these things that most golfers struggle with, Today is going to be the light bulb moment that I promise you if you do what I'm going to show you.

Which is really simple, but it's going to feel really strange, You will immediately pick up a ton of club head speed and you'll get rid of tension and you'll get your swing to sequence correctly.

So let's talk about this.

Now one of the things that you'll notice if you look at Hogan's swing back in the day, he was always moving and the moment he set that club down, boom, he was going.

And that art has been lost because we've become so fixated on mechanics, and certainly I have been guilty of doing the same thing.

And you know, we get frozen over the ball and we're thinking too many things, and then all of a sudden nothing sequences correctly.

And we're all just wanting to get back to, how did I swing as a kid and have to think about all these things.

That's what today's drill is all about.

It will help you immediately feel sequencing.

So what does what does that really mean?

Well, I think there's a lot of confusion about the golf swing because a lot of different instructors teach a lot of different things.

And all of these things, one way or another can work if you do them all as the way the instructor is telling you, but we're all teaching in some ways different things.

What I'm interested in is what the goats have done, not just Tiger Woods but Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones, All of these great golfers have all had some very similar things when it comes to their body movement, but we get fixated on swing playing, the arms, the hands, the club, All of that stuff, and all of those things, as I've always said, are a byproduct of how you move your body.

But if you take a look at the best players of all time, their hips, their core, their trunk, their legs have all had way more similarities than dissimilarities.

So how do we get there?

How do we get our bodies to move like the greatest of all time and how do we trigger the swing?

Well one of the cool things that we have today are these force plates.

I've had this for a couple years now.

And I started looking at, you know, pressure pads many, many, many years ago, back in the early 2000s, when they first came out.

And I've always been fascinated by what the data shows, but this data is useless if you can't interpret it.

If there's no.

If you don't know what this means, and more importantly, how to change something the right way, Then something like this is just a really expensive paper mat or paper weight that doesn't do you any good.

So, But as I've studied the Tour Player data and the Long drive player data that I have with the Force Plate data from Swing Catalyst.

What's been really interesting is that the long drive guys are doing the same stuff that Hogan did, that Bobby Jones did, that Nicholas did.

They just do it in a much more exaggerated way, and because of that, that makes it easier to see what's really happening in their swings.

So if you take a look at Kyle Berkshire on the screen right now, one of the things you're going to notice is that he does this big rocking back and forth movement.

And a lot of people think this is really strange.

This is exactly what Ben Hogan did, the exact, but more importantly, this rocking motion.

If you don't understand why he's doing it, it doesn't make any sense.

But once you understand in a moment that what Kyle's doing is just a big exaggeration of what Tiger Woods does.

Even to start his swing, then all of a sudden this stuff is going to start to click and you're going to feel alive again.

Your swing is going to feel tension free and you're not going to feel so static and stuck.

So I'm going to grab a club here for a second and I'm going to use one of the G-Force clubs.

So if you have one of these, if you bought one from the store.

This is a great time to use it because it's going to help you feel this exaggerated motion even further.

So what is Kyle doing now, Kyle, if you don't know, he's one of the longest hitters on the planet, he hits the ball a freaking mile.

And what he's doing here is shifting pressure.

Now, a lot of times we think of weight shift and golfers start sliding one way or sliding the other.

And if you start thinking in terms of pressure shift, which you can easily see on a force plate.

But you can feel it here in just a moment.

Then, what you're going to start to realize is that the golf swing is not a big lateral move this way, and a big lateral move this way.

That actually slows rotation down because your body's going to prioritize one or the other, you're going to slide laterally or you're going to rotate.

The greats of all time have rotated.

And when you look at the easiest way to see, this is the part that's the view that's neglected the most is actually from behind.

So if you look at where my my monitor or my transmitter devices for my mic is one of the things that you'll see in a lot of high handicap golfers or golfers that don't have any power.

And what I really mean by this is this is really where my sacrum is.

So the center of my pelvis here down low, it's the lower, lower part of my spine.

And a good player swing.

What will happen is that as he starts down, this will actually move back behind where it started.

When you see a lot of higher handicap golfers, it moves forward or it hangs back because they're hitting off the trail foot.

That's a really high handicapper.

But as you improve a lot of golfers, You see this move where their sacrum moves laterally toward the target instead of back behind where it started.

When you understand how important it is that that moves back, then the whole golf swing is going to start to make sense to you.

But because we always look at the swing, either down the line or face on, we never look at this view.

But it's the most important view, in my opinion of the golf swing, that's showing what's really happening with the motor of the golf swing.

The rest of it is just cosmetic stuff.

So back to Kyle.

If you've got a G -Force club, grab it.

If you want to grab one from the store, I'll put a link down below.

And but here's what you want to feel.

So as Kyle's rocking back and forth because the G-Force shaft is flexible, it's very easy to feel this, what he's really doing, putting pressure on the lead foot and the trail fit to start now.

This is important because a lot of times golfers don't know how to start their swing.

And so they stand over the ball.

And then they go through their pre-flight checklist, and by that time, the legs are become tense.

It's and I want you to feel this.

So stand nice and tall.

And then as you start to get into your posture, just freeze for a second and notice what you'll feel.

Your calves, your hamstrings, your quads, all of it will start to tighten up just a little bit.

This is death in the swing, because once this gets tight, this will take over every single time.

And so, and I have so many students who I see for the first time in lessons.

And they just push with this side.

Because there's nothing else to move the club, what we want to move the club is momentum to get us started.

And the easiest way to do the correct way to do it is pressure shifting.

So if I shift and I'm going to exaggerate all these things like Kyle does so, it's easier to see.

If you look at Tiger Swing, this pressure shift is much more subtle, but it's definitely there.

I'm going to move forward, so I'm going to do this.

And now you can see, the club is moving and and the shaft is actually flexing a little bit.

And then as I move back, that gives me the momentum, momentum to swing the club.

So if you look at Kyle's, he's going back and forth a lot, Tigers are the same thing.

It looks like he has a forward press, I wouldn't call that a forward press, I would call it a pressure shift.

So if you look at Tiger's hands, yeah, they move forward, but it's because he's moving pressure onto the lead foot to trigger the backswing.

And this is where stuff gets fascinating.

When you understand, when you look at the data on the pressure shift, and you start to understand why amateur golfers don't have any power, and why, you know, tour players and long drive guys.

How they generate power is from this.

It's truly the most important part of the swing to get everything started.

So once you're going to feel I'm going to put the club down for a second.

What I want you to feel to get this movement is shift to the left and you can pick your foot up to do this.

At first, it's totally fine, left, right, and then the most important thing that every amateur golfer struggles with is the transition.

If they're static and they're hanging back here, their shoulders and arms are going to fire too soon.

They're going to fire out of sequence.

So how do you get the right sequencing?

Pressure?

Shift left, right?

And as I begin to rotate, what I'm going to feel is that I'm falling back onto the left.

Now, a lot of you are going to say, Well, wait a second.

Isn't that a reverse pivot?

It would be if my hips slid this way because then my spine would lean toward the target.

And then if I turn, I'm going to be in a reverse pivot.

So how do I feel like I'm falling back this way?

And even get my spine into extension, which I'll talk more about in a second without reverse pivoting?

The first thing is understand that feel and real are not the same.

Even Tiger talks about.

Listen to this quick clip of Tiger talking about feel versus real.

I'm not going to, plus, generally, feel and real are two different things.

100.

And when I'm, how am I?

How I explain shots to you and how I explain shots to everyone else.

I may have that video and slow down.

I may be doing the complete opposite of what I I think I am.

Yeah, and that's what I learned from a lot of old players, uh, before my time because there was no video camera, then, you know, what do you feel on this shot?

Well, I feel my legs go this way, or, you know, I feel the club, but really like it.

Shallows and drops into the slot and I watch stand behind him and then he's actually over the top.

Where do you feel any of this stuff?

But that's just the the reality of it is.

So, as you heard, there even Tiger Woods, who probably feels more about his golf swing than anybody.

He's got to be super in tune with what his body's doing at this stage in his life, he doesn't do what he feels he's doing in his swing.

And that's important, and that's very important when it comes to pressure shift, because the reason is this happens super fast, and this is why you don't have power in your swing.

If you don't move your pressure quickly.

Your lower body, your trunk, your core.

None of it will move in the right sequence.

Because you will tend to build tension in your arms.

To get the club to move fast, you'll move, you'll create tension up here.

So if this doesn't happen quickly, this will, this will.

So what we have to feel is that we're falling back onto that lead side as soon in the backswing as we can.

But again, it's feel versus real.

So instead of going here, turning, stopping now, I'm done, now, I've got nothing but to turn with my upper body.

But what happens in a real swing in real time is that by the time that you start the swing, a hundred percent of your pressure.

Give it to.

You know, a lot of your pressure is on your right foot.

By the time your arms are here, you know, give it or take the end of the takeaway.

And you should already feel that as you're turning, you're starting to get back to that lead side.

This is so important because almost every amateur golfer I've ever taught in my life.

When I see them for the first time, they don't get back to the lead side soon enough.

And that's because they're either a static and tight and slow going back, and then they have to turn their shoulders fast to generate any speed.

Or it's because they simply don't understand where that speed and power is coming from.

So once they feel that they're falling onto this lead side, basically at the end of the takeaway.

Now, of course, it's feeling real, it's not actually happening, but I'm trying to get there.

And when you understand extension in the spine in just a moment, it will all make sense.

So pressure shift, left, right, left, that's the feel in the swing.

It's not real.

But if you're not moving quick enough, if you're moving really syrupy, slow, then of course you wouldn't.

You would actually fall to the left side too soon.

But the golf swing has to happen fast, you can't be sitting here going back and not that you can't.

There's obviously tour players who are really static and slow, and then they happen to be very dynamic on the way down.

It's much easier if you make this one motion, so how do we do that?

And what's this extension thing I keep talking about?

When you're turning back a lot of times, especially with older golfers, they turn back like this and they turn really flat.

So from down the line, it looks like this all right now, you, you may see yourself in this.

If your head moves off the ball, it's likely you're turning like this.

And then it's impossible to get your pressure back to the lead side without shoving your head all the way back over.

So what am I doing here?

I'm moving in what we would call flexion, so this is flexion of my spine, and this is extension of my spine, these two movements are wildly different, they're opposites.

A lot of golfers make the whole golf swing in flexion and this doesn't work.

So if I wanted my upper body to help me get momentum back, to get pressure on the lead side early during the transition.

What I need to feel is extension, so as I'm going back, what I feel again, feeling real, as I'm going back, I'm feeling this.

But because this is happening so quickly, it doesn't look like that.

It looks like I'm just staying centered, but what I feel is this in order to get me back over here now, I'm already here now.

If you're feeling shift turn, then this it doesn't feel right.

But when you start doing this quickly, you'll start to feel how.

This normal pressure, Shift of feeling like you're always trying to get back to the lead side is kind of the secret to the downswing.

And when you do this quickly, it happens naturally.

So I'm going to push into the left, push into the right and start to immediately fall back.

Well, now, how do I keep this hip from sliding out and swaying?

Simple way to think about it is, as I do this, I'm not trying to shift my hips or try to shift my weight per se.

I'm shifting pressure.

So that means when I push onto this left foot and rebound onto the right.

It's like I'm hitting a wall here.

I'm not trying to slide to shift my pelvis, to shift my pressure, I'm shifting pressure so that I immediately feel like it's almost pushing me back this way.

But it's more of a rebound effect, and this is why it's so important to move fast.

So if I do this quickly, you can see that I'm almost immediately starting to go this way when it happens fast.

But now, in a real swing, of course, I've got the club going.

Everything's pulling me back this way.

The timing of it looks different than how it feels, and that's really kind of the culprit.

It's always comes back to what a golfer feels versus what they're really doing in their swing.

And the simplest way to think about getting everything to work correctly is feeling like you're falling this way.

So now, once I'm there, then what?

This is really important to understand.

Extension of your thoracic spine, because if you're in flexion, where you're bent over this way too much.

You're never going to feel a proper golf swing, you're never going to feel a proper transition.

So as you go back, so we're going to go slow again, shifting pressure, rebounding into the right, hitting the wall and feeling like, as I'm rotating, I'm rotating into extension.

Now, as you feel your rib cage open up, as you're doing this, as you're turning, you should feel a lot of load in this part of your back.

This is your thoracic spine, where the majority of your mobility comes from.

So as I go left right extension, This whole part of my body as I move into extension is wound up to be able to rotate my core as fast as I can.

And that's what allows the entire swing, the entire downswing, to sequence correctly.

You don't have to think about, oh, I've got to shallow out the club or loop my arms in this big, exaggerated loop.

That can help you feel proper things.

But when you're moving correctly, in the right time, in the right sequence, with the right feeling, all of that happens naturally.

So now let's look at this a little bit more.

Left rebound, wall extension, turn.

Now how many of you get both butt cheeks open?

At impact again?

The number one thing?

Most amateurs look like this at impact.

Because they're swinging inflection and then they're turning in back inflection and their hips never turn.

So one of the questions that I think has always been posed in golf is, do you turn your hips?

or do your hips get turned?

Well?

If you turn your hips, you can.

There's golfers that talk about instructors pushing this left hip back.

It's not very natural movement, you can do it.

It happens naturally when you move your body, your spine and your core in the right way.

Watch what happens to my hips without me trying to turn my hips, so I'm going to go left right extension.

Now I'm falling and this load that I feel in my back and my core as I begin to rotate from this extension position instead of flexion.

Look, what happens to my hips?

So, you know, in Tiger Swing, he's famous for his hips getting deeper to start the downswing.

And most amateurs start what we call goat humping or the puppy dog humping.

The fire hydrant.

Most tour pros look like their hips get deeper.

Well, how would my hips get deeper?

They need to be?

My spine needs to be an extension, so I'm here now.

As I'm in extension.

As I begin to unwind, I move further into extension because that is going to allow these muscles to begin to unwind.

So what I feel is that my spine rotates my pelvis, not my pelvis rotating my spine.

That's something that I think is is a unique way of looking at something that, no matter how you look at on video, you can make the argument that the hips are moving.

First, of course, they are.

But when you think about what it really feels like to move like a pro, to move with speed and power, I feel that, yes, my hips are moving, I can feel them, but I feel like they're moving.

In response to my load in my spine and my core, getting ready to rotate quickly, and that rotates my hips.

So if you're the type of golfer whose hips don't get open at impact, it's probably that.

Well, there's a bunch of reasons you could be firing from your arms and so on your shoulders, upper body, be inflection, etc.

But if I get into extension, watch what happens as I get into extension.

A little bit of lordosis in my lower spine, a little bit curvature there, that gets me loaded to be able to rotate.

I can't rotate my spine very well when I'm inflection.

So now watch as I.

I'm loaded as I get into flexion, as I mentioned earlier, as I'm getting into flexion this way, that actually moves my hips deeper, and now as I rotate from here, my hips are wide open.

But I don't feel that I'm trying to turn my hips, I feel that my spine, my core is moving, my hips, and now you can see that my hips are.

I have no problem getting very, very open like the goats now.

When I talked earlier about how that the tailbone, or you can use my my mic as an example here as a placeholder.

A lot of times golfers get this way and they're blocked, they can't rotate anymore, and so now they just got to swing with their arms.

But if I get into extension and first of all, a couple notes here, my this will actually move toward the target to start.

And then as I move into extension, it immediately begins moving back behind where it started.

This move is a move of the Goats, the Nicholases, the Watsons, or maybe not Watson.

He had a big lateral move, uh, Hogan Jones, Tiger Long Hitters, John Rom, Dustin Johnson, Kyle Berkshire.

This move is critical for power, but it's not something that you try and do.

I'm not trying to move my hips back, I'm trying to pressure, shift, shift, extension, move back onto this.

As I fall back onto it, I should feel loaded up in this part of my body.

And the only way you're going to feel that is to move to extension and then turn it.

And then as I move, as I rotate through.

I'm in this position that you see every great player in.

If you look at it from down the line, left, right and feel immediately to the left, load an extension in your spine and now feel that you can turn from here.

Now.

My hips are super deep, my shoulders are steep.

That you see all the great players in, and it's all started and initiated from your feet, from pressure shifting.

If you do this naturally, and you do this quickly, left, right, left, extension turn.

It's a simple way to think about the entire golf swing, whether you want to be lead, side dominant, trail, side dominant, etc.

If you don't want to get into as much side bend, you can use more right arm.

as you use more right arm, you will not get as close to the ball.

Let me explain that for just a second.

So side bend is one of these things that I've talked about a lot, side bend and rotation is no bueno.

That's how you herniate a disc and hurt your back.

But if you're just in side bend, this is okay, it's side bend with twisting that doesn't feel good.

So now, when you're looking at me in this position, I'm actually just in side bend.

So let me do a couple different angles so you can see this.

So from face on, it's a little bit easier to start up the line.

My spine and my pelvis are actually together, they've rotated together because I didn't try and turn my hips by themselves.

I moved from my core, which moves my pelvis, which makes sure that my spine and my pelvis are moving what more or less is together.

And so then I'm just in a side bend position without any rotation, so and again, it all happens from these three moves left, right, left, extension.

Now I'm loaded turn, you can see my hips getting deeper, because all that's what feels natural when I'm wanting to rotate this quickly.

Now, if you have a bad back and you don't want to put a lot of rotation in your body, it's perfectly fine.

What's the old equation I talked about?

For speed with rotation leverage, if you add more right arm, watch what happens.

So now I'm going to do a left right falling back as I get extension, extension, rotate.

As I start adding more right arm, I'm going to start moving back away from the ball a little bit.

So now I'm still in the same position, but I just don't have near the side bend.

That's how you take pressure off your back.

Now, what happens if I just turn, so I'm left right, falling, left turning?

If I don't add any right arm, do you see how much more side bend I have here because I didn't add right arm release?

Both of those ways work perfectly fine, the more lead side dominant you're wanting to be.

If you don't want to add a lot of right arm in there for whatever reasons, perfectly fine.

As you add rotation, you're going to have more side bend.

As you add more right arm, you'll take side bend out, because otherwise you just hit the ball fat.

So that's a way to put those two moves together, whether you want to be lead side, trail side or what have you, it doesn't matter.

If you need to just understand what the greatest of all time have done in their swing, this is the simplest way to think about it.

So now let's start making this happen quickly.

So how does it happen really fast?

what does it look like?

And this is important because you really, really want to move very quickly.

It's not left, right, left.

That's a good way to start to feel it, but now as you start to really move, you need to be ready.

That's how quickly it's going to happen in the swing.

So I'll grab a normal club here as I'm feeling this left, right, left fall.

You hardly even noticed it, but if you look really closely, you'll see my feet literally doing little lifts from down the lines.

The same thing.

So it left right, left fall, now I'll do it at speed.

You didn't even really notice it, did you?

But it happened.

If I go to hit balls, I'll do one slow at first, left, right, left fall, so there, it's pretty easy to see.

Now I'm going to do that exact same thing, the exact same feeling, shifting pressure, shifting pressure, shifting pressure, which is very easy to see with the force plate, but you probably will have a harder time noticing it now.

That same thing happened, but it's much harder to see, and a lot of times, what?

I find ironic when we look at high speed video.

A lot of times.

They'll start the video when the club starts moving, But it's the stuff that happened before the club starts moving that's really showing the trigger for the swing.

So if you look at mine, my own example, my own little trigger is.

I actually lift my right heel when I'm trying to make sure that I feel this because it gives me a trigger to hit that wall, to feel this right glute engage, so I actually will lift my right heel, which will bring my right knee in a little bit.

And then I plant and that gets me moving even quicker and feeling this glute engage.

So I hit this wall so that as my pressure moves this way, it can't keep sliding.

It goes this way and immediately starts pushing the ground, starts pushing back against me, so it makes it easier to get on this left side earlier.

If you did nothing else right in your golf swing, if you just did this and forgot about your arms.

You will pick up speed because your sequencing will completely change when you stop being frozen over the ball and then have nothing to move but with your arms and hands.

The golf swing when you start from the ground up, that's kind of the simpler way of thinking about.

It is simply left, right, left as soon as you can in the backswing.

Now, of course, I'm going to have some people who are going to take it very, very literally.

They're going to be like, okay, he said.

As soon as I could get to my left side in the backswing, that's not right.

Let yourself load, Because what you're really trying to do is feel this part of your body get torqued up at the top of your swing.

If I start going too soon, I won't be able to make that full turn.

I need to let my pressure sit on this right side, but feel as if I'm getting to this left as soon as I can.

So this gets loaded up and then rotate it through and let the club release, and that is how the Goats start the swing force plates.

I've had this for a couple years now and I started looking at pressure pads many, many, Many years ago, back in the early 2000s, when they first came out.

And I've always been fascinated by what the data shows.

But this data is useless if you can't interpret it.

If you don't know what this means and more importantly how to change something the right way, Then something like this is just a really expensive paper mat or paper weight that doesn't do you any good.

But as I've studied the Tour Player data and the Long drive player data that I have with the Force Plate data from Swing Catalyst, what's been really interesting is that the long drive guys are doing the same stuff that Hogan did, that Bobby Jones did, that Nicholas did.

They just do it in a much more exaggerated way.

And because of that, that makes it easier to see what's really happening in their swings.